Speakers
CRISTINA ANDERSSON
MASTER IN ROBOTS
Cristina Andersson is an award winning and highly professional expert of leadership in the era of the new AiRo technologies. She is a WinCoach, visionary and an energy mobiliser, a true renaissance woman, who has studied her topics widely through classical singing, inventorship, ice-hockey and participating in social activities. She is a board member, teacher, trainer, a business consultant and a pioneer in social networking online. Cristina is an active blogger. Her books include ie. The Winning Helix (in English and in Finnish), a book of poems and BohoBusiness.
Specialties: Win*win(+win) a sustainable formula for winning. WinHoc a winning tactic based on initiating winning motions. business consultant since 1990. Non-fiction author, her published works include Boho Business (Talentum 2012) and The Winning Helix (WSOY 2008)
· Co-founder of the Airo Island association that focuses on innovation and business in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
· Has given lectures on the future of work at, among others, the European Parliament and Commission.
· Coordinator of Finnish National AiRo programme for the mInistry of Healthcare and Social Affairs.
· Leisure interests include classical singing and poetry.
Cristina Andersson
Morten Jacobsen
School at Nordens Plads
Robotics-craftsman & Technology Scout, Skolen ved Nordens Plads (K12 school for children with special needs). Morten Jacobsen is an award-winning robotics-craftsman and technology scout at Skolen ved Nordens Plads, which is a K-12 school for children with special needs in Copenhagen, Denmark. Morten is a trained teacher but for the last 10 years, he has specialized in finding and implementing technology in the educational sector. Morten’s main focus is on the possibilities that new technology creates for students and in 2017 he won the prestigious “Teacher of the Year” award and the Frederiksberg Municipality “Innovation Award”. Furthermore, he’s a sought-after speaker, who among other appearances has spoken at the SingularityU Denmark summit in 2017 and The BETT show in London.
Morten Jacobsen
Benedikte Kiær
Borgmester i Helsingør
”Brugen af robotteknologi rummer næsten uanede muligheder i fremtiden. Både for det private erhvervsliv og for den offentlige sektor. Vi har allerede mange virksomheder, uddannelsestilbud og kommunale arbejdspladser, der er dygtige til at udnytte det potentiale, den moderne teknologi – ikke mindst robotter – giver. Jeg er derfor rigtig glad for, at Helsingør Kommune nu danner rammen for en stor konference om robotteknologi, der forhåbentlig kan tiltrække mange talere og virksomheder fra hele verden, der kan bringe ny viden og nye kontakter til erhvervslivet i Nordsjælland.”
Benedikte Kiær
Harri Ketamo
Heidai
“Future of work: jobs might be lost, skills are forever”
We are facing the challenges of rapid change, global competition, digitalisation, and the replacement of human labour by intelligent automation. At the same time, companies are reporting talent shortage as one of the biggest challenge for business.
This nearly-chaotic work environment needs individual approaches for talent development, where all the existing personal knowledge, skills, competencies and work habits must be taken into account when planning the education or training for future workforce. There is no use to double-educate the skills that are already existing and there is no use to educate anything that is not needed any more.
Headai applies Big Data and Natural Language Processing to build micro-level understanding on knowledge, skills, competencies and abilities searched just now in business, industry and work. In other words, it build skills maps that can be used to e.g. i) predict changes in skills needs in general, ii) guide up-to-date curriculum development, iii) build individual career paths with micro-level-defined education/training suggestions and iv) provide AI-constructed training for these micro skills.
Harri Ketamo
Brian Mikkelsen, DK
Danish Chamber of Commerce
Brian Mikkelsen is CEO of Dansk Erhverv (The Danish Chamber of Commerce) and former member of the parliament, where he represented the Conservative People’s Party. He is former Minister of Business, Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Minister of Culture and Minister of Justice. Brian Mikkelsen has also been chairman of the conservative parliamentary group. He was in the Parliamentary Assembly 1994-2018.
Brian Mikkelsen is exited to represent one of Denmark’s largest business organizations. Their aim is to develop a sparkling business that earns money for investment in digitization, new technology and more employees.
Dansk Erhverv
Dansk Erhverv is a business organization and employer association for the future of business. They represent a wide range of companies and industry associations. It is the Danish Business’s vision to be the most important political representative and preferred advisor for business. Their mission is to create competitive power for their members in a globalized economy. Dansk Erhverv responds to the political interests of companies to all relevant authorities.
