7th Living Bits and Things 2017

Combined Session 7th Living bits and things 2017 & 30th Bled eConference

Welcome speech and keynotes from industry and academia to jointly address the challenges and opportunities of the digital transformation.

Keynote

• Paul Timmers, Former Director EU Commission Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity
  The next 30 years ... and what you can do about it?!
  
  

• Dejan Ljuština, Memeber of the Management Board, PwC
  Emerging Tech: The Next Frontier

Workshop

Today we use different devices and interfaces to communicate, which is technically speaking just a simple data interchange. With the Internet of things (IoT), sensors and automatically operated connected devices we are facing new challenges in communication between people and especially between people and machines.
As users either in private life or in business and industry we are using many different types of interfaces and communication modes. From web Analytics/Dashboards to Apps and most recent chatbots, voice and gesture controls.
Is this what we as users want or we can look forward to experiencing a next "IoT interface", which will take advantage of the artifical intelligence, mobile technology and other new developments?


Participants and presentations links:

• Matevž Pogačnik,
  Multimedia Lab, Faculty for Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
  User experience aspects in IoT domain
  
  
• Franc Dolenc,
  CEO, Media Interactive, Slovenia
  iKranj for Connected Community in Digital Transformation Age
  
  
• Alexander Habinski,
  CSP & CSV business development director, IBM CEE, Austria
  IoT and Digital Data Challenging Rhe Way We Communicate
  
  
• Jure Lampe,
  CEO, Senlab (an UnifiedInBox partner), Slovenia
  
  

Moderator(s):

• Toby Ruckert, CEO, UnifedInBox, Singapore
  
• Tomaž Vidonja, CEO, Living bits and things event
  The Now and How of the Digital Transformation and Iot

Session/workshop will be dedicated to emerging opportinities and challenges brought by the new data economy. As devices arround us become more intelligent and they deliver immense amount of data every single moment, the potential of using and abusing data is huge and present high threat and also a high potential for organizations and society. What are the implications of EU GDPR - General Data Protection regulation, which needs to be implemented by the companies and organizations until May 25, 2018? What are the tools to handle data and technolgies to manage data security? How to monetize data? Do we forget about ethics when we collect, share, use data either privately, in smart society or in business?

• Andrej Tomšič,
  Deputy Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner of Slovenia;
  The GDPR - implement or die: What you need to do by May 25, 2018?
  
  
• Dejan Podgoršek,
  IBM Innovation Centre, Slovenia
  Blockchain - beyond bitcoin: From theory to practice in Industry and Smart society
  
  
• Matevž Pustišek,
  University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Swether: Electric Switch with Ethereum Blockchain Support, a case of Blockchain Enabled IoT device
  
  
• Irina Shklovski,
  IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Ethics in Internet of Things: Where, Who and How?
  

Workshop/Session

Smart cities and communities also known worldwide as smart habitats take over the development of the society and they become major players in regions and in countries. There is no one single best solution how to become a smart city and how to empower the smart community. It is important to understand and learn about the challenges in the cities, towns, villages and communities in order to use the technologies for the best outcome. The workshop will focus to active living, well being, smart healthcare and mobility with practical demonstration and real working cases.

• Boris Presekar, Bosch
  Connected devices, connected partners: Delivering value in smart cities - cases to go
  
  
• Marko Jankovič, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
   Remote health: ICT challenges of remote patient monitoring with a demo
  
  
• Janko Pavlović, Digital Worx, Serbia
  E-lungs - smart public transportation: Where are my batteries? 
  
  
• Sanmit Ahuja, ETI Dynamics, Great Britain/India
  Green ICT / Smart Ambient /Active Habitat: Project opportunities and challenges in 100 Smart Cities India program
  
  
• Peter Pustatčink, Head of e-Healtha and e-Care, Telekom Slovenije
  e-Care Service: A Telco perspective of Smart community services
  

Each year a special thematic evening networking event is organized, which is an excellent opportunity to meet each other, disuss new opportunities for cooperation and simply enjoy the moment. Experience a deliciuos local cousine, excellent Slovenian wines and our hospitality in a magic nature of Bled.

Workshop/Session

An interactive workshop session on learning from pragmatic leaders in Industry 4.0 and Smart factories. With special focus on:

• From idea to implementation;
• Going alone or in cooperation with partners;
• Outcome and benefits;
• What to do and what to avoid?
• What SMEs can learn from large enterprises and vice-versa?

