We are living in the largest, most dramatic and unexpected social experiment ever, as governments launch a variety of “social distancing” measures to slow down the coronavirus contagion. Also the use of AI and Big Data is being tested as never before: China, Taiwan, South Korea are using massive data collection and smartphones for “track and tracing systems”. In Europe nothing similar has been launched yet, while quantitative models to forecast the spread of the virus are multiplying. In Italy where the pandemic is raging there is a hot debate on the opportunity to follow the Asian example. Nobody has all the answers.The BDVA community wants to open a discussion to share experiences and evidence about the best way to use data and AI to manage the pandemic and support dentifying the best practices to be recommended and the best ideas to be shared. In this webinar we start the discussion with a few expert speakers reporting on the Asian and ongoing European experiences. But we call on all interested members of the community to participate and share other experiences and ideas to learn from each other. Date/Time: March 26th, 14h CETRegistration: here. (closed)Speakers:

• Gabriella Cattaneo, European Government consulting at IDC [Presentation]
• Daniel Calvo, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics unit, Atos Research and Innovation [Presentation]
• Luca Ferretin, Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford [Presentation]
• Paolo Giudici, Professor of Statistics, FinTech laboratory, University of Pavia [Presentation]
• Barbara Guardabascio, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) [Presentation]

Main organisers: Gabriella Cattaneo (IDC, TF2.Impact lead), Tiblets Demewez (Philips, TF7.Healthcare lead), Ana Garcia (BDVA Secretary General)

The EU Big Data Value Association and the Midwest Big Data Hub, in collaboration with Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SINTEF, and Intrasoft Intl., proudly present the first in an EU and US Big Data Research Collaboration Webinar Series:WEBINAR #1: UAVs AND SATELLITES FOR AGRICULTUREThursday, 21 November 2019. 15:00-16:30 PM CETAccess link here: https://zoom.us/j/101827635 AGENDA

• Welcome: Dr. Lea SHANLEY Senior Fellow, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison @Lea_Shanley
• Introduction:Dr. Arne BERRE, Chief Scientist, SINTEF (Moderator) @SINTEF                                                                                                   
• Introduction to Crop Phenomics:Dr. Carolyn LAWRENCE-DILL, Professor, Iowa State University @IAcornflake 
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Crop Level Phenomics:Dr. Jesse POLAND, Associate Professor, Kansas State University @WheatLab
• The Aggregate Farming in the CloudProject Approach: Dr. José-Fernán MARTÍNEZ-ORTEGA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid @La_UPM
• Crop Monitoring and Satellite Data:Mrs. Isabelle PICCARD, Senior Researcher, VITO Remote Sensing @VITO_RS_

