The Data Services Business Committee (DSBC) held its first face-to-face meeting of 2025 in The Hague in the Netherlands on 5 and 6 February, organised by Gaia-X Hub Netherlands.

The meeting brought together the heads of the Hubs, projects and ecosystems, totalling around 50 people, and served to exchange views, provide important updates and discuss how progress has been made.

The meeting took place in intense working sessions on various topics such as how to use the various Gaia-X deliverables, the rules for ongoing projects that would benefit from certification automation at GXDCH, which service catalogue to use, indicators for measuring market adoption of Gaia-X, what advantages members get from Gaia-X and how best to evangelise about Gaia-X.

There were also several parallel sessions, which separated the heads of Hubs, service providers and projects and ecosystems into specific discussions.

The previous face-to-face DSBC meeting was held in Porto in June 2024, organized by Gaia-X Hub Portugal.