Main Stage
Theater 1
Theater 2
Theater 3
Theater 4
Theater 5
Theater 6
Startup Stage
Other activities
Albert Qiaochu Jiang - Head of Formal Reasoning - Mistral AI
Andreas Holbak Espersen - Branchedirektør - DI Digital
Jan Madsen - Head of department, Professor - DTU Compute
Christina Egelund - Forsknings-, uddannelses- og digitaliseringsminister - Regeringen
Nikolaj Bramsen - CEO - Systematic
Lotte Schiffer - Head of People, Group Technology and Denmark - Nordea
Ulrik Nicolai de Lichtenberg - Director, Scientific Projects - Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI) / Gefion
Nikolaj Thomas Zinner - Professor & Co-founder - Aarhus University & Kvantify
Claudio Pica - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) SDU
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
Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard - Chief Commercial Officer - Sparrow Quantum
Peter Viereck - Senior Advisor - Danish Quantum Community
Raheesty Nem - Scientific manager - Novo Nordisk Fonden
Morten Rieger Hannemose - Associate Professor - DTU Compute
Frederik Warburg - Head of AI - Teton
Jesper Sandvig Mariegaard - Director, Principal, Emerging Modelling Technologies - DHI
Lasse Hjuler Christiansen - Product Manager - TICRA
Leif Denby - Senior Research Scientist - DMI
Kristian Meyer - Modelling Specialist - Novo Nordisk
Thomas Riisgaard Hansen - Director - Digital Research Centre Denmark - DIREC
Karen Skjerbæk Jørgensen - CCO & Vice President - Trifork Digital Health
Aasa Feragen - Professor of Medical Image Analysis - DTU Compute
Mette Bjerg Lindhøj - Specialkonsulent - Akutberedskabet - Region Hovedstaden
Sisse Houlberg Winther - Lead Value Engineer - Celonis
Lasse Nielsen Langendorf - Training Consultant, erhvervsph.d - Novo Digital Learning Development
Kaj Grønbeck
Morten Axel Pedersen - Viceprorektor for AI - Københavns Universitet
Jan M. Jensen - VP Learning & Development - DSV
Per Bækgaard - Associate Professor - DTU
Asger Alstrup Palm - CTO - Area9
Kaj Grønbeck
Kim Knudsen (moderator) - Professor, Head of Education - DTU
Per Bækgaard - Associate Professor - DTU
Asger Alstrup Palm - CTO - Area9
Laura Klitgaard - President - IDA
Kim Knudsen (moderator) - Professor, Head of Education - DTU
Oksana Kulyk - Associate Professor - IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)
Rikke Waldorff - Kompetencekonsulent - Ingeniørforeningen, IDA
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
Jaco van de Pol - Professor - AU
Christian Schilling - Associate Professor - AAU
Davide Taibi - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), SDU Vejle.
Martin Hentschel - Associate professor - ITU
Johannes Koch - Assistant Professor - SDU Center for Energy Informatics (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
Paolo Burelli - Associate professor - ITU
Kim Guldstrand Larsen - Professor - AAU
Alissa Andrea Valentine - Postdoc - University of Copenhagen
Augusta Klingsten Peytz - CEO - Aisel Health
Benjamin Lipp - Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies - DTU
Emil Njor - Assistant Professor - The Faculty of Engineering, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU Centre for Software Technology, University of Southern Denmark
Pernille Jensen - Energy Cluster Denmark
Andreas Nykjær - Fuldmægtig - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen
Morten Kristiansen - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen
Andreas Nykjær - Fuldmægtig - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen
Morten Kristiansen - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen
Mikkel Westenholz - CEO - ENFOR
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
Louise Skovdal - IT Privacy Manager and Lead Data Ethics Responsible - Enterprise IT in Novo Nordisk
Michel Albonico - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU
Noura Howell - Associate Professor - MMMI, Center for Software Technology, SDU
Hubert Dariusz Zajac - Postdoc - Department of Computer Science, University of Copenahgen
Christian Alexander K. Hasselsteen - Data & IT Project Manager - Simply Chocolate
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Jens Myrup Pedersen - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Aarhus University
Noah Syrkis - PhD student - ITU University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Koss Hartmann - Associate professor - CBS
Kristian Pedersen - Head of the Technology Department in the Development Division - the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO).
