Innovation Lab Geo: Making sense of a changing world (using Geospatial Technologies and AI)

Are you keen to move forward and make a change? Do you want to be brought up to speed on the state-of-art technologies on the intersection of Geospatial analytics and AI the University is using and meet like minded people? Are you looking for funding to realize innovative ideas with fellow scientists and technologists?

We cordially invite you to the Innovation Lab organized by the Center for Information Technology to meet like minded colleagues and work together on ideas for proposals for the ICT Innovation Fund!

Program

• 13:00 - 13:15 | Walk in
• 13:15 - 13.45 | Welcome, goals for the day, ICT Innovation Fund introduction
• 13:45 - 14:15 | Novel techniques to determine vegetation structure. Will they scale?
  Han Olff - Professor of Community and Conservation Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen
• 14:15 - 14:45 | Using AIS tracking to connect marine recreational behavior to ecologically sensitive areas
  Erik Meijles - Director of Education and Associate Professor Landscape Geography, University of Groningen
• 14:45 - 15:30 | Risk and benefits of using named entity recognition to geocode location mentions in natural texts
  Herbert Kruitbosch - Scientific programmer, team Data Science, Center for Information Technology, University of Groningen
• 15:15 - 15:30 | Break
• 15:30 - 16:30 | Discussions in groups on applications
• 16:30 - 17:00 | Wrap up
• 17:00 - ..........| Drinks and bites