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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Virtual Open Day: Just and Equitable Futures
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we share Edinburgh Futures Institute’s innovative approach to learning and teaching and how our interdisciplinary programmes will help you graduate ready for tackling complex global challenges.During this presentation Programme Directors will also share with you the programmes that EFI offer\, in the areas of Just Futures. \n\n\n\n\nData and Artificial Intelligence Ethics \n\n\n\nData\, Inequality and Society \n\n\n\n\nPlease select Interdisciplinary Studies as the subject option on the registration form.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/postgraduate-open-day-just-futures/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Information session,Postgraduate online open day
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Virtual Open Day: Creative Futures
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we share Edinburgh Futures Institute’s innovative approach to learning and teaching and how our interdisciplinary programmes will help you graduate ready for tackling complex global challenges. \n\n\n\nDuring this presentation Programme Directors will also share with you the programmes that EFI offer\, in the areas of Creative Futures: \n\n\n\n\nCreative Industries\n\n\n\nNarrative Futures: Art\, Data and Society\n\n\n\nService Management and Design\n\n\n\n\nPlease select Interdisciplinary Studies as the subject option on the registration form.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/postgraduate-open-day-creative-futures/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Information session,Postgraduate online open day
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Virtual Open Day: Sustainable Futures
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we share Edinburgh Futures Institute’s innovative approach to learning and teaching and how our interdisciplinary programmes will help you graduate ready for tackling complex global challenges. During this presentation Programme Directors will also share with you the programmes that EFI offer\, in the areas of Sustainable Futures:  \n\n\n\n\nCircular Economy\n\n\n\nFuture Infrastructure\, Climate Change and Sustainability\n\n\n\n\nPlease select Interdisciplinary Studies as the subject option on the registration form.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/postgraduate-open-day-sustainable-futures/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Information session,Postgraduate online open day
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SUMMARY:Venture Café Edinburgh Turns 1!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Venture Café Edinburgh’s first anniversary in this very special Thursday Gathering! 🎉 \n\n\n\nMeaningful ideas and changes are sparked when serendipitous connection collides with intention. The Thursday Gathering is our free\, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday\, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds\, from founders and investors to students and researchers\, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human. \n\n\n\nPowered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you require accessibility assistance or special accommodations\, please contact us at hello@venturecafeedinburgh.org ahead of the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/venture-cafe-edinburgh-turns-1/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Venture Cafe Edinburgh Thursday Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Traveltech Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION:​What happens when building technology becomes easier\, faster and more accessible than ever before? And what could that mean for travel and tourism? \n\n\n\n​Tools that once required significant budgets\, specialist developers and months of work are becoming much more accessible with the help of AI. For travel and tourism businesses\, this creates exciting opportunities to solve everyday challenges\, improve visitor experiences and turn ideas into working solutions that might previously have been out of reach. \n\n\n\n​But what does this look like in practice? What are people actually building\, and how is AI changing the way we work across the travel and tourism sector? \n\n\n\n​For our November TravelTech Meetup\, we’re inviting anyone using AI to come along and show us what they’ve built. \n\n\n\n​Have you created an AI tool to help a hotel manage guest enquiries? Built something to personalise travel recommendations\, help visitors discover local experiences or simplify tour planning? Developed a solution to automate bookings\, improve destination marketing or make your business operations more efficient? \n\n\n\n​Whether you’re building a new product\, experimenting with an idea or finding creative ways to solve everyday problems\, we’d love to see what you’re working on. \n\n\n\n​We’re looking for short\, 5 to 10 minute talks or demonstrations showcasing what you’ve built\, how you’ve used AI and what you’ve learned along the way. \n\n\n\n​You don’t need to be a tech company or an AI expert. We’re interested in practical examples\, creative experiments and ideas that demonstrate what’s possible when the barriers to building technology start to come down. \n\n\n\n​Come and share what you’ve built\, discover what others are doing\, and explore what happens when more people have the tools to turn their ideas into reality. \n\n\n\nInterested in presenting? Get in touch with us first at engagement.efi@ed.ac.uk to tell us what you’d like to share.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/traveltech-meet-up-7/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mixer
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SUMMARY:Powering Tomorrow: Energy\, Gaming and Unlikely Connections
DESCRIPTION:Meaningful ideas and changes are sparked when serendipitous connection collides with intention. The Thursday Gathering is our free\, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday\, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds\, from founders and investors to students and researchers\, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human. \n\n\n\nPowered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you require accessibility assistance or special accommodations\, please contact us at hello@venturecafeedinburgh.org ahead of the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/powering-tomorrow-energy-gaming-and-unlikely-connections/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Venture Cafe Edinburgh Thursday Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Brokers of Digital Sovereignty - Infrastructural Dependencies in the AI-enabled Welfare State
DESCRIPTION:As European governments increasingly adopt AI systems to advance public-sector innovation and digital sovereignty\, they often become entangled in new types of infrastructural dependency on global technology platforms. This talk examines how local suppliers of public AI systems act as brokers between welfare states and Big Tech\, embedding cloud services\, software\, APIs and other critical infrastructures into public-sector technologies. Drawing on a dataset of 539 AI systems deployed in the Danish public sector across education\, health\, employment and more\, we map these supplier networks and show how everyday technological choices create dependencies and power asymmetries that challenge ambitions of democratic accountability\, economic sustainability and digital sovereignty. By making visible the infrastructures underpinning public AI\, the talk highlights why the technical and commercial foundations of the AI-enabled welfare state warrant greater scholarly and democratic scrutiny. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nSigne Sophus Lai \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSigne Sophus Lai is an Associate Professor in the Center for Tracking and Society at the University of Copenhagen\, Denmark. Her research on the political economy of digital infrastructures advances new empirical methods for studying digital communication systems and develops a critical agenda on digital infrastructural power. She is co-founder of the Digital Infrastructure Think Tank and has co-authored four books published with\, amongst others\, Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan\, on digital methods\, infrastructure\, and communication systems.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/brokers-of-digital-sovereignty-infrastructural-dependencies-in-the-ai-enabled-welfare-state/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
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