Commit2Data is the largest national research and innovation program aimed at big data and its applications, on the basis of a public-private partnerships (PPP). The program started in 2016 and will last (at least) until 2022. Through the Commit2Data program more than 130 PhD students and postdocs from 13 universities work together with more than 200 private partners in over 50 research projects. The research projects are dedicated to various application fields, such as logistics, smart industry, healthcare, smart culture, energy and sports. The coming years the focus of the program will shift from stimulating the research, to the dissemination of the build knowhow and knowledge and the valorisation of the results to practical applications.