03/22/2022 | Whether autonomous driving, machine learning, the Industrial Internet of Things or artificial intelligence, each of these innovative technologies is associated with various open-source tools in numerous applications. fortiss offers a broad portfolio of open-source software for various application domains, thus opening up the opportunity to build on an immense amount of valuable experience from the talented scientists at fortiss.

02/16/2022 | The exchange of ideas, knowledge and technologies is a key success factor for Bavaria's innovative capacity. In this context, knowledge and technology transfer between science and industry is of particular importance. The Bayern Innovativ study "Future of Technology Transfer - On Expedition to the Year 2030" shows options for its future design. Philip Frankl from the fortiss Mittelstand team was involved as an expert for the study.

01/25/2022 | The Bitkom web conference scheduled for February 9, 2022 is drawing its inspiration from the classic drama! Under the title Enterprise Architectures: A Drama in Five Acts?, the Bitkom working groups Software Engineering & Software Architecture and Digital Design will provide up-to-date presentations on the topic of enterprise architectures. Contributing from fortiss is Peter Kuhn from the Open Data and Information Management field of competence with a presentation on the topic of enterprise architecture management in the public sector.

01/12/2022 | The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) was created by the European Commission in 2015 with the goal of promoting the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT), specifically in Europe. The aim is to strengthen dialogue and information sharing between the IoT players in order to create a dynamic IoT ecosystem. The AIOTI Testbed Catalogue provides a further important contribution. The catalogue was coordinated by and created under the leadership of Prof. Rute C. Sofia from fortiss within the framework of the AIOTI IG Testbeds workgroup.

12/22/2021 | Edge computing is becoming an indispensable key technology for the IoT of the future. The EU-IoT whitepaper "A Vision on Smart, Decentralised Edge Computing Research Directions" offers a compact and comprehensive overview of the various edge computing concepts, the leading edge research directions and an outlook on efforts to standardize edge computing.

12/01/2021 | The CONASENSE Symposium, featuring internationally-renowned guest speakers, was held on October 4th and 5th in Munich. This year’s event provided interesting and promising insights into the development of 6G. Numerous presentations were given that introduced the technological advances and associated challenges between now and the year 2030.

11/24/2021 | At the “Vater Smart” hackathon organized by IBM and Aperto in early November, scientists from the fortiss Open Data and Information Management (ODIM) field of competence placed second in the categories “Best Pitch” and “Best Customer Experience” during voting at the conclusion of the event. The event was designed specifically for the public sector and provided public administration employees the opportunity to collaborate with IT specialists and scientists to create innovative solutions for digital public administration services.

10/28/2021 | Public administration services struggle under the burden of tedious processes. For good reason, complaining about the slow grind of government agencies has nearly become a national pastime in Germany. However, technological progress has still not completely bypassed German bureaucracy, which is frequently viewed as behind the times. Machine learning technology in particular can help simplify and accelerate processes with data-driven methods. One of the major hurdles is not the algorithms, but more the processing of the required data while complying with guidelines such as the European General Data Protection Regulation. With this in mind, IBM and fortiss are working within the framework of the Center for AI on accountable federated machine learning (AFML) projects, in which data protection guidelines are fastidiously maintained while still creating valid results.

10/21/2021 | A further building block for an innovative ecosystem and network for artificial intelligence (AI) in the Oberpfalz region was created this past Wednesday with the networking event “Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence for Small-to-Medium Enterprises”. This network in eastern Bavaria, already a successful example of how to practice a partnership, is designed to be a role model beyond regional borders and across all of Bavaria.