D6.2 Initial communication, dissemination, standardization and exploitation activities

CONFIDENTIAL6G ηas received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101096435 CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING AND PRIVACY-PRESERVING TECHNOLOGIES FOR 6G D6.2 INITIAL COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION, STANDARDISATION AND EXPLOITATION ACTIVITIES D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities PROJECT INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 1 Call Type of Action Project start date Duration GA No DELIVERABLE INFORMATION Deliverable WP: Deliverable Task: Deliverable Identifier: Deliverable Title: Editor(s): Author(s): Reviewer(s): Contractual Date of Delivery: Submission Date: Dissemination Level: Status: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 HORIZON-JU-RIA HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions 01/01/2023 36 months 101096435 WP6 Task T6.1Task 6.4 CONFIDENTIAL6G_D6.2 Initial communication, dissemination, standardisation and exploitation activities ZEN Nenad Gligoric, Jelena Vasic, Vladimir Radomirovic Vera Stavroulaki, Dimitrios Schoinianakis 30/6/2024 03/07/2024 PU Final D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 2 Version: File Name: 1.0 CONFIDENTIAL6G_D6.2_INITIAL COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION, STANDARDISATION AND EXPLOITATION ACTIVITIES_v1.0 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 3 Disclaimer The information and views set out in this deliverable are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. 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D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities DOCUMENT LOG CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 4 VERSION V1.0 DATE 03/07/2024 DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE Final version, submitted to EC through SyGMa D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities TABLE OF CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 5 CONTENTS 2 Dissemination and Communication Actions and Performance ....................... 15 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ...................................................................... 7 List of Figures ........................................................................................................ 9 List of Tables ........................................................................................................ 10 Executive Summary ............................................................................................... 11 1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 13 2.4 2.3 1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 Standardisation ................................................................................................ 49 Scope............................................................................................................... 13 Documentorganisation..................................................................................... 13 ParticipativeDisseminationand Outreach Activities .......................................... 15 Dissemination through Project Tools and Channels .......................................... 28 Stakeholder Engagement, Networking, Synergies and Standardisation ............ 45 2.1.1 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 2.2.6 2.2.7 2.2.8 2.2.9 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 2.3.4 2.4.1 EventsParticipated/Organized,andRelatedScientificPublications............................ 15 CONFIDENTIAL6GWebsite............................................................................................ 28 Social media platforms ................................................................................................... 31 Newsletters ..................................................................................................................... 33 Printed materials ............................................................................................................ 34 Press releases ................................................................................................................. 37 Interviews ........................................................................................................................ 37 CONFIDENTIAL6G video ................................................................................................ 37 Non-scientific Publications ............................................................................................. 38 Campaigns ...................................................................................................................... 41 Synergistic Engagement ................................................................................................. 45 Academia, Scientific Community, and Industry Engagement ....................................... 45 Zenodo Repository for Project Materials and Open Data ............................................. 46 Networking, Clustering, andSynergies with Other Projects and Initiatives.................. 47 Actionplan .......................................................................... 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D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 3 CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 6 4IPR Knowledge management ........................................................................ 76 5Dissemination and Communication KPIs and Project Monitoring ................... 77 6 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 80 Exploitation..................................................................................................... 51 3.3 3.1 3.2 Individualexploitation......................................................................................68 Businessmodel ................................................................................................ 51 Key Exploitable Results .................................................................................... 53 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.2.5 3.2.6 Confidential Toolkit......................................................................................................... 54 Confidential computing .................................................................................................. 57 Confidential networking ..................................................................................................60 Use case 1: Predictive maintenance for airline .............................................................. 62 Use case 2: Cloud privacy-preserving confidential computing .................................... 63 Use case 3: Intelligent connectedvehicle.................................................................... 64 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 7 Acronym/Abbreviation 3GPP 5G 6G SNS AI/ML API BDVA CORD CLAIRE DIDs DLT EC EU FHE FL H2020 HW IETF IPR ISO KPIs NDM Definition 3rd Generation Partnership Project Fifth Generation Sixth Generation Smart Networks and Services Industry Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Application Programming Interface Big Data Value Association Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe Decentralised Identities Distributed Ledger Technology European Commission European Union Fully Homomorphic Encryption Federated Learning Horizon 2020 Hardware Internet Engineering Task Force Intellectual Property Rights International Organization for Standardization Key Performance Indicators Nokia Data Marketplace D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 8 NFV NIST ODL OEM O-RAN OSF OSM OTA Ph.D. PU RATS RIS SA TEE TLS TRL VM WP XMSS ZKP Network Functions Virtualization National Institute of Standards and Technology OpenDaylight Original Equipment Manufacturer Open Radio Access Network OpenStack Foundation Open Source MANO (Management and Orchestration) Over the Air Doctor of Philosophy Public Remote Attestation Procedures Reconfigurable Radio Systems Security for AI Trusted Execution Environment Transport Layer Security Technology Readiness Levels Virtual Machine Work Package Extended Merkle Signature Scheme Zero-knowledge Proofs D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2 DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION ACTIONS CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 15 AND PERFORMANCE 2.1.1 EVENTS PARTICIPATED/ORGANIZED, AND RELATED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Involvement of CONFIDENTIAL6G consortium members in various national and international conferences, congresses, summits, fairs, workshops, and other events, whether they attract large audiences or are focused on experts, plays a crucial role in our communication, dissemination, and outreach efforts. This involvement also facilitates direct engagement with stakeholders, as detailed in Chapter 2.3. During the project's initial phase, our participating partners have primarily concentrated on: • Raising awareness about the Project and its aims, goals, and values. • Sharing preliminary results at conferences and symposiums. At a few significant events, such as conferences and tradeshows, our consortium partners have taken on roles in: • Organising the events. • Engaging more deeply and directly with attendees. • Collecting valuable feedback and ideas from the audience. The majority of our ongoing outreach and dissemination efforts have been executed according to plan through two primary communication streams. The first stream involves established dissemination tools and channels managed by the Project, with content primarily authored, compiled, edited, and mediated by ZEN, the lead of WP6. The second stream consists of activities carried out by individual or collaborating partners. These include scientific and technical publications, coorganisation and participation in events such as conferences, congresses, and fairs, as well as leveraging their own thematic and expertise networks for targeted and informal communication. 