Workshops
Workshops and round tables - Our experts
NB: Two sessions of workshops are planned. The first session will take place from 9:30 to 10:30. The second session will take place from 11:00 to 12:00.
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#1 – Transition to a Smart City: Where does my municipality stand today ?
#2 – Smart Mobility in rural areas: Utopia or real opportunity ?
#3 – Bringing the hospital closer to the citizen : How is the Smart City meeting the challenge ?
#4 – Circular economy and synergies between actors: The keys to success
#5 – Data scientists at the service of your territory
#6 – The Health Impact Assessment method: A decision support tool for Smart Cities?
Please note : a limited number of places are available for each workshop.
#1 – Smart City Transition: Where does my municipality stand today ?
- Session 1 – 09:30 to 10:30
- Session 2 – 11:00 to 12:00
ATTENTION : Only for cities and municipalities. This collaborative workshop, based on the Smart City Practical Guide*, offers you, after a short presentation of the 15 key steps to define your strategy, to :
- help you take stock of your Smart City approach,
- become aware of the obstacles and challenges you face in its implementation,
- share your experience and encourage exchanges with other participants on the problems encountered and solutions identified.
* 1st volume of the collection of Practical Guides developed by the Smart City Institute since 2017. The collection is available free of charge on www.guidesmartcity.be.
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#2 – Smart Mobility in rural areas: Utopia or real opportunity ?
- Session 1 – 09:30 to 10:30
- Session 2 – 11:00 to 12:00
Innovations in Smart Mobility, also known as intelligent and sustainable mobility, are numerous, as are the promises that come with them. Electric, shared, autonomous and connected: these terms are generally accepted as the adjectives for tomorrow's mobility.
However, these reflections tend to focus largely on urban centres. What about non-urban or even rural areas? Are these solutions adaptable and suitable for these territories?
During this workshop we will start a reflection on this theme through a panel bringing together different practitioners from a rural municipality, from the research world and from the private sector.
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With the participation of :
- Audun Brouns – Alderman for Mobility, Municipality of Bassenge (Wallonia)
Graduated in Political Science (public administration) from the ULiège in 2019, Audun Brouns became alderman for Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Mobility, Heritage, Ecological Transition, Digital and Associative World in the Commune of Bassenge. - Diego Eggermont – Economist, Espaces-Mobilité
As a member of the Espaces-Mobilité design office since 2018, Diego Eggermont specialises in new forms of mobility (Mobility as a Service, transport on demand) and their complementarity with public transport. Previously, he acquired in-depth knowledge of the public transport sector by conducting studies on a variety of subjects at the STIB. - François Hallin – COO, Stoomlink
François Hallin is one of the founders of Stoomlink, a start-up company specialising in providing solutions to help cities and businesses identify and exploit the many opportunities offered by greener mobility.
#3 – Bringing hospitals closer to citizens : How is Smart City meeting the challenge ?
- Session 1 – 09:30 to 10:30
In this age of digital and various technological developments, the question arises as to the impact of these advances on sectors such as health and well-being in the context of the Smart City.
For example, are these developments likely to contribute to bringing the hospital and the citizen closer together? How can they contribute to making the hospital more accessible in an urban environment? What are the roles of cities, businesses and citizens in supporting these developments? How does the performance of hospitals in delivering healthcare fit in? These questions are addressed in collaboration with Catherine Elsen and Clémentine Schelings (LUCID, ULiège) in the framework of the ERDF Wal-e-cities project.
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#4 – Circular economy and synergies between actors: The keys to success
- Session 1 – 09:30 of 10:30
- Session 2 – 11:00 of 12:00
In the field of the circular economy, synergies between the different actors contribute intrinsically to the success of projects. Indeed, this way of thinking about the economy is largely based on the partnerships that make it up.
During this workshop, Hélène Bleus and Nicolas Ancion - whose work and research are particularly related to the theme - will present a model that will allow you, through concrete examples, to review the potential partners of a project, to identify the stakeholders essential to its development but also to determine what are the elements that could be missing for its success.
After a short introduction, this workshop will be based on exchanges and discussions between the participants and on the feedback from each participant. Prerequisites: You know what the circular economy is and you have already been interested in it in the professional and/or private context.
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#5 – Data scientists at the service of your territory
- Session 1 – 09:30 of 10:30
On 24 September, the Smart City Institute and the Data Science Liège community co-organised a meetingup on the theme "Data Science at the service of Smart Cities and Territories." In view of the success of this event, which was broadcast live on the Internet, it was decided to delve deeper into the subject during a virtual round table bringing together various players and experts in the field. During this debate, we will discuss various topics around the theme of "Data scientists at the service of the transformation of our territories", ranging from applications at the service of citizens to data protection and the implementation of innovative ecosystems.
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With the participation of :
- Quentin Felice – co-founder of Datavillage
Quentin Felice has more than 10 years of experience in the world of entrepreneurship, tech startups and open innovation. Datavillage is a deeptech startup whose mission is to unlock the value of personal data for organisations and their consumers based on 3 values: privacy, user control and transparency. - Xavier Girard – Smart Cities Unit Manager, Ingestic
Xavier Girard has been active in the data industry for ten years and is in charge of the Smart Cities unit at Ingestic, a Walloon IT consulting and development company also active in the field of energy/utilities and industry 4.0. - Antoine Hublet – IA Project Manager, Agence du Numérique (AdN)
As young graduate of the University of Namur specialising in data science, Antoine Hublet is project manager in charge of artificial intelligence at the Agence du Numérique. His mission is to ensure the development of AI in Wallonia through awareness-raising actions and training for citizens and companies. - Nicolas Installé – Executive Director, FuturoCité
Nicolas Installé is the Executive Director of FuturoCité, an innovation centre whose main mission is to promote the emergence of more "intelligent" territories (in the Smart Cities sense) in Wallonia through the activation and exploitation of data, through the efficient use of Open Data, the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. - Ashwin Ittoo – Full Professor in Management Information Systems, HEC Liège
Ashwin Ittoo is full professor in management information systems at HEC Liège and researcher at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He is a member of the editorial and review board of several Elsevier journals and has a solid international business experience.
#6 – The Health Impact Assessment method: A decision support tool for Smart Cities ?
- Session 2 – 11:00 to 12:00
In essence, the Smart City approach aims to guarantee the well-being of the citizens of a given territory. Indeed, the projects developed aim to sustainably improve the environment and the lives of the inhabitants and users of the territory in question. It is therefore important, in particular, to look at how the projects developed could have an impact on the health of the citizens.
This is why in this workshop we will look at the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) method, a tool for anticipating the impact of a project on health determinants. This tool has been developed in collaboration with Catherine Elsen and Clémentine Schelings (LUCID, ULiège) in the framework of the ERDF Wal-e-cities project. This participatory workshop therefore offers you the opportunity to discover a first approach to identify the "health" aspects of your future projects.
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