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The end of ownership, new servitization and transport innovation create opportunities for a truly circular  world resulting in completely new value chains.

Our fast growing virtual world creates opportunities and challenges: realizing an experience economy, fighting digital crime and improving ambient living.

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Circular economy for a better world

Digital technologies for a better world

Program Innovation Day 2018

1.1 Integrating AI techniques to build meaningful product concepts

Sorting waste in the right way is an important part of our circular economy. All too often people doubt in which bin they have to put their waste. What if an app helps you with sorting? By combining AI and IoT technology in a gamification app that adds fun for users, we were able to realize an advertising platform for companies.

By Jochem Grietens, Consultant PhysicsLab Artificial Intelligence at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

1.2 Circular economy in the chemical sector

Sustainability and circular economy are very present in all chemical or material companies. What are the technical and business challenges and opportunities? How can you turn these in advantages and growth?

By Paul Poelmans, Key Account Manager Advanced Materials at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

1.3 New toolset to give your product portfolio a circular make-over

Get to know our newest hands-on toolset by means of an inspiring case study. It will help you to assess your portfolio and check which of your products apply for a circular overhaul.

By Gerd Van Cauteren, Consultant DesignLab at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

1.4 Circular approach of passenger aircrafts

The Belgian start-up Airocirculair introduced a whole new circular approach towards end-of-life treatment of passenger aircrafts. Learn more about Aerocirculair’s ambition to disrupt the current aircraft dismantling business.

By Toon Wassenberg, Chief Sustainability at Airocirculair

2.1 Conversational bots creating new experiences

In a world in constant mutation, it’s necessary to create mechanisms capable to relieve the human stress in tasks that can be handled by machines. The conversational bots are starting to have an important role in the customer support, where it’s necessary to make these interactions rich, in both content and experience.

By Davide Ricardo, Chief Technology Officer at Load Masters in Innovation

2.2 Howcanblockchainhelpusinthefightagainstfake news, corruption and hacking?

What makes blockchain unique is the absence of a central authority or a third-party requirement for overseeing trans-actions. In a blockchain, in order to execute any transaction, which is to be accepted by the rest of the network, the participants of the network need to reach a consensus, which protects the information’s integrity and prevents fraud.

By Pieter Zuliani, Technology Evangelist at PegusApps Masters in Innovation

2.3 Digital empowerment of older users

How can you enable older users to fully benefit from the latest technological innovations in order to improve the management of their daily lives and stay physically, mentally and socially active? The Vizier project aims to close the digital gap using a signature user interface.

By Lene Schroyen, Project Manager at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

The Innovation Day is an annual conference to encourage innovation and R&D professionals to innovate. With 16 inspiring sessions in 5 tracks you learn from insights, best practices, tools, cases and concepts on product and innovation management, and technology development.

Fusing Artificial Intelligence and robotics technologies lead to endless possibilities ready to improve our world.

Changing the complex world cannot be achieved by a single person, company or sector. Gathering data from and controlling behavior of all actors through collective intelligence are pathways to innovation.

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Robotics for a better world Design for a better world

3.1 How to approach Machine Learning for innovation projects?

Excitement about AI and Machine Learning is tremendous. But how many mainstream products with AI functions do you know? This talk discusses the importance to have a technical strategy for AI projects to avoid pitfalls.

By Jochem Grietens, Consultant PhysicsLab Artificial Intelligence at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

3.2 UseArtificialIntelligencetomakesmart decisions

Implementing AI into robotics can truly make the world a better place beyond our imagination. In this session we’ll dive into the basics of how AI works and explore the possibilities using this technology combined with robots in real-life scenarios.

By Pieter Zuliani, Technology Evangelist at PegusApps Masters in Innovation

3.3 Improving quality of life through human centered robotics

What happens when humans and robots start to collaborate? Which different fields of science are needed to create a positive robotic future in healthcare, industry and home. BruBotics enables cross-industry innovation by combining research in engineering, life, computer and social sciences on the topic of human centered robotics.

By Lennert Vierendeels, Business Developer at Brubotics

4.1 Innovating the smart city

A smart city connects future challenges with different types of sensors and infrastructure. We need breakthrough innovations and disruptive technologies to develop new applications and drastically change our future regarding energy transmission, mobility, economy, living, working etc. By sharing experiences you’ll find ideas for your business.

By Dany Robberecht, Director Consulting Office at Verhaert Masters in Innovation and Martin Jansen, Gemeente Utrecht

4.2 Nudging, design concepts to change behavior

Placing a fly in a urinal might be just what your business needs. Dive into examples and cases where nudging is proven to be more effective instead of forbidding choices or using incentives. Experimenting with nudging can improve your business or can make things so much easier.

By Louise Haazen, Consultant DesignLab and David Pas, Coordinator DesignLab at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

4.3 Collective intelligence: a dystopian innovation path today, a utopia tomorrow

Devices generating data by collective intelligence are facing us very rapidly. Multi-sided business models are an intrinsic opportunity. Yet, not the best way to start. These collective intelligent systems connect data generated in one market with other market’s needs, and are able to shake up markets.

By Frederik Wouters, Business Development Director at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

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• where your opportunities are in a circular world.• how robotics and AI will enter our daily life.• the way digital technologies enable and manage the virtual world.• how design methodologies and tools contribute to an inclusive world.• how space technologies help us to manage planet Earth.

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Space technology becomes more and more an imminent opportunity to innovate. Future space exploration and space data deliver technology transfer occasions for a better world.

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Space technology for a better world

5.1 The social relevance of Earth observation data

Multiple satellites are creating different types of images that we can use for many purposes to create a better world. Which datasets are there? For which applications can we use them? Many examples will convince you to apply Earth observation data to your business.

By Alexander Frimout, Consultant InnoLab at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

5.2 Optics for science exploration

During the last 30 years of science exploration in space, the complexity of experiments and related equipment has continuously increased, leading more and more frequently to the impossibility to fulfill the quadruple constraints: science, technologies, safety and cost. Since a few year, a fresh approach appears in the new space mood where key words are simpler and faster.

By Olivier Dupont, Managing Director at Lambda-X Masters in Innovation

5.3 Scaling production of cell based therapies

Cell based therapy is the most promising innovation in medical. The biggest challenge? It’s a complex, extensive and manual production which results in a small scale and expensive treatment. We’ll dive in the technical challenges to automate and scale cell production and how cell transfection can be stimulated by the technology transfer of optics.

By Jan Calliauw, Key Account Manager Medical & Health and Thomas Degreef, Consultant PhysicsLab at Verhaert Masters in Innovation

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