Get energized by stories of our people from the SEMIC Community! Below you will find an overview of interviews conducted with experts on a variety of topics.
SEMIC Talks

Exploring Agile Standardisation for Interoperability in Data Spaces with Alberto Abella | Harnessing Data and Technology for Proactive EU Policy-Making with Philippe Van Damme | Driving Digital Transformation and Collaboration across the EU with Markus Richter |
Leveraging Knowledge Graphs to Digitise Legal Services with Marianne Mauch | Cross-Border Digital Transformation in the Age of AI with Mikko Mattinnen | Leveraging AI and Interoperability for Enhanced Public Services with Jan Smedts |
Building an interoperable digital ecosystem for Europe's future with Leontina Sandu | Advancing Interoperability via Linked Open Data & Application Profiles with Matthias Palmér | Enhancing Data Interoperability and Data Space Collaboration with Leire Orue Echevarria |
Advancing Interoperability with the European Health Data Space with Pascal Derycke | Retrospective of SEMIC's achievements with Makx Dekkers | Linked Data Event Streams with Marina Aguado (European Union Agency for Railways) |
Interoperability & data spaces with Silvia Castellvi (IDSA) | Semantic Interoperability and AI standardisation with Sebastian Hallensleben (OECD) | Challenges faced by public administrations with Eduard Mititelu (Romanian Secretary of State for Research, Innovation & Digitization) |
Using LDES within Data Spaces with Christoph Lange-Bever (Fraunhofer FIT) | Interoperability between data spaces with Clara Pezuela (FIWARE Foundation) | Results of the Flemish Data Utility Company with Raf Buyle (Digitaal Vlaanderen & Athumi) |
The impact of Gen AI on semantics with Jose Luis Calvo (AI-director Diverger) | Digitising public services with Pedro Tavares (PT Secretary of State for Justice) | Personal Data Spaces with Esther De Loof (SolidLab) and Viivi Lähteenoja (MyData) |
Linked Data Event Streams with Pieter Colpaert, Professor at IDLab (Ghent University) | Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach (The QA Company) | DCAT-AP, Core Vocs and High-Value Datasets with Jakub Klimek (Linked and Open data Interoperable Expert) |
Personal data spaces with Raf Buyle (Information architect) | Data Spaces with Matthijs Punter (Ecosystems expert) | Sharing and reuse of specifications with Jim Yang (Senior Adviser at Norwegian Digitalisation Agency) 6 December 2022 |
Reusing standards with Cécile Guasch (Business architect of Interoperable Europe, DG DIGIT) 6 December 2022 | Linked Data Cultural heritage with Vassilis Tzouvaras (Semantic Web expert) 6 December 2022 | Tree inventory, semantics and AI with Péter Gábor (City of Budapest) 6 December 2022 |