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NGI WORKSHOP – POZNAN
June 8, 2017 @ 11:00 - 15:30
Free
THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET WORKSHOP
WIDEN THE EUROPEAN SPACE OF LIFE AND WORK
The European Commission in collaboration with the Polish National Contact Point, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and the HUB4NGIProject organized a workshop in support of the EC Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative.
The Next Generation Internet, a key priority in H2020 ICT work programme 2018-2020, will ensure a more human-centric Internet supporting European values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness, transparency and protection of privacy. The NGI initiative is a broad and long-term initiative, mostly focusing on new technology areas as for example a better protection for private data, new internet architectures, decentralized data systems and new discovery and identification tools. These technologies, developed by people and for people, will widen our space for life and work in future Europe.
Together with (young) researchers, start-ups, SMEs and social innovators, the European Commission will push the development of these new Internet technologies based on an agile and flexible programme approach to shape the Internet of the future. As a part of the presentation of the Next Generation Internet, NGI workshop was held in Poznan (Poland) on 8th of June 2017 (11:00h – 15:30h).
The purpose of the workshop was to explore opportunities for research, industry and SMEs/start-ups for collaboration within the scope of the NGI initiative. Renowned speakers, open and multidisciplinary discussions and World-Café tables as the key elements of the workshop agenda helped the attendees to better understand the current situation of the NGI initiative and participate in debates prioritizing and shaping the future evolution of the NGI.
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The Agenda
| 11:00 | The NGI Initiative, context, plans and actions of the European Commission Speakers: Georgios Tselentis and Nicole Muessigmann, European Commission | Presentation |
| 11:30 | A start-up’s view on NGI: needs and expectations Speaker: Michal Majewski, CEO PublishSoSimply | Presentation |
| 11:45 | The research perspective: Trends and topics that NGI should embrace Speaker: Krzysztof Walas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute of Control and Information Engineering (ICIE), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology | Presentation |
| 12:00 | Civil society needs and expectations: What does NGI do for the people Speaker: Marcin Borkowski, City Development Department, Poznań City | Presentation |
| 12:15 | HUB4NGI Speaker: Bartosz Belter, PSNC | Presentation |
| 12:30 | Q&A Panel |
| 12:45 | Buffet lunch |
| 13:15 | World Cafe in 3 subgroups: research, civil society, startups Moderated by Richard Stevens (IDC), Maria Chiara Campodonico (Martel Innovate) and Nicole Muessigmann (European Commission) | Presentation |
| 14:15 | World Cafe Wrap-up including Q&A |
| 15:00 | Closing + optional technology tour |
SPEAKERS BIO’S
Michal Majewski
CEO PublishSoSimply
He is entrepreneur, marketing specialist and provides advice to startups. He is a co-founder and CEO at PublishSoSimply – an online tool helping marketing specialists create interactive and responsive pieces of content, such as reports, white papers and ebooks. He’s co-owner of the creative agency MOXIE. Teaches at Mediaworking course at Collegium Da Vinci.
He participated in the Start-Up Chile and 1440 acceleration program (Nashville, USA). He was mentor and organizer of Startup Weekends. Graduated from Poznań University of Economics and Business, majoring in Economics Journalism and Public Relations. Also studied Music and Media Management in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Dr Krzysztof Walas
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF CONTROL AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING (ICIE), FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLGY
He received his degree in Control and Robotics from Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. During his study, he spent one term at Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain (Socrates-Erasmus program). In 2012 he obtained his PhD degree in Control and Robotics, specialisation Robotics, from Poznan University of Technology. He worked as research and teaching assistant at ICIE from 2007 till 2012. Afterwards, he started working as the Assistant Professor at the same institution. From 01.08.2014 till 30.09.2015 he was working as a postdoc at Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, (EU FP7 project PaCMan).
His research interests are walking robots and perception of the robot surroundings for interaction with the environment based on physics laws – material identification and parameters modelling. He is an author of 32 scientific publications. In years 2011-13 he was a Principal Investigator in grant Preludium funded by Polish National Science Centre. This year he has obtained Leader grant – VII edition – founded by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development (3rd position on a ranking list). For the next three years, he will be Principal Investigator of the project concerning elastic objects manipulation.
He was a chair of the local organising committee of 1st International Workshop on Perception for Mobile Robots Autonomy – PEMRA 2012 and co-organizer of UoB Highly Occluded Object Challenge (UoB-HOOC), during 1st International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose in conjunction with ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile. Next year he was one of the chairs of 2nd International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose in conjunction with ECCV 2016, Amsterdam, Holandia.
He is organizing 3rd International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose in conjunction with ICCV 2017, Venice, Italy. From 2009 he is IEEE Robotics and Automation Society member. He is also national coordinator of euRobotics Week and a member of two topic groups within euRobotics. In his career he was giving talks for kids and youth during Cyberbot – Robotics Festival, Festival of Science and Art, European Robotics Week and as an invited speaker in primary and secondary schools.
MARCIN BORKOWSKI
CITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, POZNAŃ CITY HALL
He is responsible for analysis of socio-economic urban area determinants and city development strategy implementation with a great experience in urban planning and project coordination in the scope of technical infrastructure of lighting system modernization, as well as foreign investors’ service, real estate management and promotion of a new product in telecomunication sectorpoznan.pl
ANNOUNCEMENTS PUBLISHED BEFORE THE EVENT
MAIN GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP
- To identify the major opportunities and challenges for society, research and private sectors
- To identify the three main topics the NGI initiative needs to address in the near future
- To help formulating expectations from the NGI initiative (as individuals but also as representatives of a certain sector)
- To help establish and grow the NGI ecosystem
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Internet Researchers and Innovators, SMEs, Start-ups, Internet technology providers, Policy Makers, Investors.
VENUE
Polish Optical Internet Research Center
ul. Jana Pawła II 10
61-139 Poznan
Poland