Program

October 13
Theme: For the Betterment of Sweden
10:00 Registration opens
Venue: Foyer
11:00 Confererence opens
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Peter Wallenberg Jr., Chair, Wallenberg Foundations, Anders Ynnerman, Chair of the WASP board, Deputy Executive Director of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director
11:15 Plenary program
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Technology as a Geopolitical Force: Professor Sylvia Schwaag Serger, President of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)
Panel TBA: Jonas Unger, Project manager SE.LLMA, Sara Öhrvall, Senior advisor, Salla Franzén, Project leader WARA AI-TRICS and Joakim Nivre, Professor, Uppsala University
Chair: Amy Loutfi
12:15 Lunch
Venue: Restaurant and Festvåning
13:45 Lightning Talk
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Sectra Communication, Niklas Johansson, Research Director
SEB/Link, Anastasia Varava, CTO
Traton, Anette Hultåker, Technical Manager
Ericsson, Beatriz Grafulla, Head of applied generative AI
Chair: Karin Stacke, Research Scientist, Sectra
14:45 Coffee break
Venue: Foyer
15:30 Plenary program
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Sovereignty in Industrial AI at Scale: Dag Lindbo, CTO, Sferical
TBA: Per Alfredsson, Senior Vice President of Global Biologics Operation, AstraZeneca
Chair: Amy Loutfi
16:15 Pre-dinner Mingle and Speed Networking
Venue: Foyer and Restaurant
18:30 Dinner
Venue: Cirkus
October 14
9:00 Second day opens
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director
9:15 Plenary program
Venue: Nya Cirkus
The UK National Innovation Centre for Data – Lessons from enabling 170 companies to exploit AI: Paul Watson, Professor of Computer Science, Newcastle University
AI for Autonomous Airspace Defence: Johan Källström, Research Scientist, Saab and WASP alum, John Törnblom, Research Scientist, Saab and WASP alum
Chair: Amy Loutfi
10:15 Poster Session, Standing Table Exhibition, Speakers Corner (including coffee)
Venue: Cirkus and Restaurant
12:15 Lunch
Venue: Restaurant, Festvåningen
13:15 Plenary Program
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Building physical AI products in regionalizing world where tech scales across industries: Ödgärd Andersson, CEO, Zenseact AB
14:15 Closing remarks
Venue: Nya Cirkus
Anders Ynnerman, chair of the WASP board, Chair of the WASP board, Deputy Executive Director of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director
14:30 Coffee and end of conference
Venue: Foyer