Dear all,
(apologise for cross posting)
please find as follows the information about the just published Call for
Contribution for the European Data Forum 2013
- the EDF2013 will take place from 09-10 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland!
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European Data Forum 2013 - Call for Contribution
The European Data Forum (EDF) is a regularly scheduled (yearly) meeting place
for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the
challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. These aspects have both a
technical (in terms of technology and infrastructure needed to master the
volumes, heterogeneity, and dynamicity of Big Data), and a socio-economic
component (speaking about emerging types of products and services and their
commercialization, innovation and business models, but also policies and
regulations).
Our aim is to bring together all stakeholders involved in the data value chain
to exchange ideas and develop actionable roadmaps addressing these challenges
and opportunities in order to strengthen the European data economy and its
positioning worldwide. The roadmaps will be offered as a contribution to the
definition of research, development, and policy activities at the level of the
European Union institutions and those of its member states.
An equally important goal of the European Data Forum is to create and foster a
truly European Big Data community. This emerging community will enable
promising ideas to move from the stage of research questions all the way to
successful deployment and the acquisition of capital; in the same time, its
stakeholders will mutually reinforce commercial strategies that require a
forward-looking, dynamic, and well-integrated EU-wide industry and venture
capital.
The next edition of the EDF will be held in Dublin, Ireland on April 9-10,
2013. The program will consist of a mixture of presentations and networking
sessions by industry, academics, policy makers, and community initiatives on
topics ranging from research and technology development, to training and
knowledge transfer, and commercialization.
We are seeking inspiring presentations addressing fundamental technical,
application, socio-economic and policy-related topics related to Big Data
management and analytics. The presentations will vary in format and focus
depending on the main expected audience and their contributors. They will be
reviewed by the Organization Committee of the Forum according to their
relevance to the scope and purpose of the event and the specific topics we
foresee to target, which are listed in the following:
• Is the European economy ready for Big Data? (novel innovation and
business models for open and Linked Data, platforms and marketplaces, policies,
strategies for the development of data ecosystems) What are specifically
European challenges and opportunities in this space? In particular, we invite
talks on developments, case studies, and experience reports related to the
legal environment, as well as privacy and provenance issues rising in this new
context.
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Are we reaching out to relevant stakeholders? (application scenarios and
specific technical and non-technical requirements of Big Data providers and
consumers in sectors such as Smart Cities, Environmental Research, Geo-Spatial
Information, eScience, social media) Again, the 2013 edition of the EDF
particularly welcomes presentations addressing not just the R&D component of
these scenarios, but foremost issues related to privacy and access control, and
the broader impact of these exciting developments on the civil society.
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What does Europe provide in terms of innovative Business Intelligence solutions
(SMEs and other technology providers offering tools to make use of Big Data,
taking into account issues such as heterogeneity, quality, reliability etc) and
what is or should be its competitive advantage in this domain? In connection to
this third dimension, we invite talks proposing or reporting on research
agendas and roadmaps for science, technology and innovation, in particular in
related to research framework programmes such as Horizon 2020, as well as
framework conditions which are essential for meeting Europe's ambitions towards
a profitable data economy. Examples of such conditions include standardization
needs and current activities, the development of curricula for professional
training, and commercialization opportunities.
We distinguish between the following presentations opportunities:
• Presentations with a practical, industry- or user-oriented focus by
representatives of technology providers, adopters, and user organizations.
• Presentations with a theoretical or technical, but rather
research-oriented focus by representatives of academia and research centers.
• Presentations with a specific focus on impact-creation activities
including policy development, roadmapping, standardization, exploitation and
training.
Each proposal for a presentation will have to provide the following information:
• Type of presentation proposed
• Title of the presentation
• Summary of the presentation (100 words)
• Extended abstract of the presentation (4000 words, only for research
contributions)
• Presenters' short biography
Submissions should be sent via mail to : [email protected]
The deadline for submissions is : 22nd Feb 2013, 02.00pm CET
Details on the Call for Contribution : http://bit.ly/EDF2013-CfC
Further Information about the European Data Forum
EDF2013 website: http://2013.data-forum.eu/
Overall EDF website: [email protected]
LinkedIn Group: http://bit.ly/linkedin-EDF
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/EUDataForum
hashtag: #EDF2013
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