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SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads
09.12.2025

SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

SEMIC 2025 was the conference’s largest edition thus far. Over 500 participants came together in Copenhagen, while over 3.500 utilised live streams to follow the conference’s goings-on from 65 different countries. More than 100 speakers, myself included, provided their insights surrounding this year’s theme: “Interoperability for Impact” Digesting… Read More
Conferences Event Opinion Artificial Intelligence conferences Data Management Data Spaces Data Usefulness Events Interoperability Strategy
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

SEMIC 2025: European Digital Markets at a Crossroads

Conferences Event Opinion Artificial Intelligence conferences Data Management Data Spaces Data Usefulness Events Interoperability Strategy
SEMIC 2025 was the conference’s largest edition thus far. Over 500 participants came together in Copenhagen, while over 3.500 utilised live streams to follow the conference’s goings-on from 65 different countries. More than 100 speakers, myself included, provided their insights surrounding this year’s theme: “Interoperability for Impact” Digesting… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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From Compliance to Impact: The Participatory Policy Lab Session on “Community and governance of public sector geospatial data within the Green Deal Data Space”

From Compliance to Impact: The Participatory Policy Lab Session on “Community and governance of public sector geospatial data within the Green Deal Data Space”

Event Opinion Artificial Intelligence Data Harmonisation Data Spaces Data Usefulness Environmental Data Events INSPIRE Interoperability Strategy
The night before the workshop, I joked that we would have to save INSPIRE the next day. When the time came, I joined a group of 20 highly distinguished individuals. They represented public authorities and data providers, the European Commission and its services, as well… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Guessing Better: Embracing uncertainty in (forest) decisions

Guessing Better: Embracing uncertainty in (forest) decisions

General Interest Opinion Artificial Intelligence Data Science Projects Research Strategy
Forests are messy, models are wrong. Numerical models are amazing. They are clean, logical, and reassuringly mathematical. But as George Box reminds us, “all Models are wrong, but some are useful”. This is especially true for dynamic, ecological systems such as forests. Forest development is difficult to predict. When… Read More
Flaminia Catalli
Flaminia Catalli
Environmental Data Space: Incorporating AI and Machine Learning

Environmental Data Space: Incorporating AI and Machine Learning

General Interest Opinion Projects Artificial Intelligence Data Science Data Spaces Data Usefulness Environmental Data FutureForest Geodata Interoperability Projects
How Innovation Fits into a Green Future Humanity can achieve great things when we’re all working together, sharing our knowledge and information to build a better world. In our day and age, that sharing often takes the form of data sharing. So-called Open Data is shared with anybody, with very… Read More
Flaminia Catalli
Flaminia Catalli
Somakanthan Somalingam, Innovations Project Manager at wetransform
Somakanthan Somalingam
Akshat Bajaj
Akshat Bajaj
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Data Standards Beyond INSPIRE

Data Standards Beyond INSPIRE

General Interest Opinion Best Practices Data Harmonisation Data Usefulness Environmental Data GML hale»connect hale»studio INSPIRE Interoperability Open Data Standards XPlanung
As a decision maker, you know that it can be hard to get things done. With the digital transformation in full swing, there are always new programs and regulations that require your full attention. Prioritising these challenges is hard, which means that finding ways to do things more effectively… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn