Dr. Simon Scerri leads the Big Data Management and Value Extraction competence area at Fraunhofer IAIS, exploring Linked Data applications to support Data Value Chains and realise various Data Infrastructures. In 2011, Simon received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Earlier, he contributed to research efforts (2005–2013) at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and was an ERCIM fellow under the Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme (2014). Amongst other responsibilities, Simon represents Fraunhofer in the Board of Directors for the Big Data Value Association, wherein he leads the activity group on data sharing ecosystems in view of the resurgence of AI.