From the 20th to the 22th of October, Lisbon has became the European hub of innovation in Information and Communication Technologies, by hosting an event that brought together researchers, investors, startups and well-known personalities of the ICT sector. This event had the technology partnership of Portugal Telecom.
ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform – was an initiative of the European Commission promoted in conjunction with the Foundation for Science and Technology. It was held at the Congress Centre in Lisbon. The event was attended by 6000 participants, more than 100 speakers, 160 exhibitors and hundreds of networking sessions for the creation of European consortia.
Portugal Telecom was the technological partner of the event. The company provided mobile and fixed infrastructure and the Internet connection which ensured the full coverage of the event. This partnership came alive due an invitation of the Foundation for Science and Technology and the European Commission.
Portugal Telecom was also present at the fair with a corporate stand that allowed to demonstrate its capacity of innovation and research. Under the concept “Connecting Digital Society”, it were in demonstration solutions of PT Inovação and Sapo, like the GPON transmission equipments, the managed connectivity M2M solutions and the B2B and the B2C solutions.
In the area of the GPON equipments, there were stand out the OLT1T3 (the PT Inovação’s manufacturing OLT of highest density on the market), the optical network terminators at the client home, the ONT SFU, the ONT RGW (this integrates residential gateway features) and the RFO overlay video solution (this equipment made possible to reach further the analog video channels in fiber optic networks).
In the M2M area it was on display the PT Inovação’s connectivity management platform that allows mobile network operators and M2M service customers an optimized management of its active resources on the field.
Within the B2B solutions it was included Sapo Campus, an approach tool of all educational stakeholders that aggregates social networking features with educational objectives, knowledge sharing and multimedia educational content. Also, Mo-Bizz project, financed by the European Community, which offers an innovative Cloud marketplace so that companies can easily provide services to their customers quickly and efficiently.
In the B2C solutions, it was in demonstration MEO Kanal, developed by SAPO, and the Guider concept of proof, an iOS application that innovates the concept of demand for content presenting the results in the form of a graph with classification criteria. Also, Voice Search, that is an integrated feature of MEO GO for Android. It allows searches by voice on the mobile device and displays the results on the TV with MEO Search application.
During the event, PT Inovação showed their involvement in several European projects, either by their presence in the stands of T-Nova and UCN projects, either by the participation of Pedro Neves and Telma Mota, respectively, in the conference session “Digital Automation in Factories of the Future” with a presentation on the impact of the digital economy in the networks of telecom operators and in the workshop “Go to Cloud – Cloud Opportunities for Startups and SMEs”, promoted by Mo-Bizz project, presenting “Mo-Bizz Marketplaces”.