Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence

Overview

ICAI is the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) is a national initiative focused on joint technology development between academia, industry and government in the area of artificial intelligence. The Netherlands has the talent, the world-class research and the longstanding tradition in AI education to be one of the world’s top ranked countries in terms of innovation power. ICAI brings these positive forces together in a unique national initiative.

ICAI’s innovation strategy is organized around industry labs, these are multi-year strategic collaborations with a focus on technology and talent development. ICAI will create innovative AI-applications, distribute AI-knowledge for companies and organizations in the form of technology products and tools, train corporate employees through dedicated courses, and simultaneously maintain a connection with other world-level science centers. ICAI will also facilitate commercialization by enhancing start-up and spin-outs.

ICAI is an open national network of academic, industrial and governmental partners that is based at Amsterdam Science Park. ICAI has a growing number of partners: Technical University Delft, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ahold Delhaize, Bosch, National Police, Qualcomm and Elsevier. So far five research labs have been founded: QUVA Lab, Delta Lab, AirLab Amsterdam, AIRLab Delft, Elsevier AI Lab, Police AI Lab, with more to come.

ICAI has a physical presence in the Amsterdam region, specifically at Amsterdam Science Park 904.

ICAI is a non-profit organization, part of the University of Amsterdam, and aimed at knowledge and talent development. ICAI helps to disseminate state-of-the-art know-how in artificial intelligence as part of the Amsterdam Data Science meetup, with close to 5000 members. It connects master students to startups and SMEs, both for temporary assignments and for full time employment.

ICAI helps tech companies (such as Qualcomm and Bosch) and companies in the service industry (such as Ahold Delhaize (retail) and Elsevier (information)) and governmental organizations (Nationale Politie) with digitilization through knowledge development and talent development.

In 2019, ICAI will use the way of working previously established in the national COMMIT program (http://commit-nl.nl) to transfer high science to SMEs. In this setup, relatively small projects are run, jointly with academic participants and SMEs on well-defined tasks defined by the SME(s). Past examples include sentiment analysis on social media data and privacy-aware mobile recommender systems for mobile systems. Digital technologies.