Events

  On the occasion of the International Open Data Conference  and included on the agenda of events before IODC 2016, the Open Cities Summit will take place on 5th October at Media-Lab Prado in Madrid. This meeting will bring together international open data practitioners in order to show how open data is being used around the world to improve the lives of citizens at the city level, facilitate knowledge exchange around open cities, and ideate solutions to overcome identified challenges in...

Next 3rd October the sixth edition of the Encuentro Aporta will take place in Madrid, an annual event that aims to foster the openness and re-use of public sector information in Spain. In this occasion, within the program of activities organised the days previous to the International Open Data Conference and under the theme "Global cooperation, local impact", this meeting will bring together national experts who will share innovative solutions and cooperate in order to guarantee the global consensus needed...

  From September 26th to October 5th the international workshop Visualizar'16 Open Cities will take place in the cultural space Medialab Prado (Madrid), an event dedicated to those cities in the world that are committed to openness of information, transparency and re-use of data to improve services provided for citizens. On this occasion, two simultaneous calls are opened: one call for projects related to open cities and an application for collaborators. During the workshop a maximum of 8...

  Madrid City Council has announced the first edition of the Datathon and Data Journalism Awards, aimed at entrepreneurs, developers, designers, journalists and students interested in open data. The aim of this competition is to foster the re-use of public sector information, promote http://datos.madrid.es/ and convert it into, not only a point of access to local datasets, but into a tool to boost the development of innovative solutions based on open data. The awards are divided into two...

Synergic Partners, Telefónica Group company specialized in big data, data science and engineering, organizes together with Telefónica the Data Science Awards Spain 2016 to reward the best individual and business initiatives in the field of data journalism and big data. The awards has been divided into three different categories: the best business big data initiative, which awards the national company which is more innovative and presents the best balance of technology and value created through data; the...

  On 29th-30th June the European Data Forum will take place in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Under the slogan "Scaling up the Data Economy in Europe", this event will bring together professionals, researchers, legislators and members of several initiatives to discuss about the challenges and opportunities arising from the data in the EU. Thus, during these two days, this forum will address all facets of data-driven innovators: big data, from infrastructure, tools, applications (including new...

  From 22 to 23 June, Valladolid hosts the 1st International Forum on Urban Forestry in Mediterranean Cities, a meeting organized by the LIFE + Quick Urban Forest project to share and discuss with researchers, urban managers and technicians about techniques and advances in planting in degraded urban areas in Mediterranean climates; while social projects and initiatives on urban forestry are show as well.  The program includes four sessions: one on social approach, another on local politics...

  Next 15th the event eventotransparente.org will take place in Madrid, a day in which best practices, open government policies and models in Spain will be analyzed. Driven by the Oesía Group and collaborating in the Gobiernotransparente.com and Docxpresso organization, the meeting consists of four panels, through which participants will have the opportunity to learn the experience of experts, public and private entities on open data initiatives, open government, legislation transparency and...

Last Wednesday the conference Open Data for European Entrepreneurs was held in Pamplona gathering the FIWARE community. The event was organized by FINODEX accelerator that provides support services to European ICT industry building technological solutions re-using open data and making use of the open platform FIREWARE. The roadshow was divided into different panels focussing on two main areas: FIWARE technology, a simple set of APIs that ease the development of smart applications in multiple vertical...