Amazing Monday @ Amsterdam ArenA

De stedelijke natuur als jouw werkplek.

Voor de derde keer wordt het Amsterdamse Bos jouw kantoor. Tijdens de #OutdoorOfficeDay op 11 juni wandel en spar je met duurzame leiders, toekomstdenkers en doeners. Zij staan klaar om samen met jou een rondje door het Amsterdamse Bos te lopen en tijdens een #WanderWalk jouw vraagstuk, idee of uitdaging te bespreken.

En neem je team, laptop en ideeën mee naar buiten. Werk en ontmoet elkaar bij de Boswinkel, waar een nieuw entreegebied ontstaat. Het bos biedt verrassend veel unieke plekken die je samen met inspirerende boswachters kunt ontdekken. Laat het bos jouw werkplek zijn.

Heb jij ideen of vragen? Laat het graag weten. En houd deze pagina in de gaten, want er volgt nog veel meer bijzonders

Roboflow is a great tool to help you create computer vision models. This evening is a hands-on workshop: a short introduction, two short use-case talks, and then you’ll start building your own computer vision model with help from the speakers. 

Civic Sousveillance
For Tom van Arman from TAPP, civic sousveillance was the motivating use case to start using Roboflow as a computer vision solution. It was used to build this public camera detection app.

A Pragmatic Guide to Roboflow
<strong>Thomas Jongstra,</strong> Data Scientist & AI/Software Engineer at Mind Matter, has written a step-by-step guide for Roboflow that walks you through the full workflow of building your own computer vision model. From collecting and labelling training images, to training the model in Roboflow, and to testing it on your own use case. Thomas will introduce the guide and show some results from the sousveillance project that he worked on with Tom.

DIY Fatbike Detection
Laura Ponoran will share her experience working with Thomas’ Roboflow Guide to develop her own DIY object detection project designed to detect fat bikes, an increasingly relevant issue given their rise in both popularity and safety concerns. With this example, she highlights how accessible object detection systems have become, even for independent users. Laura Ponoran is an AI, Data, and Smart City Research Intern at TAPP, a Smart City Architecture firm. She has previously collaborated with LosAparatos and NDSM on different sensing and awareness projects grappling with modern day problems.

Workshop: Build your Own Computer Vision Model
In the practical part of this meeting, Tom, Thomas and Laura will help you start your own computer vision project using Roboflow. You can check this video for inspiration to come up with your own use case for the workshop.
Please bring your laptop to the workshop, with any images/videos that you’d like to use for your computer vision project. If you can create an account on roboflow.com before the workshop, that would be great!
RSVP here: https://sensemakersams.org/events/

In 2018, the first paper on the Near Future in Cities of Things was published. Seven years later, we took the initiative to conduct exploratory research to reflect on the state of cities of things. Or, put differently: how should we assess the current state of urban robotics and physical AI?

​In this interactive event, Iskander Smit will present the learnings from the research, and a panel of four of the approximately 25 interviewed experts will share their perspectives to kick off a discussion led by moderator Monique van Dusseldorp.
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The central question is how the developments might impact and inspire the design of future cities, things, intelligent systems, and the interplay between these.

​The panelists

• ​<strong>Maria Luce Lupetti</strong>; Assistant Professor in Design at Politecnico di Torino. She is co-director of POEL – Possible Entanglements Lab, a research group dedicated to investigating how people and technologies co-shape one another, and how design can help envision desirable configurations. She was the leading author of the first paper on Cities of Things in 2018. Maria Luce will reflect on the changes in human entanglement with the artificial world, particularly in complex technologies such as AI and robotics.
• ​<strong>Sen Lin</strong>; Senior Product Designer and AI Design Consultant. Sen was among the first students graduating in the Delft Design Lab Cities of Things. Sen just returned from a 2-month stay in China and will share his impressions from urban robotics there.
• ​<strong>Tomasz Jaskiewicz</strong> is a professor of civic prototyping at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Tomasz is a founding partner in the creation of the Wijkbot platform for research through prototyping into urban robotics. He will share the learnings between experiments.
• ​<strong>Vera van der Burg</strong> is a designer, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at TU Delft's Designing Intelligence Lab. Her research investigates how training AI models can become a reflective practice. With her research, she was awarded as Dutch Design Emerging Talent and FD Talent. She will reflect on the relations we build while applying (physical) AI.
• ​<strong>Iskander Smit</strong> is the founder of the Cities of Things, an expertise center for urban robotics and physical AI. Applying research through (speculative) design, connecting experts in knowledge events, and publishing via his weekly newsletter.

​Monique will involve other interviewed experts and participants in the event to reflect on the impact of urban robotics and physical AI on the practice of creative industries, design methods, and on relations between humans and AI.
​Before and after, there will be space to connect with other participants and explore the current Wijkbots.
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Schedule:
​15h00 - Doors open, mingle, explore Wijkbots
16h00 - Welcome and introduction to the results of the research by Iskander Smit
16h30 - Introductions of the positions by the panelists
17h00 - Interactive discussion with panel, participants
18h00 - Wrap up and drinks with bites
20h00 - End
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If you can only join part of the event, you are welcome to join later.
​Find more details about the program on the <strong>Cities of Things website</strong>.
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The event is powered by CLICKNL, and registration is free, including drinks.