AID Exhibition

ABB Corporate Research Center in Sweden hosts the WARA Robotics Arena. In this exhibition, we would like to demonstrate key research achievements from WARA Robotics activities, as well as from ABB internal research, under the theme of Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics.

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Meet: Liwei Qi, Manager Robotics and Mechatronics

AI Policy Lab (aipolicylab.se) is an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore AI policy issues. We analyze, develop, and influence regulations, ethical guidelines, and societal impacts related to artificial intelligence. Through seminars, policy briefs, and advisory work, we support the responsible development and governance of AI in Sweden and internationally.

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Meet: Virginia Dignum, Professor

Helping PhDs make the transition from academia to industry.

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Meet: Elena Hoffer, Co-Founder and CEO; Chiara Tremolanti, Postdoc KI; Sofija Vuckovic, PhD student, KI

AstraZeneca is a world leading pharmaceutical organisation with over 7K employees in Sweden working in research, development and commercialization of novel medicines.

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Meet: Ola Engkvist, Executive Director

Boliden’s R&D program in artificial intelligence drives initiatives in AI and machine learning for process control and mine automation applications. To keep up with the rapid advancement of technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Boliden must adopt new ways of working and embrace modern technologies—even though the future remains uncertain.

Boliden Edge Lab is the AI program’s initiative to address this challenge for Boliden Mines. Boliden Edge Lab is a hybrid cloud platform that enables Boliden Mines to rapidly develop and test AI-based solutions for its operations. It allows Boliden to demonstrate the value of AI in a secure and efficient way through cloud-native technologies. The exhibition will present the philosophy behind Boliden Edge Lab and explain why it is a natural arena for collaboration with academia and industry. It will also showcase ongoing research by Boliden’s WASP PhD student, Frida Norlund.

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Meet: Rasmus Tammia, Program Manager; Frida Norlund, Industrial PhD student; Peter Wallin, Program Manager

CanaryBit is a European cybersecurity company specialising in digital infrastructure security for cloud and on-prem deployments. Its Confidential Cloud solution helps ensure that data and workloads remain protected throughout their entire lifecycle – at rest, in transit and in use. Current application domains include public administration, aerospace and defence, and telecom.

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Meet: Pegah Nikbakht Bideh, PhD, Senior R&D Engineer; Nicolae Paladi, PhD, CEO & Co-founder; Stefano Cucchiella, CTO & Co-founder

Combient is a Nordic network of 38 leading and non-competing industrials. It fosters peer-to-peer collaboration to accelerate digital transformation and innovation in a trusted environment. The focus areas are AI, digitalization, data and sustainability.

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Meet: Torgny Gunnarsson, Vice President & Deputy CEO; Fredrik Hörstedt, VP & Head of Research, Academia, and Public Funding

At Cytiva, we envision a world in which access to life-changing therapies transforms human health. Researchers, academia, and biopharma undertake life-saving activities ranging from biological research to developing innovative vaccines, biologic drugs, and novel cell and gene therapies. We supply them with the tools and services they need to work better, faster, and safer, leading to better patient outcomes.

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Meet: Roger Nordberg, Principal Innovation Specialist; Claire Kelly-Ball, Lead Innovation Specialist

Elastisys is a Swedish cloud-native company helping Europe’s critical software vendors run securely, comply with regulations, and innovate with confidence. Our application platform, Welkin, is purpose-built for high-security environments – trusted in healthcare, energy, and other essential sectors. With open source roots and deep expertise, we safeguard the digital backbone of society.

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Meet: John Björksten, CCO; Gabriella Hansson, Marketing Communications Specialist; Jakub Krzywda, PhD, Cloud Native Training Manager; Lars Larsson, PhD, Field CTO

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a world leading video game company known for its titles Sims, EA Sports FC, Battlefield, Need for Speed, Apex and Star Wars games. Since 2005 DICE is part of EA, a major operations in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Globally we serve +750million active players, with a net revenue for FY25 of $7.463 billion.

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Meet: Konrad Tollmar, Head of Research EA, Linus Gisslen, Lead Research Scientist, Judith Butepage, Lead Research Scientist

Embedl develops AI optimization tools for efficient edge deployment. Using NAS, pruning, and quantization, we achieve up to 83% energy savings, 95% memory reduction, and 18x faster inference. Our Model Optimization SDK and Embedl Hub streamline edge AI workflows without model conversion or lock-in. Ideal for research-to-industry applications—visit us to explore collaborations or career opportunities.

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Meet: Devdatt Dubhashi, Co-founder and Chief Scientist; Ola Tiverman, CPO

Ericsson Research (ER) is an organization that provides Ericsson AB with novel system concepts, technology, and methodology to secure long-term competitive products and services. Research area AI, which is part of ER, drives the evolution of AI technology to meet the needs of the future networks, through research, prototyping and technology incubation in collaboration with business areas, academia, and partners. We have a strong history of supervising industrial PhD students within WASP and SSF, with outstanding scientific and engineering achievements.

