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Cloudscape Brazil & WCN 2018 How to build strong and competitive EU-BR economies around IT technologies 25th and 26th July 2018, Convention Center of Natal, Brazil, co-located with CSBC 2018

The 5th edition of Cloudscape Brazil, combined with the 3rd edition of the Workshop on Cloud Networks (WCN) focussed on trusted technologies that are stimulating innovation across distinct market sectors. ICT is our modern economy’s greatest driver of innovation, productivity and growth. It impacts and transforms every element of business and society and enables productivity and innovation in every sector of an economy1.

The event invited academic, industry and policy experts from across the business spectrum, to demonstrate and explore how ICT technologies can bring market innovation to specific market areas. It also provided the forum to discuss the digital priorities for ICT development, in order to contribute to improvement of European and Brazilian economies, as well the quality of life of the countries’ respective citizens.

As with the previous edition of Cloudscape this year’s event gave the possibility to SMEs and EU-BR research projects to showcase their ICT tools and services, resulting from a long-lasting and successful transatlantic cooperation.

Exciting breaking news is the approval from Brazilian Computing Society for the creation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) in Cloud Computing, a successful outcome of EUBrasilCloudFORUM’s efforts to ensure the sustainability of its work after the completion of funding. The new Cloud Computing SIG will focus on enhancing future research cooperation in this area between Brazil and Europe.

Cloudscape Brazil happily took up the invitation to organise the next edition of the event at the Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), taking place in 2019 at Belém city (Brazil). CSBC is an annual conference, usually held in July, organized by SBC. CSBC aims to promote and foster the exchange of experience between scientific, academic, and professional communities in several computer science areas. The conference programme includes presentation of scientific papers, talks, courses, and debates on issues related to the industry and the influence of technology on society.

As regards WCN, responsibility for the organisation of this annual event will now pass to the newly formed SIG.

Note: ATMOSPHERE & EUBrasilCloudFORUM are funded by European Commission under the H2020 Research and Innovation Cooperation Programme, and by Brazilian RNP and MCTIC. The info in this report reflects only the views of the project owner.

1 Source: https://www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/impact-ict-global-economy-1388124773

Featuring SMEs from Europe and Brazil Institutional Support

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How to formulate a common strategy and approach between EU and BR for research and innovation in Cloud Computing: Keynote messages

25th July opening session

According to Carlos Oliveira, Counsellor for Information Society and Digital Market at the EU Delegation in Brazil,

both Brazil and Europe are highly engaged in moving forward IT development in both regions. Poof of this

statement is to be found in the 50 million euros that were invested, on both sides of the Atlantic since the EU-BR

cooperation started 11 years ago. Europe and Brazil have been working together to formulate a common strategy in

research and innovation in ICT technologies, and namely cloud computing. However, to consolidate this

cooperation, some relevant challenges must be addressed, to achieve more ambitious goals in the future.

Moving a step further in EU-BR collaboration. What is the next challenge for EU-BR cooperation? To

demonstrate the concrete/real impacts of such cooperation in European and Brazilian societies. It is crucial to take

up research results, bring innovation to the market, and to create new jobs and business concepts, among other

activities.

“It is crucial that businesses become more digital, consequently increasing the innovation capacity in distinct industry areas. How can technology improve Brazilian and European living conditions? The mindset is not the technology itself, but how we can make the world a better place by using technology.”. Carlos Oliveira, EU Delegation in Brazil.

In the event that a 5th EU-BR coordinated call is approved, the future projects must demonstrate the real impact on society and how they will contribute to the development of the digital economy between both regions. This will be crucial to making the EU-BR digital economy a success story.

It is also time for Europe and Brazil to work together towards a world-wide player in driving ICT-based market innovation. The most valuable companies that now hold the top places in stock exchange markets are all technological organisations (e.g. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft), based in a number of key countries, dealing with large amounts of digital data. It is without doubt that “data” is the gold mine of the world’s 4th industrial revolution and unquestionably an economical asset. In this digital revolution, data is treated as a new type of economic asset, which is rapidly becoming vital in the global economy. To compete with these “giants” of technological innovation, Europe and Brazil shall also create economies of scale. The maritime optical cable that will connect Europeans and Brazilians, is a great start to supporting the development of the data economy. However, this is not enough to create a digital single market between EU and Latin America. The two regions shall become a joint and single player and develop more innovative technologies that will not only improve the competitiveness of the two regions, but also lead the digital economy and transformation around the world. Europe and Brazil shall become one actor defining new market paradigms, with the same power as these “giant IT companies”, as opposed to a simple passive adopter.

Carlos invited Cloudscape Brazil participants to the ICT 2018 Vienna2, the most important European event,

showcasing the latest prospects of digital development. The EU-BR ICT cooperation will have a stand and a

networking session.

Lisandro Granville, President of the Brazilian Computing Society, also believes that Brazilian and European cooperation has been impressive, with results that can have a real impact in both regions’ societies. Some successful results of this cooperation are the SIG in Cloud Computing and the Cloudscape Brazil conference itself, for which CSBC is happy to host the 5th edition and is looking forward the 6th edition next year in Belém.

