TRUSTS

IDSA Summit 2021
2021-06-22 - 2021-06-23 | online
IDSA looks back on five years of paving the way for secure and sovereign data spaces.
IDSA has defined a reference architecture and a formal standard for creating cross-border and cross-domain data spaces. The recently published IDSA Rule Book outlines a governance framework with functional, technical, operational and legal agreements to run data spaces. IDS Connectors for connecting participants and enabling business transactions in data spaces are available. For components and participants certification is possible, an essential key to trust in a data ecosystem.
Pillars for data spaces to become reality. Let’s build them together!
Soon, IDSA will publish the preliminary agenda for the IDSA Summit.
Save the date: hopin.com/events/idsa-summit-2021

Austrian Data Day 2021
2021-06-17 | online
We need to talk more about data-driven technologies and the use of data.
Therefore, the Austrian Data Day will take place for the first time this year. It will be organized by the Data Intelligence Offensive as part of Imagine 2021 on June 17, to focus on societal challenges of our time in the field of digital technologies.
Data is the key resource for business success. The volume of generated data is growing year by year, but is often not used for relevant decisions. The strong distribution and fragmentation of data, a lack of resources or simply a great respect for this important topic are just some of the reasons why data is not yet given the importance it deserves and also needs.
The Austrian Data Day – accompanying Imagine 2021 – aims to provide information as well as to show current developments and possibilities of cooperation. In a mix of workshops, inputs and working groups, challenges and possible solutions will be discussed.
What to expect
Workshops will be held on topics such as “Data Changes Education or Education Changes Data”, “Impact Innovation on Data”, “Data Sharing is Caring” and many more.
Viennese start-ups from the data economy sector will present themselves – initiated by the Vienna Business Agency – as part of the Austrian Data Day and act as testimonials for Vienna as a location for innovation.
The event will take place hybrid, i.e. all workshops, presentations, etc. will be broadcasted online.
Presentation language: German
More information

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Program and additional information

BDVA Data Week 2021
2021-05-25 - 2021-05-27 | online
From May 25 to May 27 the Data Week 2021 will take place online. The Data Week event continues the tradition of the Big Data Value Summit which took place in 2018 (Sophia), 2019 (Riga) and 2020 (online). The 2021 Data Week aims at bringing together the research and innovation community working on Big Data and Data Driven AI, promoting opportunities for this community to grow and strengthening the ties with the Portuguese ecosystem.
The event is co-organised by DAIRO/BDVA, and the EUHubs4Data project, in collaboration with the BDVA/DAIRO members of the Portuguese R&I ecosystem (DECSIS, valuedate.io and Ubiwhere).
Registration to the event will open in March.
More information

DATAcated Conference: Industry Focus
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-19 | online
Data has become a big game-changer in most, if not all, types of industries over the last few years. Join the DATAcated Conference: Industry to explore trends, case studies, tools, and challenges across six different industries.
DATAcated covers the areas banking, healthcare, energy, retail, sports, and transportation. Expert speakers will provide 10-min lightning talks and take questions from the live audience.

TRUSTS & Safe-DEED Webinar: Business Aspects of Data Markets
2021-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Data-driven solutions will radically transform today’s business models in the near future. With our three business-oriented use cases, we will test how we can adapt to current and future challenges.
Find out which impressions we have already gathered and join our webinar on 10 May (11am-12pm, CEST).
Ioannis Markopoulos, (Forthnet, TRUSTS & Safe-DEED) and Gianna Avgousti (EBOS & TRUSTS) will talk about the future of business with data markets, about their transformative potentials and how they could benefit businesses. Besides, they will present solutions from the TRUSTS business use cases.
There will be an open Q&A session afterwards.
Be part of the knowledge exchange!
When? 10 May (11am-12pm, CET)
Where? Online (Registration via GoTo Webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8229122568942961679)

About:
Safe-DEED
Safe Data-Enabled Economic Development brings together partners from cryptography, data science, business innovation, and legal domain to focus on improving security technologies, improving trust as well as on the diffusion of privacy enhancing technologies. Furthermore, as many companies have no data valuation process in place.
Safe-DEED provides a set of tools to facilitate the assessment of data value, thus incentivising data owners to make use of the scalable cryptographic protocols developed in Safe-DEED to create value for their companies and their clients.