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Jerome Joufroy - Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark and Head of the SDU Drone Mechatronics group. - SDU
Ken Friis Larsen - Head of the Department of Computer Science - University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Lasse Kronborg - Major, Militæranalytiker - Forsvarsakademiets Institut for Militær Teknologi
Camilla Frost - Senior Advisor - DI Forsvar & Sikkerhed
Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS
Juan Miguel Valverde - DTU Compute
Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS
Rasmus Stig Beck Jensen (moderator) - Senior Executive Officer & Business Unit Manager, DTU Compute
Stefan Ovesen Banke (moderator) - Business Coach & Deep Tech Specialist - DTU Space Ventures
Jonathan Andersen - CEO & Co-Founder - Webscout
Tim Schroeder - Head of AI - INC Innovation Center GmbH
Prof. Dr. Theresa Ahrens - Department Head Digital Health Engineering - Fraunhofer IESE
Alexander Bartschke - Senior Researcher in Health Interoperability - Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
Rolf Fricke - Head of R&D - Condat AG
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Jens Myrup Pedersen - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Aarhus University
Noah Syrkis - PhD student - ITU University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Koss Hartmann - Associate professor - CBS
Kristian Pedersen - Head of the Technology Department in the Development Division - the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO).
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Jerome Joufroy - Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark and Head of the SDU Drone Mechatronics group. - SDU
Ken Friis Larsen - Head of the Department of Computer Science - University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU
Lasse Kronborg - Major, Militæranalytiker - Forsvarsakademiets Institut for Militær Teknologi
Camilla Frost - Senior Advisor - DI Forsvar & Sikkerhed
Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS
Juan Miguel Valverde - DTU Compute
Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS
Rasmus Stig Beck Jensen (moderator) - Senior Executive Officer & Business Unit Manager, DTU Compute
Stefan Ovesen Banke (moderator) - Business Coach & Deep Tech Specialist - DTU Space Ventures
Jonathan Andersen - CEO & Co-Founder - Webscout
Erik Balck Sørensen - CIO - EIFO
Lene Oddershede - CSO - Novo Nordisk Fonden
Marianne Thellersen - Koncerndirektør for Innovation og Entrepeneurship - DTU
David Ventzel - General Partner - BII
Camilla Nørgaard Jensen - Chief Innovation Officer - Pioneer Centre for AI (P1)
Ana Andonovska - Founder - Even Founders
Eva Maria Rebrova - Co-founder and CEO - Yngvi Bio
Mikkel Kock Thinggard - Co-founder and CEO - Reformable
Moderator: Signe Trier Simonsen
Natasha Hougaard - Co-Founder - Skjoldet
Anders Sandholm - Founder and CEO - Retix
Christie H. Kristensen - Partnership Manager - Danske Bank
Jens Friholm NIelsen - Senior Innovation Officer - DTU SkyLab
Dr. Neta Kela - Chief Consultant, Business Development - Københavns Universitet
Agyro (Iro) Nikiforou - Associate Professor - DTU Entrepeurship
Dorothea Georgiadou - Postdoc - DTU Entrepenuership
Henrik Gaunsbæk - Innovationskonsulent - BETA Health
Anders Lemke-Holstein - Founder - OASE
Tue Oxenvad - Founder - Meningspunktet
Thomas Riisgaard - CEO - DIREC
David Groom - Managing Partner and Director - DeepTech Labs
John Bell - CEO - High Tech XL
Pol Hortal - Managing Director - Zubi Labs Impact
Ulrik Lie Ulvness - Venture Builder - Kongsberg Innovasjon
Moderator: Jacob Heiberg - Partnerships - Deep Tech Alliance
Camilla Nørgaard Jensen - Chief Innovation Officer - Pioneer Centre for AI (P1)
Marie Louise Pollmann-Larsen - Team Lead - DTU SkyLab
- Demonstration of ModelarDB: Model-Based Management of High-Frequency Time Series Across Edge, Cloud, and Client (energy managment). Digital demo on screen.
- GoMap Edge (Object detection af trafikskilte og efterfølgende placering). Digital demo on screen.
- Seagull (AIS point heat maps, AIS trajectory data + other related items on ships). Digital demo on screen.
- Only first day (poster on second day): Anders Bruun and John Persson from CS@AAU will advice companies on decision-making in order to address the most pressing barriers on introducing AI in the company, based on their project AI-SME.
- Two physical demos (mock-up): How to apply UPPAAL to control floor heating in a domestic house in an optimal way. How to apply UPPAAL to sort items on a production belt.
- Posters on ‘Quantum Communication’ and ‘Distributed Sustainable Software and Systems’ along with staff that can elaborate on the posters.
