Program

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3 days of interaction

The symposium unfolds over three distinct days, each offering unique perspectives and interactive opportunities:

Visionary Day

It’s all about unity! This day will be full of high-level keynotes and several tracks dedicated to domains, success stories and impact. We can only achieve the goal of sovereign data sharing together!

  • High-level keynotes and inspirational panel presentations
  • Sessions with major players from around the globe showing how they unite to build data space, how data spaces innovate the economy, how they adopt data space solutions
  • Success story sessions with a focus on industries and impact of data spaces

European Data Spaces Day

Under the guiding star of the DSSC, this day focuses on practical applications, use cases and educational activities. Discussions on the future of data spaces, aligning with the European Strategy for Data.

  • Advanced presentations reflecting the European data space ambitions
  • Activities that coordinate, harmonize and unite data space projects
  • Tools & resources for data space, examples of successful data spaces

Market-X Conference
Gaia-X

Data Spaces Discovery Day
IDSA

Data Week
BDVA

FIWARE Data Spaces Workshop
FIWARE Foundation

09:00

Welcome addresses

Room: Spectrum

From Europe to the world – flourishing data spaces

Room: Ferrum

09:30

Gaia-X Framework

Room: Spectrum

Decentralization using IPFS

Room: Argentum

Arthur Sore
Gaia-X

IDSA’s assets & offerings: Road to success with data spaces

Room: Ferrum

10:00

Gaia-X Digital Clearing House: Operationalize trust, compliance and labels

Room: Spectrum

Panel around Prometheus Data Connector

Room: Argentum

10:30
Gaia-X: onboarding, first credentials issuance

Room: Argentum

Ewann Gavard
Gaia-x

10:45
Gaia-X Institute – Investigation of the economics of data-sharing

Room: Spectrum

Opening and welcome message

Room: Platinum 2

Keynote: Data spaces and digital policy in Germany

Room: Platinum 2

Katrin Rosendahl
BMWK

FIWARE vision in Data Spaces

Room: Platinum 2

The data spaces value for AI: facilitate the sovereignty of your models

Room: Platinum 2

FIWARE Data Space Connector

Room: Platinum 2

Interconnecting Valencia platform to a data space Auditing carbon capture supply chainsset for interoperability: Smart Data Models and exchange API in data spaces

Room: Platinum 2

11:30

Room: Argentum

Yassir Sellami
Gaia-x

Coffee & networking

12:00

Voices of success: Use cases and building blocks

Room: Spectrum

X-Road 8 “Spaceship”: Transforming existing data ecosystems into Gaia-X-compatible data

Collaborative Fault Diagnosis and Sovereignty in the AW 4.0 Data Space

SmartMA-X as a pioneer for Factory-X

Business value of data spaces

How telcos realize data spaces to deliver benefits to end users

Room: Ferrum

Smart Data Models and exchange API in data spaces

Room: Platinum 2

Trust Framework in data spaces

Room: Platinum 2

Rajiv Rajani
iSHARE

Marketplaces in Data Spaces

Room: Platinum 2

Roadmap: towards the future

Room: Platinum 2

13:00

Lunch

14:00

AI Testing and Data Spaces

Room: Vanadium

Mobility Data Spaces and Digital Twins – Towards Smarter Decision-Making in Cities

Room: Titanium

European Data Space for Smart Communities

Room: Platinum 2

Mobility Data Space: How to scale up utilization of urban mobility data

Room: Platinum 2

Water Data Space

Room: Platinum 2

Data spaces in action: from cities to agriculture

Room: Platinum 2

Data Space Connector as a Service: an enabler for SMEs to enter the data economy

Room: Platinum 2

15:00/15

Interactive Expo | Tour guided by Gaia-X & IDSA

Exhibition area

Let’s tech talk about connectors [continuation]

Closing and final remarks

Room: Platinum 2

16:30

Coffee & networking

17:00

The data spaces opportunity

Room: Spectrum

17:20

Destination Earth needs data spaces

Room: Spectrum

17:40

Show the synergies: Conclusion of the day, bring the topics together, hand them over to the second day

