KINTalks

Previous KINTalks

• 2025

  KINTalk: Impact and Value through Digital Innovation
  

  Helmut Draxler—an expert with over 30 years of experience in automation and digitalization—discussed how blending the physical and digital worlds in manufacturing has enhanced trust, safety, and efficiency. Read more

• 2024

  How can AI enhance the coding experience?

  Experts from the field, Bruno Passos and Matt Sexton, discussed how AI can enhance the software development process. They demonstrated the AI coding assistants in use, talked about early insights from this initiative, and shared best practices for integrating AI to improve the developers' experience. Read more

  Combining Data and Expert Opinion in Elite Sport

  On April 19, 2024, Agaath Doeleman, a Data Analyst at NOC*NSF/TeamNL unveiled how data and expert opinion could be combined in high-stakes decisions such as Olympic selection processes.

  Agaath kicked off her presentation by immersing the audience in the Dutch sporting landscape. She explained the diverse objectives and methodologies behind athlete selection for high-stakes events like the Olympics. Then she walked the audience through how such selection processes can unfold, taking cues from the approach used at the Dutch Judo Federation. What is the most important step in developing a plan to incorporate data and expert opinion? Read more

• 2023

  Chatting about ChatGPT in Finance

  On September 22, 2023, the KIN Center for Digital Innovation hosted Cristian Martinez, an advocate for democratizing data analytics and machine learning in finance. Martinez explored AI's impact on jobs, highlighting its role in decision-making, problem-solving, and data processing.

  He discussed AI's influence on the workplace and employee experience, emphasizing its effects on strategic and tactical tasks. The audience followed Martinez into the specifics of AI's role in the world of finance. In this sector, ChatGPT3 takes center stage, enabling the automation of processes, the creation of Excel and Python macros/code, and the generation of PowerPoint slides from Excel models. The result? Enhanced productivity and valuable insights for finance professionals. Martinez also introduced ChatGPT plugins for finance experts. The event included a networking session, where attendees enjoyed drinks and snacks while forging meaningful connections. Read more

• 2021

  KINTalk: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Radiological Workflow.

  The Brand Humanizing Institute: Staying human(e) in an increasingly automated world. On Friday 23rd July we were delighted to welcome Ferry Hoes to our virtual KINTalks stage — an entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of the Brand Humanizing Institute. LUMC: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Radiological Workflow

  On 19 March 2021 we welcomed to our virtual stage Stephan Romeyn and Willem Grootjans from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), sharing their first-hand experiences of developing, introducing and using AI throughout the radiological workflow. 

• 2020

  Assuring safe, effective and ethical AI in medical imaging

  marked the return of KINTalks where we welcomed Charles Kahn, MD, to our virtual stage. Serving as Editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, Charles, Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, talked about the promise and perils of AI in medical imaging and the prerequisites for the safe, effective and ethical use of AI – with many takeaways for the medical world and far beyond! 

  ING: The Future of Employee Experience – Chatbots as Enablers 

  KINTalk about how Future Employee Experiences can be enabled by technologies such as chatbot technology.

  EDGE technologies: Real Estate Technologies, towards a smart workplace

  On 24 January 2020 at KIN Center for Digital Innovation, we invited Erik Ubels for an interesting talk on real estate technologies. Erik is the CTO of EDGE technologies and the mastermind behind the Deloitte building in Amsterdam Zuid. EDGE has built buildings like Circl in Zuid, where wood pieces are used without any glue, so that all building blocks remain intact and can be reused after decades. 

• 2019

  Dutch Police: The impact of AI on work: predictive policing 

  During this KINTalk, two inspiring speakers will talk about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on our work. The presentations promise to be creative and thought-provoking, sparking a conversation that we continue afterward with drinks. Dick Willems, a data scientist at the Dutch Police and the creator of the predictive policing algorithm “CAS” will elaborate on the process of designing, further developing and implementing algorithmic technologies. Professor Marleen Huysman, director of the KIN Center for Digital Innovation, will build on the many rich cases from her embedded research to debunk frequently occurring biases related to the impact of AI in organisation to ultimately arrive at a more productive perspective on the (im)possibilities of A 

  KPN Telecom: Our (cyber) secure future 

  Jaya Baloo is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of KPN Telecom in the Netherlands. She is recognized in 2017 as one of the top 100 CISO’s globally. Jaya works with an amazing information security team of highly driven specialists.  Working in the information security arena for the past 18 years, she has worked mostly for global telecommunications companies such as Verizon and France Telecom. Jaya is also a frequent speaker at security conferences on subjects around lawful interception, mass surveillance, and cryptography.

  Architekten Cie: Building towards circularity and digital innovation

  Partner architect at the Amsterdam based firm de Architekten Cie, Marten de Jong works on retail, housing, office and education projects. The focus of his experience is with the sustainable (re)development of areas, buildings, recent heritage, and protected cultural landscapes, where he champions adding value in an increasingly dense urban environment.

  Januari 2019. KLM: Being where your customers are

  In our KINTalk on January 18th, we invited Lydia van Schaik, Manager Mobile Apps and Capabilities at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to give a talk about innovation and mobile apps at KLM.

  Air Force Command: Fighter Pilots and Open Innovation 

  Fighter pilot Patrick is working as “Chief Air C2 Cell” at the Operation Center of the Air Force Command. He focuses on the planning and steering of large air force operations, thereby combining people and technology. On November 9, Patrick will come over with colleagues of the Belgian Army and Royal Netherlands Navy, to talk about the struggles and opportunities of managing the closed-off defence organization and the need for open innovation to remain on top of current technological developments.