EDIH Network - How Standards can help European SMEs Succeed and Scale - Success Stories & Supports

The European Commission is organising a webinar on how standards can help European SMEs succeed and scale.

Objectives:

• Raise awareness among European SMEs of the many benefits of engaging in standards development and use
• Explain how ‘harmonised standards’ enable SMEs to effectively comply with EU legislation at minimum cost - including compliance with imminent new digital regulations in areas including Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security & Resilience, Data Interoperability etc
• Signpost SMEs to the supports available to help them engage in standards development activities
• Hear real-life success stories directly from European SMEs who have engaged successfully in standards development and use

Please find the presentation of the webinar in this link

Please find the recording of the webinar in this link

Agenda: 

Target Audience:

• European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) - https://european-digital-innovation-hubs.ec.europa.eu/get-know-us 
• SME & Start-up clients of the EDIH network across Europe
• Policy makers and SME support agencies in member states 

SMEs & speakers

• Idiro

  • Aidan Connolly is the founder and CEO of Idiro Analytics. Idiro has been a pioneer in the development and deployment of AI and ML technologies across the world for almost 2 decades. Aidan is a member of Ireland’s National Centre for Applied AI (CeADAR) Industry Steering Board. Since March 2024, Aidan has also been chairman of the Technology Ireland AI Industry forum.

    In 2020 Idiro Analytics was recognised as the Analytics SME of the Year and Aidan was awarded the Analytics Leader of the Year by the Analytics Institute Of Ireland. The following year Idiro launched the AI Ethics Centre to help further the development of standards that can be used by industry and government to ensure that their implementations of AI are trustworthy, free from bias and discrimination. Their AI explainability and bias detection solution, FairView, will be released in Q4 of this year.

• Newen Group

  • Newen Data Control Energy is as engineering company leveraging on R&D capability to develop solutions and improve customers’ experience in energy management. It develops innovative products ranging from emerging technologies to technically advanced solutions still unavailable on the market. Telecommunications, industry and e-bikes are the main markets in which they operate. Providing both owned solutions and integrated products from market leading companies. In the telecommunication world, where new services such as video streaming, smart home and IoT high require high characteristics not only in terms of performances but above all in terms of reliability, Newen provides solutions capable of guaranteeing continuity of service throughout the whole network, starting from residential devices up to centralized equipments.

       Emilio Posca is active in ETSI TC EE on Environmental Engineering and is a member of the DIGITAL SME WG Standards.

• Trialog
  • Antonio Kung is co-founder of Trialog. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of cyber physical systems and the Internet of Things, he brings expertise and know-how particularly on architecture, interoperability or data security and protection. He was the coordinator of numerous national and European collaborative projects in these fields. He is active in standardisation on the Internet of Things, security and data protection, and the editor of ISO/IEC standards 27550 (published), 27556, 27561 – POMME, 27570 (published), 21823-3, 30149. He became CEO of Trialog in 2018. Antonio has a master degree from Harvard university and an engineering degree from Ecole centrale Paris.

Background Information:

Standardisation of key emerging technologies (including AI, Data, Cyber Security, IoT, Quantum etc) and related products and services is a critical enabler for the digital, green and resilient transformation of the European economy and society over the coming years.  Hence, in February 2022, the EU launched a new European Standardization Strategy with a focus on the systematic use of standardisation as a powerful innovation and scaling platform for European industry, particularly SMEs and Start-ups.

Standards help SMEs access global markets by building customer trust and confidence in their new innovations - enabling the accelerated mass-market diffusion and adoption of related SME products and services across all sectors.  Understanding the existing standards landscape also ensures that SMEs can innovate on top of state-of-the-art standards, thereby avoiding ‘reinventing the wheel’ and ensuring their products and services are market-ready and scalable across international markets.