Events

The DISRUPTIVE project, as part of its training activities, is organising the course "Introduction to Optical Communications Networks". The course will be held in person and in Spanish, for a maximum of 30 participants.

This training will be given by Dr. Ramón J. Durán Barroso, Dr. Ignacio de Miguel, Dr. Noemí Merayo and Dr. Juan Carlos Aguado, Professors of the University of Valladolid (UVA).

The registration period will be open from 06/09/2022 until 08/09/2022 and will be done through following form.

Participation is free and in person, subject to prior registration due to the limited number of places available.

This training will be held in person on 13 September from 9:00 to 12:00 in classroom 9 of the ETS of Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Valladolid. Paseo de Belén, 15. Valladolid (Spain). The following topics will be taught:

• Introduction to optical communications systems.
• Passive optical access networks.
• Transport and metropolitan networks based on optical fibre.

This course does not have any requirements for participation. The target audience is students of electrical engineering and related fields, as well as enthusiasts and those interested in the development of electronic projects.

Further details will be sent by email after the registration period has ended.

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The DISRUPTIVE project, as part of its training activities, is organising the course "Fundamentals of Supervised Machine Learning". The course will be held in blended mode and in Spanish, with two face-to-face sessions and a part of autonomous work of the students, up to a maximum of 10 assistants.

The course will be open to everyone and will provide knowledge on the introduction to machine learning, generalisation theory, regularisation and validation techniques, linear and non-linear models, neural networks, support vector machines (SVM) and decision trees. 

This training will be given by Dr. Ignacio de Miguel y Dr. Ramón J. Durán Barroso, , both Full Professors at the University of Valladolid (UVA).

The registration period will be open from 15/07/2022, at 14:00 hours, until full capacity is reached and will be done through the following form.

The course has a duration of 30 hours, which will be distributed as follows: 

• 10 face-to-face hours distributed in 2 sessions: 18 and 19 July 2022 from 9:00 to 14:00 at the ETSI of Telecommunications of the University of Valladolid. 
• 20 hours of independent work. The delivery of the exercises will be on 12 September 2022.

The event has the following requirements: 

• Basic knowledge of Python programming and mathematics at first year level of engineering, science or economics/business degrees.
• Have a computer equipment to follow the course (preferably a laptop to take it to the classroom sessions).
• Installation of the ANACONDA software (https://www.anaconda.com). Anaconda is a distribution of the Python programming language for data science, machine learning, large-scale data processing, etc., which aims to simplify the management and deployment of packages. 

Places will be confirmed by email.

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The DISRUPTIVE project, integrated in its training activities, organizes the mentoring: "Embedded Systems and IoT". This course will enable participants to develop notions of embedded systems as a fundamental competence for the use of sensors and gateways to monitor ageing and transport data to internal and external communication networks.

The event will take place on 18 May 2022 from 9:00 to 18:00 WET (Lisbon-PT). The actions include a theoretical training component, as well as experimentation and exploration activities.

Participation is free of charge and in person, subject to prior registration due to the limited number of places available. This event will take place in Porto (Portugal).

Registration can be done through the following form.

You can find detailed information in the event guide.

The DISRUPTIVE project, as part of its training activities, is organizing the 2nd edition of the Hackathon on Cybersecurity for IoT-based applications - a CTF competition. With the wide adoption of IoT devices and the increasing demand for IoT-based applications, the fast development and deployment of such applications by companies lead to non proper checking for cybersecurity issues and vulnerabilities.

In this hackathon, the participants will be challenged in a Capture The Flag (CTF) competition to gain and apply some basic security skills to solve different challenges related to security aspects of IoT-based applications. This aims to present some of the main cybersecurity aspects to support the development of more secure IoT-based applications. It will cover aspects related to cryptography, penetration test, web exploitation and forensics.

The registration period will be open from 11/04/2022 to 29/04/2022 and should be performed in the following form: <https://forms.gle/SCBN8CjFTaarSx3a9>

The hackathon will take place on 03/05/2022 (from 9h00 to 18h00).

The hackathon will be held in IPB (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança). The instructors include the researchers from IPB: Tiago Pedrosa, Jorge Loureiro, Gustavo Funchal and Alexandre Júnior.

