On November 16th and 17th, MediaFutures hosted its third Annual Meeting at the vibrant venues of Media City Bergen and Scandic Ørnen. Drawing a crowd of more than 150 registered attendees, the 2023 edition of the MediaFutures Annual Meeting proved to be an engaging and impactful gathering.
Day 1 started with an full packed workshop on AI policy with Charlotte Eide from the UiB Brussels Office, UiB Senior Advisor Vivil Haraldsen, MediaFutures researcher Nicholas Diakopoulos and University of Amerstand researcher Kimon Kieslich.
Afterwards, our keynote speakers Esther Paniagua and Ricardo Baeza-Yate sparked new ideas and thoughts on the topic of AI in journalism and the future of AI technology. We were happy to have those two excellent speakers also in the following panel discussion on generative AI and AI Policy together with the head of Schibsted Futures Lab, Andreas Bengtsson, as well as head of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Marija Slavkovik. The panel talk was moderated by Nicholas Diakopoulos.
In the afternoon, our students, PhDs, PostDocs and researchers were on stage presenting their work in compact 30 seconds to our audience competing for the title of the best presentation, poster and student demonstration. After some time where everyone could try and read about the demos and papers, three happy winners were announced. Congratulations to Florence Walker, Snorre Alsvåg and John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl.
You can find the posters digitally here
At the end of day 1 we gathered for dinner in Kulturhuset.
Day 2 started with short presentations from our work packages in Scandic Ørnen. After a tasty lunch, we continued with Florence Walkers presentation of her work on University and Industry collaboration, followed by a panel discussion on the topic. Together with Florence co-authors Enrico Motta and Irene Costera Meijer, also Schibsted Academic Liason Eivind Throndsen joined the talk. The panel talk was moderated by professor Leif Ove Larsen.
Day 2 ended with an inspiring world cafe session on the conferences main topics: Generative AI, AI Policy and UI collaboration.
We are looking forward to see you at MediaFutures next Annual Meeting in November 2024.
The program of the conference was available online and in print.
Charlotte Eide explaining the function of Brussels Office.
Charlotte Eide and Vivil Haraldsen had the first presentation of the workshop on AI Policy.
Vivil Haraldsen works as Senior Advisor at UiB.
Nicholas Diakopoulos gave a Brief Primer on Global AI Policy.
Together with Nicholas Diakopoulos, Kimon Kieslich hold a presentation on developing Mitigation Strategies to Counter Negative Impacts of Generative AI.
We had professors, students, industry partners and other experts in the field of media technology and AI as guests.
MediaFutures center director Christoph Trattner was also holding an opening speech.
UiB Vice-Rector Pinar Heggernes was one of them holding an opening speech.
Helge O. Svela from Media City Bergen as well.
Alain Starke moderated the opening event.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University.
Esther Paniagua is tech & society journalist and author.
Marija and Andreas were highly active in the panel debate.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates obtained a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989, and his areas of expertise are web search and data mining, information retrieval, bias on AI, data science and algorithms in general.
Nick Diakopoulos moderated the panel on Generative AI and AI Policy.
These are the winners of our demo and postersession.
MediaFutures consists of over 100 people.
Leif Ove Larsen and Florence Walker together at the panel on UI collaboration.
Eivind Throndsen, Enrico Motta and Irene Costera Meijer are also part of the panel.
Daniel Rosnes was moderating the world cafe session.
We had three tables with different experts.
Enrico Motta and work package leader Brita Ytre-Arna.
