University of Amsterdam (UvA)

In 2015, the HvA became a cooperation partner of Amsterdam Smart City. In addition to various research activities, the HvA also provides education in the field of Smart City. Fourth-year Business Administration students conduct research projects for organisations that deal with smart city solutions. If you are interested in inviting a student group to do research for your organisation, please contact Wieke Schrama w.schrama@hva.nl . One of the students (Mitchell Elferink) has written a blog on the subject.

The Amsterdam Business School is honoured to invite Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger to speak about what companies will need to do in order to succeed in the new data economy. His lecture will take place on Friday 25 May.

Due to an abundance of data and the availability of data-driven machine learning systems, we are entering the world of the data economy, an economy in which data is replacing money as the main driver of market behavior. In this economy markets will soar, conventional firms will struggle and traditional financial institutions will face unlikely competition by small groups and individual actors. The future will be driven by data, but run by digital superstars. Avoiding this oligopolistic dystopia will require bold measures.

Event programme
18:00 – 18:45: Doors open, welcome drink
18:45 – 19:00: Welcome and introduction of Professor Mayer –Schönberger by Professor Marc Salomon (UvA - Amsterdam Business School)
19:00 – 21:00: Lecture + Q&A by prof. Mayer-Schönberger (University of Oxford)
21:00 – 22:00: Networking

Location
UvA - Roeterseiland Campus
Seminar room C.1.04
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam

Registration
Registration is mandatory.

About Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Mayer-Schönberger, professor at the University of Oxford is the author of over a hundred articles and eleven books on the economics and governance of information, of which the most recent is 'Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data' (translated in Dutch: 'De Data-Economie', 2018 Maven Publishing). His other international bestsellers include 'Big Data
' (co-authored with Kenneth Cukier, translated into more than 20 languages), 'Learning with Big Data' (also co-authored with Cukier) and the award-winning 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age'.

University of Amsterdam meets Lens Energie.
Heuristics meet solar power.
Beauty meets brains.
Excellence meets determination.
And luckily the participants' focus was better my camera's.

At the University of Amsterdam, in the course of Heuristics, we have a case on SmartGrids. The assignment involves writing algorithms to optimally configure a grid of energy consuming and producing entities.

Houses with solar panels with different outputs must be linked to batteries, all placed on a grid, with minimal wiring cost. In a later stage, alternative locations for batteries might also be obtained.

Check out the case on heuristieken.nl.

Do you live in the Indische Buurt or surroundings? Are you interested in learning about energy issues together with your fellow neighbours?

CODALoop is a platform that aims to raise energy consciousness through, both face-to-face and virtual, discussions about energy issues at the level of the neighbourhood. CODALoop organises for you monthly Meetups in the Indische Buurt and moderates an Online Forum to continue the discussion on line.

Join for the launch of the CODALoop – Indische Buurt platform and learn more about the project!

The CODALoop team

Date: September 28th 2017
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Location: De Meevaart (Conferentiezaal) - Balistraat 48a

Do you live in Buiksloterham or surroundings? Are you interested in learning about energy issues together with your fellow neighbours?

CODALoop is a platform that aims to raise energy consciousness through, both face-to-face and virtual, discussions about energy issues at the level of the neighbourhood. CODALoop organises for you monthly Meetups in Buiksloterham and moderates an Online Forum to continue the discussion on line.

Join for the launch of the CODALoop – Buiksloterham platform and learn more about the project!

The CODALoop team

Date: September 21st 2017
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Location: De Ceuvel (Metabolic Lab) - Korte Paraverweg 6a

CODALoop is a EU-funded research project and a joint venture of different academic and non-academic partners in three countries, The Netherlands, Austria and Turkey and four cities, Amsterdam, Graz, Leibnitz and Istanbul. CODALoop Amsterdam is active in two neighborhoods, the Indische Buurt and Buiksloterham.

There is a tremendous urgency to reduce energy consumption to guarantee quality of life for future generations. In the light of the weak results of behavioral approaches and top-down investments on infrastructures for energy efficiency, such as grid management, smart meters and the like, innovative approaches to tackle this issue are required. CODALoop Amsterdam is a research project which uses a sociological approach and explores the extent to which social interactions, at the level of the neighborhood, are able to activate ‘energy consciousness’.