Updates
Here are our latest Data Innovation Lab's activities and news
2 July 2026
A key part of our work is capacity building and fostering exchange across governments, international organizations, academia, civil society, and the tech sector on how technology is reshaping global governance.
Therefore, we are continuing these discussions at the 2026 Tech Diplomacy Global Forum in Paris, as well as at a workshop at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the OECD in Paris with participation of Austrian colleagues.
15 June 2026
Last week, we joined the Creative Bureaucracy Festival to showcase how data-driven innovation is advancing public sector modernization in Germany. Together with our colleagues from the Federal Foreign Office and Bundesdruckerei we had the opportunity to present our work, exchange ideas with practitioners from administration, politics, and civil society, and discuss the future of data and AI in government.
11 June 2026
While Europe continues to lead in innovation across AI, deep tech, and defense technologies, turning these advances into industrial capacity and sustained value creation remains a key challenge. Fragmented markets, regulatory complexity, and barriers to cross-border scaling continue to shape Europe’s technological trajectory.
In this context, investment plays a decisive role - not only in financing innovation, but in shaping which technologies scale, who builds them, and how Europe strengthens its Digital Single Market and long-term strategic autonomy. Subsequently, this edition of Data Talks focused on a central question for Europe’s digital future: how innovation translates into scalable technological capacity and long-term strategic resilience.
