Aarhus University - Digital Innovation Conference
A two-day conference about cutting edge research and appliance of new knowledge in the industry. .
PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 10th 2019
8.45-9.15 Registration and coffee
9.15 Conference opening
Official opening of Aarhus University Digital Innovation Festival and conference
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Brian Bech Nielsen
Rector
Aarhus University
Camilla will give a short introduction to Digital Hub Denmark.
Speaker: Thomas Hofman-Bang, CEO, Industriens Fond
Peter will give a short introduction to the new programs from Innovationsfonden
Speaker: Søren Eskildsen, CEO, Trifork Denmark
Christiane Vejlø
Elektronista
Moderator
10.00 Opening Keynote
Conference opening keynote
Henrik Wann Jensen is an international leading researcher within Computer Graphics. He is, among other things, known for global illumination, photon mapping, and subsurface scattering, methods, which are used for rendering photo-realistic scenes in movies and pictures. To honour this work, he received an Academy Award (Technical Achievement Award) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the methods to render the skin of Gollum from the Lord of the Rings movies.
Henrik Wann Jensen has a PhD in Computer Science from DTU in 1996. He has been a Postdoc at MIT, a Research Associate at Stanford University, and has been Assistant, Associate and Full Professor (2002-2018) at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor Emeritus. He has also been a visiting Otto Mønsted Professor at DTU. He has been consultant for some of the most famous digital film producers Pixar (Steve Jobs), Weta (Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings and James Cameron, Avatar). He now works as full-time Chief Scientist for Luxion, which develops the KeyShot tool, that is widely used for product visualization in areas such as design, advertisement, and architecture.
Henrik Wann Jensen
Honarary Professor at Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
Emeritus at UC San Diego, Chief Scientist at Luxion
10.30-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 Session 1: Machine Learning and big data
Experts from research and industry will present their take on machine learning and big data
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
The deep learning revolution has brought us virtual assistants that understand what we want, on-demand translation and computer vision systems that allow self-driving cars to see the world around them.
Training deep neural networks to solve new tasks requires an enormous amount of annotated training data, which can be expensive and difficult to obtain.
To make deep learning more accessible, researchers from the Alexandra Institute have introduced a new system that helps developers train and refine their deep networks on synthetic images, thus avoiding the need for manual annotation. In his talk, Henrik Pedersen presents recent results from such diverse areas as robot navigation and augmented reality.
Henrik Pedersen
PhD, Head of Visual Computing Lab,
The Alexandra Institute
Boosting algorithms iteratively produce a strong classifier by combining weak (inaccurate) base classifiers. It has been observed experimentally that the generalization error keeps improving even after achieving zero training error. One popular explanation attributes this to improvements in margins. A common goal in a long line of research, is to maximize the smallest margin using as few base classifiers as possible, culminating with the AdaBoostV algorithm by (Rätsch and Warmuth [JMLR’04]).
The AdaBoostV algorithm was later conjectured to yield an optimal trade-off between number of base classifiers trained and the minimal margin over all training points (Nie, Warmuth, Vishwanathan and Zhang [JMLR’13]). In this talk, we describe a new algorithm that improves over AdaBoostV and refutes this conjecture. Moreover, we can in fact prove that our new algorithm gives the best possible trade-off.
Kasper Green Larsen
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
Mads Rydahl has built games for Lego Mindstorms, interfaces for Bang & Olufsen, search experiences for Stanford University, and was Director of Product and Design at SIRI, the DARPA funded voice assistant acquired by Apple in 2010.
Mads Rydahl
Founder & Chief Visionary Officer
UNSILO
Anja Bechmann
Associated Professor
School of Communication and Culture – Media Studies
Aarhus University
Humans are still the “gold standard” when referring to intelligence. However, there are cases where machines have surpassed our capabilities due to the use of machine learning, a way to find, extract and use knowledge encoded on big data collections. In this talk, I will briefly talk about the current frontiers in this exciting research field, the limitations, the new challenges and the role of education in a the most rapidly grown research discipline today.
Alexandros Iosifidis
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering
Aarhus University
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 Session 2: Blockchain and cybersecurity
Experts from research and industry will present their take on blockchain and cybersecurity
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Jesper Buus Nielsen
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
Log collection and analytics at scale with open source tools.
One this is to raise a IT security incident, another is to close it. Furthermore, determining what did and did not happen in the IT infrastructure can be time consuming even if log data is collected.
This session will provide a technical walkthrough of building a logdata pipeline with realtime enrichment and filtering to support it security incident process. The goal is improved effectiveness of the incident response process and provide conclusive results of the investigation. Enrichments and filtering are done against the MITRE ATT&CK framework, in order to focus on what an adversary MUST do to succeed not what an adversary can do to succeed.
Tools used are from Microsoft and elactic.co (elasticsearch)
Simon Simonsen
Senior IT Security Officer
Danske Commodities
In the Concordium Blockchain Research Center we investigate the design of smart contract languages, the specification of smart contracts and their formal verification. I will present this work in the context of our bigger effort to provide basic research for the blockchain.