2.1 PARTICIPATIVE ACTIVITIES DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities As the Project progresses and more results are generated, we plan to enhance this interaction in the second phase. According to our plan, the Project has organised its own event SECURENET Summit on Security and Privacy in Future Mobile Networks 2024, Dublin. We regularly update our list of potential events for participation or attendance based on the Project's focus and stage, adapting as opportunities and circumstances arise. Table 1 highlights the participation of CONFIDENTIAL6G consortium partners in major international events during the reported period, showcasing their contributions and including relevant live on-site photographs. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 16 Link Link Table 1 Listofdisseminationandcommunicationactivities European Convention ETSI Conference Event Date and place 06-08.02 2023, Sophia Antipolis, France Research 1517.02.2023. Barcelona, Spain Blockchain International Conference 23on Advanced Research in Computing 2023 3rd webinar of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) on the Stream B1 & B4 23.02.2023. 24.02.2023, Online Online projects Architecture addressing: Secure & Services and Security Photo/ Link Project presentation (Slides Video) Blockchain for 5G and Beyond Networks, Link Booth Type of contribution Presentation and poster Presentation Speaker slot D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 17 Tomorrow Conference 1214.05.2023. Belgrade Serbia 062023 EuCNC & 6G Summit 09.06.2023. Gothenburg, Sweden IFIP Networking / TC6 12.06.2023. meeting Barcelona, Spain 2nd CITEA Digital Cyprus Conference 2023 22.06.2023. Cyprus 23Monero Konferenco 26.06.2023 Praha AI intrusion detection in 5G 02.03.2023, for Good, Enabling networks datasets CrossFyre 23 (affiliated to Eurocrypt 23) Human Factor in Digital Transformation via novel Online 23.04.2023. Lyon, France 27 April 2023, Graz, Austria 0304.05.2023. Bahrain 6G Global Summit 2023 Link Link Link Link Link Video feature (Project Coordinator) Link Link Panel Panel Speaker Speaker Event participation Speaker, Invited Talk Event participation Meeting participation Featured video PanellistforSession 4: SecuringtheFuture: CyberSecurityinthe 6G Era Link Link D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 18 BLOCKCHANCE 2023 Nordic Congress of Mathematicians NCM29 Cyber Ireland National Conference 2023 The Confidential Computing Summit 2023 June 29 2023, San Francisco June 28-30 2023, Hamburg, Germany 27 September 2023, Galway, Ireland July 6 2023, Aalborg, Denmark Link Link Link Link Speaker Speaker Attendee Attendee, onevent project consultation and communication D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 19 Fuse5G The Summit SECURENET 2023 6Gsec Common Path and Cardinal Points “6Gsec CP²” Corunna Innovate Summit 23 January 2024, Paris, France 26-27 October, La Coruña, Spain 19 January, Utrecht, Nederlands 11 September 2023, Dublin, Ireland Link Link Link Link Speaker Speaker Speaker, Invited Talk Speaker, Panellist for Session 2: Secure AI for Secure 6G and Session 3: Crypto-based technologies application in 6G D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 20 Itinerant Seminars CODE-KOLLOQUIUM OpenInfra Edge Computing Working Group Public Key Cryptography (PKC 24) Cryptography 16 April 2024, Sydney, Australia 15 January 2024 21 February 2024, Munich, Germany 2 February 2024, Barcelona, Spain Link Link Link Link Speaker Speaker, Talk of Accepted paper Invited Talk Presentation in Openstack Edge Computing Working Group D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 21 EuROCRYPT conference Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit 2024 conference 3-6 June 2024 26-29 February 2024 26-30 May 2024 The 2nd SECURENET Summit on Security and 21 May 2024, Privacy in Future Mobile Networks 2024 Dublin, Ireland Link Link Link Link Organiser Booth with posters and demos Paper Presentation Communication of the project results D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 22 Security in Times of Surveillance Workshop 31 May 2024 Link Invited Talk The estimated number of attendees directly engaged through these event participations reaches thousands. The audience mainly consists of experts and researchers from the scientific/technological research communities and industries, including: • Telecommunications (with a focus on 6G technology) • Computer science • Cybersecurity • Information Technology (IT) • Software development • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) • Quantum computing and cryptography Representatives from the social sciences and humanities (SSH), including ethics experts, are also part of the audience. Additionally, officials and members from EU initiatives and associations have been present. • Public authorities and policymakers, such as: o Ministries o National government representatives o Local, municipal, or regional authorities • Media representatives, including: o National and local TV o Newspapers and other print media publishers D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities Table 2 compiles the scientific and technological peer-reviewed publications authored by CONFIDENTIAL6G consortium partners during the initial phase of the Project. These publications, including those published in journals, as well as those featured at the events specified in the aforementioned table, with updated publication links and release versions as of June 2024. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 23 Table2 Published papersand articles by theCONFIDENTIAL6G consortium partners No Authors Title 1. Thien Huynh-The, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu , Weizheng Wang , Gokul Yenduri , Pasika Ranaweera , QuocViet Pham , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Madhusanka Liyanage Chamitha De Alwis; Pawani Porambage; Kapal Dev; Thippa Reddy Gadekallu; "Blockchain for the metaverse: A Review" 2. "A Survey on Network Slicing Security: Madhusanka Liyanage Attacks, Challenges, Solutions and Research Directions" "DistributedProof-ofSense: Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms 3. Pramitha Fernando; Keshawa Dadallage; Tharindu Gamage; Chathura Seneviratne; An Braeken; Arjuna Madanayake; Madhusanka Liyanage for Detecting Spectrum Access Violations of the Radio Spectrum" IEEE Communicatio ns Surveys & Tutorials Volume: 26 Issue: 1 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communicatio ns and Networking, Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Title of Journal or Conference Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Link Zenodo Link Zenodo Link Zenodo Link Type Journal Journal Journal D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 24 7. 5. 6. 4. Rashmi Ratnayake, Madhusanka Liyanage, Liam Murphy "Trust Managemen t and Bad Data Reduction in Internet of Vehicles Using Blockchain and AI" "Utilization of a 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023Spring) Charithri Yapa, Chamitha de Alwis, Journal of Industrial Information Integration Uditha Wijewardhana, blockchainiz Madhusanka Liyanage, Janaka Ekanayake ed reputation managemen t service for performance enhanceme nt of Smart Grid 2.0 applications " "Breaking Chains, Pramitha Fernando, An Braeken, 2023 IEEE Latin-American Madhusanka Liyanage Empowering Conference on IoT: A Communicatio Comparative ns Study of Holochain and Blockchain" "Privacypreserved Collaborativ e Federated Learning Platform for (LATINCOM) Lakshan Pathiraja, Isuru Lakshan, Kavini Kushani, Chamara Sandeepa, Tharindu D. Gamage, Thilina Weerasinghe, 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communicatio ns (LATINCOM) Madhusanka Liyanage Industrial Internet of Things" - Zenodo Link Zenodo Link Zenodo Link Zenodo Link Journal Conference Conference Conference D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities provides essential information to stakeholders. Ongoing efforts will focus on further improving the website to serve visitors better and enhance its overall impact. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 31 2.2.2 SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS CONFIDENTIAL6G maintains a strong presence on various social media platforms, with a particular focus on X and LinkedIn due to their effectiveness in engaging with technology communities. LinkedIn is the primary platform for interacting with professionals, industry experts, and stakeholders interested in technology and innovation. The project regularly shares updates, achievements, and relevant content to foster meaningful discussions and connections within the professional community. X is used to deliver real-time updates, news, and announcements related to the CONFIDENTIAL6G project. The platform's dynamic nature allows for quick and efficient communication with a diverse audience, including researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts in the field. Instagram acts as a visual platform for showcasing project activities, events, and achievements through engaging multimedia content. While not the main focus, Instagram complements the project's communication strategy by reaching a broader audience interested in visual storytelling. Facebook connects with a wider audience beyond the professional sphere, including stakeholders, community members, and the general public. The platform facilitates the sharing of project-related content, events, and updates to foster engagement and awareness among diverse demographics. The social media accounts for confidential6g are: • X: https://x.com/C6G_eu • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/c6g-project/ • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CONFIDENTIAL6G Table 3CONFIDENTIAL6G Websitestatistics Number of unique visitors 7,780 Total number of visits 16,048 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities Table 4 provides the breakdown of communication KPIs and outcomes over these channels. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 32 Channel 6 29 284 Total Followers 1 44 55 Number of posts 10 614 13,263 Impressions Table4 Breakdown of communication KPIs and outcomes over socialmedia channels D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.2.3 NEWSLETTERS We have released two newsletters over the past period each well-designed to deliver project news and updates to our audience. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 33 These newsletters include carefully designed graphics and selected content to provide clear insights into project developments, milestones, and achievements. By distributing these newsletters, we keep our subscribed stakeholders informed and engaged with the project's progress. The attractive design elements also improve readability and effectiveness, helping to capture the attention of our readers. Going forward, we will continue to share valuable insights and updates through our newsletters to maintain strong connections with our audience. Figure 4 CONFIDENTIAL6G Newsletters D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.2.4 PRINTED MATERIALS Our efforts have been directed towards creating and developing essential promotional materials for our project. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 34 Figure 5 CONFIDENTIAL6G Rollup D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities At recent events like the SecureNET 2024 in Dublin and EUCNC 2024, we showcased a roll-up banner. Additionally, we have prepared brochures, flyers, notebooks, and pens for future dissemination. These materials are carefully designed to reflect our project's visual identity, featuring a unified colour palette. They feature the EU flag and funding statement aligning with guidelines set by the European Commission. This approach ensures consistent acknowledgment of the support received from the EU and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) across various communication platforms and interactions. The materials feature 6GSNS logo too since the project receives the support from 6GSNS which is involved in building a collaboration environment for European and global actors preparing for 6G smart networks and services. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 35 Figure 6 CONFIDENTIAL6G Brochure D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 36 Figure 7 CONFIDENTIAL6G Flyer Figure 8 CONFIDENTIAL6G Notebook and Pen These materials align with our project's visual identity, maintaining a consistent colour scheme and prominently displaying the EU flag and funding statement as well as the 6GSNS logo in accordance with European Commission guidelines. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.2.5 PRESS RELEASES The IMDEA Software Institute, Spain issued three press releases in March 2023 and they are accessible via the following links: CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 37 1. https://cso.computerworld.es/nuevas-tecnologias/confidential6g-elproyecto-europeo-que-blinda-la-seguridad-de-la-conectividad-delmanana 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20230313085322/https:/www.lavanguardia.co m/vida/20230310/8815162/imdea-software-trabaja-incrementar-seguridadconectividad-6g.html 3. https://www.madrimasd.org/blogs/Tecnologiasdelainformacionparaelmund odelmanana/2023/03/08/imdea-software-participa-en-el-proyectoeuropeo-confidential6g-para-garantizar-la-fiabilidad-de-herramientas-deia-emergentes-y-dispositivos-iot/ These announced IMDEA’s participation in the European project CONFIDENTIAL6G, which aims to enhance the security and reliability of 6G networks, essential for AI tools and IoT devices. The institute stressed the importance of the project in addressing increased security challenges posed by the heterogeneity and mobility of numerous connected devices, through the development of secure computing tools, post-quantum cryptography, and blockchain technologies. 2.2.6 INTERVIEWS The project has planned a series of interviews about various important scientific and technological development areas. These interviews will cover topics related to WP2, WP3 and WP4 as well as the use cases providing details about the technical aspects, objectives, challenges and achievements. 2.2.7 CONFIDENTIAL6G VIDEO Various clips from key project events have been recorded (with some already been published over social media) and they will be combined into the Project’s presentational video. Efforts are underway to produce and compile an additional supplementary material, with a primary focus on the advancement of demonstrator use cases and the challenges they address. Upon gathering over 1:30 minutes of content, we will proceed to create the comprehensive presentation video. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.2.8 NON-SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Confidential partners have consistently authored, edited, and published nonscientific pieces aimed at the general public, primarily in the form of online articles and blog posts. These have been disseminated across the various Project channels mentioned above. A summary of the most notable publications is provided in Table 5. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 38 Table 5 Summary of non-scientific publications oriented tothe broad public Post Title/Subject Partner Author(s) CONFIDENTIAL6G Meeting Kick-off ALL CONFIDENTIAL6G Workshop 2023 at ETSI NOK,UCD, ZEN CONFIDENTIAL6G European Convention Empowering Women in STEM – ZEN Join the C6G Campaign on The ZEN Blockchain Confidential6g.eu Officially ZEN Releases Website to the Public CONFIDENTIAL6G Project IMDEA Showcase: Claudia Bartoli Duncan at CrossFyre 23 Fabian Schmid Presents on TUG Privacy by Design at Values by Design Workshop CONFIDENTIAL6G Global Summit 2023 at 6G UCD Blog Blog Type Blog Article Article Article Article Article Website Website Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website Dissemination Channel(s) Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 39 Zentrix TMRW Connecting Lab’s Presence at ZEN Conference: the with Blockchain Community CONFIDENTIAL6G project was FAU presented Konferenco at the Monero Zentrix CONFIDENTIAL6G BLOCKCHANCE 2023 CONFIDENTIAL6G Lab Introduces ZEN at Gains IMDEA Visibility at Nordic Congress of Mathematicians NCM29 CONFIDENTIAL6G at was TELEFONICA presented at the IFIP Networking 2023 Conference (NETWORKING 2023) and Cyprus CITEA Digital Conference 2023 Dusan Borovcanin Presents UVC CONFIDENTIAL6G Project at Confidential Summit 2023 CONFIDENTIAL6G Update! Computing Project ALL CONFIDENTIAL6G Introduced UCD at 1st Summit on Security and Privacy in Future Mobile Networks (SECURENET) 2023 CONFIDENTIAL6G 3rd Plenary ALL Meeting Blog Blog Blog Article Article Article Article Article Article