Program

The program of the European Data Forum 2012 will consist of the main track and two side tracks. In the side tracks, the event welcomes following sessions:

Session: Realising and Exploiting the EU data cloud
Session: Hackathon

You can find an overview of the program, including main track and side tracks, in the table below. Do not miss the opportunity to experience these exciting presentations and register to the EDF.

The proceedings of the EDF2012 are published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 877. They include papers and posters selected for presentation at the event.

EDF2012 Program

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Day I - June 6, 2012

Time	Main Track	Side Tracks
09:15 - 10:45		Kick-off: "SME Initiative on Digital Content" Closed door session
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee
11:00 - 13:00	Morning Session, Chair: Sören Auer
11:00 - 11:15	Welcome
11:15 - 12:00	Keynote Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of unit "Technologies for Information Management" in EC DG Information Society and Media "Leveraging the data potential in Europe"
12:00 - 13:00	European Commission's SME initiative on Digital content and Languages Presentation of successful projects - Innovative ideas on how to use/reuse digital data pools.
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	First Afternoon Session, Chair: Márta Nagy-Rothengass
14:00 - 14:45	European Commission's SME initiative on Digital content and Languages Presentation of successful projects - Innovative ideas on how to use/reuse digital data pools.
14:45 - 15:30	Keynote Andreas Both Head of research, Unister "From data-driven startup to large company in a decade"
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee
16:00 - 18:00	Second Afternoon Session, Chair: Elena Simperl
16:00 - 17:00	Invited Danish talks Jimmy Kevin Pedersen, Agency for Digitization, Ministry of Finance "New trends in public service and Citizens Communication" Jasper Hedegaard Bojsen, Technical Director, Microsoft Denmark "The cloud, Big Data and Great Opportunities"	Hackathon Day I	Realising and Exploiting the EU Data Cloud
17:00 - 18:00	Simon Riggs, 2ndQuadrant "Open Data, Open Database: PostgreSQL" Florian Bauer, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) "Using LOD to share clean energy data and knowledge" Phil Archer, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) "Enabling open data interoperability - The case for the Core Business Vocabulary"	Hackathon Day I	Realising and Exploiting the EU Data Cloud
18:00 - 19:00	Poster and demo session
20:00	Dinner in Tivoli, restaurant Grøften

Day II - June 7, 2012

Time	Main Track	Side Tracks
09:30 - 10:15	First Morning Session, Chair: Michael Hausenblas	Hackathon Day II
09:30 - 10:15	Keynote Nigel Shadbolt University of Southampton "Transparency and Open Data. Why bother?"
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 - 12:15	Second Morning Session, Chair: Rasmus Ulslev Pedersen
10:30 - 12:15	Andrew Farrow, Linked Content Coalition "(Copy)right information in the digital age" Simon Redfern, TESOBE "Open Bank Project" Chris Taggart, OpenCorporates "How the Biggest Open Database of Companies was Built" Mariana Damova, Ontotext "FactForge: Data Service and the Value of Inferred Knowledge over LOD" Kostas Tzouma, Technical Unviserity of Berlin "Linking and Analyzing Big Data"
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 15:00	First Afternoon Session, Chair: Martin Kaltenböck
13:15 - 14:00	Keynote Rufus Pollock Open Knowledge Foundation "Open Data: Where We Are and Where We're Going"
14:00 - 15:00	Invited talks Karl Morteo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO) "http://data.fao.org - Uniting the data of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO)" Wolfgang Nimfuehr, IBM Software Group Europe "Bringing Big Data to the Enterprise"
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee
15:20 - 17:00	Second Afternoon Session, Chair: Dieter Fensel
15:20 - 16:15	Zhang Ying, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) "SRBench - A Benchmark For Streaming RDF Storage Engines" Irini Fundulaki, FORTH-ICS "Abstract Access Control Model for Dynamic RDF Datasets" Nuria de Lama Sanchez, ATOS Research "Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG)"
16:15 - 16:40	"Future European activities and funding perspectives for SMEs" Stefano Bertolo, Project Officer in the unit "Technologies for Information Management" in EC DG Information Society and Media
16:40 - 16:55	Results of EDF2012 Hackathon
16:55 - 17:00	Closing Richard Swetenham, Head of Unit of the unit "Access to Information" in EC DG Information Society and Media