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Open Innovation @ Databooster Webinar

Implementation of open innovation within the framework of the Innovationbooster “Databooster” powered by Innosuisse. Get to know new opportunities followed by a Q&A session.

More details will be announced soon.

Industry 4.0 Workshop

The Focus Topic “Industry 4.0” includes multiple innovative technologies in the area of industrial production. The focus is on intelligent and digitally connected systems. The full value chain from purchasing over logistics to manufacturing, are affected. However, two main areas of application are emerging: the smart factory and data-based services. In the smart factory, Industry 4.0 encompasses three levels of process automation: (1) condition monitoring of a machine or process, (2) data-based optimization through predictive intervention, and (3) self-organization of a system through self-diagnosis and autonomous machine decisions. Industry 4.0 also consists of a variety of other technologies such as augmented reality, digital twins, and mobile/collaborative robots.

Swiss industry is very well placed to play an efficient role in the developments surrounding Industry 4.0. We will explore the realm of Industry 4.0 in a joint event by Innovation Booster Robotics and Innovation Databooster.

The event is free to attend with a lunch and refreshments provided by the organizer.

Registration can be found here: Registration

Expert Day

Agenda

13:00Door Opening
13:15Welcome
13:30Keynote of PhD. Kyle Alves, Senior Lecturer of Information Systems & Operations Management,
University of the West of England
14:00Expert Group Meetings (part 1)
15:00Break
15:30Expert Group Meetings (part 2)
17:30Apéro

The Expert Groups will be represented by:

Organizer: Kyle Alves and Shaun West

  • Objectives: In this session we will illustrate the diversity of opportunities associated with increased adoption of digital technologies in food chains.
  • Related questions: How can food supply chain performance simultaneously meet ESG and profitability targets? How is the adoption of new supply chain technology now more accessible to SMEs? What knowledge and skills are needed for sustained performance? How can supply chain finance support adoption?
  • What they will learn: Attendees will learn from practical, real-world examples of digital supply chains focused on SMEs. These examples contain opportunities for success as well as emerging challenges associated with these projects.

Organizer: Michele Bolla, Tamfal Tomas (ERNI), EG Spatial Data (Stefan Keller, Reik Leiterer)

In this workshop, organized by ERNI and the Spatial Data Expert Group, we would like to bring together experts from different fields to jointly identify needs and possible new approaches in the field of open data and geospatial applications. Participants will get insights on current technology topics, discuss innovative solution and possible use-cases and get to know potential technology providers. Within a ideation workshop we will explore in more depth challenges mentioned by the participants and moving to the idea stage. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to network with potential project partners and, ideally, start a collaboration project that can be funded by the databooster program. (and of course there will be coffee again and an apéro afterwards)

Coming soon!

Keynote

We welcome our keynote speaker PhD. Kyle Alves, Senior Lecturer of Information Systems & Operations Management, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), Faculty of Business and Law

He is a member of the Innovation, Operations Management & Supply (IOMS) Research Group as well as the management team for the Data Research Access & Governance Network at UWE and the Food Systems Research Network at UWE

Biography: I am an Early Career Researcher focused on remaining engaged with businesses on real-world challenges.  My research and projects examine the overlapping areas of management, new technologies, and coordinated supply chains.  My research goals target ways in which positive social impact can be maximised using innovative new technologies and approaches to managing operations.

This presentation illustrates the experience of creating the world’s first digitally traceable sandwich.  The Digital Sandwich project created a national demonstrator of a digitalized food supply chain, focused on sandwich manufacturing.  The project established an integrated digital platform that fuses multiple industrial digital technologies (Blockchain, AI, IoT, Finance) into a single technology stack operating within a standard business ERP. The project aims to step change manufacturing productivity, consumer safety, financing and trust within the food supply chain.

Emerging from the case were innovative new applications connected to supply chain performance data, as well as new challenges associated with privacy and commercially sensitive data.   

The challenge is interdisciplinary, affecting the areas of food production, land use, policy/regulation, food logistics, energy systems, consumer behaviour, and many others.

  • Objectives: In this session we will illustrate the diversity of opportunities associated with increased adoption of digital technologies in food chains.
  • Related questions: How can food supply chain performance simultaneously meet ESG and profitability targets? How is the adoption of new supply chain technology now more accessible to SMEs? What knowledge and skills are needed for sustained performance? How can supply chain finance support adoption?
  • What they will learn: Attendees will learn from practical, real-world examples of digital supply chains focused on SMEs. These examples contain opportunities for success as well as emerging challenges associated with these projects.