2 Official Website : https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/events/ict-2018-imagine-digital-connect-europe

Figure 1 Opening Session & Welcome, with

Carlos Oliveira & Lisandro Granville

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Cloud computing is a turning point, one of the innovative ways that came to bridge some gaps in terms of demand for traffic, real-time remote file managing, decentralized forms of keeping personal information and remote access to this i among other factors.

Trustworthiness and Security in Cloud Computing: a common view of actions and future efforts from industry, government and academia.

Session 2, Cloudscape Brazil, 25th July

Chaired by Altigran da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas

Despite its immense benefits, cloud computing raises several concerns due to lack of trust and transparency. A key factor that raises users’ trust are assurances as to protection of their privacy.

In this panel, representatives of academia, industry and government, shared their views with participants on topics related to trustworthiness and security in cloud computing and ICT.

Trustworthy data analytics for health monitoring. According to Wim Degrave, researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, health data will be collected by personal IoT devices and made available on the cloud, allowing real-time monitoring of health. Big Data analytics will have to deal with these large amounts of sensitive data, without compromising data trustworthiness.

“Soon, there will be a high number of data repositories, which will have required standards for data structure and data exchange, to take the most out of this valuable info. Trustworthiness for Health data is crucial and we shall ensure this when health data is transmitted, stored, processed and interpreted.”. Wim Degrave, Researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

Personal Data Protection legislation to control data usage. It is difficult to maintain control of personal

information that instantaneously populates the online environment. This is where data protection comes in.

Demi Getschko, from Brazilian Network Information Centre, presented the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet3 (in Portuguese: Marco Civil da Internet, officially Law No 12.965). The Marco Civil da Internet (MCI) governs the use of the Internet in Brazil, through forecasting principles, guarantees, rights and duties to those who use the network as well as the determination of guidelines for state action. It is focused on topics such as freedom of expression, privacy protection and network neutrality.

MCI puts basic protection for personal data in place and indicates responsibilities for service providers as regards the collection, storage and processing of data, to create common ground for national businesses that depend on the Internet. The MCI seeks to promote open technological standards for communication, security (e.g. encryption), accessibility (e.g. who has access to user data) and interoperability between applications and databases. Platforms are obliged to remove content only if there is a court order for this, otherwise platforms should not be liable for any damage caused by the content.

However, it is important to highlight that MCI is not a general data protection framework, as it does not guarantee

privacy and data protection in a broad, structured and complete way. The “General Law on Protection of Personal

Data” (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais - Draft Law N 53/2018), approved last July by the Brazilian Senate,

is the first general data protection framework to be implemented in Brazil. According to Flavio Lenz Cesar, from

the Brazilian Parliament, the new law regulates the collection of personal data by the private and public sectors.

Some definitions included are “Personal Data”, “Anonymized Data”, “Sensitive Data”, “Data Protection Officer” and

the creation of a National Data Protection Authority, an autonomous and independent public authority for the

supervision of law and enforcement. “International Data Transfers” are allowed, due to the harmonization with

3 Full English Version: https://www.publicknowledge.org/documents/marco-civil-english-version

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other data protection laws and international transfer of personal data to other countries. This new law includes

several sanctions for those who do not respect it in any way.

“This law, highly inspired by the European GDPR, has transversal and multisectoral application, online and offline. It deals with the concept of personal data, lists the legal bases that authorize its use and has extraterritorial application, that is, the duty of compliance will exceed the geographical limits of Brazil. Any foreign company that has at least a branch in Brazil or offers services to the Brazilian market and collects and treat personal data of data subjects located in the country, will be subject to the new law”. Flávio Cesar, BR Parliament.

An important detail in the law is that personal data can only be processed only when the holder has provided consent for a specific purpose. One challenge in this is, after the data owner gives permission for an operator to use the data, is to understand what they do with the data. Data transparency is a challenge and a must. Plus, sharing of health data is forbidden for commercial use (e.g health insurance companies – which would increase their service price), including proxied data.

Security and Trustworthiness on Cloud and ICT. From an Industry point of view, invited by Brasscom, the Brazilian association of Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication Technology Companies, Ronan Damasco, National Technology Officer for Microsoft in Brazil, shared how Microsoft treats trust on cloud.

Trustworthiness is based on 4 important principles: Security, Privacy, Compliance and Transparency. Security covers Confidentiality, integrity and availability, while Privacy is that data cannot be used without owner’s approval, Compliance is how, the data is managed and stored according to applicable laws, regulations and standards and Transparency is the visibility over the use of data. These are the four ingredients for a company to be successful in cloud and ensure trustworthiness.

