Partnering research and open standards: How EU innovation is shaping the future of OSGi

This talk, presented by Timothy Ward from Kentyou, explores how European Union-funded research projects leverage open standards and open source to create sustainable software systems. It addresses the challenges of ensuring research outputs are usable beyond their initial project lifecycles, emphasizing that merely publishing code is not enough without ongoing maintenance and community support. The session highlights the importance of defining generic solutions and formalizing them as open standards, which significantly contribute to reducing integration risks and enhancing interoperability across complex systems in various domains, including smart cities and healthcare. An illustrative case from the Brain-IoT project demonstrates how the OSGi typed event bus specification evolved to meet specific requirements, showcasing how research findings can transition into universally adopted building blocks through effective standardization processes.