Press Resources

✨ Summit Theme & Vision 

• “Digital Ecosystems in Action” – The official tagline highlighting the real-world impact of data spaces and digital collaboration. 
• “AI Meets Trust” – A guiding narrative for #Summit25 discussions, emphasising trust as the foundation for AI innovation across Europe and beyond. 

 

🤖 AI & Data Interoperability 

• Pioneering Data Space Projects: Two strategic sectors — aerospace and nuclear — are building their digital future on the Gaia-X Trust Framework. 
• Generative AI for data interoperability: Showcasing the first approaches of AI’s contribution to solving the semantic interoperability challenges within data spaces (Gaia-X Institute).  
• Tools for Data Spaces & Digital Ecosystems: A comprehensive set of tools available to build and scale digital ecosystems and data spaces. 

 

🔐 Trust & Governance 

• Gaia-X Trust Framework 3.0 – “Danube” Release: Introduction of the first extensibility mechanisms for domain and geographic expansion, allowing the automation of arbitrary ecosystem rulebooks in a technically compatible manner. 
• Gaia-X Catalogue of Catalogues: A live showcase of navigating Gaia-X-compliant ecosystems and their services currently on the market. 
• Gaia-X Government Advisory Board (GovB): Advancing government-led collaboration for trusted digital infrastructure. 

 

🌍 European & Global Collaboration 

• Gaia-X General Advisory Board (GAB): Driving internationalisation through the identification of region-specific regulations, opportunities, and best practices. 
• EU Convergence on Data Strategy: A unified European approach to data governance and innovation. 
• Portuguese Projects Spotlight: Featuring national success stories contributing to the European data ecosystem. 
• Gaia-X Hubs Focus: Updates from national hubs advancing regional implementation. 

 

📈 Strategic & Economic Outlook 

• Data Spaces Ready to Deliver: Demonstrating operational readiness across sectors. 
• Evaluate your data-sharing project through the economic model developed by Paris Dauphine University, which distinguishes between the roles of participants and orchestrators within data-sharing ecosystems. 

 

🔮 Looking Ahead 

• Eyes on Tomorrow: A visionary keynote to close the summit, setting direction for the future of digital ecosystems — delivered by Catherine Jestin (Gaia-X Chairwoman, Airbus) and Mario Campolargo (Gaia-X Board, former Portuguese State Secretary for Digitalisation). 
• Summit 2026 Location Reveal: Announcing the next host city for the Gaia-X Summit.