AI Maturity Check with a live board: take the check at stand 801 and see where your organisation sits on shared platform, reusable assets, embedded capability and community. Your answers join a live board, updated throughout both days, showing where participating organisations stand and which layer holds the others back. Every participant receives the final results by email after the summit. Competition: complete the check to enter and win an AI Maturity Review of your own setup, half a day with Adamatics on what your teams have built with AI, what can be shared, trusted and maintained, and a written plan you keep. Open to organisations with in-house teams building analytics or AI applications. Winner drawn Thursday 5 November at 15:00 and notified by email. Straight from the stage: on Wednesday 4 November at 11:15, following our AI track talk (10:30, Sal 5), a 15-minute walkthrough at stand 801 of why your twentieth AI application should be cheaper than your fifth. Walkthroughs on request both days. Giveaway: the four-layer AI Maturity Matrix in print and the whitepaper behind it, free while stocks last.
Meet inspiring partners, university teams and tech startups from India, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt, Colombia, Korea, Mexico, US and Denmark, and learn how they are harnessing emerging technologies and academic know-how to tackle societal challenges for impact.
Main Stage
Main Stage
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Opening Keynote | Anders Overgaard Bjarklev - Rektor, Professor, ph.d., dr.techn. - DTU |
| 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Europe's Sovereign Tech Stack - with Frank Karlitschek (Nextcloud) | Frank Karlitschek - CEO & Founder - Nextcloud |
| 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 Logistics: How DSV Is Redesigning Global Operations with 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 - Head of department, Professor - DTU Compute Christina Egelund - Forsknings-, uddannelses- og digitaliseringsminister - Regeringen Nikolaj Bramsen - CEO - Systematic |
| 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 |
| 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Gefion, Kvantify, and Novonesis: The Case Behind a Danish Quantum Breakthrough | Lars Olsen - Senior Department Manager - Novonesis Ulrik Nicolai de Lichtenberg - Director, Scientific Projects - Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI) / Gefion Nikolaj Thomas Zinner - Professor & Co-founder - Aarhus University & Kvantify |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | ||
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| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Humanoid robots are entering industry | Søren Peter Johansen - Technology Manager for Robotics and AI - Teknologisk Institut |
| 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 |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Industrial AI at Scale: Unlocking Value for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises | Michael Schrapp - Director, Global Go-to-Market for Data & AI - Siemens AG |
| 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Panel: From Danish Quantum Lead to Industrial Payoff | Nikolaj Thomas Zinner - Professor & Co-founder - Aarhus University & Kvantify Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard - Chief Commercial Officer - Sparrow Quantum Peter Viereck - Senior Advisor - Danish Quantum Community Raheesty Nem - Scientific manager - Novo Nordisk Fonden |
| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | When AI entered the pitch: What top-level football can teach any leader about trusting data | Alan Khorsid - Co-Founder | CEO - Alai |
Theater 1
Theater 1
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 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 Morten Rieger Hannemose - Associate Professor - DTU Compute Frederik Warburg - Head of AI - Teton |
| 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 - Head of Product - Human Thinking |
| 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM | Physics AI: Rethinking How Industry Innovates (DTU Industrial AI Program) | Allan Peter Engsig-Karup - Associate professor - DTU Compute Jesper Sandvig Mariegaard - Director, Principal, Emerging Modelling Technologies - DHI Lasse Hjuler Christiansen - Product Manager - TICRA |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Physics AI in Practice: Accelerating Industrial Breakthroughs (DTU Industrial AI Program) | Cheol-Ho Jeong - Associate Professor - DTU Electro Leif Denby - Senior Research Scientist - DMI Kristian Meyer - Modelling Specialist - Novo Nordisk |
| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | AI-generated code – a cyberbomb waiting to happen? | Abhishek Tiwari - Associate Professor - University of Southern Denmark Thomas Riisgaard Hansen - Director - Digital Research Centre Denmark - DIREC |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Don't replace the clinician - raise the ambitions: The Turing Trap in Danish healthcare | Thomas Riisgaard Hansen - Director - Digital Research Centre Denmark - DIREC Karen Skjerbæk Jørgensen - CCO & Vice President - Trifork Digital Health Aasa Feragen - Professor of Medical Image Analysis - DTU Compute Mette Bjerg Lindhøj - Specialkonsulent - Akutberedskabet - Region Hovedstaden |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | ||
