April 9th - 10th
Nordic AI in Media Summit 2024
The Nordic AI in Media Summit 2024 marks another pivotal year in the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within the media world. Following last year's successful event, industry professionals will once again convene to explore the ever-expanding role of AI in the media landscape.
A special focus this year is on the recent breakthroughs in generative AI, which are now making a significant impact in newsrooms. This development has not only transformed the way content is produced and distributed, but also raised new questions about ethics, quality, and regulation in the media industry. The summit will showcase new examples of AI that are currently creating value, reflecting on the experiences and challenges that newsrooms have encountered over the past year.
Together with experts from the Nordics and internationally, we will delve into the potential of AI and discuss how to ensure healthy norms for AI in the news industry. Participants will have ample opportunities to interact with speakers and colleagues through question-and-answer sessions, workshops, and a networking dinner for all attendees on the first day.
Time and place
The summit spans a day and a half from April 9th (13 pm) to April 10th (5 pm) and takes place at PRESSEN (JP/Politikens Hus) by the central square in Copenhagen.
The program for the Nordic AI in Media Summit is developed by Platform Intelligence in News project (PIN) and the Nordic AI Journalism network, while Ekstra Bladet in JP/Politikens Hus hosts the event.
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Announced speakers
Here is a list of the speakers and companies you can look forward to seeing at The Nordic AI in Media Summit 2024
Professor at University of Amsterdam
Natali Helberger
Besides being a distinguished professor, Natali is the co-founder of AI, Media, and Democracy Lab and Head of Research for Human(e) AI.
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Communication Researcher at Oxford Internet Institute
Felix M. Simon
Felix is a journalist turned communication researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) where he researches the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and Generative AI for the news and journalism.
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Strategy & Innovation Director at NPO
Ezra Eeman
Ezra is responsible for leading the NPO strategy and innovation department. Furthermore, he inspires the industry through the newsletter WayFinder - amongst many other ways.
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Senior Reporter for AI at MIT Technology Review
Melissa is a senior reporter at MIT Technology Review, where she covers artificial intelligence and how it is changing our society. Forbes named her as one of its 30 under 30 in European media in 2020.
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Journalist and AI-Editor at Aftonbladet
Elin Wieslander
Elin Wieslander is a journalist and a member of Aftonbladet's AI Hub, a pioneering initiative in the realm of journalism and technology.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Responsible Publisher
Martin Schori
Martin Schori is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Responsible Publisher at Aftonbladet, and a member of Aftonbladet AI Hub.
Digital Editor at Swedish Radio’s local channel P4 Blekinge
Kalle Kovacs
Kalle Kovacs is Digital Editor at Swedish Radio’s local channel P4 Blekinge. He has succeeded in increased creativity in local journalism with the use of generative AI and prompting.
Generative AI Product Manager at JP/Politikens Hus
Tore G. C. Rich
Tore G. C. Rich serves as the Generative AI Product Manager at JP/Politikens Hus, where he plays a pivotal role in the development of MAGNA, a suite of editorial tools based on generative AI.
Journalist at HD-Sydsvenskan
Inas Hamdan
Inas Hamdan is an investigative journalist focusing on desinformation & honor culture. She will tell us about her award-winning work on using AI to investigate how Al Jazeera systematically spread misinformation about Sweden.
CEO and Editor-in-Chief at Mediehuset Sermitsiaq.AG
Masaana Egede
Masaana Egede is CEO at Sermitsiaq.AG. Together with Lars Damgaard Nielsen he will talk about their shared work on a translation LLM which solves challenges both in the newsroom and for the Greenlandic society at large.
Digital Project Manager & OSINT Journalist at DR
Aida Kokanovic
Aida Kokanovic is Digital Project Manager & OSINT Journalist at DR – Danmarks Radio. At NAMS she will share insights from her work pairing OSINT and AI methodologies in journalism, and demo some of the tools she has built and/or uses.
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Co-founder and CEO of MediaCatch
Lars Damgaard Nielsen
Lars Damgaard Nielsen is the Co-founder and CEO of MediaCatch. Together with Masaana Egede he will talk about their shared work on a translation LLM which solves challenges both in the newsroom and for the Greenlandic society at large.
Journalist and podcaster, Aftenposten
Anne Lindholm
Journalist and podcaster Anne Lindholm will share her thoughts on what it feels like being the (synthetic) voice of Aftenposten.
Senior Product Manager, Aftenposten
Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen
Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen has developed the approach to creating synthetic voices which is now being implemented across many of Shibsted’s new brands.
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AI Innovation Lead, Yle
Tove Mylläri
Tove Mylläri is an award winning tech-professional, working as the AI Innovation Lead at Yle - Finnish Broadcasting Company. At NAMS she will share exciting case studies from Yle where synthetic voices are used to deliver new journalistic formats.
Director of AI at Podimo, PhD in Computer Science
Benjamin Belmudez Biering
Benjamin B. Biering has developed a novel take on podcast search on the Podimo platform creating an entirely new user experience.
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Data Scientist, Schibsted
Jacob Welander
Jacob Wilander will together with Martine Torp Lund share the substantial developments in Schibsted’s platform for news personalisation (Curate) from the past year.
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Head of Product and UX, Schibsted
Martine Torp Lund
Martine Torp Lund is responsible for all SPP's (Shared products and plaforms) seven central product teams and our UXers.
Head of AI, DR
Lasse Funder
Lasse Funder Andersen will be sharing DR - Danmarks Radio's - work with automatic production of metadata for news content which include experiments with GPT4 and fine tuning of GPT3.5.
Founder of StoryFlow
David Caswell
David Caswell, Application Architect for AI in News Products & Workflows, has curated the session 'Implementing AI at small, medium, and large publishers' at NAMS24 focusing on the practical application of artificial intelligence across publishing sizes.
Professor at Northwestern University
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Nicholas Diakopoulos' research is broadly oriented around topics related to Computational Journalism with active research projects on AI, automation, and algorithms in news production and distribution.
Head of Editorial AI at Newsquest
Jody Doherty-Cove
Jody Doherty-Cove is responsible for overseeing the safe introduction of AI in the publisher’s 150+ newsrooms and leads a growing team of ‘AI-assisted’ journalists at Newsquest.
Communications Officer
Lily Mafi
Zamaneh Media is an independent media organization that operates in the Persian language, based in exile in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With a primary focus on Iran, their team is dedicated to elevate underrepresented voices.
Deputy Chief Editor
Sultan Suleimanov
Meduza is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.
Professor Emeritus, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Jeff Jarvis
Following his testimony in the US Senate, Jeff Jarvis will discuss differences in AI attitudes in the Nordic and American media landscape.