SEMIC 2022: Opening & Keynote

SEMIC is the annual semantic #interoperability conference of the European Commission. It is organised by the Interoperability Unit of DG DIGIT in cooperation with the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

SEMIC 2022 took place on the 6th of December in Brussels, Belgium. The theme was "Data spaces in an Interoperable Europe".

The event attracted nearly 400 people in person and over 700 who joined the live stream from 60 countries.

In this recording you can watch:

Opening:
Introduction by Master of Ceremony, Dave Keating
Opening speech by the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn
Opening speech by the advisor to the Czech Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation of the Czech Republic Ondrej Profant
Outline of the day – General Directors of DIGIT & OP
Hilde Hardeman, Director-General of EU Publications Office (OP)
Veronica Gaffey, Director-General “Informatics” (DG DIGIT)

Keynote:
Building trust across the public & private sector: Insights on interoperability from Klaus Ottradovetz, Distinguished Expert Cloud & IoT, Atos & David Scuderi, Data EcoSystems - Public Sector Lead, Amazon
Moderated by Leontina Sandu, Head of Interoperability Unit, DG DIGIT