On the 26th of November, the BDVA General Assembly officially welcomed 15 new members, among which there are 5 Full Members and 10 Associate Members. The Assembly also confirmed the promotion of 2 Associate Members to Full Members.

New Full Members: Consorzio Intellimech, Dublin City University - ADAPT Centre, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Metaphacts, University of Twente, Digital Society Institute. 

New Associate Members: Asociación de Usuarios de Internet, Centre for Social Science, Consorzio Topix, Demos Research Institute oy, Eötvös Loránd University, Institut Mihajlo Pupin, MET Communications GmbH, Sestek, University of Szeged, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Associate Members becoming Full Members: Engie Lab Crigen, Teknopar

On the 25th of November, the European Commission officially released its Proposal for a Regulation on European Data Governance (so-called Data Governance Act). The proposal is the first of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European strategy for data and aims at fostering the availability of data for use by increasing trust in data intermediaries and by strengthening data-sharing mechanisms across the EU.

A summary of the measures included in the proposed regulation is available in this factsheet. The full text of the proposed Regulation can be found here and the text of the European Commission's press release here.

The Digital Around the World conference started on the 20th of October with a session on Technology for a Better World. BDVA President, Thomas Hahn - Siemens, was invited to join the opening panel and gave a speech on the new Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics. 

Mr. Hahn was also invited to participate in the session on Artificial Intelligence as enabler for competitiveness together with other keynote speakers such as Cecile Huet, Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission in the AI and Robotics Unit of DG CNECT and Barry O'Sullivan, Chair of Constraint Programming, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork and former deputy president of EurAI. This session was organised and chaired by BDVA Director, Nuria de Lama, from Atos. 

The recordings of all sessions are available here.

BDVA Members are invited to join the next General Assembly which will take place on the 26th of November from 9h30 to 14h online. 

The agenda of the Assembly includes discussions on many important topics for the future of the Association including aspects related to Horizon Europe and the upcoming Public Privat Partnerships. It will also offer the opportunity to look at the achievements of the Task Forces in these last months and debrief about the European Big Data Value Forum 2020 which took place in November.

For futher information please contact info@core.bdva.eu

The winners of the second edition of the Best Big Data Value Success Stories (BSS 2020) were officially announced on the last day of the European Big Data Value Forum 2020 (EBDVF 2020).

The winners of the contest were: 1) Data Pitch for the project/large company category; 2) Orbem for the SME category; and 3) Ubiwhere for the best video category.

Congratulations to the BSS 2020 winners and a warm thank you to the contest participants and the organising team!

The 2020 edition of the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF2020) will go down in the history as exceptional for many reasons.

Beside being the first EBDVF edition organised entirely online, it obtained impressive numbers in terms of participants, sponsors and speakers.

BDVA sincerely thanks all organisations, sponsors and speakers who contributed to the success of EBDVF 2020 and looks foward to organising the next edition! 

During the first day of the European Big Data Value Forum 2020 (EBDVF2020), the Big Data Value Association officially announced the names of the organisations which have been recognised as i-Spaces in 2020 and become members of the i-Spaces group.

The BDVA Task Force 7 - Sub-group on Healthcare is proud to release the first BDVA Whitepaper on AI in Healthcare. This publication aims to feed policy makers with the information that is needed for realising the full potential of AI in healthcare.

The document will be officially presented during the European Big Data Value Forum 2020 and particularly during the parallel session on AI in Healthcare which takes place on the 4th of November 2020.

The full document is available here. For any question on the work of this Task Force or on the paper do not hesitate to contact BDVA office at info@core.bvda.eu.