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Tech-X Agenda 2024

Day 1: Thursday 23 May

PLENARY ROOM Name: Hemicycle Amphitheatre; Floor: 0
HACKATON ROOM Name: Pres Room; Floor: 0
08:30 - 09:00: Registration & Coffee Registration: Entrance Foyer, Floor: -1 Coffee: Hemicycle Foyer, Floor: 0

09:00 – 09:15: Welcome and Introduction

  • Ulrich Ahle, CEO, Gaia-X
  • Moderator: Ralf Hustadt, Special Advisor, Digitalisation,Data Economy and Gaia-X, Luxinnovation GIE

09:15 – 09:30: Welcome Address

  • City of Luxembourg, TBC

09:30 – 10:00: Keynote Address 

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X

10:00 – 10:30: Gaia-X 101 – workshop

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X
  • Ewann Gavard, Technical Leader, Gaia-X
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break Hemicycle Foyer, Floor: 0

11:00 – 11:15: Navigating Gaia-X compliance and app prototyping: Your path to app development within trusted dataspaces

  • Philipp Reusch, Enterprise Architect for Data Spaces, T-Systems International

11:15 – 11:30: New data economy approaches for the GIS market – leveraging Boot-X and the Gaia-X Trust Framework

  • Alberto Berreteaga, IDSA Ambassador, Senior Researcher at DIGITAL/CORES TECNALIA
  • Jose A. Chica, Head of Digital Transformation at the Energy, Climatic and Urban Transition Unit TECNALIA

11:30 – 12:00: Observability and Trusted Data Transactions

  • Frédéric Bellaiche, VP Technology & Research, Dawex

12:00 – 12:30: SOLID project : A solid foundation for Data spaces

  • Guillaume Rouyer, Founder, Virtual Assembly
  • Sylvain le Bon, Co-Founder, Startin’blox
  • Frédéric Lé, President, Youragileway

12:30 – 12:45: Trust Indexes beyond Conformity

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X

12:45 – 13:00: How to make a data product for Gaia-X

  • Jesus M. Santamaria, Programs director at ICT Division, TECNALIA
  • Enrique Areizaga Sanchez

11:00 – 13:00: Hackathon Kick-off

  • Hacking: rest of the day
  • All hacking sessions will be done in parallel in the same room
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break Hemicycle Bar, Floor -1

14:00 – 14:30: Policy reasoning

  • Yassir Sellami, Back-end Software Developer, Gaia-X

14:30 – 15:00: Safeguarding Financial Well-being: Leveraging Data Analytics to Combat SMS-based Fraud for Vulnerable Populations

  • Fawad Qureshi, Global Field CTO, Platform Adoption, Snowflake 
  • Damion Rose, Strategic Partnerships Lead, BICS 

15:00 – 15:45: Trust anchors, interoperable trust models, dataspaces etc.

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X

15:45 – 16:15: TBC

16:15 – 17:00: Controlling Data in Gaia-X: Utilising Policy as Code for Product Carbon Footprint Sharing and Estimation

  • Paul Weißenbach, Lead Cloud Engineer, Posedio GmbH

14:00 – 22:00: Hackathon

  • Hacking: rest of the day
  • All hacking sessions will be done in parallel in the same room
17:00 - 20:00: Networking Reception Hemicycle Bar, Floor -1

Day 2: Friday 24 May 

PLENARY ROOM Name: Hemicycle Amphitheatre; Floor: 0
HACKATON ROOM Name: Pres Room; Floor: 0
09:00 - 09:30: Registration & Coffee Registration: Entrance Foyer, Floor: -1 Coffee: Hemicycle Foyer, Floor: 0

09:30 – 10:00: Dataspace connector in TEE and        beyond: making a dataspace connector confidential

  • Miki Kanno, Manager, NTT DATA
  • Yuji Hagiwara, Platform Engineer, NTT DATA
  • Koki Mitani, Senior Research Engineer of Social Informatics Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

10:00 – 10:30: Achieving a higher degree of interoperability between data space APIs and components which use NGSI-LD, OGC, and IFC models or services

  • Frédéric Lé, President, Youragileway
  • Michael Mulquin, MiMs Ambassador, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
  • Jean Brangé, President, AFNeT Services

09:30 – 10:30: Hackathon

  • Hacking: rest of the day
  • All hacking sessions will be done in parallel in the same room
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break Hemicycle Foyer, Floor: 0

11:00 – 11:45: Evolving the Gaia-X transport protocol to different connectors

  • Joaquin Salvachua, Associated professor, ETSIT UPM
  • Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Assistant Professor (‘23) in the Telematics System Department and a Senior Researcher in the Next Generation Internet Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Carlos Aparicio, UPM researcher and Phd candidate

11:45 – 12:00: From Concept to Reality: Tellus and Gaia-X Infrastructure Integration

  • Alina Rubina, Project Manager in Products and Research, DE-CIX

11:00 – 12:00: Hackathon

  • Hacking: rest of the day
  • All hacking sessions will be done in parallel in the same room
12:00- 13:30: Networking Lunch
Hemicycle Bar, Floor -1

13:30 – 14:00: Demo Contracts

  • Valerie Bruna, Decaposte
  • Alexandre Nicaise, Docaposte

14:00 – 15:00: Presenting Hackathon Final Results and Winners 

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X

15:00 – 15:30: Closing Remarks

  • Pierre Gronlier, CTO, Gaia-X
  • Ulrich Ahle, CEO, Gaia-X
  • Ralf Hustadt, Special Advisor, Digitalisation,Data Economy and Gaia-X, Luxinnovation GIE

15:30 – 15:45: Stage Picture

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