Website Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 40 CONFIDENTIAL6G at CINC23: UCD Building a Safer Digital Future Thomas Attema from TNO TNO Speaks at Fuse5G in Utrecht Madhusanka Liyanage from UCD UCD, Partner, CONFIDENTIAL6G at Shares Insights 6Gsec CP² Event Claudia Bartoli from IMDEA IMDEA Software Institute Speaks at Itinerant Cryptography Seminars in Barcelona UCD Presents TRUST-SPEC: UCD Advancing Communication CONFIDENTIAL6G Wireless Project FAU Partner Prof. Schröder Presents at CODE-Kolloquium 2nd Summit on Security and UCD Privacy in Future Mobile Networks (SECURENET) 2024 CONFIDENTIAL6G at EuCNC WINGS, UVC, 2024 Summit ABSTRACT MACHINES SECURENET 2024 Summit: ALL Advancing Mobile Network Security CONFIDENTIAL6G at 2024 WINGS, UVC, EuCNC & 6G Summit: ABSTRACT Showcasing Innovations and MACHINES Engaging the Community Blog Article Article Article Article Article Article Article Article Article Website Website LinkedIn Website Website Website LinkedIn Website Website LinkedIn Website LinkedIn Website Website LinkedIn D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.3.4 NETWORKING, CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 47 CLUSTERING, AND SYNERGIES WITH OTHER PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES • Include project involvement with other initiatives/projects o The main focus is to create network with three other projects governed with security and telecommunications o The objective is to cross-fertilise by organising common event and meetings to share the results from projects • Clustering activities o The main selected projects are funded by Horizon Europe programme: SNS JU ELASTIC, HE HARPOCRATES and HE TITAN projects o CONFIDENTIAL6G participates in SNS JU Cluster • Project’s memberships in specific clusters o CONFIDENTIAL6G participates o purpose: collaboration and innovation • Memberships for Networking and Visibility o name the initiatives o specify relevance for the project European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) CONFIDENTIAL6G, a part of the European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), stands to gain numerous advantages in terms of communication and dissemination of project news and results. SNS JU, a PublicPrivate Partnership, aims to promote industrial leadership in 5G and 6G networks and services within Europe. By actively engaging with SNS JU, CONFIDENTIAL6G will leverage its social media presence, collaborate with other 6G projects, and tap into the wider ecosystem to amplify its impact and foster technological advancements. By participating in SNS JU meetings and leveraging their social media channels, CONFIDENTIAL6G can gain increased visibility and recognition among the European and international 6G community. SNS JU brings together diverse stakeholders, providing CONFIDENTIAL6G with valuable networking opportunities to connect with other projects and organisations working on 6G technologies. CONFIDENTIAL6G can tap into the collective expertise, knowledge, and resources available within the SNS JU ecosystem, including technical reports, research findings, and best practices related to 6G networks and services. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 48 Active engagement with SNS JU enables CONFIDENTIAL6G to establish collaborations and partnerships with other projects, industry, and research institutions, fostering joint initiatives and potential future collaborations. Furthermore, Participation in SNS JU activities allows CONFIDENTIAL6G to contribute to the development of standards, guidelines, and policy recommendations in the 6G domain, positioning the project as an influential player and shaping the future of 6G networks and services. By leveraging these benefits, CONFIDENTIAL6G can effectively promote its project, expand its ecosystem, and maximise its impact within the 6G landscape, contributing to Europe's technological sovereignty and the digital transformation of society and the economy. A summary of activities already performed in the scope of SNS is provided below: ● Input to SNS Call assessment questionnaire Stream B - Strand D, August 2022 ● Input to SNS Call assessment questionnaire, October 2022 ● Contribution to the SNS Annual Journal 2023 prepared by SNS OPS, February 2023 ● Participation at the ETSI/EC/6G-IA workshop on SNS projects Standardisation plans, 6-8 February 2023, ETSI HQs, Sophia-Antipolis, France ● Presentation of project at the 3rd webinar of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) on the Stream B1 & B4 projects addressing: Architecture & Secure Services and Security, 23 February 2023 ● Participation to Preparatory SNS Steering Board meetings (online) on 13 March 2023 and 12 May 2023 ● Input for SNS JU Phase 1 - Projects Questionnaire, May 2023 ● Participation to “Passing the Torch event: 5G-PPP to SNS JU” (online), 25 May 2023 ● Project video feature recorded at the 2023 EuCNC & 6G Summit, 6-9 June 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden ● Participation with the Booth and demos at 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit, 3-6th June 2023, Antwerp, Belgium D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 2.4 STANDARDISATION CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 49 Standardization is essential for the broader acceptance and interoperability of new technologies among diverse stakeholders. However, the standardization process often spans beyond the timeline of individual research projects. CONFIDENTIAL6G has been actively involved in the standardization of cryptographic protocols and building blocks, with contributions to major standardization bodies including IETF, ISO, and NIST. Key outcomes to date include: • SPHINCS+ (PQ Signature Scheme): Developed by TUE and set for standardization by NIST, with TUE providing feedback on draft versions to ensure security and reliability. • Classic McEliece (KEM): A candidate in NIST's ongoing Round 4 competition, demonstrating its potential in post-quantum cryptography. ISO Standard Draft Contributions: TUE serves as editor and co-editor on an ISO draft standard covering preand post-quantum signature systems, including Ed25519, Classic McEliece, Frodo, and Kyber/ML-KEM. • Workshops and Presentations • ETSI Security Conference 2023: CONFIDENTIAL6G participated in a workshop in Sophia Antipolis, France, presenting the project and discussing standardization plans with other initiatives. • ETSI Security Conference 2024: CONFIDENTIAL6G presented "CONFIDENTIAL6G: Confidential Computing and Privacy-preserving Technologies for 6G" at ETSI’s premises in Sophia Antipolis, France, October 14-17, 2024. ISO/IEC and ISO TC 68 Contributions • ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 27 WG 2 Cryptography: o Amendment to 18033-2 to include PQC KEMs. o Preliminary work item on elliptic-curve signatures. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 50 o Review and comments on cryptosystems, including FHE and basic building blocks. • ISO TC 68 SC 2 WG 11 Cryptography for Finance: o Review of recommended cryptosystems, with a focus on postquantum cryptography and security under quantum attacks. Action Plan for Future Standardization As a European Standards Organization, ETSI provides a collaborative platform for over 900 member organizations globally. CONFIDENTIAL6G aims to leverage this network to advance standardization efforts in the 6G industry. The action plan includes: • Continued Contributions: o Support for SPHINCS+ standardization by NIST. o Advocacy for Classic McEliece as a key candidate in NIST's Round 4. o TUE's ongoing editorial role in ISO on both preand post-quantum signature standards, ensuring alignment with industry needs. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 3 EXPLOITATION 3.1 BUSINESS MODEL CONFIDENTIAL6G recognises three main exploitation models for the project results: 1) the commercial exploitation model, which implies the paid provision of the project results to the end users, complying with a licensing scheme which will be defined at a later stage, 2) the research exploitation model, which implies the use of the research know-how acquired in future research activities, and 3) the technological exploitation model, which implies the use of the technological knowhow gained for the development of innovative products and the provision of advanced services built on top of them. CONFIDENTIAL6G will use a custom designed template in order to characterise key exploitable results, both on individual partner level and joint level. Different versions of the template will be created depending on the exploitation model which will be used. