IdeaSquare Open Doors!

Europe/Zurich
CERN

CERN

CERN IdeaSquare
Claudia Marcelloni (CERN), Jimmy Poulaillon (Universite de Geneve (CH))
Description

Open Doors event for the internal CERN community | Feb 15 – 16

Discover what the Innovation Space at CERN offers and how you can get involved

On 15 and 16 February, IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, will open its doors for you to explore how to make the most of our facilities. IdeaSquare is a rapid prototyping and multipurpose innovation space at CERN, freely accessible to members of the CERN community. 

 

Over two days, you will be able to visit the facility, interact with the team and those using the space, and hear presentations about all of our activities, from prototyping to education and entrepreneurship. Prototype expo and tours of the space, including a Holodeck experience and an activity from AddictLab, will be available all day, both days. In addition, we will show the film Ghost Particle in presence of the director on the 15 February at 18:00; REGISTRATION NECESSARY ONLY FOR THE MOVIE DUE TO LIMITED SPACE

Below a glimpse of what is in the store for you; for a more detailed agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1148809/timetable/#day-2023-02-15

 

Let’s prototype; bring your challenges!

If you are interested in getting to know the prototyping possibilities at CERN IdeaSquare, this session is for you. During this short introduction, you will become familiar with our facility, the tools, and workshops we can offer as well as the active community of the space. Dina, one of the new members of the IdeaSquare team, will run a hands-on prototyping session tackling ideas from your work through teamwork, rapid prototyping, and design thinking methods to guide and inspire you! In addition, Fernando Baltazar, one of the engineers behind the 3D-printed mask project, will discuss prototype challenges from the CERN community and how we can join forces to innovate. 

 

Find out about Green Village, ATTRACT, and Citizen Science initiatives.  

We will discuss how IdeaSquare can support early-stage initiatives in Detection & Imaging and how they can connect to ATTRACT or other EU-funded programmes like the citizen science Crowd4SDG initiative. We will also 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.

 

Get inspired by the methodology of our educational programmes. 

This interactive session, composed of a short exercise and a presentation, is dedicated to those wanting to discover what the students visiting IdeaSquare do all day and how we inspire them to think differently. Bring your curious brain to learn and reframe your thinking while having fun. 

Deep dive into Science Gateway and the interactive events at IdeaSquare; we can help you design yours!

Learn from seasoned organizers what works and what is better to avoid while planning and organizing a hackathon, a festival, or a workshop.  Neal Hartman, Director of the CineGlobe Film Festival at CERN, Martin Gastal, organiser of "CMS and LHC Create," and Andrew Purcell, who has contributed to the organisation of many CERN openlab events, CERN Alumni events and several editions of the CERN Webfest, talk about their experience accumulated over the years and draw lessons from them. We will also help those in the audience with drafting their events.

In Addition, Francois Briard, Head of CERN's Visitor and Events Operations, will tell us what is in store for you at the forthcoming Science Gateway.

Put your ideas in motion through embodiment and the CIJ Journal.

We will explore practices and studies from Experimental Innovation with the IdeaSquare team members. Tuuli and Romain will present how our movement influences our thinking and share what they have learned in inviting more than 600 students into embodiment practices and then invite you to experiment. Then Catarina will present some thought-provoking, contemporary findings in experimental innovation research published in the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ).

 

Get real; chat with CEOs and other CERN colleagues about their inventions.

Have you ever thought your CERN invention would do great business? In this session, you will learn from CERN scientists who have gone on to be successful entrepreneurs with the support of IdeaSquare and KT. Hear from: Markus Aichler, a former CERN Fellow, on how he translated his fundamental physics knowledge into a renewable energy start-up; how Eduardo Granados created Qubik Photon; or how Aoi Senju and Philip Seifi created Colabra, an electronic notebook that works for scientists. In addition, throughout both days, we will showcase prototypes developed at IdeaSquare by our colleagues from Dune, Clear, ATTRACT,  ATLAS, CMS, ISOLDE and more. 

