Background Resources for the Bergamo event

Welcome to the European Cloud Accelerator Workshop – Bergamo 2025

After our energizing workshop in Milan, we are thrilled to welcome you to the next gathering of the European Cloud Accelerator (ECA) community. This time, we will meet at Aruba’s Global Datacenter headquarters in Bergamo, Italy, on Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 October 2025.

The mission of the ECA remains clear: to make trusted, sovereign, and interoperable data sharing a practical reality for European industry. In Bergamo, we will move from concepts to deployments – connecting business leaders, engineers, and standards bodies under one roof.

What to Expect

• Business Track: Perspectives from IDC on the data economy, fireside discussions with BMW, Catena-X, Manufacturing-X, OPC Foundation, and other industry leaders.
• Technical Track: Deep dives on Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC), multi-tenancy, industrial data planes, OPC UA/AAS integration, and DevOps tooling.
• Hands-on Sessions: Fulcrum, Liqo, Radius and multi-cloud deployment patterns.
• Networking Dinner: An opportunity to connect with peers in Bergamo (sponsored by Microsoft).
• Aruba Datacenter Tour: Guided visit of the Bergamo campus.

The detailed agenda is available here.

Prepare & Stay Informed

To make the most of the workshop:

1. Pre-read material is available in our resources section and includes reports, studies, and partner contributions.
2. A YouTube video playlist of short introductions and context is also available:
   👉 Pre-Read Playlist on YouTube
3. If you missed the Milan sessions, you can revisit all slide decks, recordings, and take-aways here.

Why You Should Attend

• See real deployments – partners will demonstrate EDC in production.
• Meet the ecosystem – standards bodies, consortia, and cloud providers aligning on Data Act compliance.
• Shape the roadmap – your input will guide the next iterations of open-source dataspace components.

We look forward to building on the momentum from Milan and working together in Bergamo to take the European Cloud Accelerator one step further.

See you in Bergamo!

Kind regards,
The European Cloud Accelerator Organizing Team
(on behalf of Aruba, Metaform, Microsoft, and community partners)