Open PHACTS and Big Data Europe: Second community workshop
Last week we held the second Big Data Europe community workshop for societal challenge 1 (Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing) in Brussels, Belgium. After demonstrating the progress that has been made translating the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform to Big Data Europe’s architecture, we engaged in a lively roundtable discussion about how the Platform…
BigDataEurope webinar: Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing
On 25 November, 14:00–15:00 CET, BigDataEurope will host a webinar update on the societal challenge of Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing. If you’re interested in learning more about BigDataEurope and its goals, register now for this free webinar. The webinar will include a brief overview of the project by Open PHACTS Foundation CEO Bryn Williams-Jones,…
Press Release: Open PHACTS partners in EU-ToxRisk project
EU-ToxRisk: An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (PDF) In a large (€30 m) H2020-supported collaborative project, academia joins forces with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), large industry, contract research organisations (CROs) and regulatory bodies to achieve a paradigm shift in…
First Big Data Europe workshop complete
As a funded partner of the Big Data Europe project, the Open PHACTS Foundation played a key role in the first BDE Community Workshop, which focussed on the health and demographic change societal challenge. A full report will be released soon; in the meantime Bryn Williams-Jones has written a preview of the…
Big Data Europe Workshop: Big Data in the Health Sector
As a funded partner of the Big Data Europe project, the Open PHACTS Foundation will be helping facilitate a workshop on big data in the health sector this 21 May, 2015. This workshop will provide a key opportunity for stakeholders in the health sector to influence the design of Big…
Open PHACTS Foundation participates in Horizon 2020
The Open PHACTS Foundation will be participating in Big Data Europe’s Horizon 2020 project, which aims to integrate existing big data infrastructures into an extensible stack of semantically interoperable, large-scale, multi-lingual data assets. Part of the Foundation’s role will involve running pilots on services combining data and functionalities from the Open…