Demo: Spatial, economic and social

Three demos on new technologies in smart cities, AI, sustainable energy, and mobility.

Local: Look in the mirror and see yourself at 83

AI is rapidly conquering a place in healthcare. We talk about applications, efficiency, and new possibilities. But we rarely ask the question: in what future do you *yourself* want to grow old?

Together with Luuk van Schendel (AI Lab Lead) and Judith Oosterom (Innovation Advisor), Surplus turned the perspective on. With the AI ​​mirror, you step into the shoes of yourself as an 83-year-old. This changes your perspective on the future; not you as a policymaker, administrator, or healthcare worker, but as someone who becomes dependent on care and support. And that changes the choices: What can you confidently leave to AI? And where do you draw the line?

The AI ​​mirror sparks conversations that sometimes chafe, surprise, and confront. Conversations that do not start with technology, but with trust, autonomy, humanity, and dignity. It is precisely there that direction for the deployment of AI in healthcare emerges. For the most important question surrounding AI is not what is technically possible, but what kind of society we want to create together.

National: The city gets a voice and talks back

A lot is said about a neighbourhood. By administrators, policymakers, developers. But rarely do you speak with the neighbourhood itself. Digibied changes that. It is an AI-driven conversation partner that represents an urban area: fed with local data, policy documents, participation input and the history of a place. You can ask it questions, explore scenarios with it and retrieve perspectives from the area itself. Not as a dashboard or map, but as a conversation. During the demonstration you can converse with an existing area. What does the area know about itself? What does it think? And what does that mean for the decisions you make?

European: to be announced.