BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MediaFutures - ECPv6.15.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mediafutures.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MediaFutures REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241114T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241115T151500 DTSTAMP:20260511T040301 CREATED:20231124T145938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T150912Z UID:16960-1731577500-1731683700@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2024 DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation with the goal to develop responsible media technology\, leveraging AI technology\, for the media sector. \nThe centre is a consortium of the most important media players in Norway. The University of Bergen is the host of the centre. User partners include NRK and TV 2\, the two main TV broadcasters in Norway\, Schibsted\, including Bergens Tidende (BT)\, and Amedia\, the two largest news media houses in Scandinavia/Norway\, as well as the world-renowned Norwegian media tech companies Vizrt and Faktisk.no. The centre collaborates with renowned national research institutions including the University of Oslo\, the University of Stavanger and NORCE\, and works together with high-profile international research institutions. \nThis years Media Futures Annual Meeting will be held at November 14-15 at Scandic Ørnen\, Bergen in Norway. The 2024 Annual Meeting constitutes a forum for the exchange of scientific results and industry insights within the field of responsible media technology. \nThis year’s focus topic are Trust and Usability of Generative AI . \nFollowing last year’s success\, the 2024 Annual Meeting is expected once again to attract\, and bring together Norwegian and international researchers\, and industry practitioners with the intent of engaging in discussions on different topics. \nJoin us for inspirational keynote talks\, prototype demonstrations\, presentations held by our researchers\, and industry partners\, and poster session. \n \n REGISTRATION CLOSED\n \n \n \n \n \n KEYNOTE SPEAKERS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vanessa Murdock\n Sr Manager Applied Science - Amazon Web Services \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keynote Speech\n Title:  Responsible AI in the Generative Era \nAbstract:  Responsible AI (RAI) seeks basic guarantees of fairness\, safety\, privacy\, robustness\, controllability\, explainability\, transparency\, and governance for traditional ML systems and generative AI systems. With recent legislation\, including the EU AI Act\, RAI has become a central focus of the AI/ML product development cycle. This talk provides an overview of the current practices for measuring and mitigating RAI dimensions in generative systems\, and recent research in AWS AI/ML. \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Vanessa Murdock leads a research group in AWS AI/ML\, whose focus is Responsible AI (fairness\, safety\, privacy\, robustness\, and veracity).  In addition to doing fundamental research in RAI topics\, her team builds tools for assessing aspects of responsible AI\, used in AWS Services such as Bedrock\, Rekognition and Transcribe.  Prior to joining AWS\, she led a science team in Alexa Shopping focused on recommender systems\, search and HCI. Her team provided the machine learning that backed Amazon’s Choice\, and Alexa Shopping List\, in addition to contributing content moderation for the generative AI system Rufus. She was previously at Microsoft\, working on location inference and notifications at Bing and Cortana. Prior to Microsoft\, Murdock led the Geographic Context and Experience Group at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona\, which centered on geographic information retrieval and user-generated content. She has been awarded 20 patents\, resulting in a Master Inventor Award from Yahoo! (2012). She received the OAA Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Young Alum from the University of Massachusetts in 2014. She is currently serving as the Chair of the ACM SIGIR Executive Committee.  Murdock received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval\, advised by Bruce Croft. