On February 10, IMI and its members hosted their annual event at EPFL and online under the title: “Partnerships between media companies and innovation ecosystems: results and perspectives”.

The event featured leading researchers, media/industry experts and entrepreneurs who presented the results of IMI-supported projects and shared their insights on European media innovation ecosystems. What are the mechanisms for interaction with research, industry and start-ups? How should collaborative spaces involving different types of actors and sectors be organized? How can we foster the operationalization of results by media companies at the end of an innovation round?

A total of 160 people took part in this event, many of them on site, but some also online.

Program

• 16h30: Registration
• 17h00: Welcome message – Prof. Yves Flückiger
  Rector of UNIGE and Chairman of the IMI Board as the Triangle Azur representative
• 17h05: Opening remarks – Prof. Martin Vetterli
  President of EPFL
• 17h15: Word from the Director – Mounir Krichane
  Director of IMI
• 17h25: Panel discussion – “Insights from European media innovation ecosystems”
  • Jean-Pierre Besnard
    Program Manager at OFF7, Project Manager at Ouest-France
  • Prof. Johanna Björklund
    Project Manager at WARA-Media and Language, Co-founder & CTO at Adlede and Codemill
  • Sarah Geeroms
    Head of Future Media Hubs, Innovative & Strategic Partnerships at VRT
  • Severin Klingler
    Managing Director at ETH Media Technology Center
• 18h10: Projects overview
  • Media Laboratory
    Jérémie Rappaz (EPFL), Andrew Robotham (UniNE) & Sarah Sermondadaz (Heidi.news)
  • MILBOT – Millennials and public media: building stronger ties and engagement through the chatbot
    Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (UNIGE)
  • Social network Architectures of Disinformation II (#sad II)
    Nicolas Aspert (EPFL) & Lucie Loubère (READ-Text)
  • Automatic Labeling of Visual Data Based on Human Actions, Objects and Their Relationships
    Prof. Alexandre Alahi (EPFL)
  • CompaSciences 2.0
    Agathe Chevalier (Universities of Western Switzerland – RTS)
  • PASSAGE: Subtitling of Swiss German into Standard German
    Prof. Pierrette Bouillon (UNIGE)
  • Personalized Recommendation: from Polarization to Discovery
    Jean-Gabriel Piguet & Gaetano Manzo (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
  • The Holmenkollen Project
    Adam Scholefield (We Play Sport / EPFL)
• 19h15: Showcase of projects and start-ups, informal networking
  On location only
• 19h45: Cocktail reception
  By reservation only
• 20h30: End of event

Moderation: Madiana Asseraf-Jacob, Head of Business Development & Young Audiences at EBU

Location

EPFL
Rolex Learning Center
Route cantonale
1015 Lausanne

Coming to EPFL

Parking spaces