BDVA activity group meeting. 20th edition. Focus on SRIA4.0 update. BDVA members can found details on the BDVA intranet
June 20th: Pre-workshops
June 21st: General Assembly and workshops
June 22nd: Workshops
The new biennial conference series on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. With the advent of the Web and digital technologies, an ever increasing amount of language data is now available across application areas and industry sectors, including social media, digital archives, company records, etc. The efficient and meaningful exploitation of this data in scientific and commercial innovation is at the core of data science research, employing NLP and machine learning methods as well as semantic technologies based on knowledge graphs.
See more information here: http://ldk2017.org
Forum organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) as part of the 5th Annual International Conference on Industrial, Systems and Design Engineering. You are welcome to submit a proposal for a presentation by email to atiner@atiner.com before 20 February 2017. The registration fee is 540 euro and includes accommodation during the days of the conference, participation to all sessions of the conference, breakfasts, two lunches and all taxes. The language of the conference is English for both presentations and discussions. Abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and it should include names and contact details of all authors. All abstracts are blind reviewed according to ATINER’s standards and policies. Acceptance decisions are sent within four weeks following submission. Papers should be submitted one month before the conference only if the paper is to be considered for publication at ATINER’s series. Please, check www.atiner.gr/inddat for further information.
The “Trans-Atlantic Symposium on ICT Technology and Policy – 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems for a Smart Society” will be held in Minneapolis, June 19-20, 2017. The event is organized by the PICASSO project and hosted by the Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota. Symposium sponsors include the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Commission, IEEE Control Systems Society, and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.
The event will comprise a combination of keynote lectures and plenary and parallel sessions, animated by a wide range of high-level technical and policy experts from the EU and US. The speakers and panelists include leaders from industry, academia, government agencies (including NSF, NIST, and the European Commission) and leading national and international private-public initiatives. By participating in the symposium you can expect to gain insight into the latest developments and trends in key information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as customer needs in smart-society sectors, ICT policy issues, and EU-US collaboration and funding opportunities.
Online registration is mandatory for all attendees and can be completed here. For more information (agenda, speaker list, hotel and travel information, etc.), check out the related website.
Some travel grants for US graduate students thanks to NSF are still available. More information here
The Digital Assembly 2017 will take place on 15 and 16 June in Valletta, Malta. It is an event co-organised by the European Commission and the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Further details: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-assembly-2017-vall...
Public and private organizations are entering into the digital world where real time data is available about their operations and operating environments, third-party services offered to increase their performance, and changes in the demands of their customers. Such abundance of data offers new opportunities but also raises new challenges for information systems. The systems have to exploit these data to help (networked-) organizations to decide and conduct appropriate business transformations that are necessary to guarantee their survival in an ever changing world.
The digitalization of the world, the availability of data in real-time and the increasing connections of things, IT-systems, and organizations have significantly increased the role of information systems in the organizations during the last decades. Historically, enabled by databases and file systems technologies supporting data storage and retrieval facilities, information systems have proven instrumental in supporting management issues associated with the optimization and partial automation of processes and document flows in more efficient organizations.
With the internet and web technologies, enhancing the quality of the information, information systems are increasingly regarded as a centre of profit rather than a centre of costs. The transformation of data into information intensive services creating new customer/client value has led organizations to reshape their business value proposition. Architecture of information systems has evolved to enable increasingly interconnected service systems.
More information here: http://caise2017.paluno.de/welcome/
With this workshop, the Commission intends to discuss the current state of data-sharing in B2B contexts. Representatives of companies already engaging in data-sharing with a wider ecosystem of partners and making data available, e.g. through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or within Industrial Data Spaces, will share their experiences in this workshop. Specific challenges of data sharing through APIs will be deepened.
More info: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/workshop-data-access-...
The Next Generation Internet Summit will be held on June 6th and 7th 2017 in Brussels at the European Parliament.
The Next Generation Internet Summit intends to support the European Commission to build a strategy together with leading policy makers, renewed innovators, researchers and citizens to foster the development of the internet, as a powerful, open, data-driven, user-centric, interoperable platform ecosystem, for the benefit of citizens and companies.
Further information and registration: http://www.ngi-summit.org/
The 7th edition of the international IoT Week will be held from June 6 to 9 2017 in Geneva. with over 200 sessions and activities to access the latest developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain: emerging technologies, security and privacy, sustainable development, industry and market evolution.
BDVA and BDV cPPP contributes with speakers in several sessions in particular addressing challenges of the Big Data - IoT integration
Organised by the European Commission, this workshop represents an opportunity for data intensive industry sectors to have their say and provide their input on the challenges they face when trying to access and re-use data. This workshop is held in the framework of the structured dialogue, and aims, in particular, at discussing the following:
- Preliminary findings, including on access and re-use of data, of the study "Impact Assessment support study on emerging issues of data ownership, interoperability, (re)usability and access to data, and liability";
- Examples of data use in different sectors;
- Access to data in the business to business context ;
- If and how data is shared within the same value chain;
- Obstacles to data access and re-use, including legal and contractual barriers
- Are data access issues sector-specific or are there commonalities across different sectors.
More info: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/workshop-transformati...
This full-day event will allow interested parties to learn more about the BD Hubs and Spokes, especially how to become involved in their activities. During the opening panel, the executive directors for each BD Hub will introduce the activities and opportunities for their region. The main attraction of the workshop will consist of presentations from select BD Spoke and planning grant investigators, which will highlight the current research related activities facilitated by the BD Hubs.
