We are happy to present four keynote speakers at this year's NIKT conference:

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Lundervold

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences; Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre

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Lundervold will give a speech titled "Bringing machine learning to the hospital".

It is well-known that major breakthroughs in deep learning over the past decade has led to a great deal of interest in “artificial intelligence” among medical researchers and practitioners. However, the road from research to practice is long and difficult, and examples of deep learning-based systems deployed in real medical settings are relatively few and far between. The presentation will give an overview of the current status of deep learning in medicine and discuss some of the main hurdles facing us when we try to bring such systems to assist in patient care. 

Alexander S. Lundervold is an associate professor at the Department of Computer science, Electrical engineering and Mathematical sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital. His research area is computational medicine, with a particular focus on machine learning in medical imaging. Since 2018 he has been part of the leadership team at the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre (MMIV, https://mmiv.no/). He is co-coordinator of the MMIV projects “Computational medical imaging and machine learning – methods, infrastructure and applications”, funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation (2018–2022), and “WIML: Workflow-integrated machine learning” (2020-2024), funded by NFR. See https://alexander.lundervold.com/ for more on these and other ongoing activities. 

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Prof. Letizia Jaccheri

NTNU Department of Computer Science

Prof. Jaccheri will give a speech titled "Gender Issues in Computer Science Research, Education, and Society".

This lecture addresses gender issues in Computer science from Research, Education, Society perspectives. Jaccheri will start from UN Goal 5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls to contextualize the topic in an open and meaningful context. She presents research issues, some from her own projects, others from examples of biased technology, like smartphone voice assistants and data sets for job recruiting based on male population.

Then, she presents statistics about female presence in education, research and industry. Further, the presentation goes in depth and presents specific projects for increasing gender balance among students and among professors. The presentation concludes with a list of International projects and resources.

Letizia Jaccheri (PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Italy) is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and adjunct professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Jaccheri's research is on software engineering, at the intersection with art, gender, and social innovation. Letizia has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and journals, has supervised PhD students and Post-doctoral students, and has acted as opponent for national and international defenses. 

Prof. Jaccheri has been teaching courses in software engineering at various levels since 1994, with a passion for the course Customer Driven Project (link  https://sbs.idi.ntnu.no/tdt4290into) From 2015 to April 2018 she acted as one of the independent directors of Reply S.p.A., the largest Italian IT company with 9059 employees. From 2013 to 2017 she was department head for the Computer Science department at NTNU. She is ACM Distinguished speaker (link https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/jaccheri_10303) . In 2021 she got two prizes: the ODA Award Woman women prize and the NTNU prize for gender equality and diversity for her work in gender and computer science with the projects IDUN (link https://www.ntnu.edu/idun), EUGAIN (link https://eugain.eu/) and Kodeløypa (link https://www.ntnu.no/skolelab/kodeloypa). Prof. Jaccheri has plans to contribute to address the issue of diversity in computer science and to contribute to bring the Norwegian software engineering research and education into the future and in the international spotlight. 

Andreas Drolsum Haraldsrud

University of Oslo - Center for Computing in Science Education 

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Haraldsrud will give a speech titled "Teaching Programming in Science".

Teaching programming can be context dependent, and different disciplines have different needs in using programming as a tool for scientific exploration and understanding. The presentation will give an outline of how teaching programming can be adapted to different situations and needs. It will also address different ways of teaching programming that can be effective regardless of context.

Andreas Haraldsrud is a lecturer at the Centre for Computing in Science Education at the University of Oslo. Haraldsrud has a background in physical chemistry and chemistry education, and has worked as a high school teacher for several years. His research area is mainly focused on understanding how computer simulations can affect learning and sense-making in science. Since 2018 Haraldsrud has given courses in scientific programming for teachers, and he also teaches programming for chemists.

 Prof. Colin Alexander Boyd

NTNU - Department of Information Security and Communication Technology

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Boyd will give a speech titled "Secure key exchange: are we there yet?"