But focus was not only on trust and security in cloud computing. According to Niccolò Zazzeri, from Cyberwatching and Trust-IT Services, there are around 4.000 cyber-attacks in Europe every day, usually across borders and spreading easily around the world, affecting companies, citizens and governments. Security in cloud is a must. Instead of being “reactive” we need to be “proactive” in cyber security. This is why we should be what’s known as “cyber-resilient”. That is, with “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources”. If you ask most cybersecurity experts in Europe what key legislation came into effect in May 2018, they’ll answer “GDPR”, which is true. However, in the same month, the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive also came into effect.

GDPR is focused on the protection of EU residents’ data. The NIS Directive is focused on ensuring that services with a technology dependency (and therefore today most services), and which are key to the functioning of society, remain resilient to cyberattack. The directive focuses on preventing incidents. By contrast, GDPR focuses on how to ensure confidence in the processing of personal data.

“NIS aims to ensure that digital service providers in essential industries (e.g health, transport, finance, food, energy) are prepared to deal with the increasing risk, as it requires them to take steps to protect against cyber threats affecting many IT systems”. Niccolò Zazzeri, Cyberwatching and Trust-IT Services

Cyberwatching4 is the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity and privacy. Funded under the European Commission's H2020 programme, cyberwatching.eu contributes to making the Digital Single Market safer and more trusted by promoting the uptake and understanding of cutting-edge cybersecurity and privacy services which emerge from Research and Innovation initiatives across Europe. First to benefit are SMEs who will have unlimited access to a marketplace and catalogue of new services that can improve their offer and ensure that cybersecurity becomes a unique selling point for them. In its four-year lifetime, Cyberwatching.eu will also play a key role in policy discussions. In its mission to democratise cybersecurity for all, the project directly responds to the objectives of the recently signed contractual Public-Private Partnership on cybersecurity (c-PPP) which has the ambition of becoming the reference framework for R&I initiatives, both Nationally and across Europe.

4Website : www.cyberwatching.eu

Figure 3 Cloudscape Brazil Session

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Neither Europe and Brazil appear in the top 10 countries with PFlops supercomputers. China & US combined have 65% of world’s total computing capacity.

Promoting a joint EU-BR digital future and mapping digital priorities

Session 3, Cloudscape Brazil, 25th July

Chaired by Ignacio Blanquer, Universitat Politècnica de València & ATMOSPHERE European Coordinator

While Europe is working towards the creation of a truly Digital Single Market, Brazil is working on a national Strategy for Digital Transformation to prepare itself for the global digital transformation. In this session, panellists shared their insight on how governments are working together to exploit a joint-digital market.

Creation of eHealth patient-centered care. According to Márcia Ito, researcher at IBM Research Brazil, Brazil and Europe need an eHealth strategy that incorporates cloud computing and IoT in an integrated way.

Brazil is one of the most important healthcare markets in South America. Electronic data recording mobile health solutions available in Brazil account for nearly 28% of the Brazilian healthcare market. The digital health market has greatly boomed because of the increasing rate of the elderly population, which is expected to reach 65 million in 20505. In Europe, the e-Health Market was worth $25.50 billion in 2016 and is estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 15.60%, predicted to reach $52.65 billion by 20216.

Due to the growth of life expectancy, there is an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, asthma and obesity), frequently co-occurring (known as multimorbidity), which requires the simultaneous coordination of several health care professionals. To ensure that they have all the patient’s health information it is important to keep individual health care under observation in an integrated way, which includes extracting large amounts of health data from different sources. The solution will be the collection of patient’s health data via IoT and other technologies.

“It is crucial that all these data are integrated and interoperable, to improve the flow of information and, therefore, expand the access to health care and qualify care teams. This will greatly support decisions in health: clinical decision, health surveillance, regulation and health promotion and management decision.” Márcia Ito, researcher at IBM Research Brazil.

Investments must be made on technologies that allow the management of high volumes of sensitive data and a legal framework needs to be approved to allow the creation of this patient-centred care.

High Performance Computing (HPC) is necessary for market innovation. HPC is a strategic resource as it allows the analysis of complex phenomena, in the areas of Life Sciences, Physics, Climate research, Engineering and many others. HPC helps policy makers to make better decisions and enables industry to launch innovative products and services: Cars, aircraft, engines and pharmaceuticals are all designed with the help of HPC. Complex financial transactions or oil field simulations are also managed using HPC-based techniques7.

Alba Cristina Melo, full professor at University of Brasilia, says that Europe and Brazil can attain worldwide leadership in HPC, to master this strategic technology and put it to the service of a more competitive and innovative Europe and to help address societal problems. It is an investment with high ROI.

In Europe there are some HPC initiatives, including PRACE, and an investment announcement of 486 million Euros between 2018 and 2028. In Brazil, HPC efforts are mainly in academic areas, including SINAPAD, a Brazilian government initiative to provide HPC services to the academic community. Europe and Brazil shall collaborate to develop a powerful common HPC strategy, to increase innovation across sectors.

e-Digital, a Brazilian strategy for leveraging the full potential of digital technologies. The Brazilian Strategy for Digital Transformation (also known as e-Digital)8, contains guidelines and actions to promote the use of

5 Source: https://www.dr-hempel-network.com/health-policies-in-india/digital-healthcare-market-in-brazil/ 6 Source : https://www.marketdataforecast.com/market-reports/europe-e-Health-market-1237/ 7 Source : http://www.etp4hpc.eu/the-importance-of-hpc.html

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The approval of the Brazilian plan of IoT and deploy testbed for IoT suppliers along the value chain in eHealth, agriculture, industry 4.0 and smart cities, will help Brazil to turn into a country of connected devices

ICT in various economic sectors. According to Flavio Wagner, Professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, this strategy aims to transform Brazil into a digital society and increase the country’s overall position in different world-wide rankings.

