LEUVEN, BELGIUM
30TH MARCH 2022
LEUVEN, BELGIUM – 30TH MARCH 2022
DATA FORUM 2022
What does the European legislation need to foster data-driven cross-border experimentation and effective data sharing?
Data Forum 2022 examines the creation of a federation of Data-Driven Innovation Hubs from the law and ethics perspective. It outlines the current and upcoming regulatory landscape and its impact on cross-border data-driven innovation and experimentation.
Using the EUHubs4Data experiments and assets offering as a reference, it pinpoints the policy and ethical challenges of data sharing and addresses them with tangible examples. The event provides a far-sighted view of the creation of federated ecosystems and data spaces in Europe.
The half-day event brings together an inspiring set of speakers with a wide variety of expertise. The panellists include EU policymakers, researchers, and representatives from SMEs, startups and DIHs. Giving the spotlight to innovators and research projects building European data markets.
Data Forum 2022 provides insight drawing from the concrete experience of actors working in the field. The event welcomes entrepreneurs and SMEs creating data and AI services, DIHs wanting to strengthen their ecosystem, ethics and law scholars analysing the effects of the regulation, policy-makers and experts shaping the environment or anyone curious to see how the future of European innovation is shaped.


LAILEC 2022
PRESENTATIONS
If you missed the Data Forum event, you can now check the sessions through these videos and download the PDF presentations.
If you missed the Data Forum event, you can now check the sessions through this video and download the PDF presentations.
ABOUT EUH4D DATA FORUM
Data Forum is an annual event organized by the EUHubs4Data project, created to raise awareness, share results and recommendations and collect feedback on strategies and policies around data from the European Commission.
The 2022 edition will be held on March 30th in Leuven, Belgium.
The event is organized as a part of KU Leuven’s LAILEC (Leuven AI Legal and Ethics) 2022 conference.

AGENDA
TIMING | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
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9:30 - 9:40 | Consulting Director (IDC) |
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9:40 - 10:15 | European Commission Centre for IT & IP Law (KU Leuven) Research Director (SAP) - President, European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) and Vice-President (Big Data Value Association) |
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10:15 - 10:30 | EUHubs4Data Project Coordinator - (ITI) |
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10:30 - 11:00 | ||
Understanding the Impact of the Data Governance Act and the Data Act on local offerings based on data sharing and a European Federation of Data-Driven Innovation Hubs | Research Unit KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) -Legal Work Package Lead (EUHubs4Data) |
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How could the project's Services help SMEs fullfilling the AI Act? What are the ethical challenges that can come from Experiments and how are they handled in EU Hubs4Data | Lab Lead TECO (KIT) - Ethics Monitoring Group (EUHubs4Data) |
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11:00 - 11:10 | ||
11:10 - 12:00 | ||
Introduction on how ethical and legal aspects affect SMEs in Europe | EU Policy Director (Digital SME Alliance) |
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"Long Range Planner": Monitoring critical infrastructure with drones. Legal and ethical challenges | CEO (FuVeX) |
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Panel/Audience Discussion with Q&A: Will Europe be able to shape a data value ecosysytem based on common shared values? Will SMEs in Europe be more fit for the digital age than other places in the world? | Moderation: Till Riedel Emre Bayamlioglu, Annika Linck Carlos Mantilla |
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12:00 - 12:35 | ||
Legal recommendations on the governance of the federation | Centre for IT & IP Law (KUL) |
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Long term vision of the federation | Strategic Intelligence and Technology Transfer Director (ITI) - Board of Directors (BDVA) |
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Alignment with existing and future instruments: DSBA | Secretary General - (BDVA/DAIRO) |
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Final remarks | EUHubs4Data Project Coordinator - (ITI) |