WARA Media & Language invites you to join us for a few days of knowledge-sharing, interactive workshops, and team-building activities in Åre.
Deadline to sign up is 1st of November!
Agenda
(preliminary agenda could be adjusted)
Monday 27
06.00 Optional run/hike
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Recap of what we have achieved so far in the Arena – Johanna Björklund, Umeå University
14.00 The National Library – Love Börjesson, KB Labs
14.30 Coffee break
15:00 Robotics from the perspective of foundation models – Danica Kragic Jensfeltd, KTH
16.00 Updates from the gaming arena – Konrad Tollmar, Electronic Arts
17.00 Check in to rooms
18.00 Conference dinner
Tuesday 28
06.00 Optional run/hike
09.00 Industrial applications – Diarmuid Corcoran and Alexander Kravberg, Ericsson
10.00 Coffee break
10:30 LLMs at SEB- Anastasia Varava, SEB
11.00 Lunch
12:00 Excursion Snowshoes Hiking
15.00 Source Code Representations of Deep Learning for Program Repair – Zimin Chen, KTH
15.30 Phd presentation Interpretability and transparency of Transformers- Lena Strobl Umeå University
15.40 Strategic workshop – Sandor Albrecht, KAW
18.00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 29
06.00 Optional run/hike
Check out of rooms
09.00 PhD student presentations
-Enhancing Robot Perception for Real-World Applications- Maciej Wozniak, KTH
-Transformers and regular languages- Willeke Martens, Umeå University
– MuRS: Mutant Ranking and Suppression using Identifier Templates -Zimin Chen, KTH
-Towards Building Reliable Neural Graph Database Systems- Sonia-Florina Horchidan, KTH
-Probabilistic speech and gesture synthesis- Shivam Mehta, KTH
-Arezoo Hatefi
10.00 Boliden projects – Rasmus Tammia, Boliden
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Presentation of Parsd- Alexandra Kafka Larsson, Parsd
11.20 Great ideas below zero – György Kovács, Luleå University
11.40 Recap and going forward
12.00 Lunch
End of conference
Hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
WARA M&L Team
INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION
-WARA M&L will cover the conference cost.
-However, attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
For INDUSTRY:
-Industry attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
For WARA CORE, ACADEMICS, and INVITED SPEAKERS:
Accommodation (Hotel):
-We have reserved 30 single rooms and 10 double rooms for accommodation.
-We encourage room sharing to accommodate more people.
Travel:
WASP Fellows: Please book your own travel arrangements and request reimbursement following the same process as your current funding requisition.
CORE Members: If you have an account with your organization, kindly use that for travel booking. Alternatively, if you are affiliated with a WASP university, refer to the “WASP Fellows” instructions above.
Non-WASP Attendees: To arrange travel, please contact our travel agency directly at se.travel@amexgbt.com (cc Johanna at johanna@cs.umu.se), and request them to make the booking for you.
Please let us know if you have any questions or need further assistance regarding your travel and accommodation arrangements.