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Meet: Andreas Johnsson, Research Leader; Rafia Inam, Senior Research Manager

Fair AI Data helps organizations create transparent, reproducible, and bias-aware AI training data. Our software provides analytical tools, synthetic data generation, fairness balancing, and standards-based metadata creation, enabling users to design, document, and share high-quality datasets for compliant, ethical, and open AI development.

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Meet: Ericka Johnson, Professor and CSO, Fair AI Data; Helene Ström, CEO, Fair AI Data

Hopsworks build a software platform for the development and operation of AI systems at scale. Hopsworks has thousands of global users and is deployed at leading Swedish companies and Fortune 100 companies in the US.

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Meet: Jim Dowling, CEO & Co-Founder

We investigate AI-based security monitoring in next-generation networks, aiming to make alerts both understandable and actionable. Our research focuses on explainability, studying logic-based and statistical XAI to expose strengths and trade-offs with a purpose of finding relevant (minimal) explanations. Beyond explaining why an alert is raised, we explore what can be done next using constrained counterfactuals to suggest plausible, feasible actions towards response and recovery.

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Meet: Federica Uccello, Postdoc; Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Professor

The Machine Learning group at LTU targets fundamental and application-oriented research in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for the welfare of the society. We will showcase an industry chatbot, AI & Snow, Document Analysis, neuromorphic sensing and computing, tiny machine learning, and some surprises where you will need a lot of brain!

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Meet: Elisa Barney Smith, Professor; Rajkumar Saini, Assistant Professor; Ashish Singh, Postdoctoroal Scholar; Marcus Liwicki, Professor

The RobotLab is investigating topics like robotic skill learning, robust robot vision, human-robot collaboration, robot support in surgery, support for situation awareness in shared autonomy scenarios (ground robots, marine vessels, UAV), machine learning, explainable AI, and privacy preserving AI-based software. Other projects deal with the use of AI tools in software development and their impact in software engineering, also providing insights into topics like AI regulation.

The Intelligent Systems Laboratory will present its research on improving efficiency (e.g., energy consumption) and fostering trust (i.e., safety and privacy) in artificial intelligence and federated learning, with applications spanning various domains, including healthcare.

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Meet: Elin A. Topp, Associate Professor; Amir Aminifar, Associate Professor

NFA is developing the next generation of operator support and automation systems for forestry machines, that use sensors, compute hardware and AI to build up a digital representation of the forest environment live, in real time. This technology is used to enable all operators to realize any harvesting prescription easily and efficiently.

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Meet: Lars Svensson, CEO

Nvidia is one of the world’s largest and leading AI companies and has been working closely with Swedish industry and academia for many years. Berzelius and the newly established Wallenberg Consortium are excellent examples of this.

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Meet: Mark Hammarstedt, Sales Leader

Parsd is a Swedish AI startup founded in 2021, and your smart digital library. Our web app enables decision-makers, analysts, and researchers to deliver trusted insights grounded in curated sources, using AI to boost collaborative end-to-end workflows on text and audio files. We believe a sustainable market economy thrives on democracy, which in turn relies on reliable facts. Parsd is an Industrial Partner to WASP, and a core member of the WASP WARA Media & Language team.

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Meet: Alexandra Kafka Larsson, CEO and Co-founder; Håkan Ståby, Chief Architect and Co-founder; David Olgart, Strategy and Partnerships

RemotiveLabs offers a developer-centric platform that accelerates automotive software development through virtualization. Our solution bridges simulation (SIL) and physical testing (HIL), enabling fast, collaborative, and hardware-independent workflows. OEMs and suppliers use our tools to test, visualize, and share vehicle data efficiently, driving the shift to software-defined vehicles.

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Meet: Per Sigurdson CEO; Johan Karlberg, SW developer

Data-driven life science uses data, computational methods and AI to study biological systems and processes. The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) aims to recruit and train the next-generation of data-driven life scientists in Sweden. The program is funded with a total of 3.3 billion SEK over 12 years from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The DDLS program has four strategic areas: cell and molecular biology, evolution and biodiversity, precision medicine and diagnostics, epidemiology and biology of infection.

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Meet: Mojgan Seraji, Collaboration Manager; Ulrika Wallenquist, Project coordinator

SEBx is SEB’s innovation studio, heavily focused on Research and Development within Machine Learning for finance. The team includes experts with an academic background in Machine Learning, as well as business experts and software developers. Currently, our focus areas include using Generative AI and Agentic systems, and Graph Machine Learning for complex decision making, Cybersecurity, as well as time series analysis and predictive modeling for Machine Learning in Finance.

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Meet: Anastasia Varava, PhD

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) is responsible for helping society prepare for major accidents, crises and the consequences of war. Our work is led by a Director General appointed by the Swedish Government. We have approximately 1300 employees working in Sweden.

