The 2017 Conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS'17) will be organized in Toulouse, 28-30 November 2017, at CNES premises. The call for abstracts is open until 31 July for a number of topics within Big Data, among others data lifecycle, infrastructures, tools and services. Read more at http://www.bigdatafromspace2017.org/.

ESA will host the third EO Open Science conference at ESRIN, Frascati, 25-28 September 2017. The conference will bring together scientists, students, established and start-up service developers working within the field of Earth Observation, to showcase results and discuss opportunities for further exploitation of the rich data available from Copernicus Sentinel as well as other satellite programmes.  Read more at http://eoopenscience.esa.int/.

Maintenance is planned for this site in weeks 26 and 27. Interruptions may occur. the maintenance will also add functionality to the site.

The 10th Plenary Meeting of RDA will take place in late September in Montreal, Canada. Information, call for sessions and registration is out at https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-tenth-plenary-meeting-montreal-canada.