The topic debates are linked with ENoLL’s Action Oriented Task Forces (AOTF). The Action Oriented Task Forces of ENoLL are created to further enforce collaboration between different stakeholders in a certain topic field. These task forces are open to everyone inside and outside our network. During our Digital living lab days we focus on the emerging themes and topics within our task forces during our so called ‘Topic Debates’. Of course we highlight the Action oriented task forces as a whole on Friday morning as well.
Currently, there are 5 working AOTFs.
- Social Innovation and Digital Rights
- Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Rural Living Labs
- Health and Wellbeing
- Energy and Environment
There will be five different topics debates during the course of three days:
Can Living labs operate as open research infrastructures?
DAY 1: Wednesday, 2 September, 14:00-15:30
Co-creating from farm to fork: the Stems and the seeds of Agro ecosystem living labs
DAY 1: Wednesday, 2 September, 16:00-17:30
The role of Living Labs in supporting the development of universal access to social innovation ecosystems
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 11:00-12:30
Living Labs in the Water Sector: political, social and technical aspects
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 14:00-15:30
Unveiling the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 16:00-17:30
Can Living labs operate as open research infrastructures?
When: Wednesday 2 September, 14:00-15:30
Moderator: Evdokimos Konstantinidis (Thess-AHALL)
The research community in the Health and Wellbeing domain has invested a great deal of effort in establishing new Living Labs in order to support their research. They have also invested in learning about methodologies of user engagement and co-creation, such as design thinking, focus groups and ideation. An important challenge in this line of research is to create trust between researchers and local communities as they evaluate and exploit research results. This has caused the creation of many project-oriented Living Labs that serve specific research purposes and have a lifecycle similar to a projects’ duration, thus leading to higher costs, non-optimal use of resources, time and distribution of work and expertise, limited exploitation of research results from local communities.
Session structure:
- Introduction of AOTF by Evdokimos Konstantinidis: The vision and mission of the Health and Wellbeing Living Labs action oriented task force along with short-term goals on harmonization.
- Tuija Hirvikoski: the high level view
- Geert Christiaansen (Philips): The value of living labs as open research infrastructures: what they can offer
- Vicky Van der Auwera (Licalab Living Lab): How can living labs operate as open research infrastructures: challenges
- Johannes Klumpers (EC): How EC envisages a large network of open research infrastructures; funding opportunities
This session is a panel discussion with active participation of the audience.
Expected outcomes after the session:
- Explore the position of the EC, a large tech company and living labs coming from academia on considering the living labs as open research infrastructures
- Get a better insight on the demands and offers form different stakeholders on living labs as open research infrastructures
- Identify the short-term challenges that must be addressed in order to enhance openness of living labs as research infrastructure
- Living labs should get clear messages for their strategic plans
Speakers
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thess-AHALL Researcher, AOTF Health & Wellbeing lead
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thess-AHALL Researcher, AOTF Health & Wellbeing leadDr 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)
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University Director
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University DirectorDr Tuija Hirvikoski is currently a director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences responsible for the University’s strategic stakeholder management. During her Vice-Presidency, Laurea become Finland’s most successful University of Applied Sciences receiving multiple awards. She has held managerial positions at various Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development. Hirvikoski’s specific area of expertise is related to multi-stakeholder, user-centred innovation design and ecosystem development (Living Labs). She has received a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems), MSc in Education and MSc in Administration. As a sought-after advisor, she has provided various audiences with inspirational examples and research results concerning the Finnish education and open innovation ecosystems. Hirvikoski was the President of The European Network of Living Labs between 2015-2018 and has served as a council member in various organisations such as the Uusimaa Regional Coordination Committee, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre R&D Unit, Tech villa Ltd (a Finnish technology centre), Helsinki Information Technology Association, the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry in Taiwan, and the Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education (SPSE) in Canada.
Geert Christiaansen
Senior Director Design Innovation, Phillips Design
Geert Christiaansen
Senior Director Design Innovation, Phillips Design
Geert Christiaansen is Senior Director Design Innovation at Philips Design. He has worked in Philips in a number of businesses in different regions and roles, ranging from product strategy and marketing to business development, in Europe, Asia and the United States. Next to this Geert started and owned a venture in RFID/NFC technology. His background in business enables him to connect the capabilities of the creative force of Philips Design to the businesses internal and external to Philips. In his role he is responsible for the Philips Design Innovation Portfolio and developing strategic relationships.
