The EXTRACT project joined fellow EU-funded projects as part of the DATANEXUS cluster at the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2024. From 2 to 4 October, partners Mathema, Binare and Barcelona Supercomputing Center shared information on the project during the three-day conference in Budapest, Hungary.
Under the theme ‘Europe for global leadership in AI & Data’, the EBDVF 2024 featured 71 workshops, sessions and plenaries bringing together 33 keynote speakers and almost 200 speakers. The DataNexus cluster contributed to these impressive numbers with a 90 minutes session entitled ‘Innovative Approaches to Extreme Data Challenges’.
The session: Innovative Approaches to Extreme Data Challenges
This session and the cluster played an essential role during EBDVF in addressing a topic still uncharted, even to the big data and AI community: extreme data and its challenges. Savvas Rogotis, Data Ecosystem Senior Project Manager at BDVA, and the moderator of the session highlighted that, “The DataNexus Cluster is a very interesting combination of projects working on addressing challenges on extreme data. I think this will give us a very nice result, bringing the whole community together around Extreme Data. We expect a lot from this cluster”, stated.
The session consisted of two parts: a round of presentations entitled ‘New technologies for handling and exploiting extreme data and extreme data use cases’. Each project representative explained t how their project addresses the challenges of extreme data and what makes their project unique and a panel discussion followed by a round of Q&A.
Doaa Almhalthawl from partner MATHEMA represented the EXTRACT project in the panel. She highlighted the project’s work integrating cloud, edge and HPC technologies into trustworthy, accurate, faire and green data mining workflows for actionable knowledge. She presented the Personalized Evacuation Route system workflow and the advanced urban digital twin, multi-agent reinforcement learning and simulation technologies being used to help individuals find their way to safety.
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Doaa also used this event to field questions at the DataNexus cluster booth. She highlighted that the collaboration with the cluster is important given that these projects “we have the same objective of addressing extreme data” and that opportunities like the EBDVF and session provided us to collaborate and share knowledge and our shared challenges
The DATANEXUS Cluster
The other speakers in the session were Stephan Hacginger from the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre representing EXA4MIND, Pedro García from University Rovira i Virgili representing NEARDATA, Yannis Theodoris from University of Piraeus representing EMERALDS, Radu Prodan from Institute of Information Technology, University of Klagenfurt representing Graph-Massivizer, Xinxin Wang from Wageningen Food Safety Research representing EFRA, and Doaa Almhaithawi from Mathema representing EXTRACT.
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About EBDVF
The Forum, organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), in collaboration with AI&AUT EXPO, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Ideal-ist, Neumann Technology Platform and the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), brought together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI.