On December 7th 2018, the European Commision presented a coordinated plan prepared with Members States to foster the development and use of AI in Europe. This plan, that delivers on the European AI Strategy adopted last April 2018, proposes joint actions in four areas: increasing investment, making more data available, fostering talent and ensuring trust.
At the ICT conference in Vienna on 5 December 2018, the Big Data Value Association and the euRobotics Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the goal of increasing collaboration to boost AI progress in Europe.
The European associations for Big Data Value (www.BDVA.eu) and HPC (www.ETP4HPC.eu) have recently published a joint paper, discussing current strengths and differences between the (software and hardware) stacks of BDC and HPC, and how the current strengths of one stack may address a shortcoming/need in the other stack.
The Big Data Value Association held its General Assembly on November 14th 2018, in Vienna, in the context of the European Big Data Value Forum event. As part of the meeting, the BDVA members were called to elect over two-thirds of the members of its Board of Directors, and to elect a President and one Vice-President.
Great sucess of European Big Data Value Forum 2018! From BDVA, we want to thank the European Commission, the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the rest of the organizers, the speakers and participants in panel and sessions, the sponsors and the Big Data and AI community, who attended the event, for their great support and contribution in making a big success of this event. We look forward to seeing you all in Finland next year!
The European Commission is looking for 30 Digital Innovation Hubs in the field of Artificial Intelligence, to offer them a training programme, establish a network, and provide evidence for the preparation of relevant European policies
On the 14th of November 2018, the BDVA General Assembly officially welcomed 16 new members, among which there are 8 Full Members and 8 Associate Members. 5 members are Industry-SMEs. New members come from 11 different countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, UK.
The labelled i-Spaces of 2018 have been announced at the European Big Data Value Forum 2018 in Vienna. BDVA congratulates all the labelled i-Spaces, and looks forward a fruitful collaboration to keep developing an European data and AI based innovation ecosystem.
On 8th November ITAINNOVA organizes in Zaragoza (Spain) an event focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Public Administration. The usage and application of Big Data and AI applications in public administration have plenty of possibilities.
New webinar of BDVe series (http://www.big-data-value.eu/resources/webinar/): The Human Factor in Big Data (November 6th), with QROWD project. Discover examples of how to add human in the loop in the domains of Smart Cities and Smart Transportation. Register now at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3850435138871202573
