EBDVF 2023 | Big Data Value Association | 24 October 2023 | Fira València, Av. de les Fires, s/n, 46035 València, Spain

This event will brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions, and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI.

The theme of this event is “Data and AI in Action: Sustainable impact and future realities”. The event brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions, and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI.

The programme is organised in themes approaching the theme from a sectorial and cross-sectorial angle.

Horizontal/cross-sectorial Themes and Leads
• Data Spaces: Ed Curry (Insight), Tuomo Tuikka (VTT), Franziska von Scherenberg (Fraunhofer), Daniel Sáez (ITI)
• Industrial and Trustworthy AI: Thomas Hahn (Siemens), Patrick van der Smaagt or Djalel Benbouzid (Volkswagen), Nuria Ávalos (IndesIA)
• Technology, Platforms, and impact: Richard Stevens (IDC), Daniel Sáez (ITI), Josep Bernabeu (ITI)
• EuroHPC and applications: Jeanette Nilsson (RISE), Maria Perez (UPM)
• Data AI and the new society: Natalie Bertels (imec/ KU Leuven), Freek Bomhoff (TNO), Alberto Gago (ES Gov), Daniel Sáez (ITI)
• Emerging topics: Valerio Frascolla (Intel), Laure Le Bars (SAP)
• Metaverse: Valerio Frascolla (Intel), Joaquín Salvachúa (UPM)
• Large Language Models and Generative AI: Andrejs Vasiljevs (TILDE), Elena Montiel (UPM)

Vertical/Sector-specific Themes and Leads
• Mobility: Vivian Kiousi (Intrasoft), Bernhard Peischl (AVL), Oihana OTAEGUI (Vicomtech), Rodrigo Castineira (Indra), Jim Ahtes (i2CAT), Stefano Persi (Mosaic Factor)
• Healthcare: Ane Alberdi (Mondragon University), Josep Redon/Ana Ferrer (INCLIVA), Ernestina Menasalvas (UPM)
• Manufacturing: Thomas Hahn(Siemens), Davide Dalle Carbonare (Engineering), Sergio Gusmeroli (Polimi), Oscar Lazaro (INNOVALIA)
• Agri-Food: Panos Ilias (ILVO), Pablo Coca (CTIC)
• Tourism: Nuria De Lama (IDC), Dolores Ordóñez (Anysolution)
• AI for public services: Roberto Di Bernardo (Engineering), Vega Rodrigalvarez (ITAINNOVA), Claudio Feijóo (UPM)

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Thomas Hahn
Chief Expert Software, Siemens AG

Ana García Robles
Secretary General, BDVA

Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Doctoral Studies, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

Laure Le Bars
Research Project Director, SAP

Stefan Hoppe
President & CEO, OPC Foundation

Alberto Palomo
Chief Data Officer (CDO), Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation

Laura Olcina
General Director, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Andrés Cervantes
Scientific Director, INCLIVA

Viivi Lähteenoja
President, MyData Global

Rafael Fernández Campos
President, Club Chief Data Officer Spain

Frédéric Bellaiche
Vice President Technology & Research, DAWEX

Andre Stork
Head of Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research

Sebastian Pena Serna
Founder, Clesgo GmbH

Carme Artigas
Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, The Government of Spain

Roland Fadrany
Chief Operating Officer, GAIA-X

Edina Nemeth
National Contact Point, Horizon Europe

SPEAKERS:

Jim Ahtes
Senior Innovation Manager, I2CAT Foundation

Ane Alberdi Aramendi
Lecturer/Researcher, MONDRAGON University

Giulia Aldrighetti
Project Manager and Delivery Lead, European Commission’s Big Data Test Infrastructure

Daniel Alonso Román
Senior Technical Lead Big Data and AI Ecosystems, BDVA

Guillermo Amat
Director of the Technical Project Support Area, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Gabriel Antoniu
Senior Researcher, INRIA

Georgia Apostolou
Postdoctoral Researcher, CERTH - Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Claudio Arlandini
Project Manager HPC for Industry, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium

Nuria Avalos
CEO, INDESIA

John Avramidis
Research Consultant, UNI SYSTEMS

Lilit Axner
Programme Officer Infrastructure, EUROHPC Joint Undertaking, European Commission

Nabil Belbachir
Research Director, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

Liliana Beltrán Blanco
Specialist in Positioning and Data Innovation Ecosystems, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Djalel Benbouzid
Senior Machine Learning Researcher, Volkswagen AG

