FIWARE Accelerate Next Steps presentation, by Roi Rodríguez de Bernardo (IMPACT Growth). FIWARE Acceleration Programme. Conference track. 1st FIWARE Summit, Málaga, Dec. 13-15, 2016.

1. FIWARE Accelerate Next Steps
Roi Rodríguez de Bernardo
Project Manager IMPACT Growth, FIWARE Accelerate Mission Support
Committe
roi.rodriguez@fundingbox.com @RoiR23

2. Presentation
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Roi Rodríguez de Bernardo
IMPACT Growth Project Manager
roi.rodriguez@fundingbox.com
@RoiR23
Gold member
FIWARE Foundation

3. FIWARE Accelerate program so far
2
80 Million €
16 Accelerators
8,300 applications
985 beneficiaries
5,500 jobs, 2016
€ 96 m revenue, 2016
Source: D.2.4. Updated IMPACT Assesment Forecast, FI IMPACT, June 2016

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 8fit helps people get in
shape from home.
 Offer workout & nutrition
plans for everyone.
 3.000.000 users, 70% US.
 $ 3.5 million private
investment raised.
 $ 20 million valuation.
 $250.000 monthly revenue
 25 employees, 5 before
FIWARE
“We built our
app with one
clear goal in
mind – to
change lives of
millions of
people for the
better “

5. FIWARE Accelerate Next Steps
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• FIWARE Accelerate Mission Support Committee will be
established by the beginning of 2017.
• Frontier Cities and IMPACT Growth will launch new open
calls by the beginning of 2017.

6. FIWARE Accelerate MSC Goals
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• MSC FIWARE Accelerate Goal: To promote the adoption of
FIWARE technologies among solutions integrators and
application developers, with special focus on SMEs and
startups.
• MSC FIWARE Specific Goals:
a. To create top acceleration programs promoting FIWARE
technologies that help SMEs and startups to get to the next
level.
b. To empower and support the beneficiaries of the
acceleration programs to use FIWARE Technologies and
further expand the FIWARE development community.
c. To align the promotion efforts with the PO, the FF, the
different projects, MSCs and members of FIWARE
Accelerate.

7. FIWARE Accelerate MSC
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• The following working groups will be established within the
MSC:
• Acceleration
• Community Building
• Dissemination
• FIWARE Adoption
• Mission Support Commitee Proposal will be sent to the
FIWARE Foundation BoD by the beginning of March 2017.

8. Accelerators new open calls
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New open call end: January 2017!!!
New open call end: February 2017!!!

9. Frontier Cities in a nutshell
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✓ 30 – 50 Grantees contracted through both Call strands will get from 25 K to
100 K
✓ 20+ FI-PPP Phase II & III research results advised and/or supported via fC2
Outreach Service
✓ 100+ cities trialling / deploying FIWARE-enabled solutions
✓ 60+ FIWARE-enabled solutions deployed in European Cities and/or Local
Authorities
✓ 150 FIWARE deployment instances in Cities (and Local Authorities instances)
✓ EUR 5 million in new and third party financing and investment support in
FIWARE-supported SMEs, Start-ups, FI-PPP Phase I & 2 Projects
✓ 15-20 Corporate Partnerships signed with FIWARE-supported SME solutions
✓ A significantly enhanced online media programme, with regular broadcasting
of FIWARE success stories, city profiles and interviews via the ThinkingCities
Platform reaching 24,000+ cities, local authorities and smart cities
professionals across Europe and around the world.

10. IMPACT Growth
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11. IMPACT Growth Global IMPACT
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12. IMPACT Growth Key Results
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13. FIWARE Accelerate
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Allowed to spread the use of FIWARE.
More than 1,000 FIWARE adopters due to the program.
Around 9,000 people reached.
The main goal of FIWARE Accelerate is to continue to
contribute to the dissemination and adoption of FIWARE
Technologies

14. Thank you!
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16. Thank you!
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