Francisco Meléndez

Together with its 600+ members and partners and 35+ worldwide iHubs, FIWARE Foundation drives the definition — and the Open Source implementation — of key open standards that enable the development of portable and interoperable smart solutions in a faster, easier and affordable way, avoiding vendor lock-in scenarios, whilst also nurturing FIWARE as a sustainable and innovation-driven business ecosystem. The foundation achieves this through the support of a fast-growing global community that shares a common vision and combines their efforts toward making FIWARE the Open Source technology of choice for industries, governments, universities and associations to reach their full potential and scale up their activities, thereby, entering new markets and growing their businesses. Founded in 2016, the foundation has Al Madinah, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Atos, Engineering, Red Hat, NEC, Telefónica, and Orange among its members. The FIWARE platform provides a rather simple yet powerful set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and combines components enabling the connection to the Internet of Things with Context Information Management and Big Data services in the Cloud. Key areas of FIWARE innovations include Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence, Data Spaces, and Blockchain. FIWARE is Day-1 member of GAIA-X and co-founder of the Data Spaces Business Alliance (DSBA).