Deltares is an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface. Throughout the world, they work on smart solutions, innovations and applications for people, environment and society. Managing densely populated and vulnerable areas is complex, which is why they work closely with governments, businesses, other research institutes, universities and NGO’s at home and abroad.
How to minimize or solve societal issues such as the consequences of flooding, sea level rise and coastal development? But also design land reclamation, circular use of natural resources, water distribution and energy transition?
Deltares delivers knowledge that makes a difference through high-quality software that is continuously being developed. Our software is leading on a global scale and is applied by engineering firms, governments and knowledge institutes both in The Netherlands and in many other countries all over the world. David Rodríguez Aguilera ( Ph. D. Hydrology and Applied Mathematics) will show you in an interactive session how it is to work on these kinds of projects using Mathematics and Informatics. He will show examples of Deltares software applications and brainstorm with you about more daily issues.
Learning from machines: customer satisfaction at DSW
A succesful IT organisation encompasses more than just coding. In 2022, we're talking about a mix of designers, (data) analists, testers, progammers and many more. At DSW Zorgverzekeraar we're not striving to be the biggest, but the best insurance company, in both IT and healthcare. We'd like to show you how we'll accomplish this with a few practical examples! Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory!
At DSW we prefer to create our own software applications. We hardly ever use ready-made programs. Our systems for processing healthcare expenses claims, for the registration of new clients or for robotics: our own people designed, developed and tested each and everyone of these. Are you interested in development, but still lacking the skills? No problem! We have our own training programs for C# and SQL to make sure you can quickly become a full-fledged member of our teams for developing applications. Building our own chatbot Nikkie or integrating IDEAL in our app, to make it easier for the insured to pay their bills? Our developers consider it a piece of cake! Want to know more? Come visit us at ictbijdsw.nl.
We challenge all the modern high tech gadgets we have to do what we want. This challenges the chip-manufactures worldwide to keep up with our demands. ASML is challenged by these companies to provide them with “state of the art” semi-conductor lithography systems.
There are many opportunities within ASML to improve our products. To develop these improvement solutions we need to run simulations on mechanics, optics and water, air or temperature flows.
To be sure we have an improvement we need statistics to proof the new design is better than the old one.
Unfortunately machine parts break down or fail at customer sites, then it is important to have some logic reasoning in order to solve this issue fast in a good way.
John van Dijk is an experienced Design Engineer at ASML image sensors, who will explain where within ASML how and which branches of mathematics are applied.
LinkedIn: John Van Dijk | LinkedIn
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Shell is an international energy company with expertise in the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. We also invest in power, including from low-carbon sources such as wind and solar; and new fuels for transport, such as advanced biofuels and hydrogen.
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Oracle Labs is a research and development organization within Oracle. Their research is focused on real-world outcomes: their researchers aim to develop technologies that will play a significant role in the evolution of technology and society. Today, Oracle Labs researchers look for novel approaches and methodologies, often taking on projects with high risk or uncertainty, or that are difficult to tackle within a product-development organization. Its main directions of work include research, consulting, and product incubation.
In this lunch lecture Martijn Dwars will introduce Oracle and its research division Oracle Labs. He will give a brief introduction to three projects that the Zürich office is involved in: the parallel graph analytics engine PGX and its domain specific languages PGQL & PGX Algorithm, the universal virtual machine GraalVM, and the multilingual engine MLE. After this lecture, you will know how to analyze graphs with billions of vertices/edges, how to remove the barriers between programming languages, and how to reduce the startup time of your Java applications by 10x.
Sioux Technologies is a global technology partner that supports or acts as the R&D department for high-tech companies. Working at Sioux, means working together with a team of driven, smart and fun colleagues on high-tech solutions that make a difference. As a talent in software, mechatronics, mathematics, automotive or electronics, you will contribute to the development and construction of complex products, often on the verge of what is technologically possible. At Sioux, you will work on a project for a big multinational in the region or for a promising start-up tackling the next breakthrough technology.
Agile has become the most popular project management framework in the world. With more than 70% of all software development companies declaring themselves agile and a myriad of promises for project woes, it has become expected for both employers and (would-be) employees to know it. And yet despite the widespread adoption; Agile for a developer can sometimes feel like just micromanagement with extra steps or even just plain old confusing! In this lunch time talk we'll try and demystify some of the aspects of, and the benefits of Agile.
