ABOUT DATA WEEK
Data Week is the spring gathering of the Data and AI research and innovation community. In Data Week, the participants share knowledge and results, discuss topics of common interest, find synergies, build new collaborations and identify new challenges and recommendations. Data Week also links the communities and their results to the European policies and market needs and brings European initiatives and activities closer to local communities.
Organised by BDVA, Data Week 2025 will center its focus on the fundamental elements of Data Value creation. Artificial intelligence (AI) serves as a pivotal tool in unlocking data value through various means. Creating value from data also requires viewing it from an ecosystem perspective and fostering collaboration among multiple stakeholders, which lays the groundwork needed for research excellence, that is required to be rapidly put into action for competitiveness and societal benefit.
This year, Data Week will be a 2-day physical event taking place in Athens, Greece between 27-28 May. The event is organised by the Big Data Value Association, hosted by Cosmote – OTE and in collaboration with the following BDVA members: Athens Technology Center S.A. (ATC), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), CORE Innovation Center, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications – National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, FORTH and Neuropublic.
The cost of participation
The Data Week 2025 participation is free of charge for BDVA members requiring only registration. Non-BDVA members will need to pay a fee to cover expenses. Registration is now open!
BDVA has partnered with the International Manufacturing-X for Data Week 2025, which will bring our two communities together! One day prior to our event, on 26 May (Monday), an invitation-only workshop of International Manufacturing-X will take place at the same venue location, the OTE Academy. The IMX event will take place from 9:30 to 18:00 EEST. It will be followed by a Data Week – IMX reception will take place at 19h (which will be open to IMX and DW registered participants only). Interested participants can contact dataweek@bdva.eu or the IMX team. Your potential participation can only be validated by the IMX organising team.
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ORGANISED BY
The Big Data Value Association-BDVA is an industry-driven organisation with a mission to develop an innovation ecosystem that enables the data-driven digital transformation of the economy and society in Europe. BDVA has over 240 members all over Europe and a well-balanced composition of large, small, and medium-sized industries, as well as research and user organisations. We focus on advancing areas such as big data technologies and services, data platforms and data spaces industrial AI, data-driven value creation, standardisation and skills. In the BDVA Task Forces, our members contribute to the European data and AI R&I agenda and develop guidelines and strategic roadmaps for industry and policymakers. Our events give opportunities to build collaborations and co-create projects. Through the BDVA community, the members gain higher visibility on the European level. Our services are designed to give timely updates on the latest developments in the fields of data and AI.
HOSTED BY
COSMOTE is a member of Telekom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications Groups. The COSMOTE mission is to bring technological capabilities to all, so that everyone can live and enjoy at the fullest all possibilities offered now, while also building on them for a better tomorrow.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
For over 30 years, we supply and manage the appropriate technology and resources to support the entrepreneurial spirit and profitable growth of medium and large sized companies and Government entities around the globe. In particular, we design, provide and enable novel, end to end IT solutions for all business functions, on time and on budget, both on premise and in the cloud, to help independent enterprises grow and compete. Our continued growth is based on relentless innovation, a rather diverse portfolio, our ability to anticipate and effectively respond to ever-changing customer requirements, and a broad ecosystem of partners. Throughout the last 3 decades, we have successfully delivered appropriately customized business IT solutions across at least 16 different industries in the US, the EU and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. During the same period, we have also participated in major R&D projects worldwide. We have also been extremely successful in exploring niche markets for our territory, and timely exit them when they became mature enough, to ripe benefits optimally. Leveraging on partnership with the right investors has proved a highly effective process throughout our evolution. Our business offerings include content management systems, enterprise resource planning solutions, financial planning and budget monitoring platforms, human capital management solutions, web site & mobile apps design and development, custom software engineering and business operations outsourcing services.
The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) is the research division of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. ICCS was established in 1989 and has since been pioneering interdisciplinary research across a wide range of fields, including hardware and software technologies, computer networking, information systems and decision-making management, robotics and photonic technologies, among others. With a mission to promote basic and applied research, drive digitalization, and enhance innovation, ICCS is now recognized as one of the top three research institutions in Greece. Scientific research at the institute is structured around various interdisciplinary research groups and laboratories. ICCS is represented in BDVA by the Information Management Unit (IMU), whose focus is to support knowledge-driven organisations with trustworthy AI services and data-driven, secure and reliable computing infrastructures. IMU conducts research in machine learning and prescriptive data analytics; data and knowledge discovery, sharing and exchange; and personalization and recommender systems, and recently established a specialised group on human-centred trustworthy AI. IMU/ICCS is a member of ADRA, BDVA, CAIRNE, IDSA, and Gaia-X.
