Looking back at the European Big Data Value Forum 2020
Publication Date/Time
2020-12-09T08:00:00+00:00
Country
Europe
“Building a strong European Data and AI Eco-system”
The European Big Data Value Forum
[https://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/] (EBDVF) 2020 was held
between 3 and 5 November in Berlin, Germany, with a complimentary
online broadcast to a wider audience. This annual event is organised
by Big Data Value Association [http://www.bdva.eu/] (BDVA) in
collaboration with the DFKI [https://www.dfki.de/web/], Plattform
Industrie 4.0
[https://www.plattform-i40.de/PI40/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html],
Plattform Lernende Systeme
[https://www.plattform-lernende-systeme.de/home-en.html] and Berlin
Partner [https://www.berlin-partner.de/en/]. The event brings together
industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policy
makers from across Europe to discuss the different challenges and
opportunities the European data economy is facing.

This year’s theme was “Building a strong European Data and AI
Ecosystem”, and through various sessions key topics for Europe were
addressed. For example, the development of European Data Spaces, the
importance of Technology Platforms and Trust, the opportunities for
market uptake, and the new challenges ahead for Data and AI within the
society. This year’s edition was again a successful edition with an
average of 600 participants and industry professional from over 40
countries.

THE EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL (EDP) AT THE FORUM
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2020-12-09_ebdvf_fig1_0.png]
 

Figure 1: European Data Portal at the European Big Data Value Forum
2020

THE EUROPEAN DATA PORTAL (EDP) AT THE FORUM

This year, the team behind the European Data Portal
[https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en] (EDP) partook in the EBDVF’s
programme to highlight the value of open data and to promote the use
and re-use of open data across Europe. In the session, Laura van
Knippenberg discussed how to share data that is not, or cannot be
made, open. 

Together with Esther Huyer from the Support Centre for Data S
[https://www.eudatasharing.eu/]haring, Laura presented in the session:
“Public open data service digital infrastructure: (Open) data
sharing facilities and tools
[https://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/agenda/]”. This
session was led by the European Commission and highlighted which
mechanisms are in place to support individuals, business and
organisations in finding and re-using data resources that are publicly
available. The recording of this session will be live shortly.

Throughout the session various speakers presented:

 	* What the EC is doing to support citizens, businesses and
organisations in discovering and re-using public data resources;
 	* What the EDP and SCDS indicatives are and how people can make
meaningful use of it; and
 	* What the Context Broker is and how this platform is best used by
means of concrete examples.

THE SUPPORT CENTRE FOR DATA SHARING (SCDS)
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/2020-12-09_ebdvf_fig2.png]
 

Figure 2: Support Centre for Data Sharing at the European Big Data
Value Forum 2020

Bringing open data to the next level by opening up high-value datasets
is a major point of the EU Digital Single Market
[https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/digital-single-market_en]
strategy. Another important point in the strategy is providing
guidance on the sharing of data that cannot be made open. The SCDS
plays a vital role in that as it is a platform dedicated to providing
legal and technical support for data sharing and offer a common and a
knowledge base to researchers and practitioners.

You can find recordings of the sessions through the EBDVF’s agenda
[https://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/agenda/].

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