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Data Forum 2022
2022-03-30 | Leuven, Belgium
What does the European legislation need to foster data-driven cross-border experimentation and effective data sharing?
Data Forum 2022 examines the creation of a federation of Data-Driven Innovation Hubs from the law and ethics perspective. It outlines the current and upcoming regulatory landscape and its impact on cross-border data-driven innovation and experimentation.
The half-day event brings together an inspiring set of speakers with a wide variety of expertise. The panellists include EU policymakers, researchers, and representatives from SMEs, startups and DIHs. Giving the spotlight to innovators and research projects building European data markets.
Data Forum 2022 provides insight drawing from the concrete experience of actors working in the field. The event welcomes entrepreneurs and SMEs creating data and AI services, DIHs wanting to strengthen their ecosystem, ethics and law scholars analysing the effects of the regulation, policy-makers and experts shaping the environment or anyone curious to see how the future of European innovation is shaped.

Data Forum is an annual event organized by the EUHubs4Data project, created to raise awareness, share results and recommendations and collect feedback on strategies and policies around data from the European Commission. The 2022 edition will be held on March 30th in Leuven, Belgium. The event is organized as a part of KU Leuven’s LAILEC (Leuven AI Legal and Ethics) 2022 conference.
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European Conference on Information Retrieval
2022-04-10 - 2022-04-14 | Stavanger, Norway
About the Conference
The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval. ECIR features full-paper and poster presentations, system demonstrations, tutorials, workshops, an industry-oriented event, and traditionally has a strong focus on the active participation of early-career researchers. The 44th edition of ECIR is planned to be held as a physical conference (with support for remote attendance) at the northernmost location in the history of the conference, in Stavanger, Norway between April 10 and 14, 2022.
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IoT Solutions World Congress 2022
2022-05-10 - 2022-05-12 | Barcelona, Spain
Global meeting place for business and tech executives…
…looking to leverage technology to achieve innovative, disruptive, game-changing outcomes
The future of industry is ours to build. Emerging technologies are disrupting industry and technological innovation is rapidly changing our world. Traditional industry lines have blurred, with cross-sector ecosystems even more critical for success in today’s digitally transformed, disrupted world.
In this new operating reality, business today is anything but usual! We are all being asked to rethink roles and responsibilities — to be more innovative, more agile, more collaborative, more Game-Changing!
#IOTSWC22 is where leaders, across the organization, learn to navigate what’s next.
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Horizon Cloud Summit 2022
2022-05-11 - 2022-05-12 | Frankfurt, Germany
Co-located with Cloud Expo Europe
Cloud technologies have become the key enablers in the digital transformation of the European Economic Area. Currently, cloud solutions are heavily employed in sectors such as Education, Finance, Healthcare, and much more. With the implementation of complex additions to the cloud environment such as AI governance, accountability and oversight must be introduced to counter discrepancies in all stages of cloud implementation. European Cloud Community needs to come together and work on policies and regulations that would ensure consistent and sustainable growth across industries. The push towards creating legislative and operational actions will enable growth rather than an impediment to innovation Europe can secure its digital sovereignty.
This year the third edition of Horizon Cloud Summit 2022, organised by HUB4CLOUD, aims at gathering a diverse community of researchers, policymakers, Cloud innovators, and broadly understood technological initiatives, to continue building the EU’s competitive position in the market.
The main objectives are to:

Explore the latest evolution of Cloud Computing in Europe, giving spaces to cutting-edge research outcomes, innovative open solutions, and emerging use cases.
Discuss latest developments in the EU policy landscape, influencing the Cloud market, and how the Cloud stakeholders plan to support Digital Decade ambition and ensuring European Digital sovereignty.
Explore the research to market conversion of European Cloud computing initiatives and learning about the exploitation modalities.
Explore the cloud-edge-IoT convergence and discussing the challenges and the way ahead.
Increase collaboration among Cloud stakeholders and foster the creation of synergies across the European Cloud Computing ecosystem, that will ensure its growth.

