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Gaia-X: A Federated Secure Data Infrastructure

Agenda

Tuesday 13 May

Market-X & Expo

Market-X Plenary

09:00

Registration & Coffee

09:30

Welcome & Opening Market-X & Tech-X

  • Ulrich Ahle, CEO, Gaia-X
  • Daniel Sáez Domingo, Strategic Intelligence Director, ITI
  • David Rosa, Valencia Innovation Capital Director

10:10

Inspirational Speech: Why the Gaia-X Trust Framework Matters?

  • Christoph Strnadl, CTO, Gaia-X

10:20

Current State of Gaia-X: Compliant, Compatible & Catalogue Overview

  • Ulrich Ahle, CEO, Gaia-X

10:30

Networking Coffee

11:30

Infrastructure Ecosystem Panel

  • CISPE | Alban Schmutz, CEO, Cloud Data Engine
  • Aire Networks | Zigor Gaubeca, Network Architect, Aire Networks
  • Leonardo Camiciotti, Executive Director, TOP-IX Consortium (online)

12:15

Aerospace Ecosystem Panel

Moderator: Roland Fadrany, COO, Gaia-X

  • COOPERANTS
  • Pontus-X | Kai Meinke, Co-Founder and Business Lead, deltaDAO AG
  • neusta aerospace GmbH | Arno Scheidenreiter, Founder & CEO of neusta aerospace GmbH
  • Airbus | Sandra de Lucas, Head of Digital International (Roofs & Affiliates), Airbus

13:00

Networking Lunch

14:00

Keynote: Spanish Plan for the Promotion of Sectoral Data Spaces

  • Ruth del Campo, General Director of Data, Spanish Ministry for the Digital Transformation

14:15

Tourism, Smart Cities & Mobility Ecosystems Panel

Moderator: Francisca Rubio, General Manager, Gaia-X Hub Spain

  • DEPLOYTOUR | Antonio Sánchez, Business Development Manager AnySolution
  • DataSpace BeatTheHeat the Cartagena | Dr. Antonio J. Jara, CSO, Libelium
  • Valencia City Council | Ernesto Faubel, Chair of the EDIC on LDT (WG) – Head of Smart City Office & Data Management
  • i2CAT | Jim Ahtes, Head of Data Space Innovation, i2CAT Foundation
  • Gaia-X4futuremobility | Steffen Dean Turnbull, Research Associate Safety-Critical Data Infrastructures 

15:00

Agriculture Ecosystem Panel

Moderator: Francisca Rubio, General Manager, Gaia-X Hub Spain

  • RegenAgX | Paco Conde Fernández, President & Co-founder, ZERTIFIER
  • AgrospAI | Roberto García, Associate Professor, Deputy Vice-Rector for Knowledge Transfer, Universitat de Lleida
  • UPCxells | Aniket Bharatrao, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • EDAA | María del Mar Roldán, Universidad de Málaga
  • RuralTech | Pablo Coca, Director General, CTIC

15:45

Networking Coffee

16:15

Health Ecosystem Panel

Moderator: Daniel Sáez Domingo, Strategic Intelligence Director, ITI

  • Health-X | Ronny Stritzke, Software Architect, Bundesdruckerei-Gruppe
  • EUCAIM (European Cancer Imaging) | Ignacio Blanquer, Full Professor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Technical Lead of the Central Hub in EUCAIM
  • INCLIVA | Josep Redon, Professor of Medicine at the University of Valencia and Head of the Internal Medicine Service, Hypertension Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario of Valencia
  • Ralf Hustadt, Data & AI Go-to-Market Director, NTT DATA, Inc. (Online)

17:00

Manufacturing Ecosystem Panel

  • EuProGigant | Wolfgang Kniejski. Senior Project Manager, EIT Manufacturing
  • Catena-X Spanish Hub | Diego Mallada, Digital Tech Director, Gestamp (TBC)
  • T-Systems | Sven Löffler, Director, Data Spaces and Data Products, T-Systems International GmbH
  • Thomas Hahn, Chief Expert Software at Siemens AG Germany
  • Laurent Lafaye, Co-CEO Dawex
  • Manufacturing-X | Oscar Lázaro, Innovalia (tbc)

18:00 – 21:00

Networking Reception

10:00 – 18:00

Expo Area

  • Gaia-X
  • Gaia-X Hub Spain
  • Gaia-X Hubs
  • deltaDAO
  • ITI
  • Tecnalia
  • The Project Ecosystem for European Manufacturing Data & Services

Tech-X & Hackathon #8

Workshop Room

09:00

Registration & Coffee

10:30

Networking Coffee

11:30

Gaia-X Compliance: Loire 101

  • Yassir Sellami, Software Engineer, Gaia-X

12:00

Expanding the Gaia-X Trust Framework to the World

  • José Andrés Muñoz Arcentales, Assistant Professor Doctor, Polytechnic University of Madrid

12:20

UPCxels – A User Centric Data Space

  • Aniket Satbhai, Service Engineer, UPCxels

12:35

An Integrated Open-Source SaaS Solution for Implementing Data Spaces

  • Manuel Escuin, Cloud and Orchestrator Leader, Aire Networks

12:50

Q&A

13:00

Networking Lunch

14:00

Enhancing Manufacturing Resilience Through Gaia-X – Insights from Flex4Res

  • Emmanouil Bakopoulos, Research Engineer, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation

14:15

Real-World Gaia-X Trust Framework Implementation with GXDCH and eIDAS Integration

  • Marco Penovich, CTO, Dynamo | The European Cloud Alternative
  • Maharshi Suchak, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, SmartSense Solutions

14:45

From Trust to Transaction: How eIDAS-Based Identities Enable New Business Models in Data Spaces

  • Franz Fries-Henrich, Digital Identity & Trust Strategy | D-Trust GmbH / Bundesdruckerei Group

15:00

Standardisation around Gaia-X

  • Pierre Gronlier, CINO, Gaia-X

15:15

Q&A

15:30

Networking Coffee

16:00

The (new) Gaia-X Conceptual Model

  • Klaus Ottradovetz, Member of the Atos Scientific community, Atos International Germany GmbH
  • Christoph Strnadl, CTO, Gaia-X

16:45

Data Spaces Specification language  (DSSL) and its Maturity and Interoperability Score

  • Joaquín Salvachúa, Asociated Professor DIT-ETSIT, Polytechnic University of Madrid

17:05

Wrap up & Q&A

  • Christoph Strnadl, CTO, Gaia-X

18:00 – 21:00

Networking Reception

09:00 – 21:00

Hackathon Room

  • Data Space On-Boarding with Gaia-X Cred
  • ODRL Evaluation Libraryentia
  • Semantic Catalogue for Loire release, upgrading the XFSC Federated Catalogue
  • Gaia-Sense: A GenAI Assistant for Gaia-X Developers & Users
  • Extending the GAIA-X Digital Clearing House: Automated RDF & SHACL and Driven Certification for Marketplace Access
  • Gaia-X Ontology Bridge
  • Gaia-X Federated Metadata Repository

Wednesday 14 May

Market-X & Expo

Market-X Workshop Room

09:00

Registration & Coffee

10:00

How can we Accelerate the Onboarding of Organisations in Gaia-X and Data Spaces (demo)

  • Enrique Areizaga, Digital Transformation Manger, TECNALIA Research & Innovation
  • Mario Petruzzella Malagón, Senior Developer – Project Management, Arsys
  • Manuel Escuin, Cloud and Orchestrator Leader, Aire Networks
  • Jordi Arjona Aroca, Distributed System research coordinator, ITI

10:30

Networking Coffee

11:00

Top Business Priorities in Ecosystems 

  • Roland Fadrany, COO, Gaia-X
  • Alberto Palomo, CSO, Gaia-X

12:00

Gaia-X Member Benefits and What is Gaia-X (in Spanish)

  • Iker Sanz, Member Relations Officer, Gaia-X

12:30

Business Data Space Trajectories

  • Alberto Curatolo, CFO, Gaia-X

13:00

Networking Lunch

14:00

Exploring Spanish Projects

  • IntegraDEPs | Dr. Josep Redón, INCLIVA
  • Inkolan 
  • Indatur
  • HELEADE
  • OSHIRIS

15:00

Market-X Partner Workshop

15:45

Joint Closing Market-X & Tech-X

09:00 – 14:45

Expo Area

  • Gaia-X
  • Gaia-X Hub Spain
  • Gaia-X Hubs
  • deltaDAO
  • ITI
  • Tecnalia
  • The Project Ecosystem for European Manufacturing Data & Services

Tech-X & Hackathon #8

Tech-X Plenary

09:00

Registration & Coffee

09:20

Welcome Remarks Tech-X

09:30

EuProGigant | The Path to a Manufacturing Ecosystem Gateway

10:30

Networking Coffee

11:30

FIWARE Data Space Connector

  • Juanjo Hierro, CTO, FIWARE

11:45

Data Transfer Agent

  • Benoit Tabutiaux, CTO, TeraLab
  • Frederic Bellaiche, PhD, Vice President of Technology and Research, Dawex – Data Exchange Technology

12:15

InferIA: Improving Discovery in Data Spaces through Artificial Intelligence

  • Jose Norberto Mazón, CDO, InferIA

12:30

Decoding Gaia-X: the Path to Compliance Labeling

  • Enrique Areizaga, Principal researcher, TECNALIA.

13:00

Networking Lunch

14:00

Converting Existing Data Ecosystems into Gaia-X-Compatible Data Spaces – Things to Consider Based on the X-Road Journey

  • Ville Sirviö, CEO, the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)

14:15

Sovereign AI: Fine-Tuning LLMs Through Trusted Data Exchange

  • Ramy H’cini, CTO, Think-it

14:45

Hackathon Winner Announcement

15:00

Presentation Hackathon Winner 3rd Place

15:15

Presentation Hackathon Winner 2nd Place

15:30

Presentation Hackathon Winner 1st Place

15:45

Joint Closing Market-X & Tech-X

09:00 – 14:45

Hackathon Room

  • Data Space On-Boarding with Gaia-X Cred
  • ODRL Evaluation Libraryentia
  • Semantic Catalogue for Loire release, upgrading the XFSC Federated Catalogue
  • Gaia-Sense: A GenAI Assistant for Gaia-X Developers & Users
  • Extending the GAIA-X Digital Clearing House: Automated RDF & SHACL and Driven Certification for Marketplace Access
  • Gaia-X Ontology Bridge
  • Gaia-X Federated Metadata Repository
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