BAIDATA is an International Data Space Association (IDSA) strategic public-private partnership, which already brings together 33 stakeholders to make the development of high-quality sovereign data spaces and the access to the data economy easier for industry and public administration in the Iberian Peninsula.
Coinciding with the EU Data Week 2022, the 1st BAIDATA Forum is the opening event for the kick-off of the BAIDATA association activities. BAIDATA invites all stakeholders willing to understand better the scope of IDSA data sovereignty standard and the role it will play in connecting European business to the common European data space, to join us in Bilbao, on June 2nd.
The Forum will provide all interested stakeholders a unique opportunity to connect with a community interested in driving forward the development of the data economy. The Forum will provide first-hand information on the IDSA reference model for a trusted data sharing and the set of activities planned by BAIDATA to support the access of the BAIDATA community to IDSA knowledge, training, lighthouse pilots, tools, methodologies, infrastructures and certification programmes across the Iberian Peninsula.
Registration and Welcome
Opening
A European Data Hub for the Digital Economy
Cesar Prol, Director of Digitalisation and Citizen Services, Provincial Council of Biscay
AI/Data Agendas for Territorial and Economic Recovery and Resilience
European Data Strategy & Policies
Zoe de Linde, Deputy Head of Unit Internet of Things, DG CONNECT, European Commission
IDSA: A Global Standard for Sovereign Data Sharing
Thorsten Huelsman, COO, IDSA
Automotive Data Spaces
Oliver Ganser, Chairman of the Board, Catena-X and Head of Programme "Data Driven Value Chain“, BMW Group
Iberian Data Hub for Digital Transformation
Ricardo Gonçalvez, Director, UNINOVA.
Keynotes
Data sharing, sovereignty, competitiveness: BAIDATA, a strategic initiative powered by the Data Space Business Alliance (DSBA).
Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
Lars Nagel, CEO IDSA
The BAIDATA initiative
Jose Antonio Echezarra, President of BAIDATA,
Panel 1 –Data and Industrial IA
Moderator: Laura Marrón, CEO, BAIC
Panel 2: Data for Public Digital Services.
Moderator: Nerea Martiartu CEO, LANTIK
Panel 3: Digital Offer for Trusted Data Sharing
Moderator: Oscar Lázaro, CEO, Innovalia Association
Closing
Prof. Boris Otto
Member of the Board IDSA, Gaia-X, Catena-X and Fraunhofer Institute
Estibaliz Hernaez Laviña
Vice-minister of Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation in the Basque Government
Ainara Basurko
Regional Councillor for Economic Promotion, Provincial Council of Biscay Government
Oihane Agirregoitia
Councillor for Public Services, Civic Engagement and Internationalization, Bilbao City Council
Cocktail
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES ASSOCIATION
BiographyLars Nagel is CEO of the International Data Spaces Association since its foundation in 2016. He is also a member of the Executive Board of Digital Hub Management GmbH, where he manages innovation and technology transfer. Previously, Lars founded and led GlobalGate, a provider of learning environments for industrial and research institutions. Lars studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund and graduated with a diploma in Engineering.
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES ASSOCIATION
BiographyThorsten Huelsmann is CFO of International Data Spaces since 2016. He studied Economic Geography, Organisational Sociology and Political Sciences at the universities of Bonn and Bologna. From 2000 to 2002 Thorsten worked as research fellow at the universities of Bonn and Bristol. From 2002 to 2010 he worked as project manager and deputy head of unit at the Economic Development Agency Dortmund. In 2010 he was appointed as CEO of EffizienzCluster Management GmbH, renamed into Digital Hub Management GmbH in 2021. In 2016 he was appointed additionally as CFO of International Data Spaces Association and in 2021 additionally as CFO of Open Logistics Foundation.
FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE
BiographyExecutive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund and holds the Chair for Industrial Information Management at the TU Dortmund University. His research focuses on data spaces, data sovereignty and industrial data management. Boris Otto is member of the Boards of Directors of the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL, the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), and the Catena-X Automotive Network
 
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