Some priorities listed are the deployment of a high-speed network that integrates research, education, health, and security institutions, and increases scientific and technological development in partnership with other countries, such as the one between Europe and Brazil. Other topics are related to guaranteeing personal data protection and creating a national Data Protection Authority. With the approval of the PLC 53/2018, this goal should be reached soon. It includes a priority to include Computational Thinking and STEM disciplines in basic education, to provide the skills the future generation will need for their professional careers.

Flávio adds that having this programme is not enough. It is important that all Brazilian ministries and government agencies are involved, and feedback is collected continuously from society (private sectored, universities) for evaluation and to build upon this strategy over many years. Concrete goals must be defined, to make it smoother and easier to pursue progress-measuring indicators.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap, EU-BR strategy for Research & Innovation in Cloud Computing. Marco Vieira, European Coordinator of EUBrasilCloudFORUM and full Professor at University of Coimbra, presented the roadmap9 which proposes a common strategy for Brazil and Europe to move forward Cloud Computing’s innovation and research, which also includes security aspects, aligned with priorities in each region.

This EU-BR roadmap analyses the current gaps and research needs; understands the scientific capabilities in EU and BR and identifies the R&I collaboration needs to fulfil those gaps. As to future scenarios for cloud computing, the roadmap indicates that cloud computing will have an important role on the development of: SC1. Environmental monitoring and resource management.; SC2. Assisted health and well-being; SC3. Smart industries and manufacturing; SC4. Intelligent business and enterprises, and SC5. Education, research and science. The roadmap had an entire dedicated session on the following day,

during the WCN. More information can be found in the dedicated chapter “WCN Opening Session & EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap” (page 11).

The consolidation of a successful cooperation between Brazil and Europe. Carlos Oliveira, from the EU Delegation in Brazil, reinforced his message from the Opening Session: there is a need for added value between the joint research and innovation activities being carried out between EU and Brazil. EU-BR funded projects brought new knowledge and technologies, but it is extremely important that these are transformed into concrete activities that will have a real impact and added value for the economies o both regions and their population in general.

Carlos felt encouraged by discussions on the need for a marketplace for project results and assets being generated, especially with the involvement of SMEs, which are the life-blood of both the EU and Brazilian economies. The EUBrasilCloudFORUM marketplace10 goal is to support this. It is an online meeting point where all those interested in promoting collaborative initiatives in ICT, can find relevant information from past and current research initiatives, get in touch with key stakeholders, and access tangible technological assets produced in both regions.

It is also important to explore new opportunities for in-depth EU-BR collaboration in ICT. During the last EU-BR ICT Week on Digital Transformation 2017 there were sectorial dialogues on several topics (see Table 1) and at the 10th

8 Full Strategy (in Portuguese): http://www.mctic.gov.br/mctic/export/sites/institucional/estrategiadigital.pdf 9 EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap: https://eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/eubrasilcloudforum-research-roadmap 10 EUBrasilCloudFORUM Marketplace: https://www.eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/marketplace

Figure 2 Cloudscape Brazil Session 3

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EU – Brazil Information Society Dialogue11, a breakdown of other opportunities and policies for EU-BR cooperation in the digital sector was made (see Table 1Errore. L'origine riferimento non è stata trovata.). Other sectorial dialogues are still expected during 2018: policy cooperation on Digital Single Market matters, Personal Data Protection, eIDAS (Electronic Identification and Trust Services) and eGov.

N Sectorial Dialogue N Policies for the Digital Sector

1 5G and Internet of Things 1 Regulation of electronic communications (roaming, net neutrality, consumer protection…)

2 Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Regulation 2 Digital Data Economy (big data, free flow of data, data protection, digital platforms, digitisation of industry)

3 Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing 3 Digital Societal Application (smart cities, smart mobility, eHealth, FIWARE)

4 Digital Entrepreneurship 4 Cyber Security

5 Nanoelectronics and photonics in medical devices 5 Audio-visual and media services, copyright, fake news

6 Digital Government

7 eInfrastructures

Table 1 Sectorial Dialogues at EU-BR ICT Week 2017 (left) and Policies for the digital sector discussed during EU-Brazil

Information Society Dialogue

Beyond 2018, the launch of a 5th EU-BR coordinated call around 2020 is not yet confirmed, but if so it is expected that the main topics will be related to 5G, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Digitisation of industry and Cybersecurity.

