Press Release
March 1st, 2024
Data Society AllianceInternational Open Forum on Data Society
Agreement to Establish a Task Force for International Standardization of Data Federation
The Data Society Alliance(DSA), the IEEE SA P3800 WG and Dawex Systems, SAS 1（Dawex） , hosted theInternational Open Forum on Data Society, an event that brings together key European organizations involved indata collaboration with stakeholders from the IEEE and ISO, the international standards bodies.
The meeting was held in Paris, France, from February 12 to 14, 2024 in Paris, France, with participants from Europe,Japan, China and India. 18 organizations from industry, academia, and government made reports. The number ofparticipants, including virtual ones, was 68 people and 31 organizations. At the meeting, in addition to the latest
status reports from various organizations, they engaged in lively discussions on data space, brokerage, trading,regulation, and governance related to data usage, standardization, interoperability, and trust frameworks.
As a result of this meeting, we are pleased to report that the following agreements have been reached with theparticipating organizations and companies. The presentation materials and minutes of this meeting will be disclosed
in the public relations contents listed in 3.
1. The next meeting

The next meeting will be held in Japan in the fall of 2024.
2. Establish a task force to discuss international standardization.
Regarding interoperability among data spaces, a task force was established to promote international
standardization activities jointly, and it was agreed that the task force meetings would be held monthly.
3. Create PR content.

Create public relations content to disseminate the contents of this meeting and past roundtables (the past twomeetings were referred to as roundtables) to the international community.

1Lyon, France,CEO Fabrice Tocco, Laurent Lafaye
https://www.dawex.com/en/

＜International Open Forum on Data Society Program＞
Monday, February 12

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome - Morning coffee - Set up

10:00 - 10:30 Opening Remarks & Self-Introductions
Hiroshi Mano, Data Society Alliance - Didier Navez, Dawex - All
10:30 ‒ 12:30 Keynotes
10:30 - 11:00

Kenji Hiramoto, Executive Officer, IPA/The Digital Agency
Title: AI accelerates the data society

11:00 - 11:30

Guillaume de Lavallade, CEO at Hub One, and Romain Rollet, Head of
Data Platforms at Hub One DataTrustTitle: How data intermediaries accelerate data projects & revenue for
airport ecosystem?

11:30 - 12:00

Pr. Noboru Koshizuka, Professor/Chair, University of Tokyo & DSA
Title: Progress of Dataspaces Initiatives in Japan

12:00 - 12:30

Coen Janssen, Policy Officer at The European Commission, and Antonio
Biason, Legal & Policy Officer at The European Commission
Title: Trusted data spaces - focus areas for standardization

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:30

Status Report 1

14:00 - 14:30

Didier Navez, SVP Data Policy & Governance at Dawex, and FrédéricBellaiche, PhD and VP Technology & Research at Dawex
Title: Trusted Data Transaction: CEN Workshop update

14:30 - 15:00

Takafumi Ochiai, Senior Partner, Atsumi & Sakai
Title: Japan's Digital Frontier: Data and AI Policy for Era of Innovation

15:00 - 15:30

Stefano De Panfilis, Chief Operating Officer, Fiware Foundation
Title: Introduction to Fiware data spaces connector

15:30 - 16:00

Julien Adelberger, Senior Project Coordinator at IDSA
Title: Standardization and Internationalization - towards IDS-Adoption

16:00 - 16:30

Break

16:30 - 17:00

Ulrich Ahle, COO at Gaia-X Association
Title: Gaia-X Digital Clearing House and 2024 Roadmap

17:00 - 17:30

Mayuko Kaneko, Researcher, Fujitsu
Title: Requirements of Data Space for data intermediaries to comply with
the new data regulations

17:30

End Day 1

Tuesday, February 13

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome - Morning coffee - Set up

10:00 - 10:10

Opening Remarks
Hiroshi Mano, Data Society Alliance - Didier Navez, Dawex

10:10 ‒ 12:00 Keynotes
10:10 - 10:40

Ahmed Jerraya, Director and Researcher at CEA
Title: Data Spaces for Industry. Building on Data4Industry-X

