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Team contact

Jean-Paul SMETS: CEO Nexedi

• Phone number: +33629024425
• Email address: jp@nexedi.com

Klaus WÖLFEL: CEO Nexedi GmbH

• Phone number: +4917696399023
• Email address: klaus.woelfel@nexedi.com

Elena SPINELLI: Event Coordinator at Nexedi

• Phone number: +33663051662
• Email address: elena.spinelli@nexedi.com

Meetup place and time

Place: Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO, Room G1.00 in Tower 1 (Building G) (Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart, GERMANY). 

Date: 12th of November, 2018 from 10:00am to 5:00pm (with a lunch break offered by Nexedi).

Map

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Journey and transport to Fraunhofer IAO

From the airport: Coming by car/taxi takes 15 minutes. Coming by S-bahn lasts 30 minutes: from the airport, take the line S2 or S3 and stop at Universität station; then walk for 10 minutes.

From the Stuttgart Central Station: Coming by car/taxi takes 15-20 minutes. Coming by S-bahn lasts 20 minutes: from Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart station, take the line S2 or S3 and stop at Universität station too; then walk 10 minutes.

Schedule

presentation content is still being finalised

• 10:00 Introduction - Jean-Paul Smets, Joachim Lentes
  • IAO Introduction
  • Company Introduction: Nexedi, Linutronix, Olimex, Slowtec
  • Industry 4.0: Transforming industry through Distributed Application Convergence
  • Nexedi Free Software Stack for Industry 4.0
  • Meetup Goals
• 10:25: Questions
• 10:30: Industry 4.0 Success Cases​​
  • 10:30 - Wölfel Wind Systems: structural health monitoring and ice detection for connected wind turbines using Wendelin and NEO (Germany) - Steffen Pankoke, Klaus Wölfel
  • 10:55 - short break
  • 11:00 - Nexedi: unified deployment and management of autonomic devices at the edge and in the data centre using SlapOS - Jean-Paul Smets, Rafael Monnerat, Thomas Gambier
    • Rapid.Space: Cutting cloud costs by 30% to 90% thanks to Open Compute Project (OCP)
    • Teralab: Big data store, A.I. automation and network isolation
    • Linuxboot: securing big data computing on Open Compute Project (OCP) servers through open source firmware
  • 11:20 - Linutronix: using Elbe for real-time embedded Linux for industrial automation in the automotive industry - Jan Altenberg
  • 11:40 - Wölfel Engineering: automated monitoring and reporting of vibrations and noise across sensor-systems using Wendelin and Jupyter Notebooks (Germany) - Klaus Wölfel
  • 12:00 - ClearRoad: convergence between digital and connected objects in vehicles using ERP5 (USA) - Arman Davidyan
• 12:20: Lunch break
• 13:30: Technology Showcase
  • 13:30 - MicroBJ: technical assistance through in-browser data analytics using OfficeJS (China) - Roman Yurchak
  • 13:50 - Olimex: Open Hardware for industrial automation - Tsvetan Usunov
  • 14:10 - Jailhouse: an Open-Source Hypervisor for industrial connected things - Jan Altenberg
  • 14:30 - Ebulk: exchanging or archiving very large data sets made easy with ebulk - Roque Porchetto 
  • 14:50 - Slowtec: Industrial automation with embedded Linux, Rust and open hardware (Germany) - Markus Kohlhase
• 15:10: Coffee Break
• 15:20: Research Projects
  • 15:20 - MariaDB: SQLite vs. MariaDB for embedded systems (Vicențiu Ciorbaru)
  • 15:40 - WINDELIN: autonomic anomaly detection of wind turbine structure through GPU based smart sensor using Wendelin and SlapOS - Ivan Tyagov
  • 15:50 - Smart manufacturing planning and execution system (MES) with convergence between digital and tangible assets using ERP5 - Sébastien Robin
• 16:00: Coffee Break
• 16:10: R&D Coordination Meeting
• 17:00: End

Speakers

• Dr.-Ing. Steffen Pankoke - Wölfel Group Managing Director
• Dr. Jean-Paul Smets - Nexedi CEO
• Dr. Klaus Wölfel - Nexedi GmbH CEO
• Rafael Monnerat - VIFIB CEO and co-author of "Beautiful Code" (O'Reilly)
• Tsvetan Usunov - Olimex CEO
• Jan Altenberg - Linutronix Head of Technical Sales
• Dr. Roman Yurchak - Nexedi Project Manager
• Roque Porchetto - Télécom ParisTech (part of scikit-learn team)
• Thomas Gambier - VIFIB Project Manager
• Ivan Tyagov - Nexedi Project Manager
• Sébastien Robin - Nexedi Project Manager
• Dipl.-Ing. Markus Kohlhase - slowtec GmbH

HSE

The emergency exit is directly besides the room and the toilettes are opposite of the meeting room.

Catering

The lunch during the meeting day is offered by Nexedi and will take place in a room next to the meeting one in Fraunhofer Institute. It will be a buffet.

A dinner in a restaurant will be organized for the guests who already arrived on site in the evening before the Conference.

• On the 11th evening, the dinner will take place in Gaststätte Kirchtal restaurant at 7:30pm. The address is: Markgröninger Str.46, 70435 Stuttgart.
• On the 12th evening, the dinner will take place in La Bruschetta restaurant at 7:30pm. The address is Pfaffenwaldring 62, 70435 Stuttgart. 

Internet

Every participant and speaker will receive a personnal account and password for the Fraunhofer Wifi. It will be completely free and available all the day long.

Electricity

Every participant and speaker will have an available 220V AC socket under their seat or next to them.

Pictures of the meetup