K4I Forum Governing Board working breakfast 

Outcome of the event 

The first debate under the chairmanship of the Ms. Maria Carvalho enjoyed a great participation from the part of the MEPs, all of them being interested to discuss the future framework for artificial intelligence in the EU with Ms. Lucilla Sioli, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG CONNECT.

The debate ended with useful conclusions and suggestions:

  • One of the biggest challenges for our future is to create an ecosystem enabling ideas to flourish openly and to reach the market quickly enough to become solutions for a sustainable economy.
  • The digital transformation processes are a big opportunity for a renewed prosperity in the whole Europe.
  • Innovation can re-shape our way of living and this is particularly true with artificial intelligence.
  • European culture, traditions and history will make the difference for creating the ethical principles around which we can create a human-centric development of the AI technologies. 

Testimonials
Great to join this morning’s K4I Forum Breakfast on Artificial Intelligence with the Director for AI and Robotics Lucilla Sioli in DG Connect. 

Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, MEP
Very exciting topic at K4I Forum working breakfast: Artificial intelligence in Europe.

Franc Bogovič, MEP
The meeting this morning was excellent!

Pierre Barthélemy, Executive Director, Cefic
I liked the discussion this morning with the EC very much. AI is a theme that touches on the energy area, as well as a huge number of others, of course. It’s a good format for K4I meetings, and I’m glad it’s repeated in Oct and Nov.

Greg Arrowsmith, Policy Advisor, Eurec
The past decade has known a surge of breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Increased computer power, the availability of big data, as well as advances in research have led to ever more AI and big-data applications being used in all domains of our lives. 

The 1st AI & Big Data Innovation Summit organised by the Knowledge4Innovation Forum is taking place from 2 – 5 December in the European Parliament in Brussels. This is an outstanding opportunity to meet and discuss with newly elected MEPs and the new Commission about the opportunity for Europe to become a global leader in AI and data driven innovations and how policy can support and if necessary, regulate AI and big data developments.
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Upcoming K4I Forum Breakfast Events

 

A successful implementation of Horizon Europe requires a continued dialogue and cooperation among K4I members and other European Partnerships that cover the different programme parts.
The K4I Forum in the European Parliament provides a platform for close collaboration across clusters, partnerships and alongside the Missions. Working groups will be established based on reviewed priorities under the Pact for Innovation. Members of the European Parliament will co-chair the meetings and other stakeholders will be invited to contribute. First results will be presented and discussed with a wider audience at the 11th European Innovation Summit taking place from 3 – 6 February 2020 in the European Parliament in Brussels.
2019
15 Oct
Guest speaker:
Kurt Vandenberghe,
Director for Policy Development and Coordination,
DG Research and Innovation
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To deliver on its aim of ensuring prosperity to citizens while meeting the challenges of the future, the EU must be capable to stimulate market-creating breakthroughs and ecosystems conducive to innovation. Hence, the next EU Research & Innovation Investment Programme will be accompanied by a structure able to foster all forms of innovation and strengthen market deployment.
Chaired by Maria Da Graça Carvalho, and with the keynote intervention of the EIC Task Force Director of DG Research and Innovation, Jean-David Malo, the Forum Breakfast will inform attendees on latest developments regarding “Innovative Europe” under Horizon Europe.
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Click here to contact the K4I Secretariat
for more information and partnership opportunities
The 11th European Innovation Summit is scheduled to take place from 3 to 6 February 2020.
In the presence of new European Commissioners, participants will discuss remaining issues before the final adoption of the Horizon Europe Programme, as well as challenges in aligning innovation policies across Europe. 

Member's News

 

Photonics: Indispensable technology
vital to innovation, new report shows
                                                                                      

A new report by Tematys has confirmed the vital role photonics plays in innovation.

Assessing 794 Horizon 2020 projects from 2014 to April 2019 for their photonics content, Tematys has demonstrated the enormous impact on innovation photonics is having in important sectors, like Automotive, Agro-food, Security & Defense, and Biomedical industries.

Read the entire article here.

Artificial Intelligence in EU Process Industry 

          a View from the SPIRE cPPP             
 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is today one of the most hyped technologies. It has become strongly relevant in many aspects of our lives from natural language processing to navigation and trading in stock exchanges. AI refers to systems or applications which can make decisions and can take actions without being explicitly programmed to do so, based on data collection, usage analysis and other observations. AI is not one universal technology, it is rather an umbrella term that includes multiple technologies such as machine learning, reasoning, computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) that, individually or in combination, add intelligence to applications. The broadness of the technology portfolio, its rapid pace of change, and the increasing power of the proposed solutions will find within the process industries a significant field of implementation, leveraging some very specific characteristic of these industries.
Read more here.
AI Paper

         
 

100% Renewable Heating and Cooling for a Sustainable Future


EUREC is the Scientific Coordinator of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC ETIP), organiser of the 100% RHC Event. 
Place: Helsinki, Finland
Date: 28/10/2019
100% RHC event is the opportunity for Renewable Heating and Cooling experts to learn, network and present their RHC innovative projects. 100% RHC for a Sustainable Future includes:
•    The 100% RHC Workshop to discuss the outcome of 15 projects on industries, districts, cities and buildings. Discover the projects here: 
•    The 100% RHC High Level Conference. Learn about the speakers (here: and the agenda (here:
•    An evening reception hosted by the Mayor of Helsinki, who will announce a 1M EUR prize for the best project to decarbonize Helsinki’s H&C network.

            
Register Here!
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