Conference program Digital Tech Summit 2025

9:15  AM - 9:30  AM

Opening Keynote

Anders Overgaard Bjarklev - Rektor, Professor, ph.d., dr.techn. - DTU

AI, Electronics, Security

10:45  AM - 11:30  AM

AI and Formal Methods: From Academic Niche to the Tech Industry’s New Hope

Fabrizio Montesi - Professor & Director, - SDU / FORM
Albert Qiaochu Jiang - Head of Formal Reasoning - Mistral AI

11:45  AM - 12:30  PM

AI-native logistik: Hvordan DSV re-designer globale operationer med AI

Peter Mathiesen - Senior Director, Group Innovation, Mobility & Truck Technology - DSV

12:45  PM - 1:30  PM

Panel: The State of Digital Denmark 2026 - From Test Market to Technology Exporter

Niels Henrik Sodemann - Vice President & medstifter - EUCLORA
Andreas Holbak Espersen - Branchedirektør - DI Digital
Jan Madsen - Professor, Head of Department - DTU Compute
Christina Egelund - Forsknings-, uddannelses- og digitaliseringsminister - Regeringen

AI, Electronics, Security

1:45  PM - 2:30  PM

LEGO: AI, Automation, and the Hard Lessons of Scaling

Morten Lundsgaard Degn - Vice President - Digital Technology - The Lego Group

2:45  PM - 3:30  PM

Navigating AI in Nordea

Malthe Falck - Head of Group Digital - Nordea
Lotte Schiffer - Head of People, Group Technology and Denmark - Nordea

9:00  AM - 9:45  AM

Building Human Archive: Modeling Human Embodied Intelligence

Rushil Agarwal - CEO - Human Archive

AI, Electronics

10:00  AM - 10:45  AM

Danish breakthrough in green AI infrastructure: The supercomputer Bitten feeds waste heat into the district heating network

Sune Tornbo Baastrup - Senior Vice President & CIO - Danfoss
Claudio Pica - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) SDU

11:00  AM - 11:45  AM

Industrial AI at Scale: Achieving Automation Efficiency with Industrial-Grade Quality

Mario Trapp - Executive Director - Frauenhofer

AI, Electronics

12:00  PM - 12:45  PM

From Factory to Defence: How Danish Industry Adapts to Europe's New Security Reality

Paul Henrik Østergaard - Senior Adviser - Artificial Intelligence - Danish Defence Command
Steen Søndergaard - Chief Scientist - NATO
Christine Nellemann - Prorektor - DTU
Thomas Hofman-Bang - CEO - Industriens Fond
Lars Bo Larsen - Direktør - Nationalt Forsvarsteknologisk Center (NFC)
Mark Fiedel - Chef for Cybersikkerhed - Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste

9:45  AM - 10:15  AM

Multi-modal AI from a Computer Vision Perspective (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Anders Dahl - Professor, sektionsleder for Visual Computing - DTU Compute

10:30  AM - 11:00  AM

Multimodal AI in Autonomous Systems: From Insight to Action (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Roberto Galeazzi - Associate Professor, Group Leader, Head of DTU Centre for Collaborative Autonomous Systems - DTU Electro

11:15  AM - 11:45  AM

Agentic AI: From Automation to Autonomous Decision-Making (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Nicki Skafte Detlefsen - Associate professor - DTU Compute

12:00  PM - 12:30  PM

Working with Agentic AI: A Field Perspective from the Frontline (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Sebastian Thielke - Lead UX Designer & Frontend Engineer - ChatTutor

12:45  PM - 1:15  PM

Physics AI: Rethinking How Industry Innovates (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Allan Peter Engsig-Karup - Associate professor - DTU Compute
Spyros Chatzivasileiadis - Professor - DTU Wind

1:30  PM - 2:00  PM

Physics AI in Practice: Accelerating Industrial Breakthroughs (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Cheol-Ho Jeong - Associate Professor - DTU Electro

9:45  AM - 10:15  AM

You Can't Improve What You Can't See: Process Mining for AI and Cybersecurity (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Andrea Burattin - Associate Professor - DTU Compute
Nicola Dragoni - Professor, Head of Section, Deputy Director - DTU Compute
Sisse Houlberg Winther - Lead Value Engineer - Celonis

