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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DATAMITE at the Data Spaces Symposium
The Data Spaces Symposium took place on 11-12 March in Warsaw, Poland. Hosted by the Data Spaces Support Centre and the Data Spaces Business Alliance, it is the premier global event dedicated to the future of data spaces, bringing together the brightest minds, leading innovators and pioneering organisations to shape a connected, data-driven world. The 2025 edition was also embedded in the Polish ICT Week. This made the event the perfect platform to showcase the latest market-ready use cases and advanced technology solutions for existing and emerging data spaces.
As in previous editions, DATAMITE did not want to miss out on this important event in the world of the European data economy and the development of European data spaces, two of the fundamental pillars of the project. While last year DATAMITE participated as part of the EUDATA+ cluster in one of the parallel sessions of Data Week, this year DATAMITE, through several of its consortium members, participated in the Data Spaces Symposium with several sessions and a booth.
Daniel Saez Domingo from ITI, the institution that coordinates DATAMITE, took part in the 'Mobility & tourism: Creating value for participants in mobility and tourism data spaces' session. During his presentation, he explained how the DATAMITE platform helps SMEs to extract the most appropriate data from data spaces for their needs, while maintaining the highest quality and reliability of data, thus improving their data monetisation. This session was moderated by Mariano Blaya Andreu from the International Data Spaces Association, a member of the DATAMITE Consortium.
During the 'Agriculture track: Towards development of the agriculture data spaces', DATAMITE had a triple representation. Marcin Płóciennik from Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) led the track and gave the presentation 'Digital framework supporting data monetization for agricultural data space', which mainly focused on showing their use case in DATAMITE as an example of how data spaces can improve the agricultural sector's needs for better data use and data monetisation. Another PSNC member, Raul Palma, took part in the agricultural session too. Finally, the agriculture track closed with a panel discussion in which Marcin Płóciennik and Raul Palma were joined by Marko Turpeinen, CEO at 1001 Lakes, a member of the DATAMITE consortium, which focuses on the development of DATAMITE monetisation strategies.
In addition, during the two days of the conference, PSNC had an exhibition stand to showcase the results of EU-funded projects in which it is involved. One of these projects is DATAMITE.
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DATAMITE Meet Up event
On 6 February, the DATAMITE project hosted the DATAMITE Meet Up event at the OTE headquarters in Athens, Greece, under the theme 'Bridging Research and Industry in EU-funded Innovation'.
Bringing together Europe's leading innovators, researchers, policy makers and industry leaders to foster collaboration, accelerate data-driven progress and create a unified strategy for Europe's digital future, the event was a unique networking opportunity bringing together researchers and industry professionals involved in EU-funded projects.
The day was divided into five panel discussions where participants explored cutting-edge research, shared insights and discussed needs, concerns and solutions in critical areas such as data ethics, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, IoT and sustainable innovation. The event was livestreamed. If you missed it, you can watch it on our YouTube channel. Do not miss it!
The five panels were:
- Creating Value in Data Marketplaces: The role of Data Spaces. Opportunities & Risks: Explore the growing popularity of data marketplaces, where organisations buy and sell data, and the potential value and risks involved.
- Data Exploitation in the Health Sector: How healthcare organisations can benefit or even generate revenue from data assets, including best practices, risks and innovative business models.
- Data Monetization Strategies & the Value of Data as an Asset: How organisations can generate revenue from data assets, including best practices, risks and innovative business models.
- Data-Driven Transformation Across Industries: Lessons and Innovations in Key Sectors: How data is transforming specific industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing and transportation, highlighting sector-specific challenges, innovations and best practices in using data to drive growth and efficiency.
- Privacy and Security in the Age of Data – Finding a Balance through Legal and Ethical Challenges: Deep dive into the inherent tension between data monetisation and user privacy, focusing on ways to balance revenue generation with respect for user rights.
Throughout the event, a team of photographers worked to capture all the moments that made the DATAMITE Meet Up event such a special day. All the photos can be viewed here.
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Save the date: DATAMITE Meet Up event
The DATAMITE project is thrilled to invite you to the DATAMITE Meetup event - a unique networking opportunity bringing together researchers and industry professionals involved in EU-funded projects.
The DATAMITE Project Meetup, hosted by OTE's IT Innovation Center under the theme 'Bridging Research and Industry in EU-funded Innovation', will bring together Europe's top innovators, researchers, policy makers, and industry leaders to foster collaboration, accelerate data-driven progress and create a unified strategy for Europe's digital future.
