[TALK25] Increasing Internet security by bridging research and operations, Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs, NL)

On Wed, Dec 7th, 2022, 2pm CET, Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs, NL), will talk about “Increasing Internet security by bridging research and operations“. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/25 with your interested friends!

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Abstract

Ever wondered what’s behind that language on “technology transfer” in research proposals? Well, that’s one of our key activities at SIDN Labs. We’re a research team that aims to increase the operational security and resilience of the Internet infrastructure by bridging the worlds of academia and operations, specifically in the space of large-scale Internet measurements and technology development. We very often work with academic institutions (e.g., the University of Twente, the University of Southern California, and Delft University of Technology) and other research labs (e.g., NLnet Labs) and we use the results of these joint cybersecurity projects to further improve the services of SIDN, the not-for-profit operator of the Netherlands’ national top-level domain on the Internet, .nl. We also publish these results so that everyone in the Internet community can use them as well. In this talk, I’ll discuss a few example research projects and how we used their output for SIDN’s services.

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Cristian Hesselman

Cristian Hesselman directs SIDN Labs, the research arm of the operator of .nl top-level domain, SIDN. His work focuses on advancing the security of the Internet to support our digital society. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente, a researcher at the Twente University Centre for Cybersecurity Research (TUCCR), and he chairs the board of directors of NLnet Labs. Personal website: www.hesselman.net.

SIDN Labs, Netherlands

SIDN Labs is the research arm of SIDN, the not-for-profit operator of the Netherlands’ national top-level domain on the Internet, .nl. SIDN Labs focuses on applied research to increase the operational security of the Internet infrastructure, in particular in the areas of domain name security, Internet core protocols, and their future evolutions. Websites: www.sidn.nl, www.sidnlabs.nl, stats.sidnlabs.nl.

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How the digital transformation is changing our lives

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts.

Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production.

What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors.

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[#WisdomWednesday] GFA Winter School on Reconfigurable Production 2020: Connectivity, Collaboration and Openness – Joachim Michniewicz

On November 19th, 2020 Dr. Joachim Michniewicz (BMW, Germany) gave the keynote “Connectivity, Collaboration and Openness” at our Winter School on Reconfigurable Production. You are cordially invited to watch the recording on Youtube.

About Joachim Michniewicz

Joachim Michniewicz is Product Owner IT for Industrialization Innovations Inhouse Logistics at BMW Group in Munich, Germany.

About the GFA Video Series and the #WisdomWednesday

Education is one of the core missions of the GFA. Therefore we have wonderful education projects in the field of industry 4.0, such as summer schools, hackathons and online courses that we organise together with leading universities in Europe. To present our education efforts to a bigger audience and share it with people all over the world, we created the GFA Video Series. Under the hashtag #WisdomWednesday we present interesting talks and keynotes every Wednesday on our website and in our social media. Stay tuned and check also our YouTube Channel.

About the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA)

The German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future is a strategic vehicle to promote close collaboration between leading European research institutions and industrial companies. It was founded by the French Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the German Technical University of Munich (TUM). Focused on joint research, education and innovation, the Academy’s mission is to master the challenges accompanying the increasing digitalization of industry processes. Read more…

[TALK24] Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente, NLnet Labs) – Quantum Prooving the Internet

On Wed, Nov 23th, 2022, 2pm CET, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente, NLnet Labs), will talk about “Quantum Prooving the Internet“. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/24 with your interested friends!

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Abstract

Today’s Internet cannot do without confidentiality and online identification. The cryptography typically used to achieve this, however, is under threat from quantum computers. While a practical quantum computer is years away, it also takes years to standardise and deploy alternative cryptography. Worse, applications that store data long‐term (e.g., captured encrypted Internet traffic) require action now, since if current cryptography is broken, stored data is immediately compromised.

Cryptographers are developing post‐quantum cryptography (PQC) that is secure against attacks with quantum computers. While much progress has been made developing and trialling algorithms, we lack a complete view of the problem space. More boldly: we cannot answer the question “what if the whole Internet had to switch to PQC?”. Nobody “owns the Internet” so who will tackle this challenge? Sure, the tech giants should take action, but the Internet is much broader than that. In my view, this challenge can only be solved with an independent holistic approach that considers all aspects of the Internet.

