What is the BAIDATA Forum?

It is a free event in Bilbao on the data economy and data spaces in Europe.

The BAIDATA Forum will be held at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, on June 26, 2025.

Who is the target audience?

Business professionals interested in the data economy, data spaces and business-to-business data sharing.

What topics will be covered?

During the BAIDATA 2025 Forum, key topics such as the data economy, interoperability between data spaces, data governance, European data frameworks (such as Gaia-X and DSBA), as well as real use cases applied to sectors such as industry, health, mobility or agriculture will be addressed.

How to attend the BAIDATA Forum?

Registration is free and is open to professionals in Spain interested in data sharing between companies and its strategic use.

Foro Baidata | Programme

09:00

Registration

09:30

Opening

Welcome

Provincial Council of Bizkaia

Scaling regional data ecosystems: BAIDATA's impact

Jose Echezarra President, BAIDATA Association

09:50

Data spaces as driver of competitiveness

Europe and the new AI era: European Data Union strategy and the AI Continent action plan

European Commission

Global collaboration through data spaces: IDSA's governance and interoperability approach

Lars Nagel CEO, International Data Spaces Association

Data & IA for competitiveness

Gartner Spain

Panel discussion

Regional growth driven by AI and data: smart territory strategies

Antonio Alcolea SEDIA-General Directorate Data

Nerea Martiartu CEO, Lantik

Christian Cobas Data Office Director, Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha

11:10

Coffee Break

11:40

Scaling up the use of data spaces

Panel discussion

Enabling global manufacturing data spaces

Matthias Boelke Chairman, Industrial Digital Twin Association

Michael Hahn Managing Director, Catena-X

Dominik Rohrmus CTO, Labs Network Industrie 4.0 e.V. - International Manufacturing-X Council

Chair:

Lars Nagel CEO, International Data Spaces Association

13:15

BAIDATA Awards Ceremony

Presentation of the BAIDATA Awards to the most outstanding initiatives in the ecosystem, recognizing their commitment to the development of the data economy through innovative and collaborative projects.

14:00

Lunch Break

15:00

Creating value with data spaces

Room 0E

15:00

Data Sharing in Manufacturing

Participants: Asociación Innovalia, Arena2036. Automotive Intelligence Centre (AIC), Catena-X, LKS Next, Corporación Mondragón, GHI Smart Furnaces, Innovalia Metrology, LIS Data Solutions

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16:20

Data Sharing for Innovative Socio-Sanitary Service Models

Participants: GAIA, Accuratio. LKS Next GobTech, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

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