• Tomaž Savšek, TPV, Slovenia
  Industry 4.0 in practice: Supplier in automotive industry moves toward smart factory
  
  
• Dejan Podgoršek, Manager for Business Development & ISV, IBM Innovation Center, Ljubljana
  The value of data: Industrial Internet of Things and cognitive computing beyond optimizing cost
  
  
• Sandra Roosna, Soracom, Japan
  Start quickly, scale fast and think big
  
  
• Igor Potočnik, Infotrans, Slovenia
  Logistics and supply chain in the heart of the Industry 4.0: Taking advantage of IoT
  

Workshop/Session

This session brings first hand best practices and case studies about the major challenges manufacturing industries and SMEs face today. These consist of the basic interests why to plan and how jump on Industry 4.0 train, what outcome to expect and where to start. The scope starts with the infrastructure and goes beyond technolgies to open and discuss major challenges related to implementation of digital industry and business. Most important value of this session is to bring together knowledge and people who have experiences, methods and tools for I4.0 implementation, especially for SMEs and those who are either entering or improving their digital journey in I4.0 and Industrial IoT.

• Uroš Merljak, Schneider Electric, Slovenia
  Connecting machines and devices in a reliable way: What you need on your factory floor?
  
  
• Jure Lampe, Senlab, Slovenia
  Fail fast and fail often: Pilot your early connected ideas to become I4.0 ready
  
  
• Pasi Hurri, BaseN, Finland
  From digital twins to spimes: From product to intelligent services in any industry
  
  
• Christian Kittl, Evolaris GmbH, Austria
  Securely connecting smart products: Best practice from automotive industry
  

Roundtable

Roundtable will offer an excellent opportunity to learn about the Industry 4.0, Factories of Future and Smart factories experiences in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland and Slovenia. Together with experts from Spain, Croatia and Poland discussion will focus on most challenging topics industry faces as they implement advanced technologies and digitize business processes in order to implement I4.0.

Participants and presentations:

• Marjana Majerič, Technology park Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Leading Innovation HUB in SE Europe
  
  
• Marko Močnik, Technology park Pomurje, Slovenia
   Strategic cross-cluster collaboration
  
  
• Tanja Kožuh, Technology park Primorje, Slovenia
  The meeting point in theregional innovation system
  
  
• Johannes Brunner, IDM Tirol, Italy
  Catalyzing Smart Engineering & Rapid Prototyping
  
  
• Giacomo Copani, ITIA CNR, Italy
  Mediterranean Trans-Regional Cooperation for green manufacturing innovation
  
  
• Christine Neuy, Microtec Sudwest, Germany
  Industry 4.0 "journey" to accelerate digital transformation processes in SME
  
  
• Arnaud Buquillon, VIA MECA, France
  Design, production and integration of intelligent mechanical systems.
  

Moderator

• Peter Wostner,
  Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Slovenia

Workshop/Session

This session will show successful cases presented by the SMEs which have implemented the I4.0 and what was their journey. It will focus on particular challenges and will answer specific questions about the I4.0 planning, financing, implementation and next steps by the SMEs. As there is no one single and general approach and solution to the I4.0 implementation the value of this session and discussion will come out of the first hand experiences shared by the companies. The cases are segmented according to the strategic and business expected outcome as a major reason why companies decided to go the I4.0 way.

Participants / Speakers

• Christine Neuy, Microtec SudWest, Germany
  Bwcon and microTEC Südwest as partners of "Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg"
  
  
• Viktoria Ilger, Evolaris, Austria
  Competence Centre for Digital Assistance Systems
  
  
• Marzia Morgantini, AFIL, Italy
  Intelligent Manufacturing Cluster
  
  
• Aleš Hančič, TECOS, Slovenia
  TECOS - Slovenian Tool and Die Development Centre
  
  
• Maudez Ledantec, Plastipolis, France
  Plastipolis Cluster Industry 4.0 by SME: Dynamic, pragmatic and operational
  

Moderator

• Jernej Pintar, Technology park Ljubljana, Slovenia
  

Experience a deliciuos local cousine, excellent Slovenian wines and our hospitality in a magic nature of Bled.