Urban Hacking in 5G

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When:

June 17, 2019 – June 20, 2019 all-day Europe/Zurich Timezone

2019-06-17T00:00:00+01:00

2019-06-21T00:00:00+01:00

Where:

We The Curious
1
Millennium Square, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5DB
UK

Contact:

Dr. Hamid Falaki

events FLAME

5G Bristol FLAME FLAME Summer School Hackathon hacking IT Innovation Summer School UniBristol Urban Hacking in 5G

The FLAME 5G service delivery platform allows media services to be placed deep in the network, in metro datacenters and at the very edge of the network in urban street cabinets. Because FLAME knows where services and content are and where they need to be, content and service requests can be routed to the best possible network location, ensuring the right content is served to consumers from the best place in the network in the quickest time. These decisions are fast and driven by where, when and how consumers want to interact with augmented reality, virtual reality and video.

Challenge 1 - Broadcast:

Participatory media presented by VRT
Imagine everyone is a broadcaster participating in the co-creation of urban digital stories. Can you find solutions to localised production and distribution using edge interaction patterns where the infrastructure and resources more closely aligns with the communication needs to consumers? Can you do this within the intelligent edge without requiring public clouds and backhaul networks?

Challenge 2 - Gaming:

Storytelling and gaming presented by Disney Research
Urban spaces provide great opportunities to play and learn. Can you create new experiences using urban gaming and augmented reality technologies that transform the way citizens are engaged in culture and with each other? Can you create a solution that will be used in places all around the world?

“Multimedia will dominate the next generation of Internet systems driven by citizens’ increasing participation and use of pervasive technologies to have fun, learn and understand the world. Success depends on establishing transformative media ecosystems that benefit everyone from consumers and content providers through to the operators of communications, transport and building infrastructures. Events like FLAME’s Urban Hacking are critical as they bring everyone together in a place where we can build our future together.”

For Hackers

Push the limits of what was thought to be impossible! At the FLAME Urban Hacking event, you will feel the energy in the room while working hard to solve innovative tech challenges in teams formed during the event. Use your tech skills, develop mobile apps (Android/iOS) using HTTP-based web services, and expand your horizons! Your personal challenge is to work faster and more precisely than ever before! Mentors and scientific experts will be by your side and provide support whenever you need it. Great ideas that benefit society is your goal to create within these two days!

For Visitors

Allow yourself to be fully immersed in an international event with creative and engineering teams working to create urban solutions from emerging 5G technologies. High class international speakers will give exclusive presentations to seed discussions while demonstrations offer glimpses of how citizens will engage with media in urban settings over the coming years. The purpose of the FLAME Urban Hacking event is to bring together people with a passion for creativity, technology and media, and increase the ideas for innovative experiences emerging from an increasingly pervasive compute and networking infrastructure. The first day will be packed with sessions over all things technical, whilst on the final day you’ll get your hands on the technology itself, come and join us for the FLAME experience.

DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

– MONDAY, JUNE 17TH – DAY 1

5G Edge Cloud Platform and Tools

Time	Duration	Session	Speaker
08.00 \| Registration (60 min)
09.00	15 min	Welcome and Introduction	Hamid Falaki – University of Bristol
09.15	45 min	Building 5G through FLAME	Michael Boniface – IT Innovation Centre
10.00	45 min	5G Edge Cloud Architecture	Dirk Trossen – InterDigital
10.45	60 min	FLAME Service Delivery Platform	Sebastian Robitzsch – InterDigital
11.45	60 min	Full stack DevOps toolchains accelerating ideas from the desktop to city testbeds	Michael Boniface – IT Innovation Centre
13.00 \| Lunch (60 min)
14.00	60 min	5G Infrastructure @ University of Bristol	Hamid Falaki – University of Bristol
15.00	60 min	Service design and development patterns for interactive edge computing experiences	Michael Boniface – IT Innovation Centre
16.00	60 min	Dynamic service delivery using network-aware graph analytics and endpoint controls	Nikolay Stanchev – IT Innovation Centre
19.00 \| Social Event

