Edward Curry is the Established Professor of Data Science and Director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at University of Galway, Ireland. Edward has contributed to the foundations of data spaces with contributions to semantics, knowledge graphs, incremental data management, data governance, and multimodal processing. Edward is co-founder and elected Vice President of the Big Data Value Association, an industry-led European big data community.
Simon Scerri has over 15 years of research experience exploring Knowledge Graph methodologies and applications, with the objective of strengthening and diversifying Data Value Chains to realise various data infrastructures. Currently, Simon fulfils the role of a senior technical consultant at metaphacts GmbH, Germany. Previously, Simon fronted the Knowledge Graph competency area at the Enterprise Information Systems department in Fraunhofer IAIS.
Tuomo Tuikka is the Lead of Data Space Solutions at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is involved in many European and national research and innovation activities especially on data spaces, data infrastructures, big data, and artificial intelligence. Tuomo is a member of the Board of the Big Data Value Association, the Gaia-X Finland hub steering group, and leads the data analytics spearhead program at the city of Oulu.