 

 

Registration
Registration for the Ghost Particle Screening
Claudia Marcelloni and Jimmy Poulaillon
  • Wednesday, 15 February
    • 09:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Claudia Marcelloni
    • 09:00
      Let’s prototype; bring your challenges!

      If you are interested in getting to know the prototyping possibilities at CERN IdeaSquare, this session is for you. During this short introduction, you will become familiar with our facility, the tools, and workshops we can offer as well as the active community of the space. Dina, one of the new members of the IdeaSquare team, will run a hands-on prototyping session tackling ideas from your work through teamwork, rapid prototyping, and design thinking methods to guide and inspire you! In addition, Fernando Baltazar, one of the engineers behind the 3D-printed mask project, will discuss prototype challenges from the CERN community and how we can join forces to innovate.

    • 1
      Part 01 - Pitching Prototype challenges from the CERN community

      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.

      Speakers: Fernando Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa (CERN), Mr Richard Francis Morton (CERN)
    • 2
      Part 2 - Hands-on prototyping session (Bring your ideas!)

      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.

      Speakers: Dina Longva Zimmermann, Ole Werner
    • 10:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Pablo Garcia Tello
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 3
      Part 3: Next step of prototypes in the real work environments

      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.

      Speakers: Dina Longva Zimmermann, Ole Werner
    • 11:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Catarina Batista
    • 11:15
      Find out about Green Village, ATTRACT, and Citizen Science initiatives.

      We will discuss how IdeaSquare can support early-stage initiatives in Detection & Imaging and how they can connect to ATTRACT or other EU-funded programmes like the citizen science Crowd4SDG initiative. We will also 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.

    • 4
      GRADE Programme

      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).

      Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)
    • 5
      ATTRACT Programme, upcoming opportunities

      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.

      Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)
    • 12:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Laura Wirtavuori
    • 6
      Green Village

      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.

      Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)
    • 7
      Crowd4SDG - Citizen Science for the SDGs

      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.

      Speaker: Claudia Marcelloni (CERN)
    • 12:50
      Sandwich Lunch at IdeaSquare
    • 13:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Ole Werner
    • Workshop by AddictLab - who are you, really?

      Come by the Addictlab table and play the profiling and ideation game. You will be profiling yourself, your skills, profession, yet also your passion and drive, using a unique tool developed at the Addictlab Academy and fine tuned over the past 25 years.
      Over 145 creative disciplines, 76 character cards and a box dedicated to the Sustainable Development goals will help you to profile yourself, and see how you can be a match for other people and projects at Ideasquare.
      Coming in as a group?
      Announce yourself as a group, and play the profiling game using the same tools to see if you can find a match between each other.

    • 13:55
      The thinking we need to save the world - what our students learn

      This session, composed of a workshop and a presentation, is dedicated to those wanting to experience what the students visiting IdeaSquare do and how we inspire them to think differently. Bring your curious brain to learn and reframe your thinking while having fun.

    • 14:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Dina Zimmermann
    • 8
      Part 1: Innovation for solving wicked problems

      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.

      Speakers: Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI)), Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
    • 15:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Markus Nordberg
    • 9
      Part 2: How do our student programmes work and how you can take part

      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.

      Speakers: Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI)), Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
    • 15:45
      Want to be a part of what we do? Coffee, snacks, and stories from CERNies

      Time for open discussion on how you could contribute (or just have coffee and snacks)

    • 10
      Ghost Particle screening, in presence of the director Geneva Guerin - PLEASE REGISTER

      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

      Speakers: Geneva Guerin, Laura Wirtavuori (Helsinki University of Technology (FI))
  • Thursday, 16 February
    • 09:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Claudia Marcelloni
    • 09:00
      Welcome Coffee
    • 11
      Put your ideas in motion through the embodiment methodology

      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.

