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  • ARTEMIS Brokerage Event 2017

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 31 January, 2017 to Wednesday, 1 February, 2017
    Place: 
    Bedford Hotel & Congress Centre 135, Rue du Midi B-1000 Brussels Belgium

    ARTEMIS Industry Association organises the ARTEMIS Brokerage Event 2017 in Brussels to help with the drafting of project proposals and finding the right consortium partners. About 250 participants from all over Europe are expected to attend this event.

    The ARTEMIS Brokerage Event will focus specifically on Embedded Intelligence (Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things and Digital Platforms) within the ECSEL Call. In addition, proposals for Lighthouse projects within the full ECSEL scope, also covering Smart Systems and Nano-electronics, are also very welcome to present themselves at this event. Of course, this focus does not exclude project proposals for other calls, such as H2020.

    It will be a good opportunity for Big Data stakeholders to join the event and see how Big Data layer can be included in CPS projects. 


    All the details HERE. 

    Event type: 
    Other

  • First “Digitising European Industry” Stakeholder Forum event

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 31 January, 2017 to Wednesday, 1 February, 2017
    Place: 
    Zeche Zollverein – Essen (Germany)

    The first Stakeholder Forum for the "Digitising European Industry" initiative will take place on 31/1/2017 and 1/2/2017 in Zeche Zollverein – Essen (Germany)

    The first European Stakeholder Forum aims to gather more than 500 delegates for broad awareness raising, consultation and discussion on the action lines of the Digitising European Industry initiative. The Forum also aims to foster networking between all stakeholders in particular between the various national and regional initiatives, Digital Innovation Hubs and platforms.

    Further information here Registration here


    Event type: 
    Other

  • Smart Cyber-Physical Systems – Concertation Event

    Event date: 
    Monday, 30 January, 2017
    Place: 
    Bedford Hotel and Congress Centre, Brussels

    The event will bring together the Cyber-Physical Systems, embedded intelligent systems and advanced computing communities across Europe and is set to reinforce exchange and strengthen the links between the Horizon2020 CPS projects, Artemis-IA, HIPEAC and the larger CPS community. The event will be a follow-up of the Smart-Cyber-Physical Systems Clustering and Communication Event held in Vienna on 14th of April 2016 and will gather 15 ICT-1 projects funded under Horizon2020-ICT-1 2014 and 5 new Horizon2020 ICT-1-2016 projects. The findings of the Road2CPS and TAMS4CPS projects in the context of a CPS roadmap and collaboration agenda will be put to discussion with the community.

    Road2CPS will present the final Technology and Application Roadmap, which identifies and describes the relevant underlying technology fields and related research priorities to fuel the development of trustworthy CPS, as well as the specific technologies, needs and barriers for a successful implementation in different application domains.

    TAMS4CPS fosters strategic EU-US collaboration on modelling and simulation for CPS. The consortium will present the Strategic Research and Collaboration Agenda, which has been commonly compiled together with US stakeholders and is supposed to lay the foundation for collaborative activities.

    The final agenda and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. The event is organised back-to-back with the ARTEMIS-IA Brokerage Event, which will take place in the same premises on 31st of January and 1st February 2017.

    Big Data Technologies are very present in the technology roadmap document. It is a great opportunity to Big Data Stakeholders.

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • 1st European Insights Summit

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 24 January, 2017
    Place: 
    VLEVA, Avenue Cortenberg 71, Brussels, Belgium

    This event showcases the crucial role the insights community plays every day to inform policy debates, provide evidence for crucial service upgrades, and help business leaders drive economic growth.

    Through the results of actual research projects, discover how research is helping to create new insights into major societal and business challenges, supporting decision-makers to enrich the lives of ordinary citizens and deliver economic growth.

    The event will bring together Paul Nemitz, Giovanni Buttarelli, and MEP Michal Boni to talk about the impact of the EU’s new data protection framework (and ePrivacy) on research, with a particular interest in looking at private-sector funded research.

