After postponing the Databeers Málaga, scheduled for April in the framework of the Hackathon Copernicus Málaga, due to the confinement before the Covid-19, both events have a new date of realization:

• The XVII Databeers Málaga will take place on September 24th from 20 hours and will be held by videoconference.
• On the other hand, the hackathon will start on September 18th, also online, and will last until October 1st.

Databeers Malaga addresses the opportunities of Copernicus data

Given the context, the new edition of Databeers Málaga will be focused on talks about data visualization projects and applications with open data and services around the Copernicus lines of action.

The Copernicus project collects and stores data about the planet, through satellites in space and technologies such as measurement systems on land, sea and air. Copernicus offers this data in open format for use and reuse.

The Aporta Initiative, among the participants of the event

On this occasion there will be five talks, all of them of short duration, informative tone and format close to pecha-kucha. Almost all of them will show projects and applications around Copernicus' lines of action, atmospheric monitoring, marine environmental monitoring, land monitoring, climate change, emergency management and security.

The speakers will be the following:

• Kevin Ramirez, Copernicus coordinator at Climate-KIC, will open the event by showing its potential as a tool to support a sustainable future.
• Felipe Fernández, head of the Information Technology and Supercomputing Group of IHCantabria, will bring us closer to the Copernicus Spain network through a project designed to identify its actors and generate network (ApliCop).
• Juan Arevalo Torres, director of the company Randbee Consultants, will give a talk on "Storytelling with Copernicus data and services".
• Julia Yagüe, Member of the Remote Sensing and Platform Services Division of GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A.U., will show us the potential of remote data for sustainable forest management.
• Sonia Castro, Coordinator of open data in the public entity Red.es, will give a tour of datos.gob.es, highlighting those contents of most interest to the target audience of the meeting. It will be highlighted how to find data and practical applications of them; where to locate materials of interest for those who are entering into the development of digital content solutions, as well as the latest developments that from the Aporta Initiative are being carried out.

All this is coordinated by María Sánchez, who has already told us about the advantages of this type of event in this interview.

Digital format without losing the essence

Databeers Málaga has opted for the online format to facilitate the participation of speakers from different backgrounds and their follow-up in a secure way by the participants. "During the summer we held a virtual tasting, with talks also on data, by the hand of San Miguel, one of our sponsors", says Maria Sanchez, "and the experience was successful”. She explains how, despite the distance, the event did not lose the essence of the Databeers community, "including interaction with the speakers over beers, but this time at home”.

Trusting in the response of the community and considering that it can be, in addition, of interest for the own assistants to the hackathon, Databeers Malaga has decided for it to be launched online, recovering to the speakers foreseen for April and with the same approach that then.

How can you participate?

Registration is, as always, free of charge. For this event, it is essential to register previously online before September 18th, both in the Meetup space of the event, where you can also see the complete program, and through the form.

As has been the case in previous events, it will be recorded and the videos will be offered openly, together with the talks’ presentations, through the online space, www.databeersmlg.com, where there is already a large amount of material, whose license also allows its use and reuse. The aim is to generate knowledge beyond the face-to-face events and the local environment.

About Databeers Málaga and collaborators

Databeers Málaga is a community dedicated to organizing events, informative talks and networking around big data, data analysis and visualization applied to different disciplines. Since it started at the end of 2015, there have already been sixteen editions, so far face to face, which have brought together more than 2,200 participants. It is currently coordinated by María Sánchez (@cibermarikiya), professor and researcher in Journalism at the University of Málaga and technician in Innovation at the International of Andalucía, and has the collaboration of the photographer Koke Pérez, Diario Sur, the Municipal Center of Informatics of the Málaga City Council and Cervezas San Miguel. The beer brand, as part of its commitment to economic and social development of the Malaga province, supports Databeers Malaga since the beginning of 2018.