Tag: Databooster

Expert Group Meeting – Natural Language Processing in Action: Contextualization

Written by dsa_admin on 12. September 2024.

The next expert meeting of the NLP group will be held on 1. October 2024 at the usual location – ZHAW on Lagerstrasse – followed by an Apero at Nüü. This session will focus on the topic of “Contextualization,” featuring the following speakers:

Hans Ramsl from Weights and Biases will discuss “Beyond Vibe Checks: Establishing Systematic Evaluation Frameworks for Semantic Contextualization in LLMs”.
Tobias Schimanski, PhD candidate at the University of Zurich and affiliated researcher at the University of Oxford, is going to talk about “Challenges and Pathways for Retrieval Augmented Generation” by looking into two of his recent papers.
TBA

Join us on October 1st at 17:30 at Lagerstrasse 45, 8004 Zurich, in room ZL O6.16 (6th floor). The presentations will run from 17:30 to 19:00, followed by an Apero downstairs at 19:00.

Online participation is also possible.

Please use the following form to confirm your attendance by September 24:

https://forms.gle/UWbkMcEvNP6jcSgSA

We will send you a calendar invite which also includes online participation details.

maintenance Schweiz 2024

Written by dsa_admin on 31. July 2024.

Die Maintenance Schweiz ist die Leitmesse für industrielle Instandhaltung

Vom 28. – 29. August 2024 findet die 16. Ausgabe der maintenance Schweiz in Zürich statt. Die Schweizer Leitmesse für industrielle Instandhaltung ist ein fixer Bestandteil für Alle, die sich mit Anlagenwartung, Ersatzteilen, Smart Maintenance, Arbeitssicherheit und technischen Lösungen auseinandersetzen. Die Messe präsentiert Lösungen und Trends für die gesamte Schweizer Industrie.

Die data innovation alliance und der Databooster werden am smart data forum präsent sein und in mehreren Talks den Nutzen und Anwendung von smart data vorstellen. Die Registrierung ist kostenlos!

Programm
Flyer
Registrierung

Digital Health Lab Day 2024

Written by dsa_admin on 31. July 2024.

Dear Digital Health Enthusiasts

The next Digital Health Lab Day will take place on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024 at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur. Join participants from healthcare, IT, management, health experts, startups and research, learn and discuss about recent developments in digital health.

Find more information and the registration on the official website.

Project Day

Written by dsa_admin on 27. June 2024.

Join us for the Project Day as we celebrate the achievements of the four-year Innovation Booster program, which concludes at the end of this year.

Save this date as well! Details will be updated before the date.

Webinar – The role of documents in RAG Applications

Written by dsa_admin on 10. June 2024.

Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore how to transform a company’s documents into structured data, paving the way for advanced Generative AI applications.

As member of Data Innovation Alliance in this educational webinar we will guide you through the process of converting diverse document formats into usable data. You’ll learn about advanced data extraction techniques, ensuring data accuracy and traceability, and see real-world applications in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Ideal for professionals aiming to leverage AI for augmented reading, chat, analytics, and automation.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding document complexity and data extraction
Techniques for ensuring data accuracy
Practical RAG application insights

Agenda:

5 min – Welcome and Introduction
15 min – Key Challenges and learnings of extracting data from unstructured sources
15 min – Practical use cases in augmented reading, RAG
10 min – Q&A

The webinar will be recorded for on-demand watching.

Webinar Geoinformation – Auffindbarkeit und Nutzbarkeit quo vadis? (Deutsch)

Written by dsa_admin on 5. June 2024.

Es gibt eine Viezahl an Daten, die einen räumlichen Bezug haben – nicht nur erhoben durch Unternehmen oder Forschungseinrichtungen, sondern auch durch Bundesbehörden oder Kantonale Ämter. Doch wie findet man die “richtigen” Daten und wie kann man diese in eigene Anwendungen und Dienstleistungen integrieren?

In der erste Präsentation dieses Webinars stellt ein Team der FHNW den GeoHarvester vor, ein Proof-of-Concept (PoC) einer einfach zu bedienenden, mehrsprachigen Suchmaschine für Schweizer Geodienste – mit offener API und offenem Quellcode.

Die zweite Präsentation von Dr. Ralph Straumann beleuchtet den Stand der Schweizer Geoinformations-«Landschaft» im Jahr 2024 sowie aktuelle und künftige Herausforderungen bezüglich der Produktion und Bereitstellung von Geodaten – und versucht, einige Lösungsansätze aufzuzeigen.

