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The briefing walked the IdF NRW through a live CASi Labs workspace — a structural analysis of cross-border coordination failures in the July 2021 European floods — as a worked example of how human judgment, structural analysis, and expert agents combine on a crisis problem.

The session is the front end of a joint effort with Adam Widera and his students at ERCIS (University of Münster) to prepare an exercise in which CASi Labs technology will be put to operational use.

Host

Institut der Feuerwehr Nordrhein-Westfalen

With

Adam Widera · ERCIS, University of Münster

Format

Technology briefing · exercise preparation

The keynote — "Importance of AI for Crisis Management" — set out what collaborative intelligence means in practice: the reasoning capacity that emerges when human judgment, structural analysis, and expert AI agents combine in the room. It also marked the point where the Žilina MoU moved from agreement to scheduled work, with the first-year workplan opened with the Faculty of Security Engineering.

Partner

University of Žilina · Faculty of Security Engineering

Occasion

RKS2026 plenary keynote

Outcome

First-year MoU workplan opened

G-STIC — the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Community conference — convenes researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around technology in service of sustainable development. The session brought a cross-disciplinary panel to the question of what changes when AI moves from demonstration to deployment in settings where the outcomes are felt by real people.

Chairing the session sits squarely with how CASi Labs frames its own work: collaborative intelligence is judged by the quality of the decisions it supports, not by the capability of the model in isolation.

Venue

G-STIC conference · Brussels

Role

Session chair

Theme

AI in deployment · real-world consequences

The MoU frames a collaboration between CASi Labs and the Competence Center Crisis Management at ERCIS on crisis-management research and applied work. It was signed with Adam Widera at ISCRAM 2026 — the international conference on information systems for crisis response and management — held in The Hague.

The partnership is already producing concrete work: a joint effort with Adam Widera and his students to prepare an exercise in which CASi Labs technology will be used.

Partner

Competence Center Crisis Management · ERCIS, University of Münster

Signed with

Adam Widera

Occasion

ISCRAM 2026 · The Hague

Published 6 May 2026. The brief examines foreign-interference dynamics around the Alberta referendum through the lens of cognitive sovereignty — how an information environment is shaped, contested, and made resilient against external pressure. CASi Labs' contribution centred on structural representation of the information environment and multi-perspective analytical framing.

The full document is available from the partner organisations; a copy and link will be added here once the public-facing landing page is in place.

Authors

Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle

Published

6 May 2026

Domain

Information operations · cognitive sovereignty

The MoU was signed in April 2026 following a working visit and joint scoping with the Faculty of Security Engineering. The agreement frames a multi-year collaboration on European infrastructure and security questions, with shared use of CASi-style workspaces in joint research and student-facing teaching.

Initial work threads include energy-system vulnerability analysis (Slovakia angle) and methodology exchange on multi-agent reasoning over critical-infrastructure dynamics.

Partner

University of Žilina, Slovakia

Format

Memorandum of Understanding · multi-year

Threads

Energy-system analysis, methodology exchange, joint teaching

Two-day intensive with master's students in emergency management. The Lab opened with mission framing, moved through structural representation of a multi-agency coordination scenario, and closed with student teams steering expert agents through contested frames around resource allocation and command-handover dynamics.

The session produced a structured deliberation artifact per team, and a methodology debrief drawing comparisons against conventional table-top exercise formats.

Host

University of Wuppertal · emergency-management programme

Participants

Master's students, emergency-management track

Format

2-day Lab · live workspace construction

The contribution covers methodology design for structural representation of multi-cause humanitarian contexts, and specification of the analytical-framing layer used by expert agents during prioritisation deliberation. The proposal is currently under formal review.

Naming the funder, lead institution, and full scope will follow the review outcome — we don't surface proposal specifics while the review is live.

Status

Under review

Contribution

Methodology · structural representation · framing layer

CASi Labs contributed agent-team design and structural-substrate construction to a multi-party negotiation exercise run in January 2026. The full write-up — venue, participating institutions, scenario design, and methodology debrief — follows publication clearance from the host.

Status

Publication clearance pending

Date

January 2026