NORDTEK 2022

Annika Wolff has a BSc in Cognitive Science and a doctoral degree in knowledge modelling and HCI. Her specialisations are in co-design and human-data interaction, at the intersection between complex data, machine and human learning. Her research focuses on how people make sense of, interact with and design from complex data, such as derived from IoT and within smart cities. She is currently an Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher in the project Building the Civic DataScape. She currently supervises several doctoral students within three H2020 projects: GRETA (energy citizenship), ParCos (data sensemaking and communication) and Impulse (blockchain and AI for eID). She is also conference planning chair for the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) and associate editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer studies (IJHCS).

Bergur Ebbi is an Icelandic actor and author. Known in his home country as the author of the books Room Temperature (2017) and Screenshot (2019), Bergur Ebbi is also a renowned speaker and stand-up comic who has has written, performed and produced work for stage, radio and television. A former lawyer, Bergur Ebbi also holds a degree in future studies and gives talks and produces works of strategy and futures thinking. His main themes are the influence of technology on individual and collective identity, fashion, zeitgeist and popular culture. As an actor Bergur Ebbi started out in comedy but has lately taken on more serious roles in series such as The Valhalla Murders (2020) and the movie Skjálfti (2021).

Professor Lindsay is a globally recognized pioneer in engineering education, exploring the affordances of digital technology to question the assumptions of traditional engineering degree programs. He has held leadership roles in a number of Australian engineering schools, and in engineering education societies around the world. He is best known for developing new models for engineering programs that focus on graduates making a positive difference in the world, rather than just solving problems and making things.

Dean of School of Technology and professor of Computer Science, with 35 years of experience of innovation and transformational technologies, both in academia and private equity and venture capital. Unique combination of executive level experience and technical innovation. Experienced director of both public and private companies. Founded, operated and exited a number of own business. Established authority on Internet technologies and novel network services, with track record of leadership, creativity and productivity. Author of over eighty peer reviewed publications, holder of over 25 US patents.

Hafsteinn is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Iceland with a PhD from ETH in Switzerland.
At the University of Iceland, he does research in language technology for low resource languages. He also does work in genomics in collaboration with deCODE genetics in Iceland. Hafsteinn is also the president of the association of computer scientists in Iceland and a co-founder of Nordverse.
Nordverse is developing solutions in the field of computational medicine and language technology.

Inga Huld is a B.Sc. student in Applied Mathematics with emphasis on statistics and data analytics. During the summer and part-time with school she works as a data analyst and customer success manager at GRID, a SAAS company. She has been widely participating in University life besides her studies, advocating for students rights and improving teaching in the university in various roles in the Student Council and as the president of Stigull, student union for Mathematics and Physics students, teaching assistant and summer researcher. Since she was 15 she has been advocating for youth and children’s rights and increased participation of children and youth in decision making and the society as a whole. During her advocation she has met with Presidents of Iceland, ministers and other politicians and decisions makers, given speeches and educated on children's rights. Currently she sits as Iceland Youth delegate for children and youth at the United Nations.

Following a masters degree in computer science from University of Copenhagen focusing on scientific computing, distributed systems and HPC, Jesper worked as a consultant within that field for a number of years while also starting as a sysadmin in the ESS data management and software center. In 2015 Jesper took over as group leader for Datasystems and Technologies and by doing so became responsible for the scientific computing infrastructure for ESS.

Kristoffer Boesen has broad experience in communications and policymaking in Denmark and from several years of working in Scotland. In ANE, his work is focused on knowledge sharing and establishing connections with international networks to promote the role of engineering in the dual transition to a sustainable society.

"For a limited time, Lena is working as acting vice-chancellor at Sweden's newest university, Mälardalen University. Normally, Lena is the Pro-Rector with focus on educational issues at the same university, something Lena finds both fun, interesting and challenging. Lena has a background as an engineer conducting reserach in engineering education at KTH, where she has developed a research group working with engineering education in a broad sense, the group researches issues that spans from how to attract young people to engineering to how we develop the best engineering education curriculum.

"Mika Rantakokko works as a Liaison Manager in 6G Flagship, the world’s first 6G RDI center at the University of Oulu, Finland. He also coordinates European Wireless ICT Smart Specialisation Platform and Oulu Innovation Alliance Future Networks Programme. He is a former coordinator of the EU Urban Agenda Digital Transition Partnership.

