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08:00-09:00 |
Registration & Coffee |
Conference Room 1 | |
09:00-09:20 |
Welcome EDF2015 Moderator: Camille Ney Gabriel Crean, CEO, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) – Conference host |
09:20-10:10 |
Future Data Vision Session Stefan Rohringer, Vice President, Development Center Graz & Deputy CTO, Infineon Technologies Austria AG Data challenges and opportunities for the European traditional industry-ways towards Industry 4.0 Norbert Gaus, Executive Vice President, Head of Research and Technology Center, Siemens AG |
10:10-10:40 |
EDF2015 Opening Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Digital Single Market
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10:40-11:10 | Coffee Break |
11:10-11:40 |
Future Data Vision Panel Moderator: Camille Ney Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Digital Single Market Jean-Paul Zens, First Government Counsellor, Media and Communications Department, Ministry of State, Luxembourg Norbert Gaus, Executive Vice President, Head of Research and Technology Center, Siemens AG Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Internet economist and policy analyst, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Michael Bültmann, Managing Director, HERE Deutschland GmbH and Nokia Technology GmbH
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11:40-13:00 |
Session 1: Industrial Challenges & Applications 1 Moderators: Norbert Koppenhagen, SAP SE & Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig |
Stefan Auerbach, CEO, Lufthansa Systems Data Perspectives in the Airline Industry |
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Elena Alfaro, CEO, BBVA Data & Analytics |
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Karim Michel Sabbagh, President & CEO, SES SA Big Data: Satellites are a Key Piece of the Digital Highway Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Internet economist and policy analyst, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Data-Driven Innovation for Growth and Well-Being: How ready are European countries? |
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13:00 |
EDF2015 Poster Session November 16, 2015 at 13:00 - November 17, 2015 at 16:00 |
13:00-14:20 |
Lunch |
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Conference Room 1 |
Conference Room C |
14:20-15:40 |
Session 2 : Industrial Challenges & Applications 2 Moderators: Norbert Koppenhagen, SAP SE & Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig |
Session 3: Big and Open Data. The contribution/role of public institutions Moderator: Eva Benova, Director-General (acting), Publications Office of the European Union |
Michael Bültmann, Managing Director, HERE Deutschland GmbH and Nokia Technology GmbH |
Wendy Carrara, Director and EU policy advisor, Capgemini Consulting |
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Jorge Sanz, Director, National University of Singapore Business Analytics Center |
Norbert Hohn & Marc Küster, Publications Office of the European Union The EU as a provider of linked and open data
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Panel: Industrial Challenges & Applications in the European Data Economy Moderator: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Graz University of Technology Stefan Auerbach , CEO, Lufthansa Systems Elena Alfaro, CEO, BBVA Data & Analytics Michael Bültmann, Managing Director, HERE Deutschland GmbH and Nokia Technology GmbH Jorge Sanz, Director, National University of Singapore Business Analytics Center |
Mariana Kotzeva, Deputy Director-General, Eurostat New frontiers for official statistics
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Ivar Østhassel, Assistant Director ICT, Statsbygg The State of Estate: An open data based reporting service for the state-owned properties in Norway
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15:40-16:10 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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Conference Room 1 |
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16:10-16:50 |
Scientific Keynote Introduced by: Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University, London Smart Video Data |
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Conference Room 1 |
Conference Room C |
16:50-18:10 |
Session 4: Newest Trends in Big Data Technology Moderator: Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
Session 5: Open data is open for business: European success stories Session introduced by Elena Simperl, University of Southampton |
Frédérique Segond, Research Director, Viseo, France The truth of the data pudding is in the integrating Itay Reiner, Big Data Product Manager, NICE Customer Engagement Analytics Solution, NICE Systems, Israel Leveraging Big Data to Optimize Customer Experience Mohamed Boukhebouze, CETIC Research Centre Towards an On-board Personal Data Mining Framework For P4 Medicine Tomas Pariente Lobo, Atos SA |
Stefano M. Esposito, Founder & CEO, Rethink InSymbio - Fostering the transition to a Circular Economy model thanks to Open Data Victor Gross, CommoPrices How Customs Open Data improves & democratizes Commodities Market Intelligence Ian Makgill, SpendNetwork Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company & Clemens Wass, OpenLaws OpenLaws: Improving access to justice with open data and semantic tools |
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18:10-18:30 |
Closing Day 1 of EDF2015 |
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19:30-23:30 |
