The annual AI Labs event 2025
Explore the future of AI at AI Sweden's Annual AI Labs event on April 8, 2025. Join us for technical showcases, interactive workshops, and networking with leading experts. Discover cutting-edge research, learn about practical AI applications, and contribute to shaping Sweden's AI landscape.
This event offered a chance to explore the practical applications of the Swedish National AI Roadmap (Färdplan) and discover how AI Labs advanced its goals through tangible projects and state-of-the-art research.
What
AI Sweden's team of researchers and project managers were present to share practical insights into cutting-edge research and AI adoption. During the day, they welcomed the AI Sweden partner network to delve into critical areas shaping the field, such as privacy-preserving AI, data management, infrastructure, and AI security, presented by researchers and partners.
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Agenda
Stage program
08:30 - 09:10
REGISTRATION
09:15 - 09:25
WELCOME
09:25 - 10:15
KEYNOTES
Building an ambitious AI ecosystem through bold leadership, collaboration and collective investments
Speaker: Martin Svensson, Managing Director AI SwedenIn his presentation, AI Sweden's managing director, Martin Svensson, shared the insights he had gained about the need for a strong AI ecosystem from his work at AI Sweden and the AI Commission's Roadmap for Sweden. Based on his knowledge and experience, Martin explored how AI Sweden works to develop and make crucial knowledge in the field accessible.
- Accelerating Cyber Innovation through Public-Private Partnerships
Speaker: Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, President of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota
10:15 - 11:00
IDEA TO IMPACT
- Snowballing innovation: How our projects scale and evolve
Speaker: Johan Östman, Research Scientist
- From research to reality: The journey from GPT-SW3 to Svea
Speaker: Jonatan Permert, AI Transformation Strategist
- Talent programs - Our secret sauce
Speaker: Sofia Hedén, Head of Talent programs
11:00 - 11:40
ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW
- AI & security at AI Sweden: For a secure AI ecosystem
Speaker: Robert (Bobby) Bridges, Mathematician & Innovation Leader
- How secure are your AI models? Evaluating privacy risks
Speaker: Fazeleh Hoseini, Machine Learning Engineer
- Pushing the data boundary: What Europe must face to stay competitive
Speaker: Danila Petrelli, Senior Data Manager
- Helix model in action: Next generation infrastructure for foundation models
Speaker: Mauricio Muñoz, Project Lead and Senior Research Engineer
11:25 - 11:30
CONCLUSION & TRANSITION
Ending remarks: Ebba Josefson Lindqvist, International Relations Manager
Mingle & lunch
We appreciate the lunch sponsorship provided by HPE, Proact together with Dell as well as Atea and IBM.
Afternoon workshops
13:15 - 14:15
Deepen your expertise and influence the future through workshops led by AI Sweden’s experts. These sessions focused on hands-on applications and discussions tied to the morning presentations.
How can regulation boost innovation? - For collaboration while maintaining compliance
With Johan Östman, Mats Nordlund and Fazeleh Hoseini
The future of data - Future proof data sets, Data stewardships, Copyrights - Where is the solution for creating datasets/models in Sweden that do not cause conflicts with copyright - e.g. limiting application?
With Danila Petrelli, Billy Jörgensen and Helena Theander
AI & Security Brainstorm: Promising Applications and Pressing Issues -The goal of this workshop is ignite stimulating conversations centered around two topics: identifying where AI is poised to make the biggest gains in boosting security, and conversely, identifying the vulnerabilities in AI that are most problematic.
With Tommy Schönberg, Robert Bridges and José-Marie Griffiths
How do you accelerate your AI journey by leveraging AI Sweden’s infrastructure?
With Ted Henriksson and Max Petersson
Maximizing the benefits from our talent programs - How AI Sweden in collaboration with partners accelerate innovation through the strategic use of talent.
With Sofia Hedén and Ebba Josefson Lindqvist
Data, Drivers, and Discoveries in Automotive - Join Bryan Reimer, MIT research scientist and AVT consortium co-founder and Mauricio Muñoz, leader of AI Sweden’s automotive cluster, to explore and brainstorm high-impact research opportunities for the automotive sector. For example, how to leverage large-scale naturalistic driving datasets, language models, and more.
