In March 2015, the European Commission initiated the creation of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI). The overall goal of the establishment of the AlOTI is the creation of a dynamic European IoT ecosystem to unleash the potentials of the IoT and to develop and support the dialogue and interaction among IoT various players. The AIOTI will assist the European Commission in the preparation of future IoT research as well as innovation and standardisation policies. It is also going to play an essential role in the designing of IoT Large Scale Pilots, which will be funded under the H2020 2016-2017 Work Programme.

The "Smart farming and food security" working group of the AIOTI has recently published the report "Smart Farming and Food Safety Internet of Things Applications – Challenges for Large Scale Implementations" containing the recommendations for future collaborative work in the context of the Internet of Things Focus Area in Horizon 2020. IoT technologies have the potential of helping European farming and food sector face important challenges for the future through real-time monitoring, better decision making, and improved operations management of the whole value chain, from farm to fork.

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An Open Day is organized by the "Smart farming and food security" working group of the AIOTI next 15th of January in Brussels (instead of the initial date of 26 November 2015 which had to be cancelled for security reasons) with the following objectives:

• Presentation of the activities of the "smart farming and food security" working group of the AIOTI.
• Presentation of the report "Smart Farming and Food Safety Internet of Things Applications – Challenges for Large Scale Implementations".
• Provide the opportunity for networking, brokerage and exchanges ideas linked to the IoT Large Scale Pilots which will be funded under the H2020 2016-2017 Work Programme.

We encourage the participation of those actors which play an active role in the agro-food chain (farmers, machinery suppliers, food processors, retailers, wholesalers, consumer organizations, etc) as well as scientists and IoT technology suppliers working in the agro-food sector.

All those who registered for the initial date of 26th November will receive an email inviting them to reconfirm. Registration for this new edition is open until 31st December (or until full room capacity is reached) at the following link where a draft agenda is also available: http://goo.gl/forms/XNsBtT1y0z