The survey contributes to the building of a European standardization strategy and roadmap. It aims at collecting European stakeholders needs on Artificial Intelligence standardization. It is based upon the National Survey organized by AFNOR under the framework of the French Grand Défi Trustworthy and Industrial AI. A presentation of the findings will be organized by BDVA/DAIRO. Submit your answers before September 15, 2021. Access the survey here.

Now you have the opportunity to sponsor, support and be seen at the flagship event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community! 

The call for workshops/sessions for EBDVF 2021 is now open! The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) is the flagship event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community organised by the BDVA and the European Commission (DG CNECT). EBDVF 2021 theme is “Digital Transformation powered by Data and AI”. Deadline for submissions: July 30th 2021.

On the 19th of July, the Commission started a European alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud. The alliance fosters the emergence of disruptive cloud and edge technologies that are highly secure, energy and resource-efficient and fully interoperable, fostering trust for cloud users across all sectors.

On 13 July, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council adopted the Council Regulation on establishing the new European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). Combining investments of the participating states and the EuroHPC Private Members to funding from the Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Connecting Europe Facility programmes, the total investment will be around €7 billion.

In General Assembly (GA24), BDVA/DAIRO confirmed 6 full members and 5 associate members, from 6 countries, joining the association. The new members are IFE, LIST, MU, NTNU, CSIC, UNIPD, CETaqua, IBV, Kuveyt Turk, TeamDev and WNRI. BDVA/DAIRO warmly welcomes the organisations!

All data and data-driven AI researchers, innovators, industry representatives and other stakeholders are invited to join Info Day about Horizon Europe 2021-2022 calls on the 8^th of July, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST. The information and brokerage session focuses on calls under “World Leading Data and Computing Technologies” (Cluster 4, Destination 3).

European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2021 will take place from the 29th of November to the 3rd of December. This year, we are building a “hybrid” event – this means that we will meet both, live and online! EBDVF 2021 theme is “Digital Transformation powered by Data and AI” and it is an associated event of Slovenian EU Presidency.