Brian Mikkelsen
Sebastion Duus, DK
CEO CreativeSights
CreativeSight, Drone Assisted Exterior Ship Inspection
Background
The project is initiated by leading Danish shipping companies today experiencing high resource consumption in the current inspection practice, where ships are manually inspected for damage and wear ifm. dockings and class. Damage and condition are assessed manually and documented by images taken with handheld camera with manual indication of approximate location.
Project
The project develops a combined soft and hardware solution that enables drone-assisted ship inspection. The project is the first in a planned program to realize autonomous inspection drones for ships. The project is carried out by CreativeSight in collaboration with some of Denmark’s leading droning specialists from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), who jointly develop the system. In the project, an agreement has been reached with DFDS on ongoing testing of the system, so that user experience is continuously gained during the development. This ensures that the developed solution creates optimal value for the upcoming users of the product. There is already an interest in the project from several shipping companies and classification societies that will be involved in the project in different ways.
Expected results
CreativeSight’s ambition in the project is to develop well-functioning soft and hardware prototypes, which are tested in a normal usage scenario. The goal is to develop a solution that will initially ensure external inspections by docking carried out much faster and with far greater quality than current manual processes. Dronen does not replace the inspector, but instead offers an effective tool that supports its work while ensuring data and documentation that allow for the development of the ship’s surface over time
Sebastian Duus
Eduard Villaronga, UK
Microsoft Cloud Computing
Have you thought about the implications of care automatization?
In this talk Eduard Villaronga will reflect upon the growing use of artificial intelligent (AI) and robot technologies for healthcare purposes. Although recent studies support the adoption of robotic technologies for rehabilitation, therapy and care purposes, other research in different fields suggest that technology has a profound and alerting impact on us, and on our human nature. Indeed, technology shapes the way we think and we see the world, and also conditions the way we behave and interact between us and in the world. Eduard Villaronga will bring all these findings into the debate and will question to the audience whether the adoption of healthcare AI and robot technologies is what we want/need in society. His aim is to raise awareness of the possible impacts of this technology, and help steer the development and use of AI and robot technologies in care settings in the appropriate direction.
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga is currently at the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Center & the Center for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. He is investigating the legal and regulatory implications of the growing inter-dependence and interactions of tangible and virtual elements in cyber-physical systems comprising robots, clouds and humans. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Law, Governance and Technology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he created a conceptual framework for robot governance. Eduard holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) in Law, Science, and Technology, a prestigious interdisciplinary and international doctoral programme where he explored the ethical, legal and societal implications of the use of personal care robots.
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Eduard Villaronga
Peter Stany, S
Robotdalen
From idea to product through an effective innovation system. With broad expertise and an extensive network Robotdalen supports new robotics and technology solutions, from concepts to products ready for the market. Through operations in central Sweden, including test centers for collaborative robots, industrial robots and mobile robots in three different facilities, several products have seen the light of day. Robotalen also has a wide experience in development and implementation of welfare-technology solutions for the health care sector.
Peter Stany has been responsible for Robotdalen’s innovation program since 2010. He has a wide experience of entrepreneurship and innovation – in start-ups as well as large corporations and research institutions – from both Sweden and the USA.
Peter Stany
Nils Elmark
Inception
Successful implementation of robots is not about replacing people with intelligent machinery. It’s about dreaming new dreams, redesigning entire industries, inventing new business models and creating a new digital economy – perhaps even based on crypto currencies. These are some of the issues that Nils Elmark addresses in his presentation of a future scenario for robots and businesses. Nils Elmark is consulting futurist at Incepcion in London – a trend research consultancy that helps organisations develop new visions and business strategies.
Nils Elmark
Troels Dyhrman
Nordic manager Lego
Playing our way into the future. Why playful learning is one of the keys element to equip us with the skills needed in the 21st century.
Troels Dyhrman is Area Manager at LEGO Education, responsible for LEGO Education’s activities in Northern Europe and Iberia and is working with partners, universities and local governments to implement more playful hands-on learning. LEGO Education believe that learning through playful hands-on activities is a core method to develop the skills that students will need in the future both privately and in the labour market. LEGO Education’s philosophy has been developed and refined through 30 years based on research and collaboration with international universities; especially Tufts University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
Troels Dyhrman
Jes Broeng
Open Entrepreneurship
Jes Broeng is a serial high-tech entrepreneur, photonics scientist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU. He has extensive experience in applied research, business development, IPR and licensing, and sales (US, Europe, and Asia). Jes Broeng is co-founder of five start-ups: Crystal Fibre (now NKT Photonics), Norlase, Bifrost Communications, Aqubiq and OSAA Innovation. He was awarded the European Optics Prize in 1999 and DTU’s Innovation Award in 2016.
