Justine
Ottevaere
Justine Ottevaere
Ecosystem Manager - Smart Data
Kortrijk | Belgium
Biography
Justine is known as a bridge builder and as a listener. In the past she worked for a local government, the city of Ghent, on local and EU-funded smart city projects. She currently works for Flanders Digital Agency as an ecosystem manager for Smart Data on OSLO-standards and LDES-standards. There she works on a community of public and private stakeholders and focuses on interoperability between and for different organisations, systems and across domains. In her role she contributes to the development of data spaces in Flanders and beyond.
Speaker session
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
Alessandro Paciaroni
Research Associate
Tallinn | Estonia
Biography
Alessandro Paciaroni is a research associate at the Lisbon Council where he leads activities of research and advocacy on digital transformation, public sector innovation and data across various projects. He previously contributed to lay down the groundwork for the development of a digital infrastructure for a circular economy at TEXRoad and assisted the research on AI policy at the Future of Life Institute. He holds a master's degree in public sector innovation and e-governance from KU Leuven, the University of Münster and the Tallinn University of Technology.
Speaker session
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
Matthias Palmér
CTO and Co-founder
Stockholm | Sweden
Biography
Matthias Palmér is the cofounder and CTO of MetaSolutions, a company specialising in linked data technologies and most prominently the open source platform EntryScape. Matthias is also a consultant for the Swedish agency for digital government. For the last ten years Matthias has been the maintainer DCAT-AP-SE, i.e. the Swedish profile of DCAT-AP. He has also supported other national adaptions as well as been involved in the community and development of DCAT-AP itself.
Matthias has a PhD in media technology with focus on Linked Data, Semantic Web, and Web Architecture. He specialised in combining Linked Data with RESTful Ajax Web Applications. Matthias is also a developer and is maintaining a range of libraries in JavaScript for working with RDF, both user interfaces like RDForms and harvesting solutions for data catalogues from various source, e.g. harvesting INSPIRE into GeoDCAT-AP.
Matthias is responsible for the harvesting infrastructure for data catalogues in Sweden and is currently participating in the development of LDES as a more capable and stable solution for this. Matthias is also currently involved in initiatives around how to foster interoperability in a more structured manner by reusing parts of information models in the form of vocabularies, terminologies and application profiles.
Speaker session
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
Workshop for early-career researchers - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
In this workshop, we will explore the forefront of digital government and interoperability research at our workshop dedicated to early-career researchers. Co-organized by the Belgian Presidency, Digital Flanders, the Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s FreshMind initiative, and the Interoperable Europe Academy, this workshop offers a platform for PhD candidates and early post-docs to showcase their research, receive valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts and peers.
Participants will explore topics such as cross-border interoperability, digital governance, data-driven policymaking, and emerging technologies in the public sector.
The event includes expert panel discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing interoperable public services and digital-ready administrations.
Moderators:
- Reinhard Laroy, Digital Vlaanderen
- Alina Maria BREBENEL, Programme Manager, Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, EC
- JRC
- Paula Rodriguez Mueller - Scientific project officer, Digital economy JRC, European Commission
- Sven Schade - Scientific project leader, Digital economy, Digital economy JRC, European Commission