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Meet: Jon Gustafsson, Unit Manager Critical Communications; Veronica Asplund, Marketing Manager Critical Communications

The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) is a government agency conducting world-renowned research within the fields of defence and security. Our mission is to generate knowledge and provide specialist support, based on the latest research, to advance and innovate Sweden’s military and civil defence, build resilience in society and meet future defence and security needs.

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Meet: Madeleine Filander, Communications strategist

Testa Center is a Swedish non­profit, open access innovation hub for biological production, available for academic researchers, start-ups, SMEs and large industry. Clients come to Testa Center to access the bioproduction environment which includes industry standard, state-of-the-­art equipment, infrastructure and expertise. In Testa Center, innovation projects can organically build value through pilot testing for scalability/manufacturability, control or reduce risk before entering a GMP production, gain speed towards market and/or generate large amounts of material for research and development.

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Meet: Alexandra Patriksson, Science Relations Manager; Jesper Hedberg, CEO; Edo Avdic, Head of IT & Digital

TRATON R&D is the central research and development organization supporting the four TRATON brands: Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus. Our mission is to drive innovation across a range of focus areas—including automation—to enable safe, efficient, and sustainable transport solutions for the future. We have already launched an autonomous transport system for mining operations, and we are now advancing toward a solution for hub-to-hub goods transportation—enabling fully driverless operations between logistics centers. At the WASP Academia and Industry Days, we look forward to showcasing some of our latest research in this area, including our exploration of foundation models and their potential applications in autonomous transport.

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Meet: Henrik Pettersson, Vice President of Business Development; Truls Nyberg, Industrial PhD Student; Thomas Gustafsson, Expert Engineer; Azra Habibovic, Technology Leader Human Factors & Automation

Voyado Customer Experience Platform connects customer data with product intelligence enabling personalized marketing, optimized shopping experiences and long-lasting loyalty. We turn data into lasting loyalty.

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Meet: Magnus Broeders, Engineering Manager

WARA Media and Language (WARA M&L) showcases collaborative projects at the intersection of academia and industry. Our work spans conversational AI, multimodal foundation models, and AI tools for creative professionals. We are here to connect, hear about your challenges and ideas, and explore how the arena can support your AI projects. This event also marks the public launch of the WARA M&L Hub: our new digital platform for collaboration. Come by to learn more and get involved!

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Meet: Johanna Björklund, Project Manager, WARA M&L / Assoc. Prof, Umeå University

WARA Medicine will be introduced, its rationale and operation model presented and that we are open to discuss potential collaborations with all WASP affiliated academics. In addition, the research infrastructures that can be accessed through WARA Medicine at the participating companies will be described

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Meet: Ola Engkvist, Executive Director, Head of Molecular AI, AstraZeneca; Alexandra Patriksson, Science Relations Manager, Testa Center; Andreas Borgström, Cytiva

The aim of WARA-Ops is to bring together Swedish industry and WASP academics to solve challenges, develop new methods and projects in data-driven operational research.
The ambition is to create a national platform for sharing data and addressing data-driven operations. We work with topics around design and deployment of resilient and efficient large scale systems and infrastructure.

Visit us and see how you can be involved in WARA-Ops and use our platform and portal to advance your research.

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Meet: Johan Eker and Paul Townend, Project Managers; Robert Marklund and Torgny Holmberg, AI and cloud experts; Joakim Persson, LLM expert

WASP Research Arena for Public Safety (WARA PS) focuses on heterogenous agents of all domains – ranging from space to underwater – collaborating with humans in public safety related scenarios. Our goal is to test and develop solutions that enhance safety, efficiency, and decision-making in complex, high-stakes environments

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Meet: Emma Jonsson, Project Manager; Jesper Tordenlid, Project Manager; Katarina Iversen, UX design and PhD contact

WISE is a research program enabling sustainable technologies with positive impact on our society by understanding, creating, and controlling complex materials concentrating on four key thematic areas i) Energy; ii) Circularity and replacement; iii) Climate and environment iv) Discovery

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Meet: Magnus Svensson, WIRA Director

We develop software for advanced driver assistance and self-driving capabilities. We work closely with Volvo Cars to deliver a safe, reliable, and driver-friendly solution. AI is central to our software and is improving many features. As we continuously incorporate more AI into our technology and development, we prioritize safety above all else. We have an industrial PhD program with about 12 students continuously.

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Meet: Veronika Nihlén, Head of Communication; Jonas Ekmark, Tech and Collaboration; William Ljungberg, Adam Lilja, Carl Lindström, Ind. PhD Students

The affiliated groups of excellence at Örebro University consists of six research groups that concentrate on excellent research on the integration of AI and robotics; that means we work on intelligent autonomous systems with a focus on their perceptual, cognitive and social capabilities. These groups have a strong tradition of working in close collaboration with industrial and academic partners in Sweden and around the world.

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Meet: Franziska Klügl, Professor; Martin Magnusson, Professor; Todor Stoyanov, Associate Professor