– TUESDAY, JUNE 18TH – DAY 2

Media Service Design Development and Hacking

Time	Duration	Session	Speaker
09.00	60 min	Urban gaming	Fabio Zünd – Game Technology Centre, University of Zurich
10.00	60 min	Urban storytelling	Steven Poulakos – Disney Research
11.00	60 min	Urban participatory media	Mark Godon, Sandy Claes – VRT
Hackathon Creative Mentors: Marc Godon, Sandy Claes, Fabio Zund, Steven Poulakos Technical Mentors: Sebastian Robitzsch, Kay Hänsge, Nikolay Stanchev, Klaas Baert, Michael Boniface, Dirk Trossen
13.00	30 min	Introduction to the competition
13.30	30 min	Team forming
14.00	120 min	Creative conceptualisation, interaction design, video presentations, feedback and iteration	Creative Mentors
16.00	8 hours	Hacking	Technical Mentors
00.00 \| Close

– WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH – DAY 3

Hack day 2

Time	Duration	Session	Who
08.00 \| Welcome back (30 min)
08.30	4 hours	Hacking + small challenges	Mentors
12.30 \| Lunch (30 min)
13.00	5 hours	Hacking	Mentors
18.00	90 min	Presentations and demonstration	5 teams
19.30	30 min	Creative reflection	All
20.00	30 min	Evaluation and winner announcement	Judges

– THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH – FINAL DAY

FLAME SHOW

Time	Duration	Day 4 - FLAME show	Supported by
10.00	15 min	Introduction	University of Bristol
10.15	15 min	Press briefing	University of Southampton, IT Innovation Centre
10.30	60 min	Urban Gaming	ETH Zurich
11.30	60 min	Hackathon Winner	FLAME partners
12.30 \| Lunch (60 min)
13.30	60 min	Urban Storytelling	FLAME partners
14.30	45 min	Future Direction panel	InterDigital
15.15 \| Close

Hamid Falaki

Dr Hamid Falaki is a telecommunications consultant at Smart Internet Lab, providing technical services for coordination, delivery, operation, maintenance and expansion of the 5GUK Test Network at University of Bristol. This service provides a test network as an experimentation facility for research projects under Smart Internet Lab.

He has more than 20+ years’ experience in the telecoms technology sector, and prior to that 10+ years from the energy sector. His Current interest is creation of new business opportunities through rich communication services, networks measurements & monitoring. He also has interest in neutral hosting of communication networks giving rise to a range of new business opportunities for vertical industries operating their own network slice and niche services within the upcoming 5G networks. Among his achievements are many international patents within the telecommunication industry as well as leading several technical activities towards public engagement and delivery of 5G show cases through Bristol University.

Michael Boniface

Prof. Boniface is the Head of the IT Innovation Centre, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton and the Project Coordinator of the FLAME project. He has an international reputation as thought leader pioneering the evolution of information technologies for tackling important business and societal challenges and long term interests in the areas of user experience, interactive media, service-based systems, software defined infrastructures and digital innovation.

Nikolay Stanchev

Nikolay Stanchev is a research assistant and software developer at the IT Innovation Centre, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, working on the FLAME project while also finishing his software engineering degree at the University of Southampton.

His main fields of interest are distributed systems development and cyber security in web services. He is a keen Python enthusiast with a passion for solving complex problems through the application of efficient algorithms and data structures.

Dirk Trossen

Dirk Trossen is a Senior Principal Engineer at InterDigital Europe, the European branch of InterDigital Inc. Dirk has more than 15 years of experience in network architectures, services and wireless technology. His main contributions can be found in the area of inter-domain networking as well as seamless handovers and new service concepts for operators. He is currently technical leading the European efforts FLAME, performing ICN research with the goal of evolutionary introduction of ICN concepts in upcoming 5G networks. Prior to joining InterDigital, Dirk was co-founder of TecVis LP, a UK-based software solution company in the mobile, context-aware solution space and he held prior positions as a Senior Researcher with Cambridge University, Chief Researcher with BT Research and as a Principal Scientist at Nokia Research. He is also a research affiliate with the Advanced Network Architecture group at MIT CSAIL. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Aachen, Germany. He published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers in international conferences and journals and has currently 32 international patents.