Mika has broad experience and expertise in innovation, digitalization, smart cities, regional development, international and Nordic collaboration, and entrepreneurship. He has collected his expertise from positions in public and private sectors, including i.a. European Commission, Nordic Innovation Center, Center for Internet Excellence, the network of Finland’s six biggest cities, and various international collaboration projects."

Muhammad Mahtab Alam is a professor and head of communication systems research group at TalTech. His research focusses on the fields of wireless communications - connectivity, NB-IoT 5G/B5G services and applications, mobile positioning, low-power wearable networks for SmartHealth. He has 15+ years of combined academic and industrial multinational experiences while working in Denmark, Belgium, France, Qatar and Estonia. He has several leading roles as PI in multimillion Euros international projects funded by European Commission (H2020- 5G-ROUTES (951867), NATO-SPS (G5482), Estonian Research Council (PRG424), Telia-Estonia industrial grant etc. He is author and co-author of more than 100 research publications. He is also a contributor in two standardization bodies (ETSI SmartBAN, IEEE-GeeenICT-EECH), including “Rapporteur” of work item: DTR/SmartBAN-0014. He is a senior member of IEEE, associate editor of the IEEE Access journal and Frontier in Communications and Networks – IoT and Sensor Networks

Stephen Wolthusen is Professor of Information Security at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU. He holds a concurrent appointment as Professor of Information Security at the Department of Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research interests include formal models for the resilience and robustness to attacks of networks including of critical infrastructures and cyber-physical systems. He is leading and has led a number of national and international research projects and is the author and editor of several books as well as of over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

Peter Gorm Larsen is both deputy head of section and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University, where he also leads the Cyber-Physical Systems research group as well as the Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data, and Data Analytics (DIGIT) and the AU Centre for Digital Twins. He worked 17 years in industry on critical systems all over the world, before returning to academia in 2005. He is the author of more than 200 papers published in journals, books and conference proceedings, and several books and has an h-index at 35.

D.Sc.(Tech.) Riitta L. Keiski is Professor in Mass and Heat Transfer (since 2001), associate professor in Chemical Process Engineering, especially in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Environmental Engineering (since 1997), and the former Dean of the Faculty of Technology (2015-2021) at the University of Oulu. She holds Doctor Honoris Causa title at three international and national universities, is the Chair of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, and a Member of the COST Scientific Committee. Prof. Keiski has supervised 31 finalized doctoral theses, and has totally over 260 publications. She has directed tens of research projects and has acted as an active evaluator of, e.g. research and researchers, institutes, research applications, and has been a member of boards/advisory boards of research institutes and funding organizations, e.g. the Academy of Finland, MIKES, VTT. She was the President of the NORDTEK in 2017-2019 and a Member of the NORDTEK Board in 2016-2020.

Sigurður Magnús has been a professor at the University of Iceland since 2007 and the dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences since 2017. He was recently appointed for a second term by the Rector of the University. Sigurður is also the chair of the board of UI Science Park.

Mrs. Björnsdóttir is the founder STIKI - Information Security in 1992 and worked there as a CEO until merger with Klappir Green Solutions in 2019. She worked as a managing director at KGS until April 2020 when she joined Reykjavik University.

During her career, Mrs. Björnsdóttir has also served on the boards of numerous companies, associations and institutions and has extensive experience in the management and operation of international organizations. She was the chairman of the Federation of Iceland Industries, a board member of the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise, chairman of the Association of Start-up Companies in Iceland, chairman of Men&Mice, board member of Landsnet – the Iceland National Grid, member of the Reykjavik University Council, board member of the Data Protection Authorities in Iceland, and a board member of HAGAR, a leading retailer in the Icelandic market.

Mrs. Björnsdóttir is now the president of the Association of Charted Engineers in Iceland, executive board member of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI), advisory board member of Association of Nordic Engineers (ANE) deputy chairman of SL General Pension Fund, a member of the Icelandic Science and Technology Council, and a board member of the Iceland Savers Association.

Dr. Thomas Lancaster is one of the world's leading experts and speakers in academic integrity. He coined the term contract cheating in 2006 to describe the behaviour where a student outsources their assessed work to a third party and continues to research in that field. A Computer Scientist by background, Thomas currently works at Imperial College London. One of his most recent papers, co-written with an undergraduate student partner, considered the spike in online academic misconduct and answer sharing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Unnur Þórleifsdóttir has MSc degree in Management Engineering. She has been working for Alcoa Fjarðaál in Reyðarfjörður since 2014. Unnur currently works on and manages visual management projects, automation, and continuous improvements. Previous projects include management of capital investment projects, being responsible for control systems, alumina control and resistance control.