Program:

• [9h00 - 18h00 – WEST]: CTF competition – the teams need to solve challenges to collect flags and gain points. The team that achieves the highest score within the limited time of the CTF wins.

The hackathon is intended for undergraduate students of the area of Computer Science and cybersecurity enthusiasts. Requirements: basic knowledge on linux commands and programming skills. Up to four participants per team. The participants must go to the hackathon with a PC or Virtual Machine with Kali Linux distribution or other with cybersecurity related tools.

Further details will be sent by email after the end of the registration period.

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On 18 March, the Hackathon on IoT: New digital horizon took place successfully in the framework of the DISRUPTIVE project. It was attended by a large number of participants, who designed and developed several challenges on the Internet of Things. 

The hackathon was held at the facilities of the BISITE research group, so that they had access to all the materials they needed during the event. The instructors of this event were different researchers from the BISITE group of the University of Salamanca.

The objective of this day was to participate in a multidisciplinary team made up of students from different faculties in order to collaborate in certain developments in the Internet of Things and to disseminate the DISRUPTIVE project. These actions are framed in the project as a component of theoretical training, as well as experimentation and exploration activities.

Here are some photos of the event:

In the scope of the cross-border project DISRUPTIVE - Dinamización de los Digital Innovation Hubs dentro de la región PocTep para el impulso de las TIC disruptivas y de última generación a través de la cooperación en la región transfronteriza - of which PRODUTECH is a partner, a mentoring session on "Introduction to Machine Learning", organized by PRODUTECH, took place on March 4^th, in an in-person format, provided by the scientists of Fraunhofer Portugal Research Association, and with a duration of 8 hours.

The initiative was attended by 15 representatives of companies, R&D institutions and national clusters and had as main objectives:

- To provide an introduction to Machine Learning (ML) and the most used methods and tools in supervised and unsupervised learning and the exploration of ML applications for real cases from the business world.

- To equip participants with basic ML concepts and teach them how to set up a Machine Learning framework.

- Demonstrate how Artificial Intelligence can help create algorithms to support the running of a company, making use of the participants' prior business knowledge and business information.

Two new mentoring sessions, free of charge and dedicated to other topics, will follow this first one:

• 22 of April, IoT and Industry 4.0
• 18 of May, Embedded Systems and IoT

For more information about the DISRUPTIVE project, click here.

The DISRUPTIVE project, integrated in its training activities, organizes the mentoring: "Introduction to Machine Learning". This course provides an introduction to Machine Learning (ML) and the most important methods and tools used: supervised and unsupervised learning and exploration of Machine Learning applications for real-world business cases.

The event will take place on 4 March 2022 from 9:00 to 18:00 WET (Lisbon-PT). The actions include a theoretical training component, as well as experimentation and exploration activities.

Participation is free of charge and in person, subject to prior registration due to the limited number of places available. This event will take place in Porto (Portugal).

Registration can be done through the following form.

There will be 3 mentoring actions, the topics of which will be the following:

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• IoT and Industry 4.0
• Embedded Systems and IoT

You can find detailed information in the event guide.

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Javier Parra, researcher at the University of Salamanca (USAL), has made a new stay thanks to the DISRUPTIVE project at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), where he has worked on the corresponding disruptive advances related to Big Data and in the field of IoT.

We have had the pleasure to welcome Goreti and Jorge, researchers coming from ISEP, in a new stay by the BISITE Research Group to work in the framework of IoT and disruptive advances related to Big Data and Cybersecurity.

Welcome, Gustavo and Victória, we are pleased to receive a new stay by BISITE Research Group to the researchers coming from IPB to work in the framework of IoT and disruptive advances related to Big Data and Cybersecurity.

On 18th December, the "3rd Workshop on Disruptive Information and Communication Technologies for Innovation and Digital Transformation" will be held online within the framework of the DISRUPTIVE project.

This workshop aims to discuss the problems, challenges and benefits of using disruptive digital technologies, namely the Internet of Things, Big Data, cloud computing, multi-agent systems, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative robotics, to support the ongoing digital transformation in society.

For more information on the event:

https://disruptive.usal.es/iii-workshop/en/index.html