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes\n Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of AI - Dataminr \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keynote Speech\n Title: Responsible AI in Critical Real-Time Applications \nAbstract: Dataminr’s AI Platform discovers the earliest signals of events\, risks\, and threats from billions of multi-modal inputs from over one million public data sources. It uses Predictive AI for detecting events\, Generative AI for describing them\, and ReGenerative AI for generating live briefs that continuously update as events unfold. The events discovered by the platform help first responders quickly respond to emergencies\, they help corporate security teams respond to risks (including Cyber risks)\, and they help news organizations discover breaking events so they can provide fast and accurate coverage. Building and deploying a large-scale AI platform like Dataminr’s is fraught with research and technical challenges. This includes tackling the hardest problem in AI (determining the real-time value of information)\, which requires combining a multitude of AI approaches. In this talk\, I will briefly describe the main use cases of the work which I do\, but I will focus specifically on Responsible AI: in the domains we work\, the alerts we send out save lives\, which implies the need for many levels of decision-making that can be impacted by AI. I will describe a framework on the deployment of responsible AI that is based on the types of decisions in which AI is involved\, and the types of factors that need to be considered in deploying AI in critical applications. \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Alex Jaimes is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of AI at Dataminr. His work centers on blending qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand user behavior and drive product innovation. \nWith over 15 years of global experience\, Alex has contributed to research with real-world impact at companies such as Yahoo\, KAIST\, Telefónica\, IDIAP-EPFL\, Fuji Xerox\, IBM\, Siemens\, and AT&T Bell Labs. Previously\, he served as Head of R&D at DigitalOcean\, CTO at AiCure\, and Director of Research and Video Products at Yahoo\, where he led teams of scientists and engineers across New York City\, Sunnyvale\, Bangalore\, and Barcelona. \nHe has also been a visiting professor at KAIST. A prolific author\, Alex has published extensively in top conferences like KDD\, WWW\, RecSys\, CVPR\, and ACM Multimedia\, and is a regular speaker at international academic and industry events. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1 \n\n\n\nOPENING SESSION\n\n\n09:45\nRegistration & Coffee & Event Information\n\n\n10:15\nPoster & Demo Exhibition Vol. 1\n\n\n12:00\nLunch \n\n\nKEYNOTES SESSION\n\n\n13:00\nWelcome Address: Siri Gloppen (UiB)\, Christian Birkeland (TV2)\, Christoph Trattner (MediaFutures)\n\n\n13:15\nFirst Keynote Speech: Vanessa Murdock (Amazon Web Services): "Responsible AI in the Generative Era"\n\n\n13:45\nModerated QA with Alain D. Starke (University of Amsterdam)\n\n\n14:00\nCoffee Break \n\n\n14:15\nSecond Keynote Speech: Alex Jaimes (Dataminr): "Responsible AI in Critical Real-Time Applications"\n\n\n14:45\nModerated QA with Mehdi Elahi (MediaFutures)\n\n\n15:00\nCoffee break & Group Picture\n\n\n TACKLING MIS- & DISINFORMATION SESSION\n\n\n15:15\nPresentation: Project Reynir Results: Christoph Trattner & Helge O. Svela\n\n\n15:45\nPanel: Kayleen Devlin\, (BBC Verify)\, Helge O. Svela (Media Cluster Norway)\, Vinay J. Setty (Factiverse\, UiS)\, Sergej Stoppel (Wolftech)\, Morten Langfeldt Dahlback (Faktisk.no)\, Moderation: Bjørnar Tessem (MediaFutures)\n\n\nFINAL SESSION\n\n\n16:30\nInteractive Poster & Demo Pitches Vol. 2\n\n\n18:00\nPoster & Demo Award\n\n\n19:30\nConference Dinner (Scandic Ørnen)\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2 \n\n\n\nOPENING SESSION\n\n\n09:45\nRegistration & Coffee & Event Information\n\n\nINSIGHTS & INNOVATION SESSION \n\n\n10:15\nBook Teaser: John Magnus R. Dahl (MediaFutures): "Making a World with the Smartphone"\, Moderation: Peder Haugfos\n\n\n10:45\nCoffee Break\n\n\n11:00\nPresentation by Sanja Šćepanović (Nokia Bell Labs\, Cambridge): "Responsible AI: Innovating from Design to Deployment"\, Moderation: Morten Fjeld (MediaFutures)\n\n\n12:00\nLunch \n\n\nAI & NEWS SESSION\n\n\n13:00\nPresentation by Kayleen Devlin (BBC Verify): "BBC Verify: tackling falsehoods in an age of uncertainty"\, Moderation: Christopher Senf (MediaFutures)\n\n\n13:45\nCoffee Break\n\n\n14:00\nPresentation by Lubos Steskal & Chris Ronald Hermansen (TV2): "Real Journalist\, Virtual Avatar: What We Learned from Peeking into Pandora's Box with KI-Kjetil"\, Moderation: Samia Touileb (MediaFutures)\n\n\n14:30\nPresentation by Damian Trilling (University of Amsterdam): "Responsible Recommender Systems for News" Moderator: Erik Knudsen (MediaFutures)\n\n\n15:15\nEnd. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The program is tentative and subject to change. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SPEAKERS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kayleen Devlin\n Senior Journalist at BBC Verify \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Kayleen Devlin is a senior journalist at BBC Verify. She has extensive experience of working on open-source investigations and covering disinformation from the Ukraine and Israel Gaza wars. As well as this\, she has also covered topics ranging from climate denial around COP26 and election related disinformation in the Philippines and the US midterm and presidential elections. \n \n \n \n \n \n BBC Verify: tackling falsehoods in an age of uncertainty\n In a year filled with global conflicts and elections\, communicating credible information in a timely manner has never felt more important. BBC Verify senior journalist\, Kayleen Devlin\, joins us to discuss some of the approaches her team takes when it comes to tackling misleading posts online. What are some of the main themes that have cropped up this year? And how much has generative AI disrupted the landscape? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sanja Šćepanović\n Senior Research Scientist\, Nokia Bell Labs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Sanja is an applied mathematician with MSc in cybersecurity and cryptography and a PhD in data science. Almuna of Internation Space University and ex of ICEYE\, she has a keen interest in space technology and research (e.g.\, AI for Earth Observation). \nHer professional experiences include government institutions\, two startups\, CERN\, and Bell Labs. During her doctoral studies with EIT Digital\, she has also taken business\, innovation and entrepreneurship courses\, working on startup ideas in some of them. \nHer example research projects include public and population health studies using social networks\, human dynamics using mobile phone data\, and urban vitality using satellite data. \n \n \n \n \n \n Responsible AI: Innovating from Design to Deployment\n Abstract: This talk presents the work of the Responsible AI (RAI) team at Nokia Bell Labs\, Cambridge. It covers the six RAI pillars and solutions for designing\, deploying\, and monitoring responsible AI systems. Discover AI Design\, a collaborative approach for holistic AI system design\, and ExploreGen\, which helps foresee and manage potential uses and risks of AI technology. See how NLPGuard prevents over-reliance on protected attributes when monitoring a toxicity classifier. Finally\, gain insights into how AI incidents are portrayed in the news media. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Damian Trilling\n Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Damian Trilling is a full professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and holds the Chair for Journalism Studies. \nDamian Trilling\, with a background in social sciences and a role in a humanities department\, integrates multiple perspectives\, especially in computational methods. His research focuses on how citizens engage with news and current affairs amid today’s media landscape\, examining the roles of journalists\, news media\, social platforms\, and technology. \nInitially using surveys\, Trilling now leverages digital trace data\, such as browser history donations\, to study news consumption and sharing across formats\, including high- and low-quality news and misinformation. He has also contributed insights on shareworthy news and large-scale sharing on platforms like Facebook. \nTrilling investigates feedback loops in media—how popular content reinforces itself\, the effects of personalization\, and audience metrics on news production. He also critiques the “filter bubble” concept\, preferring a nuanced view on personalized news flows. \nA proponent of computational communication\, Trilling co-founded *Computational Communication Research*\, and co-authored a book on computational analysis. His interests include machine learning\, event identification across media\, and experimental tools for recommender systems and data donation. \n \n \n \n \n \n Responsible recommender systems for news\n News organizations increasingly use recommender systems on their websites\, and also for streaming platforms that offer content regarding news and current affairs\, recommender systems are essential. From a user perspective\, such systems can help surfacing relevant content; and from a commercial perspective\, they can lead to higher click-through rates and revenues. At the same time\, there are growing concerns that too much emphasis on clicks may be detrimental to delivering a responsible journalistic product. In this talk\, I show recent developments that allow to leverage recommendation techniques to achieve desirable outcomes such as broadening users’ horizon without sacrificing user satisfaction. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siri Gloppen\n Dean of SV-faculty at UiB \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Siri Gloppen is a Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She directs LawTransform\, the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation\, and heads the Bergen School of Global Studies. Her work focuses on the intersections of law\, politics\, and social change\, and she is actively involved in global development and policy research initiatives. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christian Birkeland\n Chief Digital Officer at TV2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Birkeland holds a Master of Science in Engineering from NTNU in Trondheim and has a background as CEO of RiksTV. \nChristian Birkeland is part of the executive management team at TV 2 and the chairman of the steering board in SFI MediaFutures. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christoph Trattner\n Director\, SFI MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Christoph Trattner is currently appointed as Lead Professor (1404) by the University Board of the University of Bergen (UiB). At UiB\, he serves as the Founder and Center Director of the Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation\, known as SFI MediaFutures\, which has secured funding and in-kind contributions totaling approximately 300 million NOK. \nAdditionally\, he is the Founder and Leader of the DARS research group\, Norway’s largest research group specializing in Recommender Systems. He holds a PhD (with distinction)\, MSc (with distinction)\, and BSc in Computer Science and Telematics from Graz University of Technology in Austria and is an ACM Senior Member.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Helge O. Svela\n CEO at Media Cluster Norway \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Svela is an award winning investigative journalist and editor. As a journalist in Bergens Tidende\, Svela won a Skup-diploma for the fact checking initiative faktasjekk.no. Svela held various leadership positions over 11 years in Bergens Tidende\, og was in charge of the newspaper’s coverage of the 2011 terrorist attack. Svela has also led various innovation initiatives in Bergen Tidende\, among them New digital formats\, which won a silver medal in the 2022 INMA Awards for innovation in newsroom. He started as the CEO of Media Cluster Norway in September 2022. Media Cluster Norway is a media and media tech cluster with around 90 member companies. Svela chairs the ITPC working group on Provenance Best Practices and Implementation.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chris Ronald Hermansen \n Project Manager for editorial AI at TV 2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Chris Ronald Hermansen is the project manager for editorial AI at TV 2. Over the past 15 years\, he has worked as a journalist\, news editor\, and project manager in various media companies. In recent years\, he served as the editorial manager for TV 2’s news department in Bergen. Hermansen holds a law degree. \nLubos Steskal is a data scientist and AI developer at TV 2’s editorial AI team\, and he is also the industry lead of the Media Futures language technology work package. Combining academic and industry experience\, he has worked extensively with natural language processing and machine learning across various sectors. His background includes positions at the University of Bergen\, Sbanken\, and several startups\, bringing a unique perspective to the intersection of AI\, journalism and media. \n \n \n \n \n \n Real Journalist\, Virtual Avatar: What We Learned from Peeking into Pandora's Box with KI-Kjetil\n ‘KI-Kjetil’\, the first AI avatar of a news personality in Norwegian media\, serves as an interactive chatbot focusing on U.S. presidential election coverage. Based on journalist and news anchor Kjetil H. Dale\, this talk presents the journey of developing and deploying KI-Kjetil\, from evaluating editorial questions and challenges through technical implementation and towards operational monitoring. We explore the editorial rationale behind creating an AI clone of a news anchor\, discuss our project objectives\, and evaluate their outcomes. The presentation opens a discussion about the broader implications of AI avatars in journalism\, examining their impact on public trust and the ethical dimensions of deploying AI-powered representations of real journalists. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John Magnus R. Dahl\n Postdoctoral Researcher in SFI MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n John Magnus R. Dahl is Postdoc in WP1 Understanding Media Experiences at MediaFutures. He holds a MA in Rhetoric\, Argumentation and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. Dahl is interested in the relationship between culture\, communication\, and politics in a broad sense\, as well is the development of ethnographic methods within media studies and rhetoric. He is currently working on a project of how Norwegian public broadcasters relate to\, or do not manage to relate to\, the media experiences and social and cultural needs of young people. \n \n \n \n \n \n Making a world with the smartphone\n In this talk\, postdoc John Magnus R. Dahl presents insights from his forthcoming book\, the first book from MediaFutures – In The Palm of Their Hands: Teenage Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices (expected spring 2025). \nBased on an ethnographic fieldwork where Dahl observed six teen boys online and offline over 18 months\, this books seeks to answer how the smartphone impacts the life of young people. The central argument is that the smartphone gives teenagers agency – agency to find out who they want to be\, to connect with the people and communities that matter to them and to the wider world. This is why the smartphone is conceptualised as a worldmaking device. \nIn addition\, Dahl has found that the smartphone use is fundamentally gendered – used to enact masculinities\, different ways of being a man – and that it is used differently by those who are “different” – ethnic minorities and queer people. For them\, worldmaking through the smartphone is even more important. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergej Stoppel\n Chief Innovation Officer at Wolftech \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Sergej  is the Chief Innovation Officer at Wolftech\, where he leads a culture of innovation across interdisciplinary teams\, transforming industry standards for a platform serving over 20\,000 global professionals. With a PhD in Computer Science and recipient of the Eurovis Best Dissertation Award\, Sergej combines research-driven strategic planning with a passion for customer-centric solutions. He is a recognized AI expert and thought leader\, regularly speaking at key industry events and driving sustainable growth through strategic partnerships and groundbreaking AI solutions for media professionals. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Morten Langfeldt Dahlback\n Head of Innovation and Technology at Faktisk.no \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Morten Langfeldt Dahlback leads the technology and development efforts at Faktisk.no. He also heads the EU project NORDIS\, a Nordic collaboration aimed at countering misinformation and disinformation. Dahlback holds a PhD in philosophy and has previously worked as a commentator for Adresseavisen and as an analyst for The Economist Intelligence Unit. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vinay Setty\n Associate Professor at Universitet i Stavanger \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Vinay Setty is the founder and CTO of Factiverse and an associate professor at University of Stavanger. Setty’s research area broadly encompasses NLP\, information retrieval and deep neural networks for language technologies. He specializes in fact-checking\, question answering\, and conversational search. He has published in several top-tier conferences within the area of information retrieval and web mining such as SIGIR\, The Web Conf\, WSDM\, CIKM etc. \n Furthermore\, he also won the 2020 SR Bank Innovation prize in Norway for commercializing neural network technology for fake news detection. Setty’s startup Factiverse has also won digital trust challenge and NORA AI startup award and has secured a US Patent on deep neural networks for false claim detection. Setty has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Oslo and a postdoc from Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n EXHIBITION AND DEMO PITCHES\n \n \n \n \n \n Demos \n\n\n\nName\nTitle\n\n\nKhadiga Seddik \nBeyond Political Personalization: Enhancing News Recommendation with Headline Style Customization Using ChatGPT\n\n\nBilal Mahmood\nLarge Language Models as Editors Picking Related News Articles\n\n\nSnorre Alvsvåg\nSequential Recommender systems in action in the Video Domain: A TV 2 Demonstration\n\n\nFazle Rabbi & Svenja Forstner \nAi Conflict Analysis Tool\n\n\nPete Andrews \nAI Co-Moderator: Enhancing Broadcasted Political Debates\n\n\nHuiling You & Svenja Forstner\nEvent Extractor Model\n\n\n\n \nPoster \n\n\n\nName\nTitle\n\n\nJeng