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SEMANTiCS Conference 2021
2021-09-06 - 2021-09-09 | Amsterdam / hybrid
SEMANTiCS is an established knowledge hub where technology professionals, industry experts, researchers and decision makers can learn about new technologies, innovations and enterprise implementations in the fields of Linked Data and Semantic AI. Since 2005, the conference series has focused on semantic technologies, which are today together with other methodologies such as NLP and machine learning the core of intelligent systems. The conference highlights the benefits of standards-based approaches.
SEMANTiCS is the only European conference at the intersection of research and industry. Dive deeper into the world of semantic technologies, machine learning and data science. Explore more advanced topics in various talks and workshop sessions. The conference agenda pays tribute to a highly diverse, but complementary audience. Discover newest research insights, explore enterprise solutions and learn implementation stories of leading companies.
Registration & Speakers

IDSA Live Session: How to Run Your IDS Data Space
2021-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Q&A Session | How to Run Your IDS Data Space
IDSA has developed the key fundamentals for successfully running a data space, and IDSA members have created amazing use case scenarios of what a data space can look like. In the Q&A Session, IDSA likes to discuss with you how to put the fundamentals together, how you can turn your use case scenario into real business models. And what steps to take to turn your scenario into a secure and sovereign data space.
With Darja Kramer, Christoph Mertens, Natalia Simon and Markos Matsas, IDSA.
Register here: gotowebinar.com/register/7474681672398909967

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The Culture of Trustworthy AI. Public debate, education, practical learning
2021-09-02 - 2021-09-03 | hybrid: Island of San Servolo, Venice & Online, Italy
In the last few years, the European Union has made important steps towards a responsible and sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation. In 2019, the High-Level Expert Group delivered the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and, even more recently, the European Commission put forward a proposal for a regulation to address different AI risk levels. However, these initiatives do not, alone, ensure Trustworthy AI. Besides rules and principles, “Trustworthy AI requires us to build and maintain an ethical culture and mindset through public debate, education and practical learning.” (HLEG, 2019).
The development of a Trustworthy AI culture poses several challenges to the whole AI ecosystem. The first issue regards how to create meaningful discussions involving different experts but also citizens and people with limited knowledge about AI and its wider implications (public debate). A second problem connects to the equipment needed to help future generations cope with the social and economic changes generated by AI and data-intensive applications (education). Finally, a third important issue relates to the capacity of AI actors to become familiar with principles, rules and the plethora of methodologies supporting ethical, legal and robust AI (practical learning).
This workshop will try to explore how we can get closer to a Trustworthy AI culture sharing investigations and good practices moving along the trajectories suggested by Trustworthy AI guidelines: public debate, education and practical learning. The event is part of the AI4EU project and will give the opportunity to share the results achieved by the AI4EU working groups on Ethical, Legal, Social, Economic and Cultural issues of AI (ELSEC AI). Launched at the end of 2020, working groups are semi-organised groups bringing together people from different backgrounds and sectors to collaborate on ELSEC AI with a genuine multidisciplinary spirit.
The workshop will host a mix of invited and contributed presentations, as well as panel discussions, and is open to scholars and practitioners working on Trustworthy and Responsible AI. The event will take place in Venice (Italy) and streamed online to allow remote participation. Registration is free of charge. More details about the workshop location and the program will be announced soon. If you would like to receive further information about the event, please email osai@unive.it
Registration: Send an email with your name, surname and affiliation to osai@unive.it
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IoT Week 2021
2021-08-30 - 2021-09-03 | online
Next-Generation IoT for a sustainable future
The rising awareness of climate change has caused the popularization of sustainability and the realization that we need to do things not only differently, but better. As focus shifts to finding solutions to climate issues, technological advancements and innovation present a promising way forward. The Internet of Things, for example, which Boston Consulting Group estimates will boom into an $267 billion dollar industry by 2021, promises to facilitate great leaps in our efforts to transform our places and spaces, from homes and offices to entire cities, into sustainable environments. If IoT technologies build on not only established technology, but also new capabilities in the backend, such as artificial intelligence, deep semantic interoperability and novel contractual arrangements like Blockchains, they will undoubtedly bring fundamental change to all sectors of activity, improving the way we live and work.
In other words, IoT is likely to be an essential element of the Next Generation Internet, setting the groundwork for systems and devices of the future.
Each year, numerous thought leaders from the worlds of research, industry, business, tech and science shed light on the future of technology and its impact on business and life.
More information, program, speaker & registration