Gala Dinner – ECCL Lobby Moderators: Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig & Stefanie Lindstaedt, Graz University of Technology |
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20:35-21:15 |
Marc Schiltz, Executive Head – Secretary General, Luxembourg National Research Fund eccenca European Data Innovator Award Roberto Viola, Director-General, DG CONNECT, European Commission Hans-Christian Brockmann, CEO, eccenca GmbH Percussion pieces by Ensemble de Percussion du Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg |
08:00-09:15 |
Reception & Coffee |
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09:15-10:00 |
EDF2015 Opening Day 2 Moderator: Camille Ney Marc Hansen, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research of Luxembourg Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner of the European Commission for Digital Economy and Society |
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10:00-10:40 |
Innovation Keynote Dr. Tanja Rueckert, Executive Vice President, IoT & Customer Innovation, SAP SE |
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10:40-11:10 |
Coffee Break |
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11:10-11:40 |
Introduced by: Camille Ney Giuseppe Abbamonte, Director Media & Data, Directorate General Communication Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission Setting the framework conditions for the data economy: The Digital Single Market initiative and the infrastructural needs of a thriving data economy |
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Conference Room 1 |
Conference Room C | ||
11:40-13:00 |
Session 6: Educating Data Scientists & Data Skills Moderator: John Domingue, The Knowledge Media Institute |
Session 7: Multilingual Big Data for eCommerce and e-Services Moderator: Márta Nagy-Rothengass, DG CONNECT, European Commission Session introduced by Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament Language Technologies (video message) Panelists: Carlos Romero Dexeus, Director of Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, SEGITTUR, Spain Opportunities for Language Technologies in the Tourism Sector Jochen Hummel, Chairman LT-Innovate, and CEO ESTeam, Germany Multilingual Digital Single Market Tatjana Gornostaja, TILDE, Latvia Coupling Language and Knowledge via e-Service Ecosystem |
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Gabriella Cattaneo, Associate Vice President, IDC's European Government Consulting unit |
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Frank Bensberg, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Gandalf Buscher, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig The Impact of Big Data on the Job Market – Results from a Job Mining Study |
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Elena Simperl, University of Southampton |
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Orlando Machado, Chief Data Scientist, MoneySuperMarket.com Data Science: Bridging the skills gap |
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Sergio Gusmeroli, IT Research Manager, TXT e-Solutions SpA, Italy |
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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Conference Room 1 |
Conference Room C |
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14.30-16:00 |
Session 8: Innovation Panel Moderator: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Graz University of Technology Stefan Rohringer, Vice President, Development Center Graz & Deputy CTO, Infineon Technologies Austria AG Klaas Wilhelm Bollhöfer, CIO, The Unbelievable Machine Company Anat Elhalal, Lead Technologist - Data, Digital Catapult Centre The Data Catalyser: Collaborative Proprietary Data Innovation Alexandre Marty, CASD, Kamel Gadouche, CASD, Franck Cotton, INSEE and Nawres Guedria, CASD, France CASD-TeraLab, Secure Access to Big Data Volker Markl, Asterios Katsifodimos and Christoph Boden, TU Berlin Apache Flink: A fast, scalable, and declarative open-source platform for Big Data Analytics |
Session 9: Industrial Challenges & Applications 3 Moderator: Muriel Foulonneau, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Alexander Duisberg, Bird & Bird LLP, Munich Christian Winkler, mgm technology partners GmbH Automated driving – Data security, data privacy and liability questions in real life use cases Arild Waaler & Jarl S. Magnusson, University of Oslo Carl Per Magnus Wicén, CEO, KISEA AB KIRUNA CITYLAB: What is it, why do it, what is the challenge, what are the benefits and how to do it Rob Koper, Professor of Learning Sciences & Learning Technologies, CELSTEC, Open University of the Netherlands Smart Cities: Towards Smart Citizens Mark J Forster, Team Leader Chemical Indexing Unit, Syngenta R&D and Chair of ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee Open Innovation in the Agri-food industry: the utility and importance of public data in life science R&D Piek Vossen, VU Amsterdam |
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Conference Room 1 |
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16:00-16.40 |
Closing Keynote Lauren Sager Weinstein, Head of Analytics, Transport for London Innovations in London’s transport: Big Data for a better customer experience |
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16.40-17.00 |
Closing EDF2015 Muriel Foulonneau, Researcher, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology John Domingue, Director, The Knowledge Media Institute |
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