Jia-Hua\nNegativity Sells? Using an LLM to Affectively Reframe News Articles in a Recommender System\n\n\nSindre Berg Sæter\nMetadata Analysis of Images and Videos\n\n\nAdane N. Tarekegn\nCSAI: New Cluster Validation Index based on Stability Analysis\n\n\nBeatrix Chik Wu\nNews Report Adaptation for Synthetic Voice Presentation\n\n\nSohail Khan\nCLIPing the deception: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Universal Deepfake Detection\n\n\nJørgen Eknes-Riple\nEmotional Reframing Recommended News Articles\n\n\nBjørn Kjartansson Mørch\nAnalysis of Popularity Bias Effect in Media Recommendation\n\n\nTord Berget Monclair\nPersonalised News Recommendation in the Sports Domain\n\n\nSnorre Åldstedt\nInvestigating and Measuring Bias in Generative Language Models\n\n\nPeter Røysland Aarnes\nNumPert: When Numbers Shift\, does Prediction Hold?\n\n\nMartin Salterød Sjåvik\nSubtler biases in LLMs\n\n\nMarianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus\nNews experience: understanding the resonance between content\, practices & situatedness in everyday life\n\n\nTobias Jovall Wessel\nEmpowering Real-Time Media Research With NewsCatcher API\n\n\nBilal Mahmood\nCan Large Language Models Support Editors Pick Related News Articles?\n\n\nAyoub El Majjodi\nAdvancing Visual Food Attractiveness Predictions for Healthy Food Recommender Systems\n\n\nThorstein Lium Fougner\nEnhancing Enterprise streaming platforms with contextual post-filtering\n\n\nGloria Anne Babile Kasangu\nPicture this: How Image Filters affect trust in online news\n\n\nIngunn Statle Nævdal\nPersonalised news summarisation\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCATION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBoth days of the Annual Meeting will take place at the Conference Centre at Scandic Ørnen. \nScandic Ørnen is located in Lars Hilles Gate 18\, right next to the main bus terminal.The closest public transport stop is “Bergen Busstasjon”\, the main bus terminal. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n https://maps.app.goo.gl/oHBxMur84ReqdFVx7 URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/annual-meeting-2024/ LOCATION:Scandic Ørnen\, Bergen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-49-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241125T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241127T160000 DTSTAMP:20260511T040302 CREATED:20240425T101410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T132403Z UID:18078-1732525200-1732723200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:NIKT 2024 DESCRIPTION:University of Bergen will arrange Norwegian Conference for ICT Research and Education (NIKT) from 25.-27. November 2024 in Bergen. NIKT is an important national meeting place for researchers\, teachers\, masters and PhD students in information and communication technology\, computer science\, information science and information systems. A conference for ICT-researchers in Norway bringing together people from the following fields: \n\n\nNIK – Norwegian Informatics Conference \n\n\nNOKOBIT – Norwegian Conference for Organizations’ Use of IT \n\n\nNISK – Norwegian Information Security Conference \n\n\nUDIT – Norwegian Conference for Education and Didactics in IT subjects \n\n\nThe conference is hosted by Department of Information Science and Media Studies at Faculty of Social Science\, University of Bergen and funded by SFI MediaFutures and SLATE. \nThe academic content of the conference will consist of a number of peer reviewed articles that present new research\, supplemented by the contributions of four invited speakers on current topics in ICT research\, innovation and education. In addition\, held in conjunction with the conference\, there will be a meeting of the national ICT fagråd as well as a number of thematic workshops and lightning-talk poster presentations. \nOne of the three keynote speakers will be Björn Þór Jónsson\, Associate Professor\, CRESS\, at the Department of Computer Science in Reykjavik University. \nBjörn Þór is working within the broad field of Multimedia Analytics\, applying Multi-Dimensional Analysis concepts and techniques to multimedia. A strong focus is on interactive learning at scale\, resulting in the Exquisitor prototype\, which can interact with a collection of 100M images in real-time on a standard laptop. Over the last decade\, his research has focused primarily on the performance of very large scale content based multimedia retrieval. This research has led to the traditional international publications and graduate degrees\, but also to two patent applications and a start-up company\, Videntifier Technologies. He has taught classes