Rolf Riemenschneider
Rolf Riemenschneider drives the research and innovation agenda under the programme Horizon Europe where he coordinates the R&I agenda related to the strategy on Cloud-Edge Computing and Internet of Things. His unit is responsible for the implementation of data spaces for farming, mobility and energy.
As senior expert, he leads the research, innovation and deployment of the next generation of the IoT with strong computing capacity at the edge exploring features like device virtualisation, interoperability, real-time, energy efficiency and distributed intelligence and emerging topics like the Industrial Metaverse. Since 2015, he coordinates the cross-cutting activities related to Internet of Things across different policy streams with DG AGRI, DG ENER, DG MOVE and DG GROW.
In the context of the key horizontal activities related to achieving the targets of the Green Deal, he works together with DG ENERGY on the Digitisation of the Energy System with the recently published Digitalisation of Energy Action Plan. Actions include an energy data space, interoperable data-driven solutions and products for orchestrating flexibility across different sectors like home, building, energy, and charging.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund and holds the Chair for Industrial Information Management at the TU Dortmund University. His research focuses on data spaces, data sovereignty and industrial data management.
He is Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Catena-X Automotive Network, a member of the Board of the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Health Data Alliance (EDHA) and Coordinator of the EU Data Spaces Support Center. Boris Otto is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fraunhofer ICT Group and thus a member of the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
Prof. Ricard Martínez Martínez
Ricard Martínez Martínez, Ph.D. in Law from the Universitat de València, he has focused his research on the study of the fundamental right to data protection and to different issues related to the impact of information and communication technologies on privacy. He currently works at the Universitat de València as Full-time Lecturer (Ph.D.) in the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Sciences and Administration.
Expert of the Working Group on Digital Rights of the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence. In this group, he was one of the five rapporteurs of the Digital Rights Charter. He has collaborated as expert for the Spanish Ministry of Health and Spanish Presidency of the EU in the European Health Data Space Regulation procedures.
He currently focuses his research on studying the conditions for the generation of data repositories for research purposes, particularly in the field of health, and on regulatory compliance in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He has participated or participates in Research Projects such as BigMedilytics, WellBased or Chaimeleon. Now he is working on Cancer Image EU – EUCAIM. The result of his basic research in this field transferred to the Playbook and HealthData 29 project of Fundación 29 deserved the Proactivity and Good Practices Award of the Spanish Data Protection Agency in 2021.
Javier Valiño
Javier Valiño received a double major in Telecommunications Engineering (Telematics and Radio-communications) from the University of Cantabria in 2007. He developed his Final Degree Project in the field of point source detection in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) Plank project and the physics department at the University of Cantabria. He has also an MBA with focus on Project Management at IEBS online school.
He worked as a network and systems engineer leading both commercial and research projects related to IoT and 4G/5G (FP7 projects such as EARTH, EXALTED, TALOS or MiWaveS; H2020 projects such as Flex5GWare and Celtic Plus projects such as SHARING and TILAS – acting as Project coordinator and obtaining the CELTIC Plus Award of Excellence -, among others). He joined Atos Research and Innovation in 2016, where he acted as Head of the Energy, Climate and Decarbonization Unit. He coordinated the H2020 inteGRIDy and Horizon Europe OMEGA-X projects, while also overseeing the participation of Atos in a portfolio of around 20 additional projects.
In February 2024 he joined the Eclipse Foundation as Program Manager for Dataspaces, leveraging on his knowledge of the Dataspace ecosystem gained through intensive collaboration with both IDSA and Gaia-X.
Dr. Amir Shayan Ahmadian
Dr. Amir Shayan Ahmadian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Koblenz. His research interests focus on the challenges of designing and implementing secure and privacy- friendly software systems as well as on the current developments in Industry 4.0.
He studied computer science at the University of Paderborn and received his PhD in computer science from the University of Koblenz. During his doctorate, he developed a methodology to operationalize the principle of „Privacy by Design“.
Ioannis Chrysakis
Ioannis Chrysakis is a Research and Innovation Project Manager at Netcompany-Intrasoft and member of the Research and Innovation Development Department (Luxembourg). He has a proven track record of successfully completing over 20 projects, with a clear focus on objectives across various domains, including AI, Data Privacy, Data Spaces, Mobility, Digital Agriculture, Cultural Heritage, and Ambient Intelligence. Concurrently, he is pursuing a joint PhD in Information Engineering Technology at the University of Ghent and KU Leuven. He has co-authored more than 30 scientific peer-reviewed papers. His research interests encompass data spaces, data privacy, data economy, crowdsourcing, and the semantic web.
Konstantinos Georgiou
Konstantinos Georgiou is a PhD student in the Statistics & Information Systems laboratory of the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received his BSc from the same department in 2019, while he holds an MSc in "Data and Web Science" from the same department. His background includes Data Science, Software Development, Data Engineering. His research interests include digital skills in the ICT labor market, patent analysis, bibliometrics, data retrieval and mining, machine learning and statistical analysis.
Dr. Henry Haverinen
Henry Haverinen is a cybersecurity entrepreneur based in Finland. He helps product development teams integrate cybersecurity in their ways of working and products. He is a co-founder of Cyberismo, a company developing an open-source security as code solution for managing cybersecurity in all kinds of software projects. Henry holds a Doctor of Technology degree from Tampere University of Technology.
Anhelina Kovach
Anhelina Kovach received the degree in telecommunication technologies engineering and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, in 2021 and 2023, respectively. She is currently pursuing the joint Ph.D. degree with Ikerlan Technology Research Centre in collaboration with the University of Cantabria. Her area of work is mainly centered around secure data spaces, covering usage control policies negotiation and enforcement.