Key information
- When: 6 February, 2025, at 9:00 Local time.
- Where: OTE HQs, Athens, Greece
The day will be divided into five panel discussions where participants will explore cutting-edge research, share insights and discuss needs, concerns and solutions in critical areas such as data ethics, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, IoT and sustainable innovation.
The five panels are:
- Creating Value in Data Marketplaces: The role of Data Spaces. Opportunities & Risks: Explore the growing popularity of data marketplaces, where organisations buy and sell data, and the potential value and risks involved.
- Data Exploitation in the Health Sector: How healthcare organisations can benefit or even generate revenue from data assets, including best practices, risks and innovative business models.
- Data Monetization Strategies & the Value of Data as an Asset: How organisations can generate revenue from data assets, including best practices, risks and innovative business models.
- Data-Driven Transformation Across Industries: Lessons and Innovations in Key Sectors: How data is transforming specific industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing and transportation, highlighting sector-specific challenges, innovations and best practices in using data to drive growth and efficiency.
- Privacy and Security in the Age of Data – Finding a Balance through Legal and Ethical Challenges: Deep dive into the inherent tension between data monetisation and user privacy, focusing on ways to balance revenue generation with respect for user rights.
Watch the live stream recording here.
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DATAMITE takes the stage at the first Gaia-X Hub Spain Data Space Summit
The first Gaia-X Hub Spain Data Space Summit ("Primera cumbre de espacios datos", as it is called in Spanish) took place in Madrid on 3 and 4 December. The most relevant international event on Data Spaces in Spanish brought together prominent leaders of national initiatives, government representatives and European project managers in the field of Data Spaces, Technology and Artificial Intelligence, with a special focus on use cases and ongoing projects, to share their knowledge and experiences in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
DATAMITE, as a European project focused on the monetisation of data and data spaces, coordinated by a Spanish entity (ITI), did not miss the event. Jordi Arjona Aroca, from ITI and technical coordinator of DATAMITE, presented the key aspects of the project and how the DATAMITE framework will revolutionise the data monetisation landscape in a session entitled 'Technology for data spaces' on 4 December.
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DATAMITE presented at the E.DSO's Innovation and Research Committee
On 28 November 2024, the Innovation and Research Committee (IRCO) of the European Distribution System Operators (E.DSO) held an internal meeting focusing on 'Setting up national data sharing frameworks and platforms. This was an important date for DATAMITE’s partner, HEDNO, who took the opportunity to present the project. HEDNO delivered a 15-minute presentation titled 'Data Monetisation, Interoperability, Trade and Exchange', after which there was a 10-minute Q&A session during which attendees could share their thoughts on the project and learn more about DATAMITE's work.
E.DSO is the key interface between Europe’s Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and the European institutions. E.DSO gathers 35 leading electricity DSOs in 20 countries, including 2 national associations, cooperating to ensure the reliability of Europe’s electricity supply for consumers and enabling their active participation in our energy system.
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DATAMITE at InfoCom World 2024
The 26th InfoCom World Conference was held in Athens on 12 November 2024 under the theme 'Digital Greece: Time to take the leap'. The annual meeting focused on the dynamic development of the country (Greece) through the adoption and use of new technologies, the challenges and opportunities that arise, and the steps that need to be taken by market players to achieve the 'digital leap'!
The thematic sections of the conference covered key topics such as: private networks, artificial intelligence, data centres, e-government, smart cities and digital projects, with an emphasis on the practical application and benefits of new technologies, bringing together key speakers from Greece and abroad. DATAMITE was present at InfoCom 2024 in two ways.
On the one hand, DATAMITE participated in the session 'Unlocking the Power of Data with DATAMITE Project: Innovative Approaches to Data Monetization and Interoperability'. The session featured two members of the consortium as speakers: Jordi Arjona Aroca from ITI and technical coordinator of DATAMITE, and Daniela Fuchs from the Centre for Social Innovation. They were joined by Sotiris Koussouris from Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions and Haris Mouratidis from the University of Essex. The session was moderated by another member of the DATAMITE consortium, Christos-Antonios Gizelis from OTE Group of Companies.
On the other hand, DATAMITE was represented during the whole day of the event at the OTE booth, where the partners of the consortium communicated and disseminated the project to the attendees through a roll-up.
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