Date: April 22
Hour: 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Venue: Abreu Faro Amphitheatre, Instituto Superior Técnico – Alameda Campus
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«An ATTRACT European Digital Innovation Hub initiative.
A first presentation of the ATTRACT opportunities and tools to support companies and their interactions with Academia and Técnico, including:
- ATTRACT: Institutional Overview and Portfolio Overview;
- Técnico: institutional, teams and infrastructures;
- Case studies: frontiers of Academia-Industry links at Técnico.
Programme
15:30 – Opening Session
15:35 – Técnico and SMEs
Vice-President of Instituto Superior Técnico for Corporate Interface, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Pedro Amaral (TBC)
15:45 – The Técnico HPC/AI Ecosystem and case studies – I
Inês Lynce, INESC-ID president
Mário Figueiredo, ELLIS_Lisboa and Cátedra Feedzai, IT
Carlos B. Silva, IDMEC/LAETA
16:15 – ATTRACT – portfolio and institutional presentation
Guilherme Pereira, DSPA
16:40 – The HPC/AI ecosystem: Technology Transfer and National Infrastructures
TT@IST Team
FCCN/FCT Team
17:00 – The Técnico HPC/AI Ecosystem and case studies – II
Leonardo Azevedo, CERENA president
José Santos Victor, LarSys president
17:20 – Closing Session
Social Gathering
Motivation
Changing course and investing in technology requires an effort from companies, a change in processes, an adaptation that is not always easy. However, what is the cost of not embracing the digital transition? Digital transformation, namely accelerated by AI and HPC, and the application of these technologies to business processes is essential and is an investment that, in the medium term, will have very differentiating results for their competitiveness.
For SMEs (below the threshold of €200k of public funding for the year):
- Access to cutting-edge AI and HPC expertise and technology to transform businesses;
- Access to discounts of up to 87.5% when hiring a 10k project (average value of the project);
- Agile process: Usually for these values you don’t need a contract, but a proposal, its acceptance and then the invoice.
For Universities:
- Cutting-edge challenges that contribute to transforming businesses;
- Access to opportunities to strengthen ongoing collaborations with SMEs;
- New scientific and technological challenges with economic impact.
Why ATTRACT @ Técnico?
ATTRACT is the result of more than three years of work and this consortium brings together entities with a huge versatility of skills that create value to the ecosystem, with the advantage of being able to provide these services to the market with very attractive conditions because they are financed by the project.
ATTRACT offers a set of services that is based on the “test before investing” concept, through feasibility studies or proofs of concept, assessment of digital maturity in AI and HPC and definition of transformation roadmaps, training and capacity building (such as webinars and workshops), mentoring and acceleration sessions for new business models and co-creation labs, and support in setting up a demonstrator project using artificial intelligence.
Técnico actively participates in ATTRACT and opens to the entire community of SMEs and academia the opportunity to strengthen connections, develop new services and build new projects to connect companies and academia.»
