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  • Digital Day

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 23 March, 2017
    Place: 
    Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, via del Corso 305, 00186 Rome (IT)

    https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-day

    Digital Day, the digital part of the official celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, will take place in Rome, on 23 March 2017. The event is organised by the European Commission and the Republic of Italy, in collaboration with the Maltese Presidency of the European Union and will look at topics that impact the near and long term future of EU citizens.

    The Digital Day will explore the exponentially increasing role of what digital means for Europeans. The event will reinforce cooperation between public and private stakeholders in the field to improve the daily lives of Europeans and strengthen our economy. It will focus on how the European Union can make the most of digital innovations across society and the economy.

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • EIT Digital Conference 2017

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 21 March, 2017
    Place: 
    Brussels, Belgium


    On March 21, 2017, EIT Digital will host its second annual Conference showcasing EIT Digital's achievements, and how we are taking a leading role in shaping digitisation in Europe. The conference will be held in the EGG in Brussels.
    The 2017 conference programme gives the floor to leading government and industry experts as well as entrepreneurs, bringing their experience with disruptive digital innovation. There will be the opportunity to join seminars and discussions on challenges and solutions for the digital economy. We will also showcase disruptive digital innovations that EIT Digital is bringing to the market in an exposition. 

    For more information visit www.eitdigital.eu/conference

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • BIG DATA WORLD

    Event date: 
    Wednesday, 15 March, 2017 to Thursday, 16 March, 2017
    Place: 
    ExCeL London, UK

    Big Data World is an interpretive and practical ‘how to’ event, with content designed to help data and business professionals, including CDOs, Data Analysts, Scientists and Officers (plus key LOB decision makers and influencers) shape big data strategies.

    The world-leading conference will offer insight, best practices, ideas and techniques that you can take back to your office and use across your own Big Data projects. Hear from world-class speakers from Microsoft/ Skype, Google, Booz Allan Hamlinton, Royal Mail, eBay, GSK and Captial One, Essex County Council, First Utility and many more!

    The exhibition floor will allow you to source the latest products and solutions from a record 500 cutting-edge suppliers.

    Register now for your ticket to attend the UK's most anticipated Big Data driven event for a data driven world: Big Data World 2017.

    If you are a business data or technology professional or a BDVA member you can register here today for FREE!

    For more information about Big Data World, visit the website www.bigdataworld.com

    Event type: 
    Other

  • FIWARE Open Day

    Event date: 
    Tuesday, 7 March, 2017
    Place: 
    Brussels, Belgium

    The European Commission in partnership with the FIWARE Foundation is organising an Open Day that will be held in Brussels on the 7th of March 2017 at the European Commission Charlemagne building.
    The half-day event will mark the beginning of the go-to-market for FIWARE and will be a good opportunity to debate with key stakeholders about the future of the FIWARE ecosystem. With the Future Internet PPP completing its 5-year unique journey, it is now the FIWARE Open Source Foundation in Berlin, which will drive open platform technology in its three priority business sectors, i.e. Industry 4.0, Agri-Food and Smart Cities. The Open Day will also explore the opportunities of open, standardised APIs for the development of the Digital Single Market.

    For more information and registration please visit the event website http://www.fiwareopenday.com/ and don't forget to share with your colleagues and stakeholders who might be interested in this event.
    Follow the event on Twitter @FIware

    Event type: 
    Other

  • Big Data Paris 2017

    Event date: 
    Monday, 6 March, 2017 to Tuesday, 7 March, 2017
    Place: 
    LE PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE PARIS

    In the context of a growing maturity of companies on Big Data, the question of deploying an agile organization that will place data at the heart of the decision-making process is more than ever.
    In addition, the rise of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence combined with Big Data offers unprecedented opportunities to develop applications in various domains: fraud detection, customer experience revolution, predictive ...

    More information about the event here: https://www.bigdataparis.com

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • Big Data PPP in Horizon 2020

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 2 March, 2017
    Place: 
    Research Council of Norway

    How can trade and industry and R&D groups collaborate on common Big Data projects? This seminar will provide information about upcoming funding announcements as well as relevant initiatives in the field.

    In close cooperation with R&D groups and the European Commission, European industry has entered into a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement regarding Big Data Value. The objective is to provide substantial funding for research and innovation projects to strengthen European competitiveness and to make the data-driven economy a reality.

    The Research Council of Norway and SINTEF (full member of the BDVA, and member of Board of Directors) are hosting a seminar on the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership under Horizon 2020. The seminar will introduce selected projects that have been recommended for funding and provides the opportunity to meet some of the key actors in the area. Information about upcoming funding announcements and relevant initiatives in the field in Norway and abroad will be presented

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • Chief Data Officer Europe

    Event date: 
    Monday, 20 February, 2017 to Thursday, 23 February, 2017
    Place: 
    London, UK

    Topics of the conference include challenges and opportunities for beginning and mature organisations, leveraging big data to drive innovation, managing data talent and one full focus day of discussing implications of GDPR for businesses. Discover the event agenda and speakers >>

    Secure your place now to benefit from discounted rates! Book on coriniumintelligence.com/chiefdataofficerseurope/register. 

    Find more information here: www.coriniumintelligence.com/chiefdataofficerseurope


    Event type: 
    Other

  • Big Data Summit

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 16 February, 2017
    Place: 
    Congress Park Hanau Schlossplatz 1 63450 Hanau

    Businesses are changing more and more quickly to take advantage of the opportunities of digitizing business processes and markets. Big data technologies form the core of digital transformation. The data science is going to mature the process from the artisan to the industrialization.

    The Big Data Summit has been the annual meeting of data management decision makers since 2013. Over 650 users of advanced big-data solutions, policy-makers, technology providers, strategy and innovation consultants, as well as academics are being brought together.

    More information here: https://www.bitkom-bigdata.de

    BDVA will be represented in this event by its German Antenna: Michael Beigl from KIT

    Event type: 
    External (BDVA Participates)

  • BYTE FINAL CONFERENCE

    Event date: 
    Thursday, 9 February, 2017
    Place: 
    Amba Hotel, Marble Arch, Central London (http://www.amba-hotel.com/hotels/united_kingdom/london/marb

    BYTE will be hosting our project final conference on Capturing the benefits of big data and addressing legal, ethical and social challenges. The conference will include policy-makers, large industry, academics, civil society organisations, SMEs and legal experts, and it will focus on three priority areas for big data practice in Europe:

    •         smart cities,

    •         healthcare, and

    •         environmental data

    The event will showcase BYTE findings and feature presentations by experts in genomics, urban transportation, geo-spatial data, open data and linked data. 


    Participation is free and open to anyone! Please register here.


    The draft programme will be available here shortly.


    A limited number of travel bursaries are available for the event. If you wish to apply for a bursary, please contact rachel.finn@trilateralresearch.com.


    BYTE is forward to welcoming you in London on the 9th February!

    Event type: 
    Other

  • 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
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    Other

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