Data Spaces Symposium
Unite. Innovate. Adopt.
12-14 March 2024
Darmstadtium | Frankfurt region

Unite. Innovate. Adopt.
Sharing data is good. Good data sharing is quintessential for thedigital revolution. Sharing data benefits the economy and society
greatly.
Data spaces are the key because they enable data sovereignty.
Now we need open-source software solutions and a wide market
adoption.
If you are a newbie or an expert, the Data Spaces Symposium isthe right place to learn, connect and drive the future of the digital
economy.

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Darmstadtium | Schlossgraben 1 | Darmstadt, Germany

Data Spaces Symposium

Kick-off Day

Program day 1 | 12 March 2024
Market-X Conference

Data Spaces
Discovery Day

09:00

Welcome addresses | Ulrich Ahle, Jan Fischer

From Europe to the world – flourishing dataspaces | Lars Nagel

09:30

Gaia-X Framework

10:00
10:15

Gaia-X Digtal
Clearing House

11:00

Gaia-X Institute

11:30
12:00

Decentralisation using
IPFS

IDSA's assets & offerings: Road to successwith data spaces | Christoph Mertens

Panel | Prometheus
Data Connector"Business value of data spaces I"
Data spaces: Pioneering solutions for implementation, examples for successful operation |DIO, Data-Ex, iSHARE, Nexyo, Startin‘blox,WeTransform, ZF

Gaia-X: Onboarding,first credential
Policy reasoning

Voices of success: Use cases & building
blocks | X-Road 8 “Spaceship”, AW4.0
Data Space, SmartMA-X as a pioneer for
Factory-X"Business value of data spaces II“How telcos realize data spaces to deliver
benefits to end users | KPN, NTT, Deutsche
Telekom, T-Mobile Austria, TNO

Powered by Gaia-X Lighthouse Projects |Prometheus-X, Eona-X, Mobility Data Space,Cooperants, Health-X, Team-X, Energy Data-X

Advocation for data spaces | IDSA
Ambassador Ceremony

15:00
15:30

Interactive Expo | Tours
guided by Gaia-X & IDSA

16:30

Generative AI –BDVA member’s
experience | IBM,Tilde, Cineca,
JOT, UPM, Tree

Engaging SMEs
and Start-ups indata spaces |Sintef, ITI, KIT
and more

AI Act implementation andAI ethics(etami)

Data spaces and digital policy in Germany
FIWARE vision in Data Spaces | The data
spaces value for AI | Sustainability models for
Data Spaces | FIWARE Connector | Interconnecting Valencia platform to a data space

DSBA Hub Pilot| BDVA, Gaia-X,ITI, Itainnova,Tecnalia,Innovalia

Ethics inGenerative AIand Foundationmodels

Smart Data Models & exchange API in dataspaces | Trust framework in data spaces |Marketplaces in data spaces | Roadmap:
towards the future

AI testing anddata spaces |RI:SE, ITI, CredoAI

Data Spaces andDigital Twins(mobility, automotive, smart
cities) | NCI, List,Acatech & more

European Data Space for Smart Communities |Mobility Data Space: How to scale up | Water
Data Space | Data space in action: From cities
to agriculture | Data Space Connector as aService | Closing & final remarks

Computing-DataAIHPC meetsthe demands ofAI and Data

Business applications of data for sustainability | Ana Garcia,
BDVA; Andrea Battaglia, FIWARE; Martin Bauer, NEC Lab; Mads
Pohl Petersson, KMD; Roberto Di Bernardo, Engineering; Dora
Ramazzotti, Bologna Airport

Coffee & networking

13:00
14:00

FIWARE Data Spaces
Workshop“Making data spaces real”

Data Week

Data Monetisation | IDC, ITI,
Eurecat, Sintef,
University ofSouthampton
Lunch
Beyond data sharing: Realizingvalue throughapplications indata spaces"Technical realization of data spaces"
Let's tech talk about connectors: How newgeneration data spaceconnectors drive interoperability | Tekniker, TNO,
International
sovity, VTT, T-Systems,
Manufacturing-X
SAP, 1001 Lakes, EclipseCouncil
Foundation
Coffee & networking

17:00

The data spaces opportunity

Ulrich Homann, Microsoft

17:20

Destination Earth needs data spaces

Michael Schick, EUMETSAT

17:40

Show the synergies: Conclusion of the day, bring the topics together, hand them over to day 2

Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X | Andrea Battaglia, FIWARE | Ana Garcia, BDVA | Lars Nagel, IDSA18:00

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Visionary Day

Program day 2 | 13 March 2024

Registration & good morning coffee

09:00
09:30

Welcome addresses

Digital City Darmstadt – place for innovation

Hanno Benz, City of Darmstadt

Boosting digital transformation with data spaces

Reinhold Achatz, IDSA | Thomas Hahn, Siemens | Yasunori Mochizuki, NEC | Hubert
Tardieu, Gaia-X

09:50

KeynoteStrengthening our economy with data spaces

Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

10:05

Roundtable

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

Damian Boeselager, EP | Ute Burkhardt, Volkswagen | Boris Otto, Fraunhofer ISST |Sille Sepp, MyData Global | Ricardo Vitorino, Ubiwhere | Yvo Volman, EC

10:50

KeynoteThe renewed political support to data sharing and data spaces

Renate Nicolay, European Commission

KeynoteInterweaving data spaces internationally – the Japanese view

Yasunori Mochizuki, NEC

11:20

Dialogue with industry
representatives

We want data spaces! The business user perspective

Maro Bader, Roche | Inder Gopal, IUDX | Diego Mallada, Inditex | Neil Purves, Bridgestone |Frederic Sutter, AIRBUS

