Digital City

De energietransitie is één van de grote uitdagingen voor de komende decennia. Nederlandse gemeenten maken in de komende jaren wijk voor wijk de overstap naar hernieuwbare energie. Maar: hoe zorgen we ervoor dat iedereen mee kan doen aan deze energietransitie en dat het toch snel genoeg gaat? Hierover gaan we in gesprek tijdens de Out of Office op 31 oktober! We gaan op zoek naar nieuwe inzichten, ontmoetingen en inspiratie, onder het genot van een hapje en drankje.

Spreker: Thijs van Spaandonk. Thijs is stedelijk ontwerper en curator ‘energietransitie als hefboom’ van de Internationale Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam (IABR) 2020. Hij ziet de energietransitie waar steden voor staan als drijvende kracht achter een inclusieve stadsontwikkeling én andere belangrijke opgaven zoals voedselvoorziening, productiviteit, goed wonen, en sociale gelijkheid. Daarmee is de energietransitie niet alleen een doel maar ook een middel dat bewust kan worden ingezet om te werken aan aantrekkelijke, veerkrachtige en inclusieve steden.

Dit vraagt om een fundamenteel andere, veel bredere en meer integrale benadering en daarmee ook om een andere rolverdeling en samenwerking tussen gemeenten, bewoners, bedrijven en instellingen. Maar hoe ziet dit er dan uit? En welke stappen moeten we zetten om hier te komen? Tijdens deze Out of Office gaat Thijs van Spaandonk in op deze vragen en deelt hij zijn inzichten en ervaringen uit binnen- en buitenland. Vervolgens gaan we gezamenlijk in gesprek om te komen tot oplossingsrichtingen.

We’re thrilled to have Royal Haskoning RHDV as a signatory of the Tada (https://tada.city/) movement in #Amsterdam.

"We know that the promise of using data can be huge – and this ties in closely in our collaboration with City of Amsterdam to optimise peopleflows in the city centre," says Frank Legter (Director Business Unit Transport & Planning Europe) "But we must ensure that we collect data correctly and enable people to stay in control of their data so that we create responsible digital cities."

Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city

If the whole world changes as a result of the rise of internet technology and digitization, how will urban planning, planning and spatial planning change? What are the new starting points? And how should directors, designers, organizers and managers get to work on this? The Future City Foundation, started working with those questions, together with 26 partners, in the past year. In the book 'A smart city, this is how you do it - Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city' you can read the result.

The first question we have asked ourselves is what kind of city we want. When we are in a transition, it is good to set the limits. We put it on two levels. First, we want a city that meets the requirements of sustainable development goal 11: inclusive, safe, healthy and sustainable. But we also want us to be able to live there in freedom.

Then we asked the question of how digitization and technology affect our regions, cities and villages. We conclude that connectedness is the real game changer. We are always connected to everything and everyone. Everything becomes a smart and democratic network. This network makes us very flexible. We can do everything anywhere.

Finally, we asked ourselves where we want to be. We seek meaning. That makes the profession of the designer more important than ever. Even if we can be everywhere, we are only in one place. Then of course we choose the place where we prefer to be. But how do you design that place? And in addition: how do we prevent ourselves from being over-stimulated? Here perhaps lies the core. Because smart urbanism is not about smart, not about technology. But about the consequences. About how society is changing. The role that citizens, businesses and governments have also shifts from one another. We hope this leads to more citizenship. To more influence of people on their living environment.

You read it in the book “A smart city, this is how you do it - Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city,” published on October 28, 2019. With theory in essays and interviews with inspiring precursors. 26 tutorials with step-by-step instructions and other process tools to comprehend the theory. And 15 practical examples, in which you learn how our regions, cities and villages have already changed. This book is a publication of the Future City Foundation in collaboration with BNSP, NVTL and 24 other partners.

The book is in Dutch. Mid november the English version is published.
Order the book via https://future-city.nl/smartstedenbouw. Digital reading is free, for a printed version we charge € 29.

In today’s hyper-connected society, new technologies are disrupting every aspect of our lives, our work, and our environment.
Now in its 5th year, Connected World 2019 will deep dive into the future of smart technologies, showcasing the digital transformation strategies of our cities, the opportunities for connected living in our homes, new era of connectivity and revolutionary techniques on the horizon, driving efficiencies and sustainability across every aspect of our lives.
Discover the future of smart cities, connected places & tomorrow's digital world at Connected World Summit 2019 taking place at The Business Design Centre in London on 22nd/23rd October.
2 days of event will see 1000+ attendees, 150+ speakers, 20+ exhibitors.
The conference programme focuses on 6 main themes: Smart Cities, Smart Homes, Utilities and Environment, Smart Mobility, Connectivity and the Economy and provides an essential platform for learning as well as discussing the opportunities of connected technology with industry experts and leaders in technology.