Jan Peter Meyer
Jan Peter Meyer is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST and holds a degree in Computer Science from TU Dortmund. His work focuses on the technical implementation of data spaces. Additionally, his personal interests include the development and optimization of infrastructures for dataspaces and the implementation of DevOps practices.
Alexandros Nizamis
Alexandros Nizamis is working as a Researcher and Project Manager in Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) since 2016. He is Computer and Telecommunications Engineer graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Thessaly. He is also a Computer Science and Telecommunications MSc holder of the same department. Currently, Alexandros is a PhD student in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests lay on the areas of Industries 4.0/5.0, data spaces, data modelling, ontologies, and AI. He is author/co-author in over than 30 papers published in scientific journals and conference proceedings.
Daniel Sáez Domingo
Telecommunication Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia (2001) and Master in Business Administration and management by EOI Business School. His professional experience covers areas in the field of competitive intelligence and strategy in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), project and area management, innovation policies, Business development and Valorisation. Now, he is the Technology Transfer Director in ITI, where is in charge of guiding ITI to maximize the impact of its technologies and services, contributing to reinforce the technologic ecosystem and reinforce the competitiveness of companies.
Daniel is member of the Board of Directors in BDVA and Gaia-X, and member of the Steering Committee of NESSI, at European Level. He is also the president of the Spanish Gaia-X Association, member of the management board of Planetic since 2007, currently vicepresident and coordinating the Spanish interplatforms group of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Daniel is the president of the delegate commission of AI4ES, the Spanish excellence network in Data based technology enablers and is the coordinator of the Data Cycle Hub, the Data Innovation Hub to foster data driven and artificial intelligence-based innovation, which is coordinating EuHubs4Data, the European Federation of Big Data Innovation Hubs. Daniel has been recently elected as Board member of the Spanish Gaia-X Association.
Dr. Olga Segou
Olga Segou, PhD holds a joint PhD (2014) in Location-based Services from the Electrical Engineering department of the National Technical University of Athens (ECE/NTUA) and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (IIT/NCSRD) in Athens, Greece. She is an experienced Project Manager with the Research and Innovation Development Department of Netcompany Intrasoft (2019- ), and has been involved in multiple projects in varied technical fields. Her expertise lies mainly in Cloud Computing, Service Virtualisation, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and the transition to 5G/B5G mobile communications (e.g. projects RAIDO, NEMO, Pledger, Int5Gent, 5G-MOBIX, etc.). She is a member of the Gen.AI task force of the Big Data Value Association.
Michael Steinert
Michael Steinert is a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering. I have completed both my bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science.
In my current position, my research is mainly focused on data spaces and data trustees. I am excited about the progress and potential applications in these areas and am eager to collaborate and share insights with colleagues.
Aparajita Tripathy
A digital twin (DT), the digital counterpart of a physical entity, process, or system, is a pivotal innovation driving the manufacturing industry’s digital transformation. DT plays a significant role in product lifecycle management (PLM) and product condition monitoring. However, the diversity of systems and processes involved poses challenges in DT and data management within PLM, particularly regarding efficiency, standardized data mapping, and latency. The paper presents a solution architecture to address these challenges and contribute towards an efficient and cost-effective product lifecycle management system. The architecture focuses on DT’s data management and communication aspects, utilizing the edge-based, decentralized Eclipse Arrowhead Framework and EDMtruePLM (Enterprise Data Management True Product Lifecycle Management) for standardized data management and condition monitoring of products. Integrating the ISO 10303 STEP standard for data modeling and the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standard for communication is emphasized, improving the contextual significance of the data and the system’s interoperability. A use case implementation is presented, where a fischertechnik assembly line is monitored, capturing sensor data through the PLC’s OPC UA server. The sensor data is then aligned with the STEP standard and stored in the EDMTruePLM database for monitoring.
Diego Valdeolmillos Villaverde
Diego Valdeolmillos Villaverde is an expert in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). He has over 5 years of experience in project management and DLT, like blockchain. Throughout his career, he has led over 40 multidisciplinary projects in various industries, including blockchain-based solutions for the supply chain and decentralized applications on platforms like Ethereum and Hyperledger Besu.
His core technical skills include developing smart contracts in Solidity, creating innovative experiences with Web3 technologies, and implementing asset and product traceability using blockchain. His technical expertise covers Ethereum, TRON, and DLT platforms. He also has extensive experience in programming languages such as Python, Node, Java, Scala, and C#.
Diego received the IEEE Blockchain Spain Initiative Award for his work on the Noixion TV platform, which was recognized as the most relevant project of the year. Additionally, he was a pioneer in deploying the first smart contract on the TRON network in 2018.
With an exceptional track record, Diego continues to drive innovation in blockchain-based projects and is constantly seeking new opportunities to apply his expertise in developing disruptive solutions.
Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and the M.Sc. degree in public policy and management from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NTUA focusing on the fields of 5G, cloud/edge computing, IoT and machine learning technologies
Gorka Zarate
Gorka Zarate graduated in Computer Science from the UPV in 2004. He also has a Master's degree in software application development and integration.
He worked on software platforms, especially in the Java world for 10 years until he made the move into the world of research. He has been at Tecnalia for 5 years where life has changed 180 degrees, both at a professional level and on a personal level with 2 beautiful daughters. He is currently a Senior Researcher at Tecnalia, where he has specialized in data catalogs and all their environment.
In 2023 he began a new adventure as a professor in a Digital Industry degree at Deusto, where he has found a new beautiful profession where he can transfer the little knowledge he has.