Join DATAMITE at the EBDVF 2025
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025 will take place in Copenhagen from 12 to 14 November. Organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), the EBDVF is the flagship event of the European Big Data, Value and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community. It brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policymakers from Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of data and AI.
DATAMITE will be there for the third consecutive year, and we are very excited to be back! The project is proud to be a sponsor of the EBDVF 2025. As part of our sponsorship activities, we will have a booth where we will share the progress and main achievements of the DATAMITE project to date with the hundreds of visitors and participants expected to attend.
In addition to the Booth, DATAMITE is organising and hosting a session entitled 'Data Interoperability and Monetisation: Framework, Use Cases and Market Adoption', taking place on Thursday 13 from 14:00 to 15:00. This session will present the DATAMITE framework, which facilitates data monetisation, interoperability and trading across sectors. We will present real-world examples in which the framework has been validated and supported the development of the Data Maturity Model. We will also demonstrate how some of its components are already being offered as services by partners and incorporated into market-oriented solutions that support businesses. Finally, a panel discussion will explore how these solutions can accelerate adoption and market impact, translating technical innovation into real business value.
As we did for the 2024 edition, we will be hosting a session with the EUDATA+ cluster, as well as sharing a 6-square-metre booth. Taking place on Thursday 13 from 11:00 to 13:00, the session will build on last year's topic by exploring the data lifecycle in depth, from generation to monetisation. It will showcase innovative tools and solutions and explain how they can enhance companies' data management and monetisation strategies.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet our talented team in person. We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!
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The Open Source Community Day 2025
The Open Source Community Day, organised by the Eclipse Foundation in collaboration with EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu took place in Madrid on 23 and 24 September. The event offered EU-funded projects a unique opportunity to engage directly with the open source community, providing a space to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. Contributors, researchers, developers and innovators from the open source community gathered in Madrid to explore the future of digital technologies and collaborative development.
As part of the event's dissemination and collaboration activities, a community session was hosted where participants could present their ongoing research, open-source initiatives and project outcomes. DATAMITE was one of the projects presented by the Eclipse Foundation, as they are part of our consortium. David Remón and his colleagues at Eclipse used the DATAMITE trifold to engage with the community at the event, talking to other researchers and developers about DATAMITE. “They were very interested in our open-source strategy and how we collaboratively built the framework”, he reflects.
Open Source Community Day 2025 was a vibrant gathering of individuals united by their passion for open-source software and technology. During the event, the importance of collaboration across borders and industries in Europe was emphasised, as was the role of open-source software in enabling researchers, developers and industries to build innovative, secure and sustainable solutions. “DATAMITE is built on open source principles, and by taking part in this initiative we strengthen links with other research projects and developers focused on data as a driver of innovation and growth in a trusted and fair manner”, says David Remón.
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DATAMITE at the APMS Conference
The APMS Conference took place in Kamakura, Japan, from 31 August to 4 September. This event brought together leading international experts from academia, industry and government who specialise in manufacturing, service and logistics systems. Attendees explored cutting-edge developments in cyber-physical-human production systems. The conference addressed key challenges and advancements in smart factories and warehouses, autonomous production systems, sustainable supply chains and human-centric AI applications.
The conference featured original, high-impact academic contributions as part of its programme, with a paper on DATAMITE being one of the selected works. Martin Loers, from DATAMITE's partner FIR an der RWTH Aachen, presented the paper “Supporting Strategic Decision Making for Data Monetization in the Era of Digital Transformation”. The work, carried out in the context of DATAMITE, introduces a framework of twelve distinct data monetization strategies derived from academic research and industry case studies.
You can read the paper here.
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) 2025
The 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) was held from 26 - 29 June in a Hybrid format, in Limassol, Cyprus, and online. AIAI is a renowned international conference that brings together scientists and researchers each year to exchange the latest and most cutting-edge advances in the field. Its programme includes workshops that provide an ideal setting for the presentation of leading-edge conference papers. For the second consecutive year, DATAMITE was well represented at the conference by its partner, OTE.
