Closing Session
TIME
Friday 22 September
17.30 – 19.00
LOCATION
AGORA
ORGANISER
DESCRIPTION
The OpenLivingLab Days conference’s closing session will feature reflections from ENoLL Working Group and AOTF leaders, the prestigious Veli-Pekka Nittamo Award for best full research paper and recognition for papers in other categories. The session will conclude with great anticipation as next year’s edition of the OpenLivingLab Days conference will be announced, offering a glimpse into the exciting opportunities and developments awaiting the community.
This closing session promises to be a moment of reflection, celebration, and inspiration for all attendees, reinforcing the importance of collaboration and knowledge sharing in the Living Lab community.
AGENDA
17:30 – 17:35 Video recap of the conference
17:35 – 18:00 Closing reflections with the ENoLL Working Group and AOTF leaders sharing key take-aways from the conference (Artur Serra, i2CAT Foundation; Fernando Vilariño, CVC; Evdokimos Kostantinidis and Despoina Petsani, Thess-AHALL; Josep Maria Salanova Grau, ThessM@LL; Valentino Piana, EnergyLL; Fran Iglesias, Fundacion Epica la Fura dels Baus
Moderator: Martina Desole (ENoLL)
18.00 – 18.20 Veli-Pekka Niitamo Award for
- Best full research paper
- Best research in progress papers
- Best innovation presentation outline
- Best presentation
- Best poster award
Moderator: Dimitri Schuurman (imec), Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee
18:20 – 18:25 Introduction to Day 3 activities by Fernando Vilariño
18:25 – 18:30 Wrap up and announcement of the host of the OLLD 2024.
Moderator: Martina Desole (ENoLL)
SPEAKERS
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,Dr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)
Martina Desole
Director ENoLL
Martina Desole
Director ENoLLMartina Desole is the Director of ENoLL, the European Network of Living Labs, based in Brussels, promoting globally the Living Lab concept and methodology and the Network of our certified Members. She has a degree in International Law and a Postgraduate in European Policies. Martina is an expert in European policies and programs for research and innovation, has been officially appointed by the Ministry of Research, Education and University as the National Contact Point of the European Commission in Italy, for Industrial Technologies (Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology) since 2002. She has been working in the field of science diplomacy and promotion of research and innovation, helping researchers and entrepreneurs to find a way to be funded by Europe for their ideas, and Europe to implement International Cooperation policies in science and innovation with other countries.
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights leadArtur Serra Hurtado (1954), Alicante (Spain). Deputy Director of the Foundation i2cat Foundation, research and innovation centre about the Internet. PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, specialised in technological cultures. In 2006, launched the Cultural Ring, the first experimental network bandwidth for the cultural sector, connecting cultural centers in Catalonia and around the world, including Latin America through the Anilla Cultural Latinoamericana. Interested in the connection between the technology and the citizenry, since 1995 he developed some projects design and launched the first citizen networks in Spain and Europe (BCNet, Ravalnet, …) culminating them in the organisation of the First World Congress Citizens Network (Barcelona 2000). Currently, his line of research focuses on the design and implementation of living labs, new innovation structures open to the entire citizenry. In 2007 he launched the Citilab, the first European citizen lab.
Fernando Vilariño
Associate Director at the Computer Vision Center and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science UAB
Fernando Vilariño
Associate Director at the Computer Vision Center and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science UABI give lectures about Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Multimedia Systems. My research has been linked to different areas Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Computer Vision, with a special attention to Medical Imaging, fieldwork in which I have developed different projects together with paramount hospitals and companies. My work has been published in the main Journals and Conferences of the area and I have also contributed to a number of patents in the field. During the last years, I have participated in the design of different initiatives, both at local and international level, with the aim of developing novel paradigms of digital social innovation. I have led the implementation of a model of Living Lab that transforms Libraries into actual innovation arenas, by exploring how technology transforms the cultural experience of people. Through this initiative I have had the chance to participate in different events and invited talks related to the use of ICT in the context of Culture. My main expertise is centered around: - Models of Governance of Living Labs and 4-helix instruments. - Innovation in Libraries, Museums and the cultural field in general. - Artificial Intelligence and ICT tools. I have been awarded with the Spanish Government Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), Google Academy Award for my research (2014), and the Barcelona Mobile Week Award for the @BrossaInedit project (2017). I coordinate the ENoLL Action-oriented Task Force on Social Impact of AI and Living Labs as Regulatory Learning Tools.
Despoina Petsani
Research associate, Medical Physics and Digital Innovation Lab
Despoina Petsani
Research associate, Medical Physics and Digital Innovation LabMs Despoina Petsani received her MSc in Medical Informatics and diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is currently PhD Candidate and Research Associate in the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation, School of Medicine of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is also the Harmonization Body Coordinator of the VITALISE H2020 project where her tasks are to synchronise the goals and the objectives of the specific Harmonization Body, ensuring the openness to the global Living Lab and the research community. She was the Living Lab coordinator of CAPTAIN project (H2020) where she managed the co-creation activities in 5 living labs across 5 European countries. Among her tasks was to coordinate the CAPTAIN project requirements elicitation procedure from the end-users. She has experience in applying SCRUM and Agile approaches and applying Living Lab methodologies for the development of innovative technological solutions as part of the iProlepsis, HOSMARTAI and CAPTAIN H2020 project. Her research also includes the use of AI and machine learning solutions in the identification of health and wellbeing metrics from everyday life monitoring and the prediction of health outcomes.
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HIT
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HITJosep Maria Salanova Grau is a researcher at CERTH/HIT and holds a Civil engineering diploma and PhD in transport modelling from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and a MSc in civil and transportation engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is leading the “Data analysis and modelling” laboratory and he is in the core team of Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab, which is an efficient member of ENoLL. His scientific interests concern research and developments in transport and mostly in algorithm and model development, mobility, intermodal transport and logistics as well as Data Science and Big Data at the transport domain. Additionally, he co leads with AustriaTech and JRC the ENoll Working Group on mobility.
Valentino Piana
Senior Academic Associate at the University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland
Valentino Piana
Senior Academic Associate at the University of Applied Science of Western SwitzerlandValentino Piana is Senior Academic Associate at the University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland at the Institute of Sustainable Energy. IPCC reviewer, climate economist, he is the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Manager of the Lantern project – a major effort by Living Labs and applied researchers in 17 institutions to impact energy-related lifestyles. After graduating at Bocconi University (Milan - Italy) in 1994, he taught at the University of Economics in Cracow (Poland) such disciplines as Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. From 2000 to 2008 he was Senior consultant at a strategic consulting boutique firm in Rome (Italy). Since year 2000 he has been leading the Economics Web Institute, providing support to policymakers on a large number of issues. In February 2018 he joined the HES-SO Valais-Wallis.
Dimitri Schuurman
PhD in innovation management in Living Labs from Ghent University (UGent) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Dimitri Schuurman
PhD in innovation management in Living Labs from Ghent University (UGent) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB)As an innovation expert, Dimitri Schuurman, is responsible for innovation methodology and monitoring in the digital transformation department at imec. He holds a PhD in innovation management in Living Labs from Ghent University (UGent) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific Innovation Management methodology with supporting innovation canvasses (under the label ‘Innovatrix’), specifically designed for multi-stakeholder and multidisciplinary innovation projects. He also leads a special interest group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is active in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as a Living Labs specialist. His main interests and research topics are in the areas of open innovation, user innovation and innovation management.