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 51 Table 8 Business ModelCanvas IndicativeBusiness ModelCanvas Key partners Key activities Value proposition Customer relationship Customer segment Telco Telco providers, Cloud providers, Critical Design and Framework for development of enhancing Long support future term providers; cybersecurity risk cyber security, and Cloud providers, Professionals; Public authorities; executivesand privacy and ICT management data protection upgrades; ofcomplexICT infrastructures; infrastructures; academia, vendors asset providers; open-source communities; and businessmodel services; training support; community ICT and development for services; maintenance new support; managers service providers; third of dedicated assistance. Secure andintegration. robust and cloud D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 52 standardization organizations; investors; early adopters promoters. and Key resources Scientific research results from the project activities; successful validation use cases. and of Cost structure Revenue streams R&D costs; infrastructure costs (i.e. platform Open source versus closed hosting); data centre operations; integration costs; system services (licensing); tools marketing costs & ads; customer support. on demand (API); direct platform sales; after-sales service; engineering services; consulting services; development contracts and edge party developers; CERTs/CSIRTs; cybersecurity infrastructure, network resilience attacks; privacy advanced federated processing operations, layer Channels to data and Website, social educational media; demonstration & dissemination cybersecurity providers training and firms; activities; standardization , open source; clustering; fairs and events. researchers. CONFIDENTIAL6G identifies main target groups’ categories that may be interested in the commercialisation of the project results: Telecom operators, Service providers, Digital Technology developers, Partnerships, Policymakers, Academia. The actual exploitation plan (Figure 15) has been elaborated and will be frequently updated, aiming at maximising the exploitation levels of the project, from the involved target groups. It includes the following four phases: 1. Discovery Phase: Gathering market insights and defining business requirements while shaping the project's value proposition. 2. Strategy Phase: Developing the business model and analysing the competitive landscape to define the project's positioning and market entry strategy. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 53 3. Partnership Phase: Creating a comprehensive business plan and securing partner buy-in to ensure collaboration and alignment with the project's goals. 4. Validation and Commercialization Phase: Validating the requirements, finalizing the go-to-market strategy, and establishing a long-term sustainable framework for potential commercialization of the project's offerings. In CONFIDENTIAL6G we have already identified preliminary key exploitable outcomes. As the project progresses, the detailed plan for utilising these outcomes will be developed gradually based on the intentions of our various partners. This plan will encompass the regular definition of exploitable outcomes, including technical results, methodologies, and knowledge generated by the project. These key exploitable outcomes will be evaluated based on their current stage of development, potential impact, differentiation from existing concepts or products, and other relevant factors. Ultimately, at the project's conclusion, we will produce a comprehensive roadmap for exploiting these outcomes (D6.3). Here is a summary of the initial collective key exploitable outcomes, which will undergo further refinement and development during the project: • Valuable Outcome #1: Confidential Toolkit • Valuable Outcome #2: Confidential Computing • Valuable Outcome #3: Confidential Networking Figure 14 Exploitation plan 3.2 KEY EXPLOITABLE RESULTS D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 54 • Proof of concept for Use Case 1: Implementation of predictive maintenance for an airline consortium using a blockchain-based data sharing platform and federated AI/ML orchestration Proof of concept for Use Case 2: Privacy-preserving confidential computing platform enabling the mitigation of internal threats for telecom cloud providers • • Proof of concept for Use Case 3: Intelligent connected vehicle with mission-critical services, OTA updates, federated learning/artificial intelligence, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. These key exploitable outcomes will be approached with different exploitation strategies from each partner participating in creation of the current key exploitable result. The detailed exploitation plan will be based on the intentions of the different partners and will be developed progressively during second half of the project by re-examining at regular times the exploitable results (technical results as well as methodologies and knowledge) of the project. Key exploitable results will be assessed in terms of development status, aspects that facilitate the assessment of the potential impact, differences from existing competing concepts, products or services, etc. The final outcome will be an exploitation roadmap at the end of the project (D6.3). 3.2.1 CONFIDENTIAL TOOLKIT Confidential toolkit is a set of cryptographic or enablement libraries, SDKs and tools that implement cryptographic primitives, protocols and APIs for confidential computing and confidential networking. These cover Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Secure Multi-party Computation (SMPC), Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKP), DLT and TLS PQC (postquantum cryptography) and other enablers. The exploitation strategy is provided for each organisation in Table 9. Target Group(s): Telecom operators, Service providers, Digital Technology developers, Partnerships, Policymakers, Society. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 55 Table 9 Exploitation plan and strategy: KER Secure toolkit Leading Asset partner / Exploitation Exploitation Strategy The Ph.D. training program will leverage the project results to allow transferring the acquired knowledge to the industry, in sectors such as blockchain and telecommunications. Former Ph. D. students at IMDEA, with expertise in cryptography, are currently employed by companies related to applications of blockchain, such as Protocol Labs, Nomadic Labs and O(1) Labs, and previously by telecommunication companies such as NTT. NNF’s product NDM uses private permissioned blockchain network as a basis of a data exchange platform and leverages on DLT characteristic of transaction immutability to implement secure logging and data monetization. Improved privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols and schemes - notably ZKP and FHE - will help further improve NDM blockchain and enhance the product. NOKIA will investigate the state-of-the-art libraries for homomorphic encryption under the prism of industrial applications and relevant algorithms. Based on the IMDEA: Technological transfer as a result of PhD. Training NNF: Improvement of NDM DLT confidentiality conducted understanding analysis NOKIA will obtain a solid libraries’ capabilities and application domains and define a toolkit that can be exploited for further research and for commercial NOK: Enablement of privacy preserving technologies in industrial environments of the applications. technologies Attacks against privacy preserving to understand how the countermeasures of plaintext ML and AI models impact the architecture of FHE designs. UVC will use TEE-handling libraries, cryptographic and UVC: TEE enablement procedures other enablers in order to initialize and configure TEE hardware, which is in the base of UVC’s product cocos.ai. UVC is working on development of the toolkit are also considered, in order D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 56 TUE: Technology transfer to students and industry TNO: Technology transfer to society and industry TID: Distributed, Private, Scalable, Hierarchical FL as a Service that includes scripts, executables, and configuration files that will result in a wizard tool that makes process of provisioning process bootstrapping of hardware with TEEs straightforward and unified across different TEE providers. A service (or collection of modules that can be offered as a service) that will enable third-party companies to collaborate and build ML models using the FL paradigm, in a secured, privacy-preserving fashion, using hierarchical and scalable infrastructure of edge and end-user devices, and with a distributed aggregator for scalability and fault tolerance. n 2020-2021, TID filed three patents on the topic of privacy-preserving ML, and in particular, one patent for FL as a Service, one patent for privacy-preserving FL, and a third one on FL with hierarchical DP with hierarchical FL. TID aims to explore further the technologies built within CONFIDENTIAL6G project and how they could be used within on-going services and products of Telefonica. TNO has a set of published repositories, the so-called TNO MPC lab, with state-of-the-art Multi-Party Computation building blocks. TNO’s MPC lab has many