Organised by OTE Group of Companies (HTO) and dozens of EU scientific partners, the 'B5G – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge' (B5G-PINE) workshop, was the main event where DATAMITE was represented. This workshop aimed to disseminate knowledge obtained from ongoing EU projects in the wider thematic area of 'B5G/6G Innovative Activities – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge', focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) in modern 5G/B5G telecommunications infrastructures. As part of the workshop, a poster about the project was displayed throughout the conference, and OTE presented two papers related to DATAMITE.
"Towards a Data Monetization Maturity Model", where authors introduced DMMM, the first scientifically grounded maturity model designed to help organizations assess, plan, and evolve their data monetization capabilities. This tool bridges the gap between ambition and actionable strategy. Read it here.
"Transforming Data Management in Telecommunications: The Case Study of OTE Group’s Integration with the DATAMITE Project", where authors shared a real-world framework from the OTE Group's journey in aligning complex, large-scale data ecosystems with DATAMITE's vision—leveraging open-source modularity to enable monetization, interoperability, and streamlined data exchange in telecom. Read it here.
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DATAMITE at the AI Connected Business World 2025
The 15th AI Connected Business World took place on 24 June in Athens, Greece. With the theme of “Bridging the Connected World: From Vision to Connection”, the event emphasised the importance of technology, innovation and connectivity in creating a sustainable and connected world. It also highlighted the importance of interoperability and collaboration between businesses and other stakeholders in driving progress and bridging the digital divide.
The aim of the conference was to bring together key figures in innovation, including representatives from local government, businesses, research institutions and start-ups. Among them was DATAMITE partner OTE Group of Companies (OTE), who attended the event and presented the project at their stand. They promoted DATAMITE at the booth using an informative roll-up banner and a virtual assistant to engage with visitors and talk to them about the project.
The conference focused on key areas set to shape the future, including smart cities, smart buildings, the Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity, civil protection technology, and business networking. Practical examples and innovative solutions were presented to demonstrate how technology and strategic partnerships can bolster infrastructure resilience and promote sustainability.
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DATAMITE presents a paper poster at CIRED 2025
The 2025 CIRED - Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution took place from 16 to 19 June in Geneva, Switzerland. With over 1,600 people attending the conference and 3,000 people visiting the exhibition, CIRED is one of the world’s leading energy conferences. The event featured talks from leading industry figures, roundtable debates, research information forums based on R&D, and guided poster tours.
Ricardo Henriques from E-REDES travelled to Geneva to present a paper poster on DATAMITE at the exhibition. The paper, titled 'Sharing Electricity Distribution Data Through Energy Data Spaces Using the DATAMITE Framework', explores how Distribution System Operators (DSOs) can share electricity distribution data via Energy Data Spaces using the DATAMITE Framework. It does so by examining the use cases implemented by E-REDES in Portugal to enhance its open data portal and test the sharing of data products with external stakeholders, and by HEDNO in Greece to enable data exchange between a DSO and an energy service provider for system planning enhancement.
Ricardo Henriques presented the poster paper on behalf of the authors of the paper: himself; Pedro Boto (E-REDES); Savvas Manikas, and Konstantinos Kontodimas (both from HEDNO); Jordi Arjona (ITI); Vasilis Siopidis, Konstantinos Votis and Dimitrios Tzovaras (all from CERTH); Valentín Sánchez (TECNALIA); and Ilknur Çulani, Silvia Castellvi, and Sonia Jiménez (all from the International Data Spaces Association).
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DATAMITE at SMARTCOMP 2025
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) took place from 16 to 19 June in Cork, Ireland. SMARTCOMP is the leading conference in the field of smart computing, which is a multidisciplinary domain based on advances in sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.
This year's conference programme included the 1st International Workshop on Smart AI Models and Data Sharing and Monetisation (SmartAIDa), held 16 June. SmartAIDa aimed to address the growing need for effective frameworks and technologies that enable the sharing, monetisation, and governance of AI models and datasets. As artificial intelligence becomes a cornerstone of innovation across industries, leveraging its full potential requires robust infrastructures, interoperability, and a focus on trust, security, and value creation. Jordi Arjona (ITI), DATAMITE's technical coordinator, was the keynote speaker, and several consortium members presented DATAMITE-related papers.