In this talk I will explore the research challenges for quantum-proofing the whole Internet and will propose a research agenda to tackle these challenges. I will show how we need to examine all parts of the Internet that rely on public-key cryptography and how we need to decide if we can simply replace algorithms, if we maybe have to re-engineer protocols and applications, or if the costs are simply too high and we should retire protocols or applications.

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Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

After two decades in the industry, working on applied cryptography and network security, Roland is professor of measurement-based Internet security at the University of Twente since 2021. His research interests are in the application of global-scale Internet measurements to support empirically-backed securityanalysis and improvements of Internet protocols and the transition of the Internet to post-quantum cryptography.

University of Twente, NLnet Labs, Netherlands

Roland is a member of the Design and Analysis of Communications Systems group at the University of Twente, and a researcher in the Twente University Centre for Cybersecurity Research (TUCCR). Roland also advises NLnet Labs, a not-for-profit that develops open source software for core Internet protocols, on scientific research.

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The event consists of a 45-minute expert presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion.

The Cyber CNI Speaker series aims to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security issues among all audiences. It aims to enable an ongoing dialogue between experts from industry and academia and the general public (citizens, families, small and large businesses, public organizations, etc.). All of us are concerned.

The events are broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) and LinkedIn, allowing worldwide remote participation – including a tool to participate in the discussion.

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How the digital transformation is changing our lives

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts.

Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production.

What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors.

Program and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/

[TALK22] Gabi Dreo (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany) – Paradigm shift from cybersecurity to cyber resilience

On Mon, Nov 7th, 2022, 10ham CET, Gabi Dreo (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany), will talk about “Paradigm shift from cybersecurity to cyber resilience“. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/22 with your interested friends!

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Abstract

My talk will be about the paradigm shift from security to resilience, and especially the ways, the steps, the obstacles, chances, and risks. What to do to get a cyber resilient system?
Cybersecurity is necessary to think in another way; and certainly in terms of cyber resilience. Since we cannot build 100% secure systems, the question is, how we can build robust systems where the overall functionality is provided – also in case some parts are failing.

Watch the trailer here.

Gabi Dreo

Prof. Dreo studied computer science at the University of Maribor, Slovenia and received her doctorate and habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) with “summa cum laude”.
In 1997, she received the LMU’s doctoral sponsorship award.
2016 she was awarded the Europe Medal by the Minister of State Dr. Merk
In 2019, she was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Europe in the field of cybersecurity
In 2020, she was awarded the silver medal of the city of Neubiberg, Germany

Her research focuses, among others, on detection and mitigation of cyber attacks, in particular so-called Advanced Persistent Threats, development of novel cyber defense approaches in the environment of network-based moving target defense, use of ML-based approaches in security event analysis, 5G and IoT, situational awareness and social analytics, software defined networks and quantum communication.

Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

As an exceptional campus university, we have a lot to offer our members: excellent conditions for bachelor’s and master’s studies in small groups with residential facilities directly on campus, a modern infrastructure – which promotes a lively and innovative research culture – as well as numerous opportunities for further education, leisure activities and sports facilities.

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The Cyber CNI Lecture Series is a free monthly event that typically takes place on the last Wednesday of the month from 2pm to 3h30pm CET.

The event consists of a 45-minute expert presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion.

The Cyber CNI Speaker series aims to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security issues among all audiences. It aims to enable an ongoing dialogue between experts from industry and academia and the general public (citizens, families, small and large businesses, public organizations, etc.). All of us are concerned.

The events are broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) and LinkedIn, allowing worldwide remote participation – including a tool to participate in the discussion.

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How the digital transformation is changing our lives

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts.

Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production.

What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors.

Program and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/

[TALK23] Aaron Ding (TU Delft, Netherlands) – Trustworthy and Sustainable Edge AI 

On Wed, Oct 26th, 2022, 2pm CET, Aaron Ding (TU Delft, Netherlands), will talk about “Trustworthy and Sustainable Edge AI“. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/23 with your interested friends!

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Abstract

Despite of promising impact, Edge AI is facing two major challenges for its large scale deployment: trustworthiness and sustainability.

On trustworthiness, Edge AI benefits from its close proximity to the end-devices and user generated data. However, due to the distributed deployment and deep penetration into personal context, the safety and perceived trustworthiness for Edge AI services raise concerns among several stakeholders (e.g., end users, public sectors, ISP). To achieve trustworthy Edge AI, critical building blocks are needed for ensuring transparency, fairness and robustness, especially for its training and deployment in decentralized, uncontrolled environments. The trustworthiness of Edge AI is a stepping stone, on which the promise of Edge AI can be built.

