DAY 2 – WARA and EXPO

A vibrant company exhibition and demonstrations are the focus of day two. We spotlight the WASP Research Arenas, WARA, and the opportunities for collaboration they offer. All the WASP Research Arenas will be on-site to demonstrate ongoing projects and discuss collaboration possibilities.

WARA Robotics, driven by ABB, will give guided tours in their recently inaugurated manufacturing robotics lab. In addition, a guided tour in the ABB Robotics Experience Center is offered.

Program November 7

08:30 Plenary session – Insights from industry
Congress hall, floor 2

  • Niclas Sjöstrand, CTO, ABB Robotics
  • The intersection of AI research and automotive
    Henric Rhedin, Director External Research & Exploration Coordination, Volvo Cars
  • AI transforming telecom
    Jörgen Gustafsson, Head of AI Research, Ericsson
  • Startup stories – Creating true business value
    Charlotte Söderhjelm, CEO, Gavagai

10:00-15:45 Exhibition and guided tours at ABB including lunch and coffee
Floor 2 and bus tours

  • Demonstrations from WASP Research Arenas
  • Exhibition
  • Guided tour at ABB Robotics and Corporate Research

15:45-16:15 Closing session
Congress hall, floor 2


WASP Research Arenas Demos

WARA Media & Language

WARA M&L will demonstrate on-going research from the arena partners and affiliated research projects. This includes AI-driven game testing, interactive avatars, and AI-supported knowledge distillation systems. We will also share the animations produced by the WASP PhD students in this year’s summer school one the Synthesis of Human Communication.

WARA Operational Data

WASP Industry Days will host the first public demonstration of WARA-Ops – what resources are available to WASP researchers now, how they can be used, and what the plans are to expand the number of hosted datasets, as well as ongoing work on improving the data processing and storage infrastructure itself. WARA-Ops is a new research infrastructure available to all members of WASP – it provides operational datasets (currently focussed around themes of anomaly detection and data centre metrics) alongside a powerful data storage and processing environment based at the Ericsson Research Data Centre (ERDC).

WARA Robotics

WARA Robotics will give guided tours in the two working environments they offer. Navigation in dynamic workspaces using real and simulated mobile robots, and manipulators working in lab automation case-studies using collaborative robots will be showcased. In each of the demonstrations, active challenges and the available research resources provided by WARA Robotics is highlighted.

WARA Public Safety

WARA-PS will present the Core System and its capabilities in virtual demonstration of public safety related scenarios, with heterogenous agents collaborating to solve missions with unforeseen events. The demonstrations will also include in-depth presentations of our 3D environments, Core System functionality, and different tools available in the arena. These include the digital board game, made to create new scenarios, recording and replay of our missions, and our scenario builder used to showcase how we create mission in WARA-PS.