PROGRAMME
18:00Welcome
18:30Introduction
18:40Keynote by Dominique Deckmyn, editor Media & Technology @ de Standaard
19:00Personality talks by 3 finalists
Andrea Guevara - Ruben Mennes - Glenn Mathijssen
20:00Reception starts
20:30Awards Ceremony
20:45Reception continues (until 21:30)
Are you convinced that robots, machine learning, artificial intelligence are the primary ICT technologies ? Or are you a non-believer?
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A bi-yearly FITCE.be contest for young ICT professionals to share their ideas and vision on major technology trends.
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Register, formulate a statement, shoot a short video with your motivation and publish it before January 31 2019. Go viral to convince the public and collect votes.
A professional jury consisting of leaders from ICT industry will nominate three candidates with the best motivation and public support on February 15.
After a keynote of jury member Dominique Deckmyn , the three finalists will present their vision at BluePoint Brussels (Agoria building). The finalists are awarded 1000, 250 and 250 EUR.
1. Any individual not over 32 on December 31 2018 can apply.
2. Contestants should register and formulate a statement. Then submit a short video with motivation on youtube using format 4:3 before January 31 2019 - 23h45.
3. After registration, we will create a page for each contestant where votes can be collected, on the condition that your vision is related to AI-technology and robotics and fits within the FITCE.be context.
4. Contestants should share their video on social media to increase interest for their statement and collect votes.
5. Price of the public: the video with most votes at February 15 2019 - 18h00, has immediately a ticket for the grand final.
6. A jury will select two other nominees for the grand final.
7. These three best ranked candidates will compete in the final debate on March 11, 2019 - 18h00.
Each finalist will get 20 minutes to explain their vision, statement and motivation, followed by a Q&A session where the jury and public will challenge the finalist. .
A professional jury will finally evaluate the contestants on originality, innovation, presentation skills and impact potential.
The winner takes home 1000 EUR, while the other two finalists receive 250 EUR.
All participants to the contest receive a free FITCE.be membership.
Brecht Reynders, the FITCE young ICT professional 2016 is not convinced that robotics and AI are the most important technology for the future. See how Brecht motivates his 2018 statement in this example video
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FITCE has been organizing the Young ICT personality contest since 2006. Below you can find our galery of honour.
This section will be updated when new questions arrive. Registered candidates will be informed of updates
Just send us an e-mail at info@yict.be
A video is certainly required. The content, story, screenplay are entirely up to you, as long as you make the video in the format 4:3 and focus on a strong technology message.
Implications of technology revolutions, such as AI or robotics, on society, policy, environment, law or other relevant disciplines are encouraged.
We recommend a video between 1 and 2 minutes, although we don’t impose hard constraints.
Innovations in the domains of AI and robotics are for sure triggering a lot of questions relevant to ICT professionals today. This is broad enough to position your statement. You can relate a variety of statements to the field of robotics and AI, addressing not only technology but also the broader impact, law, policy or society.
Any individual not over 32 on December 31 2018 can apply.
Yes, you can! As long as you haven't submitted. After registering you only have to enter your personal data and a statement. You are free to upload a video later and edit your content. Once submitted you can start collecting votes using your social media contacts.
You have to share your video on social media with a link to this website YICT.be . Here the public can vote on one candidate. All candidates are visible in the tab 'Candidates'. Likes or Comments on other social media are not counted.
Check out the opinions of our contestants
During political campaigns many politicians set out with noble intentions, they are kind and willing to offer the best of themselves. However, after elections some of them take de
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Spectrum scarcity will soon be a big issue because of the growing number of wireless devices. I believe we can use the spectrum more efficiently by using AI.
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AI is rapidly becoming better and better at understanding human psychology. Soon, everybody will have their very own "AI Best Friend".
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Radio frequency techniques show many drawbacks to guide the robots of the future. What about using visible light to create ultra-reliable and secure networks?
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We should start questioning how research will fit in our system and how do we need to adapt to it rather than focusing on just solving technical challenges.
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So far AI apps are narrow, but the future AI system would reason and think . Along with their development, necessary is a development of proper risk monitoring techniques.
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Eating healthier using robots and smart devices is possible with cutting-edge tech that can bypass the typically centralized food chain. The result? Fresh food for all!
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