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ICT H2020 - Giornata di Lancio Bando 2017

Sessione Content Technologies

Leveraging International Research & Innovation

Oliver Botti - Head of International Business Development & Innovation

oliver.botti@finconsgroup.com

mailto:oliver.botti@finconsgroup.commailto:oliver.botti@finconsgroup.com

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Fincons Group Highlights

Fincons is a solid group providing Business, Process and Technology Innovation

through Reliable and Cost Effective ICT Services

A group of 1000+ professionals

Turnover doubled since 2011.

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BUSINESS UNITS

PR

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Structured for the market

WEB & MOBILE, OMNI-CHANNEL UX DESIGN

BI, ANALITYCS & BIG DATA

CRM

ERP

BUSINESS CONSULTING

DIGITAL INNOVATION

BUSINESS UNITS with industry know-how on different markets,

strong and consolidated competencies

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FINCONS RESEARCH & INNOVATION:

ASSETS AND ENGAGEMENT MODEL

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To support the internationalization strategy, in 2013 the Group established the

IBD&I - International Business Development & Innovation

a dedicated department aiming to export distinctive competencies in EMEA,

leveraging on the group assets and research

Leveraging Innovation and Internationalization

as growth strategic enablers

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A team dedicated to International Research & Innovation

Collaboration with Universities and Research

centers:

• Research Centers: IRT (DE), Fraunhofer

(DE), Tecnalia (ES), Forth (GR), …

• European network of universities: Surrey,

Lancaster, Plymouth, Berlin, Madrid, Paris

Polytechnic, EPFL Lausanne, NTUA Athens,

Milan and Bari Polytechnic, Audio

Communication Group of Berlin’s TUB,

IRCAM Paris

R&I International Funds:

• European Funds: Horizon 2020

• Swiss Funds: SERI, CTI

• UK Government Funds: Innovate UK

• Italian Funds: National, Regional

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Bari Polytechnic -Fincons

Private-Public Joint Research

Lab

Strategic collaboration with Universities

A synergic partnership to support the

creation of innovative products through

research and development activities.

A mixed research lab born from two common interests: the development and

application of IoT solutions and the enhancement of the local economy.

Driving Research Area:

Internet of Things, BigData, Factory 4.0

With applications for:

Industrial and Public sectors (Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Smart

Government, …)

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Research & Innovation:

an opportunity to share with clients

Funded R&D Projects and collaboration with research centers and universities

Bring Innovation to our Business Units

Exploit Innovation with Clients

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• Multi-Media Technologies

• Media and Non Media Markets

• IoT

• Consumer IoT & Industrial IoT

• Manufacturing, Insurance, Media

• ICT Security

• Infrastructures, Railways, Energy

• Big Data & Advanced Analytics

• PA, Financial Sector, Creative Industries

Technology-driven

• Creative Industries

• Advertising, UX/UI

• Manufacturing

• IoT, CPS, AR/VR

• Energy Efficiency

• Web, HW

• Smart-Cities

• Mobile, IoT, Social Networking

• Public Administration

• Cloud, Advanced Analytics, Communication

• e-Health

• Web, IoT

Sector-driven

Platforms Scouting:

Wide spectrum of IT platforms to ensure a

continuously updated best-of-breed

Research & Innovation:

cross market and multi-technology participation

DEMO POINT

2015-2016 participation to tenders

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CONTENT TECHNOLOGIES

SELECTED INITIATIVES

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Digital Transformation for Creative Industries

1st Generation OTT TV:

Customer Engagement, Churn Reduction 2nd Generation OTT TV:

Promotion and new Customer Reach

Preparing the 3rd Generation OTT TV:

omni-channel UX, Promotion, Advertising

and Service Provisioning

New Digital Distribution Strategy (OTT TV):

Rights Management Evolution Program

OTT Data Lake:

SkyGo advanced analytics with

DataStax, Cassandra, Spark,

Zeppelin

SAP backend integration and

evolution: FI, CO, PS, MM, SD,

SRM, BW, SEM

Enabling Digital Transformation

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Second screen applications

Interactive TV: new paradigms for advertising,

promotion and service provisioning

Enabling Digital

Transformation

Social TV for live events

and Interactive Advertising

WordPress-based platform

to create and edit multi-

screen apps

Digital Advertising and

Service Provisioning

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Long term vision and initiatives on convergence

Interactive and Personalized

TV & Advertising:

• FIContent: demonstrating HbbTV

effectiveness through 2nd screen

applications.

• MPAT: innovative tools to support the

editorial team to create compelling

multi-screen experiences.

• Producer: enhancing post-production

content enrichment to enable

interactivity and personalisation.

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MPAT: H2020 – ICT19 IA - BROADBAND-BROADCAST CONVERGENCE

• MPAT allows content creators to produce the HbbTV-equivalent of ‘microsites’ in a

cost-efficient way while removing worries about compatibility with existing devices.

• The toolkit provides tested templates and plug-ins that can be easily adapted to a

channel or programmme design.

• A set of plug-ins allow the provision of common application features ‘out of the box’.

http://www.mpat.eu

http://www.mpat.eu/

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ABC_DJ: H2020 – ICT19 RIA - MUSICAL SOLUTIONS FOR RETAIL

ABC_DJ : Artist to Business to Business to Consumer Audio Branding System

2016-2018

Project Goals:

• Increase European creative agencies competitiveness in the field of audio branding,

providing them with sophisticated ICT enablers.

• Enable European creators of music and (independent) labels to be actively included

into the audio branding value chains and join the monetization of their works as in-store

music.

• Empower the high number of creative micro-businesses and SMEs which in Europe is

tailor-made for an approach where many audio branding agencies serve the (diverse)

needs of many brands, as opposed to the current 'one-sound-fits-all' situation.

• Provide the retail sector with in-store music perfectly tailored for the type of consumers

and business targets within the stores

• http://abcdj.eu/

http://abcdj.eu/http://abcdj.eu/

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• Second Screen and Interactive Applications on HbbTV

• Video and Real-time Statistics Data Integration for Live Sports

• Omni-channel User Experience Design

• Omni-Channel Personalized Advertising Paradigms

• Multimodal Interfaces for OTT

Next generation OTT TV: @ Home

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Next generation OTT TV: IoT-enabled Smart POS/POC

Running project: Horizon 2020 ABC_DJ project: In-store Musical Branding

Applications for In-store Content

Distribution, Communication and Promotion

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Oliver Botti - Head of International

Business Development & Innovation

oliver.botti@finconsgroup.com

www.finconsgroup.com

mailto:oliver.botti@finconsgroup.commailto:oliver.botti@finconsgroup.com