Agenda
Welcome to TechHeads 2024, September 24, in Kalmar, Sweden. Be amazed by our stellar lineup and plan for your stay.
08:30 – 09:00
Registration Opens
Get your nametag and grab a cup of coffee, then find a seat and your ready to rock!
09:00 – 09:15
Opening remarks
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09:15 – 10:00
Keynote: Music For Your Soul in a Tech Filled World
Introductory/Inspirational
#mentalHealth #Wellbeing #HeavyMetal
After more than 25 years working in the music industry, Mark Deeks has built up a really diverse client base.
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10:00 – 10:30
Swedish Fika Break
Enjoy a great cup of coffee or tea, take the opportunity to mingle with others you’ve never met before. This is the right time.
Track 1 E-commerce
10:30 - 11.00
God mode – You can do more online with AI now than you ever dreamed of
Level: Introductory
Bengt Wessborg, E-commerce & AI consultant, co-founder | Ghostar Agency
#GenAI #ecommerce #business
In a world where AI doubles in capacity every 3 month we are seeing an exponential growth in a pace we haven’t seen before.
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Surviving Black Friday!
Level:Intermediate
Jacob Rastad, CTO | Nordic Nest Group
#dotNET #Azure #Architecture
Delve into the intricate tech strategies and innovative developments that are essential for not just surviving but thriving on Black Friday. With the monumental task of selling 150,000 products in just one day, the challenges are immense, but so are the opportunities.
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Lunch and Mingle
Calmar Stadshotel
Together we move around the corner of our building to Calmar Stadshotel where we eat lunch. A perfect time to find a seat next to someone you’ve never met before. Increase your personal network during the lunch.
13:00 - 13:30
Retail media and curated marketplaces – how to leverage your traffic, get more data and make more money
Level: Introductory
Christer Pettersson, Author & e-commerce specialist | Spjut Förlag
#RetailMedia #Marketplaces #platforms
Today, retailers and online stores have a unique opportunity not only to sell products but also to leverage their platforms for additional revenue streams through retail media and curated marketplaces. By strategically utilizing these channels, businesses can boost their traffic, gather valuable data, and ultimately increase revenue and profitability.
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13:45-14:15
Unlock Your E-commerce Potential with Streamlined AI
Level: Intermediate
Christian Persson, CTO & Co-founder | Sift Lab
#DataEmpowerment #PersonalizedAI #DataEnabledAI
Join us for a developer-focused demo as we break free from the data swamp and explore the transformative power of data-centric AI.
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Swedish Fika Break
Enjoy a great cup of coffee or tea, take the opportunity to mingle with others you’ve never met before. This is the right time.
14:45-15:15
Under the hood of Theca’s collaborative networks
Level: Intermediate
Michael Mokhberi, CEO & Founder | Theca Systems
Rasmus Ros, Chief Architect | Theca Systems
#ANN #LLM #CollaborativeNetworks
Dive into a methodology integrating large-scale data processing, ANN-based vector search paired with specialized LLM’s and API’s for controlling traffic flow within your private ad-network. Challenges related to ranking and sorting by product attributes in a vector-based model will be addressed.
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15:30 - 16:00
Using custom-trained AI models in the real world
Level: Introductory
Joel Yourstone, System Architect | Avensia
Hannes Wideteg, System Architect | Garbo AI
#ai #commerce
Join our journey where Avensia and Garbo AI goes from an idea to implementing custom trained AI-models in an e-commerce platform and show how it compares to public models like OpenAI.
Track 2 (Spoken in Swedish only) E-health
10:30 - 11.00
AI and the Future of Healthcare (in Swedish)
Level: Introductory
Bo Dahlbom, professor
#ai #ehealth
Is AI mostly hype, or will AI truly revolutionize healthcare? What can we actually do with AI? With AI, we can dream of a preventive healthcare system where constant self-tests, reviewed by AI, allow people to detect diseases early and prevent them.
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Information-Driven Care – Can the Analysis of Health Data Solve Healthcare Challenges (in Swedish)
Level: Introductory
Louise Wandel, Project Manager in R&D | Region Halland
#healthcare #informationdrivencare #AI
Every day, enormous amounts of health data are generated. Making this data accessible and analyzing it is a complex challenge that all healthcare organizations struggle with.
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11:45 – 13:00
Lunch and Mingle
Calmar Stadshotel
Together we move around the corner of our building to Calmar Stadshotel where we eat lunch. A perfect time to find a seat next to someone you’ve never met before. Increase your personal network during the lunch.
