AISBL Big Data Value Association and the European Agenda on Big Data Pisa, Friday 12th december 2014 Donato Malerba, UniBA & CINI Member of the BDVA Board of Directors donato.malerba@uniba.it
Commission urges governments to embrace potential of Big Data Data collection and exploitation is a growing phenomenon. In response to industry and fundamental demands the European Commission has called on national governments to wake-up to this big data revolution. Neelie Kroes (European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda) It s about time we focus on the positive aspects of big data. Big data sounds negative and scary, and for the most part it isn t. Leaders need to embrace big data. 2 nd July 2014
Commission urges governments to embrace potential of Big Data "Data is not scary, or intrusive. With the right legal protection and anonymisation tools data is the fuel which lays the foundation of a new economy. Giving every kind of organisation the building blocks to boost productivity it and performance, from farm to factory, from the lab to the shop floor, that's what Europe needs. The main problems identified in public consultations on big data are: Lack of cross-border coordination Insufficient infrastructure and funding opportunities A shortage of data experts and related skills Fragmented and overly complex legal environment
Main concrete actions proposed today to solve these problems ABi Big Data public-private i partnership that t funds gamechanging big data ideas, in areas such as personalised medicine and food logistics. Create an open data incubator (within the Horizon 2020 framework), to help SMEs set up supply chains based on data and use cloud computing more. Propose new rules on "data ownership" and liability of data provision for data gathered via Internet of Things (Machine to Machine communication) Mapping of data standards, identifying potential gaps Establish a series of Supercomputing Centres of Excellence to increase number of skilled data workers in Europe Create network of data processing facilities in different Member States
Private-Public Partnership: Why To solve problems together with industry To strengthen industrial European leadership To strongly commit industry to joint objectives To facilitate prioritisation of R&I in line with the Europe 2020 objectives and industry needs Two types of PPPs o Contractual PPPs (cppps) o Joint Technology Initiatives
Contractual Private-Public Partnerships (cppps) Implement industry-defined strategic research and innovation agendas through co-funded projects selected through H2020 calls for proposals Budget is only committed on an annual basis in Work Programs (WPs) Calls are prepared on the basis of an industry-developed multi-annual roadmap Commitments t over a seven year period for both EU and the industrial partners o EU investments o Industrial partners should leverage the direct EU investments generating additional investments (private investments 3 to 10 times the level of public investments)
Contractual Private-Public Partnerships (cppps) Take the form of contractual arrangements between the European Commission and representative industrial associations. Address strategic t technologies that t will underpin growth and jobs in key sectors of a knowledge-based European economy and also target important societal challenges. Four cppps started and proved successful under FP7 o Factories of the Future (FoF), to support the manufacturing industry through the development of sustainable production technologies and systems o Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB), to increase the competitiveness and energy e efficiency e cy of the construction o industry o European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI), to develop a competitive and resource efficient transport system with significantly less CO2 emissions o Future Internet
Contractual Private-Public Partnerships (cppps) The Commission has committed under H2020 to cppps in eight areas: Factories of the Future (FoF) Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB), European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI), Sustainable Process Industry (SPIRE) to make the process industry more resource- and energy-efficient Advanced 5G network infrastructure for the Future Internet (5G), to stimulate the development of network internet infrastructure to ensure advanced ICT services for all sectors and users High Performance Computing (HPC), which plays a pivotal role in stimulating Europe s economic growth and advancing European science Robotics, a key driver of industrial competitiveness and essential to address key societal challenges in areas such as demographic change, health and well-being, food production, transport and security Photonics, one of the key enabling technologies for our future prosperity and an essential element of many sectors, from energy efficient lighting and health, to optical data communication, laser based manufacturing and sensing for safety and security
Networked European Software and Service Initiative (NESSI) A European Technology Platform active in Information and Communication Technologies for contributing to the research and innovation space of Software and Service. It provides a platform for the community from industry and academia. NESSI Membership > 450 members
What is Big Data Value Association (BDVA)? A fully self-financed non-for-profit organisation under the Belgian law. Currently 24 founding members, from large and SME industry and research. Non-NESSI Partners include Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Insight, and DFKI NESSI Partners 10
Founding Members 1. AnswareTech s.l. 2. Athens Technology Center S.A. (ATC) 3. Atos SE 4. Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'lnformatica (CINI) 5. Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA 6. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. German 7. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) 8. IBM Israel Science and technology Ltd 9. INDRA Sistemas S.A 10. Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI) 11. Intel Research and Innovation Ireland Ltd 12. IT Innovation Center 13. National University of Ireland Galway 14. Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy 15. Orange SA 16. SAP SE 17. Siemens AG 18. Software AG 19. Stiftelsen SINTEF 20. THALES Communications and Security S.A.S 21. TIE Kinetix N.V. 22. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 23. Universität Duisburg Essen (Paluno) 24. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 11
Founding Members
What is the role of BDVA in the cppp? BDVA shall represent the contractual counterpart to the European Commission i for the implementation ti of fthe cppp. Main role of BDVA: o providing the Big Data Value strategic agenda (SRIA) and its regular updates; o Defining and monitoring the metrics of the cppp; o Joining the European Commission in the cppp partership board. Overall goal: Economic growth and job creation in Europe by data driven innovations enabled through a wide range of new technological and technology-driven business opportunities
How is participation p in cppp projects determined? Proposals for projects have to be submitted following European Commission i calls for proposal. The European Commission will decide on the final Work Programme content and check eligibility and select the projects with the support of external evaluators according to the H2020 evaluation criteria and guidelines. BDVA will not take part in decision making.
