Date and time: Thursday 26 March 2026, 08:30 – 17:00 CET
Where: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Valhallavägen 79, Stockholm, Sweden
Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/11pUQVD5GW49G3FZA
Welcome to an Industry-Academia AI Workshop at KTH Royal Institute of Technology!
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is actively working to strengthen AI research in Sweden. As part of this initiative, we are organizing an Industry-Academia AI Workshop at KTH on March 26, 2026, aimed at strengthening links between industry AI experts and academic AI researchers.
This is a by-invitation-only event with a limited number of participants. If you are interested in joining the waiting list for the event, please register using the form.
Program (preliminary)
08:30 REGISTRATION opens, coffee is served
09:00 INTRODUCTION
09:30 SESSION 1
- From RF to World Models
Tony Gustafsson, CTO, Sensrad - AVR – Autonomous Versatile Robotics; Industrial Grade AI
Niclas Sjöstrand, CTO, ABB Robotics
Mikael Norrlöf, Corporate Executive Engineer, ABB - From Detection to Diagnosis: Multimodal AI at AstraZeneca
Jérémy Vachier, Senior Data Scientist, AstraZeneca - Efficient AI at the Edge
Devdatt Dubhashi, Chief Scientist, EmbeDL - On geometric inductive biases for robot learning
Noémie Jaquier, Assistant Professor Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH
10:45 COFFEE
11:30 SESSION 2
- AI-driven Financial Analysis
Anastasia Varava, Head of Research, SEBx - Towards Agentic Autonomous Defense
Daniel Gillblad, Chief of AI, Recorded Future - The Wisdom of Uncertainty: Building AI That Knows What It Doesn’t Know
Paris Carbone, Associate Professor Data Systems Lab, KTH - A Decade of SEED: Research & Development in Games; Digital Humans, Game AI
Konrad Tollmar, Research Director, Electronic Arts - Easier Game Animation with Generative Modelling
Gustav Henter, Chief Scientist, Motorica
12:15 LUNCH
13:00 SESSION 3
- Player Experience Representation Learning (PERL): From Event Streams and Graphs to Time-Series Foundation Models
Lele Cao, Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Gaming - Understanding Human Action and Emotion from Body Gestures using Computer Vision
Henglin Shi, Assistant Professor Computer Vision and Learning Systems, Linköping University - Telecom AI Research, with Special Focus on Telecom Foundation Models
Jörgen Gustafsson, Research Director AI, Ericsson - SAAB AI Journey
Edvards Scukins, AI Research Scientist, Saab Aeronautics - AI @ Spotify
Adrien Leclercq, AI & Emerging Technology Risk Leader, Spotify
Max Charas, Senior Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure, Spotify
14:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Sweden as AI Nation
- Panelists:
- Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation, CEO KTH Ventures
- Marcus Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Savantic
- Moderator: Urban Forssell, Head of AI Strategy and Innovation, Digital Futures/KTH
14:45 COFFEE
15:15 SESSION 4
- Perception and End-to-end Driving for Self-driving Cars
Erik Rosén, Sr. Director of Perception and AI, Zenseact - AI at Volvo Cars – Opportunities and Challenges
Anders Sjögren, Sr. Technical Leader in Data, Analytics & AI, Volvo Cars - Building Trust in AI-Driven Autonomous Systems
Sahar Tahvili, Adjunct Associate Professor in AI Industrial Systems, and Head of Verification & Validation at Einride - Learning to Decide, Deciding to Learn: How Machine Learning Makes Decisions and Shapes Its Own Learning
Morteza Chehreghani, Professor, Data Science and AI, Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
16:15 CLOSING REMARKS
16:45 End of workshop
Contact
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact:
Urban Forssell, Head of AI Strategy and Innovation
E-mail: urbanf@kth.se
Mobile: +46 73 765 0588
