Holst Memorial Lecture 2022

Date
Thursday April 21, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Location
Blauwe zaal
Organizer
Conferences
Co-organizer
Philips Research and Signify
Price
Free
Building
Auditorium

Welcome

Welcome on the event website of Holst Symposium and Holst Memorial Lecture Award 2022.

The Holst Memorial Lecture and Symposium are organized by Philips Research, Signify Research and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This year’s Holst Lecture, the 44th since 1977, will be given by Dr. Michael Grieves. Dr. Michael Grieves is an internationally renowned expert on Digital Twins, a concept that he originated, and organizational digital transformation. His focus is on product development, engineering, systems engineering and complex systems, manufacturing, especially additive manufacturing, and operational sustainment

Program

09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:35 Word of welcome (Symposium): Frank Baaijens
09:35 - 10:00 Introduction to Symposium Theme and Program
10:00 - 10:30 Laura Tenenbaum (incl. 10 min Q&A)
10:30 - 11:00 Ahmed El Adl (incl. 10 min Q&A)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Erwin Rademaker (incl. 10 min Q&A)
12:00 - 12:45 Panel discussion Chair (Where is DT Heading?)
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:45 Selection of demo's (TU/e, Philips, Signify)
14:45 - 15:15 Marco Viceconti (incl. 10 minutes Q&A)
15:15 - 15:30 Wrap Up and Conclusion
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:15 Word of welcome (Memorial Lecture) and introduction Michael Grieves: Henk van Houten
16:15 - 17:00 Holst Memorial Lecture Michael Grieves
17:00 - 17:10 Award Ceremony: Geert Depovere
17:10 - 18:15 Reception and drinks

 

Holst Symposium: Digital Twinning

The Holst Symposium will be a live and interactive (networking) event and bring together specialists and students from varied disciplines from both the academic and the business world who will be challenged to present their views on future developments of Digital Twinning in their field. The selection of invited speakers is based on topics with the potential to inspire. The Holst symposium will consist of (concise) lectures, presentations, panel discussion and demo’s and will be concluded by the Holst Memorial Lectureand an Award Ceremony.

Digital Twinning is gaining importance across disciplines in the Brainport Eindhoven Eco System. Not only in Science and Research, but also in Manufacturing, Industrial and Healthcare applications and Urban Planning. Digital Twinning is closely connected to relevant topics like the Internet of Things, Connected Nodes, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Industry 4.0, Hospital 4.0, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Smart Mobility. Due to COVID19 measures, the Holst Memorial Lecture 2020 was postponed to 2022.

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

''Using code to understand climate because there aren't any spare Earths''
Because there are no spare Earths, climate scientists use complex computer simulations as numerical laboratories to conduct experiments. Like an experiment run in the lab, these Global Climate Models that simulate Earth’s conditions as precisely as possible, are so complex that a single run on super computers can take up to a year.

Laura Faye Tenenbaum is an award-winning globally recognized innovator in science and climate communication. She is the former Senior Science Editor of NASA’s Global Climate Change website where she reported on sea level rise, ice mass loss, climate modeling, anthropogenic climate forcing and regional climate impacts. She was chosen to travel to Greenland multiple times with NASA suborbital campaigns to report on new research into the rate of ice mass loss around Greenland’s coastline being studied for the first time.

Tenenbaum has been an adjunct professor in the Physical Science Department at Glendale Community College for 13 years. She also wrote, produced and edited an oceanography video series to accompany Pearson Higher Education’s Essentials of Oceanography textbook.

She combines personality, emotionality and a sense of humor with scientific expertise and can translate complex technical scientific jargon into language the public can comprehend without compromising scientific accuracy or nuance. Her goal is to foster a motivated and enthusiastic science literate society that will be ready to take on the huge environmental challenges we face.
Tenenbaum lived in Southeast Asia and travelled extensively, which informed, shaped and influenced her perspectives and worldview. She has a MS degree in Marine Science and taught SCUBA in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.

