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SAGE + Forest Data Space + hale»connect = The Combo that Makes the Green Deal Data Space Work

In early May, I travelled to Oslo for the BVDA Data Week and the SAGE General Assembly. While the initial consolidation phase was not without its challenges, the project to build the Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) is now making good progress on several fronts. To… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

SmartForest 2026: Highlights and Lessons Learned

The Lead-Up In March 2025, we organised the first SmartForest conference. We wanted to connect different professional domains within forestry, make digitalisation, AI and other innovations have practical impact, and to help build a strong digital ecosystem. That latter point is our DNA, as expressed in… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Ronald Killian
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz