Location Data Space Event

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In the data economy, location data emerges as a key horizontal enabler across various sectors, enabling the detection and measurement of changes, enhancing business insights, and driving the development of new products and services. The Gaia-X Location Data Space Event aims to uncover the potential and versatile applications of location data, emphasising its horizontal integration across sectors such as finance, agriculture, forestry, and the energy sector, to name a few.

The Gaia-X Location Data Space Event will serve as a forum for stakeholders to explore and discuss how the Location Data Space can provide access to High-Value Datasets (HVD) needed in various Data Spaces. This event is essential for understanding how location data can be a cornerstone for data-driven innovation and decision-making across diverse industries, based on the Gaia-X Framework, which enables interoperability across multiple ecosystems.

Join us to learn, share, and collaborate on harnessing the potential of location data and Gaia-X solutions to transform the data economy.

Agenda

• 10:00 – 10:10 – Welcome and Introduction, Ulrich Ahle, Gaia-X CEO
• 10:10 – 10:20 – Setting the scene, Emmanuel Mondon, Founder of AdviceGEO and co-lead of Gaia-X Location Ecosystem 
• 10:20 – 11:20 – Panel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Insights on Location Data
  This panel will explore the role of location data from research, industry, policy, and user perspectives. 
  • Jordi Escriu, Scientific Project Officer – Digital Economy Unit / Joint Research Centre, European Commission
  • Adrien Pain, Business Developer at CS Sopra Steria
  • Piotr Zaborowski, Project Manager at Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
  • Antti Jakobsson, Project Manager at  Location Innovation Hub & Chief Engineer at National Land Survey of Finland
• 11:20 – 12.00 –  Presentation of Use Cases
  • InGeo-X Project Use Case: Thorsten Reitz, Founder/CEO at wetransform.to
    Description: Presentation by InGeo-X, highlighting applications of location data in forestry or energy sectors.
  • Location data in geodesy: an example with the sea level rise within the context of climate change: Dr Gaël Kermarrec, PostDoc at Leibniz Universität Hannover
    Description: Example with the sea level rise within the context of climate change. 
  • Road Infrastructure Digital Twinning: An Heirman, Sales & Business Manager at GIM SMART GEO INSIGHTS
    Description: Feasibility Study for a Digital Twin for Road Infrastructure Managers in the Benelux
• 12:00 – 12:50 – Panel Discussion: Location Data as a Horizontal Domain
  This panel will discuss how location data serves as a horizontal domain, connecting with other sectors such as Environment, Finance, Agriculture, Health, etc…
  • Territorial Data Space concept: Agathe Granier, Cheffe de projets data collaboratifs at Ekitia
  • Territorial Data Space concept: Pauline Zordan, Cheffe de projet gouvernance des données at Ekitia
  • High Value Datasets (HVD) projects: Antonio Salvatore Filograna, Senior Researcher at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
  • High Value Datasets (HVD) projects: Lydia Montandon, VP Strategic Marketing Initiatives at FIWARE
  • Open Maps For Europe 2 (OME2) project: Victoria Persson, Project Manager at EuroGeographics

• 12:50 – 13:00 – Conclusions and Q&A, Victor de Vries, Junior Community Manager at Gaia-X