 Hi everyone, my name is Elder Sozo and I'm here today to talk about a little about something related to innovation. As you may know this cost action as an innovation committee and therefore this presentation tends to give you a brief overview about the mission of this innovation committee and what this innovation committee can offer to you in terms of supporting your ideas, your innovations let's say. So this presentation is organized as follows. So I will just brief reference to what is innovation in terms of concept and also what is also an innovation committee. Okay, after that I will also talk about the innovation committee of this cost action, how it is structured and what is let's say the focus and main responsibilities that we are thinking to implement during this cost action. And finally I will try to show an application. This is just a simple trial to show to you how this could work during this cost action. Okay, let's start with the concepts. Okay, so in terms of concept I think that according to the European Commission it says that innovation is something that has value to markets, governments and society by the creation of new or significantly improved products, process, marketing and organization. So at this stage I will say that innovation is not restricted to products, it's more than that. Let's give an example for example. Let's think about the new sensor, let's say a fiber optic sensor high tech that is able to reduce uncertainty. But we could think larger, let's say that the sensor allied to an algorithm supported let's say by the value of information theory could lead to some output that could improve asset management. So here we have a process since the sensor, the data and the extraction of useful information. And in fact if you have a very good idea perhaps this can have potential for a new business model. So you can explore this idea in terms of marketing. And finally perhaps if you think about the bridge owner for example that is responsible to do the visual inspection of his bridges, perhaps he's interested to enlarge his departments in terms of including also the structure of monitoring individual inspections to support asset management. So I think this is something in terms of a process that is highly dynamic that it starts with ideas, can be an idea, an invention, an opportunity that if you have a good idea you will definitely start seeking something that is related to a product, a service or a business model. And if you get to that stage perhaps you go to the market level, so perhaps you will start to commercialize your product. And if you are well succeeded perhaps after a certain time you will start monitoring the behavior of your new business model. And perhaps you have new opportunities and perhaps you have a cycle here from. So I will say that innovation is something that is endless and it's highly dynamic. What I put here is something that in my understanding is the key words about innovation, this concept. We have innovation, we have entrepreneurship and we have dissemination. And what about the innovation committee? So we are talking about innovation. Let's try now also to try to define a little bit what is an innovation committee. I went to study about this when I started this and I think the key message and I think this is very important is that the innovation committee should be a neighbor of good ideas. So innovation committee is not responsible to have ideas. The innovation committee is responsible to promote ideas of everyone. Also to create value, so supporting building collaborations, support intellectual property. And also to foster a culture of innovation. So this is also something that we need to push a little bit to in our research, in our interaction with the industry we should foster this culture of innovation. I think also in this construction is also important to highlight importance of the guidance and recommendations. So this innovation committee in this construction will have an important mission in these recommendations. And also how to do this? Well, perhaps we could promote competitions for teams seeking for the best ideas that could be flourishing in this construction. And also activities like innovation days or seminars. And I also think and based on the presentations that were presented today, I think it's also important to get the feedback from industry. So based on my experience with a bridge owner, it's very, very important to call them to this discussion in order to get their confidence in ACGEM technologies. You understand a little bit how they see ACGEM. And finally, I would say that once this cost action, hence, we should disseminate the knowledge that was in meantime acquired. But more important than that is that could last over time and behind the timeframe of this cost action. Well, what about what is defined in the memorandum of understanding of this cost action? I think it is that the innovation committee advises the steering committee in conjunction with the advisory board in regard to the dissemination of innovations related to the new technologies, mythologies and applications, towers, let's say, resource efficiency, productivity, robustness, reliability. And therefore, advising the dissemination of activities focusing on structures and infrastructure systems by optimizing ACGEM systems. Well, taking this definition and taking what I presented before, it's my understanding that we have here three main pillars that could be innovation, entrepreneurship and dissemination. So that cycle that I presented. And for each one, we should try to promote some activities focusing on each pillar. Besides that, this should have some interaction because this is embedded in a cycle. And perhaps we should also be aware that this innovation committee should be responsible for driving the entire process by providing guidance and help, reviewing its performance by periodic monitoring and developing the capacity to innovate at it last over time. I think that this structure, it's a nice way to present something that the innovation committee should try to promote near review and try to support the innovation culture. So the question now is how we could do this during this cost action? I tried to present you an example, very simple. So this is very draft. So what I present here is a table that I developed. So based in the memory of understanding, I put here for each working group what are the aims and also what are the proposed approaches for each aim. So let's, for example, pick one of them. So for working group one, it says that one of the aims is to formulate the value of information problems on real world applications. And the approach that is suggested is deriving a generic classification and representation of the different decision situations. So my question here is what the innovation committee could suggest to help this mission. So perhaps if you repeat again that table, I will try to put there the focus, which will be one of those pilars, and what should be recommendations under that pile. So perhaps in this case could be under