10:30  AM - 11:00  AM

Cyber-Physical Security and Autonomous Systems: Securing the Next Generation of Industry (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Roberto Galeazzi - Associate Professor, Group Leader, Head of DTU Centre for Collaborative Autonomous Systems - DTU Electro

11:15  AM - 11:45  AM

AI & Computing Continuum: Building the Infrastructure for Intelligent Industry (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Sven Karlsson - Professor - DTU Compute

12:00  PM - 12:30  PM

Computing Continuum and AI in Practice: From Cloud to Edge in Real-World Operations (DTU Industrial AI Program)

Sven Karlsson - Professor - DTU Compute

2:15  PM - 2:45  PM

Could a cyberattack paralyze Denmark?

Peter Mayer - Associate Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU.
Oksana Kulyk - Associate Professor - IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)

Security

9:30  AM - 10:00  AM

Decoding the Night: How the AI Foundation Model Transforms sleep recordings into an Early Warning System for Future Disease Risk?

Poul Jørgen Jennum - Professor - Rigshospitalet

11:00  AM - 11:30  AM

How can big data improve the lives of people living with inflammatory bowel disease?

Marie Vestergaard - Ph.D. - Aalborg Universitet

11:45  AM - 12:15  PM

AI gør ikke kun det svære lettere. Det gør det umulige muligt.

Malthe Reipurth - Partner - Black Capital Technology

12:30  PM - 1:00  PM

Når AI møder organisationens virkelighed: Fra potentiale til praksis

Katrine Fejerskov - Chefkonsulent og projektleder, Center for HR og Uddannelse - Region Hovedstaden
Rikke Waldorff - Kompetencekonsulent - Ingeniørforeningen, IDA

1:15  PM - 1:45  PM

The Future of AI in Healthcare Is When We Stop Talking About AI

Stine Mølgaard - Partner - Alliance VC

3:30  PM - 4:00  PM

Michael Kastoryano - Associate Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen

10:15  AM - 10:45  AM

Physical AI for Mental Health: From Emotion-Aware AI to Immersive Digital Healing

Hemant Ghayvat - Associate Professor and Director of Emerging Health for Technology. - Roskilde Universitet

9:45  AM - 10:15  AM

Software Engineering for AI

Tiziano Santilli - Post Doc - MMMI, Software Engineering, SDU
Francesco Daghero - Post Doc - MMMI, Software Engineering, SDU
Sani Abdullahi - Assistant Professor - MMMI, Center for Industrial Software, SDU
Maximilian von Zastrow - Assistant Professor - MMMI, Center for Industrial Software, SDU

10:30  AM - 11:00  AM

Generative AI in Software Development: Productivity Boost or Meaningfulness Risk?

Oliver Krancher - Full professor - ITU

11:15  AM - 12:30  PM

Optimal Design Automation for a Quantum Software Stack

Ulrik Hoff - Quantum Engagement Specialist - Kvantify
Jaco van de Pol - Professor - AU
Christian Schilling - Associate Professor - AAU

12:45  PM - 1:15  PM

The Invisible Cost of AI. How AI Can Create Tomorrow’s Software Crisis

Valentina Lenarduzzi - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU Vejle.
Davide Taibi - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU Vejle.

1:30  PM - 2:00  PM

Self-Optimizing Data Systems: From Data Warehouses to AI Pipelines

Zoi Kaodi - Associate professor - ITU
Martin Hentschel - Associate professor - ITU

9:45  AM - 10:15  AM

Breaking the walls of messaging apps: challenges and opportunities of messaging interoperability

Carla Florencia Griggio - Assistant Professor - AAU

10:30  AM - 11:00  AM

Artificial intelligence in real-world systems

Edouard Rolland - Phd. Student - UAS Centre, SDU.
Johannes Koch - Assistant Professor - SDU Center for Energy Informatics (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)

11:15  AM - 11:45  AM

The Mind as Interface, and the Hard Problems Underneath

Paolo Burelli - Associate professor - ITU

12:00  PM - 12:30  PM

Digital Twins and Machine Learning for Resilient Water Infrastructure

Jes Vollertsen - Professor - AAU
Kim Guldstrand Larsen - Professor - AAU

2:15  PM - 2:45  PM

Digital Self-Determination through Federated Nanoservers

Florian Echtler - Associate Professor - AAU

3:00  PM - 3:30  PM

Automation in the care sectors: who’s making automation work?