How is participation p in cppp projects determined? 1. BDVA provides SRIA 2. The Commission is in charge of defining the official Work Programme 3. Proposals are submitted to the various calls 4. Appropriate proposals are selected with the support of external experts Contractual Arrangement Big Data Value Association Industry driven Defines Research and Innovation Agenda Specifies Key Performance Indicators Industry Large Industry SME EU Commission Association proposes research objectives Stakeholder Community Stakeholders Grant Agreement per project Big Data Projects within Horizon 2020 Projects running within 2017 2021 Expected Total Funding ~ 500 MEUR Research User
Indicative timeline 13 Oct 2014 Signing g the Contractual Arrangement between European Commission and the Big Data Value Association 1 Jan 2015 The contractual agreement enters into force 2015 Refinement of the Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda Continuing stakeholder community building 2016 Start of first Big Data Value cppp projects within H2020 2021 cppp projects ending
What instruments for the cppp? All instruments that are foreseen for the Industrial Leadership part of H2020 Reasearch & Innovation Actions (RIAs) Innovation Actions (IAs) Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs)
B I G D ATA VA L U E A S S O C I AT I O N ISBL European Innovation Spaces a core component of the cppp European ispaces serve as hubs for bringing the t h l technology and d application li ti developments together and cater for the development of skills, competence, and best p practices. Skills Social offer new and existing technologies and tools from industry and open source software initiatives as a basic service will facilitate the access to data assets. People Legal Data Business allow an interdisciplinary approach along the various dimensions technology, applications, legal, social, and business, data assets and the skills building up of skills. Cross-organisational and cross-sector environments Testing Piloting Application <date> Technical
European Innovation Spaces a core component of the cppp Data Sources Data Access Private & Industrial Open Data Secure / Confidential Environment Infrastructures Hardware Platforms (OSS Proprietary) Scientific Personal Access and Support for Test/Trials/Validation i i Skills / Training Tools /Methods Data scientists = IT & Domiain Interdisciplinary Cross sectorial activities. Network/Federation Collaboration to be agreed Initiation
Lighthouse projects a mechanism for large-scale demos and awareness Lighthouse Projects Help raise awareness about the opportunities offered by Big Data and the value of data-driven applications for different sectors. the major mechanism for Europe to demonstrate Big Data Value ecosystems and sustainable data marketplaces They will be data-driven large-scale projects serving as incubators for whole data-driven ecosystems. Propose replicable solutions by using existing technologies or very near to market technologies that could be integrated in an innovative way and show evidence of data value Create high level impact and broadcast visibility and awareness driving towards faster uptake of Big Data Value applications and solutions
Lighthouse projects a mechanism for large-scale demos and awareness Innovation-oriented tools that can capitalize on research activities Designed to raise awareness and visibility Key features: Impact and replicability. Data-driven innovation (so, data availability assumed) Focus on a sector or a theme; cross-fertilization expected No pre-defined sectors; however guidance is provided on the conditions they should fulfill (ex. data analysis seems ddifcult if data is not digitized) Stakeholders: all players needed to go to market
Lighthouse projects Innovation-oriented tools that can capitalize on research activities Designed to raise awareness and visibility Key features: Impact and replicability. Data-driven innovation So, data availability assumed Focus on data integration Focus on a sector? On a theme?; cross-fertilization expected No pre-defined sectors; however guidance is provided on the conditions they should fulfill (ex. data analysis seems difficult if data is not digitized) Stakeholders: all players needed to go to market Main drivers of that industry; define re-engineering of processes Large scale demostrators, show-cases Topics Instance of value chains should be brougth 2 projects every 2 years possibility to focus projects on DA priorities or societal challenges as defined in H2020
Technical projects Cooperation and Coordination Projects Technical Projects These will take up specific Big Data technology issues addressing targeted aspects of the technical priorities. Main instrument: RIAs and IAs Cooperation and Coordination Projects These projects will address legal, societal, skills and stakeholder aspects as well as efficient information exchange and coordination of activities. Main instrument: CSAs
