UBITECH participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by the DBC EUROPE (September 16-17, 2020), of the PALANTIR Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 883335) and spans on the period September 2020 – August 2023. PALANTIR aims at bridging the gap between large enterprises and SMEs/MEs, by providing multi-layered, infrastructure-wide threat monitoring, cyber-resiliency and knowledge sharing in a heterogeneous ecosystem, while at the same time being able to market these services to third parties in the form of Security-as-a-service (SECaaS). PALANTIR will implement a coherent privacy assurance, data protection, incident detection and recovery framework, focusing on the case of highly dynamic service-oriented systems and networks, taking advantage of their inherent programmability features and abstractions. PALANTIR will also focus on cyber-resiliency leveraging the features of service-oriented systems key building features by a) applying and exploiting Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies; b) considering emerging paradigms such as the application of scalable artificial Intelligence, standardization and threat-sharing techniques to risk analysis, network operation, monitoring and management and c) ensuring the SME’s compliance with the relevant data privacy and protection regulations in the data breach age, implementing the «Privacy by Default» and the «Privacy by Design» principles on how personal data is collected, used, transferred and stored between 3rd party businesses and entities.
UBITECH hosts the virtual kick-off meeting (September 10-11, 2020) of the SANCUS Research and Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 952672) and spans on the period September 2020 – August 2023. The vision of the SANCUS project is to support the EU mission of protecting the next generation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) networks by proposing an analySis softwAre scheme of uNiform statistiCal sampling, aUdit and defence proceSses. The key idea is to build a wide‐ranging manifold of new tools and strategies that enable next‐generation ICT system networks with massively distributed environments, to perform automated and Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven analysis of their firmware images at massive scale – as the quantity of the processed firmware grows, the capabilities of the system networks advance towards enabling proactive risk assessment of their applications and services by means of and maximising the overall system resilience in joint terms of security, privacy and reliability.
UBITECH participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (September 8-9, 2020), of the FUDGE-5G Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957242) and spans on the period September 2020 – February 2023. The vision of the FUDGE-5G project is to create a new generation of world leading 5G core network technology companies for private 5G networks based in Europe. FUDGE-5G will make a leap forward in realizing the notion of cloud-native 5G private networks by developing a further enhanced Service-Based Architecture (eSBA) for both control plane and user plane with “decomposed” players of the ecosystem divided into: New Radio (NR) access network infrastructure provider, eSBA platform provider, mobile 5G Core (5GC) provider, vertical application orchestration provider and vertical service provider.
UBITECH is hosting the kick-off e-meeting (September 7-8, 2020) of the PUZZLE Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 883540) and spans on the period September 2020 – August 2023. The vision of the PUZZLE project is to design and implement a novel highly usable cybersecurity, privacy and data protection management framework targeted at SMEs&MEs that enables them to dynamically monitor, forecast, assess and manage their security, privacy and personal data protection risks through the usage of targeted cybersecurity management services, increase their cybersecurity awareness through the efficient processing of heterogeneous information flows and the establishment of online collaboration and knowledge sharing with other SMEs&MEs, and extract insights and threat intelligence reports based on analysis over the processed data through the application of artificial intelligence mechanisms.
UBITECH is happy to announce the launch of the ChildRescue App, an innovative application that can help the investigation of missing children and unaccompanied refugee minors cases. The App will be available for free download, for both iOS and Android devices, from the 28th July 2020 and on. For the ChildRescue Innovation Action, which is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 framework of the European Commission, UBITECH had the opportunity to work with a great team of partners, and contribute to the implementation of a secure and privacy-preserving mobile application, compatible with both Android and iOS operating systems. For more info, please have a look at the 
As the related due diligence process has completed successfully, UBITECH is signing today an investment agreement with Exit Bee for acquiring almost 10% of this novel start-up specialized in digital marketing and online advertising, as well as a strategic partnership agreement for becoming their main technology vendor, providing Exit Bee with software engineering and devops consulting services. Exit Bee re-defines what’s possible in display advertising with Smart Exit Ads, a new, premium channel for advertisers and a new revenue stream for publishers. Smart Exit Ads outperform any other display advertising format achieving over 96% viewability and up to 40 times higher click-through rate compared to the avg. banner, while introducing new ad formats and unlimited creative options. Smart Exit Ads are already being used by large advertisers across all industries (e.g., automotive, cosmetics, news media, banking, etc.) and by top publishers and media agencies in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Kenya, South Africa, UK and UAE. For more info about the activities and services of Exit Bee, the new member of UBITECH Group, please visit their corporate website: 
UBITECH participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by the National Technical University of Athens (July 21-22, 2020), of the Search and Rescue (S&R) Research and Innovation Action, officially started on July 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 882897) and spans on the period July 2020 – June 2023. The vision of the S&R project is to design, implement and test through a series of large scale pilot scenarios a highly interoperable, modular open architecture platform for first responders. The governance model of S&R will be designed to operate more effectively and its architectural structure will allow to easily incorporate next generation R&D and COTS solutions which will be possibly adopted in the future disaster management systems. The Model will also support a unified vision of the EU role and will provide a common framework to assess needs and integrate responses. The framework will enable supportive approach using a wider range of decisional support features and monitoring systems and will also give to first responders an effective and unified vision of (a) the dynamic changes going on during event’s lifetime and (b) the capabilities and resources currently deployed in the field.
The MATILDA 5G & Beyond Workshop was originally proposed and accepted to be held in conjunction with the 6G Wireless Summit, and was planned to be held in Levi, Finland, on March 20, 2020. Owing to the Covid-19 outbreak, all Tutorials and Workshops scheduled on March 19 and 20 were cancelled, and eventually the 6G Wireless Summit itself was transformed into a virtual event. Thus, MATILDA has decided to follow a similar path, organizing the workshop as a webinar on June 30, 2020. The goal of this workshop is to present the main assets and business models for the whole MATILDA solution and its vertical demonstrators and the potential of their evolution toward 6G, where, by mapping application requirements to network slice configuration and allowing fast dynamic adaptation of resources, it may contribute to empower European SMEs and other stakeholders in the development of more efficient 5/6G-aware applications and foster innovative vertical industries. The workshop will include presentations on the MATILDA assets from Consortium partners and will also welcome invited speakers from academia and the industrial sector, from application developers to Telco Service Providers, possibly followed by a panel discussion. Presentations will be upon invitation only.
A scientific paper entitled “Converging HPC, Big Data and Cloud technologies for precision agriculture data analytics on supercomputers” has been co-authored by Ryax Technologies, HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, CINECA, National Technical University of Athens, LeanXcale and UBITECH, and is presented at the 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference – High Performance, between June 21-25, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. In this paper, Dr Sophia Karagiorgou and her co-authors discuss the orchestration of precision agriculture and livestock farming analytics workflows across hybrid IoT, Big Data, HPC and Cloud infrastructures. As a matter of fact, the convergence of HPC and Big Data along with the influence of Cloud are playing an important role in the democratization of HPC. The increasing needs of Data Analytics in computational power has added new fields of interest for the HPC facilities but also new problematics such as interoperability with Cloud and ease of use. Besides the typical HPC applications, these infrastructures are now asked to handle more complex workflows combining Machine Learning, Big Data and HPC. This brings challenges on the resource management, scheduling and environment deployment layers. Hence, enhancements are needed to allow multiple frameworks to be deployed under common system management while providing the right abstraction to facilitate adoption.
