Horizon 2020 will address three priorities in one programme: Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership and Societal Challenges. In this panel we will elaborate on the main areas of Application Driven Research, Technology Driven Research and Basic Research in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The key issues on the 2020 Horizon, such as Scenarios, New Architectures, Spectrum, Management of Complex System and Service Applications will be introduced and the positioning of ICT topics, such as Elastic Networking, Future Radio Access, Software Defined Networking, Service Aware Networks, Virtualization, etc. discussed.
