EDIH Summit 2026
Strengthening the AI Innovation Ecosystem
The EDIH Summit 2026 brings together the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) network, EU institutions, SMEs, public sector representatives, and innovation actors to discuss how Europe can strengthen the adoption and deployment of Artificial Intelligence across regions and sectors.
The event will focus on practical collaboration between EDIHs, AI infrastructures, Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs), AI Factories, data spaces, and other European support initiatives to help organisations move from AI experimentation to real implementation and impact.
Agrifood: From AI Pilots to Market Deployment: Connecting AgriFood EDIHs, TEFs, AI Factories and Data Spaces
Raffaele Giaffreda, agrifoodTEF Coordinator, represents the project at the Thematic Working Group #2 workshop, organised by DEDEP.eu, on 9 June 2026.
This interactive thematic workshop:
- explores how AgriFood EDIHs can help SMEs and public actors move from AI pilots and experimentation toward validated, deployable, and market-ready solutions;
- discusses how EDIHs can connect organisations with the right European support structures, including TEFs, AI Factories, trusted data spaces, and cross-border EDIH collaboration, helping accelerate AI adoption and market uptake in the agri-food sector;
- includes short expert perspectives followed by interactive group discussions focused on practical deployment pathways and common adoption challenges.
TEFs and Sandboxes: Technical and regulatory features
Raffaele Giaffreda joins the parallel workshop on 10 June 2026, organised by CoordinaTEF. During the workshop, he presents real use cases and explains how collaboration between EDIHs and TEFs works in practice. Discussions cover how organisations can access TEF services, the entry points and processes available, practical collaboration mechanisms between EDIHs and TEFs as well as lessons learned and future perspectives for stronger ecosystem integration.
The session aims to showcase how these infrastructures can jointly support organisations throughout the innovation journey, from testing and validation to deployment and uptake.
At the end of the panel, a joint document entitled “EDIH–TEF Collaboration High-Level Guidelines” is presented. Developed jointly by CoordinaTEF, the TEFs, and the Digital Transformation Accelerator (DTA), under the supervision of the European Commission, the document outlines the EU vision for AI innovation in European industry, when and why organisations should engage with EDIHs or TEFs as well as practical EDIH–TEF collaboration cases and pathways.