LEADS

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.