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TRUSTS I Workshop: Data Spaces & Semantic Interoperability
2022-06-03 09:00 - 16:30 UTC | University of Economics Vienna, Welthandelsplatz 1, Vienna, 1020, Austria
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This one-day workshop brings together researchers, decision makers and practitioners in the field of the development and operation of European data spaces, data markets and other web-based data management systems that allow data sharing, trading and data collaboration.
The output document will summarise all the inputs and discussions about mainly (a) requirements for interoperability as well as (b) solution approaches for interoperability in data spaces, and thereby it will identify existing gaps in the field, and will be published freely available under an open license / under open access.
Programme Chair: Sebastian Steinbuß, CTO of International Data Space Association
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Global IoT Summit (GIOTS)
2022-06-20 - 2022-06-23 | Dublin, Ireland
The Global IoT Summit (GIOTS) is an international conference established to attract and present cutting-edge research results on the Internet of Things. The 5th edition of the GIoTS conference will be co-located with IoT Week 2022 in Dublin from 20 to 23 June, 2022.
The conference welcomes researchers, engineers, scientists and industry professionals to share and examine the recent IoT research results. It is an ideal platform for keeping up with advances and changes in the IoT domain, where leading researchers and industry experts from around the globe presenting the latest studies through papers and oral presentations.
Call for papers 2022

The GIoTS 2022 conference seeks contributions on how to nurture and cultivate IoT technologies and applications for the benefit of society.
Original papers are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following topics:

IoT Enabling Technologies
IoT Applications, Services and Real Implementations
End-user and Human Centric IoT, including IoT Multimedia, Societal Impacts and Sustainable Development
IoT Security, Privacy and Data Protection
IoT Pilots, Testbeds and Experimentation Results

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MyData 2022
2022-06-21 - 2022-06-22 | Helsinki, Finland
Catalysing Fair Data Solutions
MyData 2022 brings together stakeholders representing Business, Legal, Tech and Social perspectives, because they are all equally important for accelerating the human-centric policies and approaches to personal data.
In an era marked by the extensive use of personal data, the need for giving end users more transparency and control over their data trails is evident. The mindset and the enabling building blocks are here to steer towards a fair data economy. MyData 2022 is an opportunity for businesses, public sector and the civil society to meet and work on emerging trends and best practices. Together we catalyse change for a more fair and prosperous digital society with humans at the centre, showing that ethical can be profitable.
Why participate?
Learn from the best experts in the world
Strengthen engagement with the MyData community
Debate with policymakers
Demonstrate your thought leadership in practice
Foster business and product development partnerships
Show that you are a future-oriented & ethical organisation

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IDSA Q&A Session | Your essential guide to data spaces
2022-08-04 10:00 - 11:00 | online
IDSA and its members have developed the key fundamentals for successfully running a data space, and within the membership companies have created amazing use case scenarios of what a data space can look like.
In the Q&A Session, they will take you on the journey from becoming an IDSA member to successfully running a data space.
They will focus on the benefits that IDSA and the International Data Spaces bring you. And they will tell you how you can co-create the IDS standard and leverage IDS technology. How to convert your application scenario into real business models and what steps you need to take to transform your business model into a secure and sovereign data space.
They will discuss all this in the Q&A Session “Your essential guide to data spaces” on August 4 at 10 a.m. (CET).
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SEMANTiCS Conference 2022
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-15 | Vienna & Online, Handelskai 269, Vienna, 1020
SEMANTiCS (September 12-15, 2022) 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. The conference covers technical and business-relevant topics in varying depth. Beginners and experts will benefit equally. Dive into affiliated domains and be up to speed!
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:

At this conference you will really learn something. 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.
At SEMANTiCS you will meet many new people from your own domain, but also beyond your professional boundaries. This diversity will awaken your creativity and open up new opportunities.
Depending on your professional background, the conference can provide you with business development opportunities, new research partners or career perspectives.
SEMANTiCS takes place in Vienna – the world’s top city of quality for life. In such an environment, you can expect a truly pleasant conference stay on many levels. We don’t let you leave without seeing and enjoying Austria’s capital. The social events will be fun.

