The 2nd day of the European Data Forum 2013 in Dublin, Ireland started with a very interesting keynote talk by Knut Sebastian Tungland (Chief Engineer IT at Statoil) giving insights about the challenges that Statoil are facing when working at the bottom of the sea and how the understanding of the available data can help to work more efficiently and how to avoid accidents for humans as well as for the nature.

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!

The European Data Forum (EDF) is a regularly scheduled (yearly) meeting place for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. These aspects have both a technical (in terms of technology and infrastructure needed to master the volumes, heterogeneity, and dynamicity of Big Data), and a socio-economic component (speaking about emerging types of products and services and their commercialization, innovation and business models, but also policies and regulations).