Today, at the European DEI Stakeholder Forum in Paris, BDVA has signed bilateral collaboration agreements with the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) and with the Alliance of internet of the Things Innovation (AIOTI), to align their activities, roadmaps and outcomes to support accelerating the digital transformation of industry in Europe.
The European Commission launched the Digital Opportunity Traineeships, a pilot project that will offer students of all disciplines on-the-job digital skills training in participating companies.
Interested students and recent graduates can apply through their university, according to the timing and mechanisms established by the university for Erasmus+ traineeships.
On 15th March 2018, BDVA Members met in Brussels for discussing and brainstorming about key topics. Some TFs parallel sessions took place already on the 14th of March, co-located with the Board of Directors meeting.
The European Commission has launched a call for experts for a group on liability and new technologies. Interested experts are called to apply by the 30th of April 2018.
The European Commission launched a call for a High-Level Expert Group in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to to allow for an open discussion of all aspects of AI development and its impact on the economy and society.
The Bulgarian Presidency event, co-organised with the European Commission, on High Performance Computing will take place in Sofia on the 19th April 2018.
The 12th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing will take place in Bilbao from the 15th to the 17th October 2018.
IoT Week is a global event dedicated to IoT, organized annually since 2011. This year edition will take place at the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, from June 4th to June 7th, 2018 gathering top experts, innovators and stakeholders in the Internet of Things. The event will explore new territories of such domain, including: Emerging IoT and development; IoT and Big Data; 5G convergence; IoT and Smart Cities; Artificial Intelligence and IoT; IoT Security and Data Protection; IoT Market and Business Model; Smart Farming and Food Security; IoT and advanced Manufacturing.
