The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025 took place in Copenhagen from 12 to 14 November. Organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), the EBDVF is the flagship event of the European Big Data Value and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community. Under the theme ‘Empowering Europe’s Future with AI and Data’, the forum brought together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policymakers from Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of data and AI.
EXA4MIND was a proud sponsor of the EBDVF 2025, attending the forum for the third consecutive year. As part of our sponsorship activities, EXA4MIND had a booth at EBDVF, where we shared the project’s progress and main achievements to date with hundreds of visitors and participants. As in the previous edition, EXA4MIND also hosted a session with the DataNexus cluster, continuing to address a topic that remains largely unexplored, even within the big data and AI community: extreme data and its challenges. The session was moderated by Nuria de Lama (IDC) and Janine Gehrig Lux (Barcelona Supercomputing Centre – BSC), and featured the following speakers: Eduardo Quiñones (BSC), Pedro García (Rovira i Virgili University), Junaid Ahmed Khan (University of Bologna), and Stephan Hachinger (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre).
The ‘DataNexus: Extreme Data Architectures Empowering AI Innovation Across the Compute Continuum’ session brought together three years of collective experience from the DataNexus cluster, which has been working on extreme data challenges. The session featured real-world case studies from EXA4MIND, EXTRACT, Graph-Massivizer and NEARDATA, showcasing the tangible impact of next-generation workflows, AI integration and high-performance data platforms across various domains, including energy, manufacturing, smart cities and crisis management.
The discussion emphasised how these innovations are strengthening Europe’s data value chain and paving the way for a resilient, interoperable data and AI ecosystem spanning the entire computing spectrum. The session concluded with a lively panel discussion inviting the audience to consider how Europe can translate its excellence in data analytics into sustainable economic and societal value.
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