4th Austrian Data Governance Conference
2021-04-22 09:00 - 2021-04-23 15:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
The Fourth Austrian Data Governance Conference will focus on the topics of Artificial Intelligence, the human factor in connection with Data Governance as well as useful tools and techniques for measuring the relevant key figures.
You would like to apply Data Governance or are already doing so and feel (still) alone with it? Come to the conference and become part of the community. The event is intended for those who – not yet – know what Data Governance is and how it works, as well as committed people who want to advance data governance in the enterprise and take the next step.
We are also celebrating 10 years of Open Data in Austria. Therefore, the conference of the Cooperation Open Government Data Germany-Austria-Switzerland-Liechtenstein (OGD D-A-CH-LI) will also take place as part of the Data Governance Conference.
The conference language is German.
Main topics

Business & benefits: the value of Data Governance
Measurement methodology and KPI, Data Governance in the company
Data Quality Management
Metadata management, architecture and consulting
Emotional Data Governance: Data Governance & the human factor
Intelligent data use by Business Intelligence, chatbots, Artificial Intelligence & Co.
Tools & Technology
Enterprise content management
Open Data benefits everyone

TRUSTS & Safe-DEED Webinar: Privacy Preservation in Data Markets
2021-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
When it comes to data sharing, privacy and the preservation of privacy are most future-relevant topics. To share challenges and outcomes, as well as to discuss most common issues and solutions, TRUSTS and Safe-DEED are co-hosting a webinar on 21 April (11am-12pm, CET).
Ioannis Markopoulos, (Forthnet, TRUSTS & Safe-DEED) and Alexandros Bampoulidis (RSA, TRUSTS & Safe-DEED) will talk about privacy risks, GDPR roles and also demonstrate the privacy risks. Lukas Helminger (KNOW Center, TRUSTS & Safe-DEED) shares insights and practical aspects from an end user perspective. If there are still unanswered questions afterwards, there will be an open Q&A session at the end of the event.
Be part of the knowledge exchange!

TRUSTS & Safe-DEED Webinar: „Privacy Preservation in Data Markets“
21 April (11am-12pm, CET), Online
Registration via GoTo Webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2666536013861358863

AGENDA:
11:00 Welcome I Nina Popanton, DIO / TRUSTS
11:05 Privacy Risks & GDPR Roles, Ioannis Markopoulos, Forthnet / TRUSTS & Safe-DEED & Alexandros Bampoulidis, RSA / TRUSTS & Safe-DEED
11:25 Trust by Design I Lukas Helminger, KNOW Center / TRUSTS & Safe-DEED
11:45 Open Q&A Session
11:55 Closing

TRUSTS & Safe-DEED webinar: Legal aspects of data sharing platforms.
2021-03-31 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Legal frameworks are an important topic when it comes to data sharing. To share challenges and discuss possible issues, TRUSTS and Safe-DEED are co-hosting a webinar on 31 March (11am-12pm, CET).

Alessandro Bruni (Safe-DEED, KU Leuven) will give an input about the public opinion view on data sharing. Lidia Dutkiewicz (TRUSTS, KU Leuven) shares legal constraints to data sharing afterwards and answers questions to sharing data in general, sharing sensitive data or data ownership. If there are still unanswered questions afterwards, there will be an open Q&A session at the end of the event.

