Gamechangers

Welcome to an evening where we have the pleasure of welcoming three local start-ups on stage. No Isolation, Convertelligence, reMarkable and Riot will share hard earned insights with us on how to dream up, build and launch game changing products and services. All from an UX perspective of course.

No Isolation: AV1 - a robot's quest to end isolationOda Sofie Dahl Eide and Simon Oliver Ommundsen

AV1 is the cute avatar robot that help children with long term illness to stay connected with their friends and keep up with school. We will talk about how the robot came to be, and how user centred design is at the core of our business and design processes.

Oda Sofie has been working with the team since the very beginning; testing and improving AV1, trying to create the best user experience possible. Besides work, she is a master student in Interaction design at the University of Oslo, specializing in Tangible Interactions.

Simon Oliver recently joined the team, working on new versions of AV1, as well as the new product directed towards seniors. He is finishing his master's degree in Information Systems at the University of Oslo

Convertelligence: Natural language with machines, how to solve UX-related challenges?Arash Saidi, CTO

Language technology is an exciting field in rapid development, but its hard to make robust solutions without the use of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. A key point is that companies should make better use of their current language datasets, such as historical chat data with customers. But how can you offer great tools for automated dialogue, when the customer doesn’t have enough data or relevant datasets? A good UX experience is without doubt important, but where do you start? We will demonstrate our ideas so far.

reMarkable: Better paper. Better thinking.Maren Helle

• The tech world is talking about artificial intelligence - what happened to the human intelligence. With ReMarkable we seek to redefine one off the basic forms of expression and exploration - thinking with pen and paper.

timetoRIOT is a global hiring platform developed specifically for the creative industry. Kimberly Larsen

We have never consumed more, produced more, needed more content than we do today. But being a highly project based industry, there are major challenges to the frequent hiring needs. Through timetoRIOT we wanted to create a platform that makes this hiring process more transparent, predictable and efficient. And visually appealing for the creative professionals.

Kimberly will talk of her naive journey of building the tech platform with no previous experience, and how her background of drugs, youth homes and thai boxing helped prepare her for what was to come.