Jes Broeng
Thomas Langø
SINTEF
Thomas Langø is the Research Director for dept. of Medical Technology at SINTEF Technology and Society. He also coordinates the Norwegian National Advisory Unit for Ultrasound and Image-Guided therapy at St. Olav’s Hospital. His research area is image-guided therapy, intraoperative imaging and medical image analysis. He has published about 70 scientific papers in international journals and supervised several PhD candidates in collaboration with St. Olav’s Hospital and NTNU. Thomas Langø is also affiliated with The Operation Room of the Future and NorMIT at St. Olav’s Hospital.
Thomas Langø
Erik Hellström
Robotdalen
Project Manager at Robotdalen with 13 years of experience within industrial robotics and software development.
Robotics in Construction – Reinforcement assembly with industrial robots
The presentation will focus on the development of an robot automated reinforcement station for Skanska AB in Sweden. The overall goal with the project has been to develop a proof of concept for how industrial robots can be used to automatically assemble reinforcement cages for bridge pillars. A down scaled gantry system 6x4x2.5 meters has been developed to demonstrate the process and to evaluate both software and hardware tools.
Erik Hellström
Kenneth Larsen
Keystones
Keystones is a private member network with the purpose of making entrepreneurship available for many. We are a network of commercial people who love to create business and companies. Member are investors, serial entrepreneurs and experienced business leaders.
Kenneth Larsen
Silvia Tolu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Neuro-robotics: connecting body, environment and brain
Understanding the brain is a challenge that more than 100 research institutions in Europe are trying to achieve in the framework of one of the two largest scientific projects ever funded by the European union, the 10-years project called: The Human Brain. This project aims to map the human brain and create an ICT-based research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing. Among 13 sub-projects, the tenth is dedicated to Neuro-robotics in which researchers have created a platform for linking virtual brain models and simulated robot bodies. The main goal of the team at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is to get new insights into the brain’s connections ant its interactions with the body and surroundings, so that the brain is not only understood as a closed, abstract entity. We will discuss the brain and body relationship, and its importance on AI and robotics. Our approach is exemplified by bio-mimetic modular control architectures based on cerebellar internal models concept and machine learning optimisation that lead to a real-time control system. The system has been tested on different robotic platforms under both manipulation, visual, and locomotion tasks. This will be the state-of-the-art for more complex bio-inspired control architectures for neuro-robotics towards emulating the central nervous system functioning in motor control and learning.
Silvia Tolu
Marie Claire Capolei
DTU
Neuro-robotics: connecting body, environment and brain
Understanding the brain is a challenge that more than 100 research institutions in Europe are trying to achieve in the framework of one of the two largest scientific projects ever funded by the European union, the 10-years project called: The Human Brain. This project aims to map the human brain and create an ICT-based research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing. Among 13 sub-projects, the tenth is dedicated to Neuro-robotics in which researchers have created a platform for linking virtual brain models and simulated robot bodies. The main goal of the team at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is to get new insights into the brain’s connections ant its interactions with the body and surroundings, so that the brain is not only understood as a closed, abstract entity. We will discuss the brain and body relationship, and its importance on AI and robotics. Our approach is exemplified by bio-mimetic modular control architectures based on cerebellar internal models concept and machine learning optimisation that lead to a real-time control system. The system has been tested on different robotic platforms under both manipulation, visual, and locomotion tasks. This will be the state-of-the-art for more complex bio-inspired control architectures for neuro-robotics towards emulating the central nervous system functioning in motor control and learning.
Marie Claire Capolei will present together with Silvia Tolu
Marie Claire Capolei
Aviaja Lyngaard
Hopspots
Hopspots wants to create a more fun, healthy and moving school day, where children reach a higher level of learning. Hopspots wants to help children become digital natives.
Hopspots´s mission is to revolutionize the classroom and use technology in the physical space. Hopspots motivates children to play and learn through games and movement, and reaches the children at the right level. Children are equipped to co-create their own educational material instead of just consuming it.
Aviaja is the founder of the company and designer of Hopspots. Aviaja is passionated about development and has a Ph.D. from B&O. Her speciality is involving children in design processes and she loves to work and delevop with interesting people.
Aviaja Lyngaard
Bjarke Falk Nielsen
FIRST Scandinavia
FIRST Scandinavia´s purpose is to give young people good training and empowering experiences with technical and natural science, and thereby contribute to more pupils choosing scientific education. We do that through our 2 concepts, FIRST LEGO League and Newton Rooms.
In this talk, country manager Bjarke Falk Nielsen will shortly outline the 2 concepts, but also explain why this is important for the new generation of kids.
