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July 4, 2023

Climate Services @ Data Week Leipzig

Climate Services using Open Data & Open API Standards

From June 26 to June 30, 2023, the second Data Week took place in the historic New City Hall in Leipzig, Germany. The main theme of the conference was urban development and planning. On Monday, the presentations and keynotes focused on the European Green Deal projects and Data Cubes as a digital data resource to create a geospatial ecosystem for Europe. Tuesday’s focus was on FAIR data, various urban planning topics and different data spaces such as agriculture, biodiversity and climate. 52°North’s Johannes Schnell opened the Climate Data Space panel with a presentation of current projects. Wednesday evolved around AI and the need for semantics when providing data to make it machine readable and processable. The last two days were dedicated to workshops and discussions on sustainability and reproducibility of AI.

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June 29, 2023

Data Week Leipzig 2023

Forum for Data and AI Enthusiasts in Leipzig

Data Week Leipzig 2923 takes place from June 26 – 30, 2023 in Leipzig, Germany. It offers a week-long program of events focusing on data, digitalization, artificial intelligence and urban development challenges. 52°North’s Johannes Schnell gives an insight into two EU projects – I-CISK and DIRECTED – that are developing climate services based on Open Data.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Data Spaces: Climate
Concepts, Blueprints and technical solutions for data management with climate related topics

10:50 – 12:10 | Ratsplenarsaal | English

Chair: Dr. Nils Hempelmann (OGC)

_ Johannes Schnell: Projects of 52N – Climate Services using Open Data & Open API Standards

_ Dr. Nils Hempelmann (OGC): Climate Intelligence (CLINT project) – AI enhanced Climate Services

_ Timm Drapper (Laubwerk): 3D visualisation of vegetation

_ Suzana Blesic: CLIMOS – Data for Climate and Health

_ Guy Schumann: Climate resilience information systems – findings of the OGC climate resilience pilot

June 21, 2023

IZG Summer Program 2023

Exciting presentations and practical hands-on workshops at the Interdisciplinary Center for Geoiformation (IZG) in Bochum

Ben Gräler opens the summer program with his presentation “Turning Data through Models into Information for improved Climate Change Adaptation”. He presents current work in the DIRECTED and I-CISK projects. Both projects aim to >develop user-centered local Climate Services and to foster disaster-resilient European societies.

May 16, 2023

Geospatial World Forum 2023

Geospatial Caravan – Embracing One and All

This year’s Geospatial World Forum was held in Rotterdam during the first week of May. Traditionally, the General Board Meeting (GBM) of the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI) takes place during this international conference. As a member of the German Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (DDGI), Benedikt Gräler (52°North General Manager and Head of Research) attended the GBM as DDGI’s European delegate. In addition to the regular business of a GBM, EUROGI also signed an MoU with EuroGeographics to cooperate in promoting the use of geospatial data [1]. Ben was also part of an EUROGI discussion panel on the topic of current advances in AI for geospatial application. The discussion focused on what future developments might look like, building on the capabilities of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT.

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