DAY 1 – WING DAY

WING Day (WASP Industry Networking Gathering Day) is a forum where company representatives meet WASP’s researchers and doctoral students to identify common research interests in group discussions and in spontaneous mingles. Presentations by international and national key experts from industry and academia add insights to the exchanges. The day concludes with a conference dinner.

Program November 6

Venue: Västerås Congress, Munkgatan 7, Västerås

11:00 Registration opens
Floor 1

12:00 Lunch
Entrance floor

13:00 Opening of conference and keynote talks
Congress Hall, floor 2

Moderator: Amy Loutfi, Co-director WASP
Welcome remarks: Anders Ynnerman, WASP Program Director, Shiva Sander-Tavallaey, Senior Principal Scientist in Applied Analytics, AI-Lead in Sweden, ABB

Keynotes:

  • Deval Pandya, Vice President of AI Engineering at Vector Institute, Toronto
    Title of talk: Responsible and Trustworthy AI- from Principles to Practice
    Bio and abstract
  • Ieva Martinkenaite, SVP Head of Research and Innovation, Telenor Group, Oslo
    Title of talk: AI journey of the telecom industry
    Bio and abstract
  • Ola Engkvist, Senior Director, Head of Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca
    Title of talk: Applying AI to Drug Design
    Bio and abstract

14:45  Coffee

15:15-16:00 Networking session part 1
Group rooms on floor 1 and 2

16:15-17:00 Networking session part 2
Group rooms on floor 1 and 2

17:00-19:00 Drop-in WARA After Work
Floor 2

19:00 Mingle and research poster exhibition followed by dinner at Västerås Congress
Entrance floor