DIGITAL SME Task Force Blockchain & DLT organised with the support of IPwe, a webinar on 2 July, 11.00 – 12.00 CEST, to explain why and how patent Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have the potential to turn patents into a new asset class.
Blockchain applications have been front-page news thanks to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin, and now digital tokenised assets, such as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). A few months ago, Christie’s became the first major auction house to sell a fully digital, NFT-based artwork, which sold for over $69.3 million.
Accelerating the acceptance of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-enabled digital assets (among them NFTs) is a focus of the European Commission. In September 2020, the European Commission launched a Digital Finance Strategy, including a proposal for a ‘Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets’. Currently, the European Commission is working on “developing a pro-innovation legal framework in the areas of digital assets (tokenisation) and smart contracts that protects consumers and provides legal certainty for businesses.” *
During this webinar, we will explain and discuss the definition of NFTs, their relationship to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and their primary use cases to date, as well as their place in supporting patent rights and value. We will explain why and how patent NFTs have the potential to turn patents into a new asset class.
*European Blockchain Strategy; Shaping Europe’s digital future” 8 March 2021. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/european-blockchain-strategy-brochure
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| 11.00 – 11.05 | Welcome and introduction Margherita Leder, Co-chair of the DIGITAL SME Task Force on Blockchain & DLT; TMPGroup, COO |
| 11.05 – 11.25 | Presentation: “NFTs for tokenisation of patents and intellectual property” Petko Karamotchev, Co-chair of the DIGITAL SME Task Force Blockchain & DLT; INDUSTRIA, CEO. |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Presentation: “Blockchain-enabled applications: Patent Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)” Cheryl Milone Cowles, BSEE, Esq. IPwe; Chief Intellectual Property Officer |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Discussion with participants |
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The European Commission has today published its long-awaited Artificial Intelligence Act, consolidating and harmonising European rules on AI.
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DIGITAL SME welcomes the European Commission’s balanced approach, which focuses on strictly regulating high-risk AI but leaves room for companies to try out new applications in “regulatory sandboxes”.
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Through the Focus Group Artificial Intelligence, the Alliance will continue working with the European institutions to ensure that regulation facilitates the development and uptake of AI in SMEs.
The European Commission today has published its long-awaited proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act, which will now be discussed in the Parliament and Council before becoming law. To mitigate public concerns about the use of unethical AI applications, the EC proposes to ban a number of AI applications which manipulate human behaviour or conduct social scoring. The bans concern “subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm.” Notably, biometric identification will still be allowed for law enforcement purposes.
High-risk uses of AI like in employment or migration control will be admitted if the companies show that they comply with EU standards. For this purpose, companies will go through a self-assessment of conformity, while national authorities carry out regular compliance checks. In addition, the proposal includes creating “regulatory sandboxes” to allow smaller businesses to experiment and innovate with AI without fear of reproach. Stelian Brad, a member of DIGITAL SME’s Focus Group Artificial Intelligence, commented: “Our group of AI-using enterprises will continue to work with the Commission to ensure that AI regulation facilitates the uptake of artificial intelligence in SMEs. Ensuring AI adoption of smaller businesses is crucial for advancing innovation in Europe and working towards digital sovereignty”.
We look forward to discussing the proposed regulation and its potential consequences with the Focus Group and will continue working with the European Commission to make sure that the regulatory approach will address ethical issues with AI without encumbering SME innovation.
DIGITAL SME’s Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence and Working Group (WG) Standards organised the workshop “AI-standardisation landscape & the role of Digital Innovation Hubs” on 18 February 2021, 09.30-11.00 CET. The workshop is an invitation-only event for DIGITAL SME members and selected stakeholders from the European institutions, the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) network, and other organisations.
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This hands-on workshop will provide SMEs and other interested stakeholders with an overview of Europe’s standardisation landscape in AI. We will present companies with the opportunity to discuss how their business can benefit from AI standards, and how they could get involved in standardisation organisations.
In the new Digital Europe Programme, it will be the role of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) to help support the uptake of future technologies such as AI among SMEs. However, DIHs will also support technology frontrunners, such as AI innovators. Therefore, this workshop extends to DIHs from across Europe to allow for the development of a network to support DIHs in helping to advance Europe’s digital transformation.
