3rd Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference
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With great excitement we can announce that Jasper van Kuijk (Karlstad University and Delft University of Technology), Johannes Heiny (KTH) and Noémie Jaquier (KTH) are the keynote speakers of the conference. What is more, Urban Forssell (KTH and DF) is hosting an inspiring panel session with Frank Jiang (KTH and FleetMQ), Joanna Hård (Amun AI) and Ian Hoffecker (KTH and SciLifeLab).
8:15 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote speaker I
10:15 - 11:45 Poster sesions I and II together with fika
11:45 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:15 Keynote speaker II
14:15 - 15:15 Panel "Driving Impact Through Innovation" by:
Urban Forssell holds a Ph.D. in Automatic Control from Linköping University. He has co-founded the research spinoff company NIRA Dynamics and has the last 25 years held senior leadership and board positions in several international tech companies. He currently works as Head of AI Strategy and Innovation at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Frank Jiang holds a Ph.D. in Automatic Control from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research focused on human centric control design and formal verification for safe, connected vehicles. He is the co-founder and CEO of FleetMQ, a research spinoff building a middleware platform for vehicle fleets. He also works at KTH Innovation.
Joanna Hård holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from Karolinska Institutet and has done postdocs in computational biology at ETH, Switzerland, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Joanna is CEO and co-founder of Amun AI.
Ian Hoffecker has a Ph.D. in DNA nanotechnology from Kyoto University, Japan. He leads the Molecular Programming Group at KTH’s Gene Technology Department, with a lab located in SciLifeLab’s Solna Campus. His research is focused on developing new molecular information processing technologies based on sequencing, and he is also involved in ongoing spinout initiatives based on technologies developed in his lab.
15:15 - 15:30 Fika
15:30 - 16:00 Poster sesion III
16:00 - 17:00 Keynote speaker III
17:00 Closing, drinks and mingle