The NORA Annual Conference 2024 will take place on the 3-4th of June 2024 in Kristiansand at the beautiful Clarion Ernst Hotel! The conference will coincide with the beginning of summer - where better to spend it than the south of Norway? The conference dinner will be hosted at Kristiansand Dyrepark, and promises to be both entertaining, exciting and unique!
Date: 3-4th of June
Location: Clarion Ernst Hotel, Kristiansand
The conference promises keynotes delivered by prominent researchers, panel debates, oral and poster presentations from members of the AI community. We will also be giving out the prestigious NORA Awards. The NORA Annual Conference 2024 has more in stall, as it is collaborating with the NOBIM conference, which will host their own track at the conference. The Annual Conference 2024 also coincides with the second annual summer school hosted by the NORA Norwegian AI Research School.
Important dates:
- Call for abstracts: The deadline to submit abstracts is March 12th, 2024.
- Call for nominations NORA Annual Awards: The deadline to submit nominations is March 12th, 2024.
- Deadline to register for the NORA Annual Conference is April 17th, 2024.
Invited Keynotes 2024
We are honored to present Serge Belongie, Director, Pioneer Centre for AI and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen and Marija Slavkovik, Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen as the keynotes for this year's conference.
Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, and Director of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence Denmark.
Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence (P1). Previously, he was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech, and a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing. He is also a co-founder of several companies including Digital Persona and Anchovi Labs. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award, and the Helmholtz Prize for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and serves on the board of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Marija Slavkovik, Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen.
Marija Slavkovik is a Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen. Her background is in computer science and artificial intelligence. She has been doing research in machine ethics since 2012. Marija is a vice-chair of the the Norwegian AI Association, board member of European Association for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the informal advisory group on Ethics, Legal, Social Issues (ELS) of CLAIRE, in the editorial board of AI Magazine, AI and Society track editor of JAIR and ethics chair of IJCAI 2024. She is the current chair of the department of information science and media studies that since 2021 has been offering, in collaboration with the department of informatics the first bachelor program in AI in Norway.
NORA Annual Awards
NORA is seeking nominations for our annual awards 2024! The NORA Annual Awards are given to recognise exceptional efforts of individuals and actors in the Norwegian AI community throughout the year.
You can now submit your nominations for the following awards:
- NORA Award for Lifetime Achievement
- NORA Award for Distinguished Early-Career Investigator
- NORA Award for AI Community Building and Education
- NORA Award for Diversity in AI
- NORA Award for Outstanding Publication of the Decade 2013 – 2023
- NORA.startup Award
AI Innovation Track 2024
Would you like to present your startup at the NORA Annual Conference 2024?
The NORA Annual Conference 2024 invites submissions for its AI Innovation Track. This track aims to unite researchers, startups, and innovators from the public and private sectors, focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. The platform is ideal for showcasing AI projects and seeking academic collaborations to enhance innovation.
Submissions are welcome from various organizations, emphasizing technical proficiency in AI with potential societal contributions. The event also encourages proposals for projects in the ideation phase requiring academic partnerships, providing an opportunity to connect with knowledgeable academicians ready to support these initiatives.
The Program Committee looks forward to reviewing submissions, and offering presenters visibility and opportunities for collaboration.
To be part of the NORA AI Innovation Track, submit your project or idea by the 12th of March.
Click here for more details, submission guidelines and submit. For questions, contact birte.hansen@nora.ai.
NORA Summer School 2024
The NORA Summer Research School will take place at the UiA from the 10 - 14 June 2024.
The Summer School offers three intensive courses on current topics within the field of Artificial Intelligence.
The course list is as follows:
- Course 1 :Geometric Deep Learning by Nello Blaser and Erlend Grong from UiB
- Course 2: Generative Models by Rogelio Mancisidor from BI, Norway
- Course 3: Secure and Robust AI Model Development (DAT945) by Ferhat Ozgur from UiS