Bas Spitters
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
Secata is committed to build Multi-Party Computation (MPC) applications in which the users can compute on confidential datasets while only revealing the results. This marks a fundamental move away from the trust model we know today – where we completely trust anyone who has computational access to our data.
At the same time distributed computing is being revolutionized by blockchain technology – transforming the way we will work with cloud computing and run our programs in the future. Blockchain is emerging as a transparent and safe way to execute code on a distributed computer.
In this talk we will present the platform we are building based on these two technologies – utilizing blockchain for orchestration, auditing and recording MPC in a transparent setting. Blockchain is a surprising good companion to MPC and we will be highlighting some of the positive impact blockchain has on executing MPC applications.
Speaker: Peter Frands Frandsen, CTO, Secata
The talk presents a nuanced view about if and how blockchains can improve official elections in terms of security and transparency. While there is a huge amount of hype and excitement around this potential application of blockchains, we briefly examine the failures of current electronic voting systems and how they relate to blockchain technology, attempting to detect what parts of a typical electoral process can likely benefit from the security properties provided by blockchains.
Diego F. Aranha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasília (3 years) and the University of Campinas (4 years). He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Campinas and has worked as a visiting PhD student for 1 year at the University of Waterloo. His professional experience is in Cryptography and Computer Security, with a special interest in the efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms and security analysis of real-world systems. He coordinated two teams of independent researchers capable of detecting and exploring vulnerabilities in the software of the Brazilian voting machine during controlled tests organized by the national electoral authority. He received the Google Latin America Research Award for research on privacy twice, and the MIT TechReview’s Innovators Under 35 Brazil Award for his work in electronic voting.
Diego F. Aranha
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Aarhus University
15.00-15.30 Networking and Coffee Break
15.30 Session 3: Scaling large systems and cloud computing
Experts from research and industry will present their take on scaling large systems and cloud computing
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Ubers microservice management system enables engineering teams worldwide to deploy and run Ubers global platform. The path from a classic monolith architecture to thousands of microservices have yielded many interesting challenges, and in this talk, I will share some of the lessons which have helped shape our infrastructure and service management system.
Claus Thrane
Senior Software Engineer
Uber
At SCALGO we use cutting-edge massive terrain data-processing technology to create an interactive tool for mapping, understanding and mitigating flood risk. We have used decades of applied and theoretical research in computer science to build a technology that scales to country-wide setups on high-resolution (40cm) terrain data. This is done in a way that simultaneously allows our users detailed control and powerful tools nationally as well as on local/project scale. In this presentation I will discuss our journey from a start-up with freshly minted academics armed with an idea and some tech, into a company helping more than 4000 users work professionally with water and flood risk in Scandinavia (and beyond).
A short story of Introduction of Kubernetes in Danske Bank and some of the learnings.
Speaker: Roman Kuznetsov, Solution Architect, Danske Bank
Kresten Krab Thorup
CTO and Founder
Humio
16.45 Wrapping up, day 1
Official ending the conference program and making the transition to the Open Katrinebjerg event
17.00 - 20.00 Open Katrinebjerg Tour and Reception
Get a guided tour of some of the labs, meet researchers and students. During the event we will provide delicious food.
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Thursday, April 11th 2019
8.45-9.15 Registration and coffee
9.15 Day 2 Opening: Digital innovation in a competitive world and large research projects
Experts from research and industry will present their view on digital competition in an international perspective and how large research projects might address some of these challenges.
Christina Boutrup is one of Denmark’s leading China connoisseurs and is affiliated as a China analyst for the TV channel TV2. She is an educated business journalist, and since 2004 she has followed the development of China closely, working as an Asia correspondent and hosting radio and television programs, among other things. She has written several critically acclaimed books, and she is widely used as lecturer, facilitator and moderator at Danish and international conferences and workshops. She is also serves on the advisory board for the think tank Think China at the University of Copenhagen.
Christina Boutrup
Journalist, speaker, author
China specialist
Kaj Grønbæk
Professor and Head of Department
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
Peter Gorm Larsen
Professor
Department of Engineering
Aarhus University
Christiane Vejlø
Elektronista
Moderator
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 Session 4: IoT, Drones and 3D printing
Experts from research and industry will present their take on IoT, Drones and 3D printing
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Small IoT devices are inherently brittle to program due to lack of memory protection, limited resources, and only a thin layer of operating system support. Developers link all the firmware together and deploy it as a whole, thus making every single change a full, reboot-required system update that potentially wrecks havoc with the overall system integrity. Isn’t it time that we make the platforms more modern and robust – and start deploying and updating software components and apps independently?
Kasper Verdich Lund
Co-founder and CEO
Toitware
This talk focuses on architectural aspects of data storage for the Internet of Things (IoT).
