Tapping into the innovations of artificial intelligence for the benefit of patients is a hot topic these days. But how close are we to actually applying these innovations to daily clinical care? Few people want to commit to a specific timeline. Amsterdam UMC is making significant steps forward – and it’s clear that it’s not a question of ‘if’ but of ‘when’.
The TechConnect action programme, a collaboration with Booking.com, TomTom, Rabobank and the CA-ICT education fund, has announced several initiatives to increase equal opportunities and diversity in Amsterdam’s tech sector. Making related study programmes and jobs accessible to everyone means that 50,000 people from groups that are currently underrepresented will be able to storm the tech job market over the coming four years. In practice, this will result in a more diverse and inclusive tech scene in Amsterdam, filled with men and women of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Homegrown talents will be trained to become coders, data analysts, ‘growth hackers’, UX designers and tech administrators.
The 10th Data plus Pizza event was a special pitch edition that attracted an unprecedented number of doctors and data scientists. Inspiration was in the air during the 10 four-minute presentations. And deals were made during networking afterwards. Who knew that pizza can be such an effective tool for scaling?
The European Renewal scenario represents a world in which a united Europe stimulates an economy and society organised from the bottom up. In this scenario, national governments have limited influence, residents’ collectives take the initiative themselves, and municipalities and regions make a lot of decisions for themselves. This scenario was last updated on 9 June 2020.
In the International Alliances scenario, Europe disintegrates, and government and the economy operate strongly top down, leading to a world of protectionism and nationalism, with disagreements between former EU member states. In this world, urban regions seek alliances with other regions to gain competitive advantages. This scenario was last updated on 9 June 2020.
What areas in life sciences and health are attracting the most money from venture capital firms? What are the factors that make a biotech ecosystem flourish? And how can we help the sector’s little fish grow? These questions were tackled at the latest edition of the Life Sciences Café.
With the challenges involved in applying AI and data science in a clinical setting, the April's edition of the Medical Data plus Pizza meeting offered some refreshing views: 1) that the concepts involved are actually quite straightforward, and 2) that we already have a handy roadmap for making data accessible and FAIR. However, there’s still some ‘garbage’ to deal with…
Enter the competition and win up to 750,000 euro in co-financing for your idea for an open, trusted and fair market for data sharing. A market that is scalable and broadly applicable and that allows parties in the Amsterdam area to work on a smart, green and healthy region.
Circular economy: our national government appointed a secretary of state on the topic, we have national, regional and local policies and programs to enhance a transition towards a circular economy and countless parties are (said to be) involved. Even the mainstream press made circular economy recurring news. But how circular are we? What is the impact of all these efforts? Does it get us any closer to a circular economy? The Gap Report states that our world is 9% circular. How well do our efforts on circular contribute to improving this percentage? If we can’t comprehensively and systematically measure the transition to a circular economy, we will be left in the dark whether our efforts are indeed leading to an inherently waste-free and regenerative economy. And we do want to know, as it helps us define our strategies and next steps to take. Therefore, in 2018, upon initiative of the Amsterdam Economic Board, the Municipality of Amsterdam and the cooperating municipalities of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, Metabolic developed a monitoring framework for the circular economy to track this progress.
During the 8th Amsterdam Medical Data Science meetup, the focus was on the challenges in applying artificial intelligence and data science in a clinical setting to improve patient care.