12:10

Presentation

Complementing data spaces with Google Cloud

Thomas Baumgart, Google Cloud

Presentation

Enabling data spaces through cloud computing

Khrystyna Shlyakhtovska, Amazon Web Services
Lunch

12:30
13:45

Horizontal session 1:
Data spaces tech and its potential to "unite“Horizontal session 2:
Horizontal session 3:
Data spacs‘ potential to innovate”: Lowering
How companies can "adopt" data spaces
barriers and increasing value
Coffee & networking

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

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

15:00
15:30

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

Vertical session 1:
Data spaces
for public sector and health
Vertical session 5: Data, AI and beyond inlanguage, cultural heritage and media,
impact on training and skills

Mini break & room change

16:40
16:45

Wrap-up

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

Moderators of the 8 sessions

17:00

Joint presentation

The next step for united cross-continent data spaces: Insights fromrunning and mature endeavors

Masaru Dobashi, DATA-EX | Marek Jerzak, Cofinity-X | Matthijs Punter, TNO |Steven Schouten, Topsector Logistiek

17:20

Presentation

Data spaces testbed seen by the Japanese Data Society Alliance

Noboru Koshizuka, University of Tokyo

17:35

Keynote

The enormous societal & economic impact data spaces can unfold

Tiago Peixoto, World Bank

17:50

KeynoteThe moral imperative: The societal impact of sovereign data sharing

Wim de Waele, The Data Tank

18:05

Conclusion & hand-overFrom policymaking to action – the DSBA & DSSC | Hand-over to day 3

Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X | Andrea Battaglia,
FIWARE | Ana Garcia, BDVA | Lars Nagel, IDSA

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Community Day
DSSC Annual Conference

Program day 3 | 14 March 2024
08:30
09:15

Registration & good morning coffee
Welcome addresses

09:30
10:00

Panel discussion

Welcome to the European Union DSSC’s Annual Conference

Boris Otto, Fraunhofer ISSTOne year in the Common European Data Spaces’ experience & their future

Bjoern Juretzki, European Commission

Learnings from the Digital Europe Programme’s data space projects

Mirthe Boerdijk, Capgemini | Ana Garcia, BDVA | Savvas Rogotis, BDVA | Sille Sepp, MyData Global

10:45

Coffee & networking
The many ways in which the Data Spaces Support Centre assists you

Mariano Blaya-Andreu, IDSA | Ana Garcia, BDVA | Boris Otto & Tobias Guggenberger, Fraunhofer
ISST, Matthijs Punter, TNO | Tonia Sapia, FIWARE | Tuomo Tuikka, VTT | Bert Verdonck, LNDS

12:00

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

Geert Lamerichs, TNO

12:15The building blocks you need: The new version of the DSSC Blueprint

Matthijs Punter, TNO

12:30

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

Mariano Blaya-Andreu & Sonia Jimenez, IDSA, Michiel Stornebrink, TNO

11:15

Presentations

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Simpl Open joins the common European data
spaces family | Sille Sepp, MyData | Eline LincklaenArriëns, Capgemini

14:15

Standardisation in data spaces – European data
strategy | Bjoern Juretzki, EC

14:30

Standardisation – The Data interopera-bility report| Stefan Weisgerber, DIN

14:45

Panel: Key recommendations – how to proceed? |Coen Janssen, EC

15:15/30 Assessing the maturity of a data space | ChristophMertens, IDSA | Mirthe Boerdijk, Capgemini
15:45
16:15

What Open Data can do for Common European
Data Spaces | Marcin Baryn, EC | Elena Simperl,
Kings College London

Role play: Can we build a data space in an hour?
| David Regeczi, TNO

Panel: The data spaces join Simpl | DanielGonzález, Capgemini | Daniel Arosa, NTT Data |Isabel Montalvo, Indra | Thimo Thoeye, OASC

Room change

Crossing the chasm – paths for data spaces towork together | Christopher Newman, deploy
EMDS | Félix Bole, Prometheus-X | Volker
Berkhout, Fraunhofer IEE | Sara Garavelli,
EOSC | Juha-Pekka Soininen & Jutta Suksi,VTT

Language Data Space and Generative AI: LLMs
for European industry and the public sector |Georg Rehm, DFKI | Stelios Piperidis, ILSP |Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde

The size and trends of the EU data market anddata economy | Giorgio Micheletti, IDC

Data Space Sustainability: Business Stories,
Strategy & long-term impact | Kuldar Aas,
Minstry of Economics and Communications ofEstonia | Daniel Alonso, ITI | Ioannis Chrysakis,
Netcompany | Stefanie Federl, Acatech | ClaraPezuela, FIWARE | Eimear Farrell, Joint
Research Centre, European Commisison |Savvas Rogotis, BDVA | Thomas Gomez,
AgDataHub | Sara Nóbrega, EDP | Dolores
Ordonez, AnySolution | Nevena Raczko, IDC

16:30

Panel discussion

Recap from the tracks

Daniel Alonso, BDVA | Silvia Castellvi & Gianfranco Cecconi, IDSA | Sille Sepp, MyData Global

17:00

Farewell address

Closing Ceremony

Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X | Andrea Battaglia, FIWARE | Ana Garcia, BDVA,
Gianfranco Cecconi & Lars Nagel, IDSA

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