AGENDA
11:00 Welcome I Nina Popanton, DIO – TRUSTS
11:10 Opportunities and challenges of data sharing (Interactive poll session) I Alessandro Bruni, KU Leuven – Safe-DEED
11:25 FAQ: Legal constraints of data sharing I Lidia Dutkiewicz, KU Leuven – TRUSTS
11:45 Open Q&A Session
11:55 Closing

IDS Live Session - Data Spaces Dialogue: Design Principles for European Data Spaces
2021-03-25 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Speakers: Thorsten Huelsmann, ISDA, and Dr. Oscar Lazaro, INNOVALIA
The European Data Strategy mentions nine key domains in which data spaces should be created. It describes the availability of large pools of data, the infrastructure to use and exchange data and appropriate governance mechanisms as key. This framework and the concept of data spaces is based on the groundwork done by the IDSA and its 120+ members from industry and research since its establishment in 2016.
IDSA aims at open, federated data ecosystems and marketplaces ensuring data sovereignty for the creator of the data. The sequel of IDSA LiveSessions called Data Spaces Dialogue should make clear that IDSA is the starting point on data spaces and has achieved a lot of relevant results to build future data ecosystems and the European data spaces proposed by the European Commission.
In the first sequel Dr. Reinhold Achatz, ThyssenKrupp, and Lars Nagel, IDSA, talked about data sovereignty and about the different achievements of IDS within the last years. A special emphasis was laid on explaining the concept of data sovereignty and its importance for businesses and future data ecosystems. n March 25, the discussion will be enriched by two remarkable perspectives from Spain.

IDS Q&A Workshop: How to Run an IDS Based Data Space
2021-03-18 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Speakers: Natalia Simon, Giulia Giussani and Christoph Mertens, IDSA.
IDSA has developed the key fundamentals for successfully running a data space, IDSA members have created amazing scenarios of what a data space can look like. In the Q&A Workshop, IDSA would like to discuss with you how to put the fundamentals together, how to turn the scenarios into real business models. And what steps to take to turn a scenario into a secure and sovereign data space.
They will discuss all this in the Q&A workshop “How to Run an IDS Based Data Space” on March 18 at 10 a.m. (CET).

Open Data Day 2021
2021-03-06
Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. Groups from around the world create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society.
All outputs are open for everyone to use and re-use.
If you have an idea for using open data, want to find an interesting project to contribute towards, learn about how to visualise or analyse data or simply want to see what’s happening, then come participate! Participation is a core value of Open Data Day, everyone is free to voice their opinions in a constructive manner. No matter your skill-set or interests, we are encouraging organisers to foster opportunities for you to learn and help the global open data community grow.

LIVE SESSION: IDSA Insight Talk - How IDS accelerates GAIA-X
2021-02-16 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
The EU project GAIA-X forms a distributed data infrastructure as the basis of secure data spaces for various application domains such as mobility, industry 4.0 and healthcare. The IDS reference architecture model specifies software components for sharing and exchanging data while preserving data sovereignty – providing the key for a sustainable and innovative data economy in Europe.
Professor Boris Otto, director at Fraunhofer ISST, Lars Nagel, CEO IDSA, and Sebastian Steinbuss, CTO IDSA, will discuss how IDS and GAIA-X can complement and strengthen their efforts in a live session.

Safer Internet Day
2021-02-09
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day will be celebrated with actions taking place right across the globe. With a theme once again of “Together for a better internet”, the day calls upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people.

Over the years, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. Starting as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in approximately 170 countries worldwide.
From cyberbullying to social networking to digital identity, each year Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of emerging online issues and current concerns.

Read on to find out more about practical ways in which you can get involved in the celebrations. Whether you are a young person, a parent or carer, a teacher or an educator, a policy maker, or whether you represent an organisation or industry, everyone has a role to play in creating and maintaining a better online world.
And, noting the global reach of the Safer Internet Day campaign, on this site you’ll also be able to discover more about the planned actions of European Safer Internet Centres, global Safer Internet Day Committees and a range of organisational and industry supporters.
Read more about the Safer Internet Day campaign

© Safer Internet Day

Operator business model options in a federated TRUSTS data ecosystem
2021-01-28 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Free webinar
Speakers: Andreas Huber (CEO, Governance One) and Bert Utermark (Partner, Trusted Data Analytics)
Moderator: Manuela Schlömmer (Data Intelligence Offensive)
Technical support: Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company)

© Marten Bjork on Unsplash

In the second webinar of our webinar series, the speakers will delve into the business aspect of TRUSTS.

