Events

On 23 and 24 November 2024 participants of a 24-hour-long „Planet-On Quantum & AI Hackathon for Greener Future” faced the challenges of stopping the climate changes. The event was organised by PSNC Future Labs, Lawyers Association of Wielkopolska and AQT. The Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management was the patron of the competition.

The lasting effect of information was the theme of the third edition of Digitization in Museums Conference and the accompanying discussion forum. The event took place in the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw on 21 and 22 November 2024. Błażej Betański from the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department of PSNC represented the our Center, elaborating on ECHOES – a platform enabling cooperation in the field of cultural heritage.

104 countries, 42 000 viewers, and 23 surgeries performed in 10 of the best European medical centers – these are the numbers from the 9th edition of the European Laryngological Live Surgery Broadcast, organized in cooperation with the European Laryngological Society, the Poznań Academy of Applied Sciences, PSNC, and the Health and Social Affairs Department of the City of Poznań.

PSNC premiered its own original data access system EOSC EU NODE (European Open Science Cloud EU NODE) during the SC24 conference in Atlanta. The conference is well-known for HPC, cloud, computing and data access solutions galore presented there on a yearly basis. The PSNC system constitutes the very first node dedicated entirely to the European Commission’s open scientific data project (EOSC).

On 19 November 2024 École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne hosted the Time Machine Synergy Summit 2024. Time Machine Organisation, which is responsible for this event, focuses its interest and activities on projects concerning technology, science and, most importantly, cultural heritage. PSNC’s Tomasz Parkoła – Head of Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department was representing our Center at this year’s Summit with his presentation on DARIAH-HUB Poland project.

Quantum computing offers huge opportunities to the research and education (R&E) community as well as to commercial enterprise. Quantum computers have the power to tackle problems far beyond the current reach of classical computing, from simulating complex protein folding and predicting meteorological phenomena to modelling financial systems.

PSNC presented the agrifoodTEF project during the very first edition of BIOAGRO Poland International Trade Fair for Technologies and Products of Organic Agriculture. The Fair took place in Warsaw between 13 and 15 October 2024.

On 7 November 2024 PSNC took part in the Digital Research Tool Fair in Kraków, where one could get acquainted with the Center’s offer concerning both original tools and services designed for digital humanities.

On 29 October 2024, Warsaw hosted the Congress of Effective Communication, organized by the Polish Language Foundation. During the expert panel Jarosław Liberek, PhD (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Tomasz Hoffman, PhD (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center) presented “Proste pismo” (Simple Writing) – a universal tool for simplifying complex written texts, which had been created as a result of cooperation between the Poznań City Hall, Adam Mickiewicz University and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

Poznań artists Jan Skorupa (Art&Science PSNC Future Labs) and Przemysław Degórski invite you to the presentation of their new promenade installation, which will be a part of the exhibition “700 Steps About Tomorrow…”. The event is going to take place on 17 November 2024 at the Municipal Center of Culture, Sports and Recreation in Przecław.

This year’s SC24 – The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis will take place in Atlanta, USA from 17-22 November 2024. The Georgia World Congress Center, one of the largest convention centres in the world, will be the venue for meetings, talks and inspiring presentations at the conference and the accompanying exhibition.

On 14 and 15 October 2024, Barcelona hosted the Synergy Days conference, considered to be the most important gathering of digital innovators in the European agri-food industry. The international community centered around the Smart Agri Hubs project came together to share knowledge and experience. Raul Palma, PhD – Head of Data Analytics and Semantics Department at PSNC, and Marcin Płóciennik – Head of the Internet of Things Technology Department at PSNC were the attendees representing our Center.