Linniel is a senior software engineer for Sioux currently on assignment with ASML. Graduating in 2017 in the UK he moved to the Netherlands and now has 5 years of industry experience with various companies. Wielding the Agile Manifesto in hand, he was recently certified as an Agile Scrum Master. In his free time, he likes videogames, reading and only half finishing his personal software projects.
In this case we will give you an insight in a realistic planning problem that our consultants dive into. We help organizations with planning problems by providing them a custom software solution. This happens on our low-code platform (Anago Assemble) by modelling various buildings blocks.
Organizations come to us with all sorts of problems. You will help us with a case from the Dutch Immigration Service (IND). The IND assesses all applications from foreign nationals who want to live in the Netherlands or want to become Dutch citizens. You can imagine this is a very hot topic in times of war (Ukraine) and flow of specific refugees (Syrians).
In recent years, the large number of applications has resulted in a backlog of thousands of asylum applications. . This is troublesome for both; the asylum seekers who are waiting for their application review, as well as for the Dutch Immigration Service, that have to pay penalties for long asylum processes.
With your team you will help the IND by efficiently reducing the backlog of thousands of asylum applications. For the best solutions you have to take different dependencies into account such as availability of employees, competence (languages) of employees, nationality of refugees, penalties of refugees and of course ethical decisions.
Which group will manage to get to the lowest penalty fee, while taking ethics into account?
At Bright Cape, we breathe data. We have a talented and knowledgeable pool of colleagues with expertise in analytics & applied data science, data-driven experience design, process mining, and innovative products. We that take our clients on a journey of discovery through their data and guide them in their digitization journey by building and implementing scalable, sustainable data science solutions. Our solutions have proven successful in the Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and IT business functions. We know exactly what to do to help organizations increase revenues, reduce costs and streamline their processes.
If you want to meet Bright Cape in an informal setting, be sure to join the social drink! During the social drink they will give a short speech, and they will be walking around to answer any question you have. They will also hand out a keg of beer, so be there or be square!
The emergence and exponential growth of new technologies is changing the world radically in the coming years. No company or organization can avoid the consequences of far-reaching digitization and computerization. Deloitte knows the challenges in your industry and translates market problems of the future into creative and innovative solutions. Deloitte is a professional services firm with 244,000 employees worldwide and offices in more than 150 countries. With over 5,500 employees and 14 offices throughout the Netherlands, Deloitte is one of the largest providers of professional services in the field of accountancy, tax advice, consultancy, risk advice and financial advice. The professionals work in multidisciplinary teams and therefore have a very broad vision of our clients' issues. Deloitte is the reliable and innovative partner that gives you insight into the opportunities of your future business now.
More information about this lunch lecture will follow soon!
Another super awesome lustrum activity is coming up: a hackathon! If you want to solve a problem while working with real-life data, this is the perfect activity for you. While doing this you get an idea of what you can be doing after you are finished with your study.
The hackathon involves real data from a customer of Wolfpack. In teams of 2 to 6 people, you will work on a problem that is presented by Wolfpack and give a representation of the daily work at Wolfpack.
During the day you will be provided with free lunch, dinner, snacks and after the hard work is finished a free borrel.
The winning three groups will receive a small prize, and the best group also wins an even bigger prize ;). As icing on the cake, for first-year students, you can receive 1 MyFuture point by joining this activity!
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KING-SIZE YOUR NETWORK at the Interviewing Days! From the 9th until the 12th of May, you can join the Interviewing Days of Wervingsdagen. Here you can talk with companies in an interview setting, do interesting cases, have some lunch or dinner or even play a round of golf. So if you have talked to a company that you liked during the Career Expo, are looking for a place to do an internship, want to know more in-depth what a specific company does or are just looking to see what is possible to do later, make sure to subscribe. You can find all information via wervingsdagen.com. The subscriptions are open until the 27th of April.
Prodrive Technologies expertise ranges from embedded computing, motion & mechatronics, power conversion, automation control systems, vision & image processing systems and internet of things products, configurable to the customers needs.
In industrial production environments only 53% of all AI/ML applications make it in the long run. Companies often struggle with setting up, integrating, and maintaining stable production environments for machine learning. Defining and implementing a robust MLOps process is key and should address the following elements:
The standardization of data collection, including database structures, communication interfaces and GUIs, automating distributed model training including version control of data and models (Tensorflow/PyTorch models on Kubernetes clusters);
deploying models-as-a-service (for instance with gRPC interfaces);
constant monitoring of model inference performance with dashboards including alerts;
adding model inference feedback with the human-in-the-loop;
and supporting state-of-the-art model explainers to also give a reason why predictions are made.
In this lunch lecture we show this process for the application of automatic visual inspection of electronics using deep learning models as used within Prodrive Technologies.
Dear students,
On Monday the 2nd of May, C4 is organizing a great career event: The C4 Company Dinner! For only 15 euros you will get a full dinner in an actual restaurant and you will be able to talk to two companies about anything you want.
At the dinner, four companies will attend, of which you can choose two to talk with. With both of them, you will enjoy four nice courses and some drinks to discover the career possibilities they have in an informal conversation. As usual in our career related activities, we will also provide you with enough food and drinks.
Are you a Master student? Then you are lucky! If there are more than 36 people subscribed to this activity, we will put Master students first. Make sure you fill in what type of food you want (You can choose between meat and vegan), field of interest and which companies you would like to have dinner with.
The companies that will attend are:
Information about the companies:
Capgemini:
Capgemini is a consultancy company, with its field of activity in ICT and consultancy. In 2017, the multinational employed more than 195,000 people worldwide. Capgemini is a worldwide leader in consultancy, technological services and digital transformation.
If you want to read more about Capgemini, you can already read more about Capgemini as an employer here.
Ellips:
Want to help us create a more sustainable future?
In the fresh produce industry there is still a noticeable wastage of good products. At Ellips, we develop top quality optical sorting systems (software and hardware) for grading fruits and vegetables. Our mission is to create innovative solutions to select better quality products and reduce unnecessary food waste in our industry. Our technology ensures that each product ends up at its rightful destination.
Our team
Ellips headquarters is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Where we have a team of 50 people working on the development of our optical sorting systems. Machine manufacturing is done in Italy and Spain at our subsidiary companies Elisam and Elifab. In total, the Ellips Group employs around 150 people worldwide. Together with 18 different partners around the globe we make sure that the processing of food streams is effective and efficient.
Wolfpack:
Wolfpack is located at the beating heart of innovation: The Eindhoven University of Technology. Our employees have an academic education and see new techniques as the natural way to go.
At Wolfpack we combine different talents in a team that fit the specific project best and make sure best practises are shared between projects. This way we are always developing and you get the best we have to offer.
The diverse background of our software developers allow us to provide unique business insights on security, data engineering and UX design. We make sure your software will be future proof for your business.
YER:
Talented people hold the key to the future! We believe in forming a bridge between your studies and work so that you have all the necessary tools to find the perfect job. To help prepare you, we provide workshops, webinars, cv-checks and personal advice. We know the job market like our back pocket and offer you guidance in making the right decision.
Do you want to continue learning after your studies? And do you want to further develop your interpersonal skills, yet simultaneously earn a nice salary? Then our YER Talent Development Programmes (TDP) may be for you! Do you want to learn more about this programme, personal development, what your job opportunities are in IT, Data Science or Analytics and so on, or do you just want to have a good chat, get in contact with us. We are here to help you!
More info: www.yer.nl/talentdevelopment
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
C4
NS is active in the public transportation sector. We encourage the use of public transportation and keep the Netherlands moving. Our travellers are our 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority in all of our activities, and we do our utmost to make their trip as pleasant and sustainable as possible from door to door.
Have you ever stranded on a train station for hours without a train? Did you think, how hard can it be? This is the moment to have an answer to your questions. Camiel Simons, simulation researcher at NS (Dutch Railways), will speak about simulation models for large disruptions on the railway network. He will tell how mathematics, computer science and gaming are used to improve train operations in case of a disruption.
Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Friday the 25th of March. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Monday 28th of March. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
Bol.com is the largest online shopping platform in the Netherlands and Belgium. Together we change retail to make everyday life easier. The code of our 700+ software engineers offer our 12 million customers more than 34 million products and an inspiring and personal shopping experience. Technology and innovation are essential parts of the bol.com culture and tech run through the veins of all bol.commers. Because of our complex and fast-paced environment, we can’t work with one-size-fits-all solutions. Every piece of code has an impact on our customers and partners. At bol.com we want to create an autonomous environment, where you get the trust to pioneer. Together as a team, but also you as a person. We want to be better and stronger together. We believe that with being mindful to each other and create a place where everybody gets a seat at the table just as who they are, only then we enable us to live up to our promise of truly being "de winkel van ons allemaal". "ML stories: improving recommendation and image retrieval in bol.com"
At bol.com we make use of products and users’ data to give a better user experience using machine learning and deep learning. Let’s dive into these two subjects about improving recommendation and image retrieval. What makes this data so interesting and challenging? How to combine computer science and machine learning? Join this talk to find out! Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Friday the 1st of April. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Monday 4th of February. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
Every Dutch person is a customer of the Belastingdienst, which means that we have access to countless data from various sources. At the Belastingdienst, we work on risk models (such as fraud models), process optimisations, internal information dashboards, customized analyzes (for policymakers, for example) and dynamic monitoring, using machine learning techniques. Artificial Intelligence is State-of-the-Art within the software industry. Have you ever wondered how it might be used within De Belastingdienst (Dutch Tax Office)? We, at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Solutions of the Belastingdienst, want to improve the internal processes through cognitive AI solutions. We specialize in enriching unstructured data, text mining, natural language processing and machine learning. In this talk we'd like to give you some insights into how we do this and talk you through a couple of examples of how we apply the technology to real-life questions. Note: this lecture will take place on campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Monday 28th of March. It is mandatory to show up after registration. You can unsubscribe until Wednesday 30th of March. If you would like to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to campus, please send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have allergies, please send an email to ceb@gewis.nl so that we can take this into account for lunch.
Rabobank is a bank that works for its customers and members. We are one of the largest financial institutions in the world, but we're still very involved at the local level. Our goal is to help customers achieve their goals. In addition, we aim to make a substantial contribution to the well-being and prosperity of people in the Netherlands and to a sustainable global food supply.
The content of this lecture will be updated soon!
Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Friday the 25th of March. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Monday 28th of March. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
After your studies the job market opens before you. A lot of companies are eager to hire the recently graduated with a technical background, but how are you ever going to make a decision about your career if you don't know what there is to choose from? In this workshop professional recruiters from the company Formorrow (previously known as Procam) will explain you everything about job orientation and the job market. You will discover your strengths and interests through a presentation as well as in smaller group discussions, such that you can make the right choice. The following topics will be discussed: - What are the developments on the IT job market? - Which directions and functions are there within IT? - How can you orient yourselves on the IT job market? This training will be held in English and there are only 20 spots available so be sure to sign up now! Choo choo!
TRAIN
At ISAAC, we help companies to recognise challenges and turn them into interesting opportunities, and to transform digital channels successfully. In addition to our excellent and extensive technical knowledge, we have specific domain knowledge of Commerce, Financial Services and transactional systems. In short, we have all the tools available to successfully carry out digital challenges. Work; everything they didn't teach you at school. Bavo Janss will take you on a journey of all things he wish he would have known before he started his professional career. About how to make your study more valuable and your future work more fun. Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Monday the 14th of March. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Wednesday 16th of March. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
Picnic is rethinking the way people buy food. Without physical stores, we use an app-only approach and a user-centric philosophy, to make grocery shopping quick, simple, and fun.
Starting in one Dutch town in 2015, we now serve over 100 cities in both the Netherlands and Germany and we just getting started. The secret to our success? An end-to-end business and a just-in-time supply chain. From the app-only store, forecasting of orders, warehouse fulfillment, to the evolving distribution strategy of our fleet of electric vehicles, we build everything in-house on our own software.
Innovation is all about creating new things. But which decisions do you make when building a disruptive tech company? In this lecture Daniel Gebler, Picnic's CTO, will share the core principles how start-ups make decisions and how this process evolves in scale-ups. Interested in learning more? Join the session!
