TRUSTS

IDSA's Assets and Achievements: Reliable Base for Trust in Data Spaces
2021-11-24 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Vienna) | online
On November 24, IDSA would like to present to you their biggest achievements in 2021 and the potential that lies within:

The International Data Spaces reference testbed to ensure interoperability.
Open-source community: How reliable components for data spaces are created together to ensure market acceptance and sustainability.
Certification of data space components, how it works and how it generates trust.
Trust is the key to turning data sharing into business value. That’s what drives the new Data Spaces Business Alliance.
Detected by our data spaces radar: First data spaces are already in place, running successfully and amazing the world.

Let’s talk about these and other achievements – and what is to come in 2022:
>> November 24, 2021 | 13:00 to 14:30 CET
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European Big Data Value Forum 2021
2021-11-29 - 2021-12-03
European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2021 will take place from the 29th of November to the 3rd of December. This year as a “hybrid” event. EBDVF 2021 is an associated event of Slovenian EU Presidency.
EBDVF 2021 theme is “Digital Transformation powered by Data and AI”. The programme is structured into five tracks discussing the topics of adoption of industrial and trustworthy AI, Data Spaces, Data-Driven business models, standardization, societal impacts and many others. Join the event to get the best insight to European Big Data and AI!
The physical part of the EBDVF 2021 will be hosted in Ljubljana. The local collaborators of EBDVF 2021 are DIH Slovenia, ICT Association of Slovenia (Chamber of Commerce and Industry Slovenia), Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) and the University of Ljubljana. The central day in the Slovenian capital will kick-start the event by inviting high-level political and industry keynotes to share their views on data and data-driven AI-related policy developments.
All the EBDVF 2021 sessions will be streamed online. The event will merge the online portions to the sessions held in Ljubljana, bringing both, live and physical venues, to the disposal of the event attendees, speakers and sponsors.
The registration to the EBDVF 2021 will be open soon. If you are interested in collaborating with or hosting a session in EBDVF 2021, please send a message at info@core.bdva.eu. For more information and updates, visit the official website of the European Big Data Value Forum.

CITIP’S SAFE-DEED CLOSING EVENT
2021-12-02 08:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Park Inn by Radisson Leuven & Online, Martelarenlaan 36, Leuven, B-3010, Belgium
“Addressing legal, technical and ethical challenges in the data market context”
Safe-DEED is delighted to invite you to the final event of the Safe-DEED project, on Thursday 2 December, from 8h30-17h30, in Leuven and online.
The event will highlight the latest legal, technical and ethical challenges in the data market context. In the morning, attention will be drawn to the regulatory framework of the data economy ecosystem, the Data Governance Act, the data ownership debate and ELI/ALI principles. An afternoon session will explore the insights from Safe-DEED’s extensive research on improving security technologies, trust and the diffusion of privacy enhancing technologies on data marketplaces.
Registration is mandatory as there is a max. capacity of 80 people on-site. Please register via this link before 29/11.
Find more information about the event, the agenda and the speakers here.

Data Sharing Winter School
2021-12-07 - 2021-12-09 | online
Next Mobility – Smart Data Sharing to Move Goods and People
From December 7 to 9, IDSA will organize the 2nd Data Sharing Winter School in collaboration with Fraunhofer AISEC, Institut Mines-Télécom and University of Oulu as well as the co-hosts Academy for the Industry of the Future and Franco-German University.
Data spaces – the secret sauce of the data economy
When it comes to the digital transformation of the economy, the provision and sharing of data in data spaces are at the center of the discussion. Europe wants to accelerate the digital transformation with the use of data and meaningful approaches to data sharing. Expectations are high: The future viability of our entire EU economy is at stake. This is a perfect time for you to learn more about data sharing and topics like interoperability, data sovereignty and data usage control as success factors for data spaces.
New mobility
One sector will transform like no other: mobility. Autonomous driving, smart cities, intermodal transport – unthinkable without data sharing. In 12 sessions, experts will present new technologies, scientists will talk about the state of research, and practitioners will show innovative mobility solutions to urban problems, such as the Mobility Data Space, one of Europe’s lighthouse projects. You will deepen your knowledge on data sharing, connect with renowned experts and accelerate your career in the data economy of the future.
Together online
The Data Sharing Winter School comes to you. It is completely online. You will have access to a platform with an interactive seminar area, exciting networking opportunities, and clearly presented supplemental content.
Requirements, certificate, price
This event is designed for students and researchers from RTOs and R&D departments of companies with a scientific background. The Winter School includes a technical workshop in which you must successfully participate for the certificate of completion. The Winter School is free of charge.
Register here: hopin.com/events/2nd-data-sharing-winter-school
Questions: winterschool@internationaldataspaces.org

