Presentations - Innovation Club 2021

The first speaker at the Innovation Club 2021 Gala was Dr. Zbigniew Szkop of the UW Faculty of Economics, who addressed the topic of the tree calculator. The exact title of his project is: Urban Tree Service Calculator. This is an extremely important theme in terms of the functioning of green local governments and the role of trees in the urban ecosystem.

The second speaker was Dr. Bartlomiej Dessoulavy-Sliwinski of the UW Faculty of Economics, who created a system for verifying the attributes of a purchased property based on geolocation data. Its design is tailored to the needs of urban residents, as it collects data in one place in the form of a simple and accessible application.

In the smart city – the city of the future, people’s influence on the real change of space is crucial. In order for this to happen, there is a need for dialogue understood not only in the sociological sense, but also in the technical sense, which through the development of common solutions will realistically affect the change of this space. And the third speaker, Dr. Lukasz Pancewicz from Gdansk University of Technology, who also represents A2P2, talked about such a concrete change of space, using a completely real example from Dabrowa Gornicza.

Our transportation habits are a major challenge for urban residents, as we learned at the fourth Innovation Club presentation. And to this issue, or more precisely comobility, Dr. Anna Nicinskaya from the University of Warsaw and Magdalena Kubecka, from the Foundation for Local Communities “On the spot” devoted their research .

What has been troubling most of us lately is climate change. They constantly surprise us with unexpected phenomena that often get out of hand. One of the most important effects of this process is, of course, the rise in global temperatures, as well as the increasing frequency of violent weather events such as storms and hail. A great value, therefore, will probably be the warning system for such phenomena, he said in his fifth presentation -. prof. Artur Magnuszewski of the Department of Physical Geography of the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies in his project about the use of Rain-GRS data in managing a flooding crisis.

An extremely important issue from the point of view of cities is data dispersion and management. The Observatory for Urban Policy of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development in Krakow has published a handbook, “Data Management in Cities,” edited by Wojciech Lachowski. Karol Janas – head of the Observatory – presented details of this publication during the sixth speech.

Finally, it was recalled that the future of autonomous vehicles is actually the present, and what algorithms affect mathematical models of how such vehicles move was discussed by Pawel Gora of the UW Department of Physics.