AI Meetup Copenhagen #4

Join us at AI Meetup Copenhagen 27/02/2025

Connect with innovators, designers, suits and developers in a relaxed and positive environment. Enjoy talks from exciting speakers and demo your own ideas on stage. Be a part of our vibrant community!

Please note that this is a multidisciplinary group & meetup for innovators, creators, and techies who are passionate about learning and talking about Artificial Intelligence.

The event is open from 16:45. The program starts approximately 17:15.

Lightning talks (15 minutes)

• Mark Edmondson, AI Engineer and Startup Founder of Sunholo & Aitana
• Jichen Zhu, Professor of Human-AI Interaction & Willem van der Maden, Postdoctoral Researcher (Human-Centered AI Evaluations) IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)
• Birgitte Kofod Olsen, Advisor at Human Rights Advice, AI & data ethics expert
• Pernille Kjæmpe, AI Communication Lead (Global Communication), Novo Nordisk

Demo (5 minutes) - CANCELLED - Lucas is sick today

• Lucas Vilsen, BSc Student (Artificial Intelligence), Technical University of Denmark (DTU); will demo EasySort

Panel discussion (30 minutes)

• Moderated by Martin Schultz, founder of AI Meetup Copenhagen

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Mark Edmondson is the creator of Sunholo Multivac, a GenAI platform to help enterprises deploy GenAI applications to their private cloud. Mark has recently started a new company, Aitana ApS, to help apply AI within the green energy / infrastructure contracting sector. He is a certified GDE (Google Developer Expert) helping international brands in digital for the last 15 years, an open source contributor within R/Python, and a published O'Reilly author.

Topic: Cognitive Design

Dr. Jichen Zhu is an Professor of Digital Design at the IT University of Copenhagen. She directs the Procedural eXpression Lab (PXL) group and leads the User eXperience (UX) Design Specialization, focusing on the UX of AI/ML. Her research focuses on designing and developing novel human-AI interactions, especially in personalized games for learning and health. She has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed research publications and received several Best Paper Awards. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (U.S.), the National Institute of Health (U.S.), and Novo Nordic Foundation (Denmark). Jichen received a Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Tech. She also holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a Master of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS from McGill University.

Topic: Evaluating human-AI interaction

Dr. Willem van der Maden is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Procedural Expressions Lab (PXL) at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he investigates the nuanced, qualitative experiences people have when interacting with AI systems. His research translates these insights into actionable system-level metrics to improve AI design. During his PhD, he developed the notion of Positive AI, focusing on designing AI systems to promote wellbeing. Willem takes an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the gap between user experience and AI system development, contributing to the advancement of human-centered AI technologies.

Topic: Evaluating human-AI interaction

Birgitte Kofod Olsen is specialized in tech and human rights law and holds a PhD in biometrics and data protection. She advises Danish and international companies and organisations on GDPR and responsible AI strategy and compliance. She is the author of several books, the latest on Data Ethics. Birgitte is an advisor at Human Rights Advice, co-founder and chair person at DataEthics.eu, chairperson at Democracy X, and appointed member of the Danish Data Ethics Council.

[Birgitte was scheduled for meetup #3 but had to postpone]

Topic: Trustworthy AI

Pernille Kjæmpe is the AI Communication Lead (Global Communication) at Novo Nordisk.

Pernille is innovating communications through AI in Global Communication at Novo Nordisk. She is responsible for AI vision and strategy, along with AI roadmap and training program in Global Communication.

Topic: AI Content Creator- a generative AI tool developed under her leadership at Novo Nordisk.

Lucas Vilsen will demo EasySort - which is going to be a complete sorting software to sort recyclables from a stream of residual waste!

CANCELLED - Lucas is sick today

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Venue:
Thanks to The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) (Jichen Zhu) for hosting the event!

Sponsors - a big thanks to:
Transmission
Geelmuyden Kiese

Sponsorship:
Please contact the group administrator (Martin Schultz) if you would like to be a sponsor of food and/or beverages or if you would like be a future venue sponsor. This is a non-profit event.

🍕🍕🍕 A pizza sponsor would be great 🍕🍕🍕

Please note:

1. Attendance is capped at 145 participants to maintain quality interaction, and we reserve the right to select attendees to optimize group dynamics.
2. Photos will be taken at the meetup and shared on our Meetup.com group, on various LinkedIn channels and possible by the event host and other participants. Let us know at the event if you don't want to be in the photos (that's not a problem).