Conveners
Parallel Session 3.a: Innovation - Track 2 (Room Maya)
- Niels Deriemaecker (Belnet)
Description
Intro: strategic agenda Belnet for Innovation (N. Deriemaecker) - 5'
Summary
Digital opportunities arise in all sorts of activities and sectors throughout the Belgian and European landscape and within the divers Belnet community. In order to see if those opportunities are worth investigating at Belnet, a Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) has been created. In the introduction of the innovation sessions we will explain the SIA and how the SIA is the gateway to more concrete actions where Belnet is involved in. Each session will then zoom in on two of those specific actions.
Speaker
As Innovation Lead, Niels Deriemaecker is taking up the role at Belnet to scope for new opportunities and promising technologies together with his colleagues in the innovation team. Those opportunities in the near, mid term and long term future might play an important role the Belnet community, the Belnet strategy and even for society as a whole.
Niels gained experience by being an accountmanager at Belnet for 7 years. It was the perfect basis for learning how to connect to new and exisiting partner initiatives and organisations and how to build strong relationships in Belgium and across Europe where new opportunities arise.
Boosted/BTFS - 25'
Summary
The BTFS is a new type of infrastructure born from the BOOSTED project, a collaborative initiative between the Royal Observatory of Belgium and Belnet. Its goal is to design and implement a high-precision Time & Frequency (T&F) distribution network across Belgium using the Belnet optical backbone, to deliver the accurate signals generated by the atomic clocks operated by the Observatory. By leveraging advanced synchronization techniques, BTFS/BOOSTED aims to provide services to universities, scientific institutions and other end users that rely on precise and resilient timing. This project strengthens Belgium's infrastructure for time-sensitive applications such as research, navigation, telecommunications, energy or even geophysics.
Speakers
Raphael Marion has a background as Industrial Engineer in electromechanics and as experimental Physicist in atomic and laser physics. Today, he is the technical coordinator of the Time&Frequency lab at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, and the Principal Investigator of the BOOSTED project.
Lisa Van Loo has a background as a Networks and Systems engineer and today works as a Technical Advisor for Belnet. She is one of the stakeholders of the BOOSTED project and the development of BTFS.
Quantum Communication Infrastructure - 20'
Speaker
J. Van Overmeir, Belnet