Horizon Cloud Summit 2021
2021-12-08 - 2021-12-09 | online
Europe is looking towards a green digital transformation to shape its future. Cloud technologies will be key enablers towards this transition that will unleash the potential of the European data economy and ensure its industrial competitiveness while making them sustainable. To grow its impact and effectively shape Europe’s digital future, the European Cloud Computing community needs to overcome fragmentation of efforts, ensure proper know-how and tech transfer from research to industry, create the most favourable policy and regulations conditions and raise investments, both on the private and public sides.
The Horizon Cloud Summit 2021 – at its second edition – aims at gathering innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policy makers, as well as Cloud initiatives, and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition.
The main objectives are to:

Discuss priorities for Europe at different levels and for different actors, supporting the consolidation of a Strategic Agenda for Research, Innovation and Deployment of Cloud Computing in Europe as a crucial step to guide future public and private investments, by identifying future challenges to be covered in Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, and other EU programmes.
Explore the last 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 toward green digital transformation, i.e. achieving “10,000 climate neutral highly secure edge nodes”.
Explore the role of open source strategies, standards and business models in shaping EU digital autonomy.
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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Brokering Event for European Data Spaces
2021-12-16 09:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Pitch and unite your expertise for Digital Europe Programme calls!
The European Commission has a number of open calls as part of the Digital Europe Programme that are designed to support the building of data spaces in 12 domains.
The Data Spaces Business Alliance, as the drivers of sovereign data sharing initiatives, invites you – researchers, companies and innovators on these domains and data spaces – to the “Brokering Event for European Data Spaces” on December 16. The goal is that the leading experts unite and form domain specific consortia for the calls. The event is organized with the participation of the European Commission.
The virtual platform allows you to make pitches and find matching partners for a consortium. So join in this important effort and next step to build data spaces for Europe!
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Data Spaces Dialogue
2021-12-16 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Unboxing the Automotive Supply Chain Data Space Catena-X
In this live session IDSA will “unbox” a data space that is already out there and has a clear growth plan in place. They want to celebrate the era of the lone wolf coming to an end as numerous endeavors in many different domains have evolved from a vision to a real asset in the economy. Within the dialogue, IDSA will showcase a remarkable “Gaia-X lighthouse”, that is already set in motion: ‘Catena-X’. Catena-X is establishing sovereign data sharing to unlock the true value of data for supply chains in the automotive sector.
In the Data space Dialogue, the experts who have built the Catena-X data space will discuss about where they are currently in their evolution paths and what can be expected in the years to come.
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FIWARE Global Summit
2022-01-19 - 2022-01-20 | Gran Canaria, Spain, Av. de la Feria, 1, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35012, Spain
Leading the Digital Transformation
Open Source – Open Standards – Open Community
The two-days physical Summit is back! #FIWARESummit22
FIWARE connects all who want to change the world, foretell the future and transform markets for the better – based on recognized Open Source technology.
Technology is changing the way we live, work, engage with one another. FIWARE provides a helping hand to those who want to change the world, foretell the future, transform markets for the better, based on recognized Open Source technology. From startups and SMEs to global enterprises, FIWARE helps today’s disruptors fully grasp what tomorrow has in store and how they can be part of this transformation journey.
You can also play a key role in this journey. Looking into joining the FIWARE community, our global ecosystem or just interested in the impact and opportunities with Open Source technology? Then this Summit is made for you!
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Information and Brokerage Session: Horizon Europe Cloud-Edge-IoT Call
2022-02-02 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Vienna) | online
Following the “Digital Autonomy in the Computing Continuum” Workshop in November 2021 (more information here), the European Commission invites stakeholders from industry, academia, and innovators to participate in an Information and Virtual Brokerage Session on 2 February 2022, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm CET.
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The event addresses the following two Horizon Europe 2022 Calls:

“World leading data and computing technologies” and
“Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal”.

The open and free half-day virtual event will introduce the three Horizon Europe calls “Cognitive Cloud: AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge (RIA)”, “Open source for cloud-based services (RIA)“, and “Programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms (RIA)”.

The event offers a unique international networking experience to forge the winning partnerships with academics, researchers, industrial stakeholders, and SMEs. Event participants will have the unique opportunity to pitch new concepts and applications, proposal ideas, and expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry.

Pitch registration is open now! The deadline to register for a pitch is on 31 January 2022 12:00 CET latest. The event organisers will validate and confirm your pitch slot by 1 February 2022 12:00 CET.

The event is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with H-CLOUD (Grant Agreement no 871920), HUB4CLOUD (Grant Agreement no 101016673), and EU-IoT (Grant Agreement no 956671).

IDSA Winterdays 2022
2022-02-16 - 2022-02-17 | online
Trust. Trust, along with interoperability and governance, is an indispensable prerequisite for the design of a data space. Anyone who wants to share data must trust the partner in a data space.
The IDS reference architecture puts trust at its core. IDS connectors are designed for trust-based data sharing. IDS certification confirms the trustworthiness of components and operating environments. Use cases and data spaces show how trust is turned into value.
In short: Trust all the way. That is the motto of the IDSA Winterdays 2022.
Details and agenda will follow soon. But you can already save your participation by registering!
Hosted by the Internaitonal Data Spaces Organisation.

