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World Data Summit - Europe Edition

The World Data Summit is a global conference dedicated to unleashing the power of data for transformative impact across industries and societies. This event brings together leading experts, innovators, and influencers from around the world to explore the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the data-driven era.

 
Data Innovation Summit

The Data Innovation Summit is the largest and most influential annual Data and AI event in the Nordics and beyond, bringing together the most innovative minds, enterprise practitioners, technology providers, start-up innovators and academics working in the field in one place to discuss ways to accelerate AI driven transformation throughout companies, industries and public organisations.

 
Workshop: Large Language Models to support semantic interoperability

On 10 April 2025, from 13:00 until 15:30 CET, the workshop on Large Language Models to support semantic interoperability will be held, co-organised by SEMIC and the Big Data Value Association (BDVA). The objective of this workshop is to explore the state of the art in techniques, tools, and applications leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance semantic interoperability.

 
iTalks on Government Innovation

This iTalk series, starting February 3rd, aims to explore how different governments can use innovative technologies for the public good. Discover presentations on inspiring case studies, including: "A Human Centric Journey to Service Excellence: The UAE Digital Courts GovTech" and The World Bank's "Governance Risk Assessment".

 
Masters of Digital 2025

Masters of Digital 2025, taking place on February 20, 2025, is DIGITALEUROPE's flagship annual event, held in Brussels and online. This year's conference will delve into critical topics such as ethical AI, cybersecurity, data sharing, clean tech, and digital resilience, addressing Europe's digital competitiveness and security challenges.

 
Natural language processing & data visualisation [Workshop]

Learn to apply data-driven techniques to understand survey results better and uncover actionable insights. In this natural language processing (NLP) and data visualisation workshop, we will address improving citizen participation in Vantaa, Finland.

 
iTalks Series: the Data Innovation Toolkit and the Data Innovation Repository

The Digital Innovation Lab from the European Commission developed the Data Innovation Toolkit to help data enthusiasts effectively use data for the public good. We invite you to join an iTalk webinar on December 3rd from 14:00 to 15:00, where experts will introduce the Data Innovation Toolkit and the Data Innovation Repository. They'll also brief you on how to leverage them.

 
Real-time predictive modelling for bicycle use [live workshop]

Join us for a live session on real-time forecasting techniques to support sustainable transportation initiatives. Learn to analyse historical data to uncover patterns and relationships that help forecast future events, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. Don't miss this in-depth workshop!

 
Harnessing climate data for tourism [live workshop]

This workshop will focus on climate data analysis techniques to help regions understand and predict tourism trends amid changing environmental conditions. Learn to make accurate predictions and informed decisions by uncovering patterns and trends in historical data in this classification and predictive analytics workshop. Secure your spot now!

 
Communicating complex datasets: Integrating real-time data for urban insights

In this workshop, participants will learn to integrate and visualise real-time data, a crucial skill for understanding urban dynamics and environmental conditions. This workshop will demonstrate these concepts through a practical use case involving real-time traffic and air quality monitoring using the tools available on the BDTI platform.

 
Dashboards for data visualisation: Analysing and presenting traffic accident insights

In this workshop, we will explore the core principles of data visualisation, focusing on effectively analysing and presenting static geospatial data. Participants will learn how to manage and visualise datasets using Python, PostgreSQL, Metabase, and QGIS. The workshop will utilise a practical use case involving the visualisation of traffic accident data, leveraging the tools provided by the BDTI platform.

 
An introduction to graph analytics

Graph analytics is a crucial skill for analysing complex relationships between entities and uncovering patterns in data. In this workshop, we will introduce key theoretical concepts about graphs, such as vertices, edges, degrees, and centrality.

 
Understanding statistics for data analysis

If you want to deepen your understanding of analysis and find meaning in data, this introduction to statistics workshop is for you. We will introduce the fundamentals of statistics and emphasise its necessity for data analysis.

 
Geospatial analytics fundamentals

If you want to recognise patterns in data by leveraging geographical, spatial, and location information, this introduction to geospatial analytics workshop is for you. In this session, we will introduce geospatial data, explain why it is relevant, and show you how to build interactive geospatial applications.

 
FrOSCon 2024

FrOSCon is back for its 2024 edition these 17 and 18 August. Located in Bonn in Germany, the conference features a few talks in English and most in German. Last year, an entire track was devoted to the question of open source in the public sector and the European Accessibility Resource Centre AccessibleEU held a workshop on digital accessibility.

 
Pass the SALT conference

Pass the SALT is a free, English-speaking conference focusing on free software and security. It features high-quality talks and workshops led by experts.