As we approach the Impact Deal Showcase on November 23 during EVPA Impact Week in Torino, let’s take a moment to recognise that this event isn’t just a standalone moment — it’s the last chapter of a journey that began on May 31.

From May 31 until now: A Timeline of Impact

Back in May, these innovative enterprises set out on a mission to amplify their impact. Since then, they’ve tackled challenges, embraced new ideas, and committed themselves to make a positive difference. As Impact Deal acceleration program, we did our best to provide them with the tools, mentorship, and resources needed to grow.

For instance, it’s the case of volvero where we created the conditions to access proprietary data from Telco and Bank to boost their roadmap towards sustainable mobility.

Milestones Achieved, Challenges Overcome

These enterprises have hit some impressive milestones, from the program’s kick-off to the final preparations for the Impact Deal Showcase. They’ve refined their strategies, forged partnerships, and successfully raised funds.

To make some examples: one week ago, press releases announced that EIB would provide Xnext with €20 million venture debt loan to support research and development, and Relearn recently publicly disclosed a 1M seed round.

Showcasing Progress to Stakeholders

On November 23, these impact enterprises will share their stories with a diverse audience, including data providers, program partners, impact investors, and enthusiastic participants of Impact Week. They’re not just presenting their projects; they’re revealing the outcome of months of hard work and a relentless pursuit of impact.

Beyond the enterprises mentioned above, we will meet Bin-e, Dedalo AI, OPT/NET, Untap and Valuebin.

Save the Date for the Grand Finale

If you plan to attend EVPA Impact Week or are on the event’s registered list, you are already part of this journey. If this is not the case and you think you should be in the audience, write us at impactdeal@top-ix.org to secure the last available seats.

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The TOP-IX Consortium, as a Day-one member of Gaia-X and founding member of Structura-X, the Gaia-X lighthouse project involving 28 industrial entities from 10 European countries with the common goal of building a federated infrastructure for the European cloud, participated in the recent Gaia-X Summit 2022.

TOP-IX at Gaia-X Summit 2022

As part of Structura-X, together with Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Aruba SpA, Politecnico di Torino, CSI-Piemonte, IONOS and DE-CIX, TOP-IX implemented and presented a PoC of an Internet Exchange and Cloud Service Provider federation as an enabling technology for extending Kubernetes clusters across different administrative domains.

The Internet Exchange federation project has attracted considerable interest from a number of European stakeholders and proves to be an important driver in propelling TOP-IX and Internet Exchanges toward a new paradigm, in which the network platform becomes an ecosystem for delivering distributed, scalable, and resilient cloud services. Adoption of the Federation Services framework will also ensure compliance with Gaia-X governance and enrich the range of cloud and connectivity services that TOP-IX, its consortium members and other IXs can deliver and consume on the federated infrastructure.

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Today the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) officially kicks off. This is the flagship event organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the European Commission (DG CNECT) which brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to promote political action, industrial and research activities in the fields of data and artificial intelligence.

The theme of EBDVF 2021 is “Digital Transformation Powered by Data and Artificial Intelligence”.

In this prestigious and strong context  and proud of BDVA membership, TOP-IX will organize a workshop on Friday 3 December entitled: “Big Data-driven Impact and Value through Entrepreneurship” with the aim of starting a pragmatic discussion on the gap between industry demand and the necessary technical / entrepreneurial skills, particularly in the field of data. Specifically, it will be an opportunity to validate a new format, exploiting and merging the numerous past experiences that include high-level training, the involvement of startups and innovation projects for companies.

After an initial introduction by the TOP-IX team, a virtual round table will follow with prestigious guests of international standing:

• Edward Curry – Professor at Insight Center
• Minna Isomursu – Professor at University of Oulu
• Ana Moreno – Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

Moderated by Leonardo Camiciotti – Executive Director of the Consortium.

To complete the workshop, a video contribution by Alberto Onetti – Mind The Bridge Foundation / Insubria University – and an interactive session with the online public to expand the work and discussion table.

