- April 20, 2021
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Mind & Market in Luxembourg passe au digital
La cinquième édition de Mind & Market in Luxembourg, célèbre forum rassemblant start-ups et entreprises, s'est pour la première fois déroulée entièrement sous le format numérique. A l'heure où la flexibilité est plus nécessaire que jamais, le concept de Mind & Market a été repensé pour mieux s'adapter aux circonstances actuelles imposées par la crise sanitaire. Des start-ups du monde entier ont été accueillies en ligne, dans une nouvelle formule améliorée du forum où leurs idées prometteuses pouvaient devenir réalité.
Lancement du GovTech Lab et de son premier challenge "Bye bye Robots!"
Le 26 novembre 2020, Marc Hansen, ministre délégué à la Digitalisation, a présenté le concept du nouveau GovTech Lab de l'État luxembourgeois et a lancé par la même occasion le premier challenge du Lab intitulé "Bye bye Robots!". Cette présentation s'est faite dans un format très particulier puisqu'il s'agissait de la première conférence de presse de l'État luxembourgeois organisée intégralement par visioconférence.
Franz Fayot annonce la prolongation du programme Fit 4 Resilience pour aider les entreprises à se relancer
Le ministre de l'Économie Franz Fayot a annoncé la prolongation, jusqu'au 31 décembre 2021, du programme stratégique de relance Fit 4 Resilience initié par le ministère de l'Économie et géré par Luxinnovation.
A KYC Utility Made in Luxembourg, Powered by EBRC and validated by leading banks
The ongoing digital transformation of banks – and financial institutions in general – is not new. Yet, digital is so vast and the amount of work to be done so important that new entrants are able to provide innovative services focusing on specific aspects. Pascal Morosini (CEO, i-Hub) and Abdelha Tayeb (CIO, i-Hub) tell us more about the creation of the i-Hub RegTech, describing its value proposition while discussing their collaboration with BGL BNP Paribas and Fernand Lepage (Director KYC Office, BGL BNP Paribas). The experts also focused on the added value of EBRC and its key participation in making this collaboration a success.
Weathering the storms of change: Can Luxembourg’s insurers sail to new digital horizons?
For the 2nd consecutive year, Accenture and Bâloise Assurances Luxembourg surveyed more than 1000 consumers on their current experience of insurance services and their future expectations. Our 2020 Market Pulse Survey (MPS) reveals that to successfully outmaneuver the complexities of changing consumer behaviors, accentuated by the current global pandemic, insurers must repivot towards digital and infuse personalization in their core services.
Vision stratégique & Intelligence Artificielle: le gouvernement lance une consultation publique
Ce 20 novembre 2020, le gouvernement met en œuvre un élément essentiel de sa vision stratégique en matière d'Intelligence Artificielle (IA) en lançant une consultation publique sur la perception de l'IA auprès de la population et des acteurs sociétaux.
Participate to the Digital ICT Week
The Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and its Enterprise Europe Network, together with Farvest Group, will organise the DIGITAL ICT Week from 30th November to 4th December 2020. The event will take place virtually and will integrate several highlights such as the IT One Gala and the Web Summit side event.
Keyrock selected as the winner of the 2020 NadiFin FinTech accelerator
NadiFin Acceleration Program today announced that Keyrock was voted as the winner of the 2020 program by its cohort peers. Keyrock democratizes liquidity in the digital asset space by deploying for their clients proprietary, scalable, and self-adaptive algorithms. Its partners can choose from a range of bespoke service solutions to create unique financial markets within the emerging digital asset space.
Japan's Fugaku Retains Title as World's Fastest Supercomputer
The supercomputer Fugaku, which is being developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited based on Arm® technology, has again taken the top spot on the major high-performance computer rankings, including the Top500 list, in all of the rankings posting much higher scores than the runners-up. The other rankings are HPCG, a ranking of supercomputers running real-world applications, HPL-AI, which ranks supercomputers based on their performance capabilities for tasks typically used in artificial intelligence applications, and Graph 500, which ranks systems based on data-intensive loads. It also posted the highest score by far on the Graph 500 ranking. The awards were announced on November 16 (Japan time) at the SC20 High-Performance Computing Conference, currently being held as an online event.
"The world is changing and many sectors will look to digital to ensure their future"
On September 16th, Nasir Zubairi (CEO, LHoFT) took the stage and officially opened the 2020 edition of the Fintech Summit. Re-live his speech by playing the video.
Who are the Winners of the 2020 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award EMEA?
Gartner, Inc. has announced the winners of the 2020 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for financial services in EMEA. The award recognizes innovative use of digital technology-enabled capabilities, products or services to highlight “best-in-class” financial industry initiatives launched within the past 12 months and to offer insight about developments in digital innovation.
Fujitsu and Tokyo Medical and Dental University Leverage World's Fastest Supercomputer to Perform Cancer Gene Network Analysis in Less than a Day
Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have recently completed, in less than a day, estimation of the network that represents the influence relationship between genes and prediction of their relationship with infiltration and metastasis based on genes highly likely to be involved in cancer development. TMDU and Fujitsu achieved this leveraging Fujitsu Laboratories' explainable AI technology "Deep Tensor" with the world's fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, which was jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu. The project was conceived under the theme of "elucidation of the cause and diversity of cancer using large-scale data analysis and AI technology" as part of the supercomputer Fugaku achievement acceleration program being promoted by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from May 2020 to March 2023.