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On 21 November, the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards (AmSIA) were presented for the 16th time at the NEMO Science Museum. In the Environment & Climate category, Olivier Lugier, researcher at HIMS, won with his pitch Nano Hybrids: a more sustainable technology for the production of nanoparticles. Lugier will use the €10,000 prize to further develop the idea and bring Nano Hybrids to market.

The day after, how good that feels. Yesterday evening the Amsterdam AI network came together to listen to a great keynote by Piek Vossen, an update on the current state of affairs within Amsterdam AI, to say goodbye to the Management team of Amsterdam Data Science, and finally, to congratulate the winners of the Amsterdam AI Thesis Awards and offer them a stage.

Hopefully, you are voting today, but even though everyone may have already read up on all the election programs, we still want to shed some light on the progress of politics and AI. With the arrival of ChatGPT, AI has become the focus of attention. The election programs of Dutch parties do not always reflect this. de Volkskrant wrote an article about this and learn some of it here

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The Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (NCCA) and UNESCO are shaping the future of AI in Europe with their collaborative project, 'Supervising AI by Competent Authorities.'

Are you ready to create with purpose? The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence is offering you the opportunity to work on real-world challenges with access to real data.

On November 14th, 2023, Amsterdam AI, together with the ROM Utrecht Region and TINL partners organized a visitors program in which we organized a travel by bus to the Medica Conference in Düsseldorf. A participant who participated in this travel tells us about his experience at Medica 2023!

Experts from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC, two knowledge institutions for whom artificial intelligence is an important topic, today published so-called 'living guidelines' for responsible use of generative AI - such as the ChatGPT tool - in Nature.

Preparations for the Zorginnovatieprijs 2024 are in full swing and registration has begun! Together with the partners of Zorg2025, Amsterdam Economic Board organizes the annual regional preliminary round for participants from the province of North Holland and Flevoland.