As Cloud–Edge–IoT (CEI) systems continue to expand across sectors, Europe’s digital transformation increasingly depends on the ability to securely share and process data across distributed environments. While edge processing enhances confidentiality, many real-world applications still require data to be aggregated and exchanged between multiple actors to unlock full value, creating a fundamental tension between innovation, data protection, and sovereignty.
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are emerging as a key enabler to address this challenge, embedding security, privacy, and data sovereignty directly into system architectures. However, translating PET concepts into operational CEI systems requires careful alignment between technology choices, regulatory requirements, and application-specific constraints.
Within this context, O-CEI Horizon will contribute to the upcoming CEI-Sphere webinar, showcasing how these challenges are being addressed in practice within large-scale, multi-sector Cloud–Edge–IoT deployments.
Together with the COP-PILOT Horizon project, O-CEI will share hands-on insights from real-world implementations of CEI infrastructures, illustrating how secure and scalable data sharing can be achieved while maintaining trust, compliance, and operational efficiency across distributed systems.
The webinar will feature:
- A presentation of a recent PET study developed by Fraunhofer ISST, offering a structured framework for selecting and implementing PET strategies in edge–cloud environments
- Insights from the O-CEI and COP-PILOT Large-Scale Pilots, highlighting practical approaches to data protection in complex, real-world CEI deployments
- A panel discussion on secure and scalable Cloud–Edge–IoT architectures and their role in enabling trusted data ecosystems
By combining research outcomes with pilot-driven experience, the session will provide a comprehensive view of how PETs can move from theory to deployment, supporting secure collaboration and innovation across Europe’s digital infrastructures.
