Agenda

European Cloud Accelerator Workshop Agenda

📍 Milan – June 4–5, 2025

🗓 Wednesday, June 4

⏰ 10:00 — Welcome / Introductions / Session Objectives

Presenter: Alexis

• Kick-off meeting
• Get alignment on goals for the two-day workshop

⏰ 10:30 — European Cloud Accelerator Overview / Update

Presenter: Babak — 30 min

• Why we gathered: engineering-focused collaboration on B2B data sharing across Europe
• Align efforts that benefit all dataspace-related initiatives
• Address EU industrial data sharing regulations and digital sovereignty needs

⏰ 11:00 — Keynote: Prof. Boris Otto (Fraunhofer)

Presenter: Boris Otto (remote) — 15–20 min

• Father of data spaces
• Insights into foundational architecture and policy underpinnings

⏰ 11:20 — Intro to Dataspaces and Feedback Solicitation

Presenter: Eric Samson — 15–20 min

• General data sharing concepts
• LLM & multi-agent orchestration
• New MCP protocol
• (NATO deck referenced)

⏰ 11:40 — ☕ BREAK

⏰ 11:50 — Partner Presentations

Moderator: Eric — 1h 25min

• 11:50 — Catena-X — Thomas Obermeyer
• 12:10 —
  • Manufacturing-X — Thomas Hahn (remote)
  • OPC Foundation & Cloud Initiative — Stefan Hoppe (in-person)
    • Includes reference architectures and OPCF-Cloud materials
• 12:40 — Standardization Track: ISO & CEN/CENELEC — Sebastian (20 min)
• 1:00 — iSHARE Trust Framework — Rajiv (in-person) (15 min)

⏰ 1:15 — 🍽 Lunch

⏰ 2:00 — Industrial Data Sharing Scenarios & Feedback

Presenter: Erich — 40 min

• Technologies enabling standardized data sharing
• Use cases:
  • Carbon footprint reporting
  • EU Digital Product Passport
  • Supply chain resilience
• Covers Data Act (Chapters 2 and 3) obligations

⏰ 2:40 — ☕ Coffee Break

⏰ 2:50 — Cloud Partners and Early Adopters

Hosts: Babak, Alexis | Moderator: TBD

• Aruba presentation: LING and ArubaKube — Marco Mangiulli
• Opiquad / Fulcrum marketplace — Jim arranging
• Outreach to CISPE members on topics like:
  • EDC deployment, beta testing, billing, UI/UX
  • Cloud provider needs (e.g., carbon reporting, DPPs)
  • Open-source collaboration
  • Technical trade-offs: multi-tenant vs. single-tenant, Java vs. C#, pluggable architecture

⏰ 6:00 — END OF DAY 1 & Group Dinner

🗓 Thursday, June 5

⏰ 10:00 — Welcome / Recap of Day 1 & Day 2 Objectives

Presenter: Alexis/Babak — 10 min

• Align on objectives and action items

⏰ 10:15 — Technical Deep Dive

Presenters: Jim, Erich, Paul L., Babak — 2.5 hours

• EDC evolution demo (Erich + Paul)
• Component definitions (Jim)
• Docker-based live demo
  • Control plane
  • Industrial data plane
• Trust frameworks overview
• Q&A and technical feedback

⏰ 12:30 — Fulcrum / Opiquad Presentation

Duration: 30 min

• Deployment architecture and marketplace functionality

⏰ 1:00 — 🍽 Lunch

⏰ 2:00 — Project Deliverables / Commitments / Timelines

Presenters: Jim, Erich — 1 hour

• Roadmap discussion:
  • EDC Control Plane
  • Industrial Data Plane
  • Multi-tenancy for smaller participants
  • OSS community engagement
  • Future demo deliverables and ownership

⏰ 3:00 — Partner Asks / Wrap-up / Next Steps

Presenter: Babak — 1–2 hours

• Alignment on:
  • Admin tools
  • Partner requirements
  • Engagement and contribution process
  • Deployment and UX needs
  • Industry-specific models
• Confirm next meeting or working session

⏰ 3:30 — END OF DAY 2