Jette Ernst - Associate Professor of Organisation and Leadership at the Department of Social Science and Business - Roskilde Universitet
Benjamin Lipp - Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies - DTU

9:30  AM - 10:00  AM

Reducing Resource Costs of Frontier AI by Identifying and Managing AI-Waste (Green AI)

Sophia Natasha Wilson - PhD - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen
Emil Njor - Assistant Professor - The Faculty of Engineering, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU Centre for Software Technology, University of Southern Denmark

11:45  AM - 12:15  PM

Can AI Help Midwives Make Better Decisions?

Ada Scupola - Professor (mso) of Business Studies - Roskilde Universitet
Jon Sundbo - Professor of Innovation - Roskilde Universitet
Monica Ladekarl - PhD and is a midwife and researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital – Hvidovre, Denmark - Amager og Hvidovre Hospital
John Damm Scheuer - Associate professor at the Institute for Social Sciences and Business - Roskilde University

12:30  PM - 1:00  PM

Anonymization is all you need – or is it? From privacy in theory to privacy in practice

Boel Nelson - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen
Louise Skovdal - IT Privacy Manager and Lead Data Ethics Responsible - Enterprise IT in Novo Nordisk

1:15  PM - 1:45  PM

Seeing the Unspoken: Teaching Multimodal Models to "Think Before They Speak" with Human Eye Movement

Yiyi Chen - Research Assistant - AAU

2:00  PM - 2:30  PM

Prediction Markets and Strategic Foresight

Matthew J. Spaniol - Senior Researcher in Strategic Foresight - Roskilde Universitet

2:45  PM - 3:15  PM

AI for Sustainability

Aparna Varde - Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU
Michel Albonico - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU
Noura Lena Howell - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU

3:30  PM - 4:00  PM

BikeNetKit: Open Bicycle Network Algorithms for boosting the Green Transition of European Cities

Micheal Szell - Associate professor - ITU

10:15  AM - 10:45  AM

Grounding AI Innovation in Organisational Data Reality

Tariq Osman Andersen - Associate Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Hubert Dariusz Zajac - Postdoc - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen
Christian Alexander K. Hasselsteen - Data & IT Project Manager - Simply Chocolate

11:00  AM - 11:30  AM

More Is Different: Emergence, Multi-Agent AI, and the Limits of What We Can Measure

Daniel Russo - Associate Professor - AAU

11:45  AM - 12:15  PM

Energy efficiency of maritime operations with scheduling models and algorithms.

Line Reinhardt - Associate professor in computer science and head of the Centre for Maritime and Marine Research at Roskilde University - Roskilde Universitet

12:45  PM - 1:15  PM

From Excel to AI: How Big Data Is Changing Production Planning

Vytautas Siozinys, PhD - CEO - Energy Advice

Akkodis Edge Denmark A/S

602

Visit Akkodis Edge at stand 602 to explore how connectivity, AI, and resilient digital infrastructure can help solve real-world challenges. We look forward to meeting customers, partners, students, and technology enthusiasts throughout the summit.