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5G Innovation Challenge op 28 November - op zoek naar het beste 5G idee!

Heb je een goed idee waar je 5G goed voor kunt of moet gebruiken? Meld je dan aan!
Telecompaper biedt je een platform: de 5G Innovation Challenge op 28 November, als onderdeel van Telecompaper's congres over 5G. Het congres heeft als thema 'De impact van 5G op Nederland' en we zijn dan ook op zoek naar ideeën of producten of oplossingen die dmv 5G een positieve bijdrage aan de Nederlandse economie/maatschappij kunnen leveren.

Op ons congres krijg je de kans om aan een divers publiek je product/oplossing te laten zien en tevens te netwerken met deelnemers uit vele verschillende sectoren, zoals de overheid, telecom operators, consultancies, investeerders en de media.

Zie https://www.telecominsights.nl/#InnovationChallenge voor de inschrijvings criteria.

Voor vragen bel Marion ter Welle op 030-6349663 of mail naar feedback@telecompaper.com

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Op naar een meer sociaal-inclusieve energietransitie in en vernieuwing van de wijk!

Are you a researcher and do you have a challenging research question that might benefit from machine learning, deep learning or AI? And do you have the data to start working on this question? If so, this workshop is for you.

Tell us about your idea and your team (3-5 people). From all submitted ideas we will invite up to five teams to spend a week of hands-on work with two machine learning experts. Together, we will explore your data in order to find the best machine learning strategy with which to tackle your scientific question. The workshop will be a collaborative effort in which we will share knowledge, develop and explore new ideas and boost your understanding of current machine learning techniques.

At least two team members should be based at a Dutch university or research institute that is affiliated with NWO, KNAW, universities for applied sciences (“hogescholen”), or TO2. Proposals can come from any scientific domain. The workshop will be free of charge (1-week workshop including lunch, but no travel expenses or accommodation costs).

Requirements:

A team
This workshop is a collaborative effort and we ask for submissions from teams of between 3 and 5 people. Your fellow members should all share a strong interest in the proposed research question, but may be as diverse as you like and can range from students to professors and include different disciplines, faculties, levels of expertise, etc. We strongly encourage submissions from teams comprising a diverse mix of researchers from different universities or institutes.

Data
To get the most out of this one-week workshop, the data you want to work with must be available for use during the workshop. Before accepting a proposal, we may ask you to let us briefly inspect the data in order to make sure it is ready to be used for hands-on work during the workshop. If you are unsure whether your data is suitable, please don’t hesitate to contact us before applying.

Basic programming skills
We do not expect expert-level programming skills or prior experience with machine learning, as long as you are keen to learn new things. However, at least some team members should have basic programming experience so that we can focus on actual hands-on work during the workshop. Since we will work in very small teams, we can easily adapt to your level of expertise.
If you’re still worried you might not have the right computational skills, please feel free to contact us.

How to apply?
To apply, please visit: https://www.esciencecenter.nl//workshop-machine-learning-for-research

It is highly unlikely that Yandex.Taxi will purchase the assets of “Vezyot” GC , as planned before. In response to the taxi aggregator Gett’s complaint, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service might not allow to conclude a deal in some regions of Russia, where it can have a negative impact on competition. In this case the the Service will order shareholders not to sell assets or sell them to another competitor. Alfa-Bank analysts consider that Mail.ru Group’s “Citymobil” is the most probable competitor to buy the assets of “Vezyot” in the regions.

In July Yandex claimed it planned to buy the software and call-centers of “Vezyot” GC and therefore submitted an application to the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service. Mail.ru Group claimed that the parties had to obtain a written permit for asset purchasing from Mail.ru Group, which gave a convertible loan to “Vezyot” in 2018. In return “Vezyot” replied they had not broken lending laws.

Yandex.Taxi IPO launch was planned for 2019 or 2020. According to a recent evaluation, the service costs $7.7–8.5 billion, while the whole Yandex’s capitalization costs $12.4 billion.