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| 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 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 for Workplace Learning: From AI Adoption to Lasting Competence (Inspiration Talks) (Presented by EdTech Denmark and DTU) | Kurt Gammelgaard Nielsen - CEO - EdTech Denmark Lasse Nielsen Langendorf - Training Consultant, erhvervsph.d - Novo Digital Learning Development Kaj Grønbeck |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | AI for Workplace Learning: Who Guarantees the Quality? (The Debate) (Presented by EdTech Denmark and DTU) | Kurt Gammelgaard Nielsen - CEO - EdTech Denmark Morten Axel Pedersen - Viceprorektor for AI - Københavns Universitet Jan M. Jensen - VP Learning & Development - DSV |
| 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM | Rethinking IT Education for a Future with AI (Inspirational talks) | Laura Klitgaard - President - IDA Per Bækgaard - Associate Professor - DTU Asger Alstrup Palm - CTO - Area9 Kaj Grønbeck Kim Knudsen (moderator) - Professor, Head of Education - DTU |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Rethinking IT Education for a Future with AI (Panel discussion) | Kaj Grønbeck Per Bækgaard - Associate Professor - DTU Asger Alstrup Palm - CTO - Area9 Laura Klitgaard - President - IDA Kim Knudsen (moderator) - Professor, Head of Education - DTU |
| 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
Theater 2
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 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 |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Er hele tumoren væk? AI-støttet 3D-imaging til kræftkirurgi | Anders Dahl - Professor, sektionsleder for Visual Computing - DTU Compute |
| 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 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | What Should Denmark’s Next Generation of Engineers Build for the Future Battlefield? | Carl Johan von Lowzow - Studerende - STAND |
| 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 | ||
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| 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 |
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Address your EMC challenges before they become a problem in your design | Henning Bomberg - Field Application Manager - Würth Elektronik Danmark A/S |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Next Generation Pitch & Panel 1: Future of [Digital] Water | Björgvin Hjartarson - Innovation Consultant - DTU Skylab |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Next Generation Pitch & Panel 2: Digital action for sustainable impact | Björgvin Hjartarson - Innovation Consultant - DTU Skylab |
| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Next Generation Pitch & Panel 3: Resilience through digitalisation | Björgvin Hjartarson - Innovation Consultant - DTU Skylab |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Next Generation Young Academics Award Ceremony | Björgvin Hjartarson - Innovation Consultant - DTU Skylab |
Theater 3
Theater 3
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 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 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | When we scale up AI, could it leave anyone behind? A case study in psychiatry. | Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen - Associate Professor - University of Copenhagen Alissa Andrea Valentine - Postdoc - University of Copenhagen Augusta Klingsten Peytz - CEO - Aisel Health |
| 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
Theater 4
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 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 Pernille Jensen - Energy Cluster Denmark |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | EU funding for your competitiveness - and for Europe (Session 1) | Christian Holstein - Specialkonsulent - Uddannelses- og Forskningsstyrelsen Andreas Nykjær - Fuldmægtig - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen Morten Kristiansen - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | EU funding for your competitiveness - and for Europe (Session 2) | Christian Holstein - Specialkonsulent - Uddannelses- og Forskningsstyrelsen Andreas Nykjær - Fuldmægtig - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen Morten Kristiansen - Digitaliseringsstyrelsen Mikkel Westenholz - CEO - ENFOR |
| 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 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 | Michael Szell - Associate professor - ITU |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | ||
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| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Rethinking Software Security Principles for the AI era | Michael Ustrup - Senior Software Security Architect - Systematic |
| 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 |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | How I learned to stop worrying and love agentic AI | Miguel Sicart - Full professor - ITU |
Theater 5
Theater 5
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | From one expert's AI build to something the whole company can trust | Sune Askjær - CEO & Co-founder - Adamatics |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 183 Days too late: How AI and IoT Turn Early Warning Signs into Opportunities | Wanig Le Pennec - Managing Director - Wireless Logic Nordic |
| 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM | From Excel to AI: How Big Data Is Changing Production Planning | Vytautas Siozinys, PhD - CEO - Energy Advice |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | FROM TWO WORLDS TO ONE - INTELLIGENT OPERATION | Martijn Krot - Director Technology Sales - Western Europe - ifm electronic |