Room: Spectrum

18:00

Reception

Centralstation Darmstadt | facilitated by the Gaia-X

09:00

Registration & good morning coffee

09:30

Welcome address

Room: Spectrum

Digital City Darmstadt – place for innovation

09:40

Welcome address

Room: Spectrum

Boosting digital transformation with data spaces

09:50

Keynote

Room: Spectrum

Strengthening our economy with data spaces

10:00

Roundtable

Room: Spectrum

Data Act: Opportunities created by the latest milestone of the EU data strategy

10:50

Keynote

Room: Spectrum

The renewed political support to data sharing and data spaces

11:00

Keynote

Room: Spectrum

Data spaces testbed seen by the Japanese Data Society Alliance

12:10

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

Complementing data spaces with Google Cloud

12:20

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

Enabling data spaces through cloud computing

12:30

Lunch

13:45

Horizontal session 1
Data spaces tech potential to “unite“

Room: Titanium 3

Introduction | Setting the scene

Simpl vision & launch of the active engagement strategy

Minimal Interoperable Mechanisms at data spaces

Data Space Interoperability Framework

Volker Berkhout
Fraunhofer IEE

InGeo-X: Building a horizontal dataspace for cross-sectoral access to geodata

EONA-X and Interoperability

Eclipse Dataspace Working Group: Groundwork for sovereign data sharing in data spaces

Open source in data spaces

DSBA: Achieving data space tech convergence

Horizontal session 2
“Innovate”: lowering barriers and increasing value

Room: Ferrum

Moderation | Introduction

Data spaces & smart data models

Teach skills to build data spaces

View from end users: Hubs / BDVA i-Spaces as a key instrument to facilitate technical adoption from small actors (SMEs, start-ups)

Metaverse / virtual worlds

LLMs and data spaces

Data spaces for Generative AI (and AI for data spaces): Intelligent Data Spaces

Disruptive applications in data spaces: digital twins

Technical enablers for providing (business) value

Horizontal session 3
How companies can “adopt” data spaces

Room: Spectrum

Welcome & setting-up the scene

Presentations & panel discussion

Consultancies & analysts supporting the business strategies and operations of data spaces

How to join a cross-domain ecosystem to position Tourism as a key data space in Europe

Hubs as the way to test, raise awareness, foster adoption and ease the access to data spaces

How businesses will enter and adopt data spaces like Manufacturing-X

Mobility Data Spaces as success story

Adoption of data spaces at international scale

Vertical session 1
Data spaces for public sector and health

Room: Platinum 3

Intoduction to the topic

Value creation in public sector data ecosystems

Local Digital Twin Toolbox: Modelling the city for decision making

Flanders Smart Data Space

European Health Data Space

Public procurement Data Space

Industrial view on health data spaces

15:00

Coffee & networking

15:30

Vertical session 2
Data spaces for mobility, tourism and cities: How data spaces are transforming our lives

Room: Titanium 3

Welcome & introduction

Common European mobility data space

Empowering SMEs in the tourism sector to embrace data spaces

Eona-X – improving moblity for the Olympic Games

Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility – laying foundations for digital transformation

Impact assessment in the European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC)

Mobility of people and goods by FIT Consulting

Questions & answers | Discussion slido

Vertical session 3
Data spaces for the green deal, energy and agribusiness

Room: Ferrum

Welcome & introduction

Insights from GREAT, the Green Deal Data Space CSA

Moderation of the Panel discussion

Insights from Int:NET, the Energy CSA

How data spaces are making industries greener – the Green Deal Dataspace Association

Enershare: Bringing together energy and data value chains to enable the energy transition

Building the Green Deal data space

Building the Agri data space

Building the Energy data space

Insights from AgriDataSpace CSA

Vertical session 4
Data spaces for manufacturing, supply chain and logistics

Room: Spectrum

The European Manufacturing Data Space

SM4RTENANCE: Trusted Data Sharing for Manufacturing Equipment Industry

UNDERPIN: holistic asset management in critical manufacturing industry

Circular TwAIn

TANGO: Digital technology for secure and trustworthy data flows

EuProGiant: Smart and sovereign data in manufacturing

Panel discussion | Data spaces and the Digital Product Passport – a perfect fit?

Vertical session 5
Data, AI and beyond in language, cultural heritage and media, impact on training and skills

Room: Platinum 3

Introduction, setting-up the scene and moderator

View from language sector. Language Data Space and use cases

View from media. Trusted European Media Space (TEMS) and use cases

View from Cultural Heritage: Europeana

Education and training as an example of synergies: MERLOT project

16:40

Info session by the European Commission
Deployment calls | data spaces for the green deal, energy and agribusiness

16:40

Mini break & room change

16:45

Wrap-up

Room: Spectrum

How data spaces unite & innovate, how they fuel adoption in industries
Highlights from the 8 sessions

Moderators of the 8 sessions

17:00

Joint presentation

Room: Spectrum

The next step for united cross-continent data spaces: insights from running and mature endeavors

17:20

Keynote

Room: Spectrum

Interweaving data spaces internationally – the Japanese view

17:35

Keynote

Room: Spectrum

The moral imperative: The societal impact of sovereign data sharing

17:50

Conclusion & hand-over

Room: Spectrum

From policymaking to action – the DSBA & DSSC
Hand-over to day 3

19:00

Social dinner

Restaurant Sitte Darmstadt | Please register and pay separately here: dinner registration [only 200 seats are available!]

09:00

Registration & good morning coffee

09:15

Welcome address

Room: Spectrum

Welcome to the European Union Data Spaces Support Centre’s Annual Conference

09:30

Welcome address

Room: Spectrum

One year in the Common European Data Spaces’ experience, and their future

10:00

Panel discussion

Room: Spectrum

Learnings from the Digital Europe Programme’s data space projects

10:45

Coffee & networking

11:15

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

The Many Ways in Which the Data Spaces Support Centre Assists You

12:00

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

Do you want to build a data space? The new DSSC co-creation method

12:15

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

The building blocks you need: The new version of the DSSC Blueprint

12:30

Presentation

Room: Spectrum

Where the rubber meets the road: Discovering data space software and services for the new DSSC Toolbox

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Presentation | Simpl Open joins the Common European Data Spaces family

Room: Spectrum

Presentation | Can we build a data space in an hour? A role play to simulate the value of the blueprint

Room: Titanium 3

Panel | Crossing the chasm – paths for data spaces to work together

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation | The size and trends of the EU data market and data economy

Room: Ferrum

14:15

Presentation | Standardisation in data spaces – The European data strategy

Room: Spectrum

Presentation | Can we build a data space in an hour? A role play to simulate the value of the blueprint [Continuation]

Room: Titanium 3

Panel | Crossing the chasm – paths for data spaces to work together [Continuation]

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation | The size and trends of the EU data market and data economy [Coninuation]

Room: Ferrum

14:30

Presentation | Standardisation in data spaces – The Data Interoperability Report

Room: Spectrum

Presentation | Can we build a data space in an hour? A role play to simulate the value of the blueprint [Continuation]

Room: Titanium 3

Panel | Crossing the chasm – paths for data spaces to work together [Continuation]

Room: Platinum 3

14:45

Presentation | Standardisation in data spaces – Key recommendations, how to proceed?

Room: Spectrum

Presentation | Can we build a data space in an hour? A role play to simulate the value of the blueprint [Continuation]

Room: Titanium 3

Panel | Crossing the chasm – paths for data spaces to work together [Continuation]

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation & panel | Data Space Sustainability: Business Stories, Strategy & long-term Impact [Continuation]

Room: Ferrum

15:15

Presentation | Assessing the maturity of a data space

Room: Spectrum

Presentation | Can we build a data space in an hour? A role play to simulate the value of the blueprint [Continuation]

Room: Titanium 3

Presentation + Q&A | Language Data Space and GenAI: LLMs for European Industry and the Public Sector

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation & panel | Data Space Sustainability: Business Stories, Strategy & long-term Impact [Continuation]

Room: Ferrum

15:30

Presentation | Assessing the maturity of a data space [Continuation]

Room: Spectrum

Panel discussion | The data spaces join Simpl

Room: Titanium 3

Presentation + Q&A | Language Data Space and GenAI: LLMs for European Industry and the Public Sector

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation & panel | Data Space Sustainability: Business Stories, Strategy & long-term Impact [Continuation]

Room: Ferrum

15:45

Presentation | What Open Data can do for the Common European Data Spaces

Room: Spectrum

Panel discussion | The data spaces join Simpl [Continuation]

Room: Titanium 3

Presentation + Q&A | Language Data Space and GenAI: LLMs for European Industry and the Public Sector [Continuation]

Room: Platinum 3

Presentation & panel | Data Space Sustainability: Business Stories, Strategy & long-term Impact [Continuation]

Room: Ferrum

16:15

Room change