Timeline of Activities i i
Timeline of Activities i i 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2016/17 2018/19 2020 Light house projects Personalised Medicine / Manufacturing Logistics/ Media Energy European Innovation Space Establishing Baseline Application of Lesson Learnt Further Improvement R&I and Innovation Projects in Specific Technology Areas and Applications in Various Sectors/Domains CSA Stakeholder Platform, Road-Mapping, Governance CSA EIS/E Support, Benchmarking CSA Legal, Social, Skills CSA Business, Ecosystems
Main components and research priorities iti of the cppp Innovation Spaces serve as hubs for bringing the technology and application developments together and cater for the development of skills, competence, and best practices. Improving understanding of data by deep analytics (e.g. predictive modelling, graph mining,...) Architectures for analysing data including real-time data (e.g. recommendation engines,...) Visualization and user experience (e.g. User adaptive systems, search capabilities,...) Lighthouse Projects Data management Large scale engineering demonstrations (e.g. Data focusing on certain integration, data integrity,...) sectors and domains Privacy and anonymisation mechanisms Five Thematic Priorities
Thematic priorities in the SRIA 0.99 Data Management o Data management and interoperability mechanisms available and easily accessible as services Standardized data models and interoperable architectures Standardized annotation framework Data management lifecycle, from data curation and cleaning, to long term storage and data access. o Processing o Tools Process Mining for Big Data Data Integration processes Harmonization of tools and techniques for data management Tools for pre-processing and analyzing domain oriented data Advenced data access mechanisms.
Thematic priorities in the SRIA 0.99 Optimized Architectures o Architectures for data in motion and data at rest o Real Time Analytics o Software-defined Storage for Big Data
Thematic priorities in the SRIA 0.99 Deep Analytics o Event Space (beyond limited samples) o Improving Model Accuracy (fast non-linear approximations in very large datasets) t o Discovery of Rare Events o Semantic Analysis: Deep learning, Contextualization based on IA, Machine learning, Semantic analysis in near-real time, Graph mining o Processing of unstructured (multi-media, text) data o Canonical forms for data aggregation, smart analysis of data across and within domains o User-friendly tools for business and citizen oriented analytics
Thematic priorities in the SRIA 0.99 Privacy and Anonymisation Mechanisms o Complete Data Protection Framework o Protection of data and analytics applications in cloud infrastructures t o Secure deletion of data and data minimization o Anonymisation algorithms o Reversibility of the anonymisation mechanisms o Privacy-preserving data mining algorithms o Pattern Hiding o Secure multiparty mining mechanisms over distributed datasets (the partitioned data are private but the results of mining on the union of the data are shared)
Thematic priorities in the SRIA 0.99 o End-user centric visualization and analytics; o Interaction ti techniques for different scales of abstraction; ti o Dynamic clustering of information ; o Visualisation for geospatial data; o Graph visualization for exploration of network/interrelated data; o 3-D Visualization o Qualitative Analysis o Dealing with time semantics at various granularities o User adaptable interactive visualization tools that support the combination any visualization asset in a real-time plug-and-play manner
How to get involved Stay informed via the BDVA Website and You want to participate in research and official European Commission Websites innovation projects for information and call openings You want to contribute to identifying key Provide your contact details and you will issues in your sector and are interested be invited to relevant workshops and in discussing with peers on focused kept up to date e.g. on sector roadmaps occasions You want to stay involved continuously but on a limited scale for contributing You can consider either to participate in occasionally, review outcomes from the the Stakeholder Platform or to become BDVA on a regular basis and take part in an associated member of the BDVA discussions i Commitment is taken seriously and is If you want to continuously contribute to expected and monitored by the BDVA the cppp and want to commit financial and the European Commission. If you and human resources for significant feel comfortable with that, a full contribution to the activities of the BDVA membership in the BDVA is worthwhile to and take part in organisational decisions be considered by your organisation. We are waiting for your expression of interest.