More info: https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bdspokes/index.jsp
NIST will host its 2nd NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) workshop for NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework (NBDIF) with the theme of Towards a Standard Ecosystem for Big Data Applications and Analytics on June 1-2, 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The NBD-PWG was established together with the industry, academia and government to create a consensus-based extensible NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework (NBDIF) which is a vendor-neutral, technology- and infrastructure-independent ecosystem. It can enable Big Data stakeholders (e.g. data scientists, researchers, etc.) to utilize the best available analytics tools to process and derive knowledge through the use of standard interfaces between swappable architectural components.
More info: https://bigdatawg.nist.gov/
The Watify initiative is an awareness-raising campaign, supported by the European Commission, to boost the technological transformation and industrial modernisation of Europe’s industry. Watify is organising matchmaking activities on Big data as part of the Digital Business World Congress in Madrid.
"Generating value from Big data" is a challenge for many companies – but if accomplished the business opportunities are enormous. Bilateral meetings between different actors could help to foster the much needed cooperation to find solutions to this challenge, combined with multilateral working group meetings to take into account the unique circumstances per industry sector. The working groups are:
- Big data and healthcare
- Big data and manufacturing
- Big data and retail
- Big data and tourism
- Big data and finance
Watify is offering a free 3-day business pass to the Digital Business World Congress (www.des-madrid.com) after they register for Watify matchmaking event.
More info: https://watify-madrid.b2match.io/
The South Big Data Innovation Hub invites you to our mHealth Workshop, a chance for researchers, industry leaders, and medical professionals to discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve access to mobile healthcare to people across the South. The workshop will provide immediate value to the individual participants as well as interim benefits in shaping a comprehensive data-focused research agenda for mHealth Internet of Things (IoT).
To request to attend the invitation-only event, email: sdavis@renci.org.
More info: https://southbdhub.wordpress.com/programs/mhealth-workshop/
This European HPC ecosystem event offers a wide variety of workshops covering a number of application areas where supercomputers are key, as well as HPC technologies and infrastructures. This second edition will include HPC workshops covering a range of application areas including renewable energies, oil & gas, biomedicine, big data, mathematics, climate modelling, computing applications, as well as HPC future technologies. It will be a great opportunity to network with all relevant European HPC stakeholders, from technology suppliers and HPC infrastructures to HPC scientific and industrial users in Europe
More information: https://exdci.eu/newsroom/press-releases/european-hpc-summit-week-2017-b...
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The second edition of Corinium’s Chief Analytics Officer Spring takes place from May 2-4 2017 in Scottsdale, Arizona and will explore why now is the time, more than ever, you as an analytics leader need to prove the return on investment in analytics tech for your organization.
This conference is not just for Chief Analytics Officers: it may be led by CAO’S but all top level Analytics, Data, Data Science, Business Intelligence specialists cross-industry are welcome, allowing you to meet and network with the very best of your peers from a range of organizations and backgrounds.
Explore strategies and approaches for deriving real actionable insights utilizing analytics through tangible real-world case studies and topic highlights including:
- The Chief Analytics Officer as the driver of insights within your organization: Where are you in the analytics curve – where are the opportunities to grow and how do you prove real ROI?
- Moving organizations towards analytical capability: How can you best prepare your business, departments and teams for analytical involvement and enable seamless integration and acceptance for your analytics function internally?
- Creating an architecture for analytics: Discussing what is needed in this new world of analytics, with ever growing data sets, fringe data, upgraded tools and processes and security threats. How do you build the right architecture to handle this whilst remaining agile and adaptive?
- Data philanthropy – the future of corporate social responsibility: How private sector companies can help make real progress on big world problems the refugee crisis to world hunger by donating untapped data and decision scientists. What are the business gains through bringing together new data sources?
- Liberating your data! Putting data and analytics into the hands of the internal consumer: How can we empower and educate the non-quantitatively informed, to use analytical tools and make better informed judgments so data is in the right form, in the right place at the right time.
Confirmed speakers include:
• Eric Daly, VP, Data Science and Analytics, Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Vishwa Kolla, VP, Head of Advanced Analytics, John Hancock Insurance
• John Hershberger, VP, Enterprise Analytics Office, USAA
• Harsh Tiwari, Senior Vice President, Chief Data Officer, CUNA Mutual Group
• Dany De Grave, Senior Director InnX: Innovation Programs and External Networks, Sanofi Pasteur
• Ash Dhupar, Chief Analytics Officer, Publishers Clearing House
• Melanie Shipek, Director of Decision Support, Sanford Health
• Ron Mardenly, VP of Global Insights and Strategy, Staples
• Dr. Amy Gershkoff , Chief Data Officer, Zynga
• Zachery Anderson VP, Marketing Science & Analytics, Electronic Arts
• Daniel Caraviello, Associate R&D Director – Analytics, Dow Agrosciences
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Systematic Paris-Region and the Groupe thématique Confiance Numérique et Sécurité launches its "CyGal CyberSecurity Meetings Cycle" with a first "Safety and Resilience for the Connected Vehicle" meeting on April 26th at Square Paris, in partnership with the Transport and Mobility GTs and Information Systems for Digital Transformation.
More information: http://systematic-paris-region.org/fr/evenements/cygal-securit-et-resili...
Internet of Things (IoT) is a platform and a phenomenon that allows everything to process information, communicate data, analyze context collaboratively and in the service or individuals, organizations and businesses. In the process of doing so, a large amount of data with different formats and content has to be processed efficiently, quickly and intelligently through advanced algorithms, techniques, models and tools. This new paradigm is enabled by the maturity of several different technologies, including the internet, wireless communication, cloud computing, sensors, big data analytics and machine learning algorithms.
More information here: http://iotbds.org/Home.aspx
Southern Data Science conference is a one day event where data science pioneers nationwide will come to Atlanta to share their most recent research and development in the data science field. It's an event organized by southern data scientists for the southern data science community.
More info: http://www.southerndatascience.com/
