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Day 2 - September 24 12:00 Excursion

Local AI Walk: Recognize the challenge

Municipality of The Hague

Breda City

Many AI applications run on large data centers far outside the city or even abroad. This raises questions about energy consumption, privacy and sovereignty. Local AI offers an alternative: small, energy-efficient AI models that run close to the city, on local infrastructure, with local data. This is not only about technology. It is about digital sovereignty, public control and the question of how cities can deploy AI without becoming dependent on Big Tech.
During the outdoor sessions we explore what that means in practice.
In this session we investigate for which questions Local AI can be deployed. During a city walk through The Hague we learn what local AI entails and which topics around us are suitable to be solved locally. In doing so, we also learn how AI can become a layer in the city.