Artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies have huge potential to transform the energy sector and optimise how energy is produced, managed and used in view of the need to make headway in the transition to renewable energies, energy sovereignty and digitalisation of the entire activity chain. This is the conclusion of the eighth white [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has picked up an award at the AMETIC Artificial Intelligence Summit 2024 held in Madrid in the R+D+i on AI Award category for developing smart tools leveraging generative artificial intelligence free software to produce automatic audiovisual content summaries which help Catalan Broadcasting Corporation-3Cat staff to do their jobs. AMETIC, the [...]
The Centre of Innovation for Data tech and Artificial Intelligence (CIDAI) has welcomed six new member organisations, all of them seeking data and AI-based technologies, to fast-track uptake of these technologies by businesses and society and spur the Catalan AI ecosystem. The CIDAI’s new members are organisations and entities which extend its reach in [...]
The Mobile World Congress is “once more the international meeting point for the digital industry where artificial intelligence has taken centre stage with applications across all sectors” and with a “key role for 4YFN, which on its tenth anniversary has cemented its position as the preeminent venue for the start-up ecosystem,” says Miquel Rey, [...]
Cybersecurity-related technologies and virtual reality tied to the user experience, smart cities and digital twins will be prominent at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress, where artificial intelligence will take centre stage with applications in various sectors, especially in health and nutrition, sustainability and industry. Eugenia Fuenmayor, scientific director of Eurecat’s Digital Area, says that [...]
Artificial intelligence and data technologies have huge potential to help transform the educational model and enhance the teaching and learning process while also ensuring that Catalan is more widely used online and in everyday life in society. This is the conclusion of the ‘White Paper on Artificial Intelligence applied to Education and to the [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has over 200 patents for highly innovative industrial, digital, biotech and sustainability technologies and has set up nine spin-offs in partnership with other businesses as one of its core technology transfer activities in areas such as digitalising healthcare, textile production, 3D printing and information and communication technologies. To publicise these and other [...]
The Eurecat technology centre predicts that 2024 will be the year of exploiting generative artificial intelligence which will yield solutions developed for a wide range of sectors including healthcare, construction, manufacturing, education, finance, retail and government. Daniel Casellas, Eurecat’s scientific director, notes “the enormous potential which is opening up to ensure that new technological [...]
The AI & Big Data Congress is to unpack the latest developments and trends in artificial intelligence and their impact on business at the ninth event to be held on 27-28 September in Barcelona, for which registration is now open. Generative AI will play a prominent role at the congress which will explore its technological [...]
According to a study by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Eurecat technology centre and the Autonomous University of Madrid, published as open access in PLoS ONE, students worked more continuously during the pandemic, which led to an improvement in their results. The data analysis conducted over five academic years shows that continuous [...]