TRUSTS Event: The federation of Data Markets and the Importance of Data Sharing in the EU
2022-03-01 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
The importance of sharing data in the EU is a major challenge we are facing right now. A few initiatives are focused on data markets and their federation – one of them is TRUSTS.

“What business models are out there, and how to federate them?” “How do emerging technologies enable trustworthy data sharing?”, “How does data valorisation work according to sound legal and ethical principles?” – these and more are topics which we will discuss on March 1st.

Within our upcoming event we want to discuss with you which aspects are relevant, what the status quo is and how TRUSTS can contribute to the federation of a data market when it comes to data sharing following EU standards.

1 March, 1 pm – 3 pm, CET, Online
Registration via Go To Webinar

Join Alexandra Garatzogianni (Leibniz University Hannover), Ioannis Markopoulos (NOVA), Gianna Avgousti (eBOS Technologies), Lukas Helminger (Know-Center), Lorenzo Gugliotta (KU Leuven) and Mark de Reuver (TU Delft) and discuss business, legal and ethical aspects of federated data markets with them.

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Open Data Day 2022
2022-03-05 | All over the world
Open Data Day 2022 will take place on Saturday 5th of March
WHAT IS OPEN DATA DAY?
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.
WHO IS THIS FOR? EVERYONE!
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.
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WSIS Forum 2022
2022-03-15 - 2022-05-03 | online
World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022
ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs
The WSIS Forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the “ICT for development” community, hosted by the ITU and co-organized by International Telecommunication Union, UNESCO, UNCTAD, UNDP with the engagement of more than 30 UN organizations. It provides a platform to coordinate the implementation of multi-stakeholder activities, the exchange of information, the creation of knowledge, and the sharing of best practices in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The WSIS Forum 2022 is ongoing from 15 March onwards in a virtual format with the final week that will be held on 30 May – 3 June 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022 represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community and is scheduled to be held starting on 15 March with the final week that will be held on 30 May – 3 June 2022. The WSIS Forum, co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line Facilitators/Co-Facilitators, has proven to be an efficient mechanism for coordination of multi- stakeholder implementation activities, information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices and continues to provide assistance in developing multi-stakeholder and public/private partnerships to advance development goals. This Forum will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. The Agenda and Programme of the Forum will be built on the basis of the submissions received during the Open Consultation Process.
Furthermore, the 2022 WSIS Forum will provide an opportunity to serve as a platform to track the achievements of WSIS Action Lines in collaboration with the UN Agencies involved and provide information and analyses of the implementation of WSIS Action Lines since 2005.
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LAILEC Conference
2022-03-29 - 2022-03-30 | Leuven, Belgium
Life-cycle regulation of Data and AI, Tackling dynamicity and responsibility in complex ecosystems
In this year’s edition of the LAILEC Conference, co-located with the EUH4D Data Forum and the SAS Project Event, we focus on Data and AI, together critical enablers for our society to solve complex problems and for our European data economy to thrive. Both data and AI have specific lifecycles, where dynamicity and evolving features challenge legal and ethical frameworks.
The conference aims to discuss the objectives of the European Data Strategy and AI Strategy, and will explore further the regulatory and governance dimensions of a.o. the concepts of data spaces and trustworthy AI.
In the Data Track we offer dedicated panels on the guiding principles and building blocks for the digital economy and zoom in on the importance of data control in different scenarios, the need for trusted data value chains with suitable allocation of responsibilities and the impact of the fairness principle in data access, sharing and allocation of data value.
In connection, in the AI Track, our speakers will engage on the concept of trustworthiness of AI, its relationship with fundamental rights and dynamic safety and security risks and will discuss the impact of liability issues, that although challenged by the self-learning capacities of AI and the complex ecosystems, have an important capacity to significantly increase the levels of trust in AI.
The LAILEC conference will source the views of our expert speakers on towards the future avenues for the regulation of Data and AI and their specific lifecycles, building on the European Commission’s preference, as expressed in the Data Strategy, for an “agile approach to governance” that favors “experimentation […], iteration, and differentiation” and the risk-based approach to the regulation of innovation, already visible in the GDPR and the proposed AI Act. LAILEC will also create room for exchange on the pending legislative initiatives, such as the AI Act proposal and the expected Data Act proposal.
LAILEC aims to engage on these topics with a broad community of stakeholders (researchers of different disciplines, industry, designers of data spaces, providers of building blocks -technical and non-technical-, policymakers, regulators, civil society,..). The objectives of fair, compliant, trustworthy data use and AI (and related technology) applications can only be achieved by interdisciplinary efforts and the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders. Join the debate in Leuven on the 29th and 30th of March:

LAILEC Conference day on 29th of March
Unique opportunity to join the 2 co-located events:

EUH4D Data Forum on 30th of March in the morning
SAS Project Event on 30th of March in the afternoon

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
Requirements, standards, certification, tools, licenses and more…
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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 UTC | 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

Program & Registration

Webinar on EUHubs4Data 3rd Open Call
2022-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 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.
Get more information on the call

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.
