LEADS

Challenges in Mapping Demand Webinar – LEADS Thematic webinars series
2023-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
This roundtable will be focused on the methodologies and approaches employed by the LeADS project to comprehensively track the demand for advanced digital skills across Europe. The LeADS initiative, at the forefront of digital skill assessment, integrates a diverse array of sources to provide a nuanced understanding of the evolving needs in the digital workforce.
We will delve into the intricacies of the LeADS project, exploring the fusion of data from various channels to paint a detailed picture of the demand for advanced digital skills followed by a Q&A and discussion. This workshop serves as a platform for participants to gain insights into the multifaceted nature of digital skill requirements and how these insights can inform policy, education, and training initiatives.
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Agenda:
16:00 – 16:10 Introduction
16:10 – 16:25 Demand assessment methodology and outcomes outcome
16:25 – 16:40 Q&A
16:40 – 16:45 Closing
Speakers:

Nuria De Lama, IDC
Leondardo Freitas, IDC

CONNECT University - The State of the Digital Decade 2023 #Leads Involvement
2023-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online
Following the publication of the first annual report on the State of the Digital Decade, the European Commission (DG CONNECT) organises an open workshop to discuss in detail the main findings of the report and to reflect on the possible ways to move forward from this wake-up call.
The State of the Digital Decade report is an important input for Member States at a time when they prepare their strategic national roadmaps outlining actions, policies and measures they will take to achieve the digital decade objectives and targets, including planned regulatory measures and investments.
The first annual report on the “State of the Digital Decade” was published on 27th September. It presents a ‘comprehensive’ outlook on EU’s digital transformation and identified areas where progress is still insufficient.
Why this session?
The session aims to inform the audience about the existence of the report, to discuss its main findings and to gather feedback from digital transformation experts (European companies, consultancies and organisations) on suggestions for EU actions and priorities for the future.
Agenda and Speakers
The session will be divided into three parts:
10:00 – 10:20 – PART I: Introducing the State of the Digital Decade 2023
10:00 – 10:10 – Introduction by Ms. Kamila Kloc (Director Digital Decade and Connectivity, DG CONNECT, European Commission)
10:10 – 10:20 – Keynote by Mr. Matías González Martín (Secretary General for Telecommunications, Spanish Ministry for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation)
10:20 – 10:35 – PART II: What are the main takeaways of the State of the Digital Decade Report? Mr. Eric Peters (Acting Head of Unit, Digital Decade Coordination Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission)
10:35 – 10:40 – short break
10:40 – 11:45 – PART III: Panel discussion – moderated by Ms. Lavinia Bianchi (Communication Officer, Investments in High-Capacity Networks Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission)
Panellists

Ms. Solveigh Hieronimus (Senior Partner, McKinsey)
Ms. Sophie Woodville (Digital Policy Officer, Bordeaux Metropolitan Area)
Mr. Brendan Rowan (Coordinator of the DEP project LeADS)
Mr. Izabel Jelenic (CTO Infobip)
Mr. Alessandro Gropelli (Deputy Director General, ETNO)

11:45 – 12:00 – Conclusion – by Mr. Eric Peters (Acting Head of Unit, Digital Decade Coordination Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission)

LEADS Involvement
The LEADS project is poised to make a significant presence at the upcoming event, specifically during the panel discussion scheduled from 10:40 to 11:45. The discussion will be expertly moderated by Ms. Lavinia Bianchi, the Communication Officer of the Investments in High-Capacity Networks Unit at DG CONNECT, European Commission. The panel will feature a lineup of distinguished experts, including Mr. Brendan Rowan, who will represent the project as its Coordinator. This future event promises to showcase the project’s importance in the context of high-capacity networks and digital policy, with Mr. Rowan contributing his insights alongside fellow panelists:

Ms. Solveigh Hieronimus
Senior Partner at McKinsey
Ms. Sophie Woodville
Digital Policy Officer for Bordeaux Metropolitan Area
Mr. Izabel Jelenic
CTO of Infobip
Mr. Alessandro Gropelli
Deputy Director General of ETNO

