Think tank
The Think Tank meetings are meant for stakeholder to gain insights into their ideas, needs, and dreams to foster a valuable Data Science Community.
On 6th of November, we hosted our first Data Science Think Tank Youth Meeting at Tapijn Z. The event started with a talk by Prof. Michel Dumontier about how data science and artificial intelligence are influencing our society and life. After fresh pizza and drinks, students from different faculties started brainstorming and discussing in groups.
A great experience for students to learn about coordinating and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. In the end, all groups presented the final results with their creative and inspiring mind maps.
Think Tank Youth Meeting is the first students and young researchers' event from IDS, but not the only one. It's just the start. We hope more students and researchers will join us to grow our data science community.
Think tank - 17/01/2018
Dean Jan Smits - Welcome address
Welcome address by Faculty of Law Dean: Jan Smits
Introduction of IDS by Michel Dumontier
Individual pitch session
Individual pitch session
Individual pitch session
Coffee break
Breakout groups
On the 17th January 2018, a think tank meeting between the Faculty of Law, the Institute of Data Science and the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering took place at the Faculty of Law. This was a first, but very steady step towards a very strong interfaculty cooperation around an overarching vision of technology and legal data.
Organising terminology training for the faculty academic staff, using automation in case law analysis, and offering courses on formal reasoning, logic and general application of AI to our students were just a few of the ideas which were shared and further discussed during the networking drink offered by the organisers.