External (BDVA Participates)

Big Data Congress 2nd edition, will be held in Barcelona on the 4th and 5th of October 2016.

It is the leading conference on Big Data in Catalonia, and the place to meet trends and discover the state of the art of Big Data technology, to share experiences and to create a networking environment among attendees. It is an event to talk and discuss about:
Big Data Innovation, the adoption process to became a Data-Driven Organization, about Advanced Analytics & Visualization, the latest products, and the state of art in different areas.

The Chief Analytics Officer Forum Africa is the premier event for CAOs and senior analytics professionals.

Providing top-level strategic advice and discussion the forum brings the senior analytics community together to discuss the most critical data and analytics challenges faced by their organisations and the wider industry as a whole.
Research conducted by Corinium shows that South African companies are beginning to realise the value that lies within their data but face numerous challenges to realising this value.

The Chief Data Officer Forum Insurance 2016 which will establish a focal point of discussion for Insurance specific CDOs, CAOs and senior data professionals to evaluate the evolving demands of big data and analytics in the Insurance space and importance of championing data/analytics evangelism at an enterprise level.

In April 2016, a series of surveys were opened to all ERTICO partners in order to express interest and ideas for the different 2017 H2020 calls. The answers were collected by the ERTICO office up to mid May 2016. During this period, ERTICO programme leaders organised a series of information webinars to encourage partners engagement.

The OI2 Forum will welcome innovation experts, policy-makers, people from Academia and citizens inthe vibrant city of Amsterdam, on 23rd and 24th May 2016!

The OI2 Conference will be held under the label of the Dutch EU Presidency, and it is co-organised by the European Commission DG CONNECT's Open Innovation Group (OISPG) together with Intel Labs Europe, Committee of the Regions, CGI, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, City of Amsterdam, and kindly supported by Dublin City Council.

The European Data Forum (EDF) is one of the key European events for industry professionals, researchers, policy makers, and members of community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of data-driven innovation in Europe. The Forum will address all facets of data-driven innovation: infrastructure, tools, applications (including, new products and services reaching out to multilingual European audiences) as well as societal and economic impact.

Universiti Sains Malaysia and the CONNECT2SEA project are organising the EU-SEA Big Data Summit 2016, which will take place on 5-6 May 2016 at Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya, Malaysia. The aim of the Summit is to enhance the collaboration between European and South East Asia countries and set-up dialogues to discuss strategies, opportunities and challenges faced by the two regions in Big Data. There will be highlights of selected vertical markets that utilize Big Data in their applications.

In an increasingly networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information driven world, the ability to