Dr. Orestis Terzidis

Dr. Orestis Terzidis – “Taking the Internet of Services to the Next Level”

Abstract: Over the past years, intense research has taken place to explore the Internet of Services. New ways of developing, hosting, aggregating, mediating and finally consuming services have been described and tested. Now, it is the time to take these results to the next level. Standardization plays a key role here. A W3C incubator group has been established to drive the “Unified Service Description Language” USDL, which will be a key for unlocking the opportunity of a broad transformation of service offering and consumption and create new growth opportunities for companies of all sizes.

CV: Orestis Terzidis, who holds a doctorate degree in theoretical physics, started to work for SAP Labs Sophia-Antipolis in 1998 as an application developer. He then joined SAP AG in 2000 as assistant to Henning Kagermann, CEO. Since 2004 he has lead the SAP Research Center in Karlsruhe, first as director and from 2008, as vice president.

As member of the SAP Research leadership team he has contributed to a variety of topics including IT for energy networks, the use of semantic technologies in business applications, software engineering for the next generation business applications, secure computing, and information technologies for emerging economies.

Orestis Terzidis is member of various different working groups or advisory boards such as the working group Internet of Services of the Federation of German Industries (BDI AG IdE), the Research Center for Information Technology Karlsruhe (FZI), the Fraunhofer-Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation Karlsruhe (IOSB) and the Innovation Lab Heidelberg.