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Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

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Young Researcher entrepreneurship bootcamp

Join the Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (YREB) PhD-course (2.5 ECTS) to grow your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how that can benefit both your current research and future career.

The course specifically leverages AI, data science, and computer science in the service of societal and environmental challenges in for instance health-tech, green-tech, manufacturing, and business. The aim is to build entrepreneurial capacity and to increase the establishment of university-based startups. 
 
Participants are not expected to bring their own startup ideas. Instead, you will be introduced to idea generation techniques to create your own concepts in teams during the course.
 
Target group: We welcome PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers from computer/data related disciplines with little to no business experience from any Danish university.

 

The programme

The themes for each of the four days are as follows:

May 27:  Entrepreneurial Mindset
May 28:  Design Thinking & Concept Development
May 29:  ML Ops & Venture Building
May 30:  Commercialization & Pitch Readiness
May 31:  Culminating Pitches & Looking Ahead

The programme is co-developed by AAU, DTU, DIREC and AI Pioneer Centre.
 
This year the course takes place in DTU Skylab and we recommend you to stay at Zleep Hotel Lyngby
 
We look forward to seeing you at DTU Skylab.

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Digital Tech Summit 2023 – AI Transforming Business

DIGITAL TECH SUMMIT 2023

AI TRANSFORMING BUSINESS

DTS – AI Transforming Business 2023 is the largest deep tech conference in the Nordic countries and the annual meeting place for researchers from universities in Denmark and their partners in Danish industry. 

Over the course of two days, visitors will get access to more than 100 professional talks and presentations and a unique insight into the dominant and transforming digital technologies that are changing our industries and creating the future’s growth engines.

Digital Tech Summit presents the latest research and results from the business community and industrial partners and creates the framework for networking with the conference’s other visitors – directors, engineers, product managers, product developers, business developers and last but not least the talents of the future: university students.

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Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

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Young Researcher entrepreneurship bootcamp

Calling all young researchers in AI and data science with an interest in entrepreneurship!

Did you know that only 12-13% of PhDs end up in a tenure track academic career? The good news is that there are other exciting, fulfilling, flexible career paths, which you can shape yourself.

Join the Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (YREB) PhD summer school (2.5 ECTS) to grow your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how that can benefit both your current research and future career.

The course specifically leverages AI, data science, and computer science in the service of societal and environmental challenges in for instance health-tech, green-tech, manufacturing, and business. The aim is to build entrepreneurial capacity and to increase the establishment of university-based startups.

Aarhus University is the host of YREB’23.   

The programme

The themes for each of the four days are as follows:

Day 1: Explore the unknowns through design thinking.
Day 2: Develop your entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and mindset.
Day 3: Bring an idea into praxis – customer fit and technical practicalities.
Day 4: Commercialize an idea through business model and pitch training.

The programme is co-developed by AAU, AU DTU, KU, DIREC and AI Pioneer Centre.

Target Group

We welcome PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers from computer/data related disciplines with little to no business experience from any Danish university.

What you will learn

By developing your entrepreneurial mindset you will be better able to:

  • Generate research ideas that meet an actual need and validate whether they have the potential to become a viable business.
  • Grasp the fundamentals of creating a novel startup.
  • Understand the basics of ML Ops as a prerequisite for building an AI startup.
  • Take the steering wheel in your current research and future career.
  • Cultivate innovative thinking and presentation skills.
  • Navigate how to collaborate with tech transfer and innovation officers (e.g. Investores and intellectual property (IP)).

What is in it for you?

  • 2.5 ECTS
  • Insights into ideation, ML Ops, entrepreneurial mindset, testing business ideas etc.
  • Engaging, active learning approaches.
  • Meet inspiring, like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs, and educators.
  • Being invited to pitching event at Digital Tech Summit November 8th – 9th 2023.
  • This course is free of charge.
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Digital Tech Summit 2022

25-26 OCTOBER 2022

Digital Tech Summit 2022​

Digital Tech Summit is the largest academic based technology and ­business event in the Nordic countries. Our vision is to create the leading research-based tech meeting space in the Nordic Countries in order to interact and debate the most recent discoveries, participate in matchmaking events, and generate new ideas.

Digital Tech Summit is the largest academic based technology and ­business event in the Nordic countries. Our vision is to create the leading research-based tech meeting space in the Nordic Countries in order to interact and debate the most recent discoveries, participate in matchmaking events, and generate new ideas.

Conference, exhibition, deep tech and network event

Digital Tech Summit is part conference, part exhibition and part networking event with a broad range of keynote-speakers, sessions, debates and events.

At Digital Tech Summit research and industry join forces, when over 5,000 decision-makers, CEOs, researchers, companies, engineers, students, startups, investors, policymakers and more come together to discuss and share the “what, when, how and why” of the digital technologies and transformations.

  • You can attend as a visitor, whether you are professional, hobbyist or just curious.
  • For companies we offer a large exhibition area, where you can showcase your skills.
  • Students can join the event for free to broaden both horizon and network.
  • If you are a startup, we have a dedicated startup-area, and we invite you to participate actively to maximize your output.
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Tailored course is to start the entrepreneurial fire in young researchers

21 JUNE 2022

Tailored course is to start the entrepreneurial fire in young researchers

At the end of May, 55-60 younger researchers from the computer science departments across Denmark attended a course on entrepreneurship. The course is a collaboration between DIREC, the Pioneer Centre for AI, the Foundation for Entrepreneurship and the Danish Data Science Academy. It has been both a breeding ground for concrete start-ups and an introduction to the ecosystem for innovation at the Danish universities.

Most importantly, a mindset in entrepreneurship thinking has been planted in the researchers, explains Mark Riis, Head of Innovation at DTU Compute, and originator of the course as well as leader of DIREC’s work with entrepreneurship.

“It is of great value to plant this mindset because researchers work in a different way and only publish when the last sentence is finished. Entrepreneurship is about experimenting and testing your idea with the outside world and the market, so that you always get feedback. In addition to planting this mindset, the course has inspired some of the participants to start a business based on their research. It is going to be exciting to see how the concrete startup ideas develop.”

Read the full story (only available in Danish)

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Digital Tech Summit 2021

Digital Tech Summit

November 30 – December 1, 2021
Øksnehallen, Copenhagen

Copenhagen Business School, Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, IT University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University, Roskilde University, Aalborg University, IT-Branchen and ­Teknologiens Mediehus invite you to Digital Tech Summit.

The largest academic based technology and ­business event in the Nordic countries

Digital Tech Summit brings together over 5,000 decision ­makers, engineers, companies, academia, startups, investors, and ­students, redefining tech leadership the digital sustainable tech transformation in industry and ­society.

What is Digital Tech Summit?

Digital technologies are driving change at all levels of society. Our vision is to create the leading research-based tech me-eting space in the Nordic Countries in order to interact and debate the most recent discoveries, participate in matchmaking events, and generate new ideas.

Digital Tech Summit is part conference, part exhibition and part networking activities where CEOs of technology companies, researchers, students, fast-growing startups, policymakers to ask a simple question: Where to next? Is it time to rethink our goals in a new world? And how can digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robots, cyber security, Internet of things, 5G take us further, create new jobs and solve some of the major societal challenges we face such as climate change, healthcare & disease prevention, etc.

Why Digital Tech Summit?

Why will thousands gather in Copenhagen? Four main reasons: valuable networking opportunities, incredible speakers, unique brand awareness and exposure at the greatest tech platform in Denmark and networking software – our conference App – that will maximise your returns, experience and learning.