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Date(s) - 18.02.2021
16:00 - 18:00
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The Czech Republic perspective on Digitalization and AI: How can your organization benefit from cross-border cooperation?
New impulses for cooperation between Germany and the Czech Republic in the field of digitalization
In order to increase the economic growth and competitiveness of the European Union, cross-border cooperation with forward-looking technologies such as artificial intelligence is necessary. Increasing importance is being attached in particular to research and development of artificial intelligence in the Czech Republic.
The member state offers a fertile ecosystem for artificial intelligence due to its good research and development infrastructure in addition to its international technology companies and innovative start-ups. Numerous public research institutions drive AI research and development, focusing on fundamental application-oriented AI issues. With an ambitious national AI strategy, the Czech Republic wants to position itself as a location for a European AI centre in the future.
On February 18, 2021, bwcon and xitee will host a conference on the topics of digitalisation and artificial intelligence. The conference will bring together international speakers to provide insights into the trends, developments and strategies in Baden-Württemberg and the Czech Republic. The purpose of the online conference is to give new impulses for cross-border cooperation and knowledge transfer and to help initiate new cooperation and partnerships between the two countries.
Moderator: Dr. Kai v. Schilling
| Time Slots | Programm |
| 04.00 pm – 04.15 pm | Marc König, bwcon und Rainer Schumacher, Xitee
Opening Bwcon, Xitee
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| 04.15 pm – 04.20 pm | Bernard Bauer, CEO AHK Prague
Welcome and Opening |
| 04.20 pm – 04.35 pm | Dr. David Michel, Director of the Liaison Office of the Free State of Saxony in the Czech Republic
Artificial intelligence is bringing changes to our societies, economies and everyday lives. Research and development in Germany, specifically in Saxony and the Czech Republic have already made a great step forward in shaping this movement. Governments are working on strategies, legal requirements and investments to make the transformation a success. Confronted with developments in other parts of the world, we find ourselves in need to explore and set new trends for AI-related research also in our region. The best results can only be achieved through cooperation, for which the Liaison Office of the Free State of Saxony provides platforms to initiate an interactive dialogue and foster even closer partnerships to manage future challenges. |
| 04.35 pm – 04.50 pm | Mascha Eckhardt, Economist „Industrial and Technology Policy, Digitization“, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg
Supporting the commercialization of AI innovations “made in BW” – The program “KI made in BW” was designed in order to push the development of AI as a key enabling technology for future economic competitiveness. Ms. Eckhardt will introduce the different policy instruments within the program, e.g. AI innovation park or AI competitions for SMEs. |
| 04.50 pm – 05.05 pm | Roland Becker, CEO JUST ADD AI Group
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a paradigm-shift in the way we can work with data and computers. The keynote speech explains the way AI currently works, highlights the possibilities of AI today and gives a look into the future. |
| 05.05 pm – 05.20 pm | Pavel Chovanec, Foreign Representative for Dach Region
Due to pandemic, the year of 2020 brought a big downturn in investment cases and volume, however the interest in digital economy and related services is rising. We have noticed the increased interest of German entities in mergers and acquisition in digital industry. The presentation provides overview of the investment trends and adapted support available for investments in the Czech Republic. |
| 05.20 pm – 05.35 pm | Petr Fiala, CEO Soft Vision
Soft Vision is a AI start-up based in Prague with focus to „apply state-of-the-art AI advances to real world problems“. Since 2018 it has been successfully trading crypto-currencies using machine learning and tackled few challenges in healthcare. The keynote speech gives an insight into their project AIDoctor. Healthcare professionals spend up-to 2/3 of their time with administrative tasks. The start-up wants to reduce it through automatization and has started off with generating codes for insurance company report from medical record. |
| 05.35 pm – 05.50 pm | Sara, Communication Manager, Prag AI
Sara will be presenting the AI study done by Aspen Institute Central Europe which investigates the reality of AI in practice in Czech Republic compared to the hypothetical strategy of AI implementation across the country (with focuses on areas such as education and Industry 4.0 being some of the core themes). AI is the next technological evolutionary stage, but only if it’s taught in a multidisciplinary way and if it’s accurately demystified, while showcasing all the opportunities of applied AI such as machine learning in predictive maintenance or revolutionising the healthcare system through personalised treatment. AI presents a huge opportunity for humanity and we need to grasp it in the right way in order to succeed. |
| 05.50 pm – 06.00 pm | Closing bwcon and xitee |
About the speakers:
While still studying business administration at University of Konstanz, Rainer Schumacher already ran the controlling department of a midsize engineering company in Baden-Württemberg. With the successful completion of his degree, Mr. Schumacher started his career in the consulting business. For several years he was in leading positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM responsible for national and international projects and customer relations. Since 2013 Rainer Schumacher is the managing partner of xITee. The Prague IT company supports their customers in several industries in digitalization and digital transformation.
Dr. David Michel, Director of the Liaison Office of the Free State of Saxony in the Czech Republic. The lawyer, who studied jurisprudence and European law at both German and Czech universities, worked for more than 15 years as a business lawyer, primarily for medium-sized companies. He worked for employers‘ associations in the Free State of Saxony, is the author of several specialist articles in business law and was the scientific director for several years of an employer-oriented think tank. For several years he is leading the Representation of the Free State of Saxony which, in addition to maintaining political relations between the two states, also supports cross-border economic relations in the field of science and research.
Mascha Eckhardt is working on AI and Digitization funding programs within the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg. Before joining the unit „Industrial and Technology Policy, Digitization“, she worked abroad and in Germany within the international business environment and studied international economics.
Roland Becker is CEO of the JUST ADD AI Group and builds AI software solutions for business applications and AI based products. He is an AI Engineer and digital entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in various digital business areas. Roland has a passion for innovation and philosophy and also initiated BREMEN.AI, the official Cluster for AI in Bremen. His AI podcast THINK REACTOR covers all topics related to AI and its application in the real world.
Pavel Chovanec has been working with CzechInvest – Investment and business development agency of the Czech Republic for 15 years, currently on the post of Foreign Representative for D-A-CH region. CzechInvest as the investment promotion and business development agency subordinated to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic administrates programmes to support start-ups and SMEs, investment incentives as a form of the regional investment aid and provides information and assistance for feasibility studies for the new investments and expansions in the Czech Republic.
Petr Fiala, founder and CEO of Soft Vision s.r.o., graduated from University of Economics, Prague with degree in Knowledge engineering. As a data scientist worked on different projects ranging from lab to business in a pharmaceutical company. After two years made change to start-up where he analyzed e-sport games using machine learning and worked as team leader. 3 Years ago he implemented an algo-trading system for crypto-currencies using AI and founded the company.
Sara Polak spent almost a decade in the UK, first studying Archaeology and Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford and then working in various technological startups, ranging from AI for museums and galleries to full scale digitalisation of global politics, working on approximately 50 high profile campaigns. Since 2019 she’s blissfully back in the Czech republic, where she has worked in exploring ways in which machine learning can help Industry 4.0, and since 2020 has become a ‘popularisator’ of AI, trying to push education, multidisciplinarity, and demystification of the technology wherever she goes. She does this primarily through prg.ai, and is also involved in the pAIoneers creative project as a part of Paralelni Polis.
Contact:
| Nicole Hausladen
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The conference will be held in English.
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