ICT in Wallonie update

Building the ICT platformfor Wallonia

AWT hellip as it isAWTIC hellip as it will be

Agence Wallonne agrave lrsquoExportation (AWEX)Office of Foreign Investment (OFI)

Overview of ICT activities in Wallonia Belgium

awtbe | wwwawtbe

Websup2 mobileReal and virtual

worlds are merging

CloudUniversal platform for

online services

Social Empowerment A new

distribution of roles

DataThe new power

of data and analytics

ProgrammableWorld

Source Master Plan TIC amp AWT

ICT Master Plan for Wallonia4 major ICT axes

ICT Master Plan for Wallonia5 targets

bull Digital planning Boadband fixed and mobile networks regulation smartcities NWOW hellip

bull Structuring the ICT sector Better visibility innovation and ability to transform RampD into products and services

bull Advanced ICT uses in enterprises E-business amp e-commerce e-learning Innovative projects based on ICT particularly to tackle major future challenges (climate mobility aging etc)

bull Digital public services Facing the challenges of digital empowerment Open Data and Open government

bull Digital education Integration of ICT in the heart of the education system Universal access to ICT and fight against the digital divide

AWT [hellip now]Agence Wallonne des Teacuteleacutecommunications (AWT) Public agency of the Walloon Region in charge of ICT 3 main missions technology watch consultancy and promotion

Examples of services

bull ICT observatory in Wallonia ICT barometer annual statistical surveys (companies citizens education ICT sector health municipalities etc) Recommendations to the Walloon Government

bull ICT watch and content provider (awtbe) In close cooperation with the main players and companies in the ICT sector in Wallonia Belgium and abroad (technologies laws business opportunities etc)

bull Database of the ICT sector and ICT players This directory gathers ICT companies e-commerce sites Public Digital Spaces coworking amp smarwork centers ICT schools municipalities and more

bull Professional forums and events mforum ipforum edtechforum events about e-commerce amp ICT uses by companies and administrations

[hellip and soon] AWTIC

Agence Wallonne des Technologies de lrsquoInformation et de la Communication

Public enterprise subsidiary of the new Agency for Enterprise and innovation (AEI) result of the merging of the ASE and the AST

The Walloon government wanted to keep a public company totally focused on ICT

We are in a global reorganization of our activities The keywords of this reorganization are DATA and SERVICES

One major project hellip The ICT platform for Wallonia

A platform for what bull Historical missions of AWTbull One stop shopping for the identification of business and ICT

actors in Walloniabull Validity and simplicity of the data Each partner of the platform

can handle its affiliates and use all information without friction bull Contacts with companies focused on their business (products

services brands stories ) bull Permanent or temporary customized services (clusters events

maps ) based on an API REST model (validated with partners) bull Technology open showcase for innovative ICT technology trends

(Cloud [Big] [Open] Data [as a Service] NWOW ) The agency has to be in itself a true illustration of Open Government

bull ICT support for the Agency for Enterprise and Innovation (AEI) including tools services and methodologies related

ICT a lever for the economybull AWTIC support market growth amp evolution knowledge inbull Technology bull Economy bull Legislation

bull AWTIC can help to bull find partnerssupplierscollaborators or customersbull find out the right area to settle a corporate branchbull support entrepreneurs to create business from Wallonia

bull AWTIC is a mesh in the chain between bull Wallon ICT publicprivate actors bull Worldwide technology marketbull Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency

a body for help amp supportbull laquoOperational Head office for Economy Employment amp Research raquo

httprecherche-technologiewalloniebe

bull Field of support includes Innovations Technological development Research Investment hellip

bull Base researchbull Person in charge of Technological Innovationbull Partnership (up to 60 cost of setting up international project)bull Feasibility studybull Entreprise subsidy (given fund) bull FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50 salary support to hire a PhD)

bull Applied researchbull Recoverable advance (lend fund)bull FIRST entreprise SPIN OUT (hire entrepreneur to create innovation)bull FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50 salary support to hire a PhD)

The competitiveness clustersbull Plan Marshall (regional policy statetement)bull Sectors where Wallonia ldquocould excel on a European or world

scalerdquo clusterswalloniebe bull V1 (end 2010) 5 axes which strengthen regional

competitiveness in sectors (euro12 billion funds)bull Mobility and Transportbull Food ndash Healthbull Transversal Technologies

bull V2 (end 2014) planmarshall2vertwalloniebe focus on green technologies winden the concept of innovationeuro16 billions funds 162 actions planbull + Environment and Sustainable Development

