FIRST HEADLINERS 2022

Paolo Rosso - Language models and natural language processing for the detection of fake news and conspiracy theories.
Paolo Rosso, Professor and Head of the Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Lab at the Technical University of Valencia.
NorwAI Innovate will do a deep dive into NLP at this conference.
Paolo Rosso's research interests are focused on social media data analysis, mainly on fake news and hate speech detection, author profiling, and sarcasm detection to mention a few. 

Francisca Hoyer - GPT SW-3, developing large-scale language models for the Swedish language.
Francisca Hoyer, Ph.D, Strategic Program Manager NLU @AI Sweden.
Francisca heads the Swedish national project for establishing a GPT-3 language model - we will look into the Scandinavian race for national language models and present NorwAI' own work to build a giga Norwegian language model. 

Fiona Coath - Meet the people fighting surveillance capitalism 
Fiona Coath, Thoughtworks, consultant and international key note speaker.
Her passion for social justice and equality keeps inspiring her to investigate the relationships between technology and society. Recently she is exploring the role that the technology industry plays in shaping our perceptions of the world and how this enables them to alter the political landscape. How do we protect privacy from power and profit, Fiona asks. 

Martin Svensson - AI the Swedish way – Sweden's AI innovation program to accelerate the use of AI
Martin Svensson is Co-director Operations AI Sweden.
From his office in Gothenburg, Martin Svensson has build a network across Sweden with nine regional AI lighthouses serving 120 companies, institutions and organizations to speed up AI innovations in our neighboring country. He is eager to expand the international network, recently opened an office in Montreal, Canada and is looking for cooperation across borders, for instance with Norway.  
NorwAI Innovate will give insight in both academic and industry work in AI in Sweden. 

Call for posters - NorwAi Innovates invites to a Poster Demo. Awards!
10 of the most promising next generation AI topheads will be invited by the jury to pitch their work from the NorwAI Innovate main stage. At the poster stands, people meet and greet, discuss and argue, relate og plan for further works.  Join the competition and promote your best idea!

Hackathon competition organized by NorwAI partner Cognite. Awards. Go to invitation.
The hackathon will take place three days before the  conference, giving you an opportunity to follow the conference itself after putting your best efforts into the competition.