With Bryan Reimer and Mauricio Muñoz
Keynote speakers
Martin Svensson
Martin Svensson is Managing Director for AI Sweden, the national center for applied AI with the mission to accelerate the use of AI for the benefit of society and competitiveness.
Martin has many years of entrepreneurial and international experiences in the automotive, mobile and biotech sectors and has led the development of AI Sweden in collaboration with over hundred partners.
Martin also served as commissioner in the Swedish AI commission, and plays an important role in Sweden’s ambitions to generate sustainable value using AI.
The Honorable José-Marie Griffiths, Ph.D.
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths is President of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota. She has spent her career in research, teaching, public service, corporate leadership, workforce and economic development, and higher education administration, with special focus work in STEM fields.
She has served in presidential appointments to the National Science Board, the U.S. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, and the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. She was a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and is an expert advisor with the Special Commission on Special Projects (SCSP). She participated in the White House Cyber Workforce and Education Summit, and 2023 Senate hearings on AI and Ag, research, and workforce.
She was named the 2024 USA Today Woman of the Year for South Dakota, one of 50 Influential Women in AI by InspiredMinds, and was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2023.
AI Sweden experts
Johan Östman
Research Scientist | Decentralized AI & Privacy Preserving
Danila Petrelli
Senior Data Manager | Large Language Models
Robert (Bobby) Bridges
Mathematician & Innovation Leader | Security Cluster
Mats Nordlund
Director of AI Labs
Sofia Hedén
Head of Talent Programs
Jonatan Permert
AI Transformation Strategist | Digitala Assistenten - SveaGPT
Fazeleh Hoisini
Machine Learning Engineer | Privacy Leakage - LeakPro
Mauricio Muñoz
Project Lead and Senior Research Engineer | Automotive Cluster & Infrastructure
Ebba Josefson Lindqvist
International Relations Manager
Helena Theander
Head of Operations AI Labs
Billy Jörgensen
Head of Legal Affairs | Chief Compliance Officer
Max Petersson
Senior Tech Lead | Infrastructure
Ted Henriksson
Systems Engineer | Infrastructure
Tommy Schönberg
Head of Defence Innovation | Civil-military Synergies
Partner exhibitions
Exhibition information
At AI Sweden’s exhibition, Aixia proudly presents the first public showcase in the Nordics – and possibly Europe – of the Nvidia DGX B200, the next-generation AI supercomputer. Witness the power of world-leading AI infrastructure, live at our booth.
We’ll also demonstrate AiQu – our proprietary Swedish-built software that redefines AI development, from datacenter to edge.
On top of that, we’ll showcase real-world examples of applied AI in industry, from intelligent automation in production environments to cutting-edge generative AI solutions delivering tangible business value.
About Aixia
Aixia is a leading provider of AI infrastructure and applied AI solutions. Since 2016, we’ve been building high-performance, scalable systems for AI development and operations – available both as hosted solutions and on-premises in customers' own data centers. As the only Nvidia SuperPOD provider in Scandinavia, we offer world-class AI-specialized infrastructure.
Exhibition information
Stop by, and we’ll share practical experiences from cases relevant to your needs.
The Atea event staff: Ola Jorup, +46 (0)708 521 488
About Atea
Your complete AI partner – We support you throughout the entire AI journey – from inspiration and strategic consulting to ethics and information security, as well as the development, operation, and management of AI solution.
Exhibition information
AI Factory by Dell and Proact. What does an AI factory actually look like, and how do you build a factory for your sensitive data?
About Dell
Dell Technologies is a leading global technology company that provides comprehensive end-to-end solutions that drive innovation and progress in AI, cloud services, and data analytics, and is a key player in a variety of industries where we deliver groundbreaking technology that increases productivity, improves efficiency, and promotes digital transformation. Our strong commitment to sustainability, cybersecurity, and digital inclusion is at the core of our vision to create technologies that drive human progress. Come to our booth and we'll tell you more!
About Proact
Proact is Europe’s leading specialist in data