on the database design and implementation\, the architecture and performance of database systems\, the architecture and performance of SSDs\, big data management\, and on advanced database systems\, such as multimedia systems\, stream query processing and database client caching. \nThe second keynote speaker is Per Thorsheim. \nWith close to 30 years of experience in information security\, he is a passionate and knowledgeable leader in this area. His core competencies include operational security management\, policy development and implementation\, hardening and security patch management\, defence in depth\, risk analysis\, awareness training\, and incident handling. He also has a strong interest and expertise in passwords and password research\, having founded and organized the first and only conference dedicated to passwords and digital authentication: #PasswordsCon. Per is a frequent speaker\, writer & media commentator on security-related topics\, and is currently holding the CISA and CRISC credentials from ISACA.\n\nThere will be 2 more keynote speakers in the conference.\n\nImportant deadlines:\n1 September: Abstract submission \n8 September: Full paper submission \n11 October: Notification of acceptance \n25 October: Camera ready paper \n1 November: Registration URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/nikt-2024/ LOCATION:Nygårdsgaten 5\, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241129T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241129T150000 DTSTAMP:20260511T040302 CREATED:20241017T082018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T102255Z UID:19510-1732874400-1732892400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB AI #12: Aligning AI with Human Values. Challenges and Solutions DESCRIPTION:The event aims to bring together experts\, researchers\, and industry professionals to explore\, discuss\, and advance our understanding of the challenges and solutions related to aligning artificial intelligence systems with human values and goals. \nThe objectives and expected outcomes of this seminar are as follows:\n– Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with AI alignment\, including biases\, interpretability\, and value misalignment.\n– The workshop will facilitate interactive discussions to develop concrete solutions and strategies for addressing AI alignment challenges.\n– Participants will have the opportunity to network with leading experts and build connections that can lead to ongoing collaborations and partnerships \nThis event is a collaboration between Universitetsfondet and UiB AI. \nProgramme: \n09:00-09:30: Registration and coffee \n09:30-09:40: Introduction by moderator Samia Touileb\, Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen \n09:40-10:15: How can we prevent LLMs from behaving badly? Jan Broersen\, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies\, Utrecht University \n10:15-10:50: Value aware AI. Nardine Osman\, Tenured Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA)\, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (presentation by Zoom) \n10:50-11:05: Coffee break \n11:05-11:40: AI alignment of LLMs: a simple case study on detecting deceptive designs. Davide Liga\, Post. Doc. at the Faculty of Science\, Technology and Medicine\, Université de Luxembourg \n11:40-12:15: Human Interactions and their Implications for Ethical and Responsible Robotics and AI. Dr. Emily C. Collins\, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow at the Department of Computer Science\, The University of Manchester. \n12:15-12:45: Lunch (included) \n12:45-13:20: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Generative AI. Vinit Ravishankar\, Independent researcher with a PhD in multilingual language technology \n13:20-13:55: Enabling Responsible AI with Humans. Nadin Kokciyan\, Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab (CHAI Lab) at the University of Edinburgh \n13:55-1410: Coffee break \n14:10-14:45: News in AI age: alignment with editorial values and ethics. Anastasiia Klimashevskaia\, PhD candidate\, MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation \n14:45-15:20: Machine ethics and alignment. Marija Slavkovik\, Professor at Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen \n15:20-15:40: Wrap up and discussions URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-ai-12-aligning-ai-with-human-values-challenges-and-solutions/ LOCATION:Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, first floor\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, Bergen\, 5015\, Norway CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ai.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR