Short CV Invited Speaker

Dr. Joachim Klerx is researcher at AIT Innovation Systems Center and visiting researcher at the National Defence Academy. As philosopher and economist by education, his main research focus is currently the development of new foresight and horizon scanning methods as well as developing national horizon scanning centres. Some of his achievements in recent years were the development of ISA (Intelligent screening agent) an agent who is looking for weak signals of emerging issues on the Internet, financed by SESTI an EU project about identification of weak signals developed for emerging issues. In the EU project ETTIS Joachim Klerx worked on a system for threat-identification and political agenda setting. In EFP, he did the engineering for a global knowledge exchange platform for the world foresight community. As visiting researcher at the National Defence Academy, he developed the concept for CDRC (the national horizon scanning centre for cyber security in Austria), which is working since 2014, and ongoing. In addition to this he works on the development of a dark-net search engine to identify international innovation networks for organised crime and terrorism, in DANTE and on the next generation foresight and horizon scanning for European Law Enforcement Agencies in ASGARD. In TRACE, he is responsible for technical PM and for the data aquisition architecture. His main research interest is to develop new AI methods for horizon scanning, foresight and innovation policy.

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