Sebastian Robitzsch

Dr. Sebastian Robitzsch is with InterDigital Europe, Ltd. working as a staff engineer on ICN-related Horizon 2020 funded projects. His recent research efforts focus on the softwarisation of network functions following existing SDN and NFV paradigms in order to allow a decoupling of infrastructure, service and content providers for a more versatile communication network. He is currently responsible for integration of the InterDigital's FLIPS platform into the H2020 FLAME platform efforts. In the past he has been with Dublin City University, Ireland, T-Systems, Germany, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, and Nokia Research Centre, Finland, working on research issues spanning from interference and self-configuration techniques in 802.11-based multi-antenna mesh networks, heterogeneous access networks to system architecture design for trace analytics and recommender systems in next-generation OSSs. Sebastian received his Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland, in 2013 and an M.Sc. equivalent (Dipl.-Ing. (FH)) from the University of Applied Sciences Merseburg, Germany in 2008.

Fabio Zünd

Dr. Fabio Zünd is the Managing Director at the Game Technology Center (GTC) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his Bachelor and Master degree from ETH Zurich. With a focus on computer graphics and wireless technology, Fabio started his PhD at Disney Research Zurich in collaboration with the ETH Laboratory for Software Technology, developing real-time wireless video streaming technology. Moving to the ETH Computer Graphics Lab under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Sumner and Prof. Markus Gross, Fabio concentrated his research on game technology, augmented reality, and storytelling technology, and finished his PhD in 2016. His work includes computer-assisted authoring, interactive narratives, Augmenting Creativity, as well as see-through and projected augmented reality research and applications. Since then, Fabio leads the research efforts on game design and technology at the GTC.

Steven Poulakos

Dr. Steven Poulakos is an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics and M.S. in Library and Information Science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich for his contributions modelling visual perception of stereoscopic images and video. Steven has participated in the EU-funded project REVERIE (REal and Virtual Engagement in Realistic Immersive Environments), utilizing stereoscopic technologies to enable realistic human interaction in shared virtual spaces. Steven’s research focus has evolved into the space of computational narrative, which includes computer-assisted generation of interactive narrative and experience management. He is participating in the EU-funded project FLAME (Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation), developing technologies to utilize smart city infrastructure to experience interactive narratives. Steven’s main research interest is in developing intelligent systems at the intersection of story, autonomous characters, and user experience.

Marc Godon

Marc Godon recently joined the Innovation Center of VRT. Here he explores new roles for the public broadcaster in relationship to future Smart Cities. He received the degree of Master in the Industrial Sciences in 1983 in Antwerp (BE) and finalized a degree in Monumental Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (BE) in 2013. He has thirty years of experience in telecommunication system development, innovation, and research. His research work, at Nokia Bell Labs Antwerp Belgium, focused on future media and communication tools for the creative networked society (application and interaction research, IOT, user participation, etc.). He likes to combine his multidisciplinary skills of being artist, engineer, and creativity coach to enhance the creative process. He co-authored an extensive set of papers and patents. He is a big fan of DIY culture and online learning programs. The overall moto in his work is: “share your creativity”.

Sandy Claes

Sandy Claes is a design researcher at the innovation department of the Flemish public broadcast company VRT. She holds a PhD in engineering science (2018) from the KU Leuven university in Belgium. In her research work, she focuses on the overlap between media, technology and public space. Her research work has been published at international, peer reviewed conferences concerning the human factor of interactive technologies, such as CHI and DIS. Sandy has a background as a master in audio-visual arts (2005). Her audio-visual work has been awarded on several international film festivals (such as I Castelli Animati in Rome, The international short film festival of Leuven), and exhibited at several international venues (such as LABoral, Madrid and Museum M, Leuven). With this mixed background of science, engineering and arts, Sandy approaches research projects from a multi disciplinary viewpoint.

Klaas Baert

Urban Hacking in 5G