Events

FIRST Kick-off meeting

ATOS hosted the project kick-off meeting that took place on October 25-26.

The focus of the kickoff was to get to know the project partners, assure that all partners share the same vision of the project, and that initial work plans of all work packages (WP) and tasks fitted together.

The meeting was very successful, leading to a clear definition of the roadmap of all work packages and the decision to advance some experiments in the data acquisition and analysis pipeline for the first year of the project.

FIRST Second Consortium Meeting

Second consortium meeting to be held at the IDMS premises in Frankfurt.

Third FIRST Consortium meeting - Bled - Slovenia

Third FIRST Consortium meeting in Bled, Slovenia.

The objective of the meeting is to asses the work done during the first seven months of the project and the development of the integrated prototype. A especial session to draft an exploitation strategy will be also held.

All project partners are invited to come the 3 days. The third day will be devoted to parallel sessions, so it is not mandatory for people not attending to those sessions.

FIRST 4th Consortium and Advisory Board meeting

The 4th consortium meeting will take place in Madrid in September 2011. Advisory Board members are invited to attend to the meeting in order to assess and give feedback of the status of the project.

FIRST 1st Review meeting

The annual review of the project will take place on November 30 at the EC premises in Luxembourg. The day before, project partners will have a rehearsal in the same premises

FIRST 5th Consortium meeting - Hohenheim

5th consortium meeting of the FIRST project partners

FIRST Workshop in the ABI LAB forum in Milan

FIRST is proud to announce the FIRST Industrial Worshop co-allocated in the plenary session of the ABI LAB Forum 2012, in Milan, Italy. The workshop took place on March 29, between 14:30 and 16:30. The videos of the FIRST Workshop can be seen at http://videolectures.net/firstworkshop2012_milano/

The ABI Lab Forum is the most important annual meeting of the ABI Lab Consortium which is the Banking Research & Innovation Centre promoted by the Italian Banking Association (ABI), with the aim of supporting the cooperation between banks, ICT Companies and Institutions on technological issues related to banking processes. The 2-day event is organized annually and it is now at its eight edition.

The Forum represents a meeting point and a milestone for banks and ICT companies in Italy to sum up outcomes of major research carried out along the year with particular attention to future trends and best practices of Organization, Security and ICT in banking

The number of attendees more than 300, mainly from the financial domain

Apart from the main workshop session, FIRST was there the 2-days of the event in a separate room for demos and presentations. The FIRST Workshop on Thursday afternoon was composed of the following presentations:

  • Opening Presentation: “FIRST: European research for web information extraction and analysis for supporting financial decision making”,  Tomás Pariente Lobo, Senior Consultant at Atos Research & Innovation and  FIRST Project Coordinator, Atos Spain (including a short demo of the Twitter sentiment analysis tool by Miha Grcar, Researcher and Project Leader at Department of Knowledge Technologies,Jozef Stefan Institut)
  • “Web streams processing and other semantic technologies for Reputational Risk Measurement and Management in Banks”, Giorgio Aprile, Group Head of Operational Risk management , Banca Monte dei Paschi
  • “Breaking the mould: New approaches to capital markets surveillance”, Wolfgang Fabisch, Chief Executive Officer, b-next Engineering GmbH
  • "Retail Investments: Decision Support beyond traditional market information", Dr. Alexandra Winter, Business Analyst Product Development & Client Solutions, Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG
  • "Wisdom of the Crowds - What to make of web-based sentiment?”, Ulli Spankowski, Associate Director, Stuttgart Financial / BoerseStuttgart

During the workshop a simultaneous translation services (English/Italian) were provided.

FIRST 6th Consortium meeting - Siena

6th Consortium meeting in Siena.

FIRST 7th Consortium Meeting in Stuttgart

Consortium and Advisory Board meeting in Stuttgart

FIRST 8th Consorium meeting in Frankfurt

The FIRST 8th consortium meeting will take place from 20-22 February 2013 at the House of Finance, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany: http://www.hof.uni-frankfurt.de/en/Directions.html

 

News

FIRST project presence in social networks

You can also talk about us in Twitter using the hashtag #firstproject.

 

FIRST 2nd Consortium Meeting in Frankfurt on February 14-15 on IDMS premises

The second FIRST Consortium Meeting takes place at the Interactive Data premises in Frankfurt.

We count with the assistance of Mr. Jürgen Herf, from BAFIN, the German market regulator, and a key note from Mr. Carsten Dirks, Interactive Data CEO.

FIRST in the EC CORDIS Web site

March 2, 2011.

FIRST public information is now available at the EC CORDIS Web site. You can find there a short description of the project, the annual public report, a project presentation and fact sheet.

FIRST public deliverables online

The FIRST project has released the public documents due in M6 (end of March 2011) at http://first-fp7.eu/public_deliverables:

  • D1.1. Case studies definition
  • D1.2 Case studies requirements
  • D2.1. Technical requirements and state-of.-the-art.

A must read for those interested on the scope of the project from the financial (D1.1 and D1.2) and technical perspectives (D2.1). 

 

 

 

Highlight: D2.1 is a must-read for people interested in the latest trends large-scale information acquisition from unstructured resources, sentiment analysis and decision support in the financial domain.

Bled meeting, a success

The FIRST Consortium meeting in Slovenia has been a success, not only because of the quality of the presentations and demos, or of the presence of representatives of the Bank of Slovenia and Nova KBM, but for the beautiful city, landscape and bonding between the participants.

FIRST project in LinkedIn

As part of our social media policy, we have launched the FIRST project LinkedIn group.

This is a group aimed mainly at professionals of the financial and research communities that wants to keep track and discuss on the developments made in FIRST.

Be one of the FIRSTs on joining!

Year one public deliverables online

The FIRST consortium is proud to announce that 8 new public documents and pointers to life demos have been published and made available to the public in our web site (http://first-fp7.eu/public_deliverables). We are waiting for your feedback!

FIRST video released

An introduction to the FIRST project made by partners representatives and members of the FIRST Advisory Board has been uploaded recently to our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/projectfirstfp7).

FIRST Workshop in the ABI LAB forum in Milan

FIRST is proud to announce the upcoming FIRST Industrial Worshop co-allocated in the plenary session of the ABI LAB Forum 2012, in Milan, Italy. The workshop will take place on March 29, between 14:30 and 16:30. More info of the event at http://project-first.eu/content/first-workshop-abi-lab-forum-milan.

Success in the FIRST Workshop in Milano

The FIRST Industrial workshop within the main session of the ABI Lab 2012 has been a success.

The presentations and videos are now available in the FIRST Web Site and in Videolectures.com.

STAY TUNED!