Programme

The programme of the European Data Forum 2014 will consist of 2 (partly parallel) tracks (Main Track and Track II). You can find an overview of the programme, including both tracks as well as the EDF2014 poster session and conference dinner below. Furthermore there is an exhibition area available during both days of EDF2014 with ~25 stands maintained by commercial and academic teams.

Do not miss the opportunity to experience these exciting presentations and networking sessions and register for the EDF2014.

Time Main Track Track II
08.30 - 09.15 Registration & Coffee
09.15 - 10.00

EDF2014 Opening

  • Roberto Viola
    Deputy Director General at European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • Manolis Koubarakis
    EDF2014 Conference Chair,
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Martin Kaltenböck
    EDF2014 Conference Chair,
    Semantic Web Company

Welcome

 
10.00 - 10.30

Eccenca European Data Innovator Award - Ceremony

  • Neelie Kroes
    Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of the Digital Agenda
  • Roberto Viola
    Deputy Director General at European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • H.C. Brockmann
    Eccenca (Award sponsor)

Talk of Eccenca European Data Innovator Award Winner

 
10.30 - 11.00

Opening Keynote
(Big Data / Data Economy)

  • Stefan Wrobel
    Institute Director, Fraunhofer IAIS / Member of the board of BITKOM working group Big Data
    The Value of Big Data - From Data-Driven Enterprises to a Data-driven Economy
 
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
 

Session 1

11.30 - 13.10

Data in Use I:
Big Data Best Practice

Chair: Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, Germany)

  • Peter Cullen
    General Manager, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft
    Data protection frameworks fit for 'Big Data'
  • Abraham Bernstein
    Full Professor of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    ViSTA-TV - Online TV Statistics and Dynamic Joint Recommendations
  • Franck Cotton
    Technology Advisor, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, France
    Kamel Gadouche
    Director, Centre d'Acces Securise aux Donnees / Groupe des Ecoles Nationales d'Economie et Statistique, France
    TeraLab, A Secure Big Data Platform: Description And Use Cases
  • Krzysztof Wecel
    Assistant professor, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
    Advanced Exploration of Public Procurement Data in Linked Data Paragigm
  • Stefan Decker
    Director, Insight Galway, Ireland
    Anthony McCauley
    Head of Research, Fujitsu Ireland
    KI2NA - Using Linked Data for the Intelligent society

Open Data (across Europe)

Chair: Deirdre Lee (Insight Galway, Ireland)

  • Marta Nagy-Rothengass
    Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
    Public Sector Information (PSI) at European Commission (EC)
  • Nicolas Lemcke Horst
    Ambassador of the Danish Basic Data Programme, Agency for Digitisation, Ministry of Finance of Denmark
    Danish Basic Data
  • Harry Theocharis
    General Secretary of Public Revenue in the Ministry of Finance in Greece
  • José Ignacio Sánchez Valdenebro
    Deputy Director of Digital Public Services Department, Entidad Publica Empresarial Red.es
    Aporta Project: National Strategy for encourage PSI in Spain
  • Taru Rastas
    Senior Advisor, Ministry of Communications of Finland
    Open data for transport and communications
13.10 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.00

Government Keynote

  • Nancy Routzouni
    E-Governance Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance of Greece
    The Data Economy: an opportunity for Greece
 
 

Session 2

15.00 - 16.20

(Open) Data in Use II:
Cities - Buildings - Transport

Chair: Evangelos Argyzoudis
(Intrasoft International, Greece)

  • Ksenia Petrichenko
    Building Policy Analyst, Global Buildings Performance Network
    Making a "black box" transparent: role of the open data in the building sector
  • Axel Polleres
    Full Professor, WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
    City Data Pipeline - A report about experiences from using Open Data to gather indicators of city performance
  • Vassileios Tsetsos
    Chief Technical Officer, Mobics Ltd
    Predicting parking occupancy in a sensor-enabled smart city
  • Frank Kresin
    Research Director, Waag Society
    City SDK – Smart City Services bases on Open Source Linked Open Data API’s

Data Challenges I
Languages, Governance, Business Models

Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari
(ILC-CNR & ELRA, Italy)

  • Piek Vossen
    Professor Computational Lexicology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
    NewsReader: recording history by processing massive streams of daily news
  • Daniel Vila-Suero
    Researcher, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
    3LD: Towards high quality, industry-ready Linguistic Linked Licensed Data
  • Vedran Sabol
    Head of the Knowledge Visualisation Area, Know-Center, Austria
    Florian Stegmaier
    Senior Researcher, University of Passau, Germany
    Linked Data in Context: Questions Matter
  • Nikolaos Loutas
    Manager, PwC
    Business models for Linked Government Data: What lies beneath?
16.20 - 16.50 Coffee Break
 