Panelists:Lea Shanley is a Senior Fellow in the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research interests focus on the intersection of open science, geospatial and emerging technology, policy and law. Previously, Lea served as the co-Executive Director of the NSF South Big Data Hub, a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at NASA, and founding director of the Commons Lab at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Arne Berre is the Chief Scientist at SINTEF Digital, Department for Software and Service Innovation, Group for Smart Data. Arne is the Leader of BDVA (Big Data Value Association) TF6 Technical Priorities, GEMINI Center for Big Data with SINTEF, NTNU and UiO and SINTEF BigLearn on Big Data and Machine Learning. Arne works with digital platforms and systems interoperability, with focus on big data and processing support for Analytics/AI/Machine Learning. Carolyn Lawrence-Dill is a Professor at Iowa State University. Her research interests have grown from plant biology to genomics to phenomics. Carolyn served as the Director of the Maize Genetics and Genomics Database for nearly ten years, was a founding member of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network, and serves as a co-chair for the Interna­tional Plant Phenotyping Network. Current research in her lab group focuses on the analysis of language-based phenotypes for association genetics and novel candidate gene prediction. Jesse Poland is an Associate Professor at Kansas State University, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics, and Director of the Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resource Center. Research in Jesse’s group is focused on wheat genetics, genomics, and germplasm improvement. Jesse’s research group is currently developing new approaches in quantitative genetics, genomics and high-throughput phenotyping for use in breeding, diversity studies, and association genetics. In collaboration with public breeding programs, Jesse implements the use of genomic selection meth­ods to accelerate wheat breeding. In the area of germplasm development, Jesse’s group focuses on developing new breed­ing lines with resistance to the major pests of wheat including stem rust, stripe rust, leaf rust, and Hessian Fly and seeks to understand the genetic basis of these traits. To complement advances in genomics, Jesse’s lab develops high-throughput phenotyping approaches for field-based evaluation of breeding lines, focused primarily on genetic characterization of heat and drought tolerance and development of improved germplasm. José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega received his Ph.D. degree in Telematics Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Spain in 2001. His main interest areas and expertise are ubiquitous computing and Internet of things, underwater cooperating robots, smart cities, new advanced services for WSAN and high performance and fault tolerant for resilient systems. He has participated in several International and European Research Projects, as a responsible, such as: I3RES, e-GOTHAM, DEMANES, ACCUS, WoO, uSWN, SODA, ESNA, DiYSE, LIFEWEAR. Moreover, he has been the coordi­nator of the European Research Project SWARMs and is right now the coordinator of AFarCloud (Aggregate Farming in the Cloud). PhD. Martínez is working as a guest professor at Mälardalen University Sweden (MDH) at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT), in the area of Robotics and Avionics since August 2013. One of the most important scientific institution in China, the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), invited him as a foreign research expert in 2011. Mrs. Isabelle Piccard is a senior researcher at VITO Remote Sensing. After graduating from KULeuven as a Bio-En­gineer, Isabelle started her professional career working as pea breeder for a Belgian-Dutch seed company. She joined VITO Remote Sensing in 2001, where she has been involved in many national and international projects – both as a scientist and project manager. Over the years, Isabelle has built up extensive expertise in the use of satellite images for crop map­ping, crop monitoring, damage and risk assessment, including agricultural insurances. Currently, Isabelle mainly focuses on developing products and services for crop monitoring based on time series of high-resolution satellite data. She is one of the founders of “WatchITgrow”, an online platform to support farmers to monitor arable crops and vegetables in view of increasing yields, both qualitatively and quantitatively. WatchITgrow combines satellite data with weather, soil, IoT and field data using new technologies such as big data analytics and machine learning, to provide growers with more timely and personalized advice.

This third edition is organised with the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. The conference will take place from the afternoon of 13 November 2019 to midday of 15 November 2019 at IFEMA Madrid, just a few metro stops from the airport.

All the different actors involved in the digital value chain are invited to participate, including representatives from Member States and regions, national initiatives for digitalisation, industry, SMEs, academia, Digital Innovation Hubs and research and technology centres. They will have an excellent opportunity to share experiences, exchange best practices and discuss the future of EU digital industrial policy.

See the outline of the agenda per day here.

(source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/digitising-european-industry-stakeholder-forum-2019)

The "Digitalization of Knowledge and Industrial Technologies - Towards Horizon Europe" event, organized by the University of Bologna, is a unique opportunity aimed to present a mutli-discliplinary perspective to one of the most important topic that will shape our future.

In the Bologna historical XVII century manufacturing district, that has been recently reconstructed as Factory of the Arts, personalities from different knowledge fields, such as philosophy, industry, social sciences, information technology, digital sciences, politics and academia will discuss the actual status of their disciplines, the undisclosed potential behind each of them and their visions about how our society could benefit from them in the very next future.

Within an agenda divided in three round tables, VISION, IMPLEMENTATION and FUTURE SOCIETIES, nine international speakers will debate involving the public about the philosophical nature of our knowledge and the ways to express and exploit it through digital sciences to improve industrial technologies.

The event will be closed by Peter Droell the EC Director of DG-RTD.F "Prosperity", whose directorate includes among the others Industry 5.0 and Materials for Tomorrow units, Harald Hartung the EC Head of Unit DG-RTD.E.4 "Fair Societies & Cultural Heritage", and Anne de Baas EC Policy Officer of DG-RTD.F.4 "Materials for the Future", that will provide an insight of what we should expect in the next years moving towards Horizon Europe.

Details on the event can be found on the website together with the full agenda.

Registration is required in order to participate to the event.