We discuss the challenges to create a trusted chain of data management from devices to the Cloud and ensuring secure processing of data in the face of an untrusted Cloud infrastructure. We advocate for the use of Intel SGX capable chips to deliver a secure and scalable architecture for processing critical IoT data in the Cloud. The talk discusses a novel Key-Value Store and Object Storage services designed to use these new security capabilities as well as delivering a flexible mechanisms to store hot, cold, and warm data by using data replication, network coding, and hybrid mechanisms and provide data locality for its processing. We also describe various representative data streams from smart city sensors and applications gathered in Brazil used to tailor and guide our system design.
Daniel Enrique Lucani Rötter
Associated Professor
Department of Engineering
Aarhus University
“Big Data & AI Lab” in Grundfos is researching Belief Desire Intention representations of fault diagnosis and remedy procedures. These procedures are used in a Procedural Reasoning System (software agent for chatbot) where the World Model (Beliefs) is connected to IoT signals from sensors, typically connected the pump or system. One of the big challenges is how to maintain and evolve a procedure repository in a scalable fashion.
Mikkel Haggren Brynildsen
Chief Data Scientist
Grundfos
Using a combination of 3D imaging and printing, the medical field has progressed to allow previously impossible procedures offering patients faster and improved healthcare where implants are no longer “one size fits all” but rather custom-fitted to the individual patients. Patients destined for early death, severe disability, and congenital heart problems can now be treated using 3D printed metal implants and biodegradable polymers. In this talk Samuel Thrysøe will present many examples of innovative medical treatments made possible by 3D printing technology.
Samuel Alberg Thrysøe
Associate Professor
Aarhus University School of Engineering
Brian Tollins
Specialist
Radar Technology, Research & Innovation Management
Terma
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 Session 5: Digital Creativity and physical computing
Experts from research and industry will present their take on digital creativity and physical computing
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Peter DalsgaardSpeaker: Andreas-Lykke Olesen, Partner, Kollision
Advances in digital technologies, software development methods and frameworks allow us to rapidly design, implement and test robust and scalable prototypes of digital products with real us-ers in real environments faster than ever. In this talk we will explore how ORBIT Lab leverage this to enable new research, launch startups and help companies innovate.
Kasper Løvborg Jensen
Professor (Docent)
Orbit Lab, School of Engineering
Aarhus University
This talk is about anthropology and anthropological thinking as not only a resource for innovation, but as innovative in itself. The resourcefulness of anthropology and ethnographic methods has for quite a while been acknowledged by innovators as a means for understanding and representing users and use practices. However, this is a dated and simplistic understanding of anthropology. In this presentation, I will argue that the real potential of anthropology lies not its ability to represent and understand a given context, but in re-thinking and re-imagining it and this requires different skills and competences of those working in and with innovation.
Peter Danholt
Associate professor
Center for STS-studies
Aarhus University
15.00-15.30 Networking and Coffee Break
15.30 Session 6: Graphics, VR and Augmented Reality
Experts from research and industry will present their take on Graphics, VR and Augmented Reality
Moderator: Christiane Vejlø, Elektronista
Working as a long time professional Virtual Reality developer i will tell stories from some of my VR projects. This will cover: Surgical simulation and high quality VR rendering.
Currently VR is on the decline on the Hype Cycle and the hard work is now ahead of us. I will try to reflect on the future purpose and potential of VR.
Peter Trier Mikkelsen
Senior Research/Computer Graphics Developer
Systematic
State of the art interactions in virtual environments frequently involve the user of VR controllers. But what might happen, if users could interact with the virtual world directly through their (virtual) bodies instead? Research shows that what you perceive as your own body can change based on what you see, feel, and believe. For example, under certain circumstances you might begin to feel that a virtual body, or part thereof, replaces your own physical body. This is called a body ownership illusion. In my research I explore how such body ownership illusions might be leveraged to overcome the limitations of our physical bodies and to create more efficient and engaging interactions.
For instance, you could feel body ownership of an unnaturally long virtual arm that allows you to interact with distant objects. Or you could “own” a virtual hand that appears to be reaching towards an overhead target, while your physical hand rests much more comfortably at waist-level. This enables new ways of interacting with virtual or augmented reality.
Consequently, while most approaches to interaction design attempt to modify the virtual world or tools with which we interact, I instead propose to modify the body we interact through – or at least our mental image thereof.
Tiare Feuchtner
Postdoc
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University
- Methodical approach to creation of digital twin for a configurable product
- Weaving the digital thread through new product introduction (NPI) into a complex manufacturing footprint
- Using of digital twin to simulation all aspects of manufacturing within a factor and optimize key processes
Mark Jaxion
Senior Specialist and Lead of IoT and Industry 4.0
Vestas Wind Systems
16.30 Stories from the world of technology
Join us when Nikolaj Sonne (the artist formerly known as So ein Ding) in his usual manner talks about selected stories from the world of technology.
Nikolaj Sonne
(the artist formerly known as So ein Ding)