10:40-11:10

Sébastien Picardat, President of AID, the Association for Data
Intermediation
Title: Data Intermediation, a practical perspective

11:10 - 11:40

Yuki Nobekawa, Chief Operating Officer at Japan Data Exchange
Title: Orchestrating data exchanges in Japan - a view form the field

11:40-12:00

Christine Buhagiar, Director Europe at AFP - Agence France-Presse
Title: Data Valorisation ‒ Question of Life or Death

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 17:30

Status Report 2

13:30 - 14:00

Anna Leroy, Program Director & Data Exchange Advisor, Dawex
Title: Space Data Marketplace, meeting the supply and demand for Earth
Observation Data across sectors

14:00 - 14:30

Koki Mitani, Senior Research Engineer at NTT Data
Title: Data usage control for protecting data sovereignty and realizing data
space interoperability

14:30 - 15:00

Frédéric Bellaiche, Ph.D and VP Technology & Research at Dawex
Title: Addressing the challenges of Trusted Data Transactions

15:00 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:00

Hiroshi Mano, Secretary General, Data Society Alliance, and Chair of IEEE
P3800 DTS WG
Title: Status of IEEE P3800 DTS

16:00 - 16:30

Didier Navez, SVP Data Policy & Governance, Dawex
Title: The EU Data Governance Act and Data Act: fostering data
circulation, trust building, standardization and interoperability

16:30

End Day 2

Wednesday, February 14

9:00 - 09:30

Welcome - Morning coffee - Set up

9:30 - 09:40

Opening Remarks

Hiroshi Mano, Data Society Alliance - Didier Navez, Dawex
9:40 - 12:30

Keynotes

9:40 - 10:10

Hiroshi Mano, General Secretary, Data Society Alliance
Title: Data trading market with data usage rights

10:10 - 10:40

Lars Nagel, Chief Executive Officer of IDSA
Title:The Dataspace Protocol: Unleashing Interoperability andInternational Collaboration

10:40 - 11:10

Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X Association
Title: Addressing the challenges of data interoperability

11:10 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:45

BreakGeneral Discussions• Discussing future work for a global inter-data space standard.
Topic introduced by Hiroshi Mano, Data Society Alliance• Discussing the specifications, rules, and governance on the data space communication
between EU and Japan.
Topic introduced by Sawaka Seki, NEC
12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:00

Status Report 3

14:00 - 14:30

Xiaomi An, Professor, Renmin University of China
Title: Indicators for evaluation and measurement of data use in smart cities

14:30 - 15:00

Dr. Dominik Rohrmus, LNI Labs Network Industrie 4.0
Title: Manufacturing-X update

15:00 - 15:30

General Discussions• Discussing an International Data Summit that encourages and expands the data society.
Topic introduced by Hiroshi Mano and Pr. Noboru Koshizuka
15:30 - 16:00
16:00

Event Wrap-up & Closing Remarks

End Day 3

Representatives from the following 18 organizations made presentations.
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Institutions and governmental agencies: European Commission and IPA2&Digital Agency of Japan.
Research and academia: The University of Tokyo, CEA3 , and Renmin University of China.
Associations: Gaia-X, IDSA, FIWARE, LNI 4.04, AID5, and DSA,
Private sectors: NEC, Fujitsu, NTT Data, Japan Data Exchange, Atsumi&Sakai6, Hub One7, AFP8, andDawex.

About Data Society Alliance
The Data Society Alliance (DSA) aims to contribute to the realization of an affluent society through fair andfree data distribution and utilization across fields (the "data society") in cooperation with industry, government,
and academia and partnership with not only Japan but also the rest of the world. As one of these activities, wewill promote DATA-EX, a platform aiming at federal-type cross-disciplinary data collaboration, in which
existing efforts related to data collaboration are coordinated.

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Tokyo, Japan 108-0014
URL: https://data-society-alliance.org
Secretariat E-mail: dsa-office@data-society-alliance.org

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https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/index.html
https://www.cea.fr/english
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https://lni40.de/
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Association for Data Intermediation https://data-intermediation.eu/
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https://www.aplawjapan.com/en7
https://www.hubone.fr/
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https://www.afp.com/
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