Human-Machine Interaction

September 28-29, 2018 – Pi School (via Indonesia 23, Rome)

2019 is the year of Human-Machine Interaction at Pi School

In preparation for next year, we will be hosting Pi School’s upcoming exclusive annual event on the 28th and 29th of September 2018. Two days where brilliant minds will come together to elaborate and expand on human-machine interaction and consider the future of the discipline. We will be looking at the challenges involved, exchanging ideas, examining opportunities and analysing hidden potential in the field.

When Pi School was established in September 2017, we launched our vision of combining human creativity with machine intelligence.

For our next step, we are focusing on the interaction between humans and machines. Human Machine Interaction is a multidisciplinary field with a range of contributions from Human-Computer interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and – most important of all for us – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Interaction Design (including product and service design).

Event agenda

Friday, September 28th 2018

  • 18:30 – Welcome Drinks
  • 19:00 – Introduction to Pi School – Jamshid Alamuti, Co-Founder and CEO at Pi School
  • 19:15 – Round Table – The business opportunities behind Human-Machine Interaction –  hosted by Marco Trombetti, Co-Founder and CEO at Pi Campus, with Massimo Banzi (Interaction Designer & co-founder of Arduino), Axel Quack (Strategy Director Financial Services Lead EMEA, frog), Duane Smith (Creative Executive Adidas, Compaq, Nissan), Luis Villa (Strategy Director at Fjord/Accenture) and Stefane Barbeau (Industrial Designer, Advisor on Design for Philips, Mattel, MIT).
  • 20:15 – Refreshments and Networking

Saturday, September 29th 2018

  • The day starts at 9:00 with breakfast in the garden;

BERNBACH HALL

  • 10:00 – 11:30 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Work of Machines – Duane Smith, Creative Executive Adidas, Compaq, Nissan
  • 11:30 – 13:00 – Global Business out of your pocket
    Axel Quack, Strategy Director Financial Services Lead EMEA, frog

TURING HALL

  • 10:00 – 11:30 – What’s next? Making sense of order and chaosLuis Villa, Strategy Director at Fjord/Accenture
  • 11:30 – 13:00 – Human-Computer Interaction in Language Translation – Marco Trombetti, Co-Founder and CEO at Pi Campus

 

  • 13:00 – 14:00 – Light lunch
  • 14:00 – 15:30 – Hackathon of Ideas: we celebrate relevant problems and needs that Human-Computer Interaction can be applied to – Award of € 1,000

BERNBACH HALL

  • 15:30 – 17:00 – Can We Find Meaning in a World Designed by Machines? – Stefane Barbeau, Industrial Designer, Advisor on Design for Philips, Mattel, MIT

TURING HALL

  • 15:30 – 17:00 – Truth and myth around AI: from the past to the future –Sébastien Bratières, Director of the AI Programme at Pi School
  • 18:00 – Lessons learned and hackathon’s winner announcementJamshid Alamuti, Co-Founder and CEO at Pi School

Speakers

Axel Quack

Strategy Director Financial Services Lead EMEA, frog

Duane Smith

Creative Executive Adidas, Compaq, Nissan

Jamshid Alamuti

Co-founder and CEO of Pi School

Luis Villa

Strategy Director at Fjord/Accenture

Marco Trombetti

Co-Founder and CEO at Pi Campus

Massimo Banzi

Co-founder, Arduino

Sébastien Bratières

Director of the AI Programme, Pi School

Stefane Barbeau

Industrial Designer, Advisor on Design for Philips, Mattel, MIT

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    28th of September (Friday): Round Table and aperitif29th of September (Saturday): Masterclasses