Data Week 2025 report

Discover the Data Week 2025 report, as our event set the tone for high-impact discussions on how data and AI are transforming Europe’s digital landscape. Bringing together leaders from industry, academia and policy, we explored the foundational elements needed to unlock data value and accelerate innovation, emphasising ecosystem focus, cross-sector collaboration and strategic alignment with European priorities.

Organised by BDVA, Data Week 2025 centered its focus on the fundamental elements of Data Value creation. And as artificial intelligence (AI) serves as a pivotal tool in unlocking data value through various means, this is why our event`s theme is “Odyssey of AI: Navigating the Data Seas”. Creating value from data also requires viewing it from an ecosystem perspective and fostering collaboration among multiple stakeholders, which lays the groundwork needed for research excellence, required to be rapidly put into action for competitiveness and societal benefit.

This year, Data Week was a 2-day physical event that took place in Athens, Greece from 27-28 May. The event was organised by the Big Data Value Association, hosted by COSMOTE TELEKOM, in collaboration with the following BDVA members: Athens Technology Center S.A. (ATC), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), CORE Innovation Center, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications – National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, FORTH and Neuropublic.

BDVA has partnered with the International Manufacturing-X for Data Week 2025, which brought our two communities together! One day prior to our event, on 26 May (Monday), an invitation-only workshop of International Manufacturing-X took place at the same venue location, the OTE Academy.