IDA

200

Test din fremtid med AI og specialistviden hos IDA - stand 200 Hos IDA tror vi på, at fremtidens arbejdsmarked ikke kun handler om teknologi, men om samspillet mellem AI og stærke specialistkompetencer. Besøg vores stand og få personlig indsigt i begge dele. Test din AI-profil med IDAs AI-kompetencemodel Hvordan vil AI påvirke din rolle og dine karrieremuligheder? Prøv IDAs AI-kompetencemodel og få et indblik i, hvordan AI påvirker netop din faglighed. Modellen hjælper dig med at forstå, hvor du står i dag, hvilke AI-kompetencer der bliver vigtige i fremtiden, og hvordan du kan udvikle dig for at skabe værdi sammen med AI. Find din specialistprofil Hvilken type specialist er du? Tag IDAs Specialist Assessment Tool og få indsigt i dine faglige styrker, præferencer og udviklingsmuligheder. Værktøjet giver dig et personligt billede af, hvordan du arbejder som specialist, og hvor du har størst potentiale for at udvikle dig. Udforsk IDAs Specialist Pipeline Specialister skaber innovation, løser komplekse problemer og driver udviklingen fremad. På standen kan du blive klogere på IDAs Specialist Pipeline, som beskriver forskellige specialistretninger og karriereveje. Få inspiration til din egen udvikling og se, hvordan du kan styrke din faglige profil gennem målrettet kompetenceudvikling. Mød IDA Tal med vores rådgivere om AI, specialist-karrieren og kompetenceudvikling Vi hjælper dig med at omsætte indsigt til konkrete muligheder for din fremtidige udvikling. Besøg IDAs stand og test både din AI-profil og din specialistprofil – og få ny indsigt i fremtidens kompetencer.

Nordcad

808

We are hosting a session on AI in electronics development, more specifically, "AI in your design flow". Here, we'll talk about automation, generative assistance, and early autonomous agents in ECAD software — and what it means for how your team designs.

Main Stage

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Opening Keynote	Anders Overgaard Bjarklev - Rektor, Professor, ph.d., dr.techn. - DTU
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	AI and Formal Methods: From Academic Niche to the Tech Industry’s New Hope	Fabrizio Montesi - Professor & Director, - SDU / FORM Albert Qiaochu Jiang - Head of Formal Reasoning - Mistral AI
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	AI-native logistik: Hvordan DSV re-designer globale operationer med AI	Peter Mathiesen - Senior Director, Group Innovation, Mobility & Truck Technology - DSV
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM	Panel: The State of Digital Denmark 2026 - From Test Market to Technology Exporter	Niels Henrik Sodemann - Vice President & medstifter - EUCLORA Andreas Holbak Espersen - Branchedirektør - DI Digital Jan Madsen - Professor, Head of Department - DTU Compute Christina Egelund - Forsknings-, uddannelses- og digitaliseringsminister - Regeringen
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	LEGO: AI, Automation, and the Hard Lessons of Scaling	Morten Lundsgaard Degn - Vice President - Digital Technology - The Lego Group
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	Navigating AI in Nordea	Malthe Falck - Head of Group Digital - Nordea Lotte Schiffer - Head of People, Group Technology and Denmark - Nordea

Thursday, November 5, 2026
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Building Human Archive: Modeling Human Embodied Intelligence	Rushil Agarwal - CEO - Human Archive
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Danish breakthrough in green AI infrastructure: The supercomputer Bitten feeds waste heat into the district heating network	Sune Tornbo Baastrup - Senior Vice President & CIO - Danfoss Claudio Pica - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) SDU
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Industrial AI at Scale: Achieving Automation Efficiency with Industrial-Grade Quality	Mario Trapp - Executive Director - Frauenhofer
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM	From Factory to Defence: How Danish Industry Adapts to Europe's New Security Reality	Paul Henrik Østergaard - Senior Adviser - Artificial Intelligence - Danish Defence Command Steen Søndergaard - Chief Scientist - NATO Christine Nellemann - Prorektor - DTU Thomas Hofman-Bang - CEO - Industriens Fond Lars Bo Larsen - Direktør - Nationalt Forsvarsteknologisk Center (NFC) Mark Fiedel - Chef for Cybersikkerhed - Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste

Theater 1

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Multi-modal AI from a Computer Vision Perspective (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Anders Dahl - Professor, sektionsleder for Visual Computing - DTU Compute
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Multimodal AI in Autonomous Systems: From Insight to Action (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Roberto Galeazzi - Associate Professor, Group Leader, Head of DTU Centre for Collaborative Autonomous Systems - DTU Electro
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	Agentic AI: From Automation to Autonomous Decision-Making (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Nicki Skafte Detlefsen - Associate professor - DTU Compute
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Working with Agentic AI: A Field Perspective from the Frontline (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Sebastian Thielke - Lead UX Designer & Frontend Engineer - ChatTutor
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM	Physics AI: Rethinking How Industry Innovates (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Allan Peter Engsig-Karup - Associate professor - DTU Compute Spyros Chatzivasileiadis - Professor - DTU Wind
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Physics AI in Practice: Accelerating Industrial Breakthroughs (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Cheol-Ho Jeong - Associate Professor - DTU Electro

Thursday, November 5, 2026
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM	You Can't Improve What You Can't See: Process Mining for AI and Cybersecurity (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Andrea Burattin - Associate Professor - DTU Compute Nicola Dragoni - Professor, Head of Section, Deputy Director - DTU Compute Sisse Houlberg Winther - Lead Value Engineer - Celonis
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Cyber-Physical Security and Autonomous Systems: Securing the Next Generation of Industry (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Roberto Galeazzi - Associate Professor, Group Leader, Head of DTU Centre for Collaborative Autonomous Systems - DTU Electro
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	AI & Computing Continuum: Building the Infrastructure for Intelligent Industry (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Sven Karlsson - Professor - DTU Compute
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Computing Continuum and AI in Practice: From Cloud to Edge in Real-World Operations (DTU Industrial AI Program)	Sven Karlsson - Professor - DTU Compute
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM	Could a cyberattack paralyze Denmark?	Peter Mayer - Associate Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU. Oksana Kulyk - Associate Professor - IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)

Theater 2

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Decoding the Night: How the AI Foundation Model Transforms sleep recordings into an Early Warning System for Future Disease Risk?	Poul Jørgen Jennum - Professor - Rigshospitalet
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	How can big data improve the lives of people living with inflammatory bowel disease?	Marie Vestergaard - Ph.D. - Aalborg Universitet
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	AI gør ikke kun det svære lettere. Det gør det umulige muligt.	Malthe Reipurth - Partner - Black Capital Technology
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	Når AI møder organisationens virkelighed: Fra potentiale til praksis	Katrine Fejerskov - Chefkonsulent og projektleder, Center for HR og Uddannelse - Region Hovedstaden Rikke Waldorff - Kompetencekonsulent - Ingeniørforeningen, IDA
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM	The Future of AI in Healthcare Is When We Stop Talking About AI	Stine Mølgaard - Partner - Alliance VC
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Why quantum related methods will eventually be mainstream in computational finance.	Michael Kastoryano - Associate Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen

Thursday, November 5, 2026
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Physical AI for Mental Health: From Emotion-Aware AI to Immersive Digital Healing	Hemant Ghayvat - Associate Professor and Director of Emerging Health for Technology. - Roskilde Universitet

Theater 3

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Software Engineering for AI	Tiziano Santilli - Post Doc - MMMI, Software Engineering, SDU Francesco Daghero - Post Doc - MMMI, Software Engineering, SDU Sani Abdullahi - Assistant Professor - MMMI, Center for Industrial Software, SDU Maximilian von Zastrow - Assistant Professor - MMMI, Center for Industrial Software, SDU
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Generative AI in Software Development: Productivity Boost or Meaningfulness Risk?	Oliver Krancher - Full professor - ITU
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM	Optimal Design Automation for a Quantum Software Stack	Ulrik Hoff - Quantum Engagement Specialist - Kvantify Jaco van de Pol - Professor - AU Christian Schilling - Associate Professor - AAU
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM	The Invisible Cost of AI. How AI Can Create Tomorrow’s Software Crisis	Valentina Lenarduzzi - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU Vejle. Davide Taibi - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU Vejle.
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Self-Optimizing Data Systems: From Data Warehouses to AI Pipelines	Zoi Kaodi - Associate professor - ITU Martin Hentschel - Associate professor - ITU