Membership fees The Board of Directors has established the following Membership Fees for the year 2015: Full Members: -12.700 for Large Industries -1.900 for SME -1.900 for Academic and Research Associated Members: -1000 for Large Industries -250 for SME -250 for Academic and Research The 21 NESSI partners who contributed to the establishment of BDVA p are exempt from obligation to pay the membership fee in year 2015.
Expressions of Interest t From Italy: - Telecom Italia (Industry) - CINECA (Others)
Structure t of the BDVA President (elected by the GA following suggestion of the BoD) Jürgen Müller (SAP Innovation Centers) Vice Presidents (appointed by the President) Jan Sundelin (TIE KINETIX) Jose Maria Cavanillas (Atos) Secretary General (elected by the BoD, not a member of the BoD) Stuart Campbell (TIE Kinetix) Deputy Secretary Generals Julie Marguerite (Thales System) Nuria De Lama (Atos)
Structure t of the BDVA Secretary General Responsible for the day-to-day administrative management of the BDVA: Representing the Association and acting as internal and external contact point Preparing and coordinating meetings of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly Conducting and coordinating publications of the Association and public relations including website Promoting BDVA and its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Organising BDVA meetings and events Liaising and cooperating with related Associations and European Technology ogy Platforms Managing all matters related to Membership and administration of the Association Creating annually activity/finance reports and a draft annual budget Management of Task Forces
Structure t of the BDVA General Assembly (GA) Composed of duly authorised representatives of all Members Each Full Member is represented in meeting of the General Assembly by one delegate ( Member Representative ) with full power. The Member Representative can be permanent or or nominated for each separate meeting. Each Full Member has one vote. Representative for CINI Paolo Bellavista, associate professor University of Bologna
Structure t of the BDVA Board of Directors (BoD) Composed of Full Members; Meets at least four times per year; Specifically demanded issues: Financial resolutions (approval of the annual financial reports and of the budget); Election and dismissal of the Secretary General Amendment of the Statutes; Dissolution and liquidation of the Association. Representative for CINI Donato Malerba, full professor, University of Bari
Structure t of the BDVA Board of Directors (BoD) Distribution of (Founding / New) Members 24 Founding Members by June 2015 30 Members (24 Founding + 6 New) by end 2015 36 Members (24 Founding + 12 New) by end of 2016 Different distribution (between founding and new) by the end of 2017
Structure t of the BDVA Partnership Board (PB) The main mechanism for dialogue to reach the cppp objectives. The BDVA members of the PB (Private Side Members, PSM) are endorsed by the Commission (DG CONNECT) ensuring a proper representation of the wider community of stakeholders: key industries, including SMEs, industrial groupings, research centres and universities. The PSM commit themselves to provide advice in their relevant fields of expertise to the best of their ability and in the best interest of Union research. The PSM would also be responsible for preparing, in agreement with the Commission, any necessary updates of the Multi-annual Roadmap. Number of PSM: to be decided.
Structure t of the BDVA President: Jürgen Müller, SAP Vice-President: Jan Sundelin, TIE Kinetix Vice-President: José María Cavanillas, ATOS Secretary General : Stuart t Campbell, TIE Kinetix Deputy Sec. General: Nuria De Lama, ATOS BDVA full and associated members Report - Appoint Guidance BDVA General Assembly (BDVA full members and associated members) Board of Directors (BDVA full members) Support - Create Dismissed Report - Elect Report - Create Name Chair Support BDVA Secretariat BDVA Taskforces BDVA Taskforces
Task Forces The main centers of activity within the Association. They shall always be involved in the preparation of the SRIA (i.e., Multi- Annual Roadmap) and other relevant works issued by the Association. Task Forces may focus on sector-specific specific or cross disciplinary issues Each Member is expected to contribute actively to at least one Task Force, by designating its experts as members of the relevant Task Force. Delegates will appropriately and timely contribute to the work of the Task Force. Each Task Force has a Chair, who shall monitor the activity of persons delegated by Members to engage in the Task Force. In case the person delegated to the Task Force fails to comply with p g py obligation to contribute timely and appropriately, the Chair of the Task Force shall notify the Board of Directors and propose to the delegating Member to replace or withdraw the delegated person from the Task Force.
