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Data-Driven Business Models: Insights from business practitioners

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The expert group Data-Driven Business Models invites all members to participate in this event, featuring two talks, followed by Q&A and Networking Apero.

The event is for free. Registration per e-mail to expert.group@d-one.ai

Program:
4:30 pm Welcome & Registration
4:45 pm Intro
5:00 pm Content is king, but data is the driver  –  incl. Q & A
5:30 pm AI powered Hawk Eye –  incl. Q & A
6:00 pm Start Networking-Apero
Pre-Session *:
3:30 pm Meet-an-Expert Sessions (2x30min)

Talk 1

Content is king, but data is the driver.
Christian Ammendola

The media industry is a highly digitized industry which is in the middle of the digital transformation. The business model of media companies, and also of NZZ, is centered around a digital strategy in which data plays a relevant role. In this presentation Christian Ammendola will provide an overview of the role of data in supporting different goals in the digital transformation at NZZ.

Biography: Christian Ammendola is Head of Data, Analytics and AI at Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ) where he leads a data team consisting of data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.

Prior to NZZ he was working for 5 years in a startup leading a small data science team designing and implementing machine learning driven data products in the mobile devices field. He also successfully completed several Innosuisse projects focusing on innovative data products such as a recommender system and a market segmentation tool driven by machine learning models. In the course of his career Christian worked in different data roles with main focus on data science but also data warehousing, data engineering and data analytics. Christian holds a Master in Computer Science and a specialization on machine learning and statistical techniques.

Talk 2

AI Powered Hawk Eye
Jürgen Schwärzler, Senior Consultant, D ONE
Ioanna Tzanetou, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Gain business-relevant information from untouched sources (document archives, e-mails, videos, voice recordings  or other document repositories) – which previously could not be made usable, or only with much effort. With the AI framework „Hawk Eye“ you can convert documents and media content into structured, usable and valuable information. The AI framework can be adapted and applied in any company to support many use cases.

Biography: Dr Jürgen Schwärzler
Jürgen received his PhD in Statistics from University of Vienna in 2004. Before joining D ONE he worked for several years in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of expertise are Machine Learning, predictive modelling, A/B testing and cognitive Services.

Biography: Ioanna Tzanetou
Ioanna holds a MSc from ETH Zürich in Management, Technology and Economics and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Informatics. Before joining Microsoft, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. Her areas of expertise are Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Augmented Reality

Please register for the Expert Group Event per e-mail to expert.group@d-one.ai

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* Data-Driven Business Models: Meet-an-Expert Sessions

New offering for members: distinct meet-an-expert sessions, where you are able to meet an expert to discuss emerging questions in the realm of “Data-driven Business Models”. D ONE and the Institute of Technology Management (University of St. Gallen) are offering each two slots of about 30 minutes to discuss problems and provide first hints or propositions to solve these. The sessions will take place from 15.30 – 16.30 before the Expert-group event.

To reserve one of these slots, please contact Patrick Buck (patrick.buck@d-one.ai) of D ONE or Philipp Osterrieder (philipp.osterrieder@unisg.ch) from the University of St. Gallen with a brief summary of your situation and problem. You may choose your favorite expert, or we assign the one with the best fit to your question.

Do not hesitate to reach us through mail or telephone and profit from the possibility to meet an expert as part of the Data+Service Alliance. However, be aware that only four slots are available, therefore, first come first serve.

Service Lunch with SAP

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Is standard software and innovation a contradiction?

Get an update about the importance of the “intelligent enterprise” and its opportunities and challenges. What role are the new technologies playing? And how is experience management influencing the business processes?

Daniel Kölsch will break this down and talk about the exciting innovation cases which grew out of the SAP’s Mode-2 Garage and the methodolgy and concepts we use. Our Mode-2 Garage is also available for your innovation cases, use this opportunity: we want to see you go live.

For more information please take a look at our flyer

The flyer has been updated! The event will now be online.

Registration can be found here: Registration

 

Match-Making Event

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Join us on April 28th, 2020, 1:00 – 3:20 pm for another round of matching among Data+Service members.

At the first Data+Service Alliance online match-making event you will:

  • listen to exciting pitches and collaboration ideas
  • sharpen your collaboration ideas by discussing them with other experts
  • find the best-fitting collaboration partners for your project

Two ways to participate:

  1. Pitch your idea and find project partners.
    What to do: Send us a 45 seconds video of your idea, including an introduction of you and your project goal as well as a brief description of the partners you’re trying to find.
    Deadline: April 20th, 2020.* Alternatively you can send 1-2 slides to pitch your idea at the event. For the event, prepare to pitch your idea in 3 minutes. Make sure to cover the following questions:

    • What’s the project about?
    • What’s the project’s current state?
    • What’s the project’s next step?
    • What or who are you looking for?
    • How should others collaborate?
  2. Listen to ideas and partner-up for a project with one of the pitching teams.
    What to do: Register till April 24th, 2020 by sending a mail to info.office@data-service-alliance.ch.

