Better, faster, cost-effective? Leveraging innovation in official statistics

Better, faster, cost-effective? CMFB workshop on leveraging innovation in official statistics

30 June 2026

Introduction: Alfredo Cristobal (CMFB Chair) [9:00-9:10]

Keynote speech by Roeland Beerten (NBB): Better, faster, cost-effective? Leveraging innovation in official statistics [9:10-9:40]

Session 1: The international state of play [9:40-10:50]

Session chair: Robert Kirchner (Deutsche Bundesbank)

1. ESS Innovation Agenda – scaling up innovation and strengthening the innovation culture within the European Statistical System (ESS)
   Presenter: Monika Wozowczyk (Eurostat)

2. GODIN as an Enabler for Connected Open Data: Leveraging Partnerships and the LEI for Official Statistics
   Presenter: Zornitsa Manolova (GLEIF)

3. Designing a federated metadata layer – concepts, analysis, options
   Presenter: t.b.c. (ECB)

Session 2: The statistical business process [11:20-12:30]

Session chair: Melle Bijlsma (De Nederlandsche Bank)

1. Statistics Finland’s strategic approach to integrating artificial intelligence – Case: services
   Presenter: Ville Vertanen (Statistics Finland)

2. GRASP & GSP: Towards a Modern, Modular and Generic Statistical Production Approach
   Presenter: Marco Deterink and Gert Meeder (De Nederlandsche Bank)

3. How agile methods and modern tools have transformed the Riksbank's statistical production
   Presenters: Nina Engström and José Camacho (Sveriges Riksbank)
    

Session 3: Data sources [13:45-15:00]

Session chair: Svilen Kolev

1. Innovation through e-invoicing and a National Data Infrastructure
   Presenter: João Garra (Statistics Portugal)

2. From Discontinued Surveys to Big Data: Estimating Travel Services with Mobile Positioning Data – The Experience of Eesti Pank
   Presenter: Jaanus Kroon (Eesti Pank)

3. Application of mass imputation techniques for structural business statistics
   Presenter: Gonzalo Martinez Cebrian (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica)

Session 4: Data structuring and compilation [15:15-16:30]

Session chair: Gunther Swoboda

1. A Joint Banca d’Italia–Istat Approach to Enhancing Trade in Services Statistics
   Presenters: Flavia Ciccioli  (Banca d’Italia) and Adele Vendetti (Istat)

2. Integrated Tool for AI-assisted Exploratory Data Analysis and Quality Control of Heterogeneous Statistical Data
   Presenter: Eugenia Koblents Lapteva (Banco de España)

3. Automating Company Data Validation with Multimodal Large Language Models: Integrating Text, Geospatial, and Image Data for Sector Classification
   Presenters: Gabriel Thiem and Ece Yalcin-Roder (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Panel session: Statistical innovation in Europe – drivers and impediments [16:50-17:45]

Moderator: Silvia Fabiani

Suggested participants:

• Caroline Willeke (ECB)

• Eurostat representative, t.b.c.

• Roeland Beerten (National Bank of Belgium)

• Ville Vertanen (Statistics Finland)

• Jaanus Kroon (Eesti Pank, t.b.c.)

Wrap up and concluding remarks: Athanasios Thanopoulos (Eurostat) [17:45-18:00]