Current Task Forces Taskforces for 3 Priorities agreed in GA 1) SRIA Operationalization 2) KPI Monitoring 3) Stakeholder Platform/ Community
Taskforce 1: Operationalization of SRIA (Lead: Julie Marguerite, Thales) Objectives: Develop a Programme that provides for a set of coherent activities (projects) that support the overall cppp project from the impact prospective Deliverables: Consistent set of documents based on revised SRIA including: Programme description covering activities and relationships and dependencies that can be used as a basis for discussions and project definition Presentation for the community Technical Background Paper proposal to Commission like the one used for current call WP proposal text Timing: Reporting: Milestones: Programme Description Eo1.Q. 15 Presentation ti to Community Eo1.Q. 15 for Event Technical Background Paper 1. Call WP16/17 WP proposal Text Eo2.Q. 15 End of January, February, March, June, Sept: Basis: SRIA V0.99
SubTaskforces SubTaskF 1 - Cross Project (Volker Markle, (DFKI)) SubTaskF 2 - Technical Priorities (Julie Marguerite, (THALES)) Focus - Data Management: Siemens Focus - Deep analytics: NUIG/DERI, Focus - Optimized architectures SAG Focus - Privacy and anonymisation: Thales Focus - Visual analytics: ATC SubTaskF 3 I -Spaces (Walter Waterfeld(SAG), Klaus-Dieter(SAG) tbc)) SubTaskF 4 - Light house Projects (Nuria DeLamas (ATOS)) SubTaskF 5 - Non-technical projects (Tonny Velin (ANSWER)) Focus - cppp Governance Roadmapping Legal Environment Skills Business Models /Ecos Ecosystemsstems I-Spaces Support and Benchmarking Social
Taskforce 2: Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Monitoring (Initial Lead: Robert Seidel, NOKIA) Objectives: Update and validate SRIA KPIs and establish Base Line and internal (members) and external (e.g. IDC) data sources for BDVA Monitoring and KPI Reporting. Deliverables: A final set of (with the Commission) agreed KPIs, outline and draft population of report including: Based on a draft template from the Commission or other H2020 PPPs create BDV PPP KPI Reporting Document Develop a Presentation use in PP-Partnership Board, external and review purposes Define process (data collection etc. ) for regular reporting Timing: Reporting: Basis: Milestones: First regular report due YE 15 Validation of KPIs Eo1.Q 15 Validation and establishing data source Eo1. 15 Draft Report Eo2.Q. 15 End of January, February, March, June, Sept: IDC Study Commission, PPP reports, Members Business Reports, Eurostat:
Taskforce 3: Stakeholder Platform / Community (TIE, relevant support expected by Fraunhofer, as coordinator of Big Data Europe) Objectives: Define Stakeholder Platform for cppp, develop sustainable (to be used in cppp) community engagement plan, including short term event, with the aim to assure usable outcome for the BDVA work on the cppp SRIA etc. Deliverables: Input into the SRIA operationalization Programme and short term action plan with elements to be used in long term plan: Event plan: Driven by the short term demand of community: Define community involvement e.g. eg via community workshop. Focus to be put on usability of results form workshops to avoid problems of first Workshop round. Document and Presentation of a medium and long term (rolling) plan for Community involvement including discussion with the Commission Document and Presentation of definition of stakeholder platform as input to discussion with commission Timing: Reporting: Basis: Milestones: Executable event outline YE 14 Alternative to event YE 14 Community Involvement plan 2015-16 (focus 1H.15) Eo1.Q 15 Community Involvement plan 2015-16 long term Eo2.Q 15 Input Document to Programme Eo1.Q. 15 End of January, February, March, June, Sept: SRIA, PPP Proposal, Previous Event and Community Planning
Meetings General Assembly: Barcelona, 18 Nov. 2014 Workshop in Bruxelles: 12th Dec. 2014 Workshop in Bruxelles: 15th Jan. 2015 Board of Directors: March 2015? Many other conf calls in the meanwhile
Contribution of the CINI Lab. on Big Data Contributions to TF1: operationalization i of fsria; Who is going to contribute to Cross Projects, Five Technical Priorities, I-Spaces and Lighthouse projects? TF2: Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Monitoring TF3: Stakeholder Platform / Community
Further information The Strategic Agenda and further documents are available on: http://www.bigdatavalue.eu/