Erwin Rademaker

Port of Rotterdam follows an object-oriented Digital Twin approach to offer a modular, extensible and future-proof foundation to build upon. The Digital Twin is based on the realization that all processes in the port share the same objects across various business units and that the Digital Twin must represent these objects holistically across business units. These objects represent the same physical elements that have been used for hundreds of years, from ships, to waterways, quay walls, cranes and roadways. In the future, these infrastructure components will be complemented with Digital Twins that allow analysis of their past, current, and future states.

Erwin Rademaker (1966) has an educational background in Public Law, Business Information Management and APICS. After joining Port of Rotterdam in 2002, he worked within the Environmental Management, Asset Management, Port Development and Digital & IT departments of Port of Rotterdam. Currently, Erwin is working on long term or Horizon-3 innovations and complex concepts like the Digital Twin, Container 42 and the Energy Transition. Erwin is a national and international award-winning executive project- and programme manager. Besides his work at Port of Rotterdam, Erwin is a published writer, an international street photographer, a documentary maker and an artist.

Dr. Ahmed El Adl

''The case for “Cognitive Digital Twin”: How Cognitive Digital Twin, Cognitive Digital Thread and Cognitive Digital Swarm can solve major problems facing the design and implementation of smarter products and solutions.'' The values of adopting the current concept and capabilities of the Digital Twin are becoming obvious. However, the rate of success is still low. We believe that this is due to the dominating misunderstanding around key concepts of Digital Twin. Most importantly, the current architectural principals don’t solve key problems such as Data contextualization, AI-powered comprehension, collaboration, as well as interoperability resulting in failing to achieve the expected results.

In this presentation, we’ll introduce the proposed three concepts: The Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT), Cognitive Digital Thread (CT), and Cognitive Digital Swarm (CDS). We’ll build the case for moving from traditional Digital Twin architecture to a cognitive architecture that can continuously learn. Also, we’ll discuss how the CT would continuously provide the right data at the right time in the right context. Finally, we’ll discuss how CDS would leverage the concept of “Swarm Intelligence” to achieve higher level of cognitive capabilities and Twins collaboration.
Dr. El Adl is a global leader in digital technologies innovation and intelligent systems. Over the last 20+ years, Dr. El Adl held different senior leadership positions with global software and top 5 global technology consulting companies in Germany and the USA. He built, grew, and led global teams that built new generation of intelligent technologies, solutions, and smart machines for different industries.

In 2016 and in collaboration with MIT, he coined the concept of “Cognitive Digital Twin - CDT”, “Cognitive Digital Thread” and “Cognitive Digital Swarm” expanding the core concept of Digital Twin. Also, he published the first paper highlighting his vision, architecture, and key use cases.

Currently, he is advising the US federal government in leveraging the concepts of CDT in equipment operational and Human performance planning, monitoring, and optimization. Additionally, he is a board member and Chief Digital Officer of multiple startups in the USA focusing on using AI/ML, IoT and Cognitive Digital Twin to drive innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Drug & Diseases research, Electric Vehicle, Smart Cities Infrastructure, OEE, and Smart Manufacturing.
Mr. El Adl has Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI/Computer Vision) from the Technical University of Budapest and Post Doc. in AI and Robotics (University of Ulm, Germany).

From Digital Twins in healthcare to the Human Digital Twin: pushing the boundaries of In Silico Medicine

The vision of a digital replica of the human body, which accounted for all its physiological functions, originates in the Physiome Project, which started in the early 90s.  Europe followed in the mid-2000 with the Virtual Physiological Human initiative, which aimed to finalise such digital replicas to the support of clinical decisions (Digital Patient).  This paved the way to the first generation of Digital Twin in healthcare, specialised patient-specific computer models that would predict quantities difficult or impossible to measure, but essential to guide the decision of the clinical management of that patient.  Today Digital Twin in healthcare remain an important research subject, but they are also an industrial reality with dozens of products already certified for clinical use.  But current solutions all pursue some low-hanging fruit: specific clinical decisions where the process to be modelled can be reasonably be confined to a particular organ, tissue, or cell.  But many clinically relevant problems show a high level of entanglement, where the disease process involves multiple organ system, and manifest across multiple space-time scales.  With the current approaches, developing Digital Twin solutions targeting such problems is prohibitively complex. We need to go back to the roots and think to a more systematic approach to the modelling of the human body, that we call the Human Digital Twin.

