Science Impact 2024 – tomorrow's solutions start today?

Spend a day with great science, innovation and networking opportunities at this meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry.? Topic: Artificial intelligence in life sciences and energy. The conference was a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2024.

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At this conference we focus on initiatives in academia and industry and the need for collaboration as well as framework conditions needed to put research to use for the benefit of patients and society.

In each session we have short introductions, panel debate and networking between speakers and attendees.

The conference in pictures

1 min. 51 sec. with music.

 

Programme

08:00–08:30 Registration and breakfast

Place: Area outside Forum auditorium

08:30–10:00 Impact Breakfast: The world of AI across life sciences and energy

Place: Forum auditorium

Solveig Klas Jan Lilja Fred Nikolai Ketil

  • Welcome to Science Impact 2024, Solveig Kristensen, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo (UiO)
  • AI between hype and hope, Klas H. Pettersen, CEO, NORA.ai Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium
  • AI from the perspective of GE Healthcare, Jan Wolber, PhD, Global Product Leader – Digital, GE Healthcare, UK
  • Norwegian Large Language Models: current status and the road ahead, Lilja ?vrelid, Professor, Department of Informatics, UiO
  • Why do we need mathematics in AI? – some thoughts from energy and risk, Fred Espen Benth, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UiO
  • Topositus – a novel method of data processing, Nikolai Opdan, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, UiO

Panel debate: Jan Wolber, Lilja ?vrelid and Ketil Widerberg, General Manager, Oslo Cancer Cluster

Chair: Klas H. Pettersen

10:00–10:30 Networking

Place: Area outside Forum auditorium

10:30–12:00 Parallel sessions on AI in life sciences and energy & digitalisation

AI for better solutions for mental health

Place: Forum auditorium

Sara Ulysse June KimAnna Jonas Markus Sindre Hanne

  • Bringing personalised medicine interventions to psychiatry, Sara Stinson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The REALMENT project, UiO and OUS
  • Forecasting impending mood relapses in bipolar disorder, Ulysse C?té-Allard, Associate Professor, Department of Technology Systems, UiO
  • RecoVRy: Artificial Intelligence powered Virtual Reality Therapy in Psychosis Treatment, June Ullevolds?ter Lystad, researcher, Oslo University Hospital and Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UiO
  • The role of chatbots in adolescents’ health literacy, Kim Kristoffer Dysthe, MD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Developing cutting edge solutions to put research to use, Anna Czerwinska, General Manager, Precision-Health.ai
  • Use of computational neuroscience in understanding mental disorders, Jonas Verhellen, PhD, Guest Researcher UiO
  • AI-Driven Virtual Training for Mental Health and Workforce Reintegration, Markus Haraldseid, CEO, Fornix

Panel debate: June Ullevolds?ter Lystad, Anna Czerwinska and Sindre Holme, Head of Communications, Norway Health Tech

Chair: Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

Energy systems and digitalisation – value chain from research to commercialisation

Place: Toppsenteret

John Kent Francesca Mathias Geir Per Omar Amir Tine Vebj?rn

  • The role of innovation and research in energy market operations, John Burkhart, Professor, Statkraft/Department of Geosciences, UiO
  • Computational Modelling and Machine Learning for Applications in Hydropower, Kent Andre Mardal, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UiO
  • Digital solutions to accelerate battery testing – the DigiBatt project, Francesca Watson, Research Scientist, SINTEF Digital
  • Academic-Municipal Collaboration on the Renewable Energy Transition: Automatic Control Experiments for Smart Cities in Lillestr?m, Mathias Hudoba de Badyn, Associate Professor, Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo
  • Privacy preserving Transactive Energy Management, Geir Horn, Senior Adviser, Department of Informatics, UiO
  • Digitalisation of hydrogen production, Per Omar Melilla, Chief Operating Officer, Zeg Power
  • Creating the Internet of Energy by Building Intelligent Virtual Power Plants Using Artificial Neural Networks, Amir Zarei, Founder, Qubit Energy

Panel debate: Tine U. N?rland, Research Director, IFE, John Burkhart, Geir Horn and Amir Zarei

Chair: Vebj?rn Bakken, Director, UiO: Energy and Environment

12:00–13:00 Networking and lunch

Place: Area outside Forum auditorium and Toppsenteret

13:00–14:30 Parallel sessions on AI in life sciences and energy & digitalisation

AI in diagnostics and treatment – from molecules to images

Place: Forum auditorium

Atle Jesper Torbj?rn Victor Kristin Javier Anita HIlde Helene

Panel debate: Atle Bj?rnerud, Jesper Ravn, Hilde Medb?e, Healthcare solutions manager, Novartis and Torbj?rn Furuseth

Chair: Helene Dugstad,Technology Strategy Manager Innovation, Inven2

Energy and resource requirements for digitalisation

Place: Toppsenteret

Sondre Signe Henrik Simen Michael Mali Ingrid

Panel debate: Mali Skogen, Michael Kirkedal Thomsen, Sondre Ronander and Signe Riemer-S?rensen

Chair: Ingrid Chieh Yu, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, UiO

14:30–15:00 Networking

15:00–16:30 Impact Afternoon: Sustainability aspects of the use of AI across life sciences and energy

Place: Forum auditorium

Henrik Anders Helga Frode Thordis Geir Kjetil Knut J?rgen Hilde Carina

  • The Twin Transition Explored, Henrik Skaug S?tra, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, UiO
  • Will AI make us stupid?, Anders Malthe-S?renssen, Professo, Center for Computing in Science Education, UiO
  • From Algorithms to Accountability: The AI Act and harmonized standards, Helga Br?gger, MD, AI Researcher, DNV
  • Better workflow and collaboration in future health care, Frode Strisland, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Digital and Associate Professor, Department of Physics, UiO
  • Climate Futures, Thordis Linda Thorarinsdottir, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UiO and Chief Research Scientist II, The Norwegian Computing Center (NR)
  • Climate health: Use of AI to better forecast climate related diseases, Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad Sandve, Professor, Department of Informatics, UiO
  • AI, ethics and impact: a reality check, Knut J?rgen Vie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, UiO
  • Closing remarks, Hilde Nebb, Director, UiO Growth House

Panel debate: Henrik Skaug S?tra, Helga Br?gger, Frode Strisland and Knut J?rgen Vie

Chair: Carina Hundhammer, Director of Community and Business Relations, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO

16:30–17:00 Networking with refreshments

Place: Area outside Forum auditorium

Organisers

  • Main organiser: UiO Growth House?
  • Internal partners: UiO:Energy and Environment, dScience, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences?
  • External partners: Inven2, SINTEF, Oslo University Hospital, City of Oslo, LMI, Oslo Cancer Cluster, The Life Science Cluster ?and Oslo Science Park?

See the programme from Science Impact 2023.

Questions?

Please contact the UiO Growth House, Norunn K. Torheim, Head of communications and public and external relations, at norunnt@uio.no

Published Jan. 9, 2024 11:11 AM - Last modified Sep. 30, 2024 9:42 AM