different technologies developed in this toolkit, such as (distributed) homomorphic encryption and MPC by secret sharing. TNO will publish the developed source code for distributed post-quantum fully homomorphic encryption to increase adoption by society and industry. The uptake of solutions will be increased by dissemination activities such as a workshop and a blog and engaging with the cryptography community within and outside of the CONFIDENTIAL6G consortium. TUE will use the project’s results in its education, training the next generation of engineers and researchers on cutting-edge results for privacy and confidentiality. Prior results from TUE have been widely adopted by industry and included in standards; the key D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 63 Table 12 Exploitation plan and strategy: KER Proof of concept for Use case 1: Predictive maintenance for airline consortium using blockchain-based data sharing platform and federated AI/ML orchestration Table 13 Exploitation plan and strategy: KER Proof of concept for Use Case 2: Privacy-preserving confidential computing platform that enables mitigation of internal threats for telecom cloud providers Target Group(s): Telecom operators, Service providers, Digital Technology developers. Leading partner / Exploitation Asset Exploitation Strategy NNF created NDM (Nokia Data Marketplace) product for secure data exchange. For the commercial needs, NNF is preparing use cases that are demonstrated to the customers. CONFIDENTIAL6G use case #1 will demonstrate predictive maintenance capabilities but will also enhance features of confidential federated AI/ML orchestration that NNF will reuse in commercial context. NOKIA NNF: Predictive maintenance in aviation use case will exploit the learnings from CONFIDENTIAL6G use-case #1, to develop further research Proofs of Concept for advanced predictive maintenance and other AI/ML applications pertaining to industrial applications, like for example secure KPI calculations (from data originating from industrial machinery) and secure SLA maps to optimise factory performance. WINGS will utilise CONFIDENTIAL6G solutions from WINGS: Predictive maintenance and this use case to further develop proof of concepts for predictive maintenance combined with federated AI/ML in the scope of Digital Twins for sensitive infrastructure assets. NOK: Predictive maintenance and secure KPI calculation in industrial networks Digital Twins 3.2.5 USE CASE 2: CLOUD PRIVACY-PRESERVING CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING Use case 2 produces automation procedures of secure VM initialization and configuration in cloud context. These procedures will be usable for many confidential computing applications, as a basic step of HW enablement. It willbe especially useful for cloud providers that can offer this feature as a service.The exploitation strategy is providedfor each organisation in Table13. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 64 Leading partner / Exploitation Asset Exploitation Strategy UVC will exploit CONFIDENTIAL6G use case #2 in two ways: 1) TEE initialization will be directly used in UVC’s commercial product as a basis for preparing secure UVC: Automation of TEE initialization VMs in the cloud environment; 2) Automation of VMbased TEE initialization and configuration, alongside with support for confidential containers will be prototyped into a separate product that can be attractive to various cloud providers and will be marketed in that direction. VTT has developed and trialled telecommunication and trusted computing technologies and concepts for different security critical application domains. In CONFIDENTIAL6G, VTT develops capabilities to take the telecom cloud security into the next level. VTT will be able to help telecom cloud providers to assure and attest trustworthiness of their services and cloud users to deploy their services and data to verified external and cost-efficient cloud platforms. The capabilities will support emerging data federation (GAIA-X) frameworks. The project prototypes, publications, and other references will showcase our capabilities. and configuration VTT: Attestation of telecom cloud services 3.2.6 USE CASE 3: INTELLIGENT CONNECTED VEHICLE Connected vehicle use case will deliver an attack resilient communication, and computing environment with vehicles decentralised identities, immutable OEM updates anchored onto the blockchain, and federated learning shared between vehicles and infrastructure. The exploitation strategy is provided for each organisation in Table 14. Target Group(s): Telecom operators, Service providers, Digital Technology developers, Partnerships, Society Table 14 Exploitation plan and strategy: KER Proof of concept for Use Case 3: Intelligent connected vehicle, mission-critical services, OTA updates, FL/AI and vehicle to infrastructure communication D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 65 Leading partner / Exploitation Strategy Exploitation Asset ZEN will exploit the knowledge gained in CONFIDENTIAL6G and integrate the resulting components and modules into the company's own solution. Most specifically, DID, DLT and Federated AI/ML will be deployed in the car client, and custom car modules to allow OTA operations with closedloop systems developed by OEMs. Zentrix partners with onboard car system producer, which will be used as a ground for discussion of the exploitation strategy, to embed produced technology in existing car systems that currently experiments with Blockchain ledger that are less scalable and slower. The service will be deployed and offered to existing clients, as an extended upgraded service with licence including new features, including the device client. TID will exploit the results of the third use case in the following ways: 1) TID will assess and investigate issues of ZEN: Distributed Ledger Technology framework for vehicle identification and OTA updates secured and privacy-preserving communication and aggregation of models in the FL server in a connectedvehicles setting, as well as other settings that use FL technology for building privacy-preserving ML models. Based on these developments, TID will test ways to protect these settings from FL attacks such as membership inference, attribute inference, data reconstruction attacks, or TID: Secure, Private, Scalable, data poisoning attacks, as well as possible side-channel Hierarchical, Collaborative FL attacks. 2) TID will use results and data produced from connected vehicles to drive emulations of FL model building when 5G or 6G infrastructure is being used, in order to Modelling optimise network connectivity using 5/6G antenna technology and hierarchical and scalable edge computing infrastructure. 3) TID will use the results from this use-case to make decisions on how to perform and tune serverless computing functions and containers to be more secure and privacy-preserving, while facilitating collaborative FL modelling across different third parties on the same local data. WINGS will leverage results from this use case in potential WINGS: Intelligent and secure improvements, in terms of confidential communications, of and WINGSCHARIOT (secure/safe and trustworthy freight transportation) V2X communication its WINGSPARK (smart parking solution) D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities The exploitation of results mostly belongs to the business and commercialization domain which, similarly to science, tends to base its activity on comprehensive analysis, examination of the hypothesis, reaching certainty and achieving planned and expected results. As in science for that purpose, numerous kinds of methodologies, frameworks, tools and models are used, with the basic understanding that there is no perfect model and therefore in order to attain certainty using a multitude of them is the basic principle. The purpose of the planned Tools and Methodologies for Exploitation of CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 66 CONFIDENTIAL6G results is exactly to secure maximisation of the commercialization, use and sustainability of CONFIDENTIAL6G results by the scientific, economic, or public stakeholders, transforming R&I actions into concrete value and impact for society. The developed template (Figure 17) will be used within the CONFIDENTIAL6G to track the development status and characterise key exploitable results on the individual (partner) level. To determine the viability and potential of each exploitable result, we will conduct a detailed market analysis. This analysis takes into account factors such as market size, challenges, available solutions, customer segments, and the economic environment. By gaining valuable insights into customer needs, competition, and regulatory environments, we can make informed decisions on how to exploit our results effectively. Based on the outcomes of market analysis and feasibility assessment, we make strategic decisions on the best