Amsterdam Smart City

Organisers

The 2-day OI2 Conference is co-organised by the European Commission DG CONNECT's Open Innovation Group (OISPG) together with Intel Labs Europe, Committee of the Regions,CGI, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, City of Amsterdam, and kindly supported by Dublin City Council.

Agenda skeleton

Every year the conference gathers together more than 350 participants from all quadruple helix directions: Industry, Academia, Public Sector, and the Civic Society. The conference is designed to be interactive, a place to exchange ideas, to connect and to innovate. Preceding the conference, an Action Camp will be organised which intends to be a presser cooker from idea to project.

Amsterdam Action Camp (20th - 22nd May)

This Camp for Societal Innovation brings people from different countries, backgrounds and diverse expertise areas together to work in dedicated teams for 3 days, to address real world challenges.

At the Camp, participants work with content experts, direct stakeholders and a growing global community of open innovation practitioners to discover new ways to address real world challenges brought by the European Commission’s DG Connect, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and Committee of the Regions. The Camp is intended as the initial step of a rapid realization process, which aims at taking ideas from post-it to prototype to project within 9 months.

The evening of the 22nd of May

A get-together cocktail hosted by City of Amsterdam for all participants.

Day 1 (23rd May)

The morning part of the Agenda fits three plenary sessions about topics as Open Innovation 2.0 in the Digital Single Market, Design Patterns and Entrepreneurship. In the afternoon five parallel sessions of an average of 50 participants per session, who will elaborate about OI2-related themes. Several waypoint visits to some exciting hands-on sites are envisaged, such as FabCity, Science Park, Amsterdam City Experience Lab and Knowledge Mile.

Innovation Luminary Awards Gala Dinner

Acting as a thematic bridge between Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference, The Innovation Luminary Awards Ceremony recognises prominent world leading innovators and OI2 practitioners.

Day 2 (24th May)

The day will begin with thought leading keynotes followed by two plenary sessions: Open Innovation for Digital Single Market and Digital Economy and Open Borders. The afternoon will again break into parallel activities, about, among other themes, eLearning and Innovation measurement. The closing plenary will draw together the findings of all plenary and parallel sessions, and paves the way to concrete future actions.

Some speakers

A great number of speakers will contribute to the conference. Amongst them will be Prof Henry Chesbrough, President Markku Markkula, Dr Martin Curley, Dr Shigeaki Honjo, Dr Richard Straub, Dr Angelika Kohlmann, Mr Alain Heureux, Dr Tuija Hirvikoski, Prof Sabine Brunswicker, Prof Ikujiro Nonaka, Prof Wim Vanhaverbeke.

The Open Innovation 2.0 Conference is free of charge. Registration via this form only. The conference take place at the KIT (Royal Tropical Institute), an international knowledge hub that conducts research, analyses and publishes knowledge from around the globe.

Wednesday May 25, OBA

During this night of HEYU! Tuna Kuyucu, assistantProfessor of Sociology at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul is invited. Hisresearch focuses on changing policies for social housing in Istanbul. Until2002, the government did not build social housing; people themselves had tofind or build their own home. The construction sector, which has close linkswith the government, provides this now. This happens in the form of hugecollections towers that sweep away existing neighborhoods, and residents haveno control. Kuyucu is currently working on a book that examines the failure ofthe current urban renewal in Istanbul.

His co-referent this evening is Joost Lagendijk, alecturer at the University of Suleyman Shah in Istanbul. From 1998-2009 he wasa member of the European Parliament on behalf of GroenLinks. He is co-authorof, among others, Send the Muslim Neighbours (2007) and The Turks are coming!(2013), in which he discusses prejudices about Turkey.

HEYU! Urbans Istanbul willtake place on 25 May, 8-10 pm in the OBA Theater (Oosterdoksdade 143, 7thfloor). Tickets are 10 or 5 euro (with an OBA-card, citycard or student card),you can buy them here. Members of We Are Publichave free entrance. The lecture will be in English.**

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Survey finds 35,000 filling stations overtaken by more than 40,000 recharge points – although many belong to private owners.

