IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2022 - 5

Piero P. Bonissone
Piero P. Bonissone Analytics, USA
Activities
Industrial and
Governmental
What is New in Industry?
W
elcome to a new column of
the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Magazine devoted
to Industrial Activities. In a previous
communication1, I described the vision
for the newly formed IEEE CIS Industrial
and Governmental Activities Committee
(IGAC). With IGAC, we strive
to provide services, products, and offerings
of interest to Industry, ranging
from webinars to tutorials, conferences,
publications, standards, and other aspects
of CIS activities, as illustrated in Figure
1, adapted from reference1.
This issue's column will focus on
Industry Engagement in Conferences. We
want to offer industry-centered panels,
workshops, and conferences with keynotes
by Industry leaders. We wish to
create a forum within CIS conferences,
in which Industry can participate without
necessarily having to submit scholarly
papers. Industry leaders can define
current and future challenges that AI/CI
technology could address. We can
achieve this goal with focused panels
and keynote speeches. With increasing
Industry participation in CIS conferences,
we will grow conference exhibits,
sponsorships, and, more importantly,
guidance to make CI/AI technology
relevant to Industry needs. In the sequel,
we will describe two of our efforts in
this direction.
1Piero P. Bonissone, " IEEE CIS VP Industrial and Governmental
Activities Vision Statement " , IEEE Computational
Intelligence Magazine, 17(1):5-7, 2022.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2022.3180846
Date of current version: 19 July 2022
Our first effort is the creation of a
unique Industry-centered event within
our flagship conference, the 2022 IEEE
World Congress on Computational
Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022). For the
first time, we have established an Industry
Day within the IEEE WCCI 2022
Program (https://wcci2022.org/industry
-day/). This event, included in the IEEE
WCCI 2022 regular registration, is also
accessible, for a nominal fee, to nonWCCI
participants.
During this inaugural Industry Day,
which will take place in Padua, Italy, on
July 20, 2022, we will offer a representative
sample of industrial and commercial
applications of CI and AI technologies.
Industry Day's program will contain one
keynote presentation, two special sessions,
seven panels, and twelve short presentations
from Industry. Furthermore,
we expect to have over 100 applicationoriented
poster presentations throughout
the day.
Industry Day's two special sessions
will be devoted to CI in Industry 4.0 and
CI in Metallurgy. Specifically:
❏ Industry 4.0 (i.e., the Fourth Industrial
Revolution) covers cyber-physical
systems, additive manufacturing,
virtual and augmented reality, cloud
computing, big data analytics, data
science, etc. This session will describe
the next level of manufacturing,
where machines will redefine themselves
in how they communicate and
perform individual functions.
❏ CI for Metals Science and Technology
covers the application and deployment
of CI in metallurgy. This session
will facilitate a dialogue among
AI technology providers and endusers
from the metal and alloy industry
and explore further opportunities
for cooperation.
Industry Day's seven panels will cover a
variety of topics:
❏ Outsmart Your Competitors: Real
Examples of Value Extraction From
the Data Journey. Five representatives
of the Swiss Data Innovation Alliance
will share their best practices
and real market experiences to demonstrate
how to use data to extract
Membership Diversity
Industry Drivers
Industrial and Governmental
Activities Committee (IGAC)
Standards
Government Engagement
Industry in conferences
FIGURE 1 IEEE CIS Industrial and Governmental Activities Committee
CIS Offerings to Industry
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