In Moscow Yandex.Taxi’s (together with Uber) taxi aggregator market share is over 68%, and “Vezyot” only has 2% of shares. At the same time across Russia Yandex.Taxi has about 47% of shares, while “Vezyot” has 24%. in Moscow Gett got 5.7% market shares and in the whole Russian market it got 9.7%.

According to Discovery Research Group, the Russian taxi aggregator market’s monetary value was estimated at 290.5 billion rubles in 2018 (146.8 billion in the previous year). Analysts note that aggregators put conventional taxi companies under the control of IT companies.

Telecom news
• Beeline launched a 5G pilot testbed in “Luzhniki” and broadcasted it via social networks. The operator claimed during testing they recorded 3.3 Gbps speed per one Huawei device.

• MTS in turn tested Solutions for smart transport in the pilot area in VDNH and presented 3 5G use case scenarios to increase on road safety — “Smart overtaking”, “Smart crossroad” and “Safe pedestrian”.

• First official news about the anticipated reorganizing of the Moscow broadband internet service provide leader, MGTS, came out. From September 16, its Director General Pavel Kuznetsov also holds the position of the MTS Moscow region Director, previously held by Igor Egorov. Previously the news about MGTS reorganization was reported by “Kommersant”. The information about new appointments in top management is stated in the operator’s documents, though MTS had not commented on it yet.

• Moreover, this week MTS launched a ticket selling platform “MTS Afisha” and plans to open “MTS Live Arena” concert venue for up to 11.5 thousand people. It Will be located near “Skolkovo” innovation center.

• Vitaliy Klishin was appointed Director of the Moscow branch of “ER-Telecom”. He previously held the position of Vice President of “AMT-Group” and worked for “Volga Telecom” and “AKADO”. He will start modernizing the network and increasing revenues, including B2B segment, which the company has been working in since last autumn.

• Tele2 obtained the permission to continue eSIM testing from the Ministry of Communications. The Ministry stated that the operator fixed all eSIM security issues and the test algorithm full supports subscriber identification. Up to 15 thousand subscribers will participate in the testing.

Retail for online
Experts note that one of the trends in telecom retail is the openness of the infrastructure for partners within the concept of digital services department store. Last week two pieces of news were dedicated to the examples of such cooperation.

MTS in its phone stores will offer clients to install a set of apps with Yandex services (Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Taxi, Yandex.Drive and Auto.ru)on their smartphones. The internet company’s apps will be available in other retail stores.

Megafon in its phone stores allowed users to verify their identity in Yandex.Money. This option is also available in “Svyaznoy”, “Euroset” stores and “Unistream” offices.

instagrid - we are a start-up with new technology for the world's most advanced battery-driven portable power supply. Our products can replace mobile diesel generators, that are still largely used on construction sites, reducing local emissions to zero and improving the air quality in the city. We would like Amsterdam to be one of the pioneering cities to test and implement this new technology.

On the 17th of October in Almere, we welcome you to join us in our search for innovation and the impact of 5G on topics related to the Floriade: smart mobility, IoT/Smart City, Smart Farming, Drone delivery and 5G design. In a public-private partnership (Almere, Floriade and BTG), we have created a program which is designed around sharing the I-street strategy of the Floriade, sharing the 'digital city' strategy of Almere, learning of best practices of Amsterdam Smart City and taking a deep dive into the challenges of the Floriade.

So....be inspired, be engaged and standby to share your knowledge with your peers! We are hoping to attract entrepreneurs, IT suppliers, government officials and more.....

We hope to see you there! Team Almere, Floriade and BTG!

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If you're interested in urban innovation and the development of smart cities, you won't want to miss the panel discussion organized by the Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator powered by Techstars on Wednesday, September 25th at AMS Institute. There will be a brief presentation by Techstars Managing Director David Mendez then a panel diving into challenges and opportunities around innovation in Amsterdam.
Moderated by Carolien Gehrels, European Director Big Urban Cities at Arcadis, the panel will include:
- Patrick van Hoof - Global Director Digital Innovation, Arcadis
- Ger Baron - CTO Innovation Team, City of Amsterdam
- Kenneth Heijns - Managing Director, AMS Institute
- Sarah Bork - Strategic Advisor at the Engineering Office, City of Amsterdam
- Tom van Arman - Smart City Strategist & Future City Maker

The panel will be followed by open Q&A and networking over drinks and snacks.