Short CV of Prof Marco Viceconti

Marco Viceconti is full professor of Industrial Bioengineering in the department of Industrial Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, and Director of the Medical Technology Lab of the Rizzoli Institute.  Before he was at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he founded and led for seven years the prestigious Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the World Council of Biomechanics, and he was recently awarded the Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics. During his career Prof Viceconti published a single-author book, various book chapters, and over 350 papers (H-index = 52), mostly on in silico medicine, the use of computer modelling and simulation to support clinical decision-making, and to develop and derisk new medical products. He led the writing of the seminal Europhysiome roadmap that introduced the concept of the Virtual Physiological Human, founded the VPH Institute, an international no-profit organisation that coordinates this research community, and drove the creation of the Avicenna Alliance, which represent the biomedical industry interests in this domain. For 25 years he has been a passionate evangelist of Digital Twins in healthcare, and now he enjoys seeing this vision becoming an industrial reality.

44th Holst Memorial Lecture Award

This year’s Holst Lecture will be the 44th since 1977.The nominated Holst Lecturer will join the ranks of eminent scientists and Nobel laureates like Philippe de Gennes, Hendrik Casimir, Ilya Prigogine, Arno Penzias, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Heeger, J. Craig Venter and Shuji Nakamura. The first Holst Memorial Lecture was given in 1977 to commemorate the 21st anniversary of TU/e, Eindhoven University of Technology. With support from Philips Research, and (since 2018) Signify, the Holst Lecture became an annual tradition. Candidates for the Award are selected by a committee under the chairmanship of the Rector Magnificus of the TU/e, the CTO of Royal Philips and the CEO Research of Signify.

Gilles Holst

The general theme chosen for the Holst Memorial Lecture reflects the important contribution of dr. Gilles Holst (1886-1968) to research and technology in the Netherlands: ‘the development of applied sciences, particularly mathematics and the natural sciences, for the benefit of industry on the one side and their implications for society on the other.’ In his academic career Holst played an essential part in the discovery of superconductivity by Nobel Laureate H. Kamerlingh Onnes, whilst working at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. However, Gilles Holst will be first and foremost remembered as the founding director of the famous ‘Nat Lab’, the Philips Physics Laboratory in Eindhoven, where he worked between 1914 and 1946. During his lifetime, Gilles Holst was chairman of two committees that were instrumental in the foundation ofc Eindhoven University of Technology in 1956.

Eindhoven region

The Eindhoven Region, often referred to as Brainport Eindhoven http://brainporteindhoven.com/ is Europe's leading innovative top technology region and home to Royal Philips, Signify, NXP semiconductors and ASML. Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has according to Times Higher Education World University Ranking the highest score for collaboration with industry in the filed of academic and scientific research. One of TU/e distinguished emeriti was Edsger W. Dijkstra, one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation and Turing Award winner 1972.

Award winning speaker

After the Lecture, the rector magnificus will present the Holst Memorial Lecturer with the Holst Memorial Lecture Award, a honorary medal designed by Dutch sculptor Jos Reniers. To honor the laureate, a dinner with speakers, Management of Philips Research and TU/e and the Scientific Committee will be organized.

Dr. Michael Grieves

''Digital Twins: Driving 21st Century Transformation''Digital Twin development is driving the transformation of today’s organizations and beyond. Enabled by the rapid advances in Information technology, Digital Twins are the implementation of moving work from the physical world into the virtual world. They are intended to both replace and mirror the events of physical world and provide a probabilistic window into the future.
By substituting information for physical resources, Digital Twins drive more effective and efficient decisions. Digital Twins are being proposed and considered for a wide variety of industries and many aspects of human activity. Critical to the adoption and success of Digital Twin is understanding what are Digital Twins and their virtual environment, their use over the entire lifecycle of their physical counterparts, and their potential and challenges. If Digital Twins continue on their current trajectory, they promise to transform not only industries but many aspects of society at large.