Vicky Van der Auwera
Operations Manager LiCalab
Vicky Van der Auwera
Operations Manager LiCalabVicky holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Brussels University Belgium, where she graduated as civil mechanical-electrical engineer. She worked for 14 years in private sector in the area of mechanical engineering as Research Manager and Project manager, where she built up experience and knowledge of machine construction, mechatronics, opto-mechanical measurements, semiconductor measurements (wafer inspection). Since 2010 she works for Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, at the tech transfer office and in the unit research. She is one of the team members that started up LiCalab in 2012, in close collaboration with the City of Turnhout. At LiCalab she is responsible for the operational management of the team and she leads EU-projects as well as private assignments.
Co-creating from farm to fork: the Stems and the seeds of Agro ecosystem living labs
When: Wednesday 2 September, 16:00-17:30
Moderator: Muriel Mambrini (INRAE)
Session structure:
- Introduction of the AOTF: How do agriculture Living labs fit within the Rural &Agriculture Living Labs task force
- Place-based living labs and the defining characteristics of agroecosystem living labs
- An ICT-focused living lab in agriculture by PA4ALL
- Towards a European vision for a network of agroecology living labs by DG AGRI
Moderated interactive panel discussion with active participation of the audience around the following questions:
1. What do these various types of living labs have in common and what makes them unique?
2. What are their specific needs?
3. How can/will we map them in the field?
4. Other best practices
Expected outcomes after the session:
- Drill into and explore some key concepts around the various forms of living labs in agriculture
- Discussion that really captures this important new wave of living labs in agriculture,
including three key approaches that are closely related but distinct: agroecosystem living labs, ICT-focused living labs in agriculture, and agroecology living labs - Focus on agriculture/agroecosystem/agroecology
Speakers
Luis Navarro López
Director General Guadalinfo, AOTF Rural Living Labs lead
Luis Navarro López
Director General Guadalinfo, AOTF Rural Living Labs leadLuis is a telecom engineer, with more than 15 years of experience in aligning technology and social needs. Managing Director at the Guadalinfo Living Lab network, composed of more than 800 living Labs located in all the municipalities under 20.000 inhabitants all over Andalusia, coordinating an expert group responsible of the LL network support and the Social Innovation and ICTs regional and international strategies, from a Smart Rural perspective. Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, and impact assessment methodologies. Currently involved in the regional certification of Digital Competencies (based on DIGCOMP) and the development of entrepreneurship competencies strategies (based on ENTRECOMP). Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of international projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation, open science and living labs methodologies and experiences. Long research experience on the optical communications field. At the moment involved in social innovation, smart rural and internationalization strategies Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, crowdfunding and impact assessment methodologies. Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation and co-creation methodologies
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALL
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALLMs. Milica Trajkovic is a certified PMI project manager, experienced in EU funded projects focused on Digital Agriculture and development of ICTs for AgriFood value chain. For the last five years she has been equally involved in numerous proposals preparation (from idea to design and proposal formulation) as well as projects’ implementation. Constant managing of multiple projects resulted in two main specializations – i) liaison between project requests and partners’ needs and Institute’s expertise and resources dedicated to implementation of project tasks; ii) efficient implementation of overall project strategy and assuring sub-projects and pilots are executing pre-defined tasks and activities within time, budget and quality constraints. At the same time, she deeply believes that people are the most valuable asset a company can have. Hence, Milica is very passionate about training and development activities tailored to Institute’s employees needs she is leading. In parallel, Milica is an Operations Manager in Precision Agriculture Living Lab (PA4ALL), where she works on broadening the relations with agricultural producers and maintaining cross-fertilization process between agricultural and ICT industry.
Alexia Rouby
Programme Officer - European Commission - DG AGRI
Alexia Rouby
Programme Officer - European Commission - DG AGRIAlexia Rouby is a Research Programme Officer with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG-AGRI), Research and Innovation unit. She is an Agro-economist with over 10 years experience in network coordination, policy analysis and project development and management.
