Impact and Potential of collaborative Internet and additive manufacturing technologies

The Internet is allowing virtual communities to easily co-create digital assets and intellectual content at a very low “cooperation cost”. The ideology behind the open-source software development methodology has actually spread to new domains such as open-data, open-design and open-innovation. A new set of Internet tools and services is now available to leverage the “wealth and the wisdom of the crowd”. Complex projects can be crowd-sourced and crowd-funded by small and medium sized companies to reduce their cost of doing business. The “crowd” itself uses and modifies “open-data” to “co-create” new open-designs for the purpose of participating to “crowd-sourced” projects.

Provisonal programme

• 14:00 – 14:05 Welcome by Virginie Rozière, MEP, STOA Panel Member
• 14:05 – 14:10 Angele Giuliano, AcrossLimits, Malta

Overview of workshop and technologies addressed

• 14:10 – 14:25 Frank T. Piller, Aachen University & MIT Smart Customisation Group, USA

                                Co-creation and Crowdsourcing with Users and Consumers for Innovation

• 14:25 – 14:40 Oliver Gajda, European Crowdfunding Network, Brussels

                                Crowdfunding and Open Source Economy

• 14:40 – 14:55 Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK

                                Big Data for Better Innovation

• 14:55 – 15:10 Thomas Heath, Open Data Institute, UK

                                Open Data: a driver for economic, social and environmental value

• 15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break

• 15:30 – 15:45 Louis Turner, Asia Pacific Technology Network, UK & Asia

Additive Manufacturing – Transforming EU and Global Industry

• 15:45 – 16:00 Beverley Vaughan MD, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, UK

                                3D-Bioprinting: Transforming Medicine, Research and the Healthcare Industry

• 16:00 – 16:15 Peter Van Valkenburg, Coin Center, USA

                               Crypto-currencies for policy makers

• 16:15 – 16:30 Elli Androulaki, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

Privacy and security of crypto-currency transactions and payment systems

• 16:30 – 17:15 Debate and round table discussion
• 17:15 – 17:30 Conclusions and closure by Virginie Rozière