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During the Big Data Conference on December 3-4, 2020 we will have a several interesting Keynote speakers, one of them is Anders Arpteg, who is the Head of research at Peltarion

He will talk about that something extraordinary has happened within AI in recent years. Companies are starting to talk about moving into an AI-first future, but what does that mean? Not only are we seeing significant scientific advances in AI, but we are also seeing companies and politicians starting to invest heavily in AI. In order to stay one step ahead, we must be prepared for what is coming next. What has really happened in recent years, and what are the next steps and trends in machine learning? What should companies know to be prepared for the rapid development that is happening with ML and AI? This talk will give a glimpse into the future of AI, what possibilities it holds, and describe concrete real-world examples of how companies such as Spotify, Peltarion, and more are using the latest AI techniques.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to him and take part of the conference by signing up here by November 25th.

More information about Anders Arpteg
Anders Arpteg (Ph.D., Head of Research at Peltarion) has been working with AI for 20 years in both academia and industry, with a Ph.D. in AI from Linköping University. Worked at Spotify for many years making use of big data and machine learning techniques to optimize the user experience. Now heading up a research team at Peltarion, operationalizing the latest and greatest AI techniques. At Peltarion, we have the ambitious goal of making deep learning and the latest AI techniques available for all companies, not just the large technology organizations. Also a member of AI Innovation of Sweden’s steering committee, AI adviser for the Swedish government, member of the Swedish AI Agenda, member of the European AI Alliance, founder of the Machine Learning Stockholm meetup group, and member of several advisory boards.

Don’t miss out on this publication by Sabri Pllana and other researchers.

A major challenge in modelling and simulation is the need to combine expertise in both software technologies and a given scientific domain. When High-Performance Computing (HPC) is required to solve a scientific problem, software development becomes a problematic issue. Considering the complexity of the software for HPC, it is useful to identify programming languages that can be used to alleviate this issue.

Because the existing literature on the topic of HPC is very dispersed, we performed a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) in the context of the European COST Action cHiPSet. This literature study maps characteristics of various programming languages for data-intensive HPC applications, including category, typical user profiles, effectiveness, and type of articles.

For more information about the publication see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167819119301759?via%3Dihub

During this years Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University on December 5-6 2019 we have several very interesting Keynote speakers, one of them is Antonina Danylenko, Head of Applied Machine Learning at The Nordic Entertainment Group who offers video-on-demand streaming, linear TV channels and radio broadcasting – probably best known for their Viaplay, Viafree & Viasat platforms.

She will talk about how the entertainment industry is transforming at a rapid rate. This is driven by new trends, growing customer expectations and AI technologies allowing for more innovation, disruption and opportunities for growth. At the same time, the industry is getting increasingly crowded – as the use of streaming services is on the rise, and the Nordic region spends more time online than ever before. Nearly four out of ten people watch video content on a daily basis, with three-quarters of the 16-24 year-old age bracket streaming that content from subscription-based services. We are seeing a new phenomenon emerge known as ‘stacking’ behaviour – where households typically subscribe to more than one service, just to keep their options open when it comes to deciding what to watch. With so many options out there, people can be paralysed by what’s known as the ‘paradox of choice.’ Personalising every aspect of the customer journey has become our main focus in the recommendation space, as consumers of entertainment have never been more spoilt for choice. Serving up relevant content recommendations at the right time is key to making the decision process as easy as possible. However, building and maintaining the lifecycle of recommender systems to capture customers’ behavior and use different algorithms to guide them towards something they will enjoy watching is not easy. In this presentation, I will outline the end-to-end process of building a recommender system utilising Big Data and Machine Learning to address this challenge.”

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to him and take part of the conference by signing up here by November 25th.

More about Antonina Danylenko who holds a PhD in Computer Science from Linnaeus University, Sweden where she wrote a dissertation on the topic of “Decision Algebra: A General Approach to Learning and Using Classifiers”. After several years working at IKEA within Solution Architecture and Data Science domains , she joined the Nordic Entertainment Group—where she is now the Head of Applied Machine Learning. The Nordic Entertainment Group offers video-on-demand streaming, linear TV channels and radio broadcasting – probably best known for their Viaplay, Viafree & Viasat platforms. They’re responsible for connecting over 1.4 million subscribers to the content they love, with more than 1900 employees across the Nordics and the UK.

During this years Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University on December 5-6 2019 we have several very interesting Keynote speakers, one of them is Gergely Sipos works as Customer and Technical Outreach Manager for the EGI Foundation. He will give a talk about Open Science with the European Open Science Cloud.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to him and take part of the conference by signing up here by November 25th.

In recent years, the vision of Open Science has emerged as a new paradigm for transparent, data-driven science capable of accelerating competitiveness and innovation. The embodiment of this vision in Europe is the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This presentation will introduce the EOSC initiative, its current implementation from the EOSC-hub and other projects, and will show
how EOSC can already facilitate Open Science. EOSC-hub is a 33 million Euro project that started in January 2018 with the involvement of over 100 institutes. EOSC-hub defines, creates and operates the integration and management system of the EOSC. This integration and management system (the Hub) builds on mature processes, policies and tools from the leading European e-infrastructures to cover the whole life-cycle of services from planning to delivery. Through this management system online and ‘human’ services, software and data are delivered towards researchers via the EOSC Portal and its Markerplace. The Portal already includes over 100 services from 3 e-infrastructure communities (EGI, EUDAT, INDIGO-DataCloud), and from over 20 Research Infrastructures and scientific service providers. The catalogue of services is expected to radically grow in the next years. The Hub acts as a single contact point for researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of services starting from baseline infrastructure services (such as HTC clusters, IaaS clouds, storage, security) to domain specific applications, datasets and portals.

You can also meet Gergely Sipos during the tutorial session about Open Science with Jupyter, Zenodo and Binder on December 4th.

More information about Gergely Sipos he coordinates EGI’s engagement programme and supports researcher communities and educators from academia and industry in tackling big-data and big-compute challenges using state of the art services from the EGI community. Gergely holds an MSc and a PhD in computer science and project management from the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He became involved in grid computing in 2002 and researched high-level user environments and collaborative design tools. Prior to EGI, Gergely worked in training, consultancy and user support for the EGEE project from his base in Budapest, where he promoted grid technology and distributed computing practices to scientific communities.

Welcome to the research seminar Dr. Google is ready to see you: Privacy dilemmas arising from co-owned personal health data” 

Heart rate, sleep patterns, and location information: Citizens share their personal data daily through social media and connected devices. Citizens and patients do not clearly know who owns, utilizes or shares their personal data, says Cory Robinson, a social science researcher.
This seminar is held in English!

• When? Thursday September 12  14:30 – 16.00
• Where? House Magna, Room Porfyr_Ma1065K, Universitetskajen (the new university buildings by the harbour, Kalmar)
• Find your way: Norra Kajplanen 6 see karta
• Register by sending an email to ehalsoinstitutet@lnu.se  (No later than Tuesday September 10th)

The research seminar will also be live streamed so that you can follow from a distance via eHälsoinstitutets website https://lnu.se/ehalsoinstitutet/

This seminar is a part of the research seminar series eHealth (for more information about the full program see https://lnu.se/ehalsoinstitutet/) hosted by eHälsoinstitutet, plattform eHealth and DISA eHealth bjuder in fall 2019.

Viktor Kaldo, leg psykolog och forskare, berättar om sina studier kring psykologisk behandling via internet och hur man kan använda sig av AI för att effektiviseras vårdprocesser och hjälpa fler patienter med psykisk ohälsa.

Datum och tid: Fredag den 12 april klockan 10.30-12.00
Plats: Universitetskajen (Nya universitetsbygget i hamnen, Kalmar)
Hus/sal: , Hus Vita, våning 2, sal Azur,
Adress/vägbeskrivning: Norra Kajplanen 6 se karta, Följ skylten mot Hus Vita genom en gång mitt i bygget som ligger på hamnsidan nära turistbyrån, gå sedan in genom entrén till plan 2.

Anmäl dig genom att skicka ett mejl till ehalsoinstitutet@lnu.se  (senast  10/4)
Forskningsseminariet går även att se på distans då det streamas live på https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/nyheter/ehalsoinstitutet-live/

What all geeks in Växjö have been waiting for…🤪

On the 6th-7th of April, Open.Science.Hack will take place at Linnaeus University, Sweden, a 24h-hackathon promoting open source and open science.

The event is organized by different local IT networks, including the student organizations Kodkollektivet and SPIIK.com, the female network WiTech IT-network Sverige, the IT forum #vxodev, and researchers at Linnaeus University, Sweden, Open.Science.Hack will gather students, business professionals, and researchers passionate about IT. The event will be held in English and is free of charge.

#Openscience is a massive, global movement towards making scientific research available and accessible to everyone.

Registrations for Open.Science.Hack are OPEN!!! Register yourself for the Team Matching event on the 22nd of March:
https://opensciencehack.eventbrite.com

In case you want to attend Open.Science.Hack (6.-7.4.2019) but you can not make it to the Team Matching event, send the organization team (open.science.hack@gmail.com) a short profile about yourself and we will match you with a team.

**FIND YOUR TEAM!**
Every team in the hackathon should consist of at least one:
🎓 (PhD) student
💼 researcher/business professional
👩 woman

For updated information see the event on facebook.