      Speakers: Romain Muller (CERN), Tuuli Maria Utriainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))
    • 10:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Dina Zimmermann
    • 12
      Capture Your Innovation Process

      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.

      Speaker: Oday Darwich
    • 10:30
      Want to learn more? Coffee!
    • 11:00
      Deep dive into Science Gateway and the interactive events at IdeaSquare; we can help you design yours!

      Learn from 2 seasoned organizers what works and what is better to avoid while planning and organizing a hackathon, a festival, or a workshop. Martin Gastal, organiser of "CMS and LHC Create," and Andrew Purcell, who has contributed to the organisation of many CERN openlab events, CERN Alumni events and several editions of the CERN Webfest, talk about their experience accumulated over the years and draw lessons from them. We will also help those in the audience with drafting their events. In Addition, Francois Briard, Head of CERN's Visitor and Events Operations, will tell us what is in store for you at the forthcoming Science Gateway.

    • 11:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Laura Wirtavuori
    • 13
      Science Gateway Campus

      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.

      Speaker: Francois Briard (CERN)
    • 14
      Hackathons and Interactive workshops - Perks and Perils of behind the scenes

      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.

      Speakers: Andrew Robert Purcell (CERN), Neal David Hartman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
    • 12:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Catarina Batista
    • 15
      Need a hand organising your next event/workshop/hackathon?

      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.

      Speaker: Claudia Marcelloni (CERN)
    • 12:30
      Sandwhich Lunch at IdeaSquare
    • 13:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Pablo Garcia Tello
    • Workshop by AddictLab - who are you, really?

      Come by the Addictlab table and play the profiling and ideation game. You will be profiling yourself, your skills, profession, yet also your passion and drive, using a unique tool developed at the Addictlab Academy and fine tuned over the past 25 years.
      Over 145 creative disciplines, 76 character cards and a box dedicated to the Sustainable Development goals will help you to profile yourself, and see how you can be a match for other people and projects at Ideasquare.
      Coming in as a group?
      Announce yourself as a group, and play the profiling game using the same tools to see if you can find a match between each other.

    • 13:30
      Experimental innovation studies from around the world

      From “Harnessing butterflies” to “Soap bubbles and flying to the moon”, what might these kinds of contributions have to do with innovation? Come and listen to some of the thought-provoking, contemporary findings in experimental innovation research published at the IdeaSquare Experimental innovation journal, CIJ.

    • 16
      Coffee papers: Framing the future of physics collaborations together

      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!

      Speakers: Catarina Batista (Helsinki University of Technology (FI)), Tuuli Maria Utriainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))
    • 14:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Ole Werner
    • 14:40
      Continuing the conversation over more hot beverages
    • 15:00
      Discover IdeaSquare with Markus Nordberg
    • 17
      Get real; chat with CEOs

      Have you ever thought your CERN invention would do great business? In this session, you will learn from CERN scientists who have gone on to be successful entrepreneurs with the support of IdeaSquare and KT. Hear from: Markus Aichler, a former CERN Fellow, on how he translated his fundamental physics knowledge into a renewable energy start-up; how Eduardo Grandos is exploring commercialisation of his invention; or how Aoi Senju and Philip Seifi created Colabra, an electronic notebook that works for scientists.

      3 PM to 3.30 PM – Speaker: Ash Ravikumar
      CERN Venture Connect (CVC) – Deep tech startup program from CERN

      3.30 PM to 4.15 PM – Speaker: Eduardo Granados
      Inventor of Single Frequency Raman Laser. Interesting in creating a startup based on this technology

      4.15 PM to 5 PM – Speaker: Markus Aichler
      CEO and founder of Solidwatts. Overview of an Ex-CERN scientist turned to entrepreneur and his journey so far

      5PM – 6 PM – Startup founders

      Speakers: Ash Ravikumar, Eduardo Granados (CERN), Markus Aichler