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Society 5.0

Friday 30 may 2025
Join us on May 30 to imagine a society where people remain at the heart of the digital revolution. Discover how AI and digital twins are transforming work, production and innovation. Join in inspiring discussions over an interactive Walloon lunch with the Smart Gastronomy Lab.
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May 30 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Human-Centric Digital and Robotized Society

To round off the Wallonia-Brussels week and the economic and academic missions, this morning’s programme will focus on the theme of ‘society 5.0’.

How a super smart Society includes a people-centric industry, where advanced technologies are used for the wellbeing of the workers as well as the customers or the end users?  Digital Twin, IA and data management enable new ways to improve these intrinsic relations:

  • Dynamic Human Resources management
  • Upstream Digital Twins to enhance the final end-user experience
  • AI, Digital Twin and Knowledge Management to create materials of the future
  • Real-time management tasks to reduce heavy Human constraints (Project UCLouvain/Belrobotics)

These presentations will be followed by thematic lunch tables to foster future BE–JP collaborations.

The gastronomy Walloon Lunch will include a UX with Smart Gastronomy Lab.

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Programme moderated by Prof. Benoit Macq (UCLouvain)

10.00-10.05
"Welcome in smart-Wallonia " - Minister President Dr. Adrien Dolimont
10.05-10.30
”Leveraging AI, Digital Twins and Knowledge Management to Assist Humans in Designing the Next Generation of Materials and Molecules" - Prof Gian-Marco Rignanese (Chief Innovation Officer - Matgenix)
10.30-10.50
“Large Language Models to Manage Personalized Human-Robot interactions” - Prof Gustavo Garcia (Ritsumeikan University) and Prof Lotfi El Hafi (Ritsumeikan University).
10.50-11.10
“Realtime simulation techniques for human centered applications in mechanics and biomechanics“ - Prof Nicolas Docquier (Quandyga)
11.10-11.30
"From Smart Hospital to Social Hospital : Ubi-comp Contribution Toward a Human-Centring Digital Health” - Prof Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University)
11.30-11.50
“Enhancing Operator Well-being through Dynamic Human Resources Management: A Prospective Application in I-Care and Yamabiko Factories” - Arthur Pisvin (I-Care/ Sirris/ UCLouvain)
11.50-12.30
Panel and Conclusions animated by Thomas Desaive (ULiège)
12.30-14.00
Walloon Gastronomy Lunch (+ Gastronomy Lab UX) and networking
Benoit Macq
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Coordinator of the Life Sciences and Society 5.0 days. Professor
Thomas Desaive
University of Liège
Associate professor
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