META-FORUM is the international conference series on powerful and innovative Language Technologies for the multilingual information society. It’s the place to be to learn about the most recent developments in European Language Technology industry and research including language-centric AI.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what’s new in the Language Technology landscape.

Registration for META-FORUM is, as usual, free of charge.

BDVe project organizes the workshop “Data Driven Innovation Workshop”

Data, data, data.

It is all about data!

But how can you explore a business having the data-driven mindset? Do you believe your business is exploring it at its full? Do you need guidance and a clear method to organize your ideas and learn the potential and applicabilities of data? 

Join us to find out the answers!

BDVe project organizes a Data Driven Innovation Workshop (Murcia, Spain, October 1st, from 10:00 to 17:00)

Success Patterns of Data-driven Business Opportunities

Register now: https://lnkd.in/gF5esF9

European Research and Innovation Days are an annual policy event that brings together world leaders from industry, finance, academia and business to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. Registrations will open soon. 

Follow the link for more information about the event, programme and speakers: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/events/upcoming-events/european-research-and-innovation-days_en

Introduction

The 2nd International Workshop on Software Architectures Challenges in Big Data (SACBD) is organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) as part of the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA, https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.fr/home). The objective of this workshop is to  provide a forum for discussing all aspects of the software architecture challenges of big data systems. The workshop welcomes the contributions of practitioners and researchers alike.

Technical issues and challenges related to software architecture are well covered by the European Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. Such software architecture trends are facilitating new data-driven operations and services which are at the core of the new economy revolving around big data value. As organizations become more and more data-centric, they need to re-design their software architectures accordingly. This affects not only the architecture design but also its implementation and non-functional aspects. This situation creates a need for new methods and tools to design and reason about software architectures in Big Data scenarios and paves the way for various research directions. How to design software architectures when dealing with Big Data? Which are the typical architectural patterns? How to assess the performance or the privacy risk of Big Data architectures? This workshop will focus on these and many others aspects of software architectures in the Big Data era.

 Agenda

 Call for papers already closed

Topics of interest

The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of software architecture for big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Software architectures in genuine big data scenarios
• Architectural patterns for big data
• Architectures of big data systems (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
• Integration of Big Data systems with other business systems
• Non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, privacy, reliability)
• Combining big data with IoT, HPC, cloud computing, fog computing
• Applying machine learning to big data scenarios, big data integration with artificial intelligence
• Fostering business with big data and analytics

Submission Guidelines

Original, high-quality papers are solicited, from researchers and practitioners alike. Both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages) will be considered. All papers must be written in English and follow the ACM formatting instructions and templates for conference papers, as specified under https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. Independently from the length, several types of papers will be considered (experience reports, new approaches, review or analysis of existing approaches, empirical studies, theoretical results, negative results, position papers, vision papers). The contribution of a paper must be commensurate with its length.

Submitted papers must be original, not submitted and not published elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the ECSA companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the online submission system under the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacbd2019.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics.

 Further information

The workshop is part of the European Conference on Software Architectures (ECSA), the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 13th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2019) will be held on 9-13 September 2019 in Paris, France at FIAP Jean Monnet.

The workshop will take place on 9th September 2019 in the afternoon in Paris, right before the main ECSA conference.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the workshop, and present the work. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the ECSA 2019 conference.

 Organization committee

• Zoltán Ádám Mann (paluno – the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany).
• Daniel Alonso Román (Technology Institute of Valencia, Spain)
• Michele Guerriero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy).
• Alessandra Bagnato (Softeam, France)

Program committee

• Ali Serdar Atalay, BitNet, Turkey
• Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
• Arne Berre, SINTEF, Norway
• David Bowden, DELL, Ireland
• Sergio Campos, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain
• Alexandru Costan, IRISA / INSA Rennes, France
• Carlos E. Cuesta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Omar Elloumi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
• Ibai Laña, Tecnalia, Spain
• Daphne Lopez, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
• Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Ignacio Olabarrieta Palacios, Tecnalia, Spain
• Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Zoheir Sabeur, Bournemouth University, UK
• Andrey Sadovykh, Innopolis University, Russia
• Angel Serrano Sánchez de León, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Ana Isabel Torre, Tecnalia, Spain
• Anwar Vahed, Meraka Institute, South Africa
• Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain