We’re excited to announce the final BDE platform launch!

Mark your calendar for Thursday 16 November, 15:00 CET and join us for our Webinar when the technical team will be setting out what the Big Data Europe Integrator Platform can do, how it does it, and how you can use it to derive more value from your data. This launch webinar includes also the latest achievements we made in Semantifying the Big Data Stack

After the first and second successful rounds of BDE Workshops, we are pleased to announce the third and final one!

This upcoming round will again address each one of the seven H2020 societal challenge communities, providing thus wide-ranging opportunities for active stakeholder engagement. Participation is free of charge.

The primary objective of the third round of workshops (March – November 2017) will be to showcase the progress, impact and results of the seven pilot use-cases. The pilots will demonstrate the features and flexibility of the big data integrator platform, allowing participants to understand the potential of the stack of technologies being made available by the project.

Please find below the schedule of the next BigDataEurope Workshops. Some workshops will be again be collocated with established and influential related events. The presence of EC representatives is, as usual, strongly expected.

Workshop Schedule (2017)

Note: More details for each workshop, including venues, registration instructions and invited attendees will be announced separately. Please stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter, indicating the sector you are interested in.

Who should attend? Although we will strive not to impose a limit on participants, it is likely that venue capacity will be exceeded. Therefore applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis. In particular, we encourage attendance of individuals representing:

• Research & Innovation (H2020 projects)
• Academia
• EC representatives
• EU entities
• Industry (large companies, startups, SMEs)
• Public administration/Policy Makers
• Networking/Lobbying/Associations/Societal initiatives
• International Organisations
• Data community – Open Data & Data Science
• Other relevant stakeholders

The 3^rd workshop on Big Data in Secure Societies, organised by the European Union Satellite Centre (EU SatCen) in the framework of the BigDataEurope project, was held in Brussels on the 3^rd of October 2017.

The event was a success with around 40 participants coming from EC, CDTI, EARSC, ESA, Frontex, GEO and a number of other entities and private companies from a variety of  domains in Secure Societies such as Space & Security and Cybersecurity.

Through dedicated sessions on specific topics involving major experts from the BigDataEurope project and from key domains in Secure Societies, the workshop aimed to:

• go into current and future Big Data needs and challenges in Secure Societies;
• contribute to the building of a community sharing Big Data requirements and strategies;
• discuss real user scenarios and use cases;
• present the outcomes of the BigDataEurope project and in particular of the pilot for Secure Societies;
• define the way forward to add value to current services and to implement new solutions in the Space and Security domain.

Final report, participants list and photos are now available. For speakers presentations please refer to the final agenda. 

BDE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s ISWC in Vienna, Austria. 

ISWC 2017 is the premier international forum, for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. ISWC 2017 will bring together researchers, practitioners and industry specialists to discuss, advance and shape the future of semantic technologies. Every year ISWC offers five exciting and fruitful days that you definitely don’t want to miss!

BDE Partners will be attending the event. In case you would like to schedule a meeting during the conference with the objective to discuss further collaboration with the  BDE Consortium and potential use cases of the BDI Platform, please email us at platform@big-data-europe.eu.