Open Thinking Zurich

End the working day with some inspiration? Making new contacts and exchange with like-minded people, getting updates on current developments in the field of Data Science – and above all, experience lots of creativity and the development of new ideas? And all this in the center of Zurich and only 5 minutes from the train station?

Then the third Open Thinking event on 21 September 2023, 5:00 PM, is the right place for you. Get involved and experience how your idea takes wings! Looking forward to meeting you there.

Registration required – the respective venue will be communicated 2 weeks in advance.

Open Thinking Zurich

End the working day with some inspiration? Making new contacts and exchange with like-minded people, getting updates on current developments in the field of Data Science – and above all, experience lots of creativity and the development of new ideas? And all this in the center of Zurich and only 5 minutes from the train station?

Then the first Beerstorming event on 25 May 2023, 5:00 PM, is the right place for you. Get involved and experience how your idea takes wings! Can’t make it? Don’t worry as there are other beerstorming events on 07 July in Bern and 21 September in Zurich!

Registration required – the respective venue will be communicated 2 weeks in advance.

Expert Day

We invite you to the second iteration of the Expert Day. Join us in an exchange of expertise and find inspiration. These following groups will participate:

  • Natural Language Processing & Big Data Technologies
  • Smart Maintenance
  • Smart Services
  • Spatial Data Analytics

Detailed Program:

15:00 – Welcome
15:30 – Keynote by Prof. Pierre Dersin
16:10 – Expert Group Meetings in breakout rooms (see below)
17:40 – Apéro

Data-driven Value Added for Words, Images and Things

Digital transformation is a defining feature of our epoch.

Abundance of data, immense increase in hardware processing capabilities and breakthroughs in analytics algorithms have made practical some of the visions put forward about three quarters of a century ago. The branch of Artificial Intelligence called Machine Learning, and in particular Deep Learning, permeates image processing, natural language processing ( “ words”) and smart maintenance (‘things’), and furthermore enables rich synergies between those three fields, which span a great deal of human activity, with profound potential impacts—some already visible, on industry, science, the arts and social life.

Natural Language Processing & Big Data Technologies

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT these days and some of its output is truly impressive! We will discuss how the most recent wave of text generation algorithms can transform business, science and teaching. The meeting will feature the following expert talks:

Grounded Copywriting with ChatGPT & Co
by Michael Wechner (Wyona AG) + Colin Carter (Coop Rechtsschutz)
Everyone talks about the pros and cons of ChatGPT, its competitors and how to combine the generated text with grounded knowledge. We will demonstrate how ChatGPT & Co can be applied in insurance and discuss the future of retrieval augmented language models.

Can we Identify Machine-Generated Text? An Overview of Current Approaches
by Anastassia Shaitarova (UZH Institute for Computational Linguistics)

The detection of machine-generated text has become increasingly important due to the prevalence of automated content generation and its potential for misuse. In this talk, we will discuss the motivation for automatic detection of generated text. We will present the currently available methods, including feature-based classification as a “first line-of-defense.” We will provide an overview of the detection tools that have been made available so far and discuss their limitations. Finally, we will reflect on some open problems associated with the automatic discrimination of generated texts.

Using AI to Query the Football World Cup Database in Natural Language
by Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW Institute for Applied Information Technology)

Football is one of the most popular sports on earth with millions of people watching the FIFA world cup. In this talk, we describe how we built a system to query the world cup database in natural language. We explain how we translate natural language into the database query language SQL using modern transformer architecture. We also demonstrate how we have used large language models such as Open AI’s GPT-3 and Google’s T5 to explain how the system interprets users’ questions.

We are looking forward to exchanging opinions, experiences and questions, and to exploring this exciting field together!

Smart Maintenance

The value of condition monitoring data: 5 use cases. 

In this meeting of the Smart Maintenance Expert Group we will hear about successful student projects conducted together with industry partners from various fields. The focus points of the projects are very diverse, ranging from prediction of energy losses, through anomaly detection, fault diagnostics, prediction of the remaining useful life and optimal maintenance scheduling.  We will have 5 short pitch presentations, followed by an interactive discussion of future interest topics of our expert group, including active feedback of all participants.

  • Anomaly Detection in Marine Engines with Convolutional Neural Networks (Company: WinGD)
  • Aircraft Scheduling Optimization based on Prognostics Degradation Models (Company: Swiss International Airlines)
  • Modeling Wake Energy Losses in Wind Farms using Graph Neural Networks (Company: Fluence Energy)
  • Using Error Code Patterns to Predict Service Requests on Production Machines with Machine Learning (Company: Zünd Systemtechnik).
  • Fault Detection in Solar Power Plants using Physics Informed Deep Learning (Company: Fluence Energy)

Smart services for sustainability – circular servitization

With data-driven services, industrial companies can create quantifiable value for their customers, partners and themselves. At the same time, these services also have the potential for ecological benefits, e.g., through optimized processes in operations or logistics. To make this possible, economic and ecological goals must be captured in a targeted and combined manner when designing the services.