Session 3

16.50 - 18.10

Data in Use III:
Collaborating on Interoperability to Achieve a Single Market

Chair: Jochen Hummel (CEO ESTeam AB & Chairman LT-Innovate, Germany)

Data Challenges II
Personal Data, Standards & Data Roadmaps

Chair: Jens Lehmann
(University of Leipzig, Germany)

  • Allan Hanbury
    Senior Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Conquering Data in Austria: a technology roadmap
  • Florendia Fourli-Kartsouni
    Managing Director, Hypercliq EE
    Extension of the Scope of Large 3D Anthropometric Data Pools for Product Development – Web 3D data analytics by Hypercliq EE
  • Michele Vescovi
    Researcher, Semantic & Knowledge Innovation Lab, Italy
    Toward Personal Big Data passing through user Transparency, Control and Awareness: a Living-Lab Experience
18.10 - 18.30

Closing Session Day I

  • Yannis Ioannidis
    Director General, Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece
    Big, Linked and Open Data in Greece: Current Status and New Directions
 
18.30 - 20.00

EDF2014 Poster Session

See details of this session.

20:00

Conference Dinner at the Royal Olympic Hotel.

 

Time Main Track Track II
08.00 - 09.00 Reception & Coffee
09.00 - 09.15

EDF2014 Opening of Day 2

09:15 - 10.45

PPP on Data & Executive Panel on Big Data

Introduction by:
Marta Nagy-Rothengass
Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Panelists:

 
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break
 

Session 4

11.15 - 12.35

The Value of Data in Industry - Best practice session

Chair: Antonis Kukurikos (National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece)

  • Christian Lindemann
    Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
    Christian Dirschl
    Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
    Linked Data and Open Government Data as part of the business strategy of Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
  • Paul Groth
    Department of Computer Science & The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Open PHACTS: A Data Platform for Drug Discovery
  • Rüdiger Eichin
    Research Manager, SAP AG
    Deriving Value from Big Data for Enterprise Performance Management
  • Dimitris Vassiliadis
    Head of Unit, EXUS Innovation Attractor
    From Carbon to Diamonds: Business cases of data value

Big/NESSI networking session

  • Edward Curry
    (Session Chair)
    NUIG, Big
    Introduction
  • Harald Schöning
    Head of Research Software AG / Member of the NESSI Board
    A Big Data Value Innovation Ecosystem for Europe - a Business Perspective
  • Nuria De Lama
    Atos, NESSI, Big
    Towards a Big Data Public Private Forum
  • Marta Nagy-Rothengass
    Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
    Launch of the PPP/Consultation process
  • Edward Curry
    NUIG, Big
    The Big Data Value Chain
  • Helen Lippell
    PA, Sonja Zillner Siemens
    Big Data Transformations of Sectors
  • Questions & Answers

See details of this session.

12.35 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30

Keynote (Industry Keynote)

  • Ralf-Peter Schaefer
    VP TomTom Traffic and Travel Information Product Unit & Fellow
    Probe Data Analytics and Processing for Traffic Information, Traffic Planning and Traffic Management
 
14.30 - 15.00

Networking Session on Data Issues

Chair: Marta Nagy-Rothengass (Head of Unit Data Value Chain, DG CONNECT)

  • Adrian Cristal
    Barcelona Supercomputing Center, RETHINK big Project Coordinator
    The RETHINK big Project NEEDS YOU
  • Kush Wadhwa
    Senior Partner, Trilateral Research & Consulting
    Addressing risks and opportunities engendered by big data: The BYTE project
 
15.00 - 15.30

An overview of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-2015 (LEIT-ICT)

  • Francesco Barbato
    Project Officer at European Commission
    Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
    Content technologies and Information Management's ICT-15, ICT-16 and ICT-17 funding opportunities for the 'data value chain' stakeholders.
 
15.30 - 15.45

Closing of EDF2014

  • Giuseppe Abbamonte
    Director, Directorate G Media & data
    Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • Marta Nagy-Rothengass
    Head of Unit Data Value Chain
    Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • Manolis Koubarakis
    EDF2014 Conference Chair,
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Martin Kaltenböck
    EDF2014 Conference Chair,
    Semantic Web Company