Program
08:00
Registration
09:00
Intro plenary session
The journey of data spaces: achievements and horizons
Europe is at a pivotal moment: secure, responsible, and scalable data use will shape its global competitiveness.
This session brings together policymakers, industry leaders, and the investors’ perspective to explore how seamless data flows and connected data spaces can drive Europe’s next wave of innovation.
It outlines the Data Union strategy and Digital Omnibus package, designed to simplify rules and support an interoperable data ecosystem, moving on to the rapid growth of data spaces, data labs, and AI factories, supported by initiatives like the Cloud & AI Development Act and Simpl.
10:30
Break
Users track
11:00
From vision to value: data space success stories in manufacturing & supply chain
This session connects high-level policies, like the European Data Union Strategy, with real practical data space benefits for manufacturing and supply chains.
We address key industry’s global challenges such as sustainability (regulatory requirements like decarbonization), resilience (supply chain), and economic efficiency (based on AI/data-driven services) and present how data spaces deal effectively and efficiently with those by introducing concrete european and international success stories.
The core premise: no single company can solve these challenges alone. Success requires a shift from industrial data silos towards “interoperable, collaborative, sovereign, and autonomous” business ecosystems. This session shows how data spaces provide the technical, legal, governance and business framework for realising renewed data value chains.
Providers track
11:00
Business models & financial viability in data spaces
In this session we look into the provider perspective of data spaces:
We will discuss how making a business through the data spaces and their financial viability could look like.
Innovators track
11:00
Data spaces as key enablers for AI
AI relies on access to vast amounts of high-quality data, but ensuring this access in a secure, trustworthy, and interoperable way remains a major challenge.
This session will review the essential role of data spaces to support the successful development and deployment of AI applications. We will discuss how data spaces can provide the required access to high-quality data that large AI models require as well as how they can evolve in a symbiotic relationship with AI technologies, enabling mutual benefits and successfully paving the way to trustworthy AI in Europe.
Based on this premise, and with a strong focus on the view from industry, the session is structured around three pillars:
- How ultimately data spaces would provide a global fabric to enable autonomous AI Agents
- How data spaces contribute to prepare data specifically for AI (AI-ready data)
- How data spaces provide technical and business value to AI
The session will bring together experts from data and AI community, industry representatives deploying AI applications with the need of vast amount of high quality data in different domains, and AI driven use cases from European data spaces
12:30
Lunch
Users track
14:00
How data spaces can drive compliance automation & help reduce admin burden
Today, companies spend significant time and money on compliance. Even data already in digital form must often be reformatted and resubmitted to multiple authorities, where it is checked manually.
Data spaces enable participants to share data on a “need” basis, while preserving their autonomy. In this way, data spaces establish a trusted environment which can also be used to streamline the exchange of data with authorities. In this session we will explore some of the use cases.
Providers track
14:00
Solutions and tools you need to operate a data space
Data space solutions are maturing.
Ranging from business offerings to open source compontents and including technical components like connectors and business & organisational support tools such as frameworks, rulebooks and templates. The DSSC Toolbox contains all these solutions. In this session we’ll announce the Toolbox v3 and several providers will pitch their solutions.
Innovators track
14:00
Data labs and AI Factories
As announced in the AI Continent Action Plan and the Data Union Strategy, data labs will be established, providing secure environments and data services to connect AI factories with common European data spaces. The session will provide an update on the latest developments.
15:30
Break
16:00
Plenary session
Data spaces everywhere – enabling economic collaboration
Data spaces are gaining momentum worldwide. They enable trusted data sharing across company, sector, and country borders — while preserving control over data and, above all, delivering real economic and societal value.
Yet the way data space technologies are applied differs significantly, and governance models and implementation practices vary from one context to another. This session showcases business-driven examples from around the world and explores how data spaces are put into practice. The aim is to understand what works, what scales, and how data spaces can connect economies and foster truly global collaboration.
19:30
Awards gala
European Data Spaces Awards and evening gala
08:00
Registration
09:00
Plenary session
Data spaces at work – global industry perspectives
Companies and industries are already using data spaces, recognizing their potential and generating new insights into data-driven collaboration.
These insights raise important questions: Where should more data spaces be developed? How can small and medium-sized enterprises be included and benefit from them? And if data spaces deliver economic value: How can investors be motivated to engage? Each answer points to a different path forward — how adoption can accelerate, how impact can scale, and how the role of data spaces in the economy can grow.