Challenges in Mapping Supply Webinar – LEADS Thematic webinars series
2023-11-13 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
The first installment of the LEADS Thematic Webinars will focus on the training supply analysis conducted on advanced digital skills in all EU-countries. Given the mass of the courses in various levels offered, the various challenges emerging from the lack of detailed information revealed publicly in various, as well as the differences between countries, a hybrid methodology was developed and used. The methodology established for this purpose included mainly the following steps: (a) Define selection criteria for educational / training programmes on various levels; (b) Identify programmes and courses following the criteria defined; (c) categorise courses identified to non-Advanced Digital Skills and Advanced Digital Skills related; (d) analyse Advanced Digital Skills courses. In total, around 1250 higher education and vocational education advanced digital skills courses were identified and analyzed further, feeding into the gap analysis conducted afterwards.
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Agenda:
16:00 – 16:10 Introduction
16:10 – 16:25 Presentation of the challenges in mapping supply
16:25 – 16:40 Q&A
16:40 – 16:45 Closing
Speakers:

Flora Josette Thibaudeau – Trinity Business School
Christopher Karachristos – Maggioli

European Big Data Value Forum 2023
2023-10-25 - 2023-10-27 | Valencia, Spain
LEADS partners will be present at EBDVF with the session “Empowering Tomorrow’s Workforce: Bridiging the Digital Skills Gap through Higer Education and Vocational Training”.
Speakers:

Ernestina Menasalvas, UPM
Brendan Rowan, Bluspecs
Carlos Fernández Iñigo, INFORMA D&B, S.A.U. (S.M.E.)
Marta Rodrigues, EURASHE

Digital skills are practical skills and the development of apprenticeships and other VET approaches provide mechanisms for talent to access new skills and career opportunities.
In this session we will concentrate on VET and will analyze some success stories of VET initiatives. The main outcome of the session will be to learn from success stories to help filling the gap between demand and offer in Advanced Digital Skills.
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AIOTI Signature Event 2023
2023-10-10 | Area 42 Location, Area42, Brussels, Rue des Palais 46, 1030, Belgium
Computing Continuum allows the exploitation of hybrid IoT-Edge-Cloud infrastructures with great flexibility while guaranteeing high-performance. Using Edge Intelligence (EI) enables executing computation tasks as close as possible to the data/event sources, to enable complex yet time-sensitive applications of artificial intelligence (AI) over resource-constrained IoT devices. Such a transition of AI algorithms and models from the Cloud to the peripheral ecosystem and vice versa makes the EI beneficial for the whole spectrum of domains which are today limited by the conventional “sense-and-forward” approach typical of Cloud-based architectures.

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
2023-09-30 - 2023-10-05 | ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Marii Konopnickiej 17, Kraków, 30-302, Poland
ECAI is Europe’s premier AI research venue. We are honoured to host the 26th edition of this conference in person, in Kraków, one of Europe’s most stunning cities. ECAI 2023 will feature, as usual, a full programme of technical papers, as well as many AI-related events of interest for researchers, students and industry professionals. This includes workshops and tutorials, as well as sister conferences for starting researchers (STAIRS) and prestigious applications of AI (PAIS). The conference is supported by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PSSI). The conference centre is within walking distance of the historical city centre.

AI & Big Data Expo
2023-09-26 - 2023-09-27 | Amsterdam RAI, Europaplein 24, Amsterdam, 1078 GZ 1078 GZ, Netherlands
DELIVERING AI & BIG DATA FOR A SMARTER FUTURE
Join us again for AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2023 on 26-27th September at the RAI, Amsterdam. We’re set to see dozens of speakers from across various industries come together to discuss the latest developments in the world of AI & Big Data.
It is a showcase of next-generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data, an opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI & Big Data in driving forward your business in 2023 and beyond.