Sophisticated data infrastructures and services are increasingly abundant and leave little space to quickly scale for those late to the table. Its dedicated focus on data sovereignty, federation and interoperability sets TRUSTS apart from other data market infrastructures. However, does it suffice for business sustainability? Andreas Huber and Bert Utermark of Governance One explore the options.

What will you learn in this webinar?

What is the TRUSTS project and what are its objectives?
How does TRUSTS support the European data strategy, common European data spaces and the wider economy?
Which business model options of the TRUSTS data platform exist?
How is sustainability guaranteed when it comes to business models?
What are the trade-offs?
What is the process for testing business model hypotheses within TRUSTS?
What are the next steps and how can you get involved?

We are looking forward to seeing you online.
Registration see link on the right.

Computer, Privacy & Data Protection Conference (CPDP) - online
2021-01-27 08:30 - 2021-01-29 19:00 (Europe/Vienna)
As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.
Following the measures taken by the authorities, CPDP decided that this January 27-29, CPDP2021 will go fully online.

Go to programme…

Webinar - Open Consultation Hour: 'Get to know IDSA'
2021-01-14 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
IDSA is a charitable, not-for-profit association working for the establishment of a global standard for data sharing to ensure data sovereignty. Together with its member organisations, its aim is to provide a sophisticated architecture to enable data-driven business ecosystems based on interoperability standards, certification processes and common data-usage policies.
The domains where IDS can be applied to are multiple, going from manufacturing and mobility, to healthcare and agriculture. No limit to the potential of IDS! You can shape your own ecosystem, be it on a corporate level or a multi-corporate level.

Are you interested in the benefits that IDS can bring to you?
Are you eager to exploit the IDS technology or do you want to know how you can offer your data services in the IDS-ecosystem?
Are you just curious about IDS and would you like to find out more about it?

Then join our Consultation Hour! We will tell you more about our association, the value of the IDS initiative and how you can contribute.
Main purpose of the session is to discuss the Data Spaces enabled by IDS and to answer your questions, so do not hesitate to share your thoughts! We are looking forward to it.

AI for Sustainable Development
2020-12-17 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Vienna)
Storytelling session aims at recognizing AI changemakers – enthusiasts who contribute to achieving one or more United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals with their AI solution
Panel discussion aims at discussing and identifying other potential areas where AI could bring benefit.
Organizers: AI Governance International & Circle of Sustainable Europe
Contact: Ana Chubinidze (AIGI) & Ramon Rahangmetan (CoSE)

Agenda:
19:00 – Welcome from the Organizers

Storytelling Session
19:05
Algorithm to Protect Supply Chains from Modern Slavery
Josh Jackson – Vice President, 6clicks

19:20
Project GMCNgine: Algorithm for Searching for Missing Kids around the World
Johnn Castro – Software Engineer, First Factory

19:35
…coming soon…
Lavina Ramkissoon – Board Director, r.ai; Founding Partner and Advisor, tutti.ai

19:50
Project MERON Method for Extremely Rapid Observation of Nutritional Status: Detecting Malnutrition in Children Using Facial Recognition
Ben Watkins – CEO and Director, Kimetrica

20:05
Chatbot for Public Services
Revaz Barbakadze – Assistant to Mayer, City Hall Rustavi Municipality

20:20 – Q&A for all Storytellers
20:30 – Break

20:40
Panel Discussion on AI’s Potentials to Help Reach Sustainable Development Goals with
Elina Viitaniemi – Joint United Nations Program on AIDS and HIV (UNAIDS), Innovation Advisor
David Jensen – United Nations Environment Program, Head of Programme Environmental Peacebuilding
Sasha Luccioni – Université de Montréal, Postdoctoral AI Researcher
Richard Foster-Fletcher – NeuralPath.io, Founder and CEO
Alberto Medina – United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Innovation Expert

21:10 – Q&A
21:25 – End of the Event, Invitation to the March Edition

Who is it for:

Machine Learning developers, data scientists
Computer Science and social science students
Practitioners working on SDGs
Anyone interested in using AI for Development

More information see here.