DETAILS
When: Wednesday, September 25th. Doors open at 5:30pm, the panel will begin at 5:45pm.
Where: AMS Institute (Kattenburgerstraat 7, Building 27W)
Register: https://city-of-2030-meet-and-greet-amsterdam.eventbrite.com

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator, Powered by Techstars is a 3-month intensive program based in Amsterdam designed to rapidly accelerate software-based startups with disruptive ideas to improve the quality of life across the following topics: mobility, resilience, resources (energy, water, food and air), urban development and regeneration.

You can learn more here: https://www.techstars.com/arcadis-program/

Would you like to expose large organisations like Siemens, Innogy, Bosch Software Innovations, Volkswagen or Schindler to your innovative digital service or product? Check out our scale-up trade mission to Berlin end of October. Check whether you meet the criteria and apply to be selected via the link. Don't read Dutch? Don't worry, we've got you covered, just get in touch with Anne Lieke Vonk (annelieke@dutchbasecamp.org) or anyone at DutchBasecamp. Organised together with the RVO and the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
#berlin #scaleup #trademission #meetyourcustomer

Map the future of your business in a meaningful way!

The future is uncertain. Recent environmental, societal and technological developments give us a hard time understanding the changes our world goes through. For Businesses it can be challenging to keep up. A focus on products, services and customers isn’t enough anymore: it also means understanding the world and our relationship with it, and within it, in a different way.

Speculative design is an approach that offers tools to map the future in a meaningful way. Instead of focussing on problems in the present, speculative designs imagines how developments change over time and effect the future. By building a both possible and preferable future you combine business vision and practice. It enables you to describe your role in the near future as a business and offers speculation about matching products or services. It opens up ways of thinking about business beyond an immediate attempt to solve current problems, and instead see opportunities to affect longer term change in the world.

We will use the intervention design approach, a method that aims at (re)shaping a new practice that is useful now, not in the future.

Prices:

Professionals: €449,-
Edu2edu fee - €349,-
E-Week discount code available

Instructors:

Theo Ploeg
Dedicated accelerationist. design and media sociologist. tells stories of possible futures. Lives happily in the extreme now. Researches, teaches, talks and writes. Wandering on the edges of speculative design, design fiction, pop culture, accelerationism and speculative realism. Co-Founder of Speculative Futures Amsterdam.

Mick Jongeling
I research the visual and social impact of rapidly developing technologies on individuals and society. I strive to create pieces of work that questions the current state of the Internet and our involvement in it, being it by speculative design, participatory design or field research. Co-Founder of Speculative Futures Amsterdam.

Russian mobile operator MTS has launched a 5G zone at VDNKh (All-Russian Exhibition Center), one of Moscow’s major attractions. Equipped by Huawei and functioning on the 28GHz and 4.9GHz frequency bands, the network became operational on Thursday. It will test so-called Smart City technology, designed to improve security and urban services management, as well as helping to develop Moscow’s transport system.
The agreement between MTS and Huawei was signed in June during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
5G is speeding up the development of self-driving vehicles in Moscow together with other future technologies, according to Eduard Lysenko, Head of the city’s Department of Information Technology: “Moscow is looking into the implementation of telemedicine and IoT technologies in city services which require a secure and fast connection”.
While the super-fast network is currently available around only one of the pavilions in the VDNKh complex, the pilot zone is expected to expand and cover almost the whole of the VDNKh area by 2020.
Owners of 5G-capable smartphones will be able to enjoy super-fast internet connections after the network’s commercial launch, as the first phone connected to the network demonstrated an internet speed of 1.2Gbps. This means it will take around one minute to download a full HD movie.
Moscow’s first 5G zone was launched earlier this month and covers the famous Tverskaya Street. Swedish telecom company Ericsson provided the equipment for the network, which is run by Russian mobile operator Tele2. By the end of this year, Moscow is expected to have four pilot zones, each operated by one of Russia’s four major telecom providers.

Op 24 september is er een werksessie, tijdens de Common Ground week van VNG, waarin onderzocht wordt welk bovenstedelijk programma nodig is om de 'slimme stad' pilots en projecten op te schalen, naar grote icoonprojecten voor Nederland.

De openbare ruimte wordt steeds verder gedigitaliseerd. Sensornetwerken slinger zich door de stad, we willen schonere lucht, betere doorstroming van het verkeer, bestand tegen hoosbuien en hitte. Er komen ook grote veranderingen aan die de stad letterlijk op de schop nemen: de grond moet open voor gasbuizen, stroomvoorziening, riolen, glasvezel. Werkelijk unieke kansen om de stad te digitaliseren.

Denk en doe mee tijdens dit PI event.

