UBITECH has joined EC VP Neelie Kroes during the opening of the 2014 Future Internet Assembly, on March 18th, at Megaron Athens International Conference Center. VP Kroes has delivered a FIA2014 opening keynote speech, after which she met with selected Greek start-ups & entrepreneurs – including UBITECH’s R&D Director Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas – for a “Meet and Greet” closed session.
During the closed session, UBITECH’s Panagiotis Gouvas has argued for the adoption from the European Commission of a branding, certification and global promotion mechanism for software solutions produced by the European software industry, as a vehicle for strengthening the competitiveness and leveraging the visibility of the European software vendors (especially SMEs).
UBITECH has participated in the Pre-FIA Workshop entitled “From data services to cloud services: concepts, applications and visions”, which took place at the Megaron Athens International Conference Center on Monday, March 17th, 2014. The workshop looked at a future of industrial leadership reached with the key enabling technology of Cloud Computing. A future in which a multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which enterprises’ IT environments are transformed into a matrix of interwoven infrastructure, platform and application services delivered by multiple providers.
The Secure Data Exchange Platform implemented by UBITECH for the “Registro Nacional de las Personas” (RENAPER) of the Ministry of Interior and Transport of the Republic of Argentina has been tested and piloted in four provinces of the Argentinian Republic, namely Neuquen, Tucumán, Corrientes and Formosa, during March and April 2014. The successfully executed test cases included the exchange of digitally signed birth, marriage and death certificates, allowing the functional evaluation and acceptance testing of the electronic platform and the familiarization of the provincial public servants with the platform’s digital formats, services and functionality.
The Federation of Hellenic Food Industries (SEVT) in collaboration with UBITECH performed a demonstration of the Linked2Media platform in the margins the conference “Research and Innovation to foster the competitiveness of the European Agri-Food and Seafood sectors”, which was organized by the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU together with the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the EC (DG RTD) in collaboration with the Federation of Hellenic Food Industries (SEVT) and the European and the Hellenic Technology Platform “Food for Life”. The conference held in Athens, on 10 – 11 March 2014. The conference aimed to discuss research and innovation as valuable tools for fostering the competitiveness of the European food sector and for promoting healthy and safe diets among Europe’s citizens.Related material can be found 
UBITECH has participated in the Athens kick-off meeting of the PaaSport research project, officially started on December 1st, 2013. The project is partially funded by European Commission under FP7 Research for SME Associations programme (Grant Agreement No 605193) and runs in the period December 2013-November 2016.
UBITECH has participated in the kick-off meeting that took place in Athens of the LinDA research project officially started on December 1st, 2013. The project is partially funded by European Commission under FP7-ICT research programme (Grant Agreement No 610565) and runs in the period December 2013-November 2015.
UBITECH has been selected as a National Champion representing Greece for the RSM Entrepreneur of the Year Award category (that is the main awards’ category) in the 2013/14 European Business Awards (that is the Europe’s largest awards programme).
A scientific paper entitled “Molecular Clustering via Knowledge Mining from Biomedical Scientific Corpora” has been accepted for oral presentation at the 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE 2013), which is held in Chania, Greece, at November 10-13, 2013. Panagiotis Hasapis, Dimitrios Ntalaperas, Dimitrios Alexandrou, Thanassis Bouras and their co-authors argue for a novel architecture that allows the extraction of argumentation clauses that might exist in publications, in order to perform molecular clustering on referenced molecules. Grammar rules are defined and used to identify sentences corresponding to argumentation being present in publications. The references of those molecules are then compiled as lists that include their structure definition in SMILES format. These lists are given as input to virtual screening tools and then to a molecular clustering tool, with the ultimate goal to classify molecules that are known to be prone to specific diseases, thus leading to the discovery of new drugs.
The ongoing EC co-funded LinkedDesign FP7 IP project presents its scope, objectives and intermediate results at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius. Addressing the need for collaborative ICT in manufacturing design and product lifecycle management, the Linked Engineering and mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) of LinkedDesign federates all product lifecycle information relevant to drive engineering and manufacturing processes, independent of its format, location, originator, and time of creation. Apart from the unified access to the integrated information, LEAP will provide specific knowledge exploitation solutions like sentiment analysis and design decision support systems to analyse the integrated information. Find us at the advanced research stand of LinkedDesign during 6th-8th November, 2013, at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, located in Zone R3 industry and business for tomorrow, Stand 4E5.
The successfully completed EC co-funded GRANATUM FP7 project demonstrates the final integrated platform produced, at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius. The GRANATUM platform constitutes a social collaborative working environment for semantically interlinking biomedical researchers, knowledge and data, and targets at the joint, cooperative design and execution of in-silico models and experiments in the cancer chemoprevention biology domain. The demonstration booth of GRANATUM will be active during 6th-8th November, 2013, and can be found at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, located in Zone R3 industry and business for tomorrow, Stand 4C4.
