Venue: Clarion Hotel Sign, Stockholm
Thursday October 24
Chair: Anders Ynnerman (WASP Program Director)
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 Conference opening
Marcus Wallenberg (Wallenberg Investments)
09.55 Research, Competence and Innovation for Sweden
Sara Mazur (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation)
10.10 Fireside chat: The Swedish AI Commission
Carl-Henric Svanberg (The Swedish AI Commission) and Danica Kragic Jensfelt (WASP Co-director)
10.30 Coffee break
11.10 Panel: Closing the Gap Between Industry and Academia in the Accelerated AI landscape
Chair: Erik Ekudden (Ericsson)
Karin Stacke (Sectra), Christoffer Petersson (Zenseact), Stas Krupenia (Scania) and Daniel Akenine (Microsoft)
11.55 Fireside chat: How to Successfully Build and Maintain Industrial Research Departments
Salla Franzén (Navigare Ventures) and Gustav Söderström (Spotify)
12.30 Strengthening the Link Between Industry and Academia – What Are We Missing?
Nicolas Moch (SEBx, member of the WASP Board)
12.45 How WASP Research Arenas Enable AI Innovation for Startups: The Parsd Story
Alexandra Kafka Larsson (Parsd)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Workshop session 1
Workshop schedule
15.00 Coffee break
15.45 Workshop session 2
Workshop schedule
17.00 Poster and WARA-exhibition and mingle
18.30 Dinner at Clarion Hotel Sign, Banquetting Hall
Friday October 25
Chair: Amy Loutfi (WASP Co-director)
09.15 Reflections from First Day – Key Outcomes from Workshops
Amy Loutfi (WASP Co-director)
09.50 AI-Enhanced Workflows in Creative Industries
Johanna Björklund (Project Manager WARA Media & Language)
10.25 Coffee break
11.10 WASP Generated Competence as a Catalyst for AI Readiness, Strategy 2031
Fredrik Heintz (WASP Graduate School Co-director)
11.35 Panel: Research Arenas as Catalyst in the AI Landscape
Chair: Mats Agervi (Combient)
Jesper Tordenlid (Project Manager WARA Public Safety), Johanna Björklund (Project Manager WARA Media & Language), Matteo Iovino (Project Manager WARA Robotics) and Johan Eker (Project Manager WARA Operational Data)
12.15 Concluding remarks
Anders Ynnerman (WASP Program Director)
12.20 Lunch to go