European Data Forum 2016
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 products and multilingual services for different European audiences) as well as societal and economic impact.
This event is relevant for all stakeholders involved in the data value chain, they will be shown the cutting-edge innovative industrial applications of big data technologies to upcoming innovation breakthroughs. This forum is designed as a meeting point where participants will have the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas, which will be used to find solutions to current challenges and to design EU policies in order to strengthen the European data economy while it becomes a global leader in this area.
The European Data Forum will consist of more than forty talks, an exhibition and the presentation of a set of posters selected by the organizing committee which belong to one of the following categories:
1. Posters with a practical, industry- or user-oriented focus by representatives of technology providers and organizations. Innovative data applications in different sectors of the European Economy: agro food, automotive, education and skills, healthcare, media, policy, smart industry, urban smart living, and others.
2. Posters with a technical focus reporting concrete experiences by representatives of academia and research centres. This category includes new data models and languages, optimized architectures, content analytics, data mining, predictive analytics, predictive models, semantic technologies, geospatial data techniques and systems for contextualization and personalization.
3. Posters with a specific focus on impact-creation activities including policy development, road-mapping, standardisation, exploitation and training, data-driven business models, data governance and open data.
The forum is expected to overcome the success recorded in the last edition, held in 2014, where more than 600 people from more than 360 organizations attended the event in Greece. The participants had the opportunity to attend for two days three panels related to NeSSI, big data, collaboration and interoperability; in addition, there were thirty talks organized in different networking sessions devoted to the following topics: open data, best practices, Horizon 2020 working program and data usage.
Thanks to the European Commission support and the large number of technological initiatives of big data, open data and linked data; data economy includes a large number of European stakeholders, interested in adding value to the information. In this context, the European Forum has established itself as an excellent opportunity to join synergies at European level to advance and achieve common solutions and strategies that position the EU as a leader in global data economy.