Breakout session
Building an agricultural data space that endures
A sustainable agri-data space must be more than a one-off project. What conditions need to be in place for it to last — political support, secure funding, commitment from stakeholders who are willing to invest, and what else is required?
10:30
Break
Users track
11:00
Data spaces in countries, regions, and municipalities — addressing real needs, creating added value.
Data spaces are emerging across Europe — in countries, regions, and even small municipalities — addressing real needs and creating tangible value. They draw on diverse funding models, from EU programmes to national initiatives and local investment, and are already delivering solutions in sectors such as tourism, health, smart cities, and agriculture.
To fully unlock their potential, data spaces must overcome practical challenges and achieve interoperability. This session presents successful examples at different territorial and sectoral levels and offers insights into how data spaces can be implemented in a way that is scalable, impactful, and beneficial to local stakeholders.
Providers track
11:00
Legal enablers for data sharing: state of pay and path forward
The EU has introduced an ambitious and innovative legal framework aimed at unlocking the value of data through high-value datasets, data intermediaries, Model Contractual Terms, new provisions in the Data Act, and sector-specific initiatives.
With the focus now on simplification, coherence, and practical implementation, key questions arise: What is the current state of play? How are these legal enablers supporting the development of Common European data spaces? Which implementation steps have been taken? And how can the legal framework and its implementation continue to evolve to further facilitate trusted, secure, and interoperable data sharing?
Innovators track
11:00
Financing the future: from public funding to private investment in Europe’s data spaces
Europe’s data spaces are entering a critical transition as public funding gives way to stronger private-sector involvement. This session explores how sustainable business models, investment dynamics, and market readiness can accelerate the data economy.
Through expert debate, startup pitches, and a collective reflection, we examine what it takes to create scalable, investable, and interoperable data-space ecosystems that support Europe’s digital ambitions.
12:30
Lunch
Users track
14:00
Opportunities in media, culture, language and cross-domain
Europe is unlocking new competitive advantages in AI by opening access to high-quality media, cultural, and linguistic datasets. More…
than 30 million digitised works from Europe’s cultural institutions will be made available for AI development, and new cooperation with public broadcasters will create opportunities for AI-driven archive restoration, content enrichment, and advanced multilingual media services. The development of the European common language data space and ALT-EDIC further accelerates progress. By crowdsourcing domain-specific datasets, including rare and smaller languages, Europe positions itself to build large language models that reflect its full linguistic diversity. The session will show how these data resources can create a thriving ecosystem where media organisations, cultural institutions, researchers, and SMEs collaborate to build world-leading, trustworthy AI.
15:00
From insight to impact: incentives driving SME participation in data spaces
Data Spaces offer key business opportunities for SMEs, but their adoption and scaling also presents some challenges.
The session will explore and showcase statements and experiences from various companies about data sharing in order to illustrate concrete approaches to solutions.
Providers track
14:00
Standardisation – prerequisite for global data space adoption
This session will gather European and international stakeholders to discuss how standardisation efforts drive global interoperability and large-scale adoption of data spaces, and identify gaps in standards development.
The session will provide an update of the standards being developed by CEN/CENELEC and ETSI for compliance with the EU Data Act. In addition through collaboration with global partners, such as ISO/IEC and W3C, it will showcase how a harmonized, trusted, interconnected and scalable data spaces ecosystem is being built.
During the session we will provide examples to illustrate how standards help to enable implementation, support scalability, and meet regulatory compliance.
15:00
Interoperability – the key factor for scaling data spaces
In 2025, standards have matured significantly. In this session we will dive into DSSC Blueprint 3.0, adopting global interoperability standards as a common foundation that data spaces can tailor to their needs.
The session will discuss the latest industry developements on protocols and technologies (such as the Dataspace Protocol) and discuss with providers how this helps them in scaling their solutions.
Innovators track
14:00
(The potential of) Data spaces in defence and cybersecurity
The session will highlight data spaces as trusted environments for pooling operational, industrial, and research data to develop next-generation defence and cybersecurity systems and in support of strategic autonomy.
15:00
Scientific data: Key enabler for innovation
This session will highlight use cases that illustrate how the sharing of scientific data helps to reduce research and development costs, accelerate innovation, and open up new frontiers in materials, pharmaceuticals, energy, and biotech.
16:00
Break
16:10
Closing plenary session
From insight to action: the road ahead for data spaces
Insights of the past two days, translated into a forward-looking roadmap for data spaces.
Building on real-world impact, national strategies, and the need for global harmonization, we outline how data spaces can grow into a powerful, connected ecosystem that benefits economies and societies alike.
17:10
Post-event reception