This effort is part of DIGITAL SME’s focus on AI as a key technology for the competitiveness of Europe’s digital economy. To stop Europe from falling behind, DIGITAL SME has taken a leadership role in AI for SMEs, gathering more than 100 AI innovators in the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (a joint effort with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre). Although Europe is considered a global leader in AI academic research and champion of a human-centric approach to AI, it lags behind the US and China when it comes to the industrial applications of its scientific achievements. SMEs need to better understand the standardisation landscape and how to get involved in it when it comes to AI applications. This is where Working Group STANDARDS comes in. WG ST is the place-to-be for all things standardisation & SMEs. As the leader of Small Business Standards’ ICT approach, DIGITAL SME has created WG ST as a forum for SME experts from all around Europe to decisively shape the standardisation process and make it accessible for SMEs.
| 9.30 – 9.40 | Welcome |
| 9.40 – 10.30 | Overview of the AI standardisation landscape
Dr. Stefano Nativi, Big Data Lead Scientist at the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Lindsay Frost, Chief Standardisation Engineer at NEC Laboratories Europe, Board member of ETSI, ETSI OCG AI Chair, ETSI ISG CIM Chair Prof. Stelian Brad, Professor at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca & President of Cluj IT Cluster |
| 10.30 – 10.55 | Discussion with the SME Focus Group on AI
Moderated by DIGITAL SME |
| 10.55 – 11.00 | Closing & next steps |
This is an invitation-only event for members of our Working Groups and selected stakeholders from European institutions and European Digital Innovation Hubs. You can apply to join our WGs here. If you think you should have been invited but haven’t received an invitation, please contact Annika Linck (a.linck@digitalsme.eu)
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On 20 January 2021, DIGITAL SME held a workshop titled “What does the new Data Governance Act mean for SMEs?” for members of the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (FG AI) and other invited AI-stakeholders.
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Malte Beyer-Katzenberger from DG CNECT explained the consequences of the Data Governance Act for innovative, AI-driven SMEs, telling participants that the legislation was designed to “protect your ideas”.
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Common European data spaces, data intermediaries, data altruism, and other significant aspects included in the European Commission’s proposal have important consequences on small and medium businesses in the AI sector.
The event recording is available here:
On 20 January 2021, DIGITAL SME held a live workshop titled “What does the new Data Governance Act mean for SMEs?” for members of the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (FG AI) and DIGITAL SME’s extended network. The event’s main topic was the Data Governance Act, a proposal for a regulation published by the European Commission last November.
While the workshop shed light on the European Commission’s strategy when it comes to data, important questions remain: What will the Data Governance Act (DGA) mean for small businesses on the ground? Access to data is a key hurdle for companies: How will the DGA and the Commission’s data strategy ensure this access?
The DGA aims to turn Europe into a leading data economy, especially for industrial data. For this purpose, the DGA wants to build a comprehensive European data-sharing framework. The DGA is part of a wider European Data Strategy, which will also include a Data Act, to be announced by the end of 2021. This framework aims to allow businesses and researchers to fully exploit data by lowering transaction costs linked to B2B and C2B data-sharing through data intermediaries. It provides a framework for the re-use of public sector data and promotes the concept of “data altruism”, i.e., allowing data use by individuals or companies for the common good. Finally, the DGA foresees the creation of an expert group, the ‘European Data Innovation Board’.
Malte Beyer-Katzenberger, Policy Officer at the European Commission’s DG CNECT, presented the DGA to an audience of AI-developing SMEs to better understand the EU’s overarching strategy for data. Participants were also able to ask questions about the proposal and bring their critical feedback to the attention of the European Commission.
Creating value and ensuring the availability of data through Common European Data Spaces
Common European data spaces are infrastructures designed to materialise data-sharing platforms: their main leverage will be the possibility of reusing data. The DGA will define an open ecosystem independent from big players in which increased involvement creates more value. Mr Beyer-Katzenberger highlighted that “the European Commission will play the role of catalyser of the relevant actors in these data spaces”, but he added that they will be “driven by the stakeholders that are part of them”.