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAE
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAEMuriel Mambrini-Doudet holds two qualifications, sustainability science and innovative science management. She is research director at Inrae, currently i) adviser at the scientific directorate for accelerating open innovation and transdisciplinarity in research-education-industry- government hubs concerned by agriculture, food and environment (notably living labs), ii) director of the international doctoral school “frontiers of innovation in research and education” welcoming outstanding interdisciplinary projects at the interface between life science- education-digital, and iii) researcher at the industrial chair “theory and methods of design thinking”. Prior to this role, she was the director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie, which trains top managers from public and private organization to the scientific approach to reduce the distance between science and society. From 2008 to 2014 she headed the largest research center of Inrae (1 500 staff, 35 scientific laboratories), after having served as scientific adviser to Inrae’s CEO. At each step of her scientific career, she has been working at the interface between at least two disciplines in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the sector she was working for. She holds a PhD in nutrition, defended her habilitation to steer research at the interface between nutrition and genetics, authored more than 50 international publication in various disciplinary fields (biological sciences, management sciences, epistemology).
Chris McPhee
Innovation Management Specialist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Chris McPhee
Innovation Management Specialist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Chris McPhee is an Innovation Management Specialist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Living Laboratories Initiative, which is an integrated approach to agricultural innovation that brings farmers, scientists, and other partners together to co-develop, test, and monitor new practices and technologies in a real-life context. Prior to this role, he served for nine years as Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review, an international journal focusing on emerging topics in innovation from a multidisciplinary perspective and featuring many special issues on living labs. He is a member of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and a co-lead of its Special Interest Group on Living Labs, which is supported by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). In Canada and Scotland, he has held various innovation-related roles in the private sector, the public sector, and academia, primarily in the areas of education, healthcare, and science. His areas of interest include living labs, open innovation, entrepreneurship, participatory and action research, knowledge mobilization, and the human and social dimensions of innovation. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology (Plant Ecology) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
The role of Living Labs in supporting the development of universal access to social innovation ecosystems
When: Thursday 3 September, 11.00AM:12.30PM
Moderator: Carolyn Hassan (KWMC)
Expected outcomes after the session:
- What does social innovation looks like from others perspectives?
- To put forward the work around the collaboratory model (different types of funding)
- Provide ENoLL as a transformant agent to EC
Structure of the debate:
The session starts with an introduction to the experience of Living Lab over the years – engaging with Smart
City, Citizen Science, Social Innovation, Tech Innovation networks, and our thinking about living lab role in these networks.
- How do we connect with and learn from different approaches and think about Lab of Labs to enable a more inclusive and socially just society?
- How has the Collaboratory emerged from ENoLL experience of collaborating with other networks?
- Artur Serra (i2Cat) will present the Collaboratory and how access to social innovation for all is being delivered; what has been achieved and next steps.
- How does this approach go beyond access to technology and co-design of tech solutions but includes rethinking approaches to supporting
social innovation and building a new infrastructure. This is happening with the support of
policy makers and different stakeholders.
The following cases will be presented:
Prof. Aawatif Hayar, President of the Casablanca University in Morocco will talk about social innovation approach in their country
A representative from Bristol University
A presentation by Ryan Titley (ERRIN) on how can this approach to universal access to social innovation be
scaled up?
This will be a moderated, interactive panel discussion with active participation of the audience.
Speakers
Carolyn Hassan
Director, Knowle West Media Centre, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Carolyn Hassan
Director, Knowle West Media Centre, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Carolyn is the founder and Director of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) http://www.kwmc.org.uk and Bristol Living Lab. KWMC is an arts and media organisation that delivers programmes ranging from citizen led housing, citizen sensing, to young peoples’ arts and technology programmes. KWMC works closely with academic institutions including University of Bristol and collaborated with Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures as part of the Horizon 20:20 Lighthouse project Replicate https://replicate-project.eu/. She is currently an International Ambassador for Bristol.
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.