Bjarke Falk Nielsen
Monique v. d. Linde
CEO Opinar
For most organizations working with robot technology is a new development. So, topics that are relevant for a successful and sustainable embedding can be overlooked. Just because they are not experienced with it yet.Monique accompanies organizations who want to start using robot technology and advise them in choosing the right technology and set up and execute the project in a strategic and operational way. Until the technology is implemented and the organization is ready to continue themselves with the right knowledge and proper organization set up.
Her goal during Roboinsights is for people to go home with practical guidelines they can use within their own organization to contribute to a successful robot implementation. By the hand of case experience she will outline these guidelines for you.
Strive for a succesful Implementation and do not accept an acceptabele implementation!!
Monique v. d. Linde
Helle Rootzén
Head of learnT DTU Compute
Learning in the future will be more efficient, more deep and more fun
Abstract: learnT – Center for Digital Learning Technology – is a research and innovation center at DTU ( Danish Technical University) Compute working with learning analytics, educational data mining, learning design, learning theories, playful learning and ethics, as these areas are highly relevant to understand learning and develop effective, motivational and fun learning technology. In the future, we will need to learn continuously – a focus on ‘lifelong learning’ is thus important. Accordingly, learnT researches at all levels, from primary and lower secondary education to youth education, university education and continued education.
Helle Rootzén
Søren T. Hansen
Aalborg University
Researcher, author and analyst focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence
Background as industrial researcher in robotics and AI and award winning communicator
Søren is working to create business value through innovation projects, dissemination and international partnerships. He navigates in the intersection of international research, commercial activities and politics.
Experienced system developer and entrepreneur.
Søren Tranberg Hansen from Aalborg University will talk about Service Robots.
Søren T. Hansen
David Christensen
Shape Robotics
The Fable robot makes it fun and easy to teach 21st century skills and STEM
David Christensen from Shape Robotic will share the experience the company has had using the Fable robot in primary schools, secondary and higher education. Fable is a modular construction set that students can use to create a robot in few minutes. Students can click the different modules together in different ways to build their robot’s body, and give it senses and movement.
Depending on experience level, the students can program the robot with visual blocks (Blockly) or a text language (Python). Within just one lesson, the students can work with innovation to solve real-world problems.
David Johan Christensen, CEO and co-founder of Shape Robotics.
David holds a Master of Science and a PHD in Robotics and has more than 13 years experience in robotics from various positions at MIT Media Lab, Technical University of Denmark and more.
David Christensen
Sebastian Brandes
Brainsquad
Sebastian Brandes holds a M.Sc. degree in Economics and Quantitative Methods from Carlos III University of Madrid. He has worked for Microsoft where he held various position in Microsoft’s consulting and technical evangelism divisions in Denmark. Sebastian has worked with many companies listed in the NASDAQ OMXC20 index, which include companies such as Coloplast, Danske Bank, DSV, Pandora and Ørsted, and has a lot of experience with different business environments and IT landscapes.
Sebastian’s last position at Microsoft was IoT Lead in the Developer Experience and Evangelism division where he worked with innovative customers in the adoption of Microsoft’s offerings in the Internet of Things space. Working with customers who actively sought out new technology with the purpose of transforming their business inspired Sebastian to become an entrepreneur and build specific products to help organizations adopt new technologies such as AI and IoT.
At Brainsquad, Sebastian helps customers envision the business opportunities powered by AI and integrate AI-powered solutions into their existing workflows.
Sebastian Brandes
Michael S. Hansen
Brainsquad
Michael Sass Hansen holds a Ph.D. degree in Medical Image Analysis and a M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Denmark. He has been researching at Harvard University for two years during his postdoctoral studies in addition to having completed research stays at the Technical University of Madrid, the Technical University of Munich and Imperial College London. During Michael’s academic career he achieved a range of successes, including several high-impact research results as well as two Elite Research Prizesawarded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
Michael has also worked in the industry where he has developed solutions for autonomous driving and robot process automation in the agricultural sector as well as models for biometric verification using AI.
At Brainqsuad, he is applying his deep knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and Image Analysis to help customers gain a competitive edge by implementing solutions that help save costs and improve end-user experiences.
Michael S. Hansen
Falotico Egidio
Neurobotics
Falotico Egidio is from the BioRobotics Institute of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, founded in 2011. The Institute has built a vast wealth of knowledge and expertise in several fields of biorobotics, such as: social robotics, industrial robotics, assistive/rehabilitation/surgical robotics, neural engineering, cognitive systems, bio-inspired robots and their ethical, legal, social and economic implications. The Institute aims to act as a linking bridge among international centres of knowledge and to create a new concept of engineers that are scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and problem solvers.