The DGA also introduces the notion of data intermediaries which will allow companies to recourse to third parties offering and obtaining data-related services. These intermediaries will strengthen businesses sovereignty over their own data as “they will share data while maintaining their control and value”, as Mr Beyer-Katzenberger explained. At the same time, questions remain when it comes to the additional bureaucracy associated with this notion – may it hinder smaller players from developing new business ideas based on the collection of data sets?
Finally, Mr Beyer-Katzenberger elaborated on the concept of “data altruism”, where individuals or companies can give consent to share their data for the common good; voluntarily and free of charge. This can lead to an increase in the amount of data at the disposal of companies who need data to scale up and innovate.
DIGITAL SME will continue to champion SME voices in important digital legislation
A poll conducted during the session indicated that only 60% of participants had heard of the Data Governance Act prior to the workshop. Towards the end of the session, the poll showed that the sentiment regarding the projected effects of the DGA on participants’ businesses was neutral to positive.
DIGITAL SME would like to thank Mr Beyer-Katzenberger for his presentation and all participants for sharing their feedback and questions. We will continue to bring together stakeholders to discuss digital legislation in the field of AI and beyond to make sure it is fit for SMEs.
The governance framework proposed by the DGA can have important consequences for innovative companies in AI or data intelligence services – and DIGITAL SME wants to ensure that the dialogue between the EU-level and the affected SMEs is established from the start.
Our Working Groups are the place-to-be to network and discuss policy and how it impacts your business—and you can join them! Go to digitalsme.eu/working-groups to learn more and apply.
Funding opportunity for SMEs in the digital manufacturing sector
Are you an SME developing innovative solutions in the digital manufacturing domain? Are you getting close to the market but need some support? Then we might have a solution for you!
The KYKLOS4.0 Offer for you
Grants of up to €150.000
The solutions should include one or several of the following domains:
- Cyber-physical systems
- Product lifecycle management
- Life cycle analysis
- Augmented reality
- Artificial intelligence
- Circular manufacturing
- Big data and data management
- Deep learning
- Decision support system
What do you need to do?
- Build a consortium of up to 3 entities developing innovative solutions to improve digital manufacturing processes. The consortium must be led by an SME and include an industrial partner. The lead SME must be a technology integrator and the industrial partner will serve as a pilot location for the developed solution to be validated and demonstrated. An additional SME may participate to support technology adoption or increase impact.*
- Propose a solution which demonstrates a high innovation potential and is ready to explore commercialisation opportunities by the end of experiment period (March 2022).
- Validate and demonstrate your solution in a pilot location, which should be provided by one of your consortium partners.
- Check whether you are eligible (criteria listed below).
*Do you need help building a consortium and finding partners?
Then fill in this ‘Partnering’ form, we can help you!
Eligibility criteria:
Your consortium will be considered eligible, if:
- All consortium partners are legal entities established and based in one of the EU Member States or an H2020 Associated country, as defined in the H2020 rules for participation (a full list can be found HERE).
- The consortium is led by an SME (the definition can be found HERE) and includes an industrial partner.
- The consortium consists of a minimum two (2) partners and a maximum of three (3) partners.
- The consortium can be comprised of several entities from one same country / or of several entities from different countries.
Deadline for applications: 30 June 2021, 17:00 CEST
Should you have any questions, please contact Déborah Goll at d.goll@digitalsme.eu.
This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 872570
DIGITAL SME and EUIPO are jointly organising the webinar IPR in Digital Emerging Technologies on 6 April, 10.00 – 11.00 CEST, to explain how to benefit from IP protection and make the most out of it for your business.
During this webinar, we will focus on providing you with a basic overview of Intellectual Property in the context of emerging technologies, such as AI. We will tackle topics like innovation processes, complex products with different IPRs, and provide an overview of benefits of IP for SMEs. Finally, we would like to hear how and if you protect your AI or blockchain innovation during the presentation of an SME case study.
Agenda:
- Welcome by DIGITAL SME
- Presentation by EUIPO
- SME case study
- Q&A
Speakers:
Alex WEIR, IPwe
Aureli SORIA-FRISCH, Starlab
For any questions related to this event, please contact Annika Linck (a.linck@digitalsme.eu)
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On 20 January 2021, DIGITAL SME held a workshop titled “What does the new Data Governance Act mean for SMEs?” for members of the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (FG AI) and other invited AI-stakeholders.
