Keynotes

A keynote will open the conference program in the morning. Contributed papers in two parallel tracks will be presented in the late morning and the afternoon. The conference dinner will take place in the evening.

First Conference Day – Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Tampere University – City Centre Campus / Building Pinni B

The keynote speech will be held by Marja Rantala, Director of Development in Statistics Finland. Her presentation addresses the topic:

Information management development and challenges of interoperability – Do we focus on the right things while working with metadata and standards?

Marja is working as a Director of Development and Director of Standards and Methods Unit in Statistics Finland during the year 2019. Standards and Methods Unit consists of Metadata Services, Research Services and Methodology department.

Her permanent role is to work as a Deputy Director General in charge of ICT Services for the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences and Business Administration (MBA) and also a higher degree in Archiving.

Marja has worked her whole career in expert and management duties around information management, ICT Services and archiving. Last 16 years she has been working as a director in NLS and involved in numerous programs developing information management inside public administration.

Second Conference Day – Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Tampere University – City Centre Campus / Building Pinni B

A keynote will open the second day in the morning. Contributed papers in two parallel tracks will be presented in the late morning and the afternoon. The conference will close with a plenary sessions including news from the DDI Alliance Technical Committee and an update of on DDI 4.0. Finally the host of EDDI 2020 will be announced.

The keynote speech will be held by Damien Lecarpentier, Programme Director for Research Data at CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science. His presentation addresses the topic:

Developments in building the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

Damien has an MA in political science and a PhD in sociology from the Advanced School of Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

He has been involved in several EC-funded projects in the areas of grids, HPC, and e-Infrastructure policy before taking responsibility of the EUDAT initiative (www.eudat.eu) which he has been managing from its inception.

Damien has also contributed to the establishment of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in Europe, through the iCORDI and the RDA support projects. He is currently actively involved in activities related to the European Open Science Cloud via the EOSC Secretariat, the EOSC-hub and EOSC-Nordic projects.