    It will also be unveiling some new research study results focusing on the digital economy and the disruption that traditional sectors like finance and mobility are facing, but also on more social topics like the refugee and migration crises, the rise of Euroskepticism and populism, and the use of research in improving the efficacy of public governance and public engagement.

    The full updated programme is available at http://researchchoices.org/eis

    Event type: 
    Other

  • Big Data PPP Information and Networking Days 2017

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 17 January, 2017 to Wednesday, 18 January, 2017
    Place: 
    Luxembourg Congrès in Luxembourg

    Big Data PPP Information and Networking Days 2017, organised by the Unit Data Policy and Innovation (CNECT G1), will take place on 17 and 18 January 2017 in Luxembourg Congrès in Luxembourg. 

    The aim of the event is to inform and guide potential applicants preparing project proposals, to facilitate sharing of ideas and experiences. It will give participants the chance to network and to find partners for their projects. It will also give the opportunity to the first Big Data PPP projects, issued from the 2016 call for proposals, to present their objectives and roadmap and to meet proposers. 

    The event will focus on the call for proposals H2020-ICT-2016-2017 addressing the following topics:

    ICT-14: Big Data PPP: Cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation

    ICT-15: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot actions in sectors best benefitting from data-driven innovation
    ICT 16: Big Data PPP: research addressing main technology challenges of the data economy
    ICT 17 b:  Big data PPP: Support, Industrial Skills, Benchmarking and evaluation

    Due to a big interest and limited number of places the participation will be possible only upon confirmed online registration. 

    More information on the agenda, background notes and the registration possibilities will appear shortly on the event website.

    Contact: CNECT-G1-EVENTS@ec.europa.eu

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • 4TH CONNECTED SMART CITIES CONFERENCE 2017: MAKING IOT WORK FOR CITIES AND CITIZENS

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 12 January, 2017
    Place: 
    Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

    OASC hosts the 4th Connected Smart Cities Conference on Thursday, January 12, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, in collaboration with the European Committee of the Regions and other close partners. Registration is free. City leaders, community initiatives, representatives of the European institutions, tech experts and business developers will join the conference. We are looking forward to an exciting conference.

    More information here

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • Big Data Analytics & Multi-Cloud – Extending the benefits of Big Data Analytics by using Multi-Cloud environments

    Event date: 
    Monday, 5 December, 2016
    Place: 
    EIT Digital Berlin Node, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 | 6th floor, 10587 Berlin (Germany)

    “Big Data Analytics & Multi-Cloud – Extending the benefits of Big Data Analytics by using Multi-Cloud environments” will show practical approaches on how to use the power and flexibility of Multi-Cloud solutions to improve BigData Analytics. The event will present real world experience from ATOS and British Telecom acquired in MCloudDaaS initiative to help you understand real approaches to embark on digital transformation plans based on Big Data and Cloud technologies.

    MCloudDaaS technologies enable to use Big Data Analytics in Multi-Cloud scenarios, offering innovative functionalities with regards to security, scalability and fault-tolerance. Companies will experience the benefits of Big Data Analytics solutions but will also benefit from TCO reduction and agility improvements.

    During the event, MCloudDaaS project will present its approach for enhancing Hadoop-based Data Analytics frameworks and offering to support Big Data Analytics Service execution over public/private infrastructures; to enable enhanced security features based on multi-cloud data access, secure sharing, encryption and visualization; and automated scalability and fault tolerance based on Data Analytics jobs execution parameters.

    We will also count with the participation of local startups and SMEs who will also show their own solutions and approaches.

    The event is a good opportunity for SMEs, startups and companies in the IT landscape, or IT departments from any other kind of enterprise, mainly interested in enabling technologies and innovative implementations in Big Data that want to create new solutions or services exploiting the benefits of Multi-Cloud scenarios.

    The event is organized by MCloudDaaS initiative in collaboration with EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organization driving Europe’s digital transformation. As a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, EIT Digital is focused on entrepreneurship and is at the forefront of integrating education, research and business by bringing together students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs. This is done in our pan-European network of Co-Location Centres in Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, London, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as in Budapest and Madrid. We also have a hub in Silicon Valley.