During the discussions between the panellists and the audience, it was highlighted that the areas on which EU and Brazil shall cooperate are eHealth, Smart Agriculture, Smart Cities and Biodiversity, due to their potential impact on the economy. In addition, any future EU-BR call shall be consistent with the e-Digital Strategy and IoT Plan.

Triggering new digital markets: Environmental Monitoring, eHealth, Smart industry and manufacturing, business intelligence and education with science and research

Session 4, Cloudscape Brazil, 25th July

Chaired by Antônio Augusto Frohlich, Federal University of Santa Catarina

EUBrasilCloudFORUM identified five future scenarios that will greatly benefit from and develop through cloud computing and related technologies: 5G, Fog Computing, IoT, Big Data, amongst others. This panel discussed how these technologies will innovate and support market growth in the relevant scenarios.

Antonio Jara, from HOP Ubiquitous, gave a perspective of how IoT can be a very useful technology for smart cities and trigger new digital markets. Thanks to IoT, cities can connect physical objects and places with interactive digital content and streamline communication between citizens, visitors and the city. IoT allows noise and crowd monitoring, and analysis of air quality, temperature and humidity, among others. By collecting different types of electronic data, SMART SPOT12, a service offered by HOP Ubiquitous, allows the quality, performance and interactivity of urban services to be improved, thus reducing costs and consumption of resources and increasing contact between citizens and government.

“IoT helps governors in their decision making, thanks to smart city applications that manage urban flows and allow real-time responses, based on the needs of cities and communities, without compromising data protection and privacy.” Antonio Jara, HOP Ubiquitous.

Alberto Paradisi, from CPqD, reinforced the importance of IoT in the world’s economy. By 2025, IoT alone will be responsible for 4-11 trillion dollars of the global economy, through its application in distinct settings, such as cities, retail, vehicles, homes, and offices, among others. Such indicators clearly show the need for Brazil to be prepared for the IoT era. The Brazilian IoT Chamber (Câmara IoT), which has members from industry, government and academia,

11 Press release: www.itamaraty.gov.br/en/press-releases/16749-brazil-european-union-joint-statement-ten-years-of-the-strategic-partnership 12 SMART SPOT webpage: http://smartcities.hopu.eu/smart-spot.html

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5G can perform up to 10 times faster than the current 4G networks and enable a tremendous boost in data speed.

approved the “IoT National Plan13”, a study with more than 70 initiatives for innovation, human capital, regulatory environment, and connectivity. It defined 4 domain areas for IoT development in Brazil: smart cities, health, rural and industries. Antonio Jara’s presentation on smart cities complemented this, demonstrating how IoT will improve mobility, public safety, efficient use of resources and innovation. As for the aspiration: “smart cities will improve quality of life within cities by adopting technologies and practices that allow the integrated management of services to citizens and improve mobility, public safety, and use of resources”.

It is true that IoT is an enabler for a completely new set of services, applications and business models. However, 5G is also a technology that can support the creation of generic IoT based systems. 5G is not just a network but a platform for wireless communication integrating various technologies which make the execution of IoT possible. The advanced properties of a 5G network are particularly pressing for applications and devices related to IoT. Flávio de Oliveira Silva, from Federal University of Uberlândia, is part of 5ginFIRE project14, which seeks to create an experimental facility where different actors of the 5G ecosystem (startups, industry, SDOs, operators and researchers) can contribute to 5G development and deployment. This will ultimately instantiate and support vertical markets: eHealth, automotive, smart cities, among others.

Despite the potential of IoT, some challenges still remain. José Marcos Silva Nogueira, from Federal University of Minas Gerais, highlighted that the design and setup of complex IoT structures requires equally complex approaches and techniques. There still problems of scale, the interoperability at different layers and the increased concurrency of access to the infra-structure, among others. The main challenge is how to model heterogenous things/devices and make them act at different levels of abstraction at the same time.

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, from the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP) brought the importance of cyberinfrastructure to the discussion. They are technological and sociological solutions to the problem of efficiently connecting laboratories, data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge. Due to the increase of global connectivity and large data sets of information (e.g HPC), it is important to create cyberinfrastructures to allow e-science, that is data processing, storage and analysis, that can be visualized by researchers and organisations and, therefore, create added value for science and research.

To keep with the pace of the growing demand for connectivity of RNP's clients, it is planned to increase the capacity of these networks by the end of 2020. Brazil is investing in a scalable and secure communication infrastructure inside and outside Brazil. A submarine cable is being built between Brazil and Europe and will allow transatlantic data-sharing for research and education communities, in areas such as astronomy, particle physics, and earth observation. Plus, RNP has a national eScience initiative to organize, integrate and support the means for large collaboration projects and services (this includes orchestrating a national initiative on Open Data for research).

