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The Open Group Amsterdam Summit 2025 OSDU® Forum Members’ Meeting

Objective

The OSDU Forum Members Amsterdam Spring meeting was held May 19 through May 23, 2025. The agenda for the meeting was designed to provide a venue for Energy Operator and Supplier presentations focused on the use and application of the OSDU Data platform in their companies. In addition to the presentations, there was an industry day devoted to explaining the finer points of the OSDU Data Platform and also a series of OSDU Forum member-only Working Group sessions, where the members developing the software capabilities and associated standards for the OSDU Forum worked collaboratively to continue the refinement of their respective work products. The OSDU Forum also hosted:

  • The Mining Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings, where the mining community is leveraging existing OSDU Forum data models and schemas where applicable and creating new ones where needed to promote efficient data management and interoperability within the mining community
  • The Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) harmonization Working Group meetings, which facilitated the creation and common understanding of data models, architecture, and JavaScript™ Object Notation (JSON) schemas used by the members of the OSDU Forum, the Energistics Consortium, and the Open Footprint® Forum

Summary

Day 1: Monday May 19

The OSDU Forum conducted a technical bootcamp for software developers to understand how to work with the open source software of the OSDU Data Platform. An open session for general industry awareness was conducted presenting the business and technical aspects of the OSDU Forum. This session was followed by an industry awareness session for the OSDU Forum Business, Technical, and the Mining Special Interest Group along with the Energistics Consortium. The Project Management Committee (PMC) which is responsible for the managing the software development of the OSDU Data platform and the OSDU Management Committee (OMC) which is responsible for the tactical oversight of the OSDU Forum held leadership meetings in the afternoon.

Day 2: Tuesday May 20

After the morning break there were four competitively-selected member presentations:

The afternoon sessions were devoted to OSDU Forum Member breakout sessions; see the agenda for details.

Day 3: Wednesday May 21

After the morning break, there were four competitively selected members presentations:

The afternoon sessions were devoted to OSDU Forum Member breakout sessions; see the agenda for details.

Day 4: Thursday May 22

After the morning break, there were four competitively selected members presentations:

The afternoon sessions were devoted to OSDU Forum Member breakout sessions; see the agenda for details.

Outputs and Recordings

There were many work products successfully advanced during the breakout sessions of the OSDU Forum meetings during the summit. The recordings for the Tuesday-Thursday sessions can be found here. Follow-on activity in each of the breakout sessions and leadership groups will continue into the remainder of 2025.

Next Steps

The key focus of the Forum after these meetings will be process procedures for software development by the PMC, OSDU Forum governance restructuring by the OMC, and focus on the future Venus Data Platform Release by all the working groups. Agenda planning will commence for the next OSDU Forum Meeting to be at The Open Group Summit in the Fall of 2025.