The 1.5-hour workshop will discuss how specific problems from everyday business can be systematically addressed to create relevant added value for business and ecology. Participants will bring their own business issue and leave the workshop with a first approach on how to create economic and environmental value through smart services. The workshop will run through typical phases of a project in a compressed time format to give an impression of what such a project might look like on a larger scale.

Spatial Data Analytics

High-quality spatial data is increasingly available for free use. However, with the large amount of data and the sometimes very specific data types and formats, it is challenging to find the appropriate data sources. In addition, some of the data access platforms are only partially intuitive and can be used without expert knowledge. Accordingly, the question arises whether the full potential of the available data base could not be better exploited if data access and data sharing were simplified. In this co-creation workshop, concepts and approaches will be reflected and discussed with representatives from research and industry as well as from cantonal and federal agencies, with the aim of developing possible approaches for joint implementation.

Lunch & Lecture – Brainfood zum Zmittag

Machen Sie sich in der Mittagspause fit für wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse: Diskutieren Sie mit!
Die leckeren Sandwiches und Getränke vom Lilly Jo“ sorgen fürs kulinarische Wohl und sind im Eintrittspreis inbegriffen.
Eine Veranstaltungsreihe in Kooperation mit der Universität Zürich

Innovation Made in Switzerland
Warum ist die Schweiz das innovativste Land der Welt?
Wie schafft es die Schweiz, die Rangliste des Global Innovation Index seit Jahren anzuführen? Eine entscheidende Rolle spielen auf jeden Fall staatliche und kantonale Förderagenturen sowie regionale Denkfabriken. Aber was ist überhaupt eine Innovation und wie wird der Innovationsgrad gemessen? Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einer Idee, einer Erfindung und einer Innovation? Und welche unternehmerischen Voraussetzungen braucht «echte» Innovation?

Gast
Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki; Managing Director der Data Innovation Alliance Nachhaltigkeit

Leitung und Moderation
Dr. Dana Sindermann, Paulus Akademie
Dr. Reik Leiterer, Universität Zürich

Veranstaltungsort

Paulus Akademie, Pfingstweidstrassse 28, 8005 Zürich

Kosten

CHF 30.- (inkl. Sandwich, Salat und Getränk); CHF 20.- für Mitglieder Gönnerverein, Studierende und Lernende, IV-Bezüger und mit KulturLegi.

Anmeldeschluss

Montag, 30.01.2023

Link Programmflyer

Programmflyer

2nd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF)

The goal of the European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF) is to foster the dialogue between researchers working on algorithmic fairness in the context of Europe’s legal and societal framework, especially in light of the EU’s attempts to promote ethical AI. It is thus a space for researchers to discuss fairness in machine learning with an interdisciplinary perspective related to Europe.

The workshop aims to be highly interdisciplinary. This means that it will connect a variety of fields and perspectives including but not limited to mathematical, philosophical, computer science, legal, psychological, sociological, critical studies and management perspectives.

You can learn more about our workshop on our website.

PUBLIC EVENT: Expert Group Meeting – Smart Maintenance Webinar

Dear Colleagues

We would like to invite you to a special “End of the Year” webinar on Friday 16.12.2022 at 14:30. We are delighted to have Dr. Gabriel Michau as our speaker, telling about his research work titled:

Whispering machines: Deep Learning for viable Condition Based Maintenance

Which was recently published in the highly prestigious journal PNAS. The talk description can be found here: Link.

The Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Michau is leading the development of Data-Driven maintenance solutions at Stadler Service AG, piloting end-to-end data-driven projects, from identifying the sensing technology to the optimisation of the existing maintenance strategies. He specialised in the development of innovative deep learning algorithms for the processing of industrial data as Senior Scientist at the ETH Zürich, in the Chair of Intelligent Maintenance Systems. At the ZHAW, he worked on several innovation projects with industrial partners to develop machine learning solutions to specific problems met by the industries. Gabriel holds a joint PhD between the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in Physics, specialised in convex optimisation and the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, in Traffic Engineering.

You can use the following link to join the webinar: Microsoft Teams Meeting

We hope to see you all there!

Best Regards

Maik, Manuel, Thomas and Lilach,

The Smart Maintenance Expert Group.

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