POLITICO AI Summit 2020

Brussels

CAN EUROPE KEEP UP WITH ITS DIGITAL LEGACY AND BE A GLOBAL AI RULE-MAKER? AI has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to how we treat diseases and wage wars. Globally, businesses and governments are focusing on how to make the most out of this disruptive technology and mitigate…

PerCom 2020

Mulva Auditorium, University of Texas Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC) 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA, Austin, Texas, United States

IEEE PerCom is the premier conference for presenting scholarly research in pervasive computing and communications. Advances in this field are leading to innovative platforms, protocols, systems, and applications for always-on, always-connected services. In 2020, PerCom will visit Austin, the capital of Texas and the eleventh largest city in the US. It is known as the…

WSIS Forum 2020

ITU Headquarters Place des Nations, 1202 Genève, Switzerland, Genève, Genève, Switzerland

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum is a global United Nations (UN) multistakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line co-/facilitators and other UN organizations (UNDESA, FAO, UNEP, WHO, UN Women,…

AI for Good – webinar series

WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST

The AI for Good Webinar Series is a free, live series of talks, interviews and panels, featuring inter-disciplinary experts whose ideas, insights and solutions can help humanity leverage AI for good. The series will draw upon expertise from the AI for Good Global Summit community to share the latest developments in AI, unique insights and…

Online debate: Is the EU doing enough on AI?

Online Streaming

WeNet participates to the event with Carles Sierra, Director, IIIA-CSIC, moderating the online panel. Of all digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is potentially the one that could have a deeper impact on the political, economic and social transformation process we are currently experiencing. Before this wide range of opportunities, there is a strong competition among…

#EUvsVirus Pan-European Hackathon

Online event

The European Commission, led by the European Innovation Council and in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges. To register, visit the event's website: https://euvsvirus.org  

Peer-to-peer experience sharing and dialogue

WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET

What Peer-to-peer seminars and webinars on selected topics will be organised by BRIEFING. Benefits Deliver on dissemination, exploitation strategy, design a commercialization path and/or plan follow-up projects is usually a pressing issue for all FET projects – there is not one single solution for this but good practices already exist and sharing challenges and solution…

AI for Good Global Summit 2020

Online event

Connecting AI innovators with problem owners for sustainable development The AI for Good Global Summit is THE leading United Nations platform for global and inclusive dialogue on AI. The Summit is normally hosted each year in Geneva by the ITU in partnership with UN Sister agencies, XPRIZE Foundation and ACM. This year, due to the Covid-19…

Commoning Design and Designing Commons workshop

Online event

WeNet will take part in the Commoning Design and Designing Commons workshop on June 16 (the exact time frame of the workshop will be announced soon). Commoning Design and Designing Commons is an interactive online workshop organized as part of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2020. It explores both the relevance for PD of the commons as…

IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 Conference

UPDATE: due to the Covid-19 pandemic this event will be postponed to January 2021 (dates to be announced). For further updates please visit the event's website.   IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence is currently scheduled to take place in Yokohama,…

ACM UMAP 2020

Online

ACM UMAP 2020 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. During the event, which will be held online from Genoa (Italy), WeNet partners Laura Schelenz,…

AI Super Hackathon at International Create Challenge 2020

Idiap Research Institute Rue Marconi 19, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland

Idiap Research Institute is organizing an AI Super Hackathon on August 22-30, 2020, in the framework of the 9th edition of the International Create Challenge: www.createchallenge.org During 9 days of intense development, participants will have the opportunity to turn ideas into a prototype or demonstrator. The principle is quite simple: each selected team comes with an…