The great disruption generated by the COVID-19 has immediate implications by generating new challenges regarding response effectiveness, resilience of healthcare systems as well as privacy for the individuals and citizens. But this disruption has also larger consequences across a broad range of sectors by potentially redesigning the business models, the supply chains, etc.

These new challenges demand fast readjustments of many of the associated technical systems – with a key role to play for the IoT systems – and new innovations to cater for new requirements.

This need for fast responses has to be taken into account in particular by the standardisation community that must be able to support new innovations, accelerate the pace of its response, and make sure that collaboration between actors in reinforced and development program are aligned and streamlined.

The objectives of the Webinar are twofold and will be addressed in two corresponding sessions:

• Identify the main challenges that are posed by the recent evolution to the global IoT ecosystem, and more specifically to the on-going work in standardisation and pre-standardisation;
• Outline areas for re-enforced collaboration between the actors, namely standardisation organisations, EU research projects, industries, academics.

A large place will be given to interaction with the audience, in particular with a support for active Q&A sessions.