Dr. Thanasis Korakis, Associate Director of NITlab and NITlab member Stratos Keranidis attended the FIRE Engineering Workshop in Ghent, Belgium on 6-7 November 2012. Dr. Thanasis Korakis gave 2 presentations related to the latest updates in NITOS testbed and the ongoing research activities related with the OPENLAB and FIBRE projects and moreover Stratos Keranidis presented the CONCRETE Benchmarking framework, accompanied with a live demonstration of the tool capabilities.