The keynote, entitled 'AI & Data Spaces: The Rise of (Data) Quality', focused on the importance of quality data. Jordi Arjona stated that, with the arrival of Data Spaces and the disruption caused by Generative AI, data quality is once again in the spotlight and will play an even more important role at the intersection of these two worlds. The four DATAMITE-related papers presented at the workshop were:
'Towards a Framework for Intelligent Sampling: Comprehensive Review of Challenges, AI Techniques and Tools', presented by Lander Bonilla (Tecnalia and the University of Deusto), provides an overview of the key challenges associated with traditional data sampling methods. These challenges include class imbalance, overfitting and bias. The paper then explores how AI techniques can solve these problems and improve the sampling process.
'Validating a Strategy Questionnaire for Data Monetization', presented by Martin Loers (FIR and RWTH Aachen University), introduces a questionnaire-based tool designed to help organisations select appropriate data monetisation strategies based on their business models. The tool is built on academic research, industry insights and expert input, and maps responses to one or more of twelve predefined strategies.
'Data Monetization Through Tailored Demand Representation', presented by Eduardo Vyhmeister (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork), explores how detailed consumer demand models can support more effective data monetisation strategies. The paper reviews various methods of capturing digital market behaviour, improving upon them by taking elements such as price sensitivity, trust and quality perception into account.
'A Tool for Fairness Assessment and Red‑Lining Detection in AI Systems', presented by Dimitrios Bikoulis (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork), introduces a practical framework for evaluating fairness in complex AI systems. The tool brings together advanced fairness metrics and association analysis to reveal hidden biases and proxy variables tied to sensitive attributes, which are key indicators of indirect discrimination or red-lining.
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DATAMITE at EGI 2025
The EGI 2025 Conference organised by EGI Foundation was held in Santander, Spain, from2 to 6 June. The conference brought together international scientific communities, IT and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers to discuss data research and innovation. DATAMITE contributed to the conference by exhibiting a poster showcasing some of the work done during the project and delivering a presentation, as well as displaying a project presentation video.
The poster was pitched during the opening ceremony and presented during the next days by Andrea Cristofori (EGI foundation) on behalf of the project authors (C.H. Brandt, P. E. Kyziropoulos, V. Siopidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, M. González, and A. Cristofori). The poster focuses on the broker modules that publish the data product metadata to EU portals. On all four days of the conference, the DATAMITE poster was on display, with a dedicated afternoon slot for attendees to view it and ask questions to DATAMITE representatives.
The presentation ‘Bridging the Gap: Aligning Strategy, KPIs, and Decision-Making in DATAMITE’ was prepared by Eduardo Vyhmeister and Andrea Visentin (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC), and Montserrat González (EGI Foundation). The presentation delivered by Andrea and Montserrat explained DATAMITE's work on developing a tool for valuing data based on metrics and KPIs, and the motivations and challenges faced along the way. It also took the opportunity to encourage all attendees to test the tool and provide feedback.
As a partner of the DATAMITE project, the EGI Foundation displayed a video presentation for the DATAMITE project to support its dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities.
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DATAMITE's presence at Data Week 2025
Data Week 2025, the spring gathering of Europe's Big Data and Data-Driven AI research and innovation community, took place in Athens, Greece, from 27 to 28 May. With the theme 'Odyssey of AI: Navigating the Data Seas', this year's edition focused on the fundamental elements of data value creation. As usual, DATAMITE was well represented at the event, with a presence in one workshop and as part of the EUDATA+ cluster.
On Tuesday 27, Christos Gizelis from OTE represented DATAMITE at the 'Monetisation & Governance Across Mobility, Media and Trustworthy Data Sharing' session. This session explored methodologies from the DATAMITE project for unlocking the value of data, alongside OTE’s Pluto framework for ensuring robust data governance. Collaboration across trustworthy data sharing (PISTIS), media (FAME), and mobility (MobiSpaces) was highlighted, demonstrating how different sectors are tackling data monetisation and governance while ensuring security, interoperability, and compliance.
On 28 May, the last day of the conference, the EUDATA+ cluster held a session in the plenary room titled 'EUDATA+: Solutions for Data Trading and Marketplaces (Insight for the Future of AI and Data Spaces)'. The session explored ways to advance the state of AI and data spaces in relation to data trading and pricing solutions. It began with an introduction to the cluster's evolution and activities, with a focus on the roles of AI and data spaces in the economics of data.
