Research & collaboration

Progress begins
with a better
question.

We explore the infrastructure behind intelligent systems, working with industry and academia to turn shared questions into engineering work.

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Computation. Security. Connectivity.

From questions to systems

The next application
needs new foundations.

How can workloads move across different environments? How do we protect sensitive data during computation? What does reliable orchestration look like at the edge? These are some of the questions behind our research partnerships.

European research programmes

Horizon Europe
Orchestration / Cloud & edge Ongoing · 2024–2027

ELASTIC

A more flexible foundation for connected services.

Research into portable, secure service orchestration using WebAssembly, serverless computing, and edge infrastructure.

Our role Orchestration & edge security

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Security / Confidential computing Completed · 2023–2025

CONFIDENTIAL6G

Protecting data wherever computation happens.

A European collaboration exploring confidential computing, post-quantum cryptography, and privacy across future 6G networks.

Our role Technical management & secure IoT

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A shared endeavour

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Build a collaboration.

We welcome conversations with research teams, industry partners, and consortia working on intelligent software, security, and distributed systems.

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