Dr. Michael Grieves is an internationally renowned expert on Digital Twins, a concept that he originated, and organizational digital transformation. His focus is on product development, engineering, systems engineering and complex systems, manufacturing, especially additive manufacturing, and operational sustainment. Dr. Grieves has written the seminal books on Product Lifecycle Management and the seminal papers and chapters on Digital Twins, He has consulted and/or done research at some of the top global organizations, including NASA, Boeing, Unilever, Newport News Shipbuilding, and General Motors.
In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Grieves has over five decades of extensive executive and deep technical experience in both global and entrepreneurial technology and manufacturing companies. He has been a senior executive at both Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial organizations during his career. He founded and took public a national systems integration company and subsequently served as its audit and compensation committee chair. Dr. Grieves has substantial board experience, including serving on the boards of public companies in the United States, China, and Japan.
Dr. Grieves earned his B.S. Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA from Oakland University, and his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.

History of Holst Memorial Lecture

The first Holst Memorial Lecture was held in 1977 to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. With support from Philips Research, the Holst Lecture became an annual tradition. An eminent scientist is invited to deliver the lecture to an audience consisting of university staff, students, representatives from industry and other guests with a general interest in science and technology. The general theme chosen for these lectures reflects the important contribution of Dr. Gilles Holst to research and technology in the Netherlands: ‘the development of applied sciences, particularly mathematics and the natural sciences, for the benefit of industry on the one side and their implications for society on the other.’

Gilles Holst

In his own academic career Gilles Holst (1886-1968) played an important part in the discovery of superconductivity by Nobel Laureate H. Kamerlingh Onnes, whilst working at the University of Leiden. However, Gilles Holst will be first and foremost remembered as the founding director of the famous ‘Nat Lab’, the Philips Physics Laboratory in Eindhoven, where he worked between 1914 and 1946. Dr. Holst also was chairman of two committees that were instrumental in establishing the
second Dutch university of technology in Eindhoven in 1956.

Holst Memorial Lecture Award

After delivering the Holst lecture, the speaker will receive the Holst memorial Lecture Award, an artist medal designed by Dutch Master sculptor Jos Reniers. Candidates for the Award are selected by a committee under the joint chairmanship of Frank Baaijens, Rector Magnificus of the TU/e, Geert Depovere of Signify Research, and Henk van Houten, CTO Royal Philips. The 2022 scientific committee consists of Ger Janssen (Philips) Marc de Samber (Signify Research), Geneviève Martin (Signify), Dujuan Yang (TU/e), Johan Lukkien (TU/e), Nathan van de Wouw (TU/e), and Ton Koonen (TU/e). Secretary to both committees is Joep Huiskamp (TU/e).

Directions & Venue

The Holst Symposium and Holst Memorial Lecture will take place in the Auditorium building of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Auditorium (Building 1), Conference room (Plenary): Blauwe Zaal
5612 AJ Eindhoven

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Parking
You can drive by car to TU/e. Set your navigation system on the address De Zaale, Eindhoven.
P1 is the nearest parking. Parking rate is € 7,50 for a full day.

After arriving at Eindhoven Central Train Station
You can reach the Auditorium building (number 1 on the map) in 10 minutes by foot from the Eindhoven Central Station.
When arriving at Eindhoven railway (NS) station you leave the platform, turn right at the bottom of the stairs and walk to the exit on the north side of the bus station. Continue 25 meters diagonally to the right and you see TU/e Campus at some eight minutes walking distance. Cross the road at the traffic lights and follow the waving footpath to TU/e Campus. The track on the right side, Prof. Dr. Dorgelolaan, is suited for wheelchair users.
When arriving on TU/e Campus you follow the signposting for pedestrians

When you arrive at the Auditorium building, enter the 'congres ingang' and follow the signs to the conference desk for registration.