Prof. Stefan F. Keller rundet das Webinar ab. Bei allen Referaten besteht die Möglichkeit, Fragen zu stellen.

Programm (90 min.):
11:00 Einführung (Stefan Keller FH OST) (5 min.)
11:05 GeoHarvester PoC – eine Suchmaschine für Geodienste der Schweiz (Pia Bereuter, Friedrich Striewski und Elia Ferrari, FHNW Muttenz)
11:40 Schweizer Geoinformationen: Connecting the dots, perpetual beta (Ralph Straumann, EBP)
12:15 Geoinformation-Auffindbarkeit und -Nutzbarkeit quo vadis? (Stefan Keller, FH OST)

Registration

Diese Veranstaltung wird in Zusammenarbeit mit dem GEOSummit und dem Innovation Booster databooster (Focus Topic Spatial Data Analytics) durchgeführt.

Webinar: 12. Learn & Lunch – Challenges for SMEs: How can responsible AI be used as a competitive advantage (Deutsch)

Written by dsa_admin on 3. June 2024.

Due to rising social expectations and new laws on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), it is becoming increasingly important for companies to ensure the trustworthiness and ethical acceptability of AI applications. However, instead of viewing these requirements merely as a challenge, they also offer companies the opportunity to innovate and differentiate themselves from the competition. The aim of this event is to jointly explore the business challenges in the area of responsible AI. It will also discuss how companies can proactively use these requirements to tap into new innovation opportunities and position themselves sustainably in the market.

Organized by GRdigital in cooperation with the Focus Topic Responsible AI and Expert Group Data Ethics, of the data innovation alliance

Official Website and registration

Info-Webinar IB Databooster and Artificial Intelligence

Written by dsa_admin on 3. June 2024.

The Service à l’Innovation et à la Recherche (SIR) of the HES-SO is organizing a webinar on June 24, 2024 (12:00-13:00) to present two ideas supported by the Innosuisse Innovation Booster program. The funding opportunities in the frame of the Innovation Booster databooster and Artificial Intelligence, for which Nabil Abdennadher, professor at HEPIA, is the representative in French-speaking Switzerland, will be introduced and explained.

Organized by HES-SO, HEPIA and the data innovation alliance

Official website and Registration

Responsible AI Challenge: The long way from Responsible AI principles to concrete implementations – and how to manage and control this journey

Written by dsa_admin on 23. May 2024.

Making sure that AI applications are trustworthy and ethically aligned is becoming a major issue for all developers of AI, and for all companies using AI. The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) has been endorsed by the European Parliament in December 2023, and will be put into place in the very near future – this will fuel the need for actually guaranteeing that AI is consistent with legal requirements on trustworthiness.

But: the way from legal requirements to testable properties of a concrete implementation is long. How to keep track of the relevant legal requirements? How to operationalize them into technical requirements? How to guarantee that a specific application is consistent with all requirements, over the whole lifecycle of the application?

This lunch event will explore these questions with an input presentation and a following
discussion/exchange.

Elena Maran, Global Head Financial Services & RAI, Modulos AG, Zurich

Elena Maran is a former financial services executive with more than 13 years experience in the industry in different roles spanning from sales and trading to corporate banking. She is now Global Head Financial Services and Responsible AI at Modulos AG, defining the strategy, capturing requirements and driving growth in the sector. She is helping financial institutions embracing responsible AI governance and align with global and sector relevant AI regulations.

Join the discussion on a hot topic in Responsible AI and register here.
The link to the webinar will be sent to you with the booking confirmation.

SwissText Analytics Conference

Written by dsa_admin on 14. May 2024.

SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with local universities and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).

Registration is open from the first of March. Early Bird Tickets are available until the fifth of May.

Swisstext is organised jointly by the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) with the support of the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and several industrial sponsors.

General Chair: Prof. Corsin Capol (FHGR), Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW)
Program Chair: Prof. Dr. habil. Albert Weichselbraun (FHGR)
Scientific Track Chair: Dr. Claudiu Musat (Google)
Workshop Chair: Dr. Elisabeth Maier (Karakun AG)
Conference Happiness Manager: Lucas Zimmermann (FHGR)
Organizational Memory: Manuela Hürlimann (ZHAW)

Find the registration and more information on the official website!