ELASTIC Consortium Meets in Chania for Review Preparation

The ELASTIC consortium gathered in Chania, Crete, on 22–23 September 2025 for a two-day Review Preparation Meeting, hosted by the Technical University of Crete (TUC). Partners from academia, research, and industry met onsite and online to prepare for the upcoming project review and align on the next steps across technical, scientific, and strategic areas.

The meeting focused on consolidating results from the first reporting period, assessing achievements, and ensuring coherence across the project’s core research lines. The consortium reviewed progress on executable isolation, serverless orchestration, confidential computing, and edge workload orchestration—key technologies that define ELASTIC’s approach to efficient, portable, and secure orchestration for reliable 6G services.

Two major demonstrators were presented:

• Smart Connected Factory of the future (ERF), enabling dynamic orchestration and privacy-preserving data processing across distributed infrastructures.
• Migration of a sensitive IT service from on-premise to public cloud– led by Thales DIS (THD), showcasing secure migration of sensitive on-premise services to cloud environments.

Partners also presented a series of component-level demonstrations, including tools for observability, attestation, TEE lifecycle management, orchestration, AI-driven intrusion detection, Wasm and eBPF-based analysis, and secure workload migration. These demos showcased how ELASTIC’s research is advancing toward validated, interoperable, and industry-relevant solutions.

Beyond the technical focus, discussions highlighted dissemination, standardisation, and exploitation activities, which play a central role in ensuring the project’s long-term impact. Partners reviewed communication outcomes, standardisation contributions, open-source collaborations, and exploitation strategies to translate ELASTIC’s innovations into tangible technological and business outcomes within the evolving 6G ecosystem.

The Chania meeting marked an important milestone in aligning the consortium’s technical, strategic, and exploitation objectives—strengthening readiness for the upcoming review and paving the way for the next stage of work toward advancing secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving orchestration across the 6G continuum.