Date and time: Thursday 26 March 2026, 09:00 – 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: Gaming
- A Decade of SEED: Research & Development in Games; Digital Humans, Game AI
Konrad Tollmar, Research Director, Electronic Arts - Player Experience Representation Learning (PERL): From Event Streams and Graphs to Time-Series Foundation Models
Lele Cao, Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Gaming - Easier Game Animation with Generative Modelling
Gustav Henter, Chief Scientist, Motorica - Academic presentation TBA
Speaker TBA - AI-driven Financial Analysis
Anastasia Varava, Head of Research, SEBx
10:45 COFFEE
11:00 SESSION 2: Robotics
- 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 - Academic presentation TBA
Speaker TBA
12:15 LUNCH
13:00 SESSION 3: Agents
- Telecom AI Research, with Special Focus on Telecom Foundation Models
Jörgen Gustafsson, Research Director AI, Ericsson - AI at Saab
Speaker TBA - Towards Agentic Autonomous Defense
Daniel Gillblad, Chief of AI, Recorded Future - AI at Spotify
Adrien Leclercq, AI & Emerging Technology Risk Leader, Spotify
Max Charas, Senior Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure, Spotify - Academic presentation TBA
Speaker TBA
14:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Sweden as AI Nation
Moderator: Urban Forssell, Head of AI Strategy and Innovation, Digital Futures/KTH
Panelists: Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation, CEO KTH Ventures and Marcus Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Savantic
14:45 COFFEE
15:15 SESSION 4: Automotive
- 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 - AI for Verification and Validation
Sahar Tahvili, Head of Verification & Validation, Einride - Academic presentation TBA
Speaker TBA
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
