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The Things Conference 2020
The world’s largest LoRaWAN conference is returning to Amsterdam on January 30 & 31. Join over 2000 IoT professionals from 50+ countries to meet the industry leaders, experience the different use cases and do business with the relevant players in the ecosystem.
All the latest innovations and trends in LoRaWAN will be explored through workshops, keynotes and side sessions. Leaders in IoT will share the common mistakes and obstacles so you can mitigate risks during your LoRaWAN development. IoT is not a fairy tale, education through rough lessons is what brings us further.
Join The Things Conference 2020 and learn what the future of LoRaWAN has in store for you!
Royal Haskoning signs Tada
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 World Summit 2019
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.
20% discount via this code: 20P
Workshop Machine Learning for Research
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
Scale-up trade mission to Berlin
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
Speculative Design for Businesses
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.
Denk mee: Opzet NL programma Digitalisering Openbare Ruimte
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
Smart Building & Lighting Opportunity
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.
Marketplace.city helps governments find, evaluate and buy technology. We connect companies to opportunities with our partners as they arise.
National eScience Symposium 2019
The Netherlands eScience Center will host its 6th annual National eScience Symposium on 21 November 2019 at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam. The theme of this year’s edition is ‘Digital Challenges in Open Science’ and will focus on the ways that innovative digital technologies can be used to advance Open Science. The Dutch National eScience Symposium is a one-day event where academic researchers, industry representatives and policy-makers from various disciplines come together to discuss and share views on the latest developments in eScience.
The symposium will feature thematic sessions showcasing world-class research and digital developments around Open Science. Topics include digital challenges in open science, the role of open science in space and earth research, and the European Open Science Cloud. In addition, the symposium will showcase several demos of cutting-edge research software developed by the eScience Center and her partners, as well as the announcement of the Young eScientist Award 2019.
DIY Lab @ IoT Sensemakers Amsterdam
Every first Wednesday of the month we have an infomal gathering at OBA to learn, experiment and build IoT by ourselves (helping eachother). We also collaborate in projects like AmsterdamSounds, Waterquality and AstroPlant (just started, so feel very welcome to contribute). More info at:
https://www.sensemakersams.org/internet-of-things-sensemakers-amsterdam/projects-diy/
IoT Sensemakers on Biochemical sensing & on SensorThings
Every 3th Wednesday of the month we have presentations, open mic & discussions about IoT-related subjects. This evening we have
- Gennady Oshovsky, Professior of sustainable (Bio)Chemical Innovation at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
- Just van den Broecke, Open Source Geospatial Architect who will talk about developing open sensor networks with lora-ttn and sensorthings-api
DIY Lab @ IoT-SensemakersAMS
Every first Wednesday of the month we have an infomal gathering at OBA to learn, experiment and build IoT by ourselves (helping eachother). We also collaborate in projects, this evening we will kickoff our participation in Astroplant.io (https://www.sensemakersams.org/astro-plant/)
KPN 5G Consumer Challenge
Will you join us in the 5G Challenge?
The future mobile 5G network is more than a faster version of the usual 3G and 4G wireless technologies. In addition to improved bandwidth, 5G has a lower latency (the delay in communication between devices), better security options and more powerful antenna concepts and a much higher capacity. Where 4G connected for people, 5G will connect society.
Will you join us in the challenge?
You are a start-up with the skills to connect society. We - the Johan Cruijff Arena, City of Amsterdam, Capgemini/Sogeti and KPN - challenge you to design and pitch a compelling service/application for consumers using 5G capabilities.
For more information and to sign up for the challange visit:
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-kpn-5g-consumer-challenge-66995747083
WANTED: Launching customer for AI audio analysis project with Google, ML6 and SensorTeam
Google, ML6 and SensorTeam are joining forces and are looking for your help
We have started a proof of concept to recognize sound by expanding our cutting edge wireless sensor-technology with AI based audio analysis models from ML6.
SensorTeam’s IoT SoundSensor™ is an extremely accurate and cheap sound sensor which is solar powered, LoRaWAN compliant and LTE-M ready. This plug-and-play outdoor sensor runs autonomously anywhere in the world.
Sound recognition from regular ambient noise can be interesting for many reasons:
- Smart maintenance and Industry application
- Social noise disturbances from festivals, events or terrasses
- Public safety: gunshots, explosives, angry crowds
- Noise impact of airplanes, trains or highways
- Indoor noise solutions (office, security)
- Your idea here ;)
Interested in our technology or a mutually beneficial collaboration with Google/ML6 and SensorTeam? Do you have a relevant use case for our technology? Please contact us by sending an email to info@sensorteam.io.
Sensemakers IoT: Networking & presentations
Talk 1: Lorna Goulden, director Digital Experience, initiator of Eindhoven IoT meetup.
Talk 2: A backbone for crowdsourcing citizen-sensordata @ SurfSara
Sensemakers is involved in collaborations on gathering data around sound-polution, waterquality and more. We will give you an update on these projects and learnings and David Šálek from SurfSara will explain the backbone they have configured for us and the ways it can be used (dashboard, create your own graphs, create (a) Jupyter notebook(s) to access the cooked and raw data and do anything with the data Python allows, publication service via MQTT)
IoT changing perspectives
The more smart objects (things) and our surroundings become the more our behavior is anticipated but also influenced. How does IoT change our perspectives?
After an introduction on the increasing complexity and influence of IoT (irt smart cities, AI and cybercrime), Iskander Smit will discuss what it means when things can predict and anticipate our behavior.
