Eliza - The Beyond AI Podcast

This episode is in Swedish and  we revisit Halland Tech Week in Halmstad on 4/11, 2025. In the episode you get to hear about all the exciting workshops that took place during the day and towards the end a conversation around art and science and their respective relationship to truth and tech. First out you meet Håkan Lidbo together with Ann-Christin Herz, then we hear Sanna Lindström talk about th...

This episode is in Swedish. In the episode we revisit Halland Tech Week in Halmstad on 4/11, 2025. Amanda interviews some of the guests and the people who wne ton stage to have conversations around AI, leadership and data security. In this episode you'll first meet Daniel Kvist and Victoria Wahlberg who talk about both the organisations behind HTW but also the ethics around AI. After that a conver...

In this episode we meet Pontus Wärnestål, associate professor here at Halmstad University. Pontus just came back from the 5th Global Education Summit in Chandigarh in India where he held a lecture on the subject of AI. Of course we got curious about both what Pontus talked about but also the attitudes and reactions of his global colleagues from the other side of the globe. This episode is about di...

On Tuesday 4/11 it's once again time for Halland Tech Week. In this episode we meet Anna Petersson and Tor Palm who give us a sneak peak from what to expect during the event. Tickets are released this week and can be purchased at https://hallandtech.se/

Today we meet the program manager of Halmstad University's new master programme in Experience Design. Dimitrios is an associate professor of design research and user experience at the university. His current research interests include design education, and design connected to ethics and wellbeing. Dimitrios works to ensure that technology works for and with people towards a more sustainable and eq...

In this episode we meet Roy (Yi Luo) and Simon Norris. Both Ph. D students at Halmstad university in human-centred artificial intelligence at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design. Simon is a designer and cognitive scientist with over twenty-five years of commercial experience and Roys' background is a mixture of human-computer interaction and psychology, with working experience...

Lately we been seeing more and more tips and recommendations on how to automate our workflows with the new possibilities that GenAI offers. But how has it actually effected knowledge workers in general and people working in tech specifically? In this episode we meet Naomi Buseko Zulu-Chikumbi and Olga Plotnikova, both second-year PhD candidates in informatics at Halmstad University, working within...

In this episode we meet Elin Fritiofsson, the creator of the European AI Atlas. The AI atlas is a directory where you will find a collection of European based AI models. The directory is conviently organized into different categories so that you can easily find the models that suit your needs. In this episode we talk about why you should base your service on models built and based in Europe; the b...

Alexander holds a Dipl.-Ing(FH) degree in Engineering Informatics fromFH-WS (2013) and an MSc in Embedded and Intelligent Systems from Halmstad University (2018). He has completed his studies with a PhDin Artificial Intelligence from Halmstad University under the supervision of Sławomir Nowaczyk. His research interests are mainlyin the areas of Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and DataMin...

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode we interview Pontus Wärnestål and Iida Höög about Sci-Fi litterature and how it relates to todays technological development. We also speak to Astrid Sjögren from AI Sweden who gives a lot of interesting r...

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode you will hear Marcus Purens, from SVT, psychologist Sebastian Michel and Sophia Lagerholm from Delphi speak about how AI is affecting their different professions and what they think about automatisation....

Curious about how Spotify works behind the interface? In this episode, we chat with Tonia Danylenko, Senior ML Engineering Manager at Spotify, who explains how the platform's recommendation system uses machine learning to personalize your listening experience. Tonia also gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at Spotify, sharing insights on the company’s culture and offering a...

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode you get to hear Jonas Birgersson talk about the future of electricity, Sofia Tegelid about how robots can enhance the museum experience and Åsa Zetterberg on the digital future in Sweden. The episode is i...

Mohammed Ghaith holds a PhD from Halmstad University in Sweden and is currently a postdoc researcher at the university. His research is focused on using Evolutionary Computation (EC) methods to design and optimize Deep Learning (DL) models. Mohammed Ghaith has developed feature selection, instance selection, and hyper-parameter tuning algorithms to improve the performance of DL models. Additionall...

In this episode, Tiago Cortinhal reflects on his extensive research journey during his PhD in computer vision. With a focus on autonomous vehicles, Tiago shares the challenges and discoveries from his numerous published works. He discusses how his research has explored integrating data from multiple sensors, such as LiDAR, to recover missing sensory information and enhance scene perception. Join T...

In this episode we have the honor to have Anna Felländer, the founder of anch.ai as a guest. Anna has a background as an economist and has worked both as an advisor for the government as well as a chief economist at Swedbank. In 2018 she founded anch.ai, which aims at helping companies to comply with AI regulations and develop AI ethically. In this conversation we cover both the new EU AI Act as w...

In this episode we have invited Albert Bifet who is here to talk about open source in relation to AI. He is currently a guest professor at Halmstad University and is known for his work and research on machine learning for data streams, a field which he has nearly 20 years of experience in. Albert has been working on the development of open source software like Moa, Weka and River. In this episode...

What does the laws say about the new technologies we see in generative AI or also called degenerative AI? What kind of compensation can artists expect and how should you as a user relate to these new technologies. Johan Cedmar-Brandstedt gives us some refreshing perspectives on this discussion and how both companies and individuals are relating to the subject at the moment. Don't miss out on this...

Have you heard about 0-click viruses and how does Sora stand against the new UN and EU legislation? And where could you find ethical GenAI models? If any of these subjects make you curious don't miss out on our latest episode of ELIZA AI News where we report about AI both locally and globally - from Halmstad to the world.

As an associate professor of experience design and information, Andrea Resmini shares his interesting ideas and philosophy on what happens when digital environments merge with physical space. In this episode we talk about how physical space and the digital layer are constantly effecting each other and what that implies for people and business. What kind of products and services can we be expecting...

In this first episode of ELIZA AI News we will give some background on how the podcast and Halmstad university is connected to each other, we visit Pontus Wärnestål at the university who gives us an update on what courses are running right now. We also speak to Anna Peterson from HighFive to hear what she has to share about recent AI activities in Halmstad. And last but not least Johan Cedmar Bran...

Olof Mogren, research leader at RISE, talks about some of the interesting projects he is involved in right now. We get to learn more about how AI can support researchers in understanding how nature changes and behaves through audio recordings and sound recognition. Listen to this episode to learn more about a fascinating technology that made us feel hopeful about the future.

In this first episode of season two we start off with a special episode recorded at the Halland Tech Week in Halmstad. The theme of the day was AI so of course we had to be there to check out what is going on within the AI scene in Halmstad and Halland. During the day we had the opportunity to talk to several of the interesting speakers and during this episode you get to hear snippets from the int...

Guest: Sahar Asadi, PhD, Director of AI Labs at King In this episode, we get to chat with Sahar Asadi, who leads AI research for game development. Sahar is really at the forefront of applicable AI and gives us a lot of insight into how AI is used today in order to speed up the development of games. At the end of the episode, Sahar also gives some perspective of where she thinks future development...

Guest: Philip D. Andersson, MD, University What does data driven health care mean and what are the challenges when dealing with very sensitive data? Philip D. Andersson, emergency medicine physician, explains how technology can be helpful in the healthcare system but also elaborates on the challenges of collecting sensitive data from patients. Additional guest informationResources/Links Health car...