Accelerating the Adoption of Cloud-Edge-IoT Ecosystems: Market insights and business perspectives from CEI-SPHERE and BRIDGE

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8 July 2026 14:00–15:30
Online

The webinar is designed to present and discuss concrete, evidence-based insights on how Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) solutions are being adopted in the Energy, Mobility, and Industry spheres. It will draw on findings from CEI-SPHERE’s Deep Dive Analysis to highlight real-world adoption patterns, key challenges, and emerging opportunities in these domains, providing participants with a solid analytical basis for understanding the current CEI landscape.

Beyond presenting findings, the session will stimulate a broader dialogue on the role of open-source approaches, open standards, and the CEI Trust Label as critical enablers for scaling CEI solutions in the European market. It aims to explore how openness, interoperability, and trust frameworks can reduce fragmentation, support ecosystem growth, and accelerate market uptake.

A central purpose of the webinar is to connect CEI-SPHERE’s technical and market-oriented results with the BRIDGE initiative’s Business Model Working Group insights, including aspects such as business sustainability, interoperability, and commercialization pathways for innovative solutions. In this way, the webinar will help align technology development with viable business models and market integration strategies.

The discussion will also focus on identifying synergies between CEI-SPHERE’s pilot-driven approach and the business model innovations emerging within BRIDGE, looking at how real-life pilots and demonstrators can be better leveraged to validate and de-risk new business approaches.

Finally, the webinar intends to lay the groundwork for future joint activities between CEI-SPHERE and the BRIDGE Business Model Working Group, fostering continued collaboration on market design, business strategies, and ecosystem-building for Cloud-Edge-IoT in Europe. 

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Opening and Welcome

14:00 - 14:05

Speakers

Maria Giuffrida
Maria Giuffrida

Trust-IT Services

Introductory Remarks

14:05 - 14:15

What is the biggest challenge for scaling interoperable ecosystems? Which factor contributes most to interoperability at scale (Open standards, Open-source software, certification, regulation) 

Speakers

Marcello Bardellini
Marcello Bardellini

IDC

Cross-Sphere CEI adoption and key challenges

14:15 – 14:30
 

What is driving CEI adoption? What prevents scaling beyond pilots? What challenges are common across sectors?

Speakers

John Gole
John Gole

IDC

CEI-SPHEREs perspectives

14:30 – 14:45

Open source and open standards (benefits, role, barriers to adoption, sustainability concerns), Trust label: relevance and market potential 

Speakers

John Gole
John Gole

IDC

BRIDGE

14:45 – 15:10

BRIDGE: from adoption challenges to sustainable business models

Speakers

Anastasis Tzoumpas
Anastasis Tzoumpas

UBITECH
BRIDGE Chairman of the WG Business Models

Discussion and Questions

15:10 - 15:25

Speakers

Marcello Bardellini
Marcello Bardellini

IDC

Closing Remarks

Speakers

Marcello Bardellini
Marcello Bardellini

IDC