Please note: this lunch lecture will be physical! The capacity is a maximum of 75 participants. The draw will take place on Friday 4 March, after that it will be first come first serve! It is mandatory to show up after registration. You can unsubscribe until Monday 7 March 23h00. If you have any dietary preferences, send a mail to ceb@gewis.nl.
Sioux Technologies is a global technology partner that supports or takes over the R&D department of high-tech companies.
Topic 1:
Refrigerated containers enable long-distance transport of fruit. The challenge is to have an air circulation inside the container which maintains the correct temperature throughout the container to keep the fruit quality high and thereby reduce food waste. Sioux Mathware developed a model to predict the airflow and temperature inside a refrigerated container with pineapples.
Topic 2:
Nowadays when you take a picture with your smartphone, it directly creates a digital file which you can share. In the past they used film strips and now a customer wants to digitize millions of images from these film strips. Due to the large quantity of images, the main focus was to create a fast method. Sioux Mathware created a set of algorithms to be able to extract the main pictures from the film strips and add labels to them.
Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Monday the 21st of February. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Wednesday 23rd of February. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
Since its establishment, Ortec Finance has put innovation through applied scientific research and IT developments on the forefront. Our research and innovation activities are concentrated within the Ortec Finance R&D Labs. We model and map the relevant uncertainties in order to help you monitor your goals and decisions. Founded by leading experts in the fields of Econometrics and Technology, we have in 35 years achieved an outstanding reputation, built on reliability. With over 500 clients in 20+ countries, we play a vital role in helping our clients improve investment decision making and managing uncertainty.
In this talk, Joris Cramwinckel, Technologist at R&D Labs, will dive deeper into how current mathematical modeling and technology trends impact Ortec Finance’ products and services. By example, you will learn more about projects with Machine Learning, Blockchain, Climate models, Open Source, Cloud Native Technologies, and how collaboration with students is pivotal for success.
Note: this lecture will be on-campus, with a maximum capacity of 75 people. The draw will be on Friday the 18th of February. After subscribing, showing up is mandatory. Unsubscribing is possible until Monday 21th of February. If you wish to attend this lecture, but are unable to come to attend on-campus, send an email to ceb@gewis.nl to see what we can do. If you have any allergies, also send me an email, so we can take this into account for the lunch.
Anago is a Dutch software company founded in 1999 and is specialised in smart planning solutions. We have developed our own no-code development environment for modelling planning applications. We work for large organisations such as AirFrance KLM, Heineken, UWV, IND and the Ministry of Social Affairs. Examples of planning systems are the long-term planning of a customer contact centre, the scheduling of engine services at KLM and the planning of the asylum seekers chain.
Anago Planning applications are modelled using high level building blocks such as data cubes, calculation engines, integrations and views. The result of the application model is a fully working cloud solution.
Typically, the planning calculations involve mathematics such as aggregation and allocation, statistical forecasting, various optimisation algorithms and a free model language.
Currently, Anago is relying on a multi-dimensional database system (OLAP) that is becoming more and more a bottleneck. We are looking into ways to extend this environment with smart ways of handling the calculations, such as automatically detecting changes to the data and rewriting expressions in order to recalculate the results.
We are researching the best ways of handling these challenges. During the lunch lecture we want to introduce you to our world of developing a modelling environment such as Anago and the concepts behind our engine. You will learn how a low-code or no-code platform is set up and can be used to create state-of-the-art cloud solutions.
Depending on the restrictions, this lecture will probably be online - but keep an eye on your email for the latest updates! The lecture will be given by Fraser Wilson, Software Architect at Anago and Thomas de Nooij, Founder of Anago.
Have you always wanted to find out what it is like to be a Trader? Da Vinci Derivatives is giving you a unique opportunity to join an interactive online in house day organized exclusively for the members of GEWIS!
In this event we wish to take you into our dynamic, fast-paced world and let you experience what trading is all about. We feel there is nothing more fun than trading and we want to share our enthusiasm with you. We will introduce you to our organization and give you a glimpse of the ins and outs of trading through interactive trading games. If you love challenges and have a passion for the financial markets and trading, do not miss this opportunity and register now!
This business case is applicable for both Computer Science and Mathematics students!