International Event on Industry 5.0 to Enhance Cooperation among Academic and Industry Promoted by UNIBO, Cornell, and Campinas

Italian Academic Center (IAC) @ TATA Innovation Center - Roosevelt Island - New York City

12-15 September 2023

The event consists of an international week dedicated to Industry 5.0, promoted by UNIBO, with the presence of colleagues from the University of Bologna, Cornell, and Cornell Tech (USA), as well as a delegation of colleagues from Campinas (Brazil), along with participants from other American universities and companies. The event focuses on the topic of Industry 5.0, which originated from the initiative of the European Community, intending to go beyond the technological themes proposed by the introduction of Industry 4.0 in the past decade. It emphasizes broader interests such as resilience, sustainability, and the fundamental goal of placing humans at the center of every industrial process.

The week aimed to expand the discussion to all related topics, involving international experts from academia and industry to establish coordinated development guidelines organized around the prospects of Industry 5.0. In addition to the digitization of industrial facilities, these prospects include sustainable themes, recentering people in processes for a shift toward a circular economy, well-being within the factory and the territory, as well as addressing issues of a sustainable and inclusive society.

TUESDAY, September 12th

Focus on: Innovative Education - New teaching directions for Industry 5.0 after COVID-19

The need of defining novel directions for teaching a heterogeneous different audience is becoming necessary and more and more required by companies: training and retraining of both students and workers eventually together can obtain the goal of enlarging the number of requalified people. All areas of higher education are interested in that effort.

     Speeches:
Greg Morrisett, Cornell: Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech opening speech
Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna: Emilia-Romagna I5.0 ecosystem
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna: Innovative education for industry 5.0
Hans-Peter Bernhard, Silicon Austria Lab: Austria education ecosystem

Lance Strate, Fordham University NYC: Engineering, Linguistics, Reality and the Human Factor: The General Semantic Tradition
Stefano Morello, CUNY: Digital Humanities and Experiential Learning: Some Case Studies
Fernando Gómez-Baquero, Cornell: The Runaway Program
Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna: Storytelling & Civic Engagement: The WeTell School experience

WEDNESDAY, September 13th

Focus on: Human-centric I5.0 - Humanities and social aspects of Industry 5.0

Industry 5.0 expands the goals of Industry 4.0 to obtain both resilience and sustainability of the solutions, by also keeping human needs in mind, to consider people an integral part of the process. Examples in industry are benefit companies and the general sensitivity for the environment and the local territory. This day aims at enlarging the discussion to humanities and social topics toward more innovative perspectives. Those trends are core for higher education and for the evolution of Industry 5.0.

     Speeches:
Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna: Tetradic Workshop: “Probing I5.0”
Giulia Guidi, Cornell: High Performance Abstraction for Large-Scale Computational Sciences
H. Oliver Gao, Cornell: Urban Tech, Data Science, and Industry 5.0 for systems innovation at the nexus of urban infrastructure, climate/environment for smart and healthy communities

Lance Strate, Fordham University: Ethics and the Study of Media as Environment: a Media Ecology Perspective
Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell (and PhD students): Digital Life Initiative; ethics of neurotechnology; algorithmic amplification in social media platforms

THURSDAY, September 14th

Focus on: Academic perspectives - IT directions and proposals for I5.0

Industry 5.0 expects to re-focus the initial IT trends of Industry 4.0 to capitalize on the current results in manufacturing, such as predictive maintenance, robotic lines, on line data acquisition etc., in infrastructures for cloud continuum, such as ingestion of sensor data streaming, multi cloud, reduced response timing, etc., in data science for deploying data processing suitable both for the user demands and for the timing delay, and also in logistics for real-world management of smart cities and dynamic decisions based on available resources.

     Speeches:
Michael Samuelian, Cornell: Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Urban Tech Hub: Exploring the Future of Technology in Cities
Anthony Townsend, Cornell: Smart cities and urban tech
Kenneth Birman, Cornell: A Project to Apply Low Code ML Techniques to Defect Detection Reveals Both Academic and Deployment Challenges

Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP: Edge Computing: Service Orchestration and Dynamic Network Slices
Leandro Villas, UNICAMP: Unicamp: Institute of Computing, AI Hubs, and Federated Learning research in H.IAAC
Huseyin Topaloglu, Cornell: Incorporating discrete choice models into operations management decisions

FRIDAY, September 15th

Focus on: Industry perspectives – Company trend and strategies in I5.0

Companies have great expectations from Industry 5.0, by capitalizing on the first results in answering customer requests and going on in employing more successful services for forecasting needs to break the barrier between OT an IT levels in manufacturing. IT companies can simplify the effort by proposing new interfaces and easy-access ecosystem of services. Universities and technical organizations can also make their part by defining trends and indicating new standards. This day puts together all interested entities to start the discussion.

     Speeches:
Wendy Guang-wen Ju, Cornell: Open City: Mixed Reality Simulation to Support Public Interaction and Mobility Research
Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology: Federated Learning for mobile and IoT devices
Kasthuri Jayarajah, New Jersey Institute of Technology: Designing systems for human-machine hybrid intelligence

Stefano Monti, Imola Informatica SpA: Company presentation and industrial collaboration perspectives
Lorenzo Patera, University of Bologna: Edge and Big Data technologies for Industry 4.0: OT/IT integration
Lorenzo Rosa, University of Bologna: Hiding complexity behind the fog: Transparent innovation for I4.0
Andrea Sabbioni, University of Bologna: New Cloud Computing models Supporting Society 5.0 Service Integration

  • Hosts

  • Manhattan View from IAC

  • Cornell Tech Campus

  • Manhattan and Queensboro Bridge View

  • Speeches

  • Italian Academic Center

  • Italian Academic Center

  • Stefano Monti - Imola Informatica

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