Thursday, November 5, 2026
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Breaking the walls of messaging apps: challenges and opportunities of messaging interoperability	Carla Florencia Griggio - Assistant Professor - AAU
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Artificial intelligence in real-world systems	Edouard Rolland - Phd. Student - UAS Centre, SDU. Johannes Koch - Assistant Professor - SDU Center for Energy Informatics (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	The Mind as Interface, and the Hard Problems Underneath	Paolo Burelli - Associate professor - ITU
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Digital Twins and Machine Learning for Resilient Water Infrastructure	Jes Vollertsen - Professor - AAU Kim Guldstrand Larsen - Professor - AAU
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM	Digital Self-Determination through Federated Nanoservers	Florian Echtler - Associate Professor - AAU
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Automation in the care sectors: who’s making automation work?	Jette Ernst - Associate Professor of Organisation and Leadership at the Department of Social Science and Business - Roskilde Universitet Benjamin Lipp - Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies - DTU

Theater 4

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Reducing Resource Costs of Frontier AI by Identifying and Managing AI-Waste (Green AI)	Sophia Natasha Wilson - PhD - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen Emil Njor - Assistant Professor - The Faculty of Engineering, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU Centre for Software Technology, University of Southern Denmark
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Can AI Help Midwives Make Better Decisions?	Ada Scupola - Professor (mso) of Business Studies - Roskilde Universitet Jon Sundbo - Professor of Innovation - Roskilde Universitet Monica Ladekarl - PhD and is a midwife and researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital – Hvidovre, Denmark - Amager og Hvidovre Hospital John Damm Scheuer - Associate professor at the Institute for Social Sciences and Business - Roskilde University
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	Anonymization is all you need – or is it? From privacy in theory to privacy in practice	Boel Nelson - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen Louise Skovdal - IT Privacy Manager and Lead Data Ethics Responsible - Enterprise IT in Novo Nordisk
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM	Seeing the Unspoken: Teaching Multimodal Models to "Think Before They Speak" with Human Eye Movement	Yiyi Chen - Research Assistant - AAU
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Prediction Markets and Strategic Foresight	Matthew J. Spaniol - Senior Researcher in Strategic Foresight - Roskilde Universitet
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM	AI for Sustainability	Aparna Varde - Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU Michel Albonico - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU Noura Lena Howell - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	BikeNetKit: Open Bicycle Network Algorithms for boosting the Green Transition of European Cities	Micheal Szell - Associate professor - ITU

Thursday, November 5, 2026
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Grounding AI Innovation in Organisational Data Reality	Tariq Osman Andersen - Associate Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen Hubert Dariusz Zajac - Postdoc - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen Christian Alexander K. Hasselsteen - Data & IT Project Manager - Simply Chocolate
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	More Is Different: Emergence, Multi-Agent AI, and the Limits of What We Can Measure	Daniel Russo - Associate Professor - AAU
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Energy efficiency of maritime operations with scheduling models and algorithms.	Line Reinhardt - Associate professor in computer science and head of the Centre for Maritime and Marine Research at Roskilde University - Roskilde Universitet

Theater 5

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM	From Excel to AI: How Big Data Is Changing Production Planning	Vytautas Siozinys, PhD - CEO - Energy Advice

Theater 6

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	From unstructured to structured – with the help of GenAI
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	From ready to running – with the help of GenAI
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	AI in your design flow	Morten Kajhøj Rovsing - Application Engineer - Nordcad Systems A/S

Thursday, November 5, 2026
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Defence 1 - From digital vulnerability to digital advantage How cyber, AI and data research are shaping the future of security.	Mikkel Storm Jensen - Military analyst, major, Ph.d. - Royal Danish Defence College
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Defence 2 - From research to national resilience building new partnerships between authorities, universities and industry	Rasmus Dahlberg - Lektor, RUC. - RUC
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Defence 3 - Deep tech for security and sovereignty which technologies will define the future of defence?
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM	Defence 4 - From intelligence to enterprise Can Intelligence needs become market opportunities?
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Defence 5 - From intelligence to enterprise Can your technology strengthen Denmark’s security?

Startup Stage

Other activities

Akkodis Edge Denmark A/S

602

IDA

200

Nordcad

808

Program 2026

Main Stage

Theater 1

Theater 2

Theater 3

Theater 4

Theater 5

Theater 6

Startup Stage

Other activities

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