GAIA-X, the European data infrastructure project set up by France and Germany during 2019 was the subject of two plenary sessions in 2021 in the framework of the French GAIA-X Hub. The third plenary session will take place on Thursday 23 September, with the presence of Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital Transition and Electronic Communications, among others.

Two plenary sessions in the framework of the French GAIA-X Hub

The scope of the national hubs is part of the third phase of the GAIA-X project, whose ambition is to create data spaces and industrial platforms that will support the development of the initiative. In Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France, each national hub is in charge of the development of data spaces with sectorial working groups in order to meet the needs of European companies by creating use cases explaining the challenges of the European cloud infrastructure project.

Two plenary sessions were organised by the French GAIA-X Hub:

• The first one, on January 22, 2021, was initiated by Cigref, the Directorate General for Business, the Academy of Technologies, Systematic, and of course, the GAIA-X association. Nearly 1,000 participants were able to learn more about the Franco-German initiative with a view to developing the involvement of French companies in the project. This first session was an opportunity to present all of these data spaces and to take stock of the work already underway. The French GAIA-X Hub took advantage of the event to invite all players interested in the initiative to come forward.
• The second one, on May 7, 2021, allowed the whole French GAIA-X ecosystem to discover the progress made by the sectorial working groups launched after the first session. A second call to join the movement for all stakeholders was made.

A third session organized on September 23: keynotes, round table, progress of work

On September 23, 2021, between 9am and 12pm, the third plenary session of the French GAIX-X Hub will take place in the presence of Cédric O, Secretary of State in charge of Digital Transition and Electronic Communications who will be the speaker for the opening keynote. Find below the program of this session:

• Opening keynote by Cédric O
• Update on GAIA-X – Organisation, objectives, timetable by Hubert Tardieu, Chairman of the GAIA-X Board and Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO of GAIA-X
• Keynote – Presentation of the new steering committee & hub news by Bernard Duverneuil, President of Cigref and CDIO of Elior Group
• Round Table – Success Stories (Thanks to data sharing funding) with Sébastien Picardat, CEO and Managing Director of Agdatahub, Karel Bourgois, President of the Voice Lab, founder of Voxist and CEO of Slatchapp, and Katya Lainé, Vice President of the Voice Lab, CEO and co-founder of Kwalys
• Update on the progress of the sectoral working groups (roadmap and needs for the coming months) with :
  • Patrick Laurens-Frings (Finance working group), Director of Information Systems at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations,
  • Laurent Treluyer (health working group), Director of Information Systems at AP-HP and Cigref administrator,
  • Élise Bordet (health working group), real world data and analytics lead at Sanofi,
  • Jean-Marc Bournigal (agriculture working group), Managing Director of SEMAE,
  • Claudio Cimelli (education and skills working group), Project Director, Strategy and Partnerships Department, Digital Education Directorate
  • Gérard Guinamand (green deal working group), group chief data officer for Engie
  • Marie Ramon-Daré (green deal working group), design and innovation project manager at Ecolab
  • Catherine Jestin (aerospace industry working group), chief information officer at Airbus
  • Martine Gourier (energy working group), Director of digital uses at EDF
  • Sylvain d’Hoine (space working group), executive VP SPACE – CS Group
  • Jean-François Cases (mobility working group), Director of Amadeus SAS and Amadeus Group IP
  • Véronique Demilly (cultural and creative industries group), external collaborations delegate for France Télévisions
  • Olivier Dauré (maritime working group), Chief Data Officer at Naval Group
  • Pierre Faure (smart manufacturing working group), President of AFNeT
  • Ahmed Jerraya (smart manufacturing working group), researcher at CEA
• Question and answer session

Translated from Troisième session plénière du Hub France de GAIA-X le 23 septembre