Aawatif Hayar
President of Université Hassan II de Casablanca
Aawatif Hayar
President of Université Hassan II de CasablancaPr. Aawatif HAYAR President of University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco. She received, with honors,as the First Moroccan, the degree of “Agrégation” in Electrical Engineering from EcoleNormaleSupérieure de Cachan in 1992. She received the “Diplômed'EtudesApprofondies” in Signal processing Image and Communications and the degree of Engineer in Telecommunications Systems and Networks from ENSEEIHT de Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse in 2001. She was research and teaching associate at EURECOM’s Mobile Communication Department from 2001 to 2010 in Sophia Antipolis-France. AawatifHayarhas an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche) from University Sud Toulon Var from France on Cognitive Wideband Wireless Systems on 2010 and an HDR on Green Téléommunication from University Hassan II Casablanca on 2013. From 2011 till June 2019, AawatifHayar had Professor position at the engineering school ENSEM of University Hassan II Casablanca. Since June 2019, Pr. Aawatif Hayar was appointed President of the University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco and is the second female in the history of Morocco to occupy this position. She is also member of Casablanca “Avant-garde” City think-tank. She is co-initiator since 2013 of E-madina Smart City Cluster. Her research interests includes fields such as cognitive green communications systems, UWB systems, smart grids, smart sustainable social building, e-governance, open data for citizens, smart cities, ICT for social eco-friendly smart socio-economic development. Pr. AawatifHayaris also IEEE DLT Chair for EMEA region since 2014 and the designerof Frugal Social Sustainable Smart City concept for Casablanca and emerging countries which was selected by IEEE Smart City initiative as one of the most innovative projects in the world in 2015. Pr. AawatifHayar is currently Chair of Casablanca IEEE Core Smart City project. She was also selected by the prestigious African Innovation Foundation as one of the top ten innovative African women in 2015. Aawatif Hayar has developed “Frugal Social Collaborative Sustainable Smart City Casablanca“, a new concept for smart city transformation which was distinguished by IEEE Smart city initiative in 2015 as an innovative cost effective inclusive smart city concept. She is the Scientific Advisor, at the City level, of Smart City Expo Casablanca and General Co-Chair of IEEE international Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 -2019). Pr. Aawatif Hayar is currently leading or involved in a couple of R&D/Innovation projects with the City of Casablanca, the region Casablanca Settat, CNRST, INDH, GIZ and Heinrich Böll Stiftung such as End to End Energy Efficiency Living Lab, Virtual Museum of Casablanca, e-douar “Smart Inclusive Ecological village”and Solar Decathlon Africa E-Co Dar and Benguerir Smart City ASToN AFD projects.
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)Dr. Tuija Hirvikoski, emerita president of ENoLL has received a Ph.D. in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship). Hirvikoski has held various managerial positions at different Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development such as being a long-term Vice-President of Laurea. She has contributed to the development of several EU funded RDI projects particularly in the field of holistic and citizen-driven service innovation, eHealth and Wellbeing, Smart Citizens and Entrepreneurship. Hirvikoski represents Laurea in national and international organizations such as Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Coordinating Committee, ENoLL, Committee of the Regions, EC OSPP, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre and an invited expert on the EC European University Vision 2030 group. In 2016, she was rewarded with the international Innovation Luminary Award.
Susan Halford
Professor of Sociology University of Bristol, UK
Susan Halford
Professor of Sociology University of Bristol, UKSusan is a Geographer by training, has been a Sociologist for the past 25 years and over the past decade has worked across the social and engineering sciences with a research focus on the politics of digital data and infrastructures. As Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton until December 2018, she was a founding Director of the Web Science Institute where she also co-directed the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science. In 2019 Susan joined the University of Bristol as Professor of Sociology and founding co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, at the centre of the University’s new Temple Quarter innovation campus. Susan is a member of the UKRI Digital Economy Programme Board, the UK Biobank Ethics Committee and chairs the ESRC on New and Emerging forms of Data. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts and is currently President of the British Sociological Association 2018-21.
Living Labs in the Water Sector: political, social and technical aspects
When: Thursday 3 September, 14.00-15:30
Moderated by: Joëlle Mastelic & Florian Bürki
This workshop is organised in the framework of the Energy & Environment Taskforce of the European network of Living Labs ENoLL. Over the last two years, numerous Living Labs initiatives in the water sector have emerged. In order to raise awareness of these new initiatives, to connect the projects to the people responsible for carrying EU water policies and to facilitate networking, this workshop gives them a voice. It is co-organised by Water Europe and will demonstrate the links between public policies at the macro level, projects in Living Lab mode in the meso level, particularly in the H2020 framework program, and the tools implemented in the sector, representing the micro level.
Why participating:
– To better understand the European context
– To discover European projects that are starting up in the water sector
– To network between key players in the sector
– To find out more about existing funding opportunities for Living Labs
Expected outcomes after the session: Awareness on the context and activities, networking among the actors, increase in interactions.
