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#OpenBelgium22 on 29 April 2022
Open Belgium is an annual community event, where we make Belgian
knowledge open, usable, useful and used.
Join us to discuss the future of
Open, Privacy and Trust in Belgium in 2022 -
live at “De Krook” in Ghent.
Plenary Sessions
De Blauwe Vogel (-1)
09:30 - 10:00
Registration & Welcome coffee
10:00 - 11:30
Master of Ceremony
Bart Rosseau | Head of data & Information, Stad Gent
Opening: The importance and state of global open data (30min)
Renata Avilá | CEO Open Knowledge International
MyData for a fair, sustainable, and prosperous society (30min)
Viivi Lähteenoja | Chair MyData Global
Coffee break (15min)
11:30 - 13:00
Privacy-friendly open source authentication & signing with IRMA
(30min)
Prof. Bart Jacobs | Professor of Security, Privacy and Identity
Solid: Your data, your choice. (30min)
Prof. Ruben Verborgh | Professor of Decentralized Web technology
Building a crowd you can trust with Visit Flanders and
OpenStreetMap (30min)
Jos Pyck | Project Manager Pin je punt, Toerisme Vlaanderen
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch & networking break (60min)
Side aisle Krookcafé (0)
Afternoon Workshops
De Laatkomer (+1)
14:00 - 14:30
Prepare to code, Open brainstorm session (30min)
Bart Hanssens | Data.gov.be maintainer, FPS BOSA DG DT
14:30 - 15:00
Crowdsourcing data with
Pieter Vander Vennet | Lead developer MapComplete
15:00 - 15:30
Building trust in government information by building a
constellation of linked open data sources (30min)
Veronique Volders | Digital Solution Manager, Flemish Agency for
Home Affairs
15:30 - 16:30
Open Science strenghtens research in society more than ever?
(30min)
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh | Open Science expert, Ghent University
Library
Open Science Data Publishing with RO-Crate and git (30min)
Marc Portier | Open Science Team Lead, VLIZ vzw
OpenStreetMap Track
De Blauwe Vogel - OSM booth (-1)
15:00 - 15:15
Hiking.osm.be, a new paper maps offer based on OpenStreetMap
(15min)
Julien Minet | Developer & cartographer,Champs-Libres.coop
15:15 - 15:30
OpenStreetMap goes professional (15min)
Joost Schouppe | OpenStreetMap Belgium
15:30 - 15:45
Creating open streetlevel imagery (15min)
Joost Schouppe | OpenStreetMap Belgium
15:45 - 16:00
Better data for all by combining OpenStreetMap and government data
management: Road Completion (15min)
Seppe Santens | OpenStreetMap Belgium
Afternoon Demos
De Blauwe Vogel (-1)
14:00 - 17:00
Open Data Bike Ride: Collections of Ghent
Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Personal data mining, privacy and consent: Challenges and
opportunities in a world of decentralized personal data stores
Philippe Duchesne | Technical Lead at Datavillage
European Data Protection Supervisor and FOSS - Demo the website
evidence collector
Dr. Robert Riemann | Technology and Privacy Officer, European
Data Protection Supervisor
Kennismarkt Kenniscentrum Data & Maatschappij
Pieter Duysburgh | Operational Lead Kenniscentrum
14:00 - 15:00
The current state of the LBLOD eco-system (60min)
Veronique Volders | Digital Solution Manager at Agentschap
Binnenlands Bestuur
15:00 - 16:00
Unite for democracy - Tailormade notifications from your local
government with lokaalbeslist.be (60min)
Aad Versteden | Co-founder of redpencil.io and acting CEO of
redpencil.io and ipfs-search.com.
16:00 - 17:00
Patrimonial Documentation' opendata ambitions (60min)
Benoît Fricheteau | Metadata expert, FDS Finance
Afternoon debates
De Blauwe Vogel (-1)
14:00 - 15:00
"Asking ourselves the right questions on Open Privacy and Trust - a
facilitated debate with our keynote speakers and the community "
Starting form question from the audience, this pannel discussion
with the keynote speakers will evolve to an open, structured debate
around Open Privacy and Trust in which everyone can participate
equally.
Manuel Claeys Bouuaert
16:00 - 17:00
"How do we go forward with Open Privacy and Trust? - a facilitated
debate"
Manuel Claeys Bouuaert
We can’t wait to connect live again during our next event and feel the
energy. If you can’t make it, we will live-stream our talks.
Bart Rosseau
Chief Data Officer at Stad Gent
Renata Ávila
CEO Open Knowledge Foundation
Viivi Lähteenoja
Chair MyData Global
Bart Jacobs
Professor of Security, Privacy and Identity
Ruben Verborgh
Professor of Decentralized Web technology
Jos Pyck
Project Manager for Pin je punt at Toerisme Vlaanderen
Veronique Volders
Digital Solution Manager at Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur
Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Innovation Lead at District09
Jeroen Budts
Open Source consultant Inuits & Dev lead Collections of Ghent
Pieter Vander Vennet
Lead developer for MapComplete
Joost Schouppe
OpenStreetMap Belgium
Julien Minet
OpenStreetMap Belgium
Seppe Santens
OpenStreetMap Belgium
Bart Hanssens
FOD/SPF BOSA
Marc Portier
Open Science Team Lead, VLIZ
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh
Open Science expert, Ghent University
Philippe Duchesne
Technical Lead, Datavillage
Dr. Robert Riemann
Technology and Privacy Officer, European Data Protection Supervisor
Rob Heyman
Coordinator, Knowledge Centre Data & Society
Gwen Franck
Communications and Events lead, Knowledge Centre Data & Society
Niels Vandekeybus
Web Architect at redpencil.io
Robbe Van Herck
Student Ghent University, redpencil.io
Manuel Claeys Bouuaert
Facilitator and freelance data-scientist