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Malte Beyer-Katzenberger from DG CNECT explained the consequences of the Data Governance Act for innovative, AI-driven SMEs, telling participants that the legislation was designed to “protect your ideas”.
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Common European data spaces, data intermediaries, data altruism, and other significant aspects included in the European Commission’s proposal have important consequences on small and medium businesses in the AI sector.
On 20 January 2021, DIGITAL SME held a live workshop titled “What does the new Data Governance Act mean for SMEs?” for members of the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (FG AI) and DIGITAL SME’s extended network. The event’s main topic was the Data Governance Act, a proposal for a regulation published by the European Commission last November.
While the workshop shed light on the European Commission’s strategy when it comes to data, important questions remain: What will the Data Governance Act (DGA) mean for small businesses on the ground? Access to data is a key hurdle for companies: How will the DGA and the Commission’s data strategy ensure this access?
The DGA aims to turn Europe into a leading data economy, especially for industrial data. For this purpose, the DGA wants to build a comprehensive European data-sharing framework. The DGA is part of a wider European Data Strategy, which will also include a Data Act, to be announced by the end of 2021. This framework aims to allow businesses and researchers to fully exploit data by lowering transaction costs linked to B2B and C2B data-sharing through data intermediaries. It provides a framework for the re-use of public sector data and promotes the concept of “data altruism”, i.e., allowing data use by individuals or companies for the common good. Finally, the DGA foresees the creation of an expert group, the ‘European Data Innovation Board’.
Malte Beyer-Katzenberger, Policy Officer at the European Commission’s DG CNECT, presented the DGA to an audience of AI-developing SMEs to better understand the EU’s overarching strategy for data. Participants were also able to ask questions about the proposal and bring their critical feedback to the attention of the European Commission.
Creating value and ensuring the availability of data through Common European Data Spaces
Common European data spaces are infrastructures designed to materialise data-sharing platforms: their main leverage will be the possibility of reusing data. The DGA will define an open ecosystem independent from big players in which increased involvement creates more value. Mr Beyer-Katzenberger highlighted that “the European Commission will play the role of catalyser of the relevant actors in these data spaces”, but he added that they will be “driven by the stakeholders that are part of them”.
The DGA also introduces the notion of data intermediaries which will allow companies to recourse to third parties offering and obtaining data-related services. These intermediaries will strengthen businesses sovereignty over their own data as “they will share data while maintaining their control and value”, as Mr Beyer-Katzenberger explained. At the same time, questions remain when it comes to the additional bureaucracy associated with this notion – may it hinder smaller players from developing new business ideas based on the collection of data sets?
Finally, Mr Beyer-Katzenberger elaborated on the concept of “data altruism”, where individuals or companies can give consent to share their data for the common good; voluntarily and free of charge. This can lead to an increase in the amount of data at the disposal of companies who need data to scale up and innovate.
DIGITAL SME will continue to champion SME voices in important digital legislation
A poll conducted during the session indicated that only 60% of participants had heard of the Data Governance Act prior to the workshop. Towards the end of the session, the poll showed that the sentiment regarding the projected effects of the DGA on participants’ businesses was neutral to positive.
DIGITAL SME would like to thank Mr Beyer-Katzenberger for his presentation and all participants for sharing their feedback and questions. We will continue to bring together stakeholders to discuss digital legislation in the field of AI and beyond to make sure it is fit for SMEs.
The governance framework proposed by the DGA can have important consequences for innovative companies in AI or data intelligence services – and DIGITAL SME wants to ensure that the dialogue between the EU-level and the affected SMEs is established from the start.
Our Working Groups are the place-to-be to network and discuss policy and how it impacts your business—and you can join them! Go to digitalsme.eu/working-groups to learn more and apply.
Rewatch the event here:
Presentation Slides by Mr Beyer-Katzenberger
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Europe is a global leader in the research of (ethical) Artificial Intelligence (AI), but it lags behind the USA and China in its industrial applications. The new Horizon 2020 project CISC seeks to bridge the gap between research and industrial application of AI.
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Leveraging on the EU’s human-centric AI approach, CISC will provide high-level training to 14 world-class scientists, forging an inter-disciplinary skill set for the development of collaborative intelligence systems and connecting research with industrial applications.
