Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS), an organisation initiated to support secondary use of public sector data will host its inaugural launch event and the first edition of the Data Summit Luxembourg, on Monday 4th December 2023 at the European Convention Center Luxembourg. The events will feature presentations and demonstrations of value creation from public sector data, keynotes about national and European level involvement, as well as a possibility to get to know the services of LNDS first-hand.

Supporting public and private sector organisations to re-use data, LNDS’s objective is to make data more accessible, faster, in order to solve data challenges together and in the most compliant and trustable way. The full control of data remains with the data provider. LNDS strives for a positive impact though data: for society, the economy, and the environment.

According to the Minister for Research and Higher Education and Minister for Digitalisation, Stéphanie Obertin:

“LNDS is created by the Luxembourg government, to implement national strategies in research, innovation, and digitalisation. We expect LNDS to make impact here locally in Luxembourg, and we expect LNDS to participate in the international economy, supporting European data spaces, and creating export opportunities for the Luxembourgish innovation and research ecosystem.”

The Launch event and the first Data Summit Luxembourg event are open to the public and free of charge, but require registration. 

In the words of the CEO of LNDS, Bert Verdonck:

“Our mission, is to support research, innovation, and policy making with high quality data. Our purpose, is to enable value creation with data, for both public research and private actors. This year’s Data Summit Luxembourg is the first of many. We aim to evolve it into an annual, signature event for local and international participants, to become the ultimate learning event for data sharing and analysis.”

In combination with the LNDS Launch Event and the first edition of Data Summit Luxembourg, the event “Schengen-X” will be co-organised by five Gaia-X hubs from 4 to 5 December 2023. Schengen-X is a regional event that corresponds with the Schengen Agreement’s founding members, aiming to explore the Gaia-X framework and its application in various cross-border use cases.

Registration for the events and the complete programme are available on the event website.