CORE Innovation Centre is a non-profit research organisation, a subsidiary of CORE Group, dedicated to fostering an innovative industrial ecosystem. We aim to provide individuals, industries and companies with opportunities to reach their true potential, to make industries smarter and greener, more sustainable and more socially inclusive. Industry 4.0 is where we choose to focus our research and innovation efforts. We deploy advances in a range of technologies i.e. IoT, big data, machine and deep learning, edge and cloud computing to maximise the potential of both people and entities in multiple sectors.
Founded in July 1961 as a Research Centre for Nuclear Research, Demokritos is today the largest multidisciplinary Research Centre of Greece with approximately 180 Researchers in tenured and tenure-track positions and over 500 Research Personnel working in projects funded mainly by grants from State Funds, the European Union and Private Industries.
The Centre consists of five independent Institutes focusing on different scientific fields. It is governed by the Board of Directors and is supervised by the General Secretariat of Research and Innovation, which is in the Ministry of Development.
The origins of IIT set from the beginning two distinct yet intertwined pillars of research activities that define the Institute: Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunication Networks.
With a long tradition of innovation in the field, the Intelligent Information Systems Division of the Institute focuses on basic and applied research on the multiple manifestations of Artificial Intelligence. Being a founding member of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society since 1988, the Institute has continuous strong presence in the area. Moving from text-centric AI to multimodal, web and social media content analysis, the Institute has produced strong research outcomes in the field, in sync with its advancements and evolution. Acknowledging early the importance of data analysis, the Institute has also dedicated significant effort in the field of AI-based methods for big data management and processing. IIT is in the vanguard of research in big data infrastructures and semantics-aware AI at the European and international level. Furthermore, its interaction with other NCSR-D Institutes from different disciplines allows the application of such novel AI-based data driven methods to multiple application fields.
The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) was founded in 1983. It is the largest research center in Greece with well-organized facilities, highly qualified personnel and a reputation as a top-level research institution worldwide.
FORTH reports to the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Development.
FORTH conducts specialized scientific research in strategic high-added value sectors, focusing on interdisciplinary research and development (R&D) activities in areas of major scientific, societal and economic interest, such as: Lasers and Photonics, Microelectronics, Advanced Materials / Nanotechnology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Systems Biology, Robotics, Telecommunications, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Chemical Engineering Sciences, Energy, Environment, Social Sciences & Humanities, Astrophysics and Astronomy.
FORTH comprises ten Research Institutes. Its headquarters and central administration are based in Heraklion, Crete.
NEUROPUBLIC is an innovative ICT SME specialized in the development of integrated information systems and high-demand applications built in Cloud Computing architecture. The company has built and operates its own data center, offering cloud services at platform level (PaaS) and software level (SaaS). Its products and services are being successfully used for over 10 years, by more than 800.000 end-users in agriculture, local government and healthcare. NEUROPUBLIC is the company that develops all the technological components of the innovative gaiasense smart farming system (www.gaiasense.gr), namely the software, telemetric stations (ultra-low cost, very flexible/mobile and scalable agri-sensors for the monitoring of environmental and soil variables) and computing systems. In addition, it has the operational responsibility for the development and operation of the station system throughout Greece. NEUROPUBLIC has a strong participation in EC-funded projects, such as the Horizon 2020 DataBio, IoF2020, SmartAgriHubs, NIVA, PoliRural, e-shape & OchraVine Control, the LIFE GAIA Sense project and FP7 LASIE & ADVISE projects. The company also has a long time collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), and has been working on related projects such as Euro-VO Registry, Space Certifiable Compiler Extensions, Data Modelling Technologies, EGOS Coding Convention and Quality Model etc. The company invests considerable amount of money in R&D (>3 million euros for the years 2013-2017) and implements the research results on innovative products that satisfy the demands of the future and the new trend markets.
