Speed Networking
On the first day of the conference, October 13 at 16:15-18:30, participants will have the opportunity to join a new feature for this year’s event: Speed Networking. Designed to bring together representatives from academia and industry, this structured networking activity offers an efficient way to make new connections and explore potential collaboration opportunities.
Each meeting slot lasts six minutes, and each company will have a total of eight scheduled meetings. As an academic participant you will pre-book the companies and organizations you wish to meet when you register.
See the participating companies below.
Represented companies
ABB Robotics Research
ABB Robotics is one of the world’s leading robotics suppliers, offering a comprehensive and integrated portfolio that includes industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), controllers, application solutions, services, and equipment. Powered by our intelligent software, our technologies help businesses across industries from automotive to electronics and logistics to become more resilient, flexible, efficient. ABB Robotics is one of the world’s leading robotics supplier. Visit website
AI4S AB
We strive to enable excellent scientific research, by ensuring that research groups with ongoing grants from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation get support to integrate AI in their research. Visit website
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is one of the leading research-driven biopharmaceutical companies to span the entire value chain of a medicine from discovery, early- and late-stage development to manufacturing and distribution, and the global commercialisation of primary care and specialty care medicines that transform lives. The company has over 90 000 employees including over 12 000 in R&D and is an acknowledged leader in developing novel medicines. Visit website
Bitcraze AB
Bitcraze is a Swedish robotics company and creator of the open-source Crazyflie ecosystem, a nano-sized drone platform used by universities, research institutes, and R&D teams worldwide. With full access to hardware, firmware, software, and communication protocols, researchers can develop, reproduce, and share work in areas such as swarm robotics, autonomy, AI, navigation, and human-robot interaction. Visit website
Electronic Arts (EA)
Electronic Arts is the world’s leading video game company, founded in 1982. EA is the creator of major franchises like EA SPORTS FC (formerly FIFA), The Sims, Battlefield, Need for Speed, and Apex Legends. Visit website
Parsd AB
Parsd augments human intelligence rather than replacing it. Our Swedish digital research platform helps analysts and researchers turn information overload into trustworthy insights, on deadline. By grounding generative AI in curated, reliability-rated sources with full digital provenance, every conclusion stays traceable and verifiable. An industrial partner within WARA Media & Language, Parsd serves higher education, the public sector and enterprise focusing on the Nordics and EU. Visit website
Siftlab
Sift Lab provides B2C companies with an AI intelligence layer for analytics, sales, and marketing that turns raw customer data into decisions agents and analysts can act on. Built on graph machine learning research at Umeå University, its semantic, neural, and pattern layers jointly optimize which customers and products to target. A purpose-built data engine keeps these workloads economical at scale. Deployed at 30+ Nordic B2C companies. Visit website
Testa Center
TESTA Center in Uppsala is an open innovation and test facility for the development and scaling of biomanufacturing. The center supports both academia and industry with advanced infrastructure, expertise, and training in biotechnology, process development, and digitalization, enabling a faster path from research to commercial production. Visit website
WASP Research Arena AI Training and Inference Compute at Scale (WARA AI-TRICS)
The WASP Research Arena AI Training and Inference Compute at Scale (WARA AI-TRICS) brings researchers and industry into close collaboration, focusing on real‑world data, systems, and challenges where both advanced research and powerful computing capacity are required to drive progress.
Three key areas have been identified as particularly important:
- AI foundation models for industry and society
- AI at Scale, applying AI to massive industrial datasets
- New methods, such as physics‑informed AI
WASP Research Arenas (WARA) offer increased research impact and potential for industrially significant breakthroughs. A unique opportunity to validate and refine scientific theories in real-world settings that are relevant to industries. Visit website
WASP Research Arena for Public Safety (WARA PS)
The WASP Research Arena WARA PS focuses on heterogeneous system-of-systems in joint operation to handle complex scenarios around public safety. This includes unique autonomous vehicles and sensors in true multi-domain; in the air and space, on ground, on water and underwater. Collaboration between experienced engineers, researchers and real users ensures important use cases for industry and society as well as challenging research to be tested in real environment.
WASP Research Arenas (WARA) offer increased research impact and potential for industrially significant breakthroughs. A unique opportunity to validate and refine scientific theories in real-world settings that are relevant to industries. Visit website
WASP Research Arena for Operational Data (WARA Ops)
WARA-Ops is bringing together Swedish industry and academia to solve challenges in data-driven operational research. We have regular events and workshops, and we provide a portal where data/models can be stored, annotated, and analysed.
WASP Research Arenas (WARA) offer increased research impact and potential for industrially significant breakthroughs. A unique opportunity to validate and refine scientific theories in real-world settings that are relevant to industries. Visit website
WASP Research Arena for Media and Language (WARA M&L)
The WASP research arena for Media and Language serves to promote world-class research in media AI, with a focus on multimodal data and interactive and creative technologies. It offers a cloud-based platform for benchmarking, data collection, and model hosting, as well as a modular framework for avatar construction.
WASP Research Arenas (WARA) offer increased research impact and potential for industrially significant breakthroughs. A unique opportunity to validate and refine scientific theories in real-world settings that are relevant to industries. Visit website
Welkin by Elastisys
Welkin by Elastisys is a cloud-native application platform for software critical to society, built for security, compliance, and digital sovereignty in regulated and critical sectors. Developed in Sweden by Elastisys, and fully under EU jurisdiction, Welkin runs consistently across any infrastructure and provides built-in regulatory controls. This enables teams to deploy and operate applications and AI workloads without cloud lock-in or platform complexity. Visit website
Zenseact AB
Zenseact is an applied automotive AI company developing world-leading safety software for AD and ADAS. Our technology encompasses every aspect of automation, from sensor fusion, computer vision, and object detection to positioning and actuation, using a combination of rule-based code and deep learning algorithms. Our ultimate vision is to help make car accidents a thing of the past – to create a day when all roads are safe, and lives are no longer lost to preventable accidents. Visit website