    The event will take place in Berlin, to be held with the collaboration of  EIT Digital Berlin Node, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 | 6th floor, 10587 Berlin (Germany). For directions & transport options: http://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/locations/berlin-node/visit. For more contact information: Phone:
    +49 30 3450 6690 0; Fax: +49 30 3450 6690 102 or E-mail:     berlin@eitdigital.eu

    If you would like to attend the event, please register before December 5th using the following registration form https://goo.gl/forms/NqOkPPmcxQQ4B3Lz2

    Event type: 
    Other

  • Big Data Value PPP Infoday

    Event date: 
    Friday, 2 December, 2016
    Place: 
    Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación (CPI). Universitat Politécnica de Valencia. Valencia. Spain

    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:

       
    • ICT-14: Big Data PPP: Cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation
    • ICT-15: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot actions in sectors best benefitting from data-driven innovation
    • ICT-16: Big Data PPP: research addressing main technology challenges of the data economy
    • ICT-17 b: Big data PPP: Support, Industrial Skills, Benchmarking and evaluation

    There will be the opportunity to present your ideas and brokerage with other people. 


    The event will be for free but requires registration HERE

    If you want to present your idea, make your reservation in summit@core.bdva.eu
    Event type: 
    BDVA

  • BDVA Valencia Summit 2016

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 29 November, 2016 to Friday, 2 December, 2016
    Place: 
    Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación (CPI). Universitat Politécnica de Valencia
    Event type: 
    BDVA

  • Chief Data Scientist Forum USA 2016

    Event date: 
    Wednesday, 16 November, 2016 to Thursday, 17 November, 2016
    Place: 
    Hilton San Francisco Financial District

    The inaugural Chief Data Scientist Forum launches November 16th-17th 2016 at the Hilton, Financial District, San Francisco and will be the premier event for high-level data science practitioners, containing essential content and new ideas to develop the leadership role for data science.

    Attendees can also network and discuss their work utilizing data in an exploratory, scientifically rigorous manner to meet strategic and tactical organizational goals. 


    Confirmed speakers include:
    • Ashok Srivastava, Chief Data Scientist, Verizon
    • Yael Garten, Director of Data Science, LinkedIn
    • Esteban Arcaute, Senior Director, Head of Data Science, WalmartLabs
    • Rahul Todkar, Vice President, Enterprise Data Science, Charles Schwab
    • Chul Lee, Head of Data Engineering & Science - Connected Fitness, Under Armour

    Programme highlights: 
    • Winning the Talent War - Attracting and Retaining Top Data Scientists in a Hyper-Competitive Market: Understanding their motivations and discovering the key to ensuring your organizations’ data science projects excite your team
    • The IT Implications of a Data Science Approach Identifying a balance between proprietary software and open source tools plus measuring impact of the shift from highly curated data to ‘data in the wild’ 
    • Democratizing Data Science: Empowering non-technical analysts to use data science tools and make better informed judgements which lead to a greater data-driven culture 
    • Securing Buy In at the Highest Level to ensure that data science is trusted throughout the organization by delivering business value 
    • The Data Scientist as a Partner in Success - Building Positive Relations with Internal Stakeholders how can we convince other teams to work constructively with data science? 


    Website: http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com 
    View the latest agenda: http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/agenda 
    Delegate registration: http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/register 


    BDVA members are entitled to a 10% discount on delegate registration. Please quote the code BDVA10 when registering
    Event type: 
    Other

  • BDIC - Big Data Innovation Conference

    Event date: 
    Wednesday, 16 November, 2016 to Thursday, 17 November, 2016
    Place: 
    Park Inn by Radisson Hotel, Frankfurt

     


    Big Data Innovation Conference (BDIC) 2016 will help your business understand & utilize data-driven strategies and discover what disciplines will change because of the advent of data. With a vast amount of data now available, modern businesses are faced with many challenges. But with the challenges comes opportunity. 


