May
08
Friday
2026
Descripción
On May 8, 2026, a new edition of the National Open Data Meeting (ENDA) will take place, this time in Pamplona organized by the Government of Navarra. A key event for those working in public innovation, data reuse and digital entrepreneurship to exchange knowledge, experiences and good practices.
Under the slogan "Learn and undertake", this year's edition focuses on the role of data in education and in the promotion of new business projects, highlighting the importance of data literacy and the potential of open data as a driver of innovation, learning and the creation of job opportunities.
An open approach focused on practical experiences
This edition's agenda has been designed to address the main challenges and opportunities posed by the use of open data in this specific area. Throughout the day, issues such as the reuse of data in the field of education, the possibilities they offer at the workplace or the role of public administrations as drivers of this data ecosystem will be explored.
The session will begin at 9:00 a.m. with the inauguration by Javier Remírez Apesteguía, First Vice-President, Minister of the Presidency and Equality and spokesman for the Government of Navarre. It will be followed by the keynote speech "AI and open data: new ways of exploiting, understanding and creating value" by Mikel Galar Idoiate, professor in the area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Public University of Navarra.
The event will then take place over various round tables that will allow for a deeper understanding of various topics from a practical perspective, with real examples and experiences shared by professionals who work with data on a daily basis.
- Table 1: Relationship between education, entrepreneurship and employment
- Table 2: The role of Public Administrations in the reuse of data
- Table 3: Entrepreneurship and open data: vision and future
- Table 4: The power of data in education
- Table 5: Evolution of Open Data Policies
Datos.gob.es will participate in this last table by contributing its experience as a reference platform at the national level in terms of opening and reusing public sector information. For its part, the General Directorate of Data will share its vision at table 2. In both cases, trends and the lines of work that are being developed to promote the culture of data throughout the country will be shared.
A new challenge to face
Since its first edition, ENDA has been a meeting place for those who work with open data from very diverse perspectives. Each year, the event has been consolidating a broader and more mature community, capable of generating projects, methodologies and alliances that transcend the meeting itself. In this sense, within the framework of each meeting, a central space is dedicated to the identification of a challenge that must be addressed in order to consolidate a more solid, useful and sustainable data ecosystem. These challenges, defined collaboratively, allow public policies and reuse initiatives to be oriented towards a more mature and impact-oriented model. The challenges addressed in previous editions have been:
- CHALLENGE 1. Generate data exchanges and facilitate their openness, where participants reached a series of conclusions to promote inter-administrative collaboration.
- CHALLENGE 2. Increase capacities for open data, where work was done on a competency framework so that public employees acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to promote open data.
- CHALLENGE 3. How to measure the impact of open data, where a methodological proposal was made for the development of a systematic mapping of initiatives that try to measure the impact of open data.
- CHALLENGE 4. Prioritization in the opening of public data, where the datasets to be published by public administrations (local, regional or national) were identified. To this end, a methodological proposal and a tool were developed to determine the level of organizational maturity in data openness policies.
We will have to wait for the celebration of the V ENDA to know what this year's challenge is.
Registration now open
The conference is open to both those who work with data in their day-to-day work and those who want to discover new opportunities in the educational, professional or entrepreneurial field. Whatever your case, in order to attend it is necessary to register through the event's website. The form will remain available until April 30, 2026.
After four editions held in different territories, ENDA continues to grow as an itinerant meeting that promotes collaboration between administrations, universities, companies and citizen organizations, consolidating a diverse community committed to open data. An opportunity to grow and continue learning.
If you want more information, on the official website you can consult the contents, materials and learnings from the four previous editions, which have contributed to strengthening the state open data ecosystem.