Debate Smart Cities or Dumb Cities
Toronto seems to become a testing ground for the urban development of smart cities. Sidewalk Labs, part of Google’s parent company Alphabet, will redevelop the city’s waterfront. Data will be used to design smarter, more sustainable designs, to handle waste better or to reduce our energy consumption. But with Google at the helm, data is also the capital of this city district: and what does that lead to? It is time to start the discussion with architects.
During the Architecture Residency of Do Janne Vermeulen we will organise a debate about smart cities on Tuesday 21 May. We discuss the developments of data in Amsterdam, look at the developments in Toronto and talk about the position of the architect. Through this debate we hope to feed the discussion from a design perspective.
What’s the question?
Architect in Residence Do Janne Vermeulen, architect and co-founder of Team V, visited Canada and is bringing the debate to the Netherlands. While reading, watching, writing and talking about smart cities, it is tempting to think in terms of technology instead of the city. Rather than “What do we want and how does smart technology offer a solution for that?” it is about “What possibilities does smart technology offer and what can we achieve with it?”
Privacy issues make the conversation even more difficult and sometimes make us long for the ‘stupid city’. But our spatial domain and the digital world are becoming more and more interconnected. Can we grow, densify and become more sustainable without smart systems? Is technology indeed the answer to our questions? What is exactly the problem with ‘stupid cities’? What are the benefits if we focus on digital technologies, analyse large amounts of data and provide the city with systems and IoT (Internet of Things) sensors? And what other means do we have? In short, a lot of questions to which smart technology might be the right answer. And maybe not.
Programme and speakers
Do Janne Vermeulen – Team V – Co-founder and architect
Meat Do Janne Vermuelen as our second Architect in Residence. She gives a short pitch about the role of big data in her field of expertise.
Marleen Stikker – Waag Society – Founder
Marleen Stikker supervises the digitisation of society with research and all kinds of initiatives from Waag Society. This evening she will share her views on the developments concerning Big Data. She also offers perspective on the role of the architect within smart cities.
Ger Baron – City of Amsterdam – Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Ger Baron, the first CTO of Amsterdam, brings us up to speed on technological innovation and the digital transformation of Amsterdam.
Emil Zelic – Waterfront Toronto – Executive Director Project Management Office & IT
As an IT professional, Emil Zelic, who will fly in from Toronto, tells about where application and disruption of smart technologies meets design practices. He reflects on the progress and philosophises about the Smart City applicability in Amsterdam.
The lectures are followed by a debate between the audience and the speakers.
Smart Cities or Dumb Cities
Architect in Residence Debate: Do Janne Vermeulen, Team V
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2019
Time: Starts at 8PM / Door open at 7.45PM
Location: OBA Oosterdok, auditorium, Oosterdokskade 143
Language: ENGLISH
Tickets: € 12,50
Online tickets available at our ticket page
Smart Cities or Dumb Cities - a debate at OBA Oosterdok
Toronto seems to become a testing ground for the urban development of smart cities. Sidewalk Labs, part of Google’s parent company Alphabet, will redevelop the city’s waterfront. Data will be used to design smarter, more sustainable designs, to handle waste better or to reduce our energy consumption. But with Google at the helm, data is also the capital of this city district: and what does that lead to? It is time to start the discussion with architects.
During the Architecture Residency of Do Janne Vermeulen we will organise a debate about smart cities on Tuesday 21 May. We discuss the developments of data in Amsterdam, look at the developments in Toronto and talk about the position of the architect. Through this debate we hope to feed the discussion from a design perspective.
What’s the question?
Architect in Residence Do Janne Vermeulen, architect and co-founder of Team V, visited Canada and is bringing the debate to the Netherlands. While reading, watching, writing and talking about smart cities, it is tempting to think in terms of technology instead of the city. Rather than “What do we want and how does smart technology offer a solution for that?” it is about “What possibilities does smart technology offer and what can we achieve with it?”
Privacy issues make the conversation even more difficult and sometimes make us long for the ‘stupid city’. But our spatial domain and the digital world are becoming more and more interconnected. Can we grow, densify and become more sustainable without smart systems? Is technology indeed the answer to our questions? What is exactly the problem with ‘stupid cities’? What are the benefits if we focus on digital technologies, analyse large amounts of data and provide the city with systems and IoT (Internet of Things) sensors? And what other means do we have? In short, a lot of questions to which smart technology might be the right answer. And maybe not.
Programme and speakers
Do Janne Vermeulen – Team V – Co-founder and architect
Meat Do Janne Vermuelen as our second Architect in Residence. She gives a short pitch about the role of big data in her field of expertise.
Marleen Stikker – Waag Society – Founder
Marleen Stikker supervises the digitisation of society with research and all kinds of initiatives from Waag Society. This evening she will share her views on the developments concerning Big Data. She also offers perspective on the role of the architect within smart cities.
Ger Baron – City of Amsterdam – Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Ger Baron, the first CTO of Amsterdam, brings us up to speed on technological innovation and the digital transformation of Amsterdam.
Emil Zelic – Waterfront Toronto – Executive Director Project Management Office & IT
As an IT professional, Emil Zelic, who will fly in from Toronto, tells about where application and disruption of smart technologies meets design practices. He reflects on the progress and philosophises about the Smart City applicability in Amsterdam.
The lectures are followed by a debate between the audience and the speakers.
Smart Cities or Dumb Cities
Architect in Residence Debate: Do Janne Vermeulen, Team V
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2019
Time: Starts at 8PM / Door open at 7.45PM
Location: OBA Oosterdok, auditorium, Oosterdokskade 143
Language: ENGLISH
Tickets: € 12,50
Online tickets available at our ticket page
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