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 their interactive data security workshop. And last but not least performance artist Rickard Fredbord and researcher Sofia Thunberg have a conversation around the subject of art, science, tech and truth.

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 conversation with Markus Lundström around data security and the escape room workshop he and colleagues held. And last but not least the opening keynote speaker Charbel Garbo who shares his thought on leadership and vulnerability.

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 different views on higher education and how it relates to the new technologies of AI.

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 equitable future. In this episode we discuss his thought on how to tackle the constant development within technology when designing design educations.

Link to the masters programme:
https://www.hh.se/english/education/programmes/masters-programme-in-experience-design.html

Dimitrios website:
https://www.dimitriosgkouskos.com/

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 in designing IoT devices with multimodal interaction. 

They have recently released their paper Developing AI literacy through design education in which they investigate how AI literary can be developed through design education. In this episode we discuss their research and findings.

Link to article: https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/nordes2025/researchpapers/25/

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 the research program LEADS. Their research explores how people are using and reasoning around AI today.

Link to LEADS: https://www.hh.se/forskning/forskningsprogram/leads---larande-i-ett-digitalt-samhalle.html

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 benefits and the drawbacks. On top of that Elin gives us some of her own recommendations on how to get started.
https://www.aiatlas.eu/

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 DataMining, with a deeper interest in Bandit algorithms in the mHealth domain. In this episode we hear him discuss his thesis. The thesis focuses on improving medication habits for people with high blood pressure by providing personalized advice, part of the "iMedA" project. It tackles challenges in identifying who needs help through health records, predicting medication habits, and offering useful advice despite unreliable information. The work also explores starting with good policies using existing data and addresses privacy concerns in recommendation systems. Key contributions include identifying and fixing measurement problems, developing prediction methods, creating new personalized advice approaches, improving decision-making algorithms, and exploring privacy protection techniques.

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 recommendations on how you can deepen your knowledge about AI. 

Link to My AI: https://my.ai.se/home


Missade du Halland Tech Week i Halmstad i år? Ingen fara! ELIZA-podden var där för att intervjua talarna och hålla dig uppdaterad med alla de senaste nyheterna från evenemanget.I det här avsnittet pratar vi med Pontus Wärnestål och Iida Höög om Sci-Fi-litteratur och hur den relaterar till dagens teknikutveckling. Vi intervjuar även Astrid Sjögren från AI Sweden som ger oss massvis med bra exempel hur hur AI används idag samt tips på hur du kan fortsätta dördjupa dina AI-kunskaper.

Länk til My AI: https://my.ai.se/home