Horizon Europe Info Day: Cluster 4 AI, Data and Robotics
2021-07-21 09:30 - 13:00 | online
Infoday and brokerage event organised by the AI, Data and Robotics Association (Adra) in collaboration with the European Commission and the Ideal-ist network.
Programme (all times CEST)
09:30 – 09:45h – Welcome and Presentation AI, Data and Robotics Association (Adra)

Morten Irgens – Vice President Adra

09:45 – 11:15h – Presentation of topics (see below) by the European Commission and Q&A

Cécile Huet – Deputy Head of Unit. Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Stefano Bertolo – Scientific Programme Manager Data Policy and Innovation, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Kimmo Rossi – Head of Sector Research and Innovation Execution in the Data Value Chain, DG CONNECT, European Commission

11:15 – 11:30h – Presentation Ideal-ist and Brokerage tool

Edina Nemeth – Ideal-ist, the network of National Contact Points for Digital

11:30 – 13:00h – Pitches
For those interested to to participate to the pitch session, please indicate it when you register (you’ll be contacted separately for arranging the logistics) . Places are limited and will be assigned on a first come first served basis.
UPDATE: Pitching session is closed
For additional question, please contact info(at)ai-data-robotics-partnership.eu
List of topics that will be presented:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01-01
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01-03
HORIZON-CL4-DIGITAL-EMERGING-2021-01-09
HORIZON-CL4-DIGITAL-EMERGING-2021-01-10
HORIZON-CL4-DIGITAL-EMERGING-2021-01-11
HORIZON-CL4-DIGITAL-EMERGING-2021-01-12
HORIZON-CL4-HUMAN-2021-01-01
HORIZON-CL4-HUMAN-2021-01-02
HORIZON-CL4-HUMAN-2021-01-03
HORIZON-CL4-HUMAN-2021-01-24 (to be confirmed)
HORIZON-CL4-HUMAN-2021-01-27 (to be confirmed)

Info Day on Horizon Europe Cluster 4
2021-07-08 10:00 - 12:00 | online
All data and data-driven AI researchers, innovators, industry representatives and other stakeholders are invited to join Info Day about Horizon Europe 2021-2022 calls on the 8th of July, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST. The information and brokerage session focuses on calls under “World Leading Data and Computing Technologies” (Cluster 4, Destination 3). The event is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with BDVA/DAIRO.
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During the event, representatives of the European Commission will introduce 5 topics for 2021-2022, providing detailed information on the call topics under the headings:

Data sharing in the common European data spaces
Strengthening Europe’s data analytics capacity

Please find the agenda and more information on the BDVA/DAIRO Website
The presentation of the calls for proposal will be followed by a pitching session, coordinated by BDVA/DAIRO. Participants will have the opportunity to present a short pitch (2 minutes) addressing one or more of the topics presented by the European Commission.
If you are interested in pitching, please indicate it in the registration (link below) and send your presentation of 2-3 slides to operations@core.bdva.eu by 6th July EOB in ppt format.
Register to the Info Day here!
For any questions, please contact info@core.bdva.eu

12. International Symposium on Digital Earth
2021-07-06 - 2021-07-08 | hybrid: Salzburg & online
The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS is honoured to host the 12th International Symposium on Digital Earth – ISDE12 – July, 6-8 2021. Scheduled within the annual ‚GI-Week‘, this special event will bring together policy makers and scientists and will explore pathways towards the vision of a ‘Digital Earth’.
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Digital Earth is destined as a defining scientific and technological achievement of the 21st century. This will demand extreme computing for the most demanding Big Data challenges, the smartest applications of artificial intelligence, webs of sensors and actuators, and compelling gamification and visualisation methods. Most importantly, it will require agile minds collaborating in cross-discipline innovation and pursuit of scientific excellence. Young people in particular, as ‘digital natives’, are adept in connecting local action and global changes through mixed-reality media linked to open online services.
ISDE12 aims to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by harnessing the world’s data and information resources to digitally represent our planet, and to monitor, measure and forecast natural and human activities on Earth.
Registration is now open!
The registration to ISDE12 is now open. Please use the Conference software for the registration: https://www.conftool.com/giweek2021/
ISDE12 is organized as a hybrid event
ISDE wants to enable an international audience to participate in ISDE12 in July 2021. That’s why the symposium is organized as a hybrid conference.
They are working on a hygiene concept, that makes it possible to visit part of the program in Salzburg on-site. ISDE takes COVID-19 measures seriously and adapts the concept on the actual situation.
For all not travelling to Austria, sessions will be streamed online – so you won’t miss anything. A discounted ticket is offered for the online conference.