    At this conference, our keynote speakers will provide valuable insights, providing the attendees a learning opportunity to help you create new insight, help in how to use enormous data collected from different business channels and use this valuable information to develop business & drive growth. 

    10% discount will be given to BDVA members.
    Event type: 
    Other

  • Big Data Integration, Exploration and Analytics in Environmental Sciences - Open PEER scientific seminar

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 3 November, 2016 to Friday, 4 November, 2016
    Place: 
    Institut Français de Munich, Kaulbachstr.13, 80539 München

    PEER scientific interdisciplinary seminar on Big Data Integration and Analytics, brings together PEER centers researchers and practitioners from different disciplines as well as high level experts from other domains working on data science, data integration, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.

    The Seminar addresses

    • Big Data integration techniques
    • Big Data analytics techniques that allow users to (interactively) explore their data
    • Strategy Planning on combining efforts and expertise in PEER with respect to Big Data

    The seminar is framed by high level experts and Key Note Speakers from industry, business ventures and insurance companies.

    More information in: Event website

    Event type: 
    Other

  • i-KNOW conference 2016

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 18 October, 2016 to Wednesday, 19 October, 2016
    Place: 
    Graz, Austria

    i-KNOW 2016 aims at advancing research at the intersection of disciplines such as Knowledge Discovery, Semantics, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Social (Semantic) and Ubiquitous Computing.
    This years Conference Theme will be focusing on Cognitive Computing and Data-Driven Business. In our understanding they represent the technological and business-oriented perspectives on the same phenomenon.

    More details can be found at http://i-know.tugraz.at/

    Event type: 
    Other

  • 2nd Workshop on Big Data in Secure Societies

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 18 October, 2016

    The European Union Satellite Centre is pleased to invite you to the 2nd Workshop on Big Data in Secure Societies, which will be held the 18th of October 2016 in Brussels.

    The workshop is the second of a scheduled series within the BigDataEurope project for the H2020 Societal Challenge “Secure Societies”; it will address a wide audience comprising key stakeholders, data users and service providers from a variety of domains in Secure Societies such as Space & Security and Cybersecurity.

    By dedicated interactive sessions on specific topics, the workshop aims to: go into current and future Big Data needs and challenges in Secure Societies; contribute to the building of a community sharing Big Data requirements and strategies; discuss real user scenarios and use cases; present and have feedback on the BigDataEurope pilot for Secure Societies currently under implementation (dealing with the integration of remote and social sensing data for change detection); offer the opportunity to participate in the BigDataEurope project and in the Big Data platform development.​

    Event type: 
    Other

  • Data Insight Leaders Summit

    Event date: 
    Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 to Thursday, 13 October, 2016
    Place: 
    Novotel Barcelona City, Barcelona


    Data Insight Leaders Summit is 2 value packed days outside of the office aimed at tackling those latest and greatest hidden opportunities in data analysis.

    With the most senior speaker faculty of strictly Head’s of Data Science, Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence, we’re ensuring you get what you need from them sharing their first-hand experience on the do's and don'ts to successfully fast-track the right data experiments into actionable intelligence!

    Speakers already confirmed from the likes of Barclays, Ericsson, Bupa, P&G PLUS so many more of the biggest companies across Europe!

    Only here will you rub shoulders with those in your shoes, heads of data insight divisions from Europe's most progressive companies, sharing their first-hand experience on the do's and don'ts to successfully fast-track the right data experiments into actionable intelligence.

    If you're serious about building a world class data insight function, then you don't want to miss this opportunity to benchmark your people, processes and technology with those leading the way.

    Download the latest agenda to see just how much benefit you’ll get by being there too: http://wbresear.ch/dilsbdvaeva

    BDVA members will have a 15% discount using the CODE sent by e-mail.

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • 1st Smart Data Innovation Conference (SDIC)

    Event date: 
    Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 to Thursday, 13 October, 2016
    Place: 
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Campus North, Building 449)



    The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and industrial big data applications.