Views on IDS: 'TRUSTS in the financial industry – enabling data sovereignty beyond existing solutions'
2020-11-12 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
What does a data marketplace need to make participants feel safe when sharing personal and proprietary data? In one word: trust.
Experts from the TRUSTS project will present their efforts to set up a GDPR-compliant European Data Marketplace based on privacy, confidentiality and data sovereignty.
Alexandra Garatzogianni (L3S Research Center at Leibniz University Hannover), the coordinator of the project along with Gianna Avgousti (eBOS), Christos Roupas (Relational) and Benjamin Heitmann (Fraunhofer FIT) will introduce the goals of TRUSTS. The project aims to create a data sharing platform for personal and industrial use by interconnecting different user groups and providing generic functionalities for innovative applications and services.
The discussion will focus on how anti-money laundering works in TRUSTS and how the use of the IDS architecture will enable data sovereignty and data protection mechanisms. Finally, the panelists will approach the question of how the industry can take advantage of the project results.

The topics in a nutshell:
– TRUSTS use cases and the expertise within the project
– Anti-money laundering
– which mechanisms does TRUSTS apply, how does it work in the eBos environment
– Privacy, confidentiality, data sovereignty
– data protection aspects that are particularly important for the use cases
– Standardization – how data protection and data sovereignty mechanisms in TRUSTS are enabled through their anchoring in the IDS architecture
– View on business exploitation and sustainability

Register now!

European Big Data Value Forum 2020
2020-11-03 - 2020-11-05 | KOSMOS Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a, Berlin, 10243, Germany
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) is the flagship event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the European Commission (DG CNECT). EBDVF 2020 in Berlin aims to continue the success of previous editions where on average around 1000 participants – including industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policymakers coming from over 40 countries – took part.

The core of TRUSTS: Innovating European data markets through trust, security, and federation
2020-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Speakers: Peter A. Bruck, DIO / Natalia Simon and Silvia Castellvi, IDSA / Ioannis Markopoulos, Forthnet / Bert Utermark, G1 Governance One / Charlotte Ducuing, KU Leuven / Benjamin Heitmann, Fraunhofer FIT
Moderator: Martin Kaltenböck, SWC
Technical support: Thomas Thurner, SWC

This webinar is the start of our webinar series focusing on different aspects of the project.

Trust is a crucial precondition so that people feel secure and are willing to share their data to contribute to a pan-European data ecosystem in which European values like personal rights and GDPR are highly respected.
In this session you will learn more about the EU project TRUSTS within the H2020 programme and an Austrian perspective on it. You will be introduced to:

EU Data Strategy
A market study of data markets
Creating innovative data ecosystems with interconnected resources that can function harmoniously as a single transparent unit
Operator business model options in a federated TRUSTS data ecosystem
Legal and ethical pillars of TRUSTS
Technical foundation of TRUSTS to enable and maintain data sovereignty
Stakeholder engagement

Please register here.

Privacy-Preserving Analytics and Quantum Computing
2020-10-07 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Speaker: Andreas Trügler, Leader DDAI COMET Module

Privacy and data security are one of the main pillars of our economic and social system and are at the heart of the technical advantage of many companies in a competitive global environment. The foundation on which secure systems are build is cryptography and one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern cryptography is the ability to perform calculations on encrypted data.
This means although the true content of your data is never revealed and stays fully private you can still benefit from machine learning evaluations or remote calculations on a server. Data can be exchanged with customers or industry partners in a secure and privacy-preserving manner so that the actual content of your personal phone data or the actual details about your production methods remain private and fully secure.
In this session you will get an overview about cutting edge cryptographic methods and an introduction to the current state of the art of homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation and so called zero-knowledge proofs. Homomorphic encryption, one of the methods that allows computation on encrypted data, is also regarded as a quantum secure or post-quantum algorithm, since in contrast to conventional cryptographic methods there exists no quantum algorithm that can break its security.
In the second part of this session you will also learn about this fascinating new era of quantum computation, where the strange and astounding effects of quantum mechanics are used to solve problems with exponential speedup compared to classical computers. This means by entering the quantum world it is possible to create new machine learning algorithms that learn almost instantaneously or to solve optimization problems in seconds where a classical supercomputer would take ages. You will get an introduction and reality check on quantum computers and we will discuss how they work, where the current problems are and why they may change the world of data analytics completely.