Falotico Egidio
Lars Romann Engel
Hamlet Scene
CEO and Artistic Director, since 2008 at HamletScenen at Kronborg Castle & Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle.
20 years of experience as Stage Director, Teacher and Consultant with broad HR knowledge from the world of theater as well as the educationel institutions and the industry. Lars Romann has directed more than 45 performances, coached various employee groups, teached and lectured in many different contexts and developed several change management strategies and facilitated them.
Examples of Theatre Productions:
Queen G. Universe /Employee interactive identity project about Work/Life balance, HamletScenen
Frankenstein by Nick Dear, Aarhus Teater
King H. Universe /Senior interactive identity project about Leisure/Life balance, HamletScenen
The Dreamers by Karen Blixen, HamletScenen
Prince H. Universe /Youngsters interactive identity project about School/Life balance, HamletScenen
The Adventure of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlöf, HamletScenen
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, HamletScenen
Hamlet by W. Shakespeare at Kronborg Castle, Hamlet Sommer
The Four Devils by Herman Bang at Hofteatret, Christiansborg Castle
The Fireworkers Daughter by Philip Pullman, Aarhus Teater
Ulrike Meinhof sings by Christopher Barnett, Cafeteatret
The Magical Flute by W.A. Mozart, Ystadoperaen
Vacuumpacked people by Julie Thor Fryd, Kaleidoskop – K1
Harun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, Aarhus Teater
The Visitor by Niklas Rådström, Teater Plan B
House of the Doubleaxe with music by Dicte, Kanonhallen
Hand in hand by Sofia Freden, Mammutteatret
Little Ridinghood by Grim, New Delhi Repertory Theatre
Nano by Center of Art and Science, Syddansk Universitet
Specialties: Stage Directing and Corporate Communication Training. Development of Concepts, Scripts and intertaining Lectures.
The story about Hamlet as an icon of
Modern-Man-Reflection and the universal Identity project
Lars Romann Engel
Poul Møller
Chief Robotics Officer
Former CRO Chief Robotics Officer who has experience in implementing robotics in an organization will share with us the challenges met during the implementation and give good advice as to how HR and other managers/ leaders can implement robotics in an organization successfully.
Should God run a motorboat,
robots have a soul –
and you be reaching for your ancles by now?
Stories from the days when man and machines first started dating.
The answer is of course yes.
Hard to grasp? A bit like the future then. One might even propose there will be lessons learned included here. Perhaps even stretching to a gentle but swift kick to the bollocks for good measure. If done right – robotics is easy – thats just technology – it’s the humans, that are the real tricky bit. Managing modern organisations full of humans whose actual core identities are under siege, is key. Humans – not robots.
What it actually takes to successfully navigate horizonless seas – and do it viking style – is fundamentally straight forward . It just requires the impossible of most organisations – which is a shift from “sense making in Chaos” to “sense making out of Chaos”. Swapping world views is mega hard work, the possibilities for failure are way, way better than for those for succes. Screwing up such a sensitive development process is almost inevitable. Designing the process to always be recoverable, seems like a pretty good idea. Sooner or later Plato’s cave dellers will have to see the world of light directly. Yanking them out of the cave, kicking, screaming and cursing is one way to go. It guarantees results – only bad ones though. Leaving them in the Oval Office instead as a strategy, is currently being tested by the americans, I believe.
“The door to happiness opens outwards” as Kirkegaard reminds us.
Why does the HR department get the first kick to the bollocks?
Because they need to transform the fastest, the most and into something much more flavourfull. Don’t despair, cause and effect are no longer functioning as usual. The roles are shifting as are the key success factors. And when you then finally bend over to reach for the anceles, remember it’s only to pull up your socks. Not managing this probably will on the other hand turn literal.
So, who the hell am I? My name is Poul, and I know a little about robots. I also know a lot about humans and have seen the two get married and divorced again more times than is good for any priest. As a former CRO and innovation nutter for the health care sector, I tend to develop an eye for those, who are going to make it. That sends me around the world in a systems design or developing capacity.
“The door to happiness opens outwards."
Poul Møller
Henrik Toft
IBM
Transformation Architect – Pan-European CTO Team.
Henrik Toft will introduce IBM Watson to the audience – and show how it can be used by most companies.
Henrik has a broad background in IT both as a customer and vendor with a mix of technical, business and management skills. Joined IBM in 1998 and gained experience from Global Services and Software Group.
Proven track record of being trusted advisor to clients focused on transformation projects. Engages with a strong desire to understand the client’s business objectives, and in exchange prepared to offer skilled advice on Innovative IT and associated transformation considerations.