Theater 6
Theater 6
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | From unstructured to structured – with the help of GenAI | Dr. Martin Becker - Department Head 'Embedded Systems Engineering' - Fraunhofer IESE Tim Schroeder - Head of AI - INC Innovation Center GmbH Prof. Dr. Theresa Ahrens - Department Head Digital Health Engineering - Fraunhofer IESE Alexander Bartschke - Senior Researcher in Health Interoperability - Berlin Institute of Health at Charité |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | From ready to running – with the help of GenAI | Michael Röder - Junior Research Group Lead - Paderborn University Rolf Fricke - Head of R&D - Condat AG |
| 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | AI in your design flow | Morten Kajhøj Rovsing - Application Engineer - Nordcad Systems A/S |
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Deterministic, Low-Latency AI Inference with FPGAs | Alexis Montoya - Distribution Sales Manager - Altera |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Address your EMC challenges before they become a problem in your design | Henning Bomberg - Field Application Manager - Würth Elektronik Danmark A/S |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Practical CRA Compliance for Embedded Products | Peter Aagaard Kristensen - Vice President IT & Technology - Prevas |
| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Enhance your products using edge AI solutions on STM32 | Brooke LEE - MCU Technical Marketing Manager - STMicroelectronics |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Når forskellighed bliver en styrke – mennesker, teknologi og iværksætteri | Mathias Emil Nielsen - Direktør - GladTeknik |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | ||
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| 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 Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU Jens Myrup Pedersen - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Aarhus University Noah Syrkis - PhD student - ITU University of Copenhagen |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Defence 2 - From research to national resilience building new partnerships between authorities, universities and industry | Rasmus Dahlberg - Associate professor - RUC Rasmus Koss Hartmann - Associate professor - CBS Kristian Pedersen - Head of the Technology Department in the Development Division - the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO). Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Defence 3 - Deep tech for security and sovereignty which technologies will define the future of defence? | Christian Damsgaard Jensen - Professor of Cybersecurity - Aarhus University Jerome Joufroy - Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark and Head of the SDU Drone Mechatronics group. - SDU Ken Friis Larsen - Head of the Department of Computer Science - University of Copenhagen Rasmus Larsen (Moderator) - Professor - DTU Lasse Kronborg - Major, Militæranalytiker - Forsvarsakademiets Institut for Militær Teknologi |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Defence 4 - From intelligence to enterprise Can Intelligence needs become market opportunities? | Kerim Martinez - Senior Executive Officer - DTU Space Ventures Camilla Frost - Senior Advisor - DI Forsvar & Sikkerhed Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Defence 5 - From intelligence to enterprise Can your technology strengthen Denmark’s security? | Søren Reime Larsen - Professor - Nord Sky ApS Juan Miguel Valverde - DTU Compute Kasper Hjortborg Kristiansen - CEO & Co-Founder - SagaLabs ApS Rasmus Stig Beck Jensen (moderator) - Senior Executive Officer & Business Unit Manager, DTU Compute Stefan Ovesen Banke (moderator) - Business Coach & Deep Tech Specialist - DTU Space Ventures Jonathan Andersen - CEO & Co-Founder - Webscout |
Startup Stage
Startup Stage
| Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | ||
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| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome to the Startup Stage | Thomas Riisgaard - CEO - DIREC |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Opening Startup-Keynote - to be announced | |
| 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Creating companies in a world with AI | Thomas Riisgaard - CEO - DIREC |
| 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | From Research to Global Impact: Closing Europe’s Scale-Up Gap and Strengthening European Sovereignty | Moderator: Mikkel Sørensen - CEO - DTU SkyFactory Erik Balck Sørensen - CIO - EIFO Lene Oddershede - CSO - Novo Nordisk Fonden Marianne Thellersen - Koncerndirektør for Innovation og Entrepeneurship - DTU |
| 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | The new founder toolkit: What AI changes about entrepreneurship | Aleksandra Zaniewska - Head of AI Lab - BII David Ventzel - General Partner - BII Camilla Nørgaard Jensen - Chief Innovation Officer - Pioneer Centre for AI (P1) Ana Andonovska - Founder - Even Founders |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | From Researcher to Entrepreneur | Moderator: Signe Trier Simonsen Eva Maria Rebrova - Co-founder and CEO - Yngvi Bio Mikkel Kock Thinggard - Co-founder and CEO - Reformable Moderator: Signe Trier Simonsen |
| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | From Idea to Agreement: How Fintech Startups Validate Their Business Through Partnerships | Tekin Esen - Business Developer and Fintech Ambassador - Kitchen, Århus Universitet Natasha Hougaard - Co-Founder - Skjoldet Anders Sandholm - Founder and CEO - Retix Christie H. Kristensen - Partnership Manager - Danske Bank |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Pitch Session: Tech for Fin startups | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Wanted: Open Entrepeneurship Co-Founder Run: Meet research-based startups looking to find commercial co-founders | Nynne Budtz Christiansen - Udviklings - og driftleder - DTU Entrepenuership Jens Friholm NIelsen - Senior Innovation Officer - DTU SkyLab Dr. Neta Kela - Chief Consultant, Business Development - Københavns Universitet Agyro (Iro) Nikiforou - Associate Professor - DTU Entrepeurship Dorothea Georgiadou - Postdoc - DTU Entrepenuership |
| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Pitch Session | |
| 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Pitch Session | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | The Bright Idea Award 2026 | Nis Alstrup - Chairman of the board - Otto Mønsteds Fond |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | ||
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| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Innovation in Healthcare - Pitch session | Morten Uglevig Andersen - General Manager - TUH SkyLab Henrik Gaunsbæk - Innovationskonsulent - BETA Health |
| 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Democracy, Security and Sovereignty | Peter Revsbech - Founder - Mimir Anders Lemke-Holstein - Founder - OASE Tue Oxenvad - Founder - Meningspunktet Thomas Riisgaard - CEO - DIREC |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | New Technology, Cyber Challenges & Media Credibility: Can We Trust The Visuals? | Moderator: Martin Skjold Lind Grøntved - Innovation & Collaboration Manager - ITU |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Fueling innovation through collaboration. How to build with Europe’s leading deeptech Venture Building Studios | Pieter Palmers - Senior Venture Development Manager - IMEC David Groom - Managing Partner and Director - DeepTech Labs John Bell - CEO - High Tech XL Pol Hortal - Managing Director - Zubi Labs Impact Ulrik Lie Ulvness - Venture Builder - Kongsberg Innovasjon Moderator: Jacob Heiberg - Partnerships - Deep Tech Alliance |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Applied AI Lunch Talk | Marcelina Dutkiewicz - CEO and Founder - EffencientyTactics Camilla Nørgaard Jensen - Chief Innovation Officer - Pioneer Centre for AI (P1) |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pitch Session: Deep Tech startups | |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Pitch Session: Open to all | |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Pitch Session: Next Generation Digital Action | Asger Riis Rasmussen - Innovationskonsulent - DTU Marie Louise Pollmann-Larsen - Team Lead - DTU SkyLab |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Pitch Session: Cypersecurity, Resilience and Defence | Moderator: Nicholas Hawtin - Director - ODIN |
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Closing remarks & Thank you | |
Other activities
Other activities
- Demonstration of ModelarDB: Model-Based Management of High-Frequency Time Series Across Edge, Cloud, and Client (energy managment). Digital demo on screen.
- GoMap Edge (Object detection af trafikskilte og efterfølgende placering). Digital demo on screen.
- Seagull (AIS point heat maps, AIS trajectory data + other related items on ships). Digital demo on screen.
- Only first day (poster on second day): Anders Bruun and John Persson from CS@AAU will advice companies on decision-making in order to address the most pressing barriers on introducing AI in the company, based on their project AI-SME.
- Two physical demos (mock-up): How to apply UPPAAL to control floor heating in a domestic house in an optimal way. How to apply UPPAAL to sort items on a production belt.
- Posters on ‘Quantum Communication’ and ‘Distributed Sustainable Software and Systems’ along with staff that can elaborate on the posters.
AI Maturity Check with a live board: take the check at stand 801 and see where your organisation sits on shared platform, reusable assets, embedded capability and community. Your answers join a live board, updated throughout both days, showing where participating organisations stand and which layer holds the others back. Every participant receives the final results by email after the summit. Competition: complete the check to enter and win an AI Maturity Review of your own setup, half a day with Adamatics on what your teams have built with AI, what can be shared, trusted and maintained, and a written plan you keep. Open to organisations with in-house teams building analytics or AI applications. Winner drawn Thursday 5 November at 15:00 and notified by email. Straight from the stage: on Wednesday 4 November at 11:15, following our AI track talk (10:30, Sal 5), a 15-minute walkthrough at stand 801 of why your twentieth AI application should be cheaper than your fifth. Walkthroughs on request both days. Giveaway: the four-layer AI Maturity Matrix in print and the whitepaper behind it, free while stocks last.
Meet inspiring partners, university teams and tech startups from India, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt, Colombia, Korea, Mexico, US and Denmark, and learn how they are harnessing emerging technologies and academic know-how to tackle societal challenges for impact.