13:00 - 13:30
AI in the Service of Humanity (in Swedish)
Level: Intermediate
Anthony Mc Carrick, strategic advisor, AI | ATEA
#AI #GenAI #ehealth
What is happening in our world regarding e-health and AI? How can we leverage AI capabilities to promote health now and in the future? What opportunities and challenges do we face? What can be done now, and what might be possible later? What questions should we ask to create the world we dream of?
13:45-14:15
Scheduling within social care using AI (in Swedish)
Level: Introductory
Mirelle Mård, Strategist | Kalmar Municipality
Niklas Hörling, Chief Digital Officer | Kalmar Municipality
Tilda Back, Mathematician & Founder | Konvoj
#kalmarai #konvoj #ehealth
Demographic challenges, an increasingly difficult recruitment situation, and changes in legislation make staffing a significant challenge in healthcare and social services.
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Swedish Fika Break
Enjoy a great cup of coffee or tea, take the opportunity to mingle with others you’ve never met before. This is the right time.
14:45-15:15
The Great AI Transition (in Swedish)
Level: Introductory
Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome, Principal Product Designer, GitHub
#ehealth #ai #LLM
AI is here to stay—but how do we use it correctly, efficiently, and ethically, especially in the context of eHealth and healthcare?
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Change management, implementation, and ensuring benefit of digitalisation (in Swedish)
Level: Introductory
Anna Olsson, Change Leader & CEO
#changeleadership #organizationalchangemanagement #peoplesideofchange
In digitization and AI projects, the focus often lands on the technology and its possibilities. But how do we best engage those who will use the new technology and solutions so that we achieve the effects we plan for? And how can I, as a leader and employee, embrace and learn about all the new developments while continuing with my current tasks?
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Track 3 Emerging Trends
10:30 - 11.00
Tackling the data giant, From bytes to obtaining insights
Level: Intermediate
Jacob Yousif, System Developer | Kalmar Energi
Saleh Shalabi, Software Developer | Kalmar Energi
#Architecture, #Big data
In an industry dealing with billions of rows of data every year, numerous challenges as the need of validating and analyzing to make decisions about data quickly and repeatedly grows.
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11:15 – 11:45
Get ready! English is your new programming language
Level: Introductory
Amir Elion, CEO | Think Big Leaders
#GenerativeAI #nocode #lowcode #innovation
Explore how the integration of Generative AI and no-code/low-code platforms is transforming software development, positioning English as the primary tool for innovation
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Lunch and Mingle
Calmar Stadshotel
Together we move around the corner of our building to Calmar Stadshotel where we eat lunch. A perfect time to find a seat next to someone you’ve never met before. Increase your personal network during the lunch.
13:00 - 13:30
Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done
Level: intermediate
Laura Begieneman, Solutions Engineering Manager EMEA | Atlassian
#productivity #teams #developersjoy #collaboration
Software development has become more complex over the years: Building and running a distributed architecture in the cloud, ensuring observability, discussing user experience with design and product, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. Just be agile and practice DevOps, they say.
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Decoding Accessibility – for tomorrows digital landscape
Level: Introductory
Julia Andersson, UX designer | TietoEvry; Board Member, WiTech
Josefin Rennemark, Art director & UX designer | Milou Communication
#Accessibility #UX #InclusiveDesign
By prioritizing accessibility, we promote inclusivity and equal opportunities for participation in the digital world. It also helps businesses reach a wider audience and comply with legal requirements.
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Swedish Fika Break
Enjoy a great cup of coffee or tea, take the opportunity to mingle with others you’ve never met before. This is the right time.
14:45 - 15:15
Good code or bad code?
Level: Intermediate
Sebastian Larsson, Competence Team Lead | Knowit
#cleanCode #refactoring #emergingTrends
While clean code is mostly about readability it can also be about other code characteristics. Follow along in this talk where Sebastian compares functionally equivalent code.
Read moreRead less15:30 - 16:00
Building and hosting a large-scale in-house AI development assistant
Level: Intermediate
Elias Holmér, Software engineer | TietoEvry
Mattias Holmgren, Software engineer | TietoEvry
#AI #RAG #AutonomousTeams
During the spring (i.e. in medieval times, on the AI timescale) we developed a set of solutions for evolving existing tools and way of working for developers, testers, architects and troubleshooters in a large global product development organization with the goal of improving quality and productivity.
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16:10 – 16:50
Keynote: Alexa, Are You Spying on Me? IoT Security Talk
Introductory/Inspirational
#cybersecurity #cyberchatschill #awareness
Margarita Sallinen and Linda Nieminen are the founders of the podcast “Cyber Chats and Chill,” which aims to raise public awareness about cybersecurity in a simple, relaxed, and accessible manner. Through engaging dialogues with experts and special guest Carl-Johan Ekelund, they shed light on various aspects of cybersecurity, making the topic understandable to a wide audience.
16:50 - 17:00