Meanwhile, being a critical goal of sustainability, the energy consumption of Edge AI needs to be optimized. The energy efficiency is crucial for embedding Edge AI to our infrastructures (e.g., road side units, micro base stations) in order to sustainably support advanced autonomous driving and Extended Reality (XR) services in the years to come. Across the pipeline of data acquisition, transfer, computation, and storage, there exists the possibility for Edge AI to trade off accuracy to less power and less time consumed. For instance, noisy inputs from numerous sensors can be selectively processed and transferred in order to save energy. This new dimension to the optimization design can pave the way towards a sustainable deployment of Edge AI.

Watch the trailer here.

Aaron Ding

Aaron Ding is leading the Cyber-Physical Intelligence (CPI) Lab as tenured Associate Professor of Edge AI at TU Delft. He has been awarded EU research grants (€5M+) as Consortium Director and PI. With over 15 years of R&D experience across EU, UK and USA, he has worked at TU Munich with Jörg Ott, at Columbia University with Henning Schulzrinne, at University of Cambridge with Jon Crowcroft. His research focuses on edge computing, edge AI, and data-driven IoT services. Being an active member of ACM, IEEE and IETF, he is the founder of ACM EdgeSys, Associate Editor for ACM TIOT and IEEE OJ-ITS. For contributions to mobile edge computing, his research has received best paper awards and recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM EdgeSys, ACM SenSys CCIoT, and IEEE INFOCOM. Details of his projects and publications can be found on site: https://homepage.tudelft.nl/8e79t/

TU Delft, Netherlands

Founded in 1842, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive university of technology in the Netherlands and globally ranked top 10 on the 2022 QS World University Rankings of Engineering & Technology. TU Delft collaborates with a wide network of educational, industrial, and governmental partners. It is a member of university federations including the IDEA League, CESAER, UNITECH International and 4TU.

Talk.cybercni.fr

The Cyber CNI Lecture Series is a free monthly event that typically takes place on the last Wednesday of the month from 2pm to 3h30pm CET.

The event consists of a 45-minute expert presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion.

The Cyber CNI Speaker series aims to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security issues among all audiences. It aims to enable an ongoing dialogue between experts from industry and academia and the general public (citizens, families, small and large businesses, public organizations, etc.). All of us are concerned.

The events are broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) and LinkedIn, allowing worldwide remote participation – including a tool to participate in the discussion.

You can add the event calendar via ICSwebcalHTML.

How the digital transformation is changing our lives

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts.

Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production.

What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors.

Program and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/

Recap Summer School on Future IoT “IoT meets Autonomy” (Aug 29 – Sep 2, 2022)

The Internet of Things connects everyday objects – smartphones with Bluetooth speakers and smartwatches – but also networks medical devices with each other and is used in logistics, for example. The Future-IoT Summer School brought together (PhD) students, experts and companies to spend a week listening to exciting lectures, exploring the city, and working on challenges around the topic of IoT, because the Internet of Things has already become part of our everyday lives.

The fifth edition of the Summer School was dedicated to the topic “IoT meets Autonomy”: Many of the computer systems around us work autonomously, they just run, completely without human intervention. They adapt to their environment or evolve with machine learning, but the implementation of such functions is often challenging: “The challenges are not only technical, but also ethical, societal, legal, which is why we are dedicating this edition of the Summer School to the topic of ‘autonomy’. In the Challenges, participants will explore different forms of autonomy using IoT as a use case. The topics include data analytics, machine learning, IoT protocols and cybersecurity,” explains Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl, initiator and director of the Summer School and professor for cybersecurity at IMT Atlantique in France.

In the Summer School, the focus was primarily on the Internet of Things in Industry (IIoT). Dr. Jochen Schiller, board member of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and Professor of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin, welcomed the participants to ECDF: “Much more than all the computers we interact with and see every day, the small computing devices in the Internet of Things will help influence our lives in the future. These billions of networked things must not only be controlled individually, but also operated reliably, robustly and securely in their totality. I therefore very much welcome the PhD School’s initiative “IoT meets Autonomy”, which brings young PhD students closer to the technologies in the Internet of Things in a variety of “hands-on” ways and therefore sheds light on their fascinating possibilities, as well as their limitations, particularly with regard to their (partially) autonomous operation from many different angles,” said Schiller.

