The BYTE project is exploring scientific and industrial organizations in Europe to gain a greater understanding of the positive and negative externalities associated with Big Data. This month the BYTE project will host a worksop on “Exploring the Positive and Negative Impacts of Big Data Across Sectors”. In this workshop the results of this research will be presented including:

- A series of case studies and focus groups on Big Data in various sectors such Smart cities (Siemens) and Energy (Statoil).

- The results of a horizontal analysis to identify the positive and negative impacts, practices, barriers or outcomes of Big Data projects that are shared across different case study sectors

- Evaluation of societal impacts as evidenced within the different disciplines using the case studies and the horizontal analysis as a backdrop

The workshop will be held in Dublin, Ireland on 14 October 2014 from 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM at the following venue:

NDRC, The Digital Exchange,
Dublin 8, Ireland

More information: http://byte-project.eu/byte-workshops/

The goal of the event is to socialize the activities carried out in the area of Privacy, Security & Trust by the EIT Digital and promote the Data Economy, which is of ever-increasing importance in the era of digitalisation and pervasive usage of computing machines and smart devices in the cyberspace, for business, public administration and customers. Indeed, a growing availability of appropriately leveraged open data is bringing us into the Data Economy, a fil rouge for all the EIT Digital activities.

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/the-data-economy-in-privacy-security-trust-r...

Unleashing data-driven marketing in Europe and answer these three questions:

What are the innovation trends that marketers need to be aware of?

What are the remaining barriers or challenges to becoming a data-driven European economy?

How to reach the right balance between Big Data and privacy?

The goal of this event is to showcase the activities we carry out in the area of Urban Life and Mobility at EIT Digital and promote the Data Economy in a sustainable world

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/the-data-economy-in-urban-life-and-mobility-...

Talk Title: Research workshop "supported" by the BDVA and used as platform for disseminating the BDVA SRIA

Audience Type: Research, Industry

Speaker: Andreas Metzger (Paluno)

Contact url: https://sse.uni-due.de/bigdse15/

Start: 20/05/2015 10:00 am CET
End: 20/05/2015 5.00 pm CET