Women in Data Science Vienna
2020-10-03 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Vienna) | BDO Austria, Am Belvedere 4, Vienna, 1100, Austria
The Vienna Data Science Group and Women in AI organise the first Women in Data Science Conference in Vienna – the one-day event that aims to inspire, connect and bring more diversity into the field of data science.
Anyone interested in data science, no matter what professional background or gender, is invited. The event is free.
Agenda

9:00 Breakfast and registration
10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
10:30 Julia Neidhardt, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vienna University of Technology
11:15 Coffee Break/ networking
11:30 Brigitte Lutz, Data Governance Coordinator, City of Vienna
12:15 Lunch break/ networking
13:15 Jillian Augustine, Data Scientist, Mondi Group
14:00 Coffee Break/ networking
14:15 Annalisa Cadonna, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vienna University of Economics and Business
15:00 Panel discussion – Data science career paths – what makes it an exciting career choice? Panelists: Amy Larson, Image Scientist and Technical Expert, International Atomic Energy Agency; Martina Paul, Director Software Operations, ITSV GmbH, Jelena Milosevic, Mondi Group; Regina Babo, Erste Bank
16:00 Aperitif Reception/ Networking

Privacy Preserving Technologies for Trusted Data Spaces
2020-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Our consortium member IDSA is on a mission to bring sovereignty and trust to data ecosystems while the Reference Architecture Model (IDS-RAM) is offering a framework to leverage more data in a trusted way.
But how could it be executed in highly constrained environments? What can the technology could offer when data cannot be moved or disclosed at all? What are the State-of-the-Art solutions that could meet the highest standards for the health sector or in the Industry when it comes to sensitive information?
Experts from the MUSKETEER project – “Machine learning to augment shared knowledge in federated privacy-preserving scenarios” – will present and discuss their efforts to bring more privacy preserving technologies to help this demand of trustworthiness in data sharing ecosystems.
MUSKETEER is developing an industrial data platform with scalable algorithms for federated and privacy-preserving machine learning techniques, detection and mitigation of adversarial attacks, and a rewarding model capable of fairly monetizing datasets according to the real data value.

TRUSTS in the financial industry - enabling data sovereignty beyond existing solutions
2020-09-29 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Vienna)
Views on IDS with Alexandra Garatzogianni, LUH | Christos Roupas, Relational | Benjamin Heitmann, Fraunhofer FIT | Gianna Avgousti, eBOS – organised by TRUSTS in cooperation with OpenDEI

Data Spaces Dialogue: Design Principles for European Data Spaces #2
2020-09-01 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
International Data Spaces (IDS) is not a blank sheet but a vivid and strong initiative which already proved that it is ready to take responsibility for implementing the European Data Strategy and helping to create the European Data Space. IDSA is offering to contribute knowledge and technology to the envisaged high impact project on European data spaces, to provide data infrastructure services to the operations of the nine European data spaces through its support organization, to provide advisory, knowledge and expertise to the European Data Act, and to provide a community of practice and a network of hubs and collaborations to support knowledge sharing and build up of required skills in the data economy across Europe and beyond European borders.
In doing so, the implementation of the European Data Strategy will benefit from an established network of expertise, data spaces knowledge embodied in a mature reference architecture model, and ready to use software artefacts. This will speed up “time to market” of the strategy implementation. IDSA looks back on five years of paving the way for a fair data economy in Europe and globally and is ready to go.
IDSA and Open DEI aim to define common design principles for the implementation of European Data Spaces. To this end, IDSA together with the OPEN DEI consortium have launched several activities – such as this webinar – aimed at digital transformation projects and the OPEN DEI community to collaborate in defining the data spaces’ design principles.

