Open Data Hub Day 2026 – Data, Use Cases & Data Spaces

Open Data Hub Day - Programme

The programme is structured across three parallel rooms: the event will open in Seminar Room 1 with the main track and after the morning coffee break it will split into sessions in Seminar Rooms 2 and 3, each dedicated to specific thematic tracks as outlined below. The event will be held in English.

Seminar room 1

MAIN

The main track of the Open Data Hub Day provides an overview of key topics related to Open Data. It introduces the latest Open Data Hub updates and highlights real-world applications.

Time	Track	Speaker	Organisation	Title
8.30	Main	Check-in starting at 8.30
9.00	Main			Open Data Hub Day - Opening
9.15	Main	Patrick Ohnewein	NOI Techpark	Open Data Hub - updates
9.30	Main	Christoph Lucas	SBB / SKI+	Open Source Routers - A comprehensive comparative market research
9.45	Main		touristinfo.ai	From Static Highlights to Real-Time Flow Management with Open Data
10.00	Main	Francesca De Finis	Stendhapp	Open data for cultural tourism: are they like oil or like water?
10.15	Main		Open Data Hub	Contributor of the Year 2026
10.30	Break			Community Coffee Break (Foyer NOI Seminar Area)

Seminar room 2

OPEN DATA HUB MAIN + PANEL

This track focuses on Open Data Hub projects and applications, showcasing how data is used to build services and generate public value. It includes the panel 'CityVision', part of the Roadshow 2026 – City Vision, an initiative bringing topics, solutions and perspectives on urban innovation closer to local administrations across Italy. The session will be held in Italian.

MOBILITY

This track explores how mobility data is used to enable smarter and more integrated transport systems. It presents approaches and experiences around multimodal journey planning, real-time data and data-driven mobility services.

OPEN DATA HUB CORE

This track focuses on the evolution of the Open Data Hub from a technical perspective. It highlights approaches, tools and architectural choices that support scalability, performance and data accessibility within the ecosystem.

Time	Track	Speaker	Organisation	Title
11.00	Open Data Hub Main	Lucia Felbauer Emma Giacomelli Boldrini	Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department of Forest Management Tourism and Sport Department, Autonomous Province of Trento	DIGIWAY in the Open Data Hub – interoperable data for Alpine safety
11.15	Open Data Hub Main	Grigory Vodyanov	PadoVia.it Politecnico di Milano	Digital UX and public transport: Looking towards the future
11.30	Open Data Hub Main	Matteo Rosario Moschitta	OFFLINE Agency	From Infrastructure to Product: The Challenges Behind Evolving the Open Data Browser
11.45	Open Data Hub Main	Ciro Degl’Innocenti	Municipality of Padova	Unlocking the Public Value of CAM Data: Padua’s Experience with R3GIS and the Open Data Hub
12.00	City Vision Panel		City Vision	City Vision Panel
12.30	Break			Networking lunch (Foyer NOI Seminar Area)
13.30	Mobility	Leonard Ehrenfried	OpenTripPlanner	OpenTripPlanner: European standards in Italy
13.45	Mobility	Matteo Roggia	NOI Techpark	Open Data Hub x Public Transport - How to handle Netex and GTFS formats
14.00	Mobility	Giacomo Fabbian	OFFLINE Agency	Scaling Swiss Mobility Data Ingestion in the Open Data Hub
14.15	Mobility	Cyprien Huissoud	PathWorks Tech LLC	Towards a Modern Multimodal Journey Planner
14.30	Mobility	Giuseppe Cusati	GeniAI	From Video to Data: Bringing Real-Time Insights into Open Data Hub
14.45	Mobility	Mattia Caldi		Understanding Traffic Dynamics through Process Mining: An example in South Tyrol
15.00	Break			Community Coffee Break (Foyer NOI Seminar Area)
15.30	Open Data Hub Core	Clemens Zagler	NOI Techpark	Optimizing the Open Data Hub Timeseries Database
15.45	Open Data Hub Core	Rudolf Thöni	NOI Techpark	Displaying Large Dataset on a Map by using Vector Tiles
16.00	Open Data Hub Core	Nicola Manica	R3GIS	Millions of Features, One Smooth Map
16.15	Open Data Hub Core	Matteo Roggia	NOI Techpark	Facilitating data adoption with a lightweight Discovery stack
16.30	Open Data Hub Core	Clemens Zagler	NOI Techpark	Open Data Hub on Kubernetes
16.45	Open Data Hub Core	Abduallah Abuhassan	NOI Techpark	Consuming Open Data Hub APIs with n8n: A Low-Code Approach to Data Integration
17.00	Closing			Closing

