On 14 and 15 November 2019, the City-zen Closing Event took place in Brussels. The two-day event marked the end of the City-zen program. It was a showcase of accumulated knowledge of five years of City-zen projects. The sessions at the event were aimed at integration of results, sharing of learnings and identifying barriers for replication. An unmistakable call to apply the lessons learned and make use of the insights gained.
The knowledge institutions of Amsterdam have joined forces and are investing 1 billion euros in the development of responsible AI technologies over the next ten years, by setting up research programmes, attracting top scientists and educating students with state-of-the-art knowledge of AI. Collaborations with top institutes around the world, public partners and the business community will be greatly expanded. The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) announced this week that the UvA has been selected as an ELLIS Unit to help keep in Europe talent in machine learning and related AI research fields for Europe.
Historical quays are collapsing, the first particulate matter refugees have reported and narrow streets are lined with traffic jams with polluting vans and trucks; we now really need to get started with smart and clean city logistics in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards go to innovations in 3D-printed embryo models, following criminal money through bank data and tackling the phosphate challenge. The Impact Awards go to Jaap Bonjer, Erwin Peterman and Gijs Wuite, and Roeland van Geuns.
The most recent Amsterdam Life Sciences Café focused on what startups in the life sciences industry must do to go to the next level. Basically, you need near-infinite patience, a risk-taking attitude and two billion euros. But most importantly: you need the right partners.
As medical data science evolves, how can it create personalised treatments for health and wellbeing and improve patient care? This was tackled during the latest Medical Data plus Pizza Meeting, the first joint meetup by Amsterdam Medical Data Science and Amsterdam Data Science. And as a reflection of ever-growing interest: the event took place in Amsterdam UMC’s expansive Amstel Zaal.
At the ‘Accelerating a Sustainable European Data Economy’ roundtable, data policy and business leaders gathered in Amsterdam to chart out the conditions needed for fair and open data markets. The sense of urgency was palpable. “This is too important to leave to the Amazons and Alibabas.”
As one of the largest consultancies in the world, Deloitte is an important knowledge partner within the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in the field of various social themes. Johan Stuiver, Director Strategy & Operations Public Sector and counselor of the Board, explains how they contribute to a future-proof labor market within the energy transition.
The Amsterdam Economic Board starts together with NL Digital, Green IT Amsterdam, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the North Sea Canal Area L*E*A*P (Lower Energy Acceleration Program). The goal of L*E*A*P is to exploit the energy-saving potential of ICT within data centers and to accelerate the pace towards the sustainable digital economy.
Urban mobility and energy transition are important themes within BAM Infra. That is why the construction group is affiliated with the Bouwhub in Amsterdam Westpoort and employees travel on electric bicycles to project locations in the city. Commercial manager Sanne van Vliet tells more about BAM's sustainable ambitions.
