The European Data Forum 2013 in Dublin will start in about 24 hours from now, thereby the final preparations are taking place and participants are starting their travel from all over Europe to the capital of Ireland to discuss the challenges, potentials and solutions for big data and data management the coming 2 days at the Croke Park conference centre in Dublin!

Just to mention a few highlights of EDF2013

Opening Video Message by Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of the Digital Agenda.

European Data Innovator Award (Presentation), Day 1 (9.4.2013) from 09.30 to 10.00am in main conference room, http://bit.ly/YOlm0X

EDF2013 Executive Panel on Big Data with six outstanding speakers, Day 1 (9.4.2013) from 10.00 to 11.00am in main conference room, Details: http://2013.data-forum.eu/edf2013-executive-panel-big-data

Keynote talks about (big) data issues by representatives of the European, Commission, Science Foundation Ireland, Daimler, Telefonica Digital, SAP, Statoil, Siemens, and many more.

Exhibition Space on Day 2 (10 April 2013) including a 'Demo and Product, Session': on Day 2 (10 April 2013) 12.00 - 14.00pm in the Exhibition Space

Two days of high level presentations, discussions, intense networking, possibilities and knowledge exchange with more then 40 speakers, 2 panels, 3 side track tutorials and 300+ participants.

As follows some final information for participants and interested people that cannot join in on site:

Final Programme on the website

Final Programme PDF version

Live Streaming of the main track

Information about parking on site

EDF2013 Facts

What: European Data Forum 2013 (EDF2013)
Where: Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin, Ireland
When: April 9 to 10, 2013
More Information: http://2013.data-forum.eu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EUDataForum
Hashtag: #EDF_13
LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/European-Data-Forum-4356346