Josep Bernabeu-Auban
Scientific Director, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Alberto Berreteaga
IDS Competence Centre Coordinator, Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Natalie Bertels
Senior Legal Researcher, CITIP- KU Leuven -IMEC

Ignacio Blanquer
Professor, Universitat Politècnica de València

Freek Bomhof
Senior Consultant, TNO

Despina Brasinika
Project Manager, INLECOM Innovation

Els Breedstraet
Head of Open Data Innovation and Outreach, Publications Office of the European Union

Monique Calisti
President, Digital for Planet

Rodrigo Castiñeira
Innovation & Business Development Manager, INDRA

Pablo Coca
Director of Business Development and Operations, CTIC Centro Tecnológico

Edward Curry
Professor, Insight Centre

Davide Dalle Carbonare
Senior Researcher and Business Developer, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA

Nuria De Lama
Consulting Director, IDC

Roberto Di Bernardo
Head of Open Government R&D Group, Engineering

Mark Dietrich
Senior Advisor, EGI Foundation

Daniël Du Seuil
Convenor European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (EBSI), European Blockchain Partnership

Sem Enzerink
Adviser, European Commission’s Big Data Test Infrastructure

Béatrice Ericson
Officer for Privacy & Security Policy, DIGITALEUROPE

Ernesto Ettore Troiano
Interim Service Manager, GFT Italia SRL Organisation

Morten Falbe-Hansen
Head of Aarhus City Lab, City of Aarhus – Department for Innovation

Claudio Feijoo
Professor, AI4GOV - Universidad Politècnica de Madrid

Valerio Frascolla
Director of Research and Innovation, Intel

Flavio Fuart
Project Manager/Consultant, ICT Innovation Network Cluster, GZS

Alberto Gago Fernandez
International & EU Digital Affairs Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation

Nikolaos-Foivos Galatoulas
Project Manager/Research Scientist, INLECOM Innovation

Sara Garavelli
Strategic European Engagement and Coordination Development Manager, CSC - IT Center for Science

Carlos Garcia
Senior Research Technologist, Irish Manufacturing Research

Juan Francisco García Lopez
Strategy and Innovation Manager, INDRA

Ana García Robles
Secretary General, BDVA

Raffaele Giaffreda
Chief IoT Scientist, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK

Ilias Gialampoukidis
Senior Researcher at CERTH-ITI, CERTH

Yury Glikman
Deputy Head of Digital Public Services Department, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Alberto Antonio Gomez
Manager, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Sergio Gusmeroli
Research Coordinator, Politecnico di Milano

Daniel Gómez
s-X-AIPI Project Coordinator, CARTIF Technology Center

Jami Haavisto
Solution Architect, Vastuu Group Oy

Thomas Hahn
Chief Expert Software, Siemens AG

Utz-Uwe Haus
Head of HPE HPC/AI EMEA Research Lab, ETP4HPC/HPE

Fredrik Heintz
Professor of Computer Science, Linköping University

Stefan Hoppe
President & CEO, OPC Foundation

Carlos Iglesias Moro
Projects Lead, My Data

Panagiotis Ilias
IT Business Analyst, ILVO (Flemish Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

Giacomo Inches
Senior Innovation Consultant, Martel Innovate

Sotiris Ioannidis
Professor, FORTH

Coen Janssen
Policy Officer, European Commission

Sotirios Kanellopoulos
Policy Officer, European Commission

Tassos Kanellos
Technical Project Manager, ITML

Vivian Kiousi
Senior Business Innovation Manager / Head of Transport Lab, INTRASOFT INTERNATIONAL SA

Bastian Koller
Responsible HPC and AI for Society and SMEs, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart

George Konstantinidis
Associate Professor, Southampton University

Despina Kopanaki
Project Manager, FORTH

Manolis Koubarakis
Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Ignacio Lacalle Úbeda
Researcher, Universidad Politècnica de Valencia

Francisco José Lacueva
R&D & iSoftware Project Manager, ITAINNOVA

Michele Lazzarini
Project Manager, RTDI, European Union Satellite Center (SATCEN)

Laure Le Bars
Research Project Director, SAP

João Leitão
Associate Professor, Nova University of Lisbon

Riku Leppänen
Scientific Programme Officer, European Commission (DG CONNECT)

Enrique Lizaso
CEO, Multiverse Computing

Roberta Lotti
Innovation Manager, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)

José Luis Molina Zamora
Chairman & CEO, Hispatec

Óscar Lázaro
Managing Director, Innovalia

Michael Malms
Consulting IT Specialist, MM-IT4YOU

Andrea Manzi
Data Solutions Manager, EGI Foundation

Evelina Marra
Energy Management/ Green Management, SUPSI - Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana

Bertin Martens
Senior Economist & Research Fellow, Tilburg Law & Economics Centre (TILEC)

Ricard Martínez
Lecturer/Director of the Chair for Privacy and Digital Transformation, University of Valencia-Microsoft

Miguel-Angel Mayer
Doctor and Associate Professor, Hospital del Mar Barcelona

Ernestina Menasalvas
Professor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

Mario Montagud
Researcher, I2CAT Foundation

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Associate Professor, Universidad Politècnica de Madrid (UPM)

Francesco Mureddu
Senior Director, The Lisbon Council

Adrian Muscat
Chief of R&D, Greenroads Ltd

Carles Navarro Manchon
Telecommunication Engineer, Keysight Technologies

Jeanette Nilsson
AI Ecosystem Driver, Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE)

Laura Olcina
General Director, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Linda Oosterheert
Consultant Knowledge & Data, TNO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek)

Dolores Ordóñez
Director, AnySolution

Oihana Otaegui
Head of ITS and Engineering, Vicomtech Foundation

Boris Otto
Director, Fraunhofer ISST

Alberto Palomo
Chief Data Officer (CDO), Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation

Anu Passi-Rauste
Chief Marketing Officer, Headai

Irena Pavlova
EU Programmes Manager, GATE BIG DATA AND AI CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

Bernhard Peischl
Innovation Manager, AVL List GmbH

Jussi Pekka
Project Coordinator, University of Oulu

Sebastian Pena Serna
Founder, Clesgo GmbH

María S. Pérez
Professor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

Stefano Persi
CEO, Mosaic Factor

Clara Pezuela
Vice President Funded Programs, Fiware Foundation

Golboo Pourabdollahian
Consulting Manager, IDC

Radu Prodan
Professor, Institute of Information Technology, University of Innsbruck

Craig Prunty
VP Marketing & Business Development, Sipearl

Stefania Puzderova
Business Operations Manager, Matsuko Holographic Presence

Nevena Raczko
Senior Consultant, IDC

Josep Redón
Principal Investigator, INCLIVA

Anibal Reñones Dominguez
Industry 4.0 Deputy Head of Unit, Cartif Technology Center

Giovanni Rimassa
CIO, Martel Innovate GmbH

Vega Rodrigálvarez Chamarro
Senior Programmer Analyst, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITAINNOVA)

Savvas Rogotis
Data Ecosystem Senior Project Manager, Big Data Value Association (BDVA)

Dumitru Roman
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF

Maria Rossetti
Project Manager, MADE - COMPETENCE CENTER INDUSTRIA 4.0

Ioanna Roussaki
Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Cinzia Rubattino
Senior Researcher, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA

Joaquín Salvachúa
Associate Professor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

Lucas Sanjuán
Head of Health Competitive Intelligence and Partnerships, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Philippe Sayegh
Chief Adoption Officer, Verses Global BV

Daniel Serra
Director Ecosystem & Stakeholders, EIT Urban Mobility

Pablo Serrano Balazote
Planning Director, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid Regional Health Service

Nikola Simić
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Dimitrios Spatharakis
PhD Student, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Richard Stevens
Associate Vice President, IDC

Andre Stork
Head of Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research

Daniel Sáez Domingo
Strategic Intelligence & Technology Transfer Director, ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

Paul Theyskens
Technology & Standards WG Leader, MA

Tuomo Tuikka
Lead, Data Space Solutions, VTT

Roberta Turra
Team Lead, CINECA

Mateusz Tykierko
Deputy Director, Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing

Nuno Varandas
Head, F6S Innovation Team

Andrejs Vasiljevs
Executive Chairman, Tilde

Christos Verikoukis
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department

Ovidiu Vermesan
Chief Scientist, SINTEF

Gabor Vicze
Partner/CEO, Innomine Group

Sebastian Werner
Senior Research Associate, Information Systems Engineering - TU Berlin

Matthieu Worm
Senior Principal Key Expert, Siemens

Alissa Zaccaria
EU Project Coordinator, Intellimech

Carolin Zachäus
Innovation Consultant, VDI/VDE Innovation

Aleksandar Zobec
Innovation Manager, F6S Innovation Team

Patrick van der Smagt
Head of AI Research, Volkswagen AG

Franziska von Scherenberg
Scientific Assistant, Fraunhofer ISST

2023 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• OPC foundation

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Nessi

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Pangeanic
• UPM