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To support Europe in taking leadership, DIGITAL SME will recruit a PhD researcher, specialising in ethical and legal aspects of AI, who will work closely with its Focus Group on AI.
Europe is a global leader in academic research of human-centric artificial intelligence. In 2016, the EU represented 25% of the top most-cited AI publications, followed by the US and China [1]. However, when it comes to market uptake, especially industrial applications, we are leagues behind [2].To address this gap, DIGITAL SME is launching the CISC (Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems) project. Its collaborative intelligence framework will allow 14 world-class AI researchers to gain interdisciplinary skills, get employed with the industrial players (and European SMEs!) and apply their research in practice.
A human-centric AI approach connecting research with applications
The CISC project is a joint effort of organisations from academia and business. It is coordinated by the H2020 framework’s Marie Skłodowska Curie action. The importance and potential of AI-driven automation in domains like manufacturing, healthcare and transport is tremendous. However, few understand the importance of AI systems’ interaction and collaboration with humans. CISC will train researchers capable of addressing this shortcoming and contribute to the EU human-centric approach to artificial intelligence.
In a nutshell, the project will: 1) train researchers with interdisciplinary skills and intersectoral experience in the field of AI-driven automation for Industry 4.0; 2) promote academic-industry collaborations; and 3) foster European scientific excellence.
Tackling the ethical and legal aspects of AI with a PhD researcher
In the project framework, DIGITAL SME will recruit a PhD researcher specialising in ethical and legal aspects of AI. During the employment period at DIGITAL SME, the researcher will not only work towards the project’s scientific goals, but will also contribute to the objectives and activities of the DIGITAL SME/JRC Focus Group on AI.
The researcher will also tackle legal and ethical issues of AI and policy recommendations related to the treatment of mixed (personal and non-personal) data sets, explore standardisation approaches to AI and data formats, and work with SMEs to analyse the practical implementation of ethical AI, e.g. via standards, quality criteria, certification and labelling.
The researcher will be enrolled in the PhD programme at the TU Dublin and guided by two outstanding academic advisors. Within DIGITAL SME, the researcher will closely work with Senior Policy Manager Annika Linck, who is coordinating DIGITAL SME’s Focus Group on AI and overseeing our policy work on AI.
DIGITAL SME’s role: building bridges between CISC and the industry, with the Focus Group on AI
Besides hiring and co-mentoring the researcher, DIGITAL SME will also lead CISC’s scientific dissemination, communication and exploitation activities. It will be responsible for the project’s wide outreach to the science community and industry, as well as for the preparation of the exploitation plan for the technical solutions developed during the project.
This 48-month-long endeavour is part of DIGITAL SME’s focus on AI as a key technology for the competitiveness of Europe’s digital economy. To empower Europe in becoming a true leader, more than 100 AI innovators from across Europe have been gathered and now work within the Focus Group on AI. DIGITAL SME looks forward to this new project to promote European values through a strong, human-centric approach to AI. Together with the partners and Focus Group’s members, we seek to propel the EU to the front of the AI-race by facilitating skills and knowledge transfer, and by bringing together AI research with industrial applications. Learn more about CISC here.
[1] OECD (2019) Measuring the Digital Transformation: a Roadmap for the Future. https://www.oecd.org/publications/measuring-the-digital-transformation-9789264311992-en.htm
[2] Correia and Reyes (2020) AI research and innovation: Europe paving its own way. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/2f4dea95-288c-11eb-9d7e-01aa75ed71a1/
DIGITAL SME’s Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence and Working Group (WG) Standards are organising the workshop “AI-standardisation landscape & the role of Digital Innovation Hubs” on 18 February 2021, 09.30-11.00 CET. The workshop is an invitation-only event for DIGITAL SME members and selected stakeholders from the European institutions, the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) network, and other organisations.
This hands-on workshop will provide SMEs and other interested stakeholders with an overview of Europe’s standardisation landscape in AI. We will present companies with the opportunity to discuss how their business can benefit from AI standards, and how they could get involved in standardisation organisations.