SemAI 2022: First Workshop on Semantic AI
2022-09-13 | Vienna, Austria
September 13-15, 2022, Vienna, Austria. Co-located with SEMANTiCS Conference 2022

AI approaches based on machine learning have become increasingly popular across all sectors. However, experience shows that AI initiatives often fail due to the lack of appropriate data or low data quality. Furthermore, state-of-the-art AI models are widely opaque and suffer from a lack of transparency and explainability. Semantic AI approaches combine methodology from statistical AI and symbolic AI based on semantic technologies such as knowledge graphs as well as natural language processing, while incorporating mechanisms for explainable AI. Semantic AI requires technical and organizational measures, which get implemented along the whole data lifecycle. While the individual aspects of semantic AI are being studied in their respective research communities a dedicated community focusing on their combination is yet to be established.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 4, 2022
Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2022
Camera-ready versions of accepted contributions: August 15, 2022
Workshop date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Topics of Interest

Topics relevant to this workshop include – but are not limited to – the following aspects of semantic AI:

Classification of types of emerging semantic AI approaches, e.g. those listed below
Novel design patterns for semantic AI systems
System development life-cycle stages when creating semantic AI systems
Neuro-symbolic AI, i.e., methods combining statistical AI based on machine learning and symbolic AI, based on semantic technologies
Machine teaching and other use of knowledge graphs in supervised machine learning to improve model quality and robustness
Semi-supervised learninng, i.e., combination of supervised and unsupervise machine learning, e.g., in natural language processing
Distant supervision, i.e., use of semantic rules and other heuristics for data labelling
Few- and zero-shot learning, i.e., adapting to unseen classes given only a few or no examples at all
Semantics-based approaches to explainable AI, human in the loop in AI to improve trustworthiness
Knowledge graphs and other semantic technologies for automated data quality management
Reports on benefits/limitations of combining machine learning and semantic technologies, possibly from the perspective of concrete application domains and tasks

Submission Guidelines
We welcome the following types of contributions:

Research papers (max. 8 pages)
Best practices and lessons learned (max. 4 pages)

All submissions must be written in English and adhere to the CEUR-ART style.
Please use the following Overleaf template for LaTeX: https://www.overleaf.com/read/mwrbbrhrpwzv.
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Big-Data.AI Summit
2022-09-14 - 2022-09-15 | Berlin
Generating Value: The Path from Innovation to Production
Big data and artificial intelligence are game changers when it comes to gathering insights and automating tasks. Integrating these technological advantages into organisations and the whole value chain poses big challenges to companies wanting to future-proof their business models. Concrete steps towards this goal come with a multitude of questions regarding necessary data foundations, successful scaling of intelligent applications, and legal and social circumstances. How do we develop a data strategy which enables the implementation of AI and drives success? Which technologies offer scalable solutions and business opportunities – also with regards to regulatory requirements? How can trustworthiness be ingrained into products and processes?
Big-Data.AI Summit, Europe’s leading conference on the application of artificial intelligence and big data in business, will shed light on these questions on the 14th and 15th September 2022. Tap into the expertise of thought leaders, decision makers, and solution architects from various industries such as Digital Health, Industrial Internet, Information Security, and many others. Gain actionable insights into scaling intelligent use cases, identify future business opportunities, and find new solutions for data-driven innovations at #BAS22.
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16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA)
2022-09-19 - 2022-09-23 | Prague, Czech Republic
The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022) will be held from September 19 to 23, 2022.
ECSA 2022 is planned as a hybrid conference, with the in-person events taking place in the beautiful and historic city of Prague in the Czech Republic.
(Please note that there is an option that the conference will go fully online if required.)
Registration is open!
Call for Papers
Call for papers is on! Please check out the main research papers track, or select one of the other tracks:

Industry program track
Journal first track
Tools & demos track
Workshops and tutorials
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) track
Doctoral symposium

European Research and Innovation Days 2022
2022-09-28 - 2022-09-29 | online
Let’s shape the future together
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.
The event will take place online on 28 and 29 September 2022, allowing everyone to get involved from anywhere.
This year’s European Research and Innovation Days gives you the opportunity to discuss and shape new solutions to strengthen Europe’s resilience and its strategic autonomy. Join us to debate how research and innovation deliver on the European Commission’s priorities.
This is your chance to discuss the new European Innovation Agenda, the European Year of Youth, the richness of European cultural creativity, the Horizon Europe Missions and many more topics.
Stay tuned for more news und updates!

Digital Around the World
2022-10-20 - 2022-10-21 | online
Digital Around the World is a 24 hours non-stop virtual conference that will bring together top-level speakers discussing the latest trends in digital transformation
For 24 hours non-stop, region by region, time zone by time zone, top-level international speakers will be presenting and discussing the last technological innovations and trends in digital transformation. 24 high-level sessions with keynote speakers will be developed and moderated consecutively from various countries in Europe, the Americas, the Asia/Pacific region and Africa. A worldwide community of industry experts, researchers and specialized media will have the opportunity to follow and interact in the debates.
Thematic Areas:

Emerging Technologies for Digital Transformation
Technologies for the Good
International Cooperation in Research and Innovation

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Webinar on EUHubs4Data 3rd Open Call
2022-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 | online
EUHubs4Data is organizing an informative webinar (25th Oct 2022) to explain in detail the most relevant aspects about the 3rd open call, the scope of experiments and the evaluation.
https://bit.ly/3q5nEO7Register Now!
In this 3rd Call, with a total budget of 1.080K €, EUHubs4Data wants to select and finance 18 innovative experiments carried out by SMEs and entrepreneurs, making full use of the potential of the EUHubs4Data datasets and data driven services catalogue.
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3rd Connected World/Web & Semantic Interoperability Workshop – CWSI 2022
2022-11-07 | Hybrid
i3-MARKET will be organising a workshop at the IoT Conference 2022 (Hybrid format) which is taking place in Delft on 7 November. The workshop will be the third edition of the Connected World/Web & Semantic Interoperability workshop.
A Connected World/Web of Things is an emerging area that not only requires development of infrastructure but also deployment of new data services capable of supporting multiple, scalable (cloud-based) and interoperable (cross-systems and cross-domain) applications. In the race of designing the Connected World/Web as part of the Future Internet architecture, academia and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry communities have realized that a common problem to be tackled is the interoperability of the data and their availability for providing information services.
Worldwide there is an increasingly focusing on how to evolve communications technologies to enable a Connected World, thus Semantic-enabled Web of Things systems will need to interact and be interconnected for offering the always-promoted everything-connected interoperability paradigm.
The Connected World/Web & Semantic Interoperability workshop provides to developers, scientific researchers, industry experts and general audience interested in the evolution of the Internet of connected things world, the possibility to explore interoperability research challenges and provide a room to expose their research scientific ideas and progress and also explore new trends and opportunities of using semantic web technologies for solving problems and creating new solutions on emerging specialized paradigms like the current Internet of connected Things or simply acknowledge as Internet of Things (IoT).
The CWSI 2022 Workshop is organised by i3-MARKET.