Two keynote presentations examined technological challenges. Professor George Konstantinidis (University of Southampton) and Dr Martin Serrano (University of Galway, DSI-Insight Centre) discussed the challenges involved in developing AI systems that comply with regulations and respect privacy in federated data environments. This was followed by an overview of EUDATA+'s contributions to the Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda. This showcased real-world tools for data valuation and highlighted technological gaps and challenges.
Finally, the session featured a panel of experts who provided specialised insights into relevant topics associated with developments and demonstrations. The panel offered the audience valuable insights into the progress of cutting-edge developments and their involvement in EU Horizon Data Projects. This interactive format enabled a rich exchange of perspectives across scientific, technical, and data-business-oriented domains. Speakers included Daniel Saez representing DATAMITE, who discussed 'Tools for data interoperability in heterogeneous environments'; Fernando Perales representing enRichMyData, who presented 'Automation and data enrichment workflows for developing data businesses'; Yiannis Verginadis representing ExtremeXP, who presented 'NFT-based data provenance for large-scale data experiments'; Nikolas Zafeiropoulos representing FAME, who explained 'Federating assets and commercialising them through data marketplaces'; Radu Prodan, representing Graph-Massivizer, discussed 'Tools for large-scale data processing and analytics prior to market entry'; Sotiris Koussouris, representing PISTIS, discussed 'Enabling data monetisation and trading out of the box'; and George Konstantinidis, representing UPCAST, discussed 'Automating data marketplace operations with user-friendly marketplace plug-ins'.
Data Week 2025 was organised by the Big Data Value Association, hosted by Cosmote – OTE, in collaboration with the following BDVA members: Athens Technology Center S.A. (ATC), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), CORE Innovation Center, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications – National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, FORTH and Neuropublic.
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DATAMITE Plenary Meeting in Bilbao
From 8 to 10 April, the DATAMITE consortium held its first plenary meeting of 2025 in Bilbao, Spain. This important meeting was held to discuss the steps needed to achieve the project's goal before DATAMITE ends, presumably by the end of the year. As at the previous plenary meeting in Aachen, the agenda included a CodeCamp day with the project's developers on the first day, followed by two days with the entire consortium. Each work package presented its progress and future steps.
The first day was spent at CodeCamp. This edition focused on coding and component integration. Participants were split into groups and worked on specific tasks related to Work Packages 2 (Data Sharing Mechanisms and Data Sovereignty) and 3 (Data Governance, Quality, Security and Support Modules). Through collaborative sessions and structured objectives, the teams made significant progress in developing and integrating these components. This culminated in a joint wrap-up session, during which the teams presented their achievements and planned their next steps.
The remaining partners who were not involved in the CodeCamp joined on 9 and 10 April. The two-day plenary meeting focused on reviewing progress and aligning the next steps for all work packages. On the first day, the project coordinator (ITI) began with updates, outlining the project's current status, future deliverables, and important recommendations. Sessions covered essential topics such as data asset sizing, KPI development, legal applicability, energy consumption. Each topic was discussed through concise, action-oriented presentations.
One of the day's highlights was the interactive 'Gender Bias' session, which was led by Margit Hofer from ZSI. She illustrated how poor data quality affects not only a company's revenues, but also society, resulting in biases in AI models relating to race and gender. Approaching the topic from a dynamic, brainstorming perspective as a project was very instructive and inspiring.
In the afternoon, Pilots 5 and 6 were spotlighted to demonstrate progress on real-world integration. This was followed by an in-depth exploration of open-source business models and Eclipse ecosystem opportunities.
The second day covered the remaining pilot updates (Pilots 1–4), communications KPIs, the intellectual property strategy, and the Data Monetisation Maturity Model. The meeting concluded with a discussion about future training materials, preparing the consortium for the next implementation phase.
In addition to three days of intensive work, the DATAMITE consortium enjoyed a visit to the Guggenheim Museum, followed by a traditional Basque dinner in the centre of Bilbao. Many thanks to our colleagues at Tecnalia for hosting the plenary meeting.
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