European AI Forum
2021-06-30 | online
European AI Forum – 3rd Edition
30 June, 10 am
The third edition of the European AI Forum will have a look into the new AI regulation draft. We will have a focus on European AI and how European AI can sell products in the world and also, look at sandboxes and how to make them efficient.

On the last days of the Portuguese Presidency and as a new Trio takes the Council of the EU helm, European AI Associations invite you to join us in finding the right answers on:

The AI Act – the future foundation of the EU’s AI ecosystem?

Let’s really get under the hood and understand what is behind the proposed regulation. The draft EU AI Regulation – the future foundation of EU’s AI ecosystem, a discussion about the approach and the challenges to regulate AI in EU.

AI “made in EU” – how to scale and export AI from Europe?

AI made in EU – how to scale and export AI from Europe is the new proposed regulation turn into a bug or into a feature for European AI makers with export on their mind.

AI regulatory sandboxes – from theory to reality

How will Europe foster innovation and develop trustworthy AI in a highly regulated environment?

Program & Registration
Watch the Livestream on the 30th June at 10am here

TRUSTS @IDC Summit Austria
2021-06-29 14:00 - 17:00 | online
We in TRUSTS are researching technologies and methods for secure, trustworthy data exchange in a decentralised, federated platform in the TRUSTS project. The development of suitable technological methods is complemented by an appropriate legal and regulatory framework as well as suitable business models.
To share information about the project Stefan Gindl from the TRUSTS Consortiumpartner Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft will present the project, it’s goals and the process to reach them at the IDC Summit Austria on 29 June, 14:40 CEST.
IDC Summit Austria 2021 promises breakthrough insights from industry pioneers, combining informative presentations, interactive roundtable debates and extensive peer-to-peer networking. In doing so, the event is a unique blend of expert opinions, practical solutions and networking opportunities for your business.
Key topics:

Future of Trust – Security
Future of Work – Work Model

Agenda & Registration: https://www.idc.com/cee/events/68804-idc-summit-osterreich/agenda#section_10

34th Bled eConference
2021-06-27 - 2021-06-30 | online
Two papers from TU Delft – “Business Data Sharing through Data Marketplaces: A Systematic Literature Review” and “Creating a Taxonomy of Business Models for Data Marketplaces,” – have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 34th Bled eConference. In addition, TU Delft will also give two presentations at this conference.
About Bled eConference

Bled eConference has been shaping electronic interactions since 1988. Small supportive community offers the opportunity to benefit from expertise of esteemed researchers. It attracts speakers and delegates from business, government, information technology providers and universities and is the major venue for researchers working in all aspects of digital transformation.
The conference has a wide appeal, offering:

a fully-refereed Research Track, devoted to researchers in all aspects of digital transformation;
Doctoral Consortium, offering students to present their ongoing master’s and PhD study results;
ePrototype Students Bazaar, offering students opportunities to present innovative e- or m-Business or IoT ideas, models, prototypes and apps;
a Business and Government Panel Track which attracts eminent business and government leaders from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific;
Business, Government and Academic Workshops and Meetings offering unparalleled opportunities to discuss, share and learn with colleagues from around the world;
EU projects dissemination meetings; enabling project partners to connect with other similar projects and to disseminate results to a wider community.

Register here

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

Register here
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
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
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 | 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
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
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
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
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

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Views on IDS: 'TRUSTS in the financial industry – enabling data sovereignty beyond existing solutions'
2020-11-12 11:00 - 12:00
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

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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 | 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

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