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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:

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

Key Strategic Pillars / Themes:

Human-centric digital future;
Data-driven ecosystems & data spaces across sectors;
Fit data/AI for emerging infrastructures & platforms (cloud-edge-HPC-quantum);
Sustainable data & AI;
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:

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:

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