"After two digital editions, the annual semantic interoperability conference will be completely physical at the Square Meeting Center in Brussels!
"This year’s topic is “SEMIC: Data Spaces in an Interoperable Europe.” The conference is organised by the Interoperability Unit of DIGIT of the European Commission, in collaboration with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.
"The central focus of #SEMIC2022 revolves around the implementation of data spaces, bringing together concrete use cases from both the public and the private sector."
Details
Schedule data is from their agenda page. This is accurate as of 25 Nov 2022.
06 December
08:30 - 09:30
Registration, Coffee & Exhibition
09:30 - 10:05
Opening
- Introduction by Master of Ceremony, Dave Keating
- Opening speech by the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn
- Opening speech by the CIO of the Czech Republic Ondrej Profant
- Outline of the day – General Directors of DIGIT & OP
- Hilde Hardeman, Director-General of EU Publications Office (OP)
- Veronica Gaffey, Director-General “Informatics” (DG DIGIT)
10:05 - 10:30
Content Keynote
Moderated by Leontina Sandu
- Keynote - Building trust across the public & private sector: Insights on interoperability from Klaus Ottradovetz, Distinguished Expert Cloud & IoT, Atos & David Scuderi, Data EcoSystems - Public Sector Lead, Amazon
- Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break & Exhibition
11:00 - 12:15
Parallel tracks
- Track I: Data exchange in and between sectors – the role for DCAT-AP
Moderated by Bert Van Nuffelen
Speakers:
Aas Kuldar, Data Governance Program Director, Government CIO Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication for Estonia
Nolf Geraldine, Product Owner DataPublication, Metadata and Teamcoach Datamanagement - Digitaal Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium
Kustra Amno Licinio, Digital Health Interoperability and Infrastructure Architect (external service provider) European Commission, DG SANTE C1 - Digital Health
- Track II: Personal data space implementations – interoperability challenges
Moderated by Giorgia Lodi
Speakers:
Lahteenoja Viivi, PhD researcher, practical philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
De Loof Esther, Operational Director, SolidLab
Marcello Grita, Project Leader, JobTech, Swedish Public Employment Service
- Track III: Semantics on a chip – streamlining data across edge computing devices
Moderated by Raf Buyle
Speakers:
Guim Francesc, Principal Engineer & Chief of Edge System Architecture at Office CTO, Intel Network and Edge Division
Mihaylov Svetoslav, Policy Officer, DG CNECT European Commission
D'Hondt Ellie, Health Data Innovation Catalyst, IMEC
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch & Exhibition
13:30 - 15:00
Panel discussion on interoperability within & across sector specific data spaces
- Policy panel I - Cross domain use cases
- Champin Pierre-Antoine, Data Strategist at W3C
- Gkatzoflias Dimitrios, Policy Officer, DG MOVE, European Commission
- Labarile Misa, Policy officer, DG GROW, European Commission
- Curry Edward, Established Professor of Data Science and Director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway
- Policy panel II - Transversal tools & infrastructure
- De Barros Jérôme, Policy Officer, DG SANTE, European Commission
- Nomden Koen, Team Leader, Skills and qualifications transparency and recognition, DG SANTE, European Commission
- Paunescu George, Policy Officer, DG ENER, European Commission
- Punter Matthijs, Consultant and researcher, Data Science department of TNO
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break & Exhibition
15:30 - 16:45
Parallel tracks
Parallel track I: Lightning talks by junior researchers in the field of linked data & semantics
Speakers: Crompvoets, Joep; Licehammer Slavek; Procházka Michal
Parallel track II:
- Budapest Tree Cadastre "FATAR" - Peter Gabor
- Value of eDelivery to the dataspaces - Thomas Fillis
- Omega-X (energy dataspaces) - Thimo Thoeye
- DS4SSCC (Dataspaces for smart and sustainable cities and communities) - Judith Stiekema
- LEOS - Cristina Stanciulescu
- IrRADIARE - H2020-AURORAL project - Marcos Nogueira
- Linked data approaches in the data space for cultural heritage - Vassilis Tzouvaras
- ECHA - Blanca Martinez de Aragon
- Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management Vienna University of Economics and Business - Daniil Dobriy
- Reusable semantic component prototype for interoperable e-Government: A case from Digital Europe for All (DE4A) - Karmen Kern Pipan
- Ontotext - Vladimir Alexiev
Parallel track III:
- 15:30 – 16:00 Part 1: Data spaces cookbook
Speaker : Farrle Eimear, Scientific Project Officer, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- 16:00 – 16:45 Part 2: Core Vocabulaires & Application Profiles expert exchange
16:45 - 17:00
Conclusion
Natalia Aristimuño Pérez, Director of “Digital Services”, DG DIGIT
17:00 - 18:30
Cocktail reception & Exhibition
Kunstberg / Mont des arts,
1000 Brussels,
Belgium