Expert Roundtables on the GAP between the provision & demand for Advanced Digital Skills in Europe
2023-07-26 09:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Online
Introduction
The DIGITAL project Leading Europe’s Advanced Digital Skills (LEADS) is responsible for the identification of future demands in advanced digital skills and the actions required to support the Digital Decade targets of over 20 million ICT specialists.
LEADS has defined a framework for ADS that includes detailed skills within the following technology areas: Cloud, IoT, BI/Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum. Thanks to a precise and extensive work on data collection and analysis, the project has produced a comprehensive view of the supply side (current offering of HE/VET courses in Europe) and a demand assessment that includes predictions on the demand for ADS in the next 5 years. Both of them have been considered for the analysis of the GAP that Europe will be facing in the upcoming years.
Why is this important? This GAP analysis will be the basis of the recommendations that LEADS will make to policy makers and other stakeholders. In more general terms, the result of this work may change the skills landscape as we know it today.
Aims
The goal of this session is to present the results of the GAP analysis undertaken by LEADS and validate its main results with a series of experts that will help us to go deeper into several aspects of the analysis. We promise participants interesting discussions structured around three roundtables. The event will be open to a wider audience so that all voices are heard. So, if you want to learn about the GAP on Advanced Digital Skills in Europe and help us in this validation process, you should not miss this session.
You do not have so much time but you fancy the topic? Join the roundtable you prefer!

Agenda

Time
Session

9:30
INTRODUCTION

Welcome and Objectives of the session.
A new horizon for Advance Digital Skills in Europe (European Commission)
Insights by LEADS: all our results to inspire your summer (LEADS Project)

9:45
ROUNDTABLE 1: SKILLS GAPS ACROSS TECHNOLOGY AREAS

Focus: LEADS has quantified the demand for a wide umbrella of skills and has analysed the current skills offering. But how will supply react to the future demand? We will validate the gap across technology areas discussing challenges, technology convergence and the impact of digital transformation in many sectors that will put more pressure on the demand for ADS

11:00
ROUNDTABLE 2: HIGH-LEVEL EDUCATION OR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING?

Focus: Which of the skills highlighted in this GAP analysis are better addressed by higher education and which ones are better addressed by vocational education? How can the topics of upskilling and reskilling be addressed in organisations?

12:15
ROUNDTABLE 3: CAN WE SCALE CURRENT ACTIVITIES TO THE NEEDS OF EUROPE?

Focus: how can we invest in a smart way? Which activities can scale? Are there barriers and rules that prevent Europe from designing the right skills paths?

13:30
What comes AFTER SUMMER? Closing of the session

About the LEADS project
The LEADS project, a CSA funded by the DIGITAL Programme, is tasked with providing data, analysis, foresight and guidance on the demands for advanced digital skills across Europe by the end of the decade to support the definition of Advanced Digital Skills actions to be funded under the
It aims to reduce the cycle between tech development and skills development to accelerate adoption through providing tech adoption trends, mapping of existing offerings and exploration of leading methods and approaches for tackling the large challenge affecting all sectors and organisations within the EU.
www.advancedskills.eu
About Advanced Digital Skills in the DIGITAL programme
The DIGITAL Programme is investing 580 million EUR to provide European industry and society with the talent required to support the successful adoption of advanced digital technologies. Actions funded include:

SPECIALISED Master’s courses in key advanced digital technologies
Short-term training courses for SMEs
Skills academies

These actions contribute to reach the Digital decade target of 20 million ICT specialists employed in the economy in 2030, which include promoting the access of women to this field and seek to drive excellence, agility and industry engagement across the education and training fields to facilitate state-of-the-art upskilling, reskilling and talent generation.