The event:
First: 3 minutes pitch and 2 minutes questions for each idea.
Then: Split in different virtual rooms to discuss the ideas and find collaboration partners.

Preliminary Agenda
13:00 – 14:30 Pitches
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 15:15 Discussion & Matching
15:15 – 15:20 Conclusion

 

Use-Case Talks Series

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In collaboration with Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions.

We enjoy in-depth technical discussions and exchange information about interesting technical challenges amon industry, academic and individual members in our Use-Case Talk Series. In a relaxed atmosphere we will discuss about progresses and challenges in data projects, Use-Cases and applications.

The Use-Case Talks Series will take place in TECHNOPARK® Zürich through Google Hangouts on 17.06.2020 from 18:00 – 22:00.

The Use-Case Talk Series is organized by Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions AG on behalf of Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services.

The following speakers will participate:

Mark Schuster (UiPath Switzerland GmbH)

Christian Kindler (Valdon Mesh GmbH)

Achim Kohli (legal-i)

Participation is free of charge — interesting discussions at the networking Apéro are included! An invitation link will be sent after your registration.

For registration please write an email (Name, affiliation and position) to info.office@data-service-alliance.ch. The number of places is limited!

For more information please check the FLYER.

POSTPONED – Knowledge Graph Forum

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How to propose a new session

If you would like to submit a session, simply create a new issue and fill out the Knowledge Graph Unconfernce template by clicking on Get Started. We have slots for 6 sessions of one hour each. If we have more than 6 proposals, we will let participants vote upfront, most probably in the GitHub issues itself.

Please note that while we organize it mostly upfront to save time, the session should be unconference style: You are welcome to start and do a presentation of the topic on your own but it should not last longer than 20 minutes (we will be strict about that). The rest of the time should be used to have an interaction with the audience about the topic you present. There are screens in all rooms.

For a session proposal, we ask you to provide us with:

What would you like to talk about
Who might be interested in that (technical audience, management, data scientists, etc.)
What would you like to know from other participants, what feedback are you looking for?
What is your background (name, affiliation, etc)

What we look for in the sessions

Real-world use cases of RDF-based Knowledge Graphs.
Any topic about scaling and using RDF in the real world. This includes prototypes, tools, libraries, etc.
Lessons learned in using RDF Knowledge Graphs in the real world. We also welcome things that did not work out and projects that failed!

What we do not look for

Sales pitches. You are welcome to present whatever you used to solve your problem but focus on the use-case itself and the way you approached it and less on software, especially when it is commercial.
Knowledge Graph Forum is strongly leaning towards RDF-based Knowledge Graphs. Other graph databases are of less interest.
No paper or research presentations, there are enough conferences for these topics already.

Workshop “Autonomous Personal Robots in Action”

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Location: F&P Robotics AG, Rohrstrasse 36, 8152 Glattbrugg ZH

Registration: Send us a mail at info.office@data-service-alliance.ch

F&P Robotics is developing products and solutions in the field of professional personal
robotics. Applications are realized in healthcare (mobile assistants for elderly care,
disabled people and rehabilitation centers), gastronomy (bar robotics) and collaborative
robots.

Especially for the autonomous robots which serve in the healthcare sector, autonomous,
context related behavior is essential. These systems include a lot of sensorics including 3
cameras, laser sensors and tactile sensors, as well as artificial intelligence for decision
processing and learning.

The workshop is designed to give insight into the complete solution of the autonomous
assistant robot Lio and the collaborative robot arm P-Rob.

The mobile robot Lio includes a collaborative 6 DoF robot arm (P-Rob 3), P-Grip
manipulator, sensor fingers, camera module, mobile platform with multi-modal sensors and
WiFi, soft cover, exchangeable inventory system and docking station for autonomous
charging.

The software development package includes standard functions for personal care
assistance, quality of life improvements, transport and manipulation, myP robot control
software for teaching and programming Lio with addons for proactive behavior, calendar
scheduling, navigation, speech synthesis and recognition, generic web-interfaces; Motion
Control Module providing soft and precise low level arm control modes; Integrated ROS
components including navigation with SLAM and collision avoidance, face recognition,
object detection, human pose estimation, Aruco marker detection, monitoring tool for ROS
nodes; behavior script basis with generic intermediate functions and templates for high
level skills; OS system access for Nuc and Jetson, developer access for P-Rob 3; web-
interfaces for developers and users, TCP and ROS interface.