To conclude the session, Miguel Matos, from FarmCloud, demonstrated how IoT has a positive impact in a business sector, previously not connected at all with ICT: animal husbandry. With the increased need to feed an extremely high number of people (9.1 Million by 2050), it is becoming ever more important to make livestock efficient and sustainable. Thanks to the use of distinct but complimentary technologies (e.g. IoT, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics and AI), it has been able to digitise the market and get value from data. Thanks to all the data collected from ICT, Smart livestock farming is already a reality aiming at improving productivity and increasing profitability by supporting data analysis through feed, weight, climate, waste, and behaviour monitoring. This is a great example of the potential changes and developments that the technology can bring to “real” life.

13 IoT National Plan (in Portuguese): https://www.bndes.gov.br/wps/wcm/connect/site/269bc780-8cdb-4b9b-a297-53955103d4c5/relatorio-final-plano-de-acao-produto-8-alterado.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=m0jDUok 14 Source: https://5ginfire.eu/

Figure 3 Cloudscape Brazil Session 4

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Global Innovative ICT services to bring innovation to European and Brazilian markets

Session 5, Cloudscape Brazil, 25th July

Chaired by George Teodoro, University of Brasilia and Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo

Over the last seven years, the European Union (EU) and Brazil (BR) have granted in the region of approximately 50 M€ for investment in Research and Technological Development activities for Information Communications Technology. The resulting coordination calls, which began in 2010, have already produced some practical results. Today four calls in ICT have been launched, with 20 projects receiving funding for innovation in relevant key topics for both regions. EU-BR initiatives have produced several assets (services, tools, software components) that can benefit both industry and society at large in both regions. This will support innovation in Brazilian and European economies.

In this session, projects from the 3rd15 call demonstrated their achieved results, while the ones from 4th16 call presented the goals they expect to achieve by the end of the project, giving the audience a clear idea of the novelties developed thanks to these EU-BR funded projects.

However, how can the sustainability & success of these projects be improved? A recommendation for future calls and proposals is to involve the end-users, right from the beginning, and even from the proposal writing. Taking into consideration end-users needs will ensure a more effective exploitation/sustainability. Having more Europe and Brazilian companies in these projects will also be a successful strategy.

It is also important to have pilots, with real users, instead of simply having demos. Provisions must be made to guarantee that the involvement of users in pilots is real. Plus, projects shall organise joint-events (e.g. workshops), to share results, expertise and lessons learnt, while promoting the reuse of solutions between the projects.

New projects shall be launched, and it would be beneficial to increase the resources that are allocated for EU-BR calls in ICT, to consequently increase the number of projects financed. Future calls shall not have only RIA (Research and Innovation Action) projects but also CSA (Coordination Support of Action). EUBrasilCloudFORUM was indicated as an CSA to support the promotion of EU-BR projects. Having a dedicated project focused on this topic, to maintain EU-BR collaboration in ICT should exist.

PITCH Session and DEMOS with European and Brazilian SMEs, Startups and projects. Session 6, Cloudscape Brazil, 25th July

Chaired by Rita Meneses, Trust-IT Services

A total of 11 Brazilian & European SMEs, start-ups and EU-BR projects were given the floor to present their tools in

an interactive 4-min PITCH session, with the opportunity to connect with attendees from Europe and Brazil.

ICT for Smarter Industries, Business Intelligence and making businesses more digital. Thanks to ICT development, we are now in an “Industry 4.0” era, also know as well as “Smart Industry”, and Business Intelligence, where ICT is used by enterprises for data analysis of business information.

From Europe, Miguel Matos presented a service from FarmCloud, called Multiple Farm Controllers with a single cloud platform. His demo illustrated the integration of livestock controllers to optimize production (demo). Flávio Lenz (Brazil) introduced ContaHUB, a Smart Management for Food Services, which provide a comprehensive platform for restaurant management.

15 3rd call projects: https://www.eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/eu-brazil-cloud-research-call-3 16 4th call projects: https://www.eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/4th-eu-br-coordinated-call-2017

Figure 4 Cloudscape Brazil Session 5

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Symone Alcalá from FASTEN, demonstrated Flexible and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems for Custom-Designed Products, which uses 3D printing in the context of Industry 4.0 in cooperation with EMBRAER and ThyssenKrupp (demo). SWAMP, presented by Carlos Kamienski, had a demo on Smart Water Management for the irrigation of a pilot in Matupiba (Brazil) (demo). José Rezende showcased a demo from FIBRE, which runs an experiment with computing and networking resources in the newer version of FIBRE cloud infrastructure (demo).

Figure 5 Session 6 PITCH on Smart Industries & Business Intelligence

Helping urban areas becoming Smart Cities. A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently. Antonio Jara, from HOP Ubiquitous presented a demo on Smart POI, a Smart cities open platform based on FIWARE for trustable cross-domain data integration and innovative decision making (demo). From Insight Centre for Data Analytics Galway, Martin Serrano introduced Smart City Traffic Galway: A Noise and Light Pollution IoT Enabled testbed. It enables monitoring of the conditions of speed cameras, real-time interaction of the street lighting system based on traffic volume, IoT connected devices and their interactions with the community of drivers, using informative/visual information like LED panels, traffic signs, etc (demo).

