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BDVA Strategic Agenda 2024

BDVA’s 2024 agenda is a practical playbook to scale European data-driven ecosystems: federated data spaces, interoperability by design, a secure computing continuum, and green data/AI operations, framed by compliance and ethics. It connects policy, standards, infrastructures (DSSC/SIMPL, EuroHPC/AI Factories, European Digital Innovation Hubs/Testing and Experimentation Facilities), and community tooling (i-Spaces, TFs) to move from pilots to sustainable value chains. 

For OPENVERSE, BDVA is the data & trust spine: a venue to codify virtual-asset data products, federate cross-sector data spaces for virtual-world use cases, and operationalise compliance-by-design (Artificial Intelligence Act/Data Act) with PETs and provenance/watermarking.

Basic Identification

Initiative / Partnership Name: Big Data Value Association (BDVA) Full SRIDA Title & Version: BDVA Strategic Agenda 2024 Publication / Last Update Date: 2024 (community workshops Sept 2023–July 2024; Data Week inputs)  Governing Body / Association: BDVA Type: Industry association; private partner in ADR (AI-Data-Robotics) PPP ecosystem (contributes to ADRA inputs)  Website / Source: BDVA Strategic Agenda 2024

Strategic Orientation

Vision Statement: Empower European industries/societies for a human-centric digital future; align research, innovation, and deployment around data/AI to drive competitiveness and societal benefit.  Core Mission / Objectives:

1. Define BDVA scope & priorities;
2. Inform policy & industry;
3. Coordinate Task Forces and maximize output. 

Key Strategic Pillars / Themes:

1. Human-centric digital future;
2. Data-driven ecosystems & data spaces across sectors;
3. Fit data/AI for emerging infrastructures & platforms (cloud-edge-HPC-quantum);
4. Sustainable data & AI;
5. Integrating innovation, ethics & compliance.

Expected Outcomes / KPIs: Dynamic agenda with periodic updates; priorities for TFs; inputs to DSSC/EuroHPC/ADRA; stronger standardisation engagement and i-Spaces role.  Policy Alignment:

• EU Data Strategy,
• Data Act,
• Data Governance Act,
• GDPR,
• Artificial Intelligence Act,
• Open Data Directive,
• Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030,
• The European Green Deal,
• EuroHPC,
• AI Innovation Package (AI Factories). 

Technological & Thematic Priorities

Main Technological Domains:

• Common European Data Spaces & federation (governance, trust, data products, provenance, interoperability) 
• Computing Continuum: cloud–edge–IoT–HPC–quantum integration; orchestration, scheduling, FL/AI pipelines, security & resilience. 
• AI Foundations & GenAI usage (RAG, multi-modal, small LMs), synthetic data, AI for DataOps. 
• Sustainability/Green AI (energy-aware training, metrics, green data services, circularity).

Cross-cutting Topics:

• semantic interoperability;
• identity & trust (eIDAS/eWallet, SSI/DIDs);
• PETs;
• contracts/policy automation;
• skills;
• standardisation (CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, W3C, DSBA). 

Related Infrastructures / Platforms:

• DSSC;
• SIMPL;
• AI-on-Demand/DeployAI;
• EuroHPC (incl. AI Factories);
• EDIHs
• TEFs;
• EOSC;
• Copernicus;
• EDICs EDICs. 

Interdependencies / Synergies:

• Inputs to ADRA SRIDA;
• collaboration with AIOTI;
• Gaia-X;
• FIWARE;
• IDSA via DSBA;
• links to EuroHPC, Quantum Flagship, CEI Continuum.

Governance & Ecosystem

Leading Organisations / Associations: BDVA Board of Directors, Technical Board, Task Forces; i-Spaces network; community events (EBDVF, Data Week).  Stakeholder Groups: Industry (incl. SMEs/startups), research/academia, public sector, DIHs/EDIHs, standards bodies, DSSC, projects under HE/DEP.  Engagement Mechanisms: dedicated TF workshops; AG meetings; public events; standardisation liaisons; expert groups (e.g., data product working group); ethics toolkits (etami).  Update Frequency: “Dynamic document” with regular reviews and priority refresh tied to community cycles.  Contact / Participation Info: Participate via BDVA TFs (Data & AI, Data Spaces, Ecosystem/Business, HPC/BD/AI, Policy & Societal, etami, Smart Gov/Smart Cities, sector TFs) and i-Spaces. 

Alignment with Virtual Worlds

Relevance to Virtual Worlds Domains:

• Data Spaces + Interop backbone: BDVA focuses on federation across sectors and semantic/legal/governance interoperability—core to virtual-world data exchange and portability. 
• Trust & Compliance: PETs, automated compliance, policy enforcement, watermarking and content provenance—key for safe, resilient immersive ecosystems. 
• Computing Continuum: orchestration across edge/cloud/HPC supports real-time XR, digital twins, and agentic systems. 
• Sustainability: Green KPIs for data/AI align with responsible virtual-world operations. 

Potential Collaboration Levers:

1. Co-lead a data-product and provenance/lineage task with BDVA TFs (link to virtual-world asset portability & rights). 
2. Pilot inter-data-space federation (e.g., media+culture ↔ tourism ↔ smart cities) with OPENVERSE use cases; leverage DSSC blueprint & SIMPL. 
3. Contribute compliance-by-design kits (AI Act/Data Act/Data Governance Act) tailored to XR/virtual worlds (policy templates, PETs recipes, watermarking). 
4. Bridge EuroHPC AI Factories ↔ data spaces for GenAI-powered spatial computing experiments. 

SRIDA Document Metadata

Keywords / Tags: data spaces, interoperability (semantic/legal/technical), data products, provenance/lineage, PETs, automated compliance, cloud-edge-HPC, AI Factories, sustainability/green AI.  Referenced Horizon Europe Clusters:

• Cluster 4 (Digital, Industry & Space);
• links to Cluster 3 security (secure continuum) and Green Deal instruments. 

TRL Ranges Mentioned: Mix of R&I to deployment; experimentation & i-Spaces; no single fixed TRL but spans early research to market adoption.  Budget / Investment Priorities: Leverage EuroHPC AI Factories, DEP data-space deployments, EDIHs/TEFs; national EDICs; standardisation participation. 

• Policy References:
• AI Act;
• Data Act;
• Data Governance Act;
• GDPR;
• Open Data Directive;
• Digital Decade;
• Green Deal;
• eIDAS/eWallet;
• sectoral regulations (EHDS).