Technological Initiative Pilsen

Next meeting of Technological Initiative Pilsen will be held on 5th. November 2019 at the Rodenstock ČR s.r.o., Dr. Sedláka 841/3, Klatovy at 4:00 PM.

On the agenda will be the presentation of the Rodenstock group, especially factory located in Klatovy, producing dioptric lenses. Presentation of the Rodenstock will be presented by Mr. Vaclav Novacek, CEO of the firm. On the programme is also visit to the Rodenstock production plant. The next programme is focused to the networking. TIP board invited local firms from Klatovy region and the deputies of the City of Katovy for common discussion about common problems and potential colaboration fields. That is why a presentations of TIP activities, City of Klatovy strategy, and nvias.org experiences with technical education are on the programme of kids and young people, too. After oficial programme will be common dinner in Klatovy.

We woul like invite members, asociated partners and new potential members to the meeting.

See the programme here:

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Please register by email here: vojtech.bistry@gmail.com

Director of  the New Technologies – Research Centre from University Of West Bohemia Mr. Petr Kavalíř, would like to invite TIP members and others who might be interested to attend the 2nd International Symposium on Future Mobility Safety that will take place in Pilsen from 17 – 18 October 2019. This event is organised jointly by the University of West Bohemia,  Tianjin University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology and the Czech Society of Biomechanics. During the Symposium will be discussed topics like automotive integrated safety, virtual human body modeling, safety systems development and optimization.

Due to the effort of organizers the participation will be free of charge and I believe that Park Hotel Pilsen is a good place to spend some time networking with leaders on future mobility safety from all around the world.

Detail in the attached file:

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Next general meeting of Technological Initiative Pilsen will be held on 4th. June 2019 at the University of West Bohemia, in the building Scientific park Pilsen, Teslova 5, NTC orange building C1, Pilsen – Bory fields.

On the agenda will be the presentation of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, especially the NTC – New Technologies Research Centre, approval of the TIP Annual Report for 2018, the permission of a new member of the TIP Board after the resignation of President Martin Kořínek. Martin Kořínek resigned from the Board of Directors in May 2019 because of his workload in Germany. Stephan Kronmüller, Managing Director and Co-Owner of Eurosoftware, announced his candidacy for the Board of Directors. Furthermore, a presentation of data analyzes in practice, presentation of subsidy opportunities for companies within ITI Plzeň will be on the agenda, the current and future cooperation with the non-profit company nvias.org will be evaluated. Further, the broader strategy of the TIP Board for 2019/2020 will be discussed. We invite all members, associate partners. If it is not possible to take part by a statutory representative, we ask for the participation of a representative of a member company on the basis of a power of attorney.

See attached invitation with a planed programme:

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Annual report is here:

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We would like invite you to exclusive open lecture focused to “Self-Driving Laws? – Rule of Law Problems and the Machine Regulation”. This lecture will be organised with support of  Technological Initiative Pilsen.

Date: 19.th February 2019, 18:00 Sady pětatřicátníků 14, Fakulta Právnická ZČU, Plzeň, room PC 124

Name: Self-Driving Laws? – Rule of Law Problems and the Machine Regulation

The spectre of artificial intelligence over the rule of law is readily apparent in proposals for “self-driving laws”: the idea that we might regulate society by machine. Some academics have posited an approaching “legal singularity”, in which legal knowledge becomes a complete data set and uncertainty is rendered obsolete.

This perspective, she argues, misses an important point by assuming machines can necessarily outperform humans, without first questioning what such performance entails and whether machines can meaningfully be said to participate in the activities of interpreting and applying the law. Nor have these scholars asked what ideals we truly value in our legal system and what those ideals mean from a human standpoint.

In this talk, she focuses on how the rule of law is made vulnerable by technological innovations that take power previously delegated to administrative decision-makers and reassign that power to machines.

She argues that we need to interrogate the potential impacts of artificial intelligence innovations in the legal process, since their application and wide-ranging impacts might erode certain fundamental ideals.

Lecturer: Katie Szilagyi is a doctoral candidate and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. She holds a JD with joint specializations in technology law and international law (uOttawa), an LLM in law & technology (Tel Aviv University), and an engineering degree (University of Manitoba). She teaches contract law and lectures on technology law issues. Her doctoral work focuses on the rule of law problems created by machine learning algorithms, predictive analytics, and the fact that people are constantly staring at their smartphones. Her most recent publication is entitled “A Bundle of Blockchains? Digitally Disrupting Property Law.”