European Big Data Value Forum 2022
2022-11-21 - 2022-11-23 | Prague, Czech Republic
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions, and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI.
This year, the event will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on November 21-23, with a central theme of “At the Heart of the Ecosystem for Data and AI”.
The EBDVF 2022 is organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), IT4Innovations (VSB – Technical University of Ostrava), Plan4all and Charles University in Prague in collaboration with the European Commission (DG CNECT). It has been granted with the Czech Republic Presidency Auspice.
TRUSTS will be part of it – visit us at our booth and join our session on 23 November @10am.
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SEMIC 2022
2022-12-06 | Square Meeting Centre, Brussels
After two digital editions, the annual semantic interoperability conference will be completely physical at the Square Meeting Center in Brussels!
This year’s topic is “SEMIC: Data Spaces in an Interoperable Europe.” The conference is organised by the Interoperability Unit of DIGIT of the European Commission, in collaboration with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.
The central focus of #SEMIC2022 revolves around the implementation of data spaces, bringing together concrete use cases from both the public and the private sector.
The webstreaming will be available here from 09:15 CET onwards on 6th December
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ACM Data Economy Workshop
2022-12-09 | Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Data-driven decision making powered by Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is changing how the society and the economy work and is having a profound positive impact on our daily life. With the exception of very large companies that have both the data and the skills to develop powerful ML-driven services, the large majority of provably possible ML services, from e-health, to transportation and predictive maintenance, to name just a few, still remain at the idea or prototype level for the simple reason that data, the skills to manipulate them, and the business models to bring them to market, seldom co-exist under the same roof.
Data has to somehow meet with the ML and business skills that can unleash its full power for the society and economy. This has given rise to a highly dynamic sector around the Data Economy, involving Data Providers/Controllers, data Intermediaries, often-times in the form of Data Marketplaces or Personal Information Management Systems for end-users to control and even monetise their personal data. Despite its huge potential and observed initial growth, the Data Economy is still at its nascent phase and, therefore, faces a yet uncertain future and a series of existential challenges.
Such challenges include a broad range of technical matters across multiple disciplines of Computer Science including networks and distributed systems, security and privacy, machine learning and human computer interaction. The mission of the ACM DE workshop will be to bring together all the CS skills required for helping the Data Economy.
The First ACM Data Economy Workshop will be co-located with the 2022 International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2022). The workshop and the conference will be held in the splendid setting of Rome, at the Sapienza University of Rome.
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Horizon Europe info days - Cluster 4
2022-12-12 - 2022-12-14
This event aims to inform potential applicants about the funding opportunities of the 2023 calls of Horizon Europe Cluster 4 ‘Digital, Industry and Space’ Work Programme 2023-2024.
Speakers from the European Commission will go into depth on the call topics, the evaluation and the award process. Prospective applicants will have the opportunity to ask questions on what’s new and learn how to draft successful proposals. Under the pillar II of Horizon Europe, Cluster 4 focuses on digital, industry and space and aims to deliver on the following 6 Destinations matching the Strategic Plan:

Climate neutral, circular and digitised production
Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry
World leading data and computing technologies
Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal
Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data
A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies.

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Horizon Europe strategic plan
Cluster 4 Work programme
Cluster 4: Digital, industry and space
European Health and Digital Executive Agency

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Data Spaces Discovery Days
2023-03-21 - 2023-03-23
Netherlands
Business value of sovereign data sharing
IDSA brings together the most important data sharing initiatives. Under the flags of BDVA, FIWARE, Gaia-X, IDSA and TNO, and in collaboration with the Data Spaces Business Alliance, the Data Spaces Support Centre and the i4Trust consortium, the largest ever event on data spaces will take place in March 2023.

You’ll learn the business benefits of sovereign data sharing, explore data spaces as the unique solution for such sovereign data sharing. And you’ll discover: Data spaces are key to digital transformation. At the same time, you’ll be there when the Dutch and European data space community meets and – to network even more for the future – establishes a new centre of excellence.
To add even more value and significance to the event, the Data Spaces Support Centre’s First DSSC Annual Conference is the prelude to the Data Spaces Discovery Days. So you’ll also experience how the DSSC presents its first results as well as its strategic ambitions.
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Data Week 2023
2023-06-12 - 2023-06-15 | Luleå, Sweden
The Big Data Value Association (BDVA) is building Data Week 2023! The next edition will be held in Luleå, Sweden on 12-15 of June, 2023. The event is organized by BDVA and EUHubs4Data, and will be hosted by RISE.
https://www.bdva.eu/data-week-2023Stay Tuned & Save the Date!
