From compliance to competitiveness: Unlocking the value of industrial data under the EU Data Act
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From compliance to competitiveness: Unlocking the value of industrial data under the EU Data Act
The EU Data Act marks a pivotal step toward a shared, data-driven economy in Europe. It empowers users of connected products to access and share data fairly, while introducing new obligations for manufacturers, service providers, and other key stakeholders. By breaking down siloed data control structures, the Act promotes seamless and cooperative data sharing across all actors in the value chain.
Early preparation is essential, particularly for companies operating in data-intensive industries. To ensure readiness, businesses must understand both their obligations and rights, achieve technical preparedness, embed compliance by design, implement robust governance and cybersecurity frameworks, and enable secure, interoperable data sharing. Acting now will support a smooth transition when the EU Data Act takes effect on 12 September 2025 and position your organisation to meet the compliance-by-design requirements coming into force on 12 September 2026.
In our upcoming webinar, you’ll hear from leading experts who will share practical strategies and insights on how to leverage the EU Data Act to drive innovation, ensure compliance, and unlock value for your organisation, your clients, and your partners.
This webinar is supported by the EU-funded SM4RTENANCE project, which is developing a neutral data space for the manufacturing sector to share information across the asset lifecycle, showcasing how collaborative data sharing can create tangible value in practice.
What you will learn
- A clear understanding of the EU Data Act’s key provisions, roles, and obligations, and how it connects to broader EU policies such as GDPR, the Data Governance Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act.
- How to design and implement scalable, secure data-sharing infrastructures (e.g. Pub/Sub), enable real-time data availability, and address cybersecurity risks.
- Gain insights into the regulatory framework of data intermediation (DGA and the Data Act), opportunities for data valorisation, and the role of trust, neutrality, and governance in building secure and scalable data-sharing ecosystems.
- How the manufacturing sector can unlock value from data-sharing ecosystems, from predictive maintenance and lifecycle optimisation to supply chain resilience and performance-based service models.
Participant Profile
This webinar is tailored for SMEs, OEMs, and research institutions across various sectors, including manufacturing, automation, robotics, automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics, healthcare, and emerging technologies. It is relevant for professionals driving industrial data and asset management, including asset managers, IT and digital transformation specialists, R&D teams, technology providers, and business development professionals.
EU Data Act – Key Provisions (Effective 12 September 2025)
- Establishes harmonised rules for data access, sharing, and use across the EU
- Empowers users of connected devices and services to access and transfer data generated by them
- Ensures fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory data-sharing terms between businesses, and between companies and public sector bodies
- Mandates data access by public sector bodies in cases of exceptional need (e.g. public emergencies)
- Improves interoperability and portability between cloud and edge services, including easier switching
- Introduces safeguards for trade secrets and regulates cross-border (non-EU) data transfers
- Requires ‘compliance-by-design’ and secure data governance frameworks for data holders
- Supports the development of a fair, competitive, and innovation-friendly data economy
- Promotes ethical and transparent data sharing practices across sectors
Speakers
- Sergio Gusmeroli, Research Coordinator, Politecnico di Milano – Industrial Engineering Department, MADE Competence Center
- Stefano Marmonti, Head of Sales, EMQ
- Elena Pasquali, CEO and Founder, Ecosteer
- Vito Michele Pavese, Attorney at Law, ICT Legal Consulting
Moderated by: Maximilian Wagner, Project Manager, VDMA
SM4RTENANCE
SM4RTENANCE’s mission is to connect key ecosystems, standards, experimentation facilities and data space development building blocks to secure growth and economies of scale for future multi-stakeholder predictive maintenance and supply chain data spaces across their full lifecycle, adopting common European data space principles, technical infrastructures, vocabularies, data models and business agreements.
Key objectives
- Facilitate pan-European and cross-sectoral reference blueprints & guidelines for data space federation & trusted data flows & composition for autonomous asset management;
- Leverage a data space 4.0 continuum for asset management and PdM service implementation;
- Deploy an operational data space federation and multilateral data value chains (DVC);
- Establish the industrial agreements and service framework for SM4RTENANCE operations;
- Increase data sharing across manufacturing companies and with service providers.