Intelligent cities innovate Europe
Datum: 21/10/2011
An international conference entirely devoted to the smartest region, with an ‘Open Innovation Cruise’ and the announcement of the Top 21 Intelligent Communities eligible to compete for the ICF Award 2012. We warmly invite you to take part in this special event on 21 October. Venue: Evoluon, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Brainport Eindhoven Region won the Intelligent Community Award earlier this year. The jury praised the region as an international model for regional cooperation. On 21 October the main focus is how cities and regions can contribute to ‘open innovation’, viewed from the perspective of politics, industry and science.
Programme
8.30 – 12.00 Open Innovation Cruise
One of the key reasons why the Brainport Eindhoven Region was elected as ICF Intelligent Community of the Year is our unique partnership between industry, knowledge/research institutes and government in the region. Through the open innovation cruise we want to show how that comes about and how these initiatives are intertwined with other projects. The projects developed in the ‘Brainport’ context lead to transfer, to new insights and new forms of collaboration (open innovation, co-creation, operational field labs and living labs) and strengthen the knowledge base of the region for the future.
Conference participants will be able to visit companies, research institutes and other (public) organisations to experience how innovations are developed and implemented in the Brainport Eindhoven Region based on ‘Open Innovation’.
Participation in the Open Innovation Cruise offers the choice of one of the following themes:
- Creating a healthy future: Participants visit the care & healthy living project LivingLab eHealth, Philips Healthcare and Holst Centre.
- Smart Mobility: A visit to the High Tech Automotive Campus Helmond, TomTom and professor Maarten Steinbuch of Eindhoven University of Technology (open innovation, automotive and robotics).
- Put a stop to crime: Participants will visit Prodrive and the Regional Control Room, specializing is delivering quality images of, for instance, criminal evidence.
- Battle for Talent: A visit to the ‘Medical Investigators’ project in which students gather and study forensic evidence using a Phenom electron microscope, DNA tests, etc. Phenom-World and Máxima Medisch Centre are also on the programme.
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch in the Evoluon in Eindhoven
14.00 – 18.00 Intelligent Cities Driving Research and Innovation
Cities are both supporters of innovation and innovators themselves. They provide services and support for the skills, processes and structures required for innovation. Cities provide the infrastructure for research, energy & mobility and create framework conditions to facilitate knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial activities. Cities also coordinate or facilitate ‘test bedding’ of products and services or drive social experimentation to provide evidence about the impact and outputs of research & innovation funding.
This part of the event will take the practical impressions of the morning and explore what the current barriers and challenges are for cities and their partners to participate actively in European research & innovation programmes, and what needs to change for the EU’s future framework Horizon2020.
14.00 Opening by Rob van Gijzel, mayor of Eindhoven and chairman of the Brainport Foundation, and Ingrid Goetzl, Knowledge Society Forum Chair
14.15 EU Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (invited)
14.30 Prof. dr. Sjoerd Romme, professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Technical University Eindhoven
15.00 Discussion
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Erice Meurice, CEO, ASML is invited to give an insight into Open Innovation Entrepreneurship in Eindhoven
16.30 Project brokerage – Regions of Knowledge / FP7-REGIONS-2012-2013-1 call
The ‘Regions of knowledge’ initiative aims to strengthen the research potential of European regions, in particular by encouraging and supporting the development, across Europe, of regional ‘research-driven clusters’, associating universities, research centres, enterprises and regional authorities. EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum offers an opportunity for practitioners from EUROCITIES member cities to develop consortia and project ideas around the current FP7 Regions of Knowledge call, closing on 31 January 2012.
18.00 Preview of Dutch Design Week and closing of conference
The conference will close with a preview of the highlights and main attractions of the Dutch Design Week, which will take place from 22 – 30 October in Eindhoven.
19.00 – 21.30 Dinner & announcement of Top 21 ICF Award 2012
By invitation only
The day will close with a dinner where Louis Zacharilla, co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum, will announce the 21 nominees for the ICF Award 2012. Rob van Gijzel, mayor of Eindhoven, will be one of the speakers. Wim van de Donk, Commissioner of the Queen of Noord-Brabant, has also been invited to attend.
We look forward to seeing you on 21 October
Click here to join us. You can also indicate whether you wish to take part in a part of the Open Innovation Cruise.
More information about the programme: www.brainport.nl/octoberevent.
