Part 01 - Pitching Prototype challenges from the CERN community

• Richard Francis Morton (CERN)
• Fernando Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa (CERN)

In this session, Fernando Baltasar and Richard Morton will share the story and the lessons learned from the development of the 3D printed mask, and open the floor to hear prototyping ideas and challenges from the CERN community, exploring on how we can join forces to innovate.

Part 2 - Hands-on prototyping session (Bring your ideas!)

• Dina Longva Zimmermann
• Ole Werner

Are you ready to start prototyping? Come with or without ideas. During this hands-on session you will start building your own prototypes. You will be given a challenge and through teamwork, rapid prototyping and design thinking methods we will guide and hopefully inspire you! No materials are needed, just the willingness to get your hands dirty.

Part 3: Next step of prototypes in the real work environments

• Ole Werner
• Dina Longva Zimmermann

What is the next step once you have created your prototype? In this session, we will go deeper, moving from the purpose of prototyping to higher fidelity prototypes.

GRADE Programme

• Markus Nordberg (CERN)

Learn more about GRADE (Generic pre-R&D at IdeaSquare), a CERN research programme approved by the CERN Research Board in December 2015. Examples of projects completed under GRADE includes: Silicon photo multipliers for generic detector, the TT-PET (Thin time-of-flight PET, the Generic R&D), and HEALTH (Detectors for health and safety).

ATTRACT Programme, upcoming opportunities

• Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

This session will offer an introduction to ATTRACT, which will include a description of this EU-funded programme, what is there for CERN to profit from, and what is the role of IdeaSquare. We will also present an overview of the results achieved until now, what they mean in terms of CERN impact, and a quick overview of future developments.

Green Village

• Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

This session will present a visionary initiative linking CERN’s sustainability roadmap with industrial solutions for sustainability, the Green Village. The project offers a unique setting, a town within a town, to test and scale up early-stage innovation on-site and share technologies and know-how.

Crowd4SDG - Citizen Science for the SDGs

• Claudia Marcelloni (CERN)

Learn on how citizens can influence and help measure the initiatives to achieve the SDGs in their own community through the Crowd4SDG project. Crowd4SDG is a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action supported by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme. Through an innovation cycle called GEAR (GATHER, EVALUATE, ACCELERATE, REFINE), the transdisciplinary Crowd4SDG consortium of six partners will promote the development of citizen science projects aimed at tackling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on climate action.

Part 1: Innovation for solving wicked problems

• Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
• Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))

What do we hope the world will look like in 30 years? How have we solved challenges like hunger, poverty, and biodiversity loss? In this workshop, we will imagine just that and consider the changes we need to implement to achieve that desirable future. During the exercise, we will look at technological, social, economic, ethical, political, and environmental aspects and how they are deeply interconnected.

Part 2: How do our student programmes work and how you can take part

• Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
• Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))

In this session we will open up the possibilities for interacting with our students. Two CERN people who have been active with our students will share their experience and what they have gotten out of doing it. We will give a short overview on the collaborations we have, examples of student programmes, and the key learning outcomes we push for.

Ghost Particle screening, in presence of the director Geneva Guerin - PLEASE REGISTER

• Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
• Geneva Guerin

Please sign up for this screening so everybody who comes gets a seat :) English synopsis: Ghost Particle is a science documentary that follows international efforts to understand the origin of the universe by studying its smallest parts with some of the world’s largest experiments. Neutrinos are invisible, essentially massless particles that pass through matter like ghosts. They behave in peculiar quantum ways but their identity-changing behaviour may hold the key to unlock big questions about the origin of the universe. How then to study such elusive chameleons? Language: English with French subtitles / VO en anglais s.t. en français Based at CERN, and with visits to other major laboratories in the US and Japan, Ghost Particle offers an inside view to how some of the world’s best minds set out to do the seemingly impossible: design a machine to detect the undetectable. 6pm Getting settled, popcorn, drinks 6:15pm Welcome words and introduction to film 6:30 Film projection 7:30pm-8pm Discussion with film director Geneva Guerin

Put your ideas in motion through the embodiment methodology

• Tuuli Maria Utriainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))
• Romain Muller (CERN)

In this workshop we will have a short introduction and practice to embodiment, exploring the question: how does the way we move influence the way we think? We will also share what have we learned in inviting more than 600 students into embodiment practices in the context of Challenge Based Innovation at IdeaSquare. Finally we will invite you to experiment the methodology and give us feed-back on the practice.

Capture Your Innovation Process

• Oday Darwich

Join us at the IdeaSquare Open Doors for a thought-provoking talk by Oday Darwich on the significance of documentation in innovation and research. Discover the power of documentation in driving collaboration and problem-solving, and learn how AI is enhancing the process to maximise its impact. Learn about SDG.InnProgress.ch, a user-friendly documentation solution that makes documenting the creation process easier and more engaging. Let's unlock the full potential of our collective knowledge for a brighter future.

Science Gateway Campus

• Francois Briard (CERN)

Discover what is in store for you at the new Science Gateway Campus and what activities will be available at the main auditorium, labs, and exhibits, for the visitors.

Hackathons and Interactive workshops - Perks and Perils of behind the scenes

• Neal David Hartman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
• Andrew Robert Purcell (CERN)

Learn from seasoned organizers what works and what is better to avoid while planning and organizing a hackathon, a festival, or an interactive workshop. Neal Hartman, Director of the CineGlobe Film Festival at CERN and Andrew Purcell, who has contributed to the organisation of many CERN openlab events, CERN Alumni events and several editions of the CERN Webfest, will talk about their experience accumulated over the years and draw lessons learned from them. After the presentations take place, we will open for an innovation session, where you can bring your own ideas and challenges for the event you might have ahead, and we will help you conceive it.

Need a hand organising your next event/workshop/hackathon?

• Claudia Marcelloni (CERN)

Set up on a world cafe style, you are invited to bring over your challenges in organizing your next event, workshop and hackathon and our panelists, and the IdeaSquare team will help you brainstorm creative solutions.

Coffee papers: Framing the future of physics collaborations together

• Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
• Tuuli Maria Utriainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

In this session we will come together to explore: What kind of inventions might disrupt physics collaborations and bring them to the next level? We will run a thought experiment in teams to create hands on ideas – some of which might form coffee papers. Winning team gets a special prize, so don't miss out!