33rd Bled eConference: Enabling technology for a sustainable society
2020-06-29
The Bled eConference has been shaping electronic interactions since 1988. Implementation of novel information technologies leads enterprises and governments towards digital transformation. Digital transformation will not be successful, if sustainable aspect of human and social development will not be considered. The European Commission emphasises that in the future, competitiveness will be dependent on the ability to move towards sustainability, resource-efficiency and the ability to exploit the advantages of digital technologies.
In the context of digital society, implementation of digital technologies and novel solutions to achieve higher efficiency, effectiveness and competitive advantage is insufficient. Society calls for different economy models; more responsible, righteous and less exploitative. Digital technologies should be used to implement and design business models, which will be sensitive for sustainable development in all aspects – economic, environmental and social (triple bottom line).
The 33rd Bled eConference “Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Society” will take place online this year.

Role of Data Innovation Spaces and Data Driven Innovation Hubs in the European digital transformation
2020-06-24 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna)
The concept “Data Innovation Space” (BDVA i-Spaces) was first introduced in BDVA SRIA 2014, as a mechanism to foster data driven innovation in Europe at national and regional level. I-Spaces were conceived as environments for experimentation and innovation, bringing together not only technical aspects around data, but also advanced services that allow companies to test and exploit their data driven solutions and business models before going to the market.
During the past years, other instruments and concepts have arisen in Europe (Data Platforms, Competence Centers, Digital Innovation Hubs, …), most of them sharing with Data Innovation Spaces many aspects about how to bring data driven innovation closer to industry, and more specifically to small actors (SMEs, start-ups, …).
At the same time, the BDVA i-Spaces have evolved, aligning to some extent with some of these initiatives, widening their scope and fostering collaboration to exploit potential synergies. The last step on this roadmap is the future European federation of Data Driven Innovation Hubs, that will be created under the project EUHubs4Data (starting in September 2020) aimed at improving data driven innovation at regional level based on data sharing and federation of services at European scale.
During this workshop, we will discuss about the role that these Data Innovation Spaces (i-Spaces) will play in the new European landscape combining three different dimensions (DIHs and networks, European Common Data Spaces and Testing and Experimentation Facilities), and how EUHubs4Data project could act as a link between H2020 and the new Framework Programme in terms of data driven innovation.
Speakers:

Anne-Marie Sassen (EC DG CNECT A.2. Technology & Systems for Digitising Industry, Project Officer)
Kimmo Rossi (EC DG CNECT, G.1. Data Policy and innovation, Head of Research & Innovation)
Cécile Huet (EC DG CNECT, A.1. Robotics & AI, Deputy Head of Unit)
Reinhard Lafrenz (euRobotics, Secretary General, DIHNET & RODIN projects)
Daniel Sáez (ITI Strategic Intelligence & Technology Transfer Director , BDVA BoD, EUHubs4Data project)

Workshop:
The workshop will consist of an initial statement from each of the speakers (5-10 min), followed by a discussion panel based on the three mentioned dimensions of Data Innovation Spaces.

European Digital Innovation Hubs
European Common Data Spaces
Testing and Experimentation Facilities on AI

Online Plenary
2020-06-22 10:00 - 2020-06-23 18:00 (Europe/Vienna)
All TRUSTS consortium members meet physically in a plenary – across tasks and workpackages – every six months. The plenary in June will take place online due to the COVID-19-crisis.
This is an internal meeting.

Views on IDS: Industrial Marketplaces Based on Trust
2020-06-18 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Data marketplaces are discussed on many different levels and are in the focus of those who drive digitisation.
In order to get insights from different perspectives, the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) invited three representatives of data marketplaces: A H2020 research project, funded by the European Commission, called MARKET 4.0, another research project, which is funded by the German ministry for economic affairs and energy – BMWi, called KI Marktplatz, and Advaneo as representative of the manufacturing industry side whose data marketplace is already a product available at the market.
The guests will share their insights on latest challenges and opportunities of marketplaces for data and algorithms. The IDSA as host of this session will bring in their ideas on how marketplaces will change over time due to the IDS standard for data sovereignty.
