November 25, 2025
From 12–14 November 2025, the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) gathered in Copenhagen industry leaders, researchers, business developers, policy-makers and innovators from across Europe and beyond to exchange knowledge, foster collaboration, advance policy actions and industrial and research activities, shaping Europe’s digital future.
IIT Researcher Dr Denia Kanellopoulou participated in EBDVF 2025, while representing the PHAROS AI Factory project and spoke about AI Factories, Data Labs and Data Spaces interplay.
Furthermore, Dr Kanellopoulou presented the one-stop-shop service delivery strategy of PHAROS AI Factory that aims to ensure a smooth end-to-end customer journey, and highlighted the key data-related contributions of PHAROS across the three focus pillars, i.e. access to national Health Datasets, creation of Dataspaces for the Greek Language and Cultural Heritage and production of harmonised Datasets for Sustainability applications. Lastly, Dr Kanellopoulou emphasised the value of data-related synergies at national, European and International level that will be catalysed through the PHAROS networking and collaboration activities.
The theme of EBDVF 2025, Empowering Europe’s Future with AI and Data, highlights Europe’s ambition to harness data and artificial intelligence. Data and AI are a key driver of economic growth, competitiveness and innovation, delivering tangible benefits such as better healthcare, cleaner and safer transport, new products and services and progress in sustainability and energy efficiency, which can reinforce Europe’s position in the global data economy. Organised by Big Data Value Association (BDVA) in collaboration with DTU – Technical University of Denmark and SDU – University of Southern Denmark, this flagship event is the premier event of Europe’s data and AI industry-driven research and innovation community.
Therefore, the EBDVF programme covered topics within the European Data and AI ecosystem in over 40 sessions, touching on the present and future of Industrial AI in Europe, and how AI Factories and Gigafactories will revolutionise our continent, learning more about their value offer.
