Andorra presents its innovation projects to millions of people at the World Innovation & Enterpreneurship Expo in Shanghai

Actua was invited by Tongji University (China) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the World Innovation & Enterpreneurship Expo in Shanghai from May 20th to 21st. This event is considered to be one of the most important innovation and entrepreneurship summits in the world.

ActuaTech Foundation’s director, Marc Pons, presented data analysis, A.I. and sensorization projects that ActuaTech is promoting. Pons’s presentation was attended by around 2,000 people and millions more followed the event Live, broadcasted by over a hundred Asian television channels, according to the organization’s sources.

Andorra was very present in this edition, and many high-level speakers mentioned Andorran projects. In addition, Chinese researchers have built a replica of the model (CityScope) with the representation of the country. Several projections of mobility studies, energy consumption and analysis of tourism in Andorra have been carried out. This CityScope will be on exhibition at the Chinese university over the next six months where students will be able to observe the work and methodology used.

Work sessions with experts from Hamburg, Helsinki, Shanghai, Taipei and Toronto.

ActuaTech Foundation’s director also participated on Monday in several work sessions in the field of mobility, energy use and human interaction, with experts from Hamburg, Helsinki, Shanghai, Taipei and Toronto. Working groups were organised with mayors, CEOs and academics, jointly analysing the latest Smart Data tools to make cities of the future more efficient.

Pons stressed that “we want to further promote the inclusion of Andorran talent in these international innovation networks. It is very important for us to be invited by the University of Tongji, for the opportunity given to collaborate with such important actors and to set up structures for the Andorran innovation community to benefit from international connections”.

The City Science MIT Media Lab’s director, Kent Larson, recalled that “last September we held the first City Science Summit in Andorra. The Principality has great advantages like Shanghai because it allows you to work directly with the ministries, to obtain data that would be impossible in other large cities…. I think it is very interesting to work in these two cities”.
 
Tongji Intelligent Big Data Visualisation Lab’s director (iDVx Lab), Nan Cao, stressed that “Andorra is an ideal platform and for its high technology. It is also very interesting and very productive to see how users interact in the context of the city and urban planning”.
 
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http://wiee.tongji.edu.cn/CSS2018/