Figure 6 Session 6 PITCH on Smart Cities

Increasing Trustworthiness of Cloud Computing. Francisco Brasileiro, Brazilian coordinator of ATMOSPHERE, showcased a demo from this project, about Federating clouds using Fogbow, a more sustainable way to keep the federation middleware consistent and compatible with different cloud orchestrators (demo). Ignacio Blanquer, European coordinator of ATMOSPHERE, showcase another demo about elastic Kubernetes on the federated cloud created by Francisco Brasileiro. It is a software architecture to provide performance simulation, Dynamic Quality of Service adaptation, vulnerability assessment, privacy leak risk estimation and model neutrality evaluation on top of a federated cloud infrastructure (demo).

From EUBra-BIGSEA, Gustavo Avelar showcased “Lemonade - Live Exploration and Mining of a Non-trivial Amount of Data from Everywhere” through an exciting demo depicting how a machine learning workflow can be created using the project’s tools (demo).

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Curious about the demo area? Check the video →

The content collected was based on the uses the outcomes and findings of meetings, workshops, position papers, working groups members, and the analysis over about 160 European and Brazilian projects related to cloud.

Open Window of Cybersecurity initiatives. In the age of online business and e-government services, the impact of a data breach can be huge and long lasting. All businesses and public entities are affected and most underestimate the risks they face. Niccolò Zazzeri, from Cyberwatching presented the Cyberwatching.eu Ecosystem with a demo about how the platform can be used for sharing practical solutions to shape the global cybersecurity landscape (demo).

Demo area to maximize visibility with a global audience from CSBC and engage potential adopters and partners. Demos could also be showcased in the dedicated Demo area at CSBC, also giving them the opportunity to engage with the conference participants that did not join this session in Cloudscape Brazil.

WCN Opening Session & EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap

Session 1, WCN, 26th July

Marco Vieira and Priscila Solis, European and Brazilian coordinators of EUBrasilCloudFORUM, presented the research roadmap on cloud computing17, including security aspects, developed by the project. The purpose of this document is to analyse and identify the gaps and research opportunities related to cloud computing, and to propose future research topics for the EU-Brazil collaboration in related areas.

The research roadmap was built considering five scenarios, which represent futuristic viewpoints of different stakeholders (End-users, industry, researchers, governments and regulators), that shall be considered in future EU-BR joint calls: 1) Environmental monitoring and resource management; 2) Assisted Health and well-being; 3) Smart industries and manufacturing; 4) Intelligent businesses and enterprises; 5) Education, research & science.

The analysis of those scenarios and drivers led to the identification of groups of research opportunities related to cloud computing, including security (see Table 2 Research Opportunities per stakeholder group.

Research Opportunities Researchers Industry Policy Cloud to the Edge X X Technological and legal framework for managing security and privacy on cloud X X X EU-BR community to work on common standards X X Software and cloud-based applications X X Cloud sustained cyber-physical systems and systems of systems X Cloud federation at a cross-regional level X X Cloud supported innovative and inclusive societies X X Transatlantic environments for advancing education and experimentation X X HPC in Cloud Environments X

Table 2 Research Opportunities per stakeholder group

The goal was to understand what Researchers, Industry and Policy believe which priority areas need funds to unlock market development and improvement of citizens’ life. Having this in mind, EUBrasilCloudFORUM organised its roadmap on the basis of each of the three main stakeholder groups: Researchers, Industry and Policy. This approach helps to better understand what priority scenarios and research opportunities are valued by each one. In fact, many of the topics that discussed during Cloudscape Brazil, matched those indicated by EUBrasilCloudFORUM roadmap.

17 EUBrasilCloudFORUM roadmap: https://eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/eubrasilcloudforum-research-roadmap

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The next edition of WCN will be organised by the new SIG

in Cloud Computing

Creation of the Special Interest Group in Cloud Computing at SBC

Session 2, WCN, 26th July

Chaired by Philippe O.A. Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

This panel consolidated the creation of a SIG in Cloud Computing, in the SBC, formed by Brazilian & European academic experts for structuring the evolution of the area within the research community in Brazil for the upcoming years. This was a great outcome of EUBrasilCloudFORUM on ensuring sustainability of this community after the end of funding.

The announcement was made by Thais Batista, Vice-President of SBC, along with Antônio Abelém, Special Commissions and Events Director at SBC. Having SIG will help professionals, from Brazil and Europe, to be connected and discuss cloud computing topics.

The SIG can be linked to one or more Special Commissions (CEs), with

the same interest. This will necessitate approval from the CEs and the

SBC council. A SIG needs to organize an annual or biennial workshop

in the event associated to the corresponding CE. Exceptionally, a SIG

can be independent of a CE. In the context of Cloud Computing, Thais

believes that as cloud computing crosscuts several areas, a new

scenario can be envisaged where it is possible to allocate a SIG to more

than one CE. After 3 years of maturity, the SIG can either renew and

continue to exist as a SIG or can become a Special Commission (CE).

