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May 9th - 10th 
Nordic AI in Media Summit 2023

The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by mainstream news publishers is marking the beginning of a new digital epoch. The journey ahead will fundamentally transform media and is associated with great potential and significant risks.
 

At the Nordic AI in Media Summit, we invite industry practitioners to learn from media companies at the forefront of AI adoption with 12 examples of applied AI already in use and creating value. Further, we raise important discussions about the potential of AI and how to ensure healthy norm setting for AI in news via six keynote presentations as well as panels and workshops with experts from the Nordics and beyond. 
 

Time and place

The summit spans a day and a half from May 9th (13 pm) to May 10th (5 pm) and takes place at PRESSEN (JP/Politikens Hus) by the central square in Copenhagen. There will be multiple opportunities to interact with speakers and colleagues including question-and-answer sessions, workshops, and a networking dinner for all participants on the first day. 

 

The program for the Nordic AI in Media Summit is developed by Platform Intelligence in News project (PIN) in collaboration with the Nordic AI Journalism network, while Ekstra Bladet in JP/Politikens Hus hosts the event.

 

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Program

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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. The list is preliminary and will continuously be updated as speakers are booked and announced.

Associate professor at Northwestern University

Nicholas Diakopoulos

Nicholas was one of the first researchers to engage with AI in Media and is the inspiring author of various books and articles on the subject.

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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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Head of IN/LAB at Schibsted

Agnes Stenbom

Agnes develops AI solutions that address news outsiders. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. Candidate at KTH and was named 'Rising Star' in INMA's 30 under 30.

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Change Director at MediaHuis

Ezra Eeman

Ezra is pushing the AI development for media to MediaHuis' many brands. Furthermore, he inspires the industry through the newsletter WayFinder - amongst many other ways.

Professor at Copenhagen Business College

Mikkel Flyverbom

Mikkel researches AI ethics in media. Moreover, he is head of the Danish government's expert group on tech giants and part of the Data Ethical Council.

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Product Manager at Schibsted

Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen

Lena will present how Aftonposten has developed a realistic clone of the voice of one of Norway's most famous podcast hosts, who now reads the articles on Aftonposten.no.

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Assistant Professor at Syddansk Universitet

Lene Heiselberg

Based on her research from the Digital Democracy Center and SDU, Lene will share how users perceive neural voices. Furthermore, she has a PhD in Media and Journalism Studies.

Executive Product Manager at BBC News

David Caswell

From his work in the intersection between technology, knowledge engineering, and digital media, David will share some of BBC's ambitious thinking on generative AI.

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Director of the JournalismAI project, Polis, at LSE

Charlie Beckett

Charlie will share insights on the ground-breaking innovation of AI created by Polis at the London School of Economics.

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Content Automation Manager at Ekstra Bladet

Tore G. C. Rich

Tore will talk about how Ekstra Bladet combines rule-based AI with prompting and generative AI to produce short, local news articles with generative AI summaries in English.

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Chief Analytics and Strategy Officer at Mynewsdesk

Daniel Jonsson

Daniel and Ola will share their experience and learnings from building products based on large language models (LLMs). We will get insight into a new product at Mynewsdesk and hear about their team's learnings from working with iterative product development in an ever-evolving field.

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Data Scientist at Mynewsdesk

Ola Gustafsson

Daniel and Ola will share their experience and learnings from building products based on large language models (LLMs). We will get insight into a new product at Mynewsdesk and hear about their team's learnings from working with iterative product development in an ever-evolving field.

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Chief Marketing Officer at United Robots

Cecilia Campbell

Cecilia will share learnings from United Robots' work with scaling news automation in newsrooms across the globe. She will highlight practical use cases and share perspectives on how rule-based automation and generative approaches can thrive together.

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Product Manager at Schibsted

Christoph Schmitz

Christoph is the brain behind Schibsted's flexible and editor-controlled approach to AI-based news recommendations called Curate - which is utilized on multiple of Schibsted's media.

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AI & Journalism Team Lead at Yle News Lab

Samuli Sillanpää

Tove and Samuel will talk about how AI can be used to increase the diversity of their journalism. They will share Yle News Lab's work with developing automated methods for analyzing their content.

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Industrial Ph.D at Ekstra Bladet

Johannes Kruse

Johannes is currently working on creating the next generation's news experience at Ekstra Bladet with AI. He develops recommender systems that are adapted to news media's needs for the PIN-project.

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Experiments & Collaborations Team Lead at
Yle News Lab

Tove Mylläri

Tove and Samuel will talk about how AI can be used to increase the diversity of their journalism. They will share Yle News Lab's work with developing automated methods for analyzing their content.

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Data Scientist at Infomedia

Swati Anend

Swati will share the future of media monitoring, by explaining how Infomedia is using AI (NLP) to produce insights and impact in the news flow from most Nordic news publishers.

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AI/ML Engineer at SVT

Mikaela Åstrand

Mikaela and Sally will share four different AI experiments (turned features) that SVT has implemented. They use computer vision as an editorial tool on SVT's video archive.

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Technology Strategist at TV2 Denmark

Bo Bergstedt

Bo has a lot of experience with computer vision. He will share his experience with deep fakes - (synthetic media) and hereby put a light on trust and challenges in media today and in the future.

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Service designer at SVT

Sally Ståhl

Mikaela and Sally will share four different AI experiments (turned features) that SVT has implemented. They use computer vision as an editorial tool on SVT's video archive.

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Obama Leader & Co-founder of ChangersTech

Binette Seck

Binette is a high-profile advocate for the need for diversity of people and perspectives if the media industry wants to be successful in achieving the potential of AI. She will participate in the panel about future prospects.

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CEO of Get Social

Alfred Appelros

Alfred was in charge of the campaign, mid journey generated images, for Sweden Rock. He will share how a small scale advertising agency saw the potential of using generative AI to create images.

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Editor of Development at SvD Kultur

Madelaine Levy

Madelaine will use her expertise and experience from SvD in the panel about spurring AI innovation via collaboration.

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Director of Data at Schibsted

JC Lopez

JC Lopez will use his experience with data at Schibsted to bring more technical perspectives to the panel "Looking ahead: What the industry needs in order to reap the potentials of AI".

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Head of AI & Data at Alexandra Institute

Jens Kaas Benner

Jens and his team are responsible for DaNLP, an open-source library for Danish language models and datasets, and for executing the CoRal project that builds AI models for speech that recognizes Danish dialects and accents.

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Researcher-in-residence at INMA

Greg Piechota

Greg will discuss low-risk and high-ROI applications of off-the-shelf generative AI tools. He will share how AI fits news publishers’ reader revenue strategies and how it impacts paid content economics.

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Director at News MediaLab France TV

Eric Scherer

Eric will discuss and share his perspectives in a panel about the ethics of generative AI. Furthermore, he is significant in the PSM world as Head of the News Committee in the EBU. 

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Professor at University of Amsterdam

Claes de Vreese

Claes will contribute with his perspectives on what models and collaborations we need in media, university research, funding agencies, etc. to "do it right" with AI.

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