ECA Workshop – Bergamo 2025 Recap
Dear Workshop Participants,
On behalf of the organizing team and our gracious host Aruba.it, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your active participation in the European Cloud Accelerator (ECA) Workshop, held in Bergamo, Italy, on October 6–7, 2025.
Your engagement, insightful discussions, and collaborative spirit made this event a true success.
Workshop Recap
The workshop was designed to foster both technical innovation and strategic business development, providing opportunities for both developer-focused and business-focused participants to collaborate and exchange ideas.
Business Track Summary
The Business Track, guided by the ECA Workshop Plenary, focused on the vision and foundational objectives of the European Cloud Accelerator (ECA).
Key highlights included:
- Introduction to the ECA as an open-source technology development project, emphasizing Trusted Data Sharing as a Service to enable cost-effective, enterprise-scale solutions.
- Recognition of six primary stakeholder groups: cloud service providers, manufacturers, suppliers, dataspace associations, trust framework providers, and governments.
- Review of the evolution of dataspaces in Europe, the importance of the EU Data Act, and Microsoft’s role in supporting European competitiveness.
- IDC presentation on the Total Addressable Market for dataspaces in the manufacturing sector.
- Discussion on new business opportunities for European cloud providers in regulatory-driven, decentralized supply chains.
- Exploration of the open ecosystem approach leveraging open-source software (Eclipse Dataspace Working Group), open standards (W3C, ISO/IEC, CEN/CENELEC), and collaboration with CISPE, Gaia-X, IDSA, and iShare.
- Overview of current Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC), multi-tenant solutions, SDKs for industry-specific data planes, and Dataspace-as-a-Service initiatives.
Technical Track Summary
The Technical Track explored the architecture, deployment, and operations of Hosted Dataspace Services (HDS), focusing on enabling SMEs to participate in dataspaces with minimal technical overhead.
Highlights included:
- Development of an HDS Architecture Blueprint for multi-tenant industrial dataspaces.
- Breakout sessions refining architecture, governance, onboarding, and process flows.
- Exploration of tenant management, automated provisioning, and Decentralized Claims Protocol (DCP).
- Hands-on sessions using the Eclipse Data Plane SDK, based on OPC UA and Asset Administration Shell models.
- Demonstrations from Aruba and Opiquad showing EDC component deployment in various cloud environments and white-label onboarding processes.
Technical Decision Maker Track Summary
This track focused on standardization, interoperability, and large-scale deployment of dataspaces and trust frameworks.
Key topics included:
- The IDSA Dataspace Manifesto and the vision for trusted data sharing.
- Insights from the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) on building a global dataspace ecosystem.
- Demonstration of the iShare Trust Framework enabling contractual trust in data sharing.
- Updates on ISO/IEC, CEN/CENELEC, and ETSI standardization efforts, including ISO/IEC 20151 – Characteristics of Dataspaces and CEN/CENELEC JTC 25 for EU Data Act compliance.
- Introduction to FAIR Data Objects (FDOs) supporting Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data.
- Presentation of the Decade-X aerospace supply chain project by Airbus.
- A round-table discussion on the intersection of AI and Dataspaces, envisioning decentralized, trusted access control for data, compute, AI agents, and physical assets.
Final Thoughts & Next Steps
The workshop underscored our collective commitment to open, scalable, and interoperable data sharing infrastructures across Europe.
Your contributions have laid a strong foundation for ongoing collaboration and innovation within the ECA initiative.
We encourage you to:
- Stay engaged with working groups
- Continue sharing insights
- Follow upcoming communications for materials, recordings, and next steps
Resources
Thank you once again for your invaluable participation and for making the ECA Workshop a resounding success.
Best regards,
The ECA Workshop Organizing Team
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