Locatie: Catharijnesingel 55 Utrecht, op loopafstand van CS Utrecht
Dag en tijd: 24 september van 9:00-14:00 (inclusief lunch)
Aanmelden: via email naar h.nouwens@connectedworlds.nl

TechBridge Sweden/The Netherlands is a concept initiated by the Swedish Embassy in The Netherlands, Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Epicenter Amsterdam with the ambition to increase the knowledge about Sweden and The Netherlands as two world-leading nations when it comes to technological innovation.

This first edition of TechBridge Sweden/The Netherlands is highlighting the potentials of “Women in Tech” and will be a pre-event to the European Women Technology Conference in Amsterdam taking place on November 26-27th, 2019. This edition of TechBridge has been designed to inspire, celebrate and connect Women in Tech. We will deep dive into what the challenges are for Women in Tech, what we can learn from each other, how we can encourage more girls to choose technology studies and how we change the patterns of investors.

Sweden and the Netherlands have traditionally very strong trade relations and in recent years the tech industry has impacted the bilateral bond even more and the traffic is high. Both Amsterdam and Stockholm are widely described as the tech start-up capitals and rank high in most internationally recognized lists of competitiveness and innovation capacity.

On 7 October 2019 the Nordic Embassies and Chamber of Commerce’s in the Netherlands are inviting you to an interactive cross-boarder Artificial Intelligence Forum to explore the future if the AI landscape and to present a live exhibition with some of the latest technologies.

Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives. It influences how we work and play. It promises to help solve global challenges like climate change and access to quality medical care. Yet AI also brings real challenges for governments and citizens alike.

At the #NordicTalk2019 AI Forum we bring together Governments, Ministries, start-ups, SME’s and large corporations to discuss and explore the applications of AI, AR/VR and other technologies, and what makes them successful.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Epicenter Amsterdam and TeekensKarstens advocaten notarissen welcome you to a Breakfast Presentation about the legal aspects of the interaction between blockchain and the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR).

We will discuss characteristics of the different blockchains as well as the scope of protection of the GDPR. We will point out some relevant issues and we will address solutions how to comply with the GDPR and still be able to benefit from the advantages of the blockchain.

Swedish Breakfast fika will be served.

De veranderingen op het gebied van duurzaamheid zijn in volle gang. Elektrische auto’s, warmtepompen en zonnepanelen zorgen ervoor dat we steeds dichterbij en zelfs in huis ons steentje bij kunnen dragen. Deze vernieuwingen doen tegelijkertijd een groot beroep op het elektriciteitsnet in de stad. Om de toenemende vraag naar stroom te kunnen blijven leveren, is meer infrastructuur nodig. Maar ook anders omgaan met ons verbruik en keuzes maken zijn noodzakelijk.

Wat zijn de keuzes die we moeten maken over de openbare ruimte en de infrastructuur van ons stroomnet? Op welke manier kunnen we bewoners hierbij betrekken? Wat is nodig om hierin vooruit te blijven gaan? Samen met partners van Amsterdam Smart City zoals overheid, bedrijven en bewoners, gaan wij hierover in gesprek.

Energietransitie
De energietransitie zorgt voor een steeds groter wordende uitdaging: de druk op het elektriciteitsnet. De vraag naar elektriciteit neemt toe naarmate de stad verduurzaamt. Dit zorgt ervoor dat de infrastructuur moet worden uitgebreid, maar ook dat er belangrijke keuzes moeten worden gemaakt. In de schaarser wordende ruimte in de stad lijkt bovendien meer plek te moeten komen voor transformatorhuisjes om in de elektriciteitsbehoefte te blijven voorzien.

Voor de beslissingen over de openbare ruimte worden bewoners steeds vaker betrokken. Zeker nu de Omgevingswet over twee jaar zal worden ingevoerd. Deze nieuwe wet moet ervoor zorgen dat de ruimtelijke ordening integraler, flexibeler, dichter bij de burger en eenvoudiger moet. Hoe moeten we dit in de praktijk vormgeven? Welke manieren van participatie werken hierbij?

We, Marketplace.city, have partners looking for innovative smart building and smart lighting solutions for a new build construction on multiple buildings in a multi-use facility.

The development will include 700 multifamily units, 370k sq-ft in office space, 100k sq-ft of flexible space, over 300 hotel rooms and 1600 parking space across 30 acres. The project is located in the United States.

Do you have these solutions ready? Find more information and register your interest at https://marketplace.city/cities/public-private-partnership.

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