the pile of innovation. And perhaps we could promote some brainstorm sessions during the working group one meetings by bringing together a wide range of experts in order to define that categorization of the real case applications. So this is a simple example of what we could think about it. But this could now be enlarged to all working groups and with the direct collaboration of the working group leaders. So I have to present a video just, I would like to show that about innovation. So this is a very pedagogic example that I did during my PhD. And this is about a live load tool that is able to present live loads, traffic load detections with some video streams. So what I want to show just to explain here is that we have here a video. This is the Mozilla Bridge in Portugal. We have here two spans. And in the mid span, we have a strain gauge here and another one here that is being acquired with a high frequency. So it is able to detect the passage of the vehicles. Okay. We have here a stream live. Here we have is a time history. And in the middle here is some information that we could extract from this time series of the strain gauges, like the loading, the velocity, the travel direction just to explain. So I will present this. Let's show. Okay. Sorry, this is in Portuguese some labels. So what you see here is a first vehicle crossing. And we see that the loads are detected in the peaks of the streams. And there is another law of another vehicle crossing the first span. It was detected in the second span. It was detected in the second sensor. So it's just to show an example of we could try to present to a bridge owner what kind of information could extract from ACHM. Now I would like to interact with you. And perhaps like I suggested as an example of the brainstorming for that example working group one, I'd like to hear your feedback for possible recommendation activities under which pilot in terms of innovation, entrepreneurship and dissemination. I have here some recommendations, but I'd like to hear from you because this is to support your ideas or innovation. What you would expect from terms of the innovation during this cost action. Please don't be shy. So I will try to explain a little bit. How you see this innovation committee help you to support your ideas or seek information for you to develop some let's say a proposal or intellectual property or the collaboration that we have here in potential. How you see as activities that could be implemented in this cost action. It's always the impact. So the impact could tell the clients what can they expect in their domain. But what does it mean if they have one or two? Okay. So in terms of impact of what is the contribution of ACHM for a bridge owner perspective for example. For the maintenance group for example. Do I have to inspect every second year or can I understand the situation? I will try to show some examples that I was thinking to discuss. For example, I think, for example, by bringing some case studies like the previous presentation that you did, I think it's very inspiring. The cases that you present because at least we see that the real world working and you see the feedback from the industry. And I think presentations like yours are very inspiring to get some ideas or what to do what the data that we are in terms of availability. I think also, for example, the suggestion of brainstorm sessions with specific target. I think it's also very useful. For example, for each working group, if we are talking about, let's say something related to how to use. For example, my experience, for example, is that what we do with such amount of data. Nowadays we are collecting data and data and data. What we should do with that data? Should we look to it and analyze it? Should we are collecting too much data? Is data good? Is not too much data is not good? What we should do that with that? Okay. In terms of also, I think we should promote some competitions in this cost action. I think it's, for example, the contribution from all. We should try to seek, for example, in terms of the best paper or best short scientific mission or best oral presentation and try to highlight the things that people bring to you to share with us. Okay. Another activity that I will suggest, for example, is bring some sessions. As I said, innovation days by bringing, for example, some successful case studies that in some way we contributed for innovation, patent seminars, if there are some interest, and others. Another, under the other pilot entrepreneurship, some recommendations that we could explore. It's, for example, bringing here a panel of entrepreneurs to share and give lectures about their experience or entrepreneur fair by involving them, investors, innovators to present their work, chasing markets, create value, and projects. This was already mentioned here. I think we also should try to see how to link these ideas with the potential for the real world. I think the industry here is very important because my opinion is that, I'm talking about Bridgenos, for example, they are the ones that pay the systems. If we don't show to them that systems are useful, I think ACGM is not sustainable, for example. And finally, under the final pilot, the dissemination, I think we could try to share the knowledge by using different channels. We have a website, but for example, we could try to enlarge these two other platforms, Wikipedia, TED, LinkedIn, television. I think these channels that are available should be used and should be stimulated to be used. I think thinking about after the end of the cost action, we should also monitor the knowledge that is being shared in this cost action. Try to see the citations, downloads of journals, of conference papers, number of views, for example, downloads from the presentation that could be shared in this workshop by video stream. Let's see if people go there to see if they download something. I think this is the way to assess the impact of this cost. And finally, but I think this is over time, try to see if during these four years that we are here sharing experience, try to see if this has a meaningful contribution to change some social and economic paradigms. Let's say, let's say in the universe, if this is changing some subjects or updating some subjects, if we have new problems in the market. And even, for example, I think this is very important for the early stage career researchers, if these also create jobs for them. I think this is also very important that it's something that will have an impact not only for the four years, but perhaps in a long term run. So this is some ideas for which I would like to have, I will be very happy to have some feedback from all of us, from the working group leaders, because I believe that two or more brands things better than one. So I think it's very, very important. So my intention here is to share with you some activities for different powers, innovation, entrepreneurship and dissemination, and targeting the innovation culture to be shared in this construction. Thank you for your attention.