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Latest News
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© Andrea Podda, Luca La Brocca, Stefania Pilleri AI WEEK 2026: Bringing the 8ra Vision into the European AI Debate
At AI WEEK 2026 in Milan, the IPCEI-CIS project Villanova brought the 8ra perspective into one of Italy’s major forums for AI, innovation and digital transformation. Across the event, one message became clear: AI is increasingly understood as a strategic driver for business transformation, with a clear focus on concrete use cases and scalable adoption.
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© Plattform Industrie 4.0 8ra at Hannover Messe 2026: Scaling the Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum
The Hannover Messe 2026 has concluded, and for the 8ra Initiative, the week was a clear demonstration that the European Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum has moved from a strategic framework to a functional industrial reality.
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© DLR 8ra Annual Summit 2026: Advancing Europe’s Cloud-Edge Ecosystem
The 8ra Annual Summit 2026, held on 19-20 March in Rotterdam, brought together key stakeholders from across Europe’s cloud and edge ecosystem to reflect on progress and define the next steps for the initiative. Discussions focused on how to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness while advancing digital sovereignty in the cloud and edge domain.
Current Events
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© metamorworks – stock.adobe.com –8ra Initiative at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026
The 8ra Initiative will be represented at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026 in Berlin, one of the continent’s key forums for digital innovation. A central part of 8ra’s presence will be the panel discussion “From Vision to Reality – Deploying AI Across a Federated Cloud-Edge Continuum” on 1 July 2026.
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© EUCNC –8ra and CISERO at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026
At EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026, the 8ra Initiative and CISERO will contribute to the discussion on how Europe can build cloud-edge infrastructures that are open, federated and ready for future communication networks.
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Image AI generated © deimos.az – stock.adobe.com –8ra at AI WEEK 2026: Villanova highlights European digital sovereignty
At AI WEEK 2026, the IPCEI-CIS project Villanova will highlight how the 8ra Initiative contributes to Europe’s digital sovereignty and to the development of an interoperable cloud-edge infrastructure. Villanova focuses on multimodal generative AI models tailored to European languages and regional needs. Meet us at Hall 13/15 at the Innovation Hub CDO stand.
Voices of 8ra
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© TIM S.p.A. „Federation is not just a technical matter“
In an ecosystem with around 120 partners, technology is just one piece of the puzzle. An equally important challenge is whether projects, providers and countries can align on how their systems should work together. That question is now central to Mauro Boldi, Chair of the IPCEI-CIS Facilitation Group.
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© DLR “Cloud providers need more choice, flexibility and sovereignty”
With the ApeiroRA project, SAP aims to develop a reference blueprint for an open, flexible, and secure next generation cloud-edge infrastructure. Mike Cosse explains how project partners joined forces with the Linux Foundation Europe to establish the NeoNephos Foundation.
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© Pēteris Ārājs | © Jānis Kampars “Digital twins should be reusable, not rebuilt from scratch”
Urban digital twins are widely seen as a powerful tool for city planning. Most implementations are developed as stand-alone solutions, which makes them costly and hard to transfer. In our interview, Jānis Kampars & Pēteris Ārājs describe how a modular platform can simplify how digital twins are developed and operated.