The 8th edition of the I-COM Data Startup Challenge will showcase top Startups from around the world who leverage value from Smart Data Marketing as the central selling point of their product or services. Success in a Data world means aligning a “dream team” and Ecosystem of companies that enable competitive advantage for their clients by leveraging value from Data. Never before has there been such a curiosity and need for large enterprises to understand and invest in the latest approaches and technologies that are on the horizon.

Why Enter?

· To gain global exposure to key decision makers in the marketing industry;
· To connect with potential investors and help propel your company to the next level of development – The Data Startup Challenge has been the catalyst for a number of large and exciting new partnerships;
· To engage this exclusive audience and for them to discover how your product can help them with their pressing business challenges;
· To present your work in front of our distinguished Jury members;
· To be center stage as one of the world’s leading Data Startups and potentially, winners of the I-COM Data Startup Challenge;
· To leverage press coverage of your company, product and service during the I-COM Global Summit;
· To use the industry recognized branding “I-COM Award Winner” across your internal and external communications;
· To enhance both personal and business reputations.

Entry Form

The I-COM Data Startup Challenge is specifically aimed at Startups who leverage value from Smart Data Marketing as the central selling point of their product or services, pertaining to Digital Marketing. I-COM defines a Startup company as follows:
· Product is live in the market, at least having one client = 1 case study
· The company is less than 4 years old
· Annual revenue is less than US$ 2.5 million

You can find the entry form here.

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Data security, types of cloud platforms on the market today, different ways to access the cloud, what is the role of the IXPs in facilitating access to the cloud. These are the main themes that will be addressed during the first TOP-IX meeting in 2018, entitled “Cloud Connectivity“.
The event, dedicated to partners and members of the Consortium, will be held Tuesday, June 19, starting at 9.30, in the spaces of CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography.

This is the program:
9,30 -10,00: welcome coffe e registrazione

10:00 – 10,30: update delle attività di TOP-IX
Andrea Casalegno – Chief Technical Officer
Massimo Durando – Senior Network Engineer

10:30 – 12,30: Cloud Connectivity
Moderator: Walter Dal Mut – Senior Solution Architect @ Corley Cloud
Speakers:

Walter Dal Mut – Senior Solution Architect @ Corley Cloud “Cloud Essentials – an introduction”
Marco Ciurcina – avvocato “Privacy and Clouds”
Marco Zacchello – Global Solution Architect @ Equinix “Cloud Connectivity for Enterprises”
Mariano Cunietti -CTO and Cloud & Hosting BU Manager @ Enter “Open Infrastructures”
Marco Saracco – Account Manager @ COLT “Raggiungere il Cloud senza il traffico dell’ora di punta”
Federico Guerrini – EMEA Technical Lead, Azure Networking & Security @ Microsoft “Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure”
Luca Cicchelli – IXP Manager @ TOP-IX “Market Place: direct access to the cloud”

12:30 – 12:45: Q&A

12:45 – 13:00: sponsored speech
Matteo Repeti – Consultant Engineer @JUNIPER – “Juniper perspective on future Open Optical Network”
Marcello Forti – VP Sales Vodafone Global & Italy @ ADVA Optical Networking – “Meccanismi di sicurezza Inter ed Intra Cloud”

13:00 – 14:00: lunch

After the morning of frontal speaches and round tables, in the afternoon (14 to 18) it will be possible to participate to “1to1” meetings: single meetings of about 20 minutes between the participants. More details will follow soon.
For further information please write to eventi@top-ix.org

Here you can find the list of companies participating in the topix meeting.

Sponsored by:

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On 26 September, CAMERA hosted the TOP-IX Meeting, which focused on security.

To see what has happened during #topixmeeting in a few tweets, just scroll through the Storify.
We also have collected voices and impressions of the protagonists, which we present through a series of interviews, collected in this playlist:

Finally, you can consult the rapporteurs’ slides to explore the issues that are being addressed:
10:00-10:30 Welcome, introduction and TOP-IX update
Davide Calonico – Presidente Consiglio Direttivo – TOP-IX
Luca Cicchelli – Internet Exchange Manager – TOP-IX – slides

10:30 – 12:30 INTERCONNECTION panel. Contribution of:
Geoff Huston – APNIC Chief Scientist: An introduction to Internet of Stupid Things
Bijal Shangani – Euro-IX & PeeringDB
Luca Sani – Ricercatore presso IIT-CNR – Isolario
Davide Bassani – Systems Engineer – Arista Networks Inc (sponsored talk)

14:30 – 16:30 SECURITY ON THE INTERNET (DDoS, trusted interconnections, …) – Panel introduced and chaired by Carola Frediani (Journalist expert on Cybersecurity of La Stampa).
Marco Mellia – Politecnico di Torino – slides
Paolo Lezzi – Founder & CEO -InTheCyber
Marco Giusti Major Account Executive -Akamai
Marco Marzetti – Sr. Network and QA Engineer – IP Engineer at PCCW GLOBAL
Andrea Casalegno – Chief Technical Officer . TOP-IX
16:30 – 17:30 One to One Networking and bye bye coffee

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