Some steps still need to be fulfilled for final approval of the SIG: 1) Define a coordinator and a steering committee; 2) Recruit at least 10 SBC members from 3 different institutions; 3) Prepare the roles/rules for steering committee membership and the coordinator; 4) Send the final SIG regulation to SBC, indicating the annual or biennial workshop event that the SIG will have to organise, over the following 3 years.

The SIG in Cloud Computing is a great opportunity to increase collaboration between academia and industry, and it

is important to recruit new members at the earliest, so they can start discussing topics and priorities for the field.

The other panellists José Maldonado and Altigran Silva, both also involved in SBC, welcomed the creation of the

SIG and mentioned that SBC has a team to support the new SIG.

WCN and Cloudscape Brazil Position Papers – Discussion Session

Session 3, WCN, 26th July

Chaired by James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology

The session focused on Cloudscape Brazil & WCN 2017 Position papers. The panellists included representatives from most of the 13-position paper submitted. Each author briefly introduced and presented the ideas behind each position paper, which promoted interesting discussions on the selected subjects.

The most popular topic was “Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, with three papers submitted. The authors demonstrated how it can bring innovation to the market. The application of AI and the use of Semantic Analytics on IoT data will improve information extraction and support business intelligence. When applied in a cloud-based environment, it can support medical applications and application from other fields. “Regulation for Trust in Digital Environments”, specially cloud computing, was a popular topic as well. Having quantitative scores for trustworthiness properties will allow application developers and data scientists build trust in their services based on pieces of evidence.

“EU-Brazil Common standards” had perspectives from security and privacy management, proposing a risk assessment methodology focused on privacy, security, safety, resilience and reliability of IoT systems. It is also important to ensure standards on standards around the protection of sensitive data in Cloud environments.

The full set of position papers, addressing other topics (e.g. “Digitizing Industry”, “Competitive European/Brazilian SMEs”, “International Partnerships”) can be found at https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/papers

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15 Memorable Takeaways & Recommendations Short-Term Recommendations

1. Create and integrate health data, to expand access to health-care. The eHealth market development requires innovative IoT health-care solutions, where the data is interoperable. Standards are a must to allow data structure and data exchange.

2. Increment the number of Cyberinfrastructures, to allow e-science to connect efficiently laboratories, computers, people and data. This way, it will be possible to benefit from the increment of global connectivity and large information data sets.

3. Develop 5G technology, to unlock the implementation of IoT. The goal is the creation of platform for wireless communication, integrating various technologies.

4. Emphasize & continue to evolve a trusted and secure digital single market between EU and Brazil. GDPR and NIS Directive will allow the creation of a high common level of security of network and information systems across the EU, which should be expanded to Brazil.

5. Increase the EU-BR ICT community & collaboration through the brand-new and pioneer Special Interest Group in Cloud Computing. The SIG is an important opportunity to increase collaboration between academia and industry from EU and Brazil and ensure that EUBrasilCloudFORUM’s efforts on ensuring sustainability of the community.

6. Increase international visibility of Brazilian & European SMEs, start-ups and EU-BR projects through the EU Brazil marketplace, and follow-up EU & BR cooperation projects by supporting them in demonstrating their tools and finding new partnerships and clients for their services/products.

Policy Recommendations

1. Investments in HPC will solve societal problems in the areas of Life Sciences, Physics, Climate, Engineering and many others. Europe and Brazil must keep investing in HPC, due to its strategic importance and its high ROI potential.

2. Define international & common laws that regulate online & offline personal data. The Brazilian General Law on Protection of Personal Data is highly inspired by the GDPR and gathers both private and public sectors, with extraterritorial application.

3. Support in the transformation of Brazil and Europe into digital societies. This will involve transforming Europe and Brazil’s societies into regions of connected devices: eHealth, smart cities, smart agriculture, and industry 4.0 among others.

4. Digitise the EU-BR market and get value from data. Investing and using distinct but complimentary technologies (e.g. IoT, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics and AI) will support the creation of digital economies.

5. Research opportunities for future research topics for the EU-Brazil collaboration in related areas. The EUBrasilCloudFORUM Research Roadmap on Cloud Computing (https://eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/eubrasilcloudforum-research-roadmap), including security aspects, analysis and identifies the gaps and research opportunities related to cloud computing.

Europe-and Brazil Project Next Steps & Recommendations

1. Investments should be made in Digital Entrepreneurship and Government, e-infrastructures, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and 5G, cybersecurity, regulation and digital data economy. EU-BR cooperation in ICT must be aware of this.

2. Fund EU-BR projects whose results (services, tools, software components) can benefit both industry and society at large in both regions. Projects of the 4th call have real use-cases already making an impact.

3. Demonstrating the Innovation to Market. Future EU-BR funded projects must demonstrate real impacts of transatlantic cooperation in EU and Brazilian societies: create new jobs and business concepts and, ultimately, make EU and Brazilian societies into digital ones.

4. Involve end-users in EU-BR projects, from project onset, to increase the sustainability results and the impact: Having real-situation pilots and keep funding a CSA project to support the work carried out by the RIA projects.