With the municipality of Amsterdam as shareholder, the Johan Cruijff ArenA simply owes it to its stand to take social issues very seriously, says CEO Henk Markerink. And they handle that extremely well, says 'neighbor' Hans Wichers Schreur, director of real estate and housing policy at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA).
At the end of last year, a new innovation district was opened in Amsterdam Southeast. Cumulus Park is an initiative of ING, the City of Amsterdam, ROC Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In the coming years, Cumulus Park wants to grow into the place where entrepreneurs, large and small companies, researchers and students work together on solutions to social challenges. Program manager Irene Duyn tells more about the ambitions of the district.
Industry and mobility together cause a large part of the CO2 emissions in the region. And so the energy transition is high on the agenda at Tata Steel and LeasePlan, say Board members Ernst Hoogenes and Erik Henstra. "The region has the right scale to get started with this."
Since Prime Minister Mark Rutte addressed the nation on 12 March with a clear message to stay at home, public transport agencies were tasked with a unique set of challenges. During the ADS and ADMS webinar ‘COVID-19 and Capacity Modelling in Public Transport’, representatives from Netherlands Railways, or shortly NS, Dennis Huisman and Menno de Bruyn explained how the organisation used data science to adapt its services and predict its future.
Data to improve patient care With a national integrated health data infrastructure, ...
In order to cope with the increasing shortage of IT staff, public and private partners from Almere are entering into a partnership with TekkieWorden. With a package of measures, the ambition is to activate people of all ages for tech studies and retrain them for IT jobs. Despite COVID-19, companies in Almere are struggling with an increasing shortage of IT talent. With this program, the Municipality of Almere wants to provide an answer to the many people who want to train or retrain in IT because their current job offers little prospect for the future. Of the more than 40,000 people who work in an administrative position, this program offers more employment prospects in the fast-growing ICT sector in Almere.
It’s a somewhat awkward truth: the current global coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a boon for data scientists. Large amounts of data is streaming in from all over: not only hospital intensive care units (ICUs) but the private sector, too. As a result, data scientists have a lot of rich information to pump into their models – improving their ability to predict possible future scenarios that could help us better manage a possible second wave.
How do we trust all the data being generated by COVID-19? How can we apply this data to help formulate the best exit strategies from the current crisis? These were some of the questions posed at the first ADS & AMDS Webinar in a series that explores ‘The Power and Weakness of Data and Modelling in COVID-19’.
The first virtual version of the Amsterdam Life Sciences Café focused on a timely subject: how to improve access to medication – such as a potential coronavirus vaccine – in a sustainable way. Conclusion: while a global pandemic is a horrible situation, it can help us chart out a fairer, brighter and, yes, global future.
Sufficient employees with the right skills is one of the most important ...