ICT is present in every sectors with a transversal approach

ICT one Walloon excellence bull Broadband on of the most cabled countries in the world xDSL

pioneer wireless coverage (3G WiFi) through different mobile operators Fiber Optic To The Buildingrdquo (FTTB) is a reality for gt 1500 SMEs 44 fully connected business parks

bull Audiovisual and Multimedia sector TWIST Cluster (technology companies service providers training centers universities research centers distributors producers professional associations etc) represent 4000 direct jobs and 10000 indirect jobs

bull Micro-Technologies Nanotech Mecatronic MITECH (Micro-Technologies for Intelligent Manufacturing amp Products) cluster

ICT one Walloon excellence bull ICT sector Infopole ICT Cluster wwwinfopolebe

AWTIC dedicated exclusively to ICTndash awtbeict (ICT companies database)ndash awtbeecommerce (e-commerce cartography)ndash opendataawtbe (Open Data for Wallonia)

bull Centers of competences technical platforms endowed with modern facilities made available to training agencies and companies such as Technifutur Technociteacute Technofutur3 Technobel Forem Formation

bull E-learning part of the dynamic of the Lisbon Summit (2000) and is under the umbrella of the AWTrsquos body awtbeelearning

bull New Way Of Working (NWOW) innovative usages and coworking awtbecoworking wwwcowalloniabe

Software engineeringbull 1 out of 4 Wallon ICT company develops software

ndash Enterprise Ressource Planningndash Customer Relation Management ndash Document Managementndash Multimedia amp web toolsndash Industrial or scientific applicationsndash Office suites workflowndash Networking security systemndash Educational software e-learning toolsndash Supply Chain Management e-commercendash Business Intelligencendash Internet of Things Smarticities M2Mndash Mobile application for smartphone and tablets

E-healthbull Medical imagerybull Biotechbull Medical IT bull Tele medicine

bull Microsoft Innovation Center focus on e-health startups pond

Radio transmission Telecombull Near Field Communicationbull Radio Frequency IDbull Bluethooth Castingbull Magnetic Identificationbull Optical networking

Bio technologiesbull Genomic bull Proteomic bull Metabolomic bull Oligonucleotides design bull Database Designbull Clinical research

bull laquo Biotechnological valley raquondash wwwbiovalleebendash 67 companies

13042023

Original cell

Clinical studyClinical study

Biology

Biology

Biology

Biology

IPtel Unified Communicationbull Voice Over IPbull Unified Communicationbull Open Source (asterisk SER OPENsips kamailio)bull Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)bull Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)bull IPpbx Softswitchbull Unified Messagingbull Fixe Mobile Convergence (FMC)bull Unified Communications

Mobile applicationsbull Operating System developmentbull Customer Relation Managementbull Workforcesbull Advertisementbull Machine-To-Machinebull Location Based Services

bull Walloon ecosystem powered byawtbemforum

Images Sound and Text Crossmedia bull TWIST and Wallimage cluster aimswwwtwist-clustercom wwwwallimagebendash synergies between enterprisesndash facilitate partnershipsndash amplify technological development and innovation

3D

Games

4DVitual World

OCR

JPEG2000Voice

Broadcast

Cinema

Broadcast

Cinema

3D animation Video

Video

VideoConf

Some well established multinationalbull IrisLinkbull Star Apicbull See telecombull Thales ALENIA SPACEbull EVSbull Flying cambull i-Movixbull Telemisbull Spacebelbull Etiluxbull Huaweibull Skylane Optics

bull Mons Digital Innovation ValleyWhere Technology meets Culture raquo

bull Microsoft Innovation Center

bull Google datacenter

LLN Chinese Intelligence Valleybull Chinese Belgium Technology Center (CBTC)ndash Chinese group Wuhan East Lase Hi-Tech Innovation Center

(Whibi) investment euro250 millionndash Business incubatorndash University Enterprise partnership

bull Peering in China with theBelgian Wallon Welcome OfficePlatform for Innovation China-Wallonia (PIC-W)wwwpic-wcom

Lets continue the discussion

ir Carmelo Zaccone

czawtbe

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+32 475 586782

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