On Friday, 2nd December 2016, in the context of BDVA Valencia Summit, the Commission will present the topics related to Big Data Value PPP for the next call in April 2017:

The BDVA Secretary General, accompanied by representatives from Fraunhofer, Siemens and ATOS took part in a follow-up working group on Digitising European Industry on October 21st. A common BDVA approach to establishing a European Industrial Data Platform was communicated, together with the presentation of individual BDVA member initiatives including the Industrial Data Space (Fraunhofer) and (MindSphere) Siemens.

The BigDataEurope project's upcoming Webinar is featuring one of Apache Flink’s biggest committers, Kostas Tzoumas, CEO of dataArtisans. Apache Flink is an open source framework for distributed stream and batch data processing that provides an execution environment for transforming unbounded data sets where the time dimension is critical. That makes it ideal for working in areas like transport and Internet of Things where data comes as streams from sensors and where the value of that data is highly time-dependent.

During this (free) Webinar you’ll discover:

The BDVA (Big Data Value Association) launched its yearly community survey for monitoring the Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The objective of the community survey is to engage with the wider Big Data community to ensure a comprehensive perspective concerning the technical and business impact of the SRIA technical and non-technical priorities as well as to identify emerging priorities with high impact for the European big data economy. The results of the community survey will be used as input for the regular SRIA update.

If you are an expert, interested or working in the European big data economy, we invite you to share your opinion by answering the short questionnaire on http://bdva.sirap.sgizmo.com/s3/.

The survey should not take longer than 10 minutes.

We extended the deadline until 10 October 2016.

Following on from the joint position paper recently approved by BDVA (Big Data Value Association and ETP4HPC (European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing), BDVA had an important participation at the last EXDCI’s (European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative) workshop in Barcelona. The objective of the workshop was to coordinate the development and implementation of a common strategy for the European HPC Ecosystem. 

BDVA Vice President, Dr. Edward Curry, is attending a Roundtable organised by Commissioner Oettinger together with Commissioners Bieńkowska and Moedas on "Digitising European Industry" in Brussels on September 20th. 

BDVA has the pleasure to announce the appointment of Ana Garcia as Secretary General, starting the 1st of September.