In the new Digital Europe Programme, it will be the role of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) to help support the uptake of future technologies such as AI among SMEs. However, DIHs will also support technology frontrunners, such as AI innovators. Therefore, this workshop extends to DIHs from across Europe to allow for the development of a network to support DIHs in helping to advance Europe’s digital transformation.
This effort is part of DIGITAL SME’s focus on AI as a key technology for the competitiveness of Europe’s digital economy. To stop Europe from falling behind, DIGITAL SME has taken a leadership role in AI for SMEs, gathering more than 100 AI innovators in the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (a joint effort with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre). Although Europe is considered a global leader in AI academic research and champion of a human-centric approach to AI, it lags behind the US and China when it comes to the industrial applications of its scientific achievements. SMEs need to better understand the standardisation landscape and how to get involved in it when it comes to AI applications. This is where Working Group STANDARDS comes in. WG ST is the place-to-be for all things standardisation & SMEs. As the leader of Small Business Standards’ ICT approach, DIGITAL SME has created WG ST as a forum for SME experts from all around Europe to decisively shape the standardisation process and make it accessible for SMEs.
| 9.30 – 9.40 | Welcome |
| 9.40 – 10.30 | Overview of the AI standardisation landscape
Dr. Stefano Nativi, Big Data Lead Scientist at the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Lindsay Frost, Chief Standardisation Engineer at NEC Laboratories Europe, Board member of ETSI, ETSI OCG AI Chair, ETSI ISG CIM Chair Prof. Stelian Brad, Professor at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca & President of Cluj IT Cluster |
| 10.30 – 10.55 | Discussion with the SME Focus Group on AI
Moderated by DIGITAL SME |
| 10.55 – 11.00 | Closing & next steps |
This is an invitation-only event for members of our Working Groups and selected stakeholders from European institutions and European Digital Innovation Hubs. You can apply to join our WGs here. If you think you should have been invited but haven’t received an invitation, please contact Annika Linck (a.linck@digitalsme.eu)
If you would like to receive news about these types of events and receive access to meeting recordings and documents, you can create an account at digitalsme.eu and subscribe to our newsletter and email updates where we will inform you about subscriber-only content.
DIGITAL SME Live Workshop
What does the new Data Governance Act mean for SMEs?
Discussion with the DIGITAL SME Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
20 January 2021, 9.00 – 10.30 CET
Access to data is one of the key hurdles to AI adoption and development. This was a key finding of the first survey among the SMEs in the DIGITAL SME Focus Group on AI – Data is a key ingredient for many AI models and technologies, but especially SMEs lack access to this data to develop innovative solutions.
The European Commission has published a Proposal for a regulation on European data governance (Data Governance Act). With the Data Governance Act, the EU Commission wants to create a framework that will allow Europe to become a leading data economy, especially for industrial data. The aim is to create a “smooth market for data”, explained the Vice President responsible for digital. The Data Governance Act is part of a wider European Data Strategy, which will be complemented by a Data Act that will govern access to data in B2B relationships. However, the Data Governance Act already sets the ground for re-use in particular of public sector data and the sharing of personal and non-personal data. Here, the proposal aims at lowering transaction costs linked to B2B and C2B data sharing by implementing a framework to establish data intermediaries. Further, it introduces and promotes the notion of “Data altruism”: allowing data use by individuals or companies for the common good. Executive Vice President Vestager stated that it “is all about providing a safe environment for those who wish to share data”. The Act also plans for the creation of an expert group, the ‘European Data Innovation Board’ which will work on best practices by Member States’ authorities. This Board will also advise the Commission on the governance of cross-sectoral standardisation.
Against this background, this workshop will allow AI-developing SMEs and the wider DIGITAL SME network to better understand the proposed piece of legislation and the EU’s strategy for data. In an informal exchange, members of the SME Focus Group on AI and of DIGITAL SME, can ask for clarifications about the proposal and bring their critical feedback to the attention of the European Commission.
Agenda
| 9.00 – 9.10 | Welcome |
| 9.10 – 9.30 | Outline of the EU’s Data Governance Act
Malte Beyer-Katzenberger, Policy Officer at European Commission, DG CNECT |
| 9.30 – 10.15 | Discussion with the SME Focus Group on AI
Moderated by DIGITAL SME |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Closing remarks |
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