After the introductory keynote on IoT meets AI, Prof. Dr. Falko Dressler, Chair of Telecommunications Networks at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin and Principal Investigator at ECDF, introduced Cyber-Physical Systems; this was followed, among others, by contributions from Airbus on autonomy and innovation as a pathfinder for the aviation industry, Siemens on autonomy and Industry 4.0, and Amazon Web Services on AI and the “Smart Territory Framework” that allows smart environments to be built with multiple sensors. In the challenges, the participants partly worked on real problems of the industry partners: “During the week, the participants have the chance to gain insight into many different aspects around the Internet of Things: From device manufacturing to communication protocols and semantics to application management” explains Dr. Fabian Rhein, Manager Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystems.

In the challenges, participants linked moving and grasping robots together, programmed clocks, LED tubes and volume controls to blink simultaneously, and linked smart-home devices together to automatically set the optimal room temperature. Dr. Ana Maria Drăgulinescu, a post-doc at the Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, was participating in the Summer School for the second time: “I have already participated in the Summer School on the topic of “IoT meets AI” in Munich. I really enjoyed the work back then and it also helped me a lot with my PhD thesis. I am happy to be back again this year and to work with my team on another challenge.”

At the end of the week, the interdisciplinary jury was impressed by all the projects and chose the team “Streams for Memes” as the winner of the Summer School. The team, consisting of students Samia Boutalbi, Lucas Camino, Vittorio Ferrentino, Catherine Sai and Charles Thonier under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique), Lars Wüstrich (TUM) and Guillaume Neau (AWS), worked out in their challenge that memes (meaning images with text) are created from a livestream based on predefined keywords – automatically when the word is mentioned.

Since the School Series is a Franco-German collaboration, the next edition will take place in France in late summer 2023. More information and videos of the presentations during the Future-IoT Summer School can be found here.

Stay tuned for the next summer school in 2023: https://school.future-iot.org/

This article was written and published by the Einstein Center Digital Future (originally in German). Find it here!

[#WisdomWednesday] GFA Winter School on Reconfigurable Production 2020: Artificial Intelligence – Michael F. Zaeh  (TU Munich)

On November 19th, 2020 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael F. Zaeh (TU Munich, Germany) gave the keynote “Artificial Intelligence – Just a new keyword or can production technology profit from it?” at our Winter School on Reconfigurable Production. You are cordially invited to watch the recording on Youtube.

About Michael F. Zaeh

The research activities of Professor Zaeh (b. 1963) focus on machine tools and generative production methods, production technology and cognition for engineering systems.  
Professor Zaeh graduated in mechanical engineering from TUM, where he also earned his doctorate degree in 1993 under the supervision of Professor Milberg, at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (IWB). From 1994 to 1995, he was Chief Engineer and Department Head for Machine Tools and Production Technology under the direction of Professor Reinhart. In 1996, he switched over to the private sector, working for a manufacturer of machine tools used for gear wheel machining, where he held various management positions. In 2002, Professor Zaeh accepted the Chair of Machine Tools and Production Technology at TUM and has held the position of Director of the IWB since then.

About the GFA Video Series and the #WisdomWednesday

Education is one of the core missions of the GFA. Therefore we have wonderful education projects in the field of industry 4.0, such as summer schools, hackathons and online courses that we organise together with leading universities in Europe. To present our education efforts to a bigger audience and share it with people all over the world, we created the GFA Video Series. Under the hashtag #WisdomWednesday we present interesting talks and keynotes every Wednesday on our website and in our social media. Stay tuned and check also our YouTube Channel.

About the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA)

The German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future is a strategic vehicle to promote close collaboration between leading European research institutions and industrial companies. It was founded by the French Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the German Technical University of Munich (TUM). Focused on joint research, education and innovation, the Academy’s mission is to master the challenges accompanying the increasing digitalization of industry processes. Read more…

[#WisdomWednesday] GFA Winter School on Reconfigurable Production 2020: Servitized Business Models – Xavier Boucher (IMT Mines Saint-Étienne)

On November 19th, 2020 Prof. Xavier Boucher (École de Mines de Saint-Étienne, France) gave the keynote “Servitized Business Models versus Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems” at our Winter School on Reconfigurable Production. You are cordially invited to watch the recording on Youtube.