All information here: https://european-big-data-value-forum.eu/

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BIG DIVE is in the middle of its journey. The intensive training program about Data Science, Machine and Deep Learning, Data Visualization and Data Engineering is preparing to face the last two modules of the 2020 edition. Meanwhile, TOP-IX applied to become part of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA).

BIG DIVE main novelty has been the splitting of the course into four training modules, which replace the four consecutive full time weeks, that was the common feature in the previous eight editions. The new format has been appreciated by Divers. It allowed them to approach “step by step” the different topics of the constantly increasing Big Data theme, and to enter the program with different background and knowledge levels.

The BIG DIVE traveling companions were the same from beginning and as usual they contributed to the organization of the course. In addition to the TOP-IX consortium, Axant, the ISI Foundation and TODO are part of the team. We also confirmed the presence (someone in presence and others remotely) of guest lecturers, who brought their proven on-field experience to enrich the path of Divers.

Module 1 (“From Zero to Data Science with Python”), held on September, was taught by the TOP-IX team and covered the Python programming and Data Science, from the initial data explorations to the creation of data-driven projects. We hosted two lectures: “Geopandas and Geospatial data” by Maurizio Napolitano from the Bruno Kessler Foundation, “TimeSeries and KNIME”, curated by Daniele Tonini, partner in Target Research.

Module 2, organized in mid-October, was an intensive five- days deep on Machine and Deep Learning with a focus on computer vision. ISI Foundation researchers (Alan Perotti and Adnrè Panisson) were the resident teachers and we had three external lectures.
Alberto Danese, Head of Data Science at Nexi and Kaggle Grandmaster, spoke about the interpretability of Machine Learning models and shared his experience on the Kaggle platform, an online community of data scientists and Machine learning professionals based on challenges and awards promoted by international companies and organizations.
Marco Aldinucci and Iacopo Colonnelli, from the Computer Science Department at Università degli Studi di Torino, explored the connections between Machine Learning, Deep Learning and High Performance Computing and Cloud, based on the experience gained with academic research and with the HPC4AI project. Finally, Matteo Giaretti, senior data scientist at Glovo and ex-diver, after talking about machine learning processes in Glovo, offered a detailed excursus on the forecasting capabilities of yesterday, today and tomorrow, with specific reference to the world of Time Series (series historical data).

A total of 15 Divers took part in the first two modules, which rise to 22 considering who have enrolled in the third and fourth modules (the registrations are still open). Someone chose to participate in a single module, some others have picked modules according to their needs and someone decided to follow all the four modules.
The average age of the Divers is 33, the citizenship is predominantly Italian, except for a Cameroonian participant living here in Turin: on this side the health emergency had a strong impact by limiting international participation. In the first two modules, the divers followed the lessons mostly in presence, with the exception of one participant in Module 2.
Based on Covid-19 security rules and the evolution of the infections, we will decide whether the third and fourth modules will take place in the classroom or through video conference. In both cases, the training system is solid as well as the available teaching tools.

Module 3 will be held starting from November 16th and will focus on the theme “Communicating and Visualizing Data”. The resident teacher will be Fabio Franchino from TODO; guest lecture has been already confirmed: Matteo Moretti, co-founder at Sheldon Studio. BIG DIVE 2020 will close with Module 4, “Deep Dive into Data Engineering”, scheduled from November 30th to December 4th.

For modules three and four, registrations are still open (here the form).

To strengthen its role in the Big Data, Data Science and Data Engineering sector, the TOP-IX Consortium has recently applied to become part of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), formed by a balanced mix of industries of large, small and medium-sized, which represents the private counterpart of the European Commission for the implementation of the Big Data Value PPP program.
In this way, TOP-IX places itself in a key role in the Turin scenario, where the Italian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (I3A) will be located.

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Individuals who get COVID-19, get hospitalised and enter ICUs often don’t get the chance to call their families. The same thing happens to the elderly in retirement homes. Thousands of patients and elderly die alone without saying goodbye to their loved ones, due to lack of devices easy to manage with protection gears.
The same process can be applied to donate devices to public schools or families in need.

Starting from these reflections, the collective action program ApartButUnited organized “Tablets for good: devices & connectivity in COVID-19 times, and beyond.” (Free online webinar – Thu, June 25, 2020; 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM).

The aim is to understand the systemic barriers related to devices and connectivity and the current needs created by the pandemic and hear from the experts and creators of projects that effectively took action for these challenges and supported hospitals, retirement homes and schools.

Between the panel speakers, there will be Luca Cicchelli, Interconnection Manager at TOP-IX Consortium, that will share the stage with Feliciana Faiella, Founder at TuttiConnessi.it; Fabrizio Capocasale, Entrepreneur, Mentor & Board Member at Alumni at Cattolica, Founder and Coordinator at DonaunTablet.it, and Sara Mosadegh, Academic Professor, Registered Nurse, and Healthcare Educator.
Host and moderator Meg Pagani, Entrepreneur and founder of Impacton.org.

Registrations are open on Eventbrite.

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Wild Mazzini, data art gallery in via Mazzini 33, hosts the exhibition “DATAGLITCHES – My favorite mistakes” by Giovanni Magni. The project aims at visualizing “pure” mistakes, generated working on Big Data.

The exhibition is sponsored by TOP-IX Consortium, that works with Big Data since 2012, when it launched its course on data science and machine learning, called Big Dive.
The ninth edition of BIG DIVE will start on September and it will be structured in four stand-alone module.

When error becomes beauty

Sixteen brand new data art pieces exploring the boundaries between representation and transfiguration of data, offering the viewer shapes and images that induce to lose themselves in order to find meaning.

 

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#makingof #dataglitches by @dataglitches #wildmazzini #bewild #dataart #contemporaryart

Un post condiviso da WILD MAZZINI (@wildmazzini) in data: 9 Giu 2020 alle ore 2:44 PDT

To comply with the anti-Covid-19 rules, a video made by TOP-IX, with an interview with Giovanni Magni, will replace the vernissage of Dataglitches. Opening every Thursday and by appointment.

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On June 3, the new training program promoted by Innovazione Sviluppo was presented and kicked off: it is an impressive opportunity designed for the world of international cooperation by the Compagnia di Sanpaolo and the Cariplo Foundation.

(Did you miss the launch webinar? See it again here)

Even this year we are happy to be part of the operational team and we are pleased to present the second edition of CorDATA, the initiative created together with the Fondazione ISI, Moxoff and Heartindata to mind the gap between international cooperation organizations, Data Science and Civic Technologies.

All the information here (ITA ONLY): cordata.top-ix.org

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The TOP-IX Consortium organizes, on Thursday 11, from 11 to 12.30, the online webinar “Services and tools against DDoS attacks“, related to DDoS attacks, solutions to face them and services available on the TOP-IX marketplace on this.

Agenda:

11:00 Welcome & Update (TOP-IX)

11:20 What is DDoS and which tools against: blackholing, scrubbing and more (TBD)

11:40 am Solutions available on TOP-IX marketplace
– NaWas
– FiberTelecom

12:30 pm Q&A

Following registration on Eventbrite, you will receive a link to access the webinar.

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In only a few weeks, COVID19 pandemic has accomplished what Fridays for Future has long been fighting for: an immediate stop and re-thinking of our work, consumption and socialization patterns.

ETHTurin – which welcoming hackers, companies and individuals aims at build applications with a clear environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact, using the Ethereum blockchain – sees it as a unique opportunity to build new solutions for decentralization and SDG/Local Impact. For this reason, ETHTurin decided not to give up to COVID19, not cancel the hackathon scheduled for April 24-26 and go Virtual with V-ETHTurin.

There are only 150 NFT tickets available for the event, supported by TOPIX as media partner. Participating hackers will be able to build on their own projects, bounties proposed by our partners or challenges linked to Sustainable Development Goals (environment, UBI, governance, etc.) and Local Issues (pollution, COVID19 crisis, virtual solutions, urban garden, etc.). Prizes and surprises for hackers who submit final hacks.
To apply you can fill the form on the ETHTurin website. You can register from anywhere, because the event will be streamed live from Toolbox spaces.

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