    The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) offers Big Data Researchers unique access to a large variety of big data and in-memory technologies. Industry and science collaborate closely to find hidden value in big data and generate smart data. Furthermore, related Projects focus on the strategic research areas of Industry 4.0, Energy, Smart Cities and personalized Medicine. In order to close today’s gap between academic research and industry problems using a data-driven innovation cycle, the SDIL provides extensive support to all collaborative research projects free of charge.

    Within the first conference on Smart Data Innovation the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) and its Data Innovation Communities will present their work and provide a hands-on experience of the SDIL Platform.

    You can find more information about the event here and you can download the programme here.

    Registration is free.

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • Smart Data Annual Conference

    Event date: 
    Monday, 10 October, 2016

    The capacity and capability to process big data and convert them to smart data generate tremendous potential for creating value. It is as fact that big data can trigger new innovative business models and products. At the same time, the smart processing of data creates vast opportunities for innovation and growth, while raising questions that need to be addressed, such as how can vast data amounts be processed efficiently and effectively, how relevant data processing procedures conform to prevailing legal norms, how can data classified as sensitive best be processed, when is it imperative to anonymize personal data etc.

    At this year´s Smart Data Conference we will address a wide range of data aspects related to technology, economy and to the legal system in terms of sensitive data protection and security solutions.

    You can find detailed information about the invitation, the programme and the access to the Conference Center here.

    You can complete your registration here.

    If you would like to receive more information about the event, you can send an email here.

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • IODC16 - International Open Data Conference 2016

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 6 October, 2016 to Friday, 7 October, 2016
    Place: 
    Madrid

    IODC is the essential meeting point for the global community to debate and study the future of open data.

    IODC aims to build stronger relationships between open data initiatives from the different governments and establish a dialogue between these voices:

    Policy makers and Public Sector Information (PSI) holders
    Private companies, startups and freelancers
    Activists and NGO’s
    Data journalism
    Representatives of civil society from all over the world.
    The differentiating nature of the event is that it gathers countries from the northern and southern hemispheres to define tendencies and establish global policies of collaboration, with the objective of stimulating the progress of open data globally.

    Titled “Global goals, local impact” the fourth IODC will reconvene our expanding community to showcase successes, confront shared challenges, and help us ensure that our vision and our diverse initiatives continue to coordinate effectively.

    Find more details at http://opendatacon.org/

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • Big Data Congress

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 4 October, 2016 to Wednesday, 5 October, 2016
    Place: 
    Barcelona

    Big Data Congress 2nd edition, will be held in Barcelona on the 4th and 5th of October 2016.

    It is the leading conference on Big Data in Catalonia, and the place to meet trends and discover the state of the art of Big Data technology, to share experiences and to create a networking environment among attendees. It is an event to talk and discuss about:
    Big Data Innovation, the adoption process to became a Data-Driven Organization, about Advanced Analytics & Visualization, the latest products, and the state of art in different areas.

    The Big Data congress has the aim of promoting the data-driven culture, to bring together entrepreneurs, suppliers and companies who are interested in developing projects in the field of Big Data, to create synergies and business opportunities between Big Data supply and demand, to promote the definition of technological innovative solutions and to create a reference place of knowledge in Big Data.

    It is the mandatory meeting point of professionals, suppliers and companies who are interested in developing projects in the field of Big Data.

    Considering the target audiences and to respond to all interests, in this 2nd edition of the Big Data Congress, you will find 2 main themes:

    4th of October -Demand: Innovative and successful use cases will be presented, and will be discussed how to become a data driven organization and which are the required steps for its adoption.
    5th of October -Technology: Guided sessions oriented to examine some use cases in data analytics, the latest products, and the state of art of Big Data. As well, it will be celebrated the 2nd edition of Big Data Talent Awards.

    Big Data Congress opened a Call aimed for companies, start-ups, research centers and universities, consortiums (public and private) and public and private organizations that have developed innovative solutions in the area of Big Data or have incorporated successfully, some of these solutions.
    It will be open up to 19 July.

    For further information about the congress or the call: http://bigdatacongress.barcelona/en/

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

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