Seminar room 3

OPEN DATA HUB BOOTCAMP 2026 RESULTS

Presentation of projects developed during the Open Data Hub Bootcamp by student teams. Projects are presented by the participants themselves and focus on data visualization, AI and LLM integration and data processing and enrichment. This event is an initiative of the Open Data Hub team in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

BUILDING

This track explores how Open Data can be applied in the context of smart buildings and connected environments. It showcases practical approaches to integrating and using data to improve efficiency and monitoring.

AI

This track explores the role of artificial intelligence in unlocking the value of Open Data. It focuses on how data can be structured, accessed and used to enable intelligent systems and new data-driven applications.

DATA SPACE

This track looks at the future of data sharing in Europe. It presents concepts, frameworks and experiences related to Data Spaces and the development of interoperable and sovereign data ecosystems.

Time	Track	Speaker	Organisation	Title
11.00	Bootcamp			Bootcamp results project presentations
12.00	Building	Anthony Suppa	Eurac Research	Enriching open data with street view imagery and deep learning
12.15	Building	Marco Dalle Feste	Freelance	Towards an integrated smart building control dashboard: a proof of concept at NOI Techpark
12.30	Break			Networking lunch (Foyer NOI Seminar Area)
13.30	AI	Eduardo Guerra	Free University of Bolzano/Bozen	Is your data ready for AI Agents?
13.45	AI	Chris Mair	1006.org	Stuart Chatbot: A Simple Yet Powerful RAG System
14.00	AI	Marco Montanari	OpenHistoryMap	From Open Data to Agent-Queryable Worlds: Building a Hospitality Layer on top of Open Data Hub APIs
14.15	AI	Davide Montesin	Catch Solve	Discover the Unexpected in Open Data with LLMs, Schemas, and Data Quality
14.30	AI	Peter Hopfgartner	Ontopic	Is your Open Data AI-ready?
14.45	AI	Safoura Jolfaei	Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology	Building Trustworthy Open Datasets for Low-Resource Languages: A Blueprint for Tackling LLM Hallucination
15.00	Break			Community Coffee Break (Foyer NOI Seminar Area)
15.30	Data Space	Antonio Jara Francisco Cantero	Libelium FIWARE Foundation	Data‑Space Ready: turning APIs into governed data sharing for Data Spaces
15.45	Data Space	Lukas Künig Matthias Repke	T-Mobile Austria GmbH T-Systems Austria GesmbH	From Sensor to Sovereign Dataspace: The End-to-End Data Journey from Intralogistics to the Catena-X Ecosystem
16.00	Data Space	Riccardo Crescini	PwC	The EU Data Act and the Future of Data Sharing in Europe
16.15	Data Space	Vittorio Iacovella	CIMeC - Center for Mind / Brain Sciences - The University of Trento	Bridging Rigor and Agility: Building a Research Data Catalog with FastAPI and HTMX
16.30	Data Space	Ilaria Cimorosi	Cimorosi Group	The Seasonal Workforce Blind Spot: What Open Labour Data Reveals — and What the AI Act Now Requires
16.45	Data Space	Andrea Vianello	EURAC Research	End-to-end pipeline from researcher data processing to the GeoBrowser, implemented through EDP
17.00	Closing			Closing