Program:

13:30 – 14:00 (Dr. Hansruedi Früh, Managing Director)

Introduction to the fields of a) collaborative robotics and b) care robotics with technical, safety and intended use aspects

14:00 – 14:45 (Rastislav Marko, Software and Lio System Development)

Description of integrated Python scripting language
Programming exercises with the robots via myPⓇ’s browser interface
State machine to improve robustness and structure of control flow

14:45 – 15:15 (Frederik Zwilling, Software Development and Lio Project Management)

Principles of autonomous behavior: context acquisition, planner and decision engine

15:15 – 15:45 (Dr. Justinas Miseikis, Head of AI)

Explanation of the learning principles for voice and face detection, learning by examples and reinforcement learning of manipulation of objects

15:45 – 16:30 (F&P Technical and UX Team)

Live demos of the robots and simulations

16:30 – 17:00 (all)

Move to Baronics AG, Schaffhauserstrasse 437, 8050 Zurich-Oerlikon

17:00 (Daniel Adamec, Jannik von Rickenbach)

We enjoy a drink at the Barney Robot bar
Get some explanations of its functional principles
Discussion and goodbye

Third Smart Services Summit 2020

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Smart Services Summit 2020

Following on from the successful Smart Services Summit in 2019 we are following with a similar format of short papers and posters to foster closer collaboration between industry and academia.

Theme

Digital as an Enabler for Smart Service Business Development for manufacturers, operators, maintenance providers, and asset managers.

Location: centrally in Zurich or online / hybrid (TBD)

The event is preceded by an optional networking dinner on October 22.

You can find more information in the FLYER.

Smart Cities und Schutz der Privatsphäre – ein Widerspruch?

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Smart Cities, Open Data und Schutz der Privatsphäre – ein Widerspruch?

My Data Zürich

Thu, Oct 22 · 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Viele Städte und auch kleinere Gemeinden unternehmen zunehmend Anstrengungen in Richtung «Smart Cities» – oft ist dies Experiment und Lernerfahrung zugleich.

Der Weg zu Smart Cities bedingt auch Digitale Transformation, und damit entsteht eine wachsende Menge an digital verfügbaren Daten. Diese werden oft auch als «Open Data» der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung gestellt. Durch die immer einfachere Verfügbarkeit digitaler Daten – technisch, aber auch geografisch – kommt auch dem Schutz der Privatsphäre wachsende Bedeutung zu. Dieser Anlass bearbeitet die teilweise widersprüchlichen Erwartungen in einem interaktiven Format.

Prof. Stephan Haller und Ursula Uttinger zeigen in Impulsreferaten Potentiale, Chancen und Risiken von Smart Cities auf. Im anschliessenden «World Café» haben die Gäste die Möglichkeit, die Themen mit weiteren Experten zu diskutieren. Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse im Plenum rundet den Anlass ab.

Referenten:

– Prof. Stephan Haller, Berner Fachhochschule; Institut Public Sector Transformation; Dozent für eGovernment, Smart Cities
– Ursula Uttinger, Kantonsspital Aarau; Leiterin Legal & Compliance, Datenschutzbeauftragte, Dozentin für Datenschutz
– André Golliez, Mitgründer und Managing Partner bei Zetamind AG; Präsident Swiss Data Alliance

Agenda:

18:30 Begrüssung, Kurzvorstellung MyData Global und Zurich
18:40 Impulsreferat – Smart Cities und Umgang mit Daten
18:55 Impulsreferat – Schutz persönlicher Daten
19:10 World Café – Smart Cities / Open Data / Schutz persönlicher Daten
20:00 Vorstellung der Ergebnisse
20:15 Zusammenfassung, Ausblick
20:30 Apéro, Networking

Alliance General Assembly

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The General Assembly 2020 of the Data+Service Alliance will be online and take place on October 28, 2020. More details will follow in the next months.

Like the previous times, the GA will not only be a place for the members’ main contacts to exercise their official voting rights, but also a place for everyone else from our Alliance to get into the details of what makes up our network, and to get in touch.

We encourage everyone interested in joining us by registering themselves via email. You can use the following text:

Subject: GA registration

Text: Register: myself, guest (details of the guest if anyone is joining you).

In case of questions, contact us for clarifications.

Use-Case Talks Series

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In collaboration with Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions.

We enjoy in-depth technical discussions and exchange information about interesting technical challenges among industry, academic and individual members in our Use-Case Talk Series. In a relaxed atmosphere we will discuss about progresses and challenges in data projects, Use-Cases and applications.

The Use-Case Talks Series will be ONLINE.

Topic: Privacy in AI – with the following speakers:

Introduction
Alexander Grimm – CEO at Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions AG

Use-Case Talk 1: Enabling secure data ecosystems with confidential computing
Dr. David Sturzenegger – Technical Producer at Decentriq

Use-Case Talk 2: From Questions to Answers
João Pedro Monteiro – Co-Founder & CTO at Veezoo

The Use-Case Talk Series is organized by Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions AG on behalf of Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services.

Space is limited to 20 participants and free of charge — interesting discussions at the networking Apéro are included!

For registration please write an email (Name, affiliation and position) to info.office@data-service-alliance.ch.