approach to exploit our results. This may involve industrial use, patenting, technology transfer, or publication. We consider factors such as potential partnerships, licensing agreements, and business models to maximise the impact and reach of our innovations. Active collaboration with European technical initiatives is a priority for us. We engage with and contribute to standardisation technical committees, working groups, and open-source communities of developers. This collaborative approach fosters cooperation, facilitates the seamless integration of our technology into the broader European landscape, and enhances the market potential of our results. D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 67 Figure 15 Key exploitable result characterisation template Within our exploitation strategy, we will develop and update as a part of the deliverables D6.2 and D6.3 a business model that outlines how we plan to generate revenue and sustain the commercial exploitation of our outcomes. The business model encompasses professional-oriented services supported by our core framework, as well as audience-centric services that enable the generation and sharing of new tools and experiences. We favour open-source policies and adopt a dual-licensing approach to manage the knowledge produced internally while also exposing specific knowledge to the scientific community. While the initial Business Plan is drafted at the proposal stage, a detailed plan is developed and refined within the project activities. This plan outlines the specific steps, activities, and timelines for the commercial exploitation of our outcomes in the medium to long term. It serves as a dynamic observatory and scoreboard, allowing us to monitor and update our progress toward achieving market outreach maturity. By implementing this detailed exploitation strategy, we aim to transform our project's outcomes into real-world impact. Through careful analysis, intellectual D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities property management, and strategic decision-making, we unlock the full potential of our innovations, driving positive change and creating value for various stakeholders. INNOVATION RADAR To effectively capture and showcase the project's innovative outcomes, CONFIDENTIAL6G intends to leverage the Innovation Radar platform. Through this strategic utilisation, the project aims to highlight its innovations and gain visibility within the innovation ecosystem. Innovation Radar, a powerful platform for identifying and promoting EU-funded innovations, offers CONFIDENTIAL6G a valuable opportunity to demonstrate its technological advancements and their potential societal impact. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 68 In this section of the deliverable the individual exploitation plans are presented. The specific strategies and actions are described to maximise the utilisation and impact of the project's outcomes. Each plan is tailored to address the unique needs and objectives of different stakeholders, partners solution, or it alignment with the organisation mission and development goals. These exploitation plans aim to leverage the transparency and communication capabilities enabled by CONFIDENTIAL6G technologies to drive sustainable practices, enhance trust, and foster collaboration within the industry. By implementing these individual exploitation plans, we can ensure that the project's benefits are effectively harnessed and contribute to long-term positive change in the mining sector. WINGS develops and delivers solutions (hardware and software) for verticals, related to: a. the Environment, b. Utilities and Infrastructures, c. Production and Manufacturing and d. Service sectors. In the four identified areas, WINGS develops seven (7) products, has launched two (2) spin-out companies and also develops one (1) product that is jointly owned with other companies. All the solutions rely on the following four main pillars: a. Devices. This is centred around IoT (Internet of Things), b. Core platform. This area is centred around 5G and other wireless technologies, edge/cloud, big data platforms, c. Applications. This is powered by AI (Artificial Intelligence) mechanisms. Visualisation, and e. Human in the Loop technologies. WINGS will exploit the outcomes of the project, towards enhancing the company’s software solutions so as to extend the supported set of connectivity options and to be able to offer services with enhanced security, privacy and trust. 3.3 INDIVIDUAL EXPLOITATION D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities WINGS will pursue valuable synergies with vendors and operators, to set up a collaborative infrastructure that will enable the delivery of the key exploitable outcomes. NNF Nokia Networks France (formerly Alcatel-Lucent International) is a trusted partner for critical networks and is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. NNF’s new software solution, called Nokia Data Marketplace (NDM), is a platform for secure data sharing, using innovative technologies like blockchain to assure various aspects of security and data integrity. On the top of this solution, NNF added Federated AI/ML orchestration, aiming to achieve confidential multi-party computations in the future. NNF will leverage on CONFIDENTIAL6G in several aspects: (i) to improve security and confidentiality of the blockchain network behind the NDM product, using ZKPs and FHE for confidential Smart Contracts; (ii) to improve network security using quantum-safe network protocols, like quantum-safe TLS; (iii) to further develop Federated AI/ML features, adding confidential container orchestration with Kubernetes support; (iv) to further enhance and secure access control mechanisms in distributed networks. Finally, NNF will leverage on standards and architectural blueprints created in CONFIDENTIAL6G to align further development and make it interoperable with other security components and other partners and vendors. NOK Nokia Bell Labs (part of Nokia corporation) for nearly 100 years, has been inventing the future of technology, from the early days of the Bell Telephone System to the latest 5G standards. In the CONFIDENTIAL6G framework, Nokia Bell Labs will benefit in several aspects such as: (i) improve our security capabilities and research footprint on privacy preserving technologies (ii) improve our understanding of the applicability and feasibility of privacy preserving technologies in realistic use-cases of commercial interest for Nokia (iii) prepare for the upcoming changes in the cryptographic domain with the introduction of post-quantum algorithms (iv) enhance our cryptographic agility by gaining solid understanding on the post-quantum TLS design principles and thus help us prepare better our product development lifecycle to accommodate post-quantum TLS. TID: Telefonica is one of the largest telco providers, operating in 14 countries and serving more than 300 million end-user subscribers, more than 5.5M B2B corporate customers of all sizes. Its latest focus is in 4 principal countries (Spain, Germany, UK and Brazil), in which Telefonica constantly releases new products and services, including AURA (built on the novel data strategy called "4th Platform"), LUCA and CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 69 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities Living Apps. Telefonica envisions that through the CONFIDENTIAL6G project, and its various scalable, privacy-preserving, secured methods, modules and toolkits built within the different components, will be able to improve existing services as well as offer new ones in both B2C and B2B manner, improving compliance with GDPR, Digital Services Act, AI Act, and other related EU and national regulations, as well as go beyond mere compliance by offering even stronger privacy guarantees to all kind of users, from single individuals to large corporate customers involved in complex ML model training. In fact, such ML computation technologies developed within CONFIDENTIAL6G, will be easily applicable to Telefonica’s B2B Services such as the Living Apps (which can support internal Telefonica Apps or external 3rd-party services), the Smart Steps service from the LUCA platform, as well as OpenGateway project, the new initiative of Telefonica in coordination with 10s of other telco operators across the world. Also, FL models built with a privacypreserving fashion could be traded or shared across borders and 3rd-party companies (e.g., other telcos, advertisers, etc.) via the Living Apps and the 4th Platform strategic effort of Telefonica. In particular, Telefonica has more than 300 B2B partners that it collaborates with for different proof of concept technological projects and demonstrations coming out of Telefonica's innovation funnels and other business units. Telefonica's LUCA, with its AI-powered decisions platform, has helped more than 75 companies and other organisations in different sectors such as retail, tourism, utilities, public administration, banking, transport, energy, etc., to deploy successful marketing, business and other corporate strategies. In addition, Telefonica invests a lot in business development, marketing and sales, and participates in the largest industrial events such as Mobile World Congress of GSMA, to promote its new products and services across the globe. The various attack detection and mitigation components can be exploited by the telco's IT and security departments to identify incidents of data leakages and attacks monitoring network traffic and enhancing anomaly detection models and techniques. Finally, being part of such a large telecom operator, TID is especially interested in the novel edge/cloud data services built within CONFIDENTIAL6G, and how they could be applicable in both fixed and mobile environments, transferring results to the Telefonica Tech business unit focused on cybersecurity B2B services. The work done within the project can provide guidelines for edge/cloud network planning, orchestration and design, as well as to understand trade-offs between resource and QoE for CONFIDENTIAL6G. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 70 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities VTT is a research and technology organisation whose main mission is to provide research and development, technology and innovation services to the Finnish government and to domestic as well as international companies. The challenges related to cybersecurity, security of 6G and AI are among our research and development target to secure society’s functions. The project provides beyondstate-of-the-art results that can be used to facilitate easy adoption of 6G for our industrial and other partners requiring customised security. These results will be passed to domestic and international clients of VTT in order to help them create reliable, robust, and cyber secure 6G solutions and applications. In addition to that, the results will strengthen VTT’s expertise related to application of novel platform security technologies towards the next generation of telecommunications and cloud services. TUE is a public university that is dedicated to excellence in research. This research is expressed through top-quality, publicly available research contributions. In the area of cryptography, the university has strong expertise in the area of postquantum cryptography and network protocols. This project will further add to this body of expertise and the results of this project will contribute to publications in top venues that will help the university to advance research in the cryptographic research community in a highly visible area. The results will also contribute to the education at TUE, which provides a 2-year master program in cybersecurity with several courses dedicated to cryptography, including post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic protocols, as well as network security. Including cutting-edge results in education helps attract good students and ratings. The project will directly involve the training of a PhD student in cryptography in an area that is immensely important for our digital society. Regarding exploitation of technical results, TUE will not take out patents on any inventions produced during this project and instead will make all research available free and open in order to maximise chance of adoption and standardization. Code produced will be licensed in an open way (public domain or CC0). For previous results, this approach has led to adoption by IETF and NIST as well as major industry players (Apple, Cloudflare, Google, WhatsApp) and inclusion in browsers, thus contributing to better security. UVC is an SME oriented towards confidential computing and new paradigms of protecting data “in use” and their applications in the telecom, cloud and AI/ML domains. UVC is extensively working on cocos.ai platform, a confidential multiparty computation platform for training and using AI/ML algorithms on combined data sets from mutually distrusting parties. Over the years of development UVC CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 71 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities faced a number of still unsolved challenges - specially handling of remote attestations and confidential containers. Their support in Kubernetes is still in the early phases. UVC plans to exploit these improvements from CONFIDENTIAL6G project, but also to leverage on research that will be executed in the domain of Federated AI/ML. That way the distributed feature can be added to the cocos.ai product. Additionally, optimised FHE and SMPC schemes developed in CONFIDENTIAL6G will be used to replace hardware-dependent component for use-cases where they can present a viable option. TEE abstractions are still immature, and UVC expects to develop a secure Software Management Agent (SMA) throughout the CONFIDENTIAL6G project. This SMA would be capable to accept secure TLS traffic and schedule AI/ML workloads within the secure enclave. Because of this, CONFIDENTIAL6G secure quantum-safe TLS will be used as the feature where opening TLS channels in the secure enclaves (TEEs) is needed. UVC participated at the Confidential Computing Summit in 2023 and presented its work at the EuCNC 6G Summit in 2024 (European Conference on Networks and Communications, supported by the European Commission and the 6G Summit). Here, UVC presented its platform for confidential AI. The confidentiality was supported using AMD SEV-SNP (Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging), a hardware technology used to create hardware TEE (Trusted Execution Environments). ZEN is an SME that operates in different verticals, with commercial solutions for Web 3.0, IoT and DLT. ZEN will exploit the knowledge gained in CONFIDENTIAL6G and integrate the resulting components and modules into the company’s existing solution. Most specifically, DID, DLT and Federated AI/ML will be deployed in the Gateway based service for IoT device management and operations. The service will be extended and offered to existing clients, as an upgraded service with licence including new features, as well as next client and markets that we want to target. Additional selling point will be the accommodation and fine-tuning of Zentrix's Blockchain framework with integrated Self-sovereign identity Bridge, Verifiable Credentials, and Audit Stream, which will be enriched with Federated learning capabilities and Anonymous Credentials based on ZKP. TNO is a non-profit applied research organisation whose mission is to improve and accelerate innovation in society and industry. Specifically in mobile network technology and cryptography, TNO’s departments Networks and Applied Cryptography & Quantum Algorithms will contribute in CONFIDENTIAL6G. The department of Networks consists of 60+ people with strong expertise in the field of CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 72 D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 79 Research Webinars/ Workshops/ Events Conferences/ Fairs Working Groups Online repository: 1; Openly available publications≥15; Openly available datasets ≥3; Target values: Webinars and workshops≥10; Unique participants to webinars and workshops≥200 Target Values: Fairs to Participate: ≥3 Target Values: Participation to Working Groups: ≥2 1 0 2 Zenodo D6.2 Initial Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Activities 6 CONCLUSION This document presents a comprehensive report for the first project interim period of 18 months. CONFIDENTIAL6G has effectively communicated the project's outcomes to various target groups, raising awareness, and inspiring action. The dissemination and communication included a variety of methods to disseminate results, including the CONFIDENTIAL6G website, guidelines, training materials, flyers, brochures, peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, position statements, nonscientific publications, videos, blogs, webinars, conferences, workshops, newsletters, email campaigns, and open access repositories for research. Campaigns such as "Meet the Partners" and "Women in STEM" have effectively highlighted the project's commitment to diversity and engagement. In standardization, the project has actively contributed to ETSI, ISO, and NIST efforts, integrating its innovations into broader industry standards. Additionally, the development of key exploitable results, including the Confidential Toolkit, Confidential Computing, and Confidential Networking, highlights the project's potential for long-term impact and sustainability. This report will be updated in month 36 of the project, which will include the updated dissemination and communication strategy, the description and evaluation of actions from month 19 to month 36 and any sustainability measures we might foresee for our most successful communication tools. CONFIDENTIAL6G Horizon-JU-SNS-2022 - G.A. 101096435 80