Structure of the debate:
- Joelle Mastelic: Introduction of ENoLL Action Oriented Task Force and how does water fit into this task force
- Andrea Rubini: The high level view of the context
- Presentation of 3 use cases
o Dimitris Xevgenos – Executive Project Coordinator WATER-MINING, Tu Delft
o Frank Rogalla – Executive Project Coordinator, REWAISE, FCC Aqualia
o Kristina Wencki – Executive Project Coordinator, B-WaterSmart
Patrizia Busolini Policy part: the view from EU
Followed by a discussion in a round table format.
Speakers:
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western SwitzerlandDr Joëlle Mastelic is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. She has been teaching for 12 years in the fields of Business Economics and Energy and Environmental Techniques, in particular in the Energy Management major. She has also developed continuing education courses: CAS on "Sustainable Marketing" and participated in the launch of the interdisciplinary Master "New Product Development";. As a researcher, she is part of the InnoLab Unit (Entrepreneurship and Management Institute) and the Water Group (Energy and Environment Institute). Her area of expertise is innovation and marketing in the field of energy. She is in charge of the Energy Living Lab, a living laboratory whose aim is to put the user at the centre of the energy transition by co- developing innovative solutions with him. This laboratory has notably collaborated with Romande Energie, Transports Publics du Chablais and Losinger Marazzi by proposing service design approaches. It is currently working on disseminating the results by creating social franchises for the Energy Living Lab, with the support of the HES-SO strategic fund. Her publications and interventions focus on the empowerment and engagement of key stakeholders in the process of energy innovation within regional ecosystems. In terms of networking, she is part of the board of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as head of the Energy and Environment Taskforce. She is responsible for the Living Labs for Decarbonisation of Energy national program, financed by InnoSuisse, which brings together more than 20 partners, including Swiss Post and SBB, and whose aim is to develop a portfolio of innovative projects supported by InnoSuisse in the field of decarbonisation of energy. At the European level, it is an expert for the European Commission, and is collaborating in particular on the transformation of the Joint Research Center site in Ispra into a Living Lab dedicated to the energy and mobility of the future. As organizer and moderator, she has organized and facilitated numerous conferences, such as the Energy Forum on the integration of consumers in the energy transition: http://www.energyforum-vs.ch. She also moderated a workshop during the International Days of Sociology of Energy in Tours on the theme Information and support: what tools, what challenges? http://www.socio-energie2015.fr. She was the moderator of the day on Energy Transition: new roles for buildings and neighbourhoods? at the HEIG in Fribourg: http://pst-fr.com/zero-carbone. She has organised and moderated numerous participatory workshops, in particular in the framework of the international conferences Open Living Lab Days https://openlivinglabdays.com and Sustainable Energy Week https://www.eusew.eu. She has co-organised the Open Living Lab Days in Geneva with more than 500 participants and introduced by the UN office director. The participants have worked on the role of Living Labs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN https://www.ge.ch/agenda/open-living-lab-days-2018-olld.
Andrea Rubini
Director of Operations, Water Europe
Andrea Rubini
Director of Operations, Water Europe
Andrea Rubini holds a Master in Water Resources Engineering and has more than 30 years of international experience in the water and energy sector, in climate change and its impact in urban, industrial and ecosystem areas. He has spent the last 20 years in the context of multi-level European lobbying in Brussels where he has gained a deep experience of European R&I policies and funding. He has previously worked for the Italian Chamber of Commerce system, in Asia and Africa for INGO, UNDP, ILO and AfDP. The assignment as policy advisor for the Delegation of the Presidency of the Lombardy Region to the EU and the EC DG REGIO. Lastly, several assignments as visiting professor at universities in Europe, Asia and Africa complete his profile. Andrea currently works in Brussels as Director of Operations of Water Europe, the European Technology Platform for Water, assigned to Brussels as Director of Operations and is charge of the marketing and R&I collaboration programs of Water Europe.