About Xavier Boucher

Xavier Boucher is a professor in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management and research director for the Fayol Institute at École de Mines de Saint-Étienne. His research domains are:

  • Industry of the Future, Digitalisation, Industry 4.0
  • Servicisation, Product-Service Systems
  • Modelling, Integration and Management of Production Systems
  • Organisational Agility : virtual organizations, logistic networks
  • Agility of Information systems
  • Enterprise Architecture ; Integration of Competence Dimension in Enterprise Architecture
     

About the GFA Video Series and the #WisdomWednesday

Education is one of the core missions of the GFA. Therefore we have wonderful education projects in the field of industry 4.0, such as summer schools, hackathons and online courses that we organise together with leading universities in Europe. To present our education efforts to a bigger audience and share it with people all over the world, we created the GFA Video Series. Under the hashtag #WisdomWednesday we present interesting talks and keynotes every Wednesday on our website and in our social media. Stay tuned and check also our YouTube Channel.

About the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA)

The German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future is a strategic vehicle to promote close collaboration between leading European research institutions and industrial companies. It was founded by the French Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the German Technical University of Munich (TUM). Focused on joint research, education and innovation, the Academy’s mission is to master the challenges accompanying the increasing digitalization of industry processes. Read more…

Metaverse – threat or opportunity for the French-German industry? – Panel Discussion at Bits&Pretzels in Munich, Sept. 25, 3:55pm

Besides having a booth at Europe’s leading founders festival Bits&Pretzels 2022, the GFA is joining the La French Tech Munich Stage on Sunday September 25 with a panel discussion on “Metaverse – threat or opportunity for the French-German industry?

When talking about the Metaverse most people immediately think about Facebook and their rebranding to “Meta” in early 2022. And indeed the company announced working on a VR social platform. But that is the keyword, VR or virtual reality! Metaverse is a term that is still vague and complex and can be brought into context with virtual reality, cyberspace and smart spaces, because the Metaverse is still being built and therefor still to be defined in detail. “The Wired” states, that this is because the term doesn’t really refer to any one specific type of technology, but rather a broad (and often speculative) shift in how we interact with technology. And as you may guess, this opens the door to a lot of opportunities and dangers in the process. In our panel discussion we want to share some of these pros and cons to help Germany and France shaping the future of a (European) Metaverse.

Therefore, we invited three wonderful speakers that will join our moderator Paul-Guilhem Meunier (GFA) on stage:

More information under: https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/festival/program/french-tech-stage

Speakers of the Panel

[#WisdomWednesday] GFA Winter School on Reconfigurable Production 2020: Servitization @ Boa Concept – Nawel Bekkaye and Jean-Lucien Rascle

On November 19th, 2020 Nawel Bekkaye and Jean-Lucien Rascle gave a keynote at our Winter School on Reconfigurable Production. You are cordially invited to watch the recording on Youtube.

About Nawel Bekkaye

Nawel Bekkaye is External relations manager at Boa Concept. Communication is for her a clever mix between creativity, passion and precision. Having worked in associations, start-ups and small and medium-sized companies, she has developed a great versatility that allows her to take on transversal subjects combining the technical aspects of the industrial world in which she evolves, with the creativity and the strength of proposal necessary to her job.

About Jean-Lucien Rascle

Jean-Lucien Rascle is President of Boa Concept. He is a generalist engineer having developed solid knowledge in business management, real time computing, warehouse management computing, automation, mechanization and electronics. Able to manage and mobilize teams on both industrial and research and development projects. Inventive, able to think outside the box to achieve real innovations by synthesizing various techniques.

Specialties: Company management, software development, automation, project management, commercial law, patents, company creation.

About the GFA Video Series and the #WisdomWednesday

Education is one of the core missions of the GFA. Therefore we have wonderful education projects in the field of industry 4.0, such as summer schools, hackathons and online courses that we organise together with leading universities in Europe. To present our education efforts to a bigger audience and share it with people all over the world, we created the GFA Video Series. Under the hashtag #WisdomWednesday we present interesting talks and keynotes every Wednesday on our website and in our social media. Stay tuned and check also our YouTube Channel.

About the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA)

The German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future is a strategic vehicle to promote close collaboration between leading European research institutions and industrial companies. It was founded by the French Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the German Technical University of Munich (TUM). Focused on joint research, education and innovation, the Academy’s mission is to master the challenges accompanying the increasing digitalization of industry processes. Read more…