Women4Cyber-LEADS - Tech Adoption Scenarios for Cybersecurity 2030
2023-06-22 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Introduction
The DIGITAL project Leading Europe’s Advanced Digital Skills (LEADS) is responsible for the identification of future demands in advanced digital skills and the actions required to support the Digital Decade targets of over 20 million ICT specialists.
The LEADS framework is based on the tech adoption predictions for tech areas of Cloud, IoT, BI/Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum. This approach leverages significant amounts of privileged market data which tracks over 150 key use cases across industry to provide demand predictions.
The project has developed key predictions for market adoption of over 80 tech groupings to 2030 and is now seeking to work together with the leading representatives from the AI and Data communities to collaboratively develop forecast scenarios. It seeks to address the use cases identified and provide key factors which will positively and negatively influence uptake. Participants will have a decisive role for industry in shaping the European response to skills demands in AI and Data, supporting organisations in the development of key strategies and defining the market dynamics affecting advanced digital technologies.
Aims
The goal of this session is to engage with tech development experts to be able to co-create market development scenarios and share insights and market data for key adoption metrics.
It will:

Select and review prominent market use cases for tracking technologies.
Explore key macroeconomic, sectoral and technological factors and events that will act as independent variables.
Contribute the modelling of key market scenarios by industry leaders.
Provide expert opinions and predications.
Contribute to the production of a short paper on the definition of market scenarios for cyber security and key use cases.

What to expect

Presentation of reference industrial use cases for cybersecurity technologies.L
atest market data and predictions for future adoption.
Named contributor on outcome paper and development of modelling for skills spending.
Opportunity to co-author white paper on the defining factors of market adoption.
Collaboration with SPECIALISED Master programmes and other skills actors.

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Infosecurity Europe
2023-06-20 - 2023-06-22 | ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1, London, Western Gateway, E16 1XL, United Kingdom
Rethink the power of infosecurity
Infosecurity Europe keeps you connected with everyone in information security. The brightest minds, from engineers to innovators. We keep you up to date on everything about information security. From the past battles we’ve won to the present.
Join us as we rethink the power of infosecurity and discover what that may mean to you.

IoT Week 2023
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-22 | Berlin, Germany
IoT Week is a one-of-a-kind 4-day conference where leaders from the worlds of business, tech and science shed light on the future of technology and its impact on business and life.
IoT Week continues to explore the latest digital technologies and trends shaping societies and businesses toward the creation of sustainable, data-driven global economies. The conference will host industry and academic experts from around the world to share best practice examples and jointly explore challenges and barriers that the research and innovation ecosystem has to address on the path toward the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The IoT Week Programme is built on the following 3 commitments in creating an inclusive programme:

Promoting Innovative Visions and sustainable Technologies
Enticing Technology Transfer from Research to Market
Commitment to Diversity with Balanced Voices

Data Week 2023
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15 | Quality Hotel, Storgatan 17, Luleå, Luleå, 972 32, Sweden
Data Week 2023 is the spring gathering of the European Big Data and Data Driven AI research and innovation communities. In Data Week, the participants share knowledge and results, discuss topics of common interest, find synergies, build new collaborations and identify new challenges and recommendations. Data Week also links the communities and their results to the European policies and market needs and brings European initiatives and activities closer to local communities.
Data Week 2023 is co-organised by Big Data Value Association and the EUHubs4Data project in collaboration with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). The main event of the Data Week 2023 will take place in Luleå, Sweden between 13 – 15 June 2023 with the central theme “Data Meets Infrastructure at the Edge!”

London Tech Week 2023
2023-06-12 - 2023-06-16 | London Tech Week, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, SW1P 3EE
London Tech Week returns for its 10th Anniversary!
London Tech Week is a global celebration of tech, uniting the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow in a week-long festival. Showcasing how tech is transforming business and society, London Tech Week drives thought provoking conversations around innovation, diversity and transformation, providing a platform for the tech ecosystem to come together to drive change.

Grow Digital 2023
2023-06-06 - 2023-06-07
JOIN EUROPE’S FLAGSHIP CONFERENCE ON GENERATIVE AI, SPACE TECH, INDUSTRY 5.0 AND DEEP TECH TALENT
Your opportunity to hear the latest about digital innovation, discover ground breaking deep tech solutions, network with key players from industry, research and academia, and establish new business relations.