Patrizia Busolini
Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security
Patrizia Busolini
Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security
Patrizia BUSOLINI is a policy officer at DG MARE Unit dealing with Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security. She is in charge of the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea (CMA) that aims at supporting regional cooperation for a more sustainable blue economy in the Black Sea and which is the 3 rd and most recent EU sea basin initiative that joins similar frameworks of cooperation in the Atlantic and Western Mediterranean. In the framework of its 3 goals - 1. Healthy marine ecosystems; 2. Innovative blue economy; 3. Investment - the CMA involves diverse Black Sea stakeholders: policy actors and public authorities, business, academia as well as civil society and international organization while research and innovation and digitalization are cross cutting enables of the process. She equally works on similar regional processes that are active in the Mediterranean basin. Pervious to this experience she was in charge of Enlargement and Integration Action of the EU Commission Joint Research Centre, focusing the identification and implementation of projects supporting Horizon 2020 Associated countries in participating to EU research and innovation projects. Before joining the EU Commission, she was responsible for the implementation of the Axis 4 of the EU INTERREG Mediterranean Programme and the related Mediterranean intergovernmental platform focusing capacity building to Programme countries in the identification and implementation of joint policies and projects targeting common challenges in strategic sectors such as maritime surveillance, coastal/maritime tourism and innovation.
Florian Bürki
Research Assistant, HES-SO Valais Wallis, Sierre, Switzerland
Florian Bürki
Research Assistant, HES-SO Valais Wallis, Sierre, Switzerland
Research assistant at the HES-SO Valais, I am also a Master student in Business Administration, Information Systems orientation. The applied research that I carry out at my institute focuses on open and social innovation, living labs and energy management. I am part of the Energy Living Lab, an open innovation ecosystem for the promotion of energy efficiency and renewable energies in French-speaking Switzerland.
Unveiling the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
When: DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 16:00-17:30
Moderated by: Prof. Fernando Vilariño
It is a well-known fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the main topics of interest in our societies. In a few years time, AI has trespassed the walls of Academia and has become one of the main pillars for innovation-led growth. Institutions such as the European Commission have placed AI in the center of their policies, and eventually, a deep debate has been created around the actual impact or impacts that AI will have in the years to come. But, are we aware of these impacts? Can we actually foresee such impacts or act with AI as we did with other technology revolutions in History? The aim of this session is to start to unveil the actual impact of AI, as a process of co-creation, deeply related to the way in which this essential transformations will be accessible to everyone. Will living labs play a crucial role in democratisation of AI, in the definition of the new societies around AI solutions?
Why participating:
– To better understand the implications of AI in our day by day
– To discover European and Global projects that are created around different dimensions of the social impact of AI.
– To network between key players in the sector
– To find out more about existing funding opportunities for Living Labs
Expected outcomes after the session: Awareness on the context and activities, networking among the actors, increase in interactions.
Structure of the debate:
- Prof. Fernando Vilariño (Computer Vision Center – ENoLL): Introduction of ENoLL Action Oriented Task Force and how does Social Impact of AI fit into this task force
- Ms. Mayte Hidalgo (Everis): How social impact of AI is becoming a key element for the small and large scale projects.
- Ms. Andrea Halmos (DG-CONNECT, European Commission): How AI-enabled solutions can help cities and communities make better decisions and achieve climate related-objectives.
- Mr. Amir Banifatemi (AI for Good, AI COMMONS, XPrize): AI for Good and AI COMMONS. Empowering everyone in the world to solve our social challenges.
Followed by a discussion in a round table format.
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Prof. Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
Mayte Sánchez Hidalgo
YBRID SOLUTIONS BUSINESS LEADER - EVERIS DIGITAL
Mayte Sánchez Hidalgo
YBRID SOLUTIONS BUSINESS LEADER - EVERIS DIGITALMayte started her career in Microsoft, MSN Search. In 2002 she moved to USA as Fulbright Scholar to research on data and customer centricity with the team of Kellogg on Integrated Marketing. She worked as CRM consultant at Banco Santander, CMO of FON Wireless and Strategic Mktng Dtor at NH Hotels. She is now Hybrid Solutions Leader at everis Digital. Mayte has completed studies in Spain, Chile and Italy, holds a MS by Northwestern University and speaks Spanish, English, Italian & basic Arab.
Amir Banifatemi
Curator and Co-funder of AI commons
Amir Banifatemi
Curator and Co-funder of AI commonsBanifatemi is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the managing partner of K5 Ventures, and currently leads the AI and Frontiers Technologies and Impact initiatives with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder the AI Commons Initiative, and curator of the AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds, and supports and advises companies focused on exponential technologies and transformation of humanity and society. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris. He is a regular guest lecturer and adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.