Building pan-European bridges, Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE) is celebrating its reach across Europe by launching four new offices in Zurich, Oslo, Paris and Brussels in a month long Office Opening Roadshow beginning on May 26 to strengthen the CLAIRE Vision of inclusive and co-creative collaboration for responsible AI research and education all across Europe. The new offices will complement the 4 existing offices in The Hague, Saarbrucken, Rome and Prague.
AI is increasingly present in all aspects of academia, industry and daily life, which is why all stakeholders need to take part in the way the field is being framed. AI technologies will also have a global impact on societies. Thus, an international and European approach to AI is thus needed. To promote this approach nationally, NORA is thrilled to announce the official opening of the CLAIRE Oslo Office.
Please join the launching event The Nordic Model from 3:00–5:00 pm on June 3rd 2021.
This will give you the opportunity to learn more about CLAIRE and the Oslo office but also about activities and partnerships that the office is particularly involved in.
Speakers: Klas Pettersen, CEO NORA, Trym Holter, Director at Norwegian Open AI Lab, The Minister of Local Government and Modernisation, Nikolai Astrup, Morten Irgens, Co-Founder CLAIRE, Ieva Martinkenaite, VP, Analytics & AI at Telenor, Jon Crowcroft, Researcher at large at the Alan Turing Institute, Yngvar Ugland, Executive Vice President, DNB NewTechLab and many more!
Format: Online celebration via Zoom
Program
3:00pm Part 1: Office Launch & Welcome Address
Welcome and introduction by Morten Irgens, Dean of the School of Economics, Innovation, and Technology, and Chief Development Officer (CDO) and co-founder of CLAIRE
Key note: The Minister of Local Government and Modernisation, Nikolai Astrup
Keynote: Klas Pettersen, CEO NORA
Keynote: Trym Holter, Director at Norwegian Open AI Lab
Keynote: Professor Jon Crowcroft, Researcher at Large at the The Alan Turing Institute (via zoom)
3:40pm Part 2: How can we develop an effective AI innovation ecosystem in Europe?
Moderated by Morten Irgens
Jan Bormans, CEO The European Startup Network
Anita Schjøll Brede, CEO and co-founder of IRIS.ai
Ieva Martinkenaite, VP, Analytics & AI at Telenor
Ola Tørudbakken, GM & SVP Systems at GraphCore
Yngvar Ugland, Executive Vice President, DNB NewTechLab
4:40pm Part 3: AI, research and innovation in Europe
Format: Two presentations by two actors (10 min each)
- Presentation 1: Simula Consulting: Key factors for successful ML projects and companies
- Presentation 2: The European AI startup landscape: Strengths and challenges.
5:00 - 6:00pm Networking in Gathertown!
Organizations in Gathertown
- Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Network for Europe (NAINE)
- Norwegian Open AI Lab
- SINTEF
- Norwegian Cognitive Center
- Oslo AI
- IRISl.ai
- European Startup Network
- European AI Startup Landscape
- NORA.startup
- NORA
- Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR, UiA)
- University of Stavanger
- Telenor
- The Arctic University of Norway - Machine Learning Group
- SFI Visual Intelligence
- Simula Consulting
- AI Makerspace (OsloMet)
- dScience
- NORCE
- University of Oslo
- Graphcore
- Norway Health Tech
- Smart Innovation Norway
- Cluster for Applied AI
Want to have a virtual booth in Gathertown? Contact birte.hansen@nora.ai !
About CLAIRE
The Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE) (https://claire-ai.org) is an organisation created by the European AI community that seeks to strengthen European excellence in AI research and innovation, with a strong focus on human-centred AI. CLAIRE aims to ensure that societies and citizens across all of Europe, and beyond, benefit from AI as a major driver of innovation, future growth and competitiveness, and to achieve world-wide brand recognition for "AI made in Europe". CLAIRE, founded in 2018, has garnered the support of more than 3700 AI experts and stakeholders, who jointly represent the vast majority of Europe’s AI community, spanning academia and industry, research and innovation. Among them are more than 140 fellows from various key scientific associations.
CLAIRE's membership network consists of over 390 research groups and institutions, covering jointly more than 22,000 employees in 36 countries. Furthermore, CLAIRE is currently in the process of setting up an Innovation Network that, together with the established Research Network, will foster a strong link between research and industry.
The CLAIRE vision is officially supported by the governments of nine European countries, 28 scientific associations across all of Europe, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the European Space Agency (ESA). CLAIRE is also actively liaising with other important AI organisations, including ELLIS, the HumanE AI consortium, the Big Data Value Association, euRobotics and AI4EU.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Holger Hoos (CLAIRE leadership), Professor of Machine Learning, Universiteit Leiden,
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 527 5777
E-Mail: hh@liacs.nl
Alexa Kodde, MSc, Project Coordinator CLAIRE ,
Tel. +31 72 527 4799
E-Mail: contact@claire-ai.org
This articles was originally published on the 1st of June, 2021.