Call for participation to the Summer School on AI Technologies for Trust, Interoperability and Autonomy in Industry 4.0

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This is a call for participation to a summer school that could be of 
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Please read carefully the following statement related to Covid-19.

The dates of the summer school are July 26th to 30th, at a time travel 
restrictions related to Covid-19 may not be completely lifted. The 
summer school will therefore be organized in a distributed fashion: 
participants may join one of the three physical host locations in 
St-Étienne (France), Waischenfeld (Germany) and St-Gallen (Switzerland), 
while a shared virtual location will be made available to everyone. All 
(physical and virtual) locations will be connected via a video stream. 
This innovative organization scheme ensures all participants have the 
chance to experience the summer school in the best possible condition 
for them. In addition, the practical exercises and hackathon programmed 
during the summer school will take advantage of this distributed 
organization by accessing industrial assets running at the three host 
locations. Students will thus participate in the deployment of a truly 
decentralized network of connected Industry 4.0 systems.

======================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ======================

Call for participation to the Summer School on
AI Technologies for Trust, Interoperability and Autonomy in Industry 4.0
July 26th-30th, 2021
St-Étienne (France), Waischenfeld (Germany), St-Gallen (Switzerland)
https://ai4industry.wp.imt.fr/editions/ai4industry2021/

We invite PhD students and other researchers from academia or industry 
to apply to the second summer school on AI Technologies for Trust, 
Interoperability and Autonomy in Industry 4.0 (short ai4industry), in a 
collaboration between French, German and Swiss institutions. The dates 
for the 2021 edition of ai4industry are July 26th-30th, 2021.
The ai4industry summer school targets concrete industry use cases: half 
of the summer school is dedicated to practical work (through a 
hackathon) while the other half is meant to introduce the theoretical 
foundations underlying the hackathon’s framework.

Topics
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The summer school will address various aspects of AI in Industry 4.0 (or 
Industry of the future) with a particular focus on:
* the Web of Things
* Knowledge Graphs
* Multi-Agent Systems
* Responsible AI
Each of these topics will be covered in lectures and the hackathon. 
Several pieces of software have been integrated for the purpose of the 
hackathon, providing tools and implementations of theoretical principles 
in these four domains.

Expected candidates and benefits
========================
We welcome applications from PhD students and early stage researchers 
that have already some knowledge in at least one of the topics above, 
but want to broaden their perspective and have a chance to apply their 
skills on concrete problems. We also welcome researchers who want to get 
in touch with a new research community and industry partners who want to 
get updated on recent advances in AI. The benefit for the participants 
is that they can:
* learn or improve knowledge in several areas of Artificial Intelligence
* get in touch with high profile researchers and professors
* build a network with other talented young researchers
* hack together plausible solutions to stimulating concrete industrial 
problems
* have the opportunity to further develop your approach in collaboration 
with industry partners

How to apply
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To apply, submit a résumé and a cover letter using the form at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4industry2021. Please submit 
them in a single file. We will limit the number of participants on site 
to 40 people. Online participation is however unlimited, as long as 
applicants meet the criteria above.

Registration fees are 150€ including meals, coffee breaks, lunches and 
accommodation, for those participating on site. Thanks to our 
sponsorships, some fees may be waived. If you need a fee waiver, please 
send us a motivation letter, and we will consider your request in the 
limit of our budget.

Dates
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* Opening of application for participation: 06 April 2021
* Notification of acceptance: within 2 weeks
* End of application: 06 June 2021
* Deadline for registration: 20 June 2021
* Summer school: 26-30 July 2021

Contact and organising institutions
==========================
Main contact: contact-ai4industry@listes.emse.fr
Organising institutions:
* Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
* Mines Saint-Étienne (France)
* Technische Universität München (Germany)
* Universität St. Gallen (Switzerland)
* Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne (France)

-- 
Antoine Zimmermann
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
158 cours Fauriel
CS 62362
42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
France
Tél:+33(0)4 77 42 66 03
http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/

Received on Monday, 12 April 2021 13:47:38 UTC