Technical updates and partner coordination
On January 13 and 14, 2026, the Edge to Cloud Continuum (E2CC) project, a part of the IPCEI Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services, held an in-person consortium meeting in Grenoble, France, bringing together its industrial and academic partners. The objective was to review progress across the different work areas, present intermediate technical results, and coordinate the next steps toward deliverables scheduled for mid-2026.
The agenda included plenary presentations and thematic sessions, during which each partner outlined recent developments. Additional meetings were held to address specific technical areas and strengthen coordination between teams.
Eviden, the project coordinator, presented the progress made with the Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) infrastructure. They also detailed the new access architecture and hardware preparation that will support the common, upcoming Testbed, which will enable partners to deploy and validate their developments in a unified environment. Updates on Eviden’s Identity as a Service and Prescriptive IAM solutions were also shared.
The status of the Key Management System (KMS)was outlined with a focus on its integration into the project’s overall architecture and the compatibility requirements needed for its deployment within the security framework.
Eviden introduced the consolidated technical requirements collected from all partners for the Testbed configuration, covering access rules, connectivity, security needs and resource specifications.
NBS System provided an update on the work carried out in Edge Computing. They outlined the progress made by the involved partners, includingthe implementation of observability tools based on OpenTelemetry, the development of anomalydetection methods using Kubernetes metrics and studies examining container execution modes under different priority configurations.
Armadillo, thecoordinator of WP3, presented the progress made in distributed artificial intelligence, federated learning and MLOps workflows, covering model optimization, workflow orchestration and experiments related to distributed execution between Edge and Cloud environments. On the other hand, CGI France reported on tools developed to measure energy consumption in Kubernetes environments. This partner showed monitoring dashboards displaying energy usage and carbon footprint, as well as proposals for dynamic resource allocation aimed at improving efficiency.
Several parallel technical sessions were conducted, enabling subsistent progress: Decarbonation (with Eviden, CGI, LAAS, IRIT and Ryax teams), Cybersecurity (with Ningaloo, Armadillo, LAAS representatives); the Testbed platform (requirements and implementation specification with almost all partners) and IA/MLOps, (with almost all partners).
Amiral Technologies, Institut Imagine and Lacroix reported on the status of their respective use cases.
Lastly, the consortium reviewed the timeline for deliverables associated with reporting period 2, which is due in June 2026.