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The FutureCongress-digital on October 6, 2021, everything revolved around open source, 5G and AI.
The city of Wolfsburg is on its way to becoming an even smarter city. WOBCOM is making a significant contribution to this path,
As part of the Strategic Plan, ASTRID will focus on drawing investments to and developing the ecosystem for 5 technology focus areas, in close collaboration with all relevant partner:
As part of the FIWARE Accelerator, we offer various free coaching programs for young B2B startups. Our core activity, however, is our Company Building Program: We accompany and support start-ups as co-founders - even over several years - in their development. We could also participate directly in the respective startups.
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Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG and WOBCOM GmbH intensify cooperation with Dell Technologies for platform-based smart city solutions In order to accompany municipalities on their way
New mobility concepts, intelligent solutions for waste, parking space management, automated air quality measurements and much more, are all part
Top-class speakers, exemplary transfer projects as well as innovations of international organizations and companies – at the FutureCongress-digital on October
In close collaboration with relevant technology partners, the initiative seeks to secure a set of key enablers to nurture an attractive Open Source ecosystem for targeted investments, for instance, talent, infrastructure, R&D institutions and platforms, incentives and funding, networks, broadband access and liveability
If you want to shape the future, you have to understand the technology. You guys rocked on the GAIA-X project. Thanks so much for doing a great job!
You should be particularly proud given the high standard of this year’s iHub including, of course, the original and inspiring entries from all players.
This is a place where we can bring our challenges and work on them with our industry partners
With the ASTRID Innovation Hub, we have created a platform that enables us to push smart city applications on an open-source basis and thus generate real added value for Wolfsburg as a business location. Together with FIWARE Foundation e.V., Stadtwerke and WOBCOM are able to make a significant contribution to the smart development of our city. On the one hand, citizens benefit from this, and on the other, it strengthens Wolfsburg as a center of attraction for technology companies.
Lower Saxony is one of the most active GAIA-X regions in Germany. First and foremost, this shows that we have a high level of digital affinity and that we are willing to actively work on the digital sovereignty of our country and Europe. This commitment deserves broad and best possible political support.
New mobility concepts, intelligent solutions for waste, parking space management, automated air quality easurements and much more, are all part of a future smart city, the development of which we as the Stadtwerke Group want to help drive forward. In the future, the ASTRID iHUB will be a place of participation for companies and citizens alike - far beyond the borders of Wolfsburg. Through the cooperation with the FIWARE Foundation, we want to benefit from the international open source network and bring global innovations to Wolfsburg as well as create structures in other regions in the world with our ideas
FIWARE is the leading open source technology for the digitization of cities and municipalities worldwide by now. More than 200 cities in over 30 countries are implementing their Smart City using FIWARE technology. The FIWARE iHubs (Innovation Hubs) play in the further market adoption of the technology. We are very pleased to welcome ASTRID in Wolfsburg as the 25th iHub in our global network of iHubs.
NVIDIA is delighted to work with WOBCOM GmbH and Stadtwerke Wolfsburg AG to support ASTRID iHub. These public private partnerships are critical to advancing Germany’s digital transformation, and we are energized to help build the human and compute infrastructure that unlocks new frontiers in Urban AI Innovation for the City of Wolfsburg.
the ASTRID iHub aims to turn the region into a preferred investment iHub for technology companies, while also reaffirming North Germany as a premier ICT location.
