Events

8th Edition of Aporta Meeting will take place on November 28. In this occasion, the event will focus on the power of public data to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Under the motto "Innovation with public data", consolidated companies, start-ups and public bodies will share their experience about taking advantage of improvement and business opportunities linked to open data and new technological paradigms, such as Big Data or Artificial intelligence. Thanks to these testimonies, attendees can...

The next 26th and 27th of November DATADRI is celebrated in Córdoba. It is a reference event for the digital transformation of agricultural sector. During two days, the challenges and opportunities of the sector will be addressed, paying special attention to the competitive advantages that new technologies and data analysis can bring. Junta de Andalucía, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, among many other organizations and companies,...

The European Commission has opened a CEF Telecom call - Public open data, for innovative projects in data management and analysis. The call was opened last May and the deadline for submission is November 15th 2018. The budget allocated for this call is 18.5 million euros, divided into three objectives. Objective 1: Support for the re-use of information made discoverable/available through the European Data Portal The European Commission has allocated 2 million euros to boost the deployment of new...

In 2018, the cities of Barcelona and Kobe celebrate 25 years of twinning agreement, and to commemorate it, both municipalities have launched the World Data Viz Challenge 2018 Barcelona-Kobe. Promoting policy improvements through data visualizations A similar challenges have been launched in each city: participants will have to generate visualizations based on open data to show the challenges of an intelligent city, which can be useful to optimize public policies. In the case of Barcelona, it will be...

For the tenth consecutive year, Asedie organizes a new edition of the "International Conference on the Reuse of Public Sector Information". The appointment will take place on October 23 at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection in Madrid. As the previous years, the main objective is to serve as a platform to share knowledge and experiences, coming together all those involved in the Information and Data Community, as well as to promote public-private collaboration for public interest...

The Barcelona’s city council organizes, for the second consecutive year, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, a contest aimed at promoting the knowledge and use of open data in the schools of Barcelona city. This year's edition is organized, like the previous year, with the collaboration of Consorci d'Educació de Barcelona and Centro de Recursos Pedagógicos Específicos de Soporte a la Innovación y la Recerca Educativa (CESIRE); and Barcelona Activa S.A. were added. The contest is aimed at students who...

The international open data community has an appointment in Buenos Aires on September 27-28, 2018, in the new edition of the International Open Data Conference (IODC). Under the title "The future is open", a participatory event has been launched to address open data challenges and opportunities. The ultimate goal is to promote collaboration among professionals to define a strategy to promote the use of open data both globally and locally. People interested in attending only have to fill out this online...

DataLab Madrid organizes a new edition of Visualizar'18, a data visualization workshop. Its objective is to create a spaces for collaborative work, knowledge exchange and theoretical and practical training to investigate the social, cultural and artistic implications of data culture, opening up avenues for participation and criticism. The meeting will take place from September 21 to October 5 at Medialab Prado. On this occasion, the event will revolve around the power of personal data. Citizens’...

September arrives, the holidays are over - with permission from those who have chosen this month to enjoy their well-deserved rest - and with it all sectors are returning to day to day routine. Although during these summer months many organizations have not stopped promoting activities around open data, such as the Government of the Canary Islands, it is now, with the autumn, when the level of activity increases. Large format conferences September, October and November are the months chosen by many...

The European Data Incubator (EDI) is a project co-financed by the European Union that seeks to support sustainable business incubation around analytics and Big Data. The consortium is made up of managers from several acceleration initiatives within the FIWARE Accelerate program, incubators of companies such as Deusto Entrepreneurship Center and etventure Seed Lab, as well as the network of emerging companies F6S. To locate the candidate companies for the program, EDI has launched a call where SMEs and...