When it comes to electric vehicles, Japan is speeding ahead of the rest of the world, blissfully free of the range anxiety that afflicts plug-in drivers elsewhere.

The country now has more electric car charging stops than petrol stations, according to a recent survey by Nissan.

The Japanese automaker, whose fully battery-powered Leaf can travel up to 172km (107 miles) on a single charge, said there were more than 40,000 places nationwide where electric car owners could recharge their vehicles, compared with fewer than 35,000 petrol stations.

While the US – where there are currently only 9,000 public charging stations but 114,500 filling stations – and other countries have been slow to develop the infrastructure to encourage electric vehicle take-up, Japanese government subsidies for people buying electric, hybrid and other low-emission cars have spawned a network of public and private power points.

“An important element of the continued market growth is the development of the charging infrastructure,” Joseph G Peter, Nissan’s chief finance officer, told analysts, according to Bloomberg.

While plug-ins are becoming more affordable, potential owners are put off by the fear of finding themselves far from home and unable to recharge.

That is not a problem in Japan, where there are now 6,469 CHAdeMO quick chargers, compared with 3,028 in Europe and 1,686 in the US. When added to lower-level charging stations, the total number of power points in Japan exceeds 40,000.

Critics have pointed out, however, that Nissan’s figures include a huge number of chargers installed in private garages that, for the most part, are used by a single owner. Petrol stations, they add, have multiple pumps and so can serve more vehicles in a day than a single charging point.

But industry experts are predicting single-user charging stations will become a thing of the past with the emergence of a power point version of Airbnb that allows private owners to share with other drivers.

New apps that use GPS to locate the nearest public charging station are also calming fears among potential plug-in owners who worry about being marooned by a flat battery.

Encouraged by Japan’s experience, other countries are improving their electric vehicle infrastructure, with one recent report predicting that sales could reach 41 million worldwide by 2040, accounting for one in four cars on the road.

Tesla Motors has its own network of charging stations in the US, Japan, China and Europe, while BMW and two other firms recently announced plans to build up to 100 fast chargers along the busiest roads on the east and west coasts of the US, Bloomberg said.

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The energy will be used for management and maintenance of public transport.

Nineteen (above ground) metro stations will get solar panels on the roofs. The aim is to save on energy costs and reduce CO2 emissions. The money that is saved will go to management and maintenance of public transport.

The sunroof on subway station Van der Madeweg will be the largest. The total area of all roofs together is 10,000 square meters, or two football fields with large solar panels. The amount of generated electricity is equivalent to the energy consumption of 400 households per year. The power will be used to operate escalators and lighting. But first, the government needs to decide if it will contribute financially. The Amsterdam City Region hopes that the government decides in June. Read more information.

Source: AT5
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The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area as Health Innovation Hotspot.

The innovation regions in the Netherlands organise their own programs prior to the eHealth Week on Monday, June 6th. This is the perfect day to show the innovative strength of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in the area of health and health innovation.

Program
We invite you to think along with us on these topics:
• What is already in the MRA and what is coming in terms of Health Innovation?
• How can agencies work better together?
• How can we ensure that data analysis and implementation is better suited to each other?

When?
Monday, June 6
From 3pm to 4.30pm
There will be drinks afterwards

Where?
In the centre of Amsterdam - **The location will be announced later, if you apply now **you will receive the location by email.

The event is organized by Amsterdam CTO and Amsterdam Economic Board, and is in line with the eHealth Week that takes place from 8-10 June at the Beurs van Berlage.

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Save the date for the Amsterdam-India Business Journey: Mumbai en Pune, 13-18 November 2016

Travel with the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to the Indian business centre Mumbai and tech hub Pune. Meet potential business partners and explore opportunities for your company in India.

• Individual matchmaking for all sectors
• Special program agrifood businesses
• Inspiring visits
• Useful networking receptions and dinners
• Delegation led by Jaap Bond, deputy Province of Noord- Holland

Would you like to be kept informed of this trade mission ? Mail to <a.satink@amsterdam.nl> and get the official invitation in May / June.

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