IAonAIR

#IAonAIR - Conversations on innovation.

Infinite Area takes off with #IAonAIR, a series of free webinars in which our team meets remotely with international partners and experts in a discussion of approaches and tools to evolve the way we think and work.

Appointments

  • Smart working
  • Sustainable Materials
  • Circular Economy
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Product Design
  • Design Sprint
  • Design Thinking
  • Smart Factory

Past Webinars

INNOVATION AND DESIGN FOR WELL-BEING IN WORKSPACES

Wednesday, May 20 at 5 p.m.
with Martina Zanetti, Dyson Italy

The importance of improving the health and well-being of people within work spaces is now recognized: one of the key factors contributing to this goal is excellent air quality. We know that pollution and closed environments lead to a worsening of this parameter, which has consequences for employee productivity and motivation.

We will see, then, how to assess whether we are working in a healthy environment and what technological innovations are available to improve the quality of life in work environments, where we spend an important part of the day.


TALKING TO COMPUTERS: THE AGE OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS

Friday 08/05 at 5 p.m.
with Roberto Pieraccini, Engineering Director at Google, Google Personal Assistant coordinator

Over the past decade, and especially with recent advances in artificial intelligence, the technology of conversation via natural language with computers has made great strides. Speech recognition, natural language understanding and generation, text-to-speech, and dialog management have reached performance levels that make the commercialization of virtual assistants, including Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, possible.

As early as the mid-1990s, virtual assistants have been a technology used in industrial applications (one example is customer service), but it is only today that we are seeing their extensive use in the market Consumer, with a great opportunity to improve and simplify, at all levels, interaction with the digital world and the vast amount of network information, home automation and communications control.

SMART FACTORY: WILL FACTORIES STILL NEED HUMANS?

Wednesday, 06/05 at 5 p.m.
with Francesco Mettifogo, EcoStruxure Technology Advisor at Schneider Electric

The challenge of the fourth industrial revolution is to ensure that machines, processes and products that are part of different systems with different purposes can easily communicate with each other. All this is to enable component reduction, simplified production process management and maintenance, along with energy savings through interconnected systems based on integrated and interoperable platforms.

The webinar will present application cases of new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, in which real problems and needs of entrepreneurs have been solved with integrated software architecture and intelligent hardware based on simplified open systems.


AFTER COVID-19: CONSCIOUS INNOVATION WITH DESIGN THINKING

Wednesday, 4/29 at 5 p.m.
with Chiara Danese, Designer and Co-founder of Didardo

During the Covid-19 period, it becomes increasingly strategic for entrepreneurs to rethink business processes and seize new opportunities quickly. In this webinar we will understand how design, by applying the techniques of creative thinking, can help companies build deeper relationships with their customers and trigger processes of change and innovation. In particular, we will see how Design Thinking, a methodology that starts with understanding people’s needs, desires and aspirations, is a useful tool for identifying new opportunities and developing concrete and innovative solutions.


PROTOTYPING DIGITAL PRODUCTS WITH SPRINT DESIGN

Friday, 24/04 at 5 p.m.
with Giovanni Atalmi, Digital Strategist and Designer, Certified Design Sprint facilitator

Design Sprint is the design methodology devised by Google and used by the world’s most innovative companies. Through a workshop, prototype, and testing on real users, time and resources can be saved to create better products, digital and otherwise, in just 4 days. During this webinar, John Atalmi will explain what Design Sprint is, illustrating some case studies he has worked on and telling how this methodology, combined with digital tools accessible to all, can be easily carried out remotely.


TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN PRODUCT DESIGN

Wednesday, 22/04 at 5 p.m.
with Manuela Ferrante, Innovation Director of Studio Volpi

Companies, especially in highly competitive and rapidly changing environments, know that they must use their imagination, develop ideas and create innovations if they are to survive. Therefore, it is important to value internal corporate culture. Those who develop products and work with companies know that, at the heart of everything, therei are the integration and interdependence of disciplines: from design to engineering, from branding to user experience, from mechanics to electronics, and, finally, technologyisonly one component of this system. The best alliance is the one that promotes a strategy of integration among different groups, organizations and disciplines and allows the free circulation of ideas.


DIGITAL FABRICATION AND RAPID PROTOTYPING

Friday, 17/04 at 5 p.m.
with Mirco Piccin, project manager of FabLab Castelfranco Veneto

When we speak of Digital Manufacturing we mean the process of moving from the bit, the minimum unit of measurement in the digital world, to the atom, its material counterpart in the world. In the FabLab ecosystem, when we talk about digital fabrication we also mean electronic rapid prototyping.We will therefore see, with concrete examples, how a FabLab can effectively support the corporate world as an external R&D center, offering flexibility and low cost, for prototyping or coordination on new product development.


RETRAINING SKILLS IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Wednesday, 15/04 at 5 p.m.
With Silvia Bordin, Senior Customer Experience Consultant in Infinite Area

With the rise of increasingly connected and automated industries, among those related to Enterprise 4.0, a market has also emerged for professions that are as new as they are hard to find. Such roles are increasingly characterized by strong soft skills, as well as as well as dby specialized technical skills. Their scarcity, however, can be mitigated in the context of the New and sudden scenarios related to wide adoption of smart working. Ved together, then, we will consider how to target corporate training activities to fill the shortage of so-called “hybrid professionalism” and make the most of the opportunities offered in a period of profound evolution.


CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND LIFE CYCLE THINKING

Wednesday, 08/04 at 5 p.m.
with Roberto Cariani, Co-founder and Senior Project Manager of Ambiente Italia

Business investments geared toward sustainability goals are now directed toward reorganizing production processes and designing products with environmental, social and economic impacts in mind, in a circular economy logic. Starting with some concrete cases, innovative tools that companies can use to implement projects and evaluate the effectiveness of investments on these priorities will be presented.


TRENDS IN INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

Friday, 03/04 at 5 p.m.
with Anna Pellizzari, executive director of Materially

Starting with an overview of trends in the use of materials in different areas of Made in Italy (product design, interior design, fashion, packaging, sports), we will see together what tools are available for a company looking for innovative materials to apply in its business and production sector, with a focus on circular economy issues.


COWORKING: THE FUTURE OF SMART WORKING

Wednesday, 01/04 at 5 p.m.
With Anna Chiara Scapolan, associate professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Among the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is the largest nationwide trial of the use of smart working. We will analyze the situation from different points of view: the effectiveness of this modality with respect to the person and the type of work he or she does, the need for infrastructure, the doubts associated with often having to suddenly reinvent one’s approach to work, but also the need to maintain human and professional relationships in the absence of a shared space. How to treasure this experience? Coworking spaces may give us an answer.


OPEN INNOVATION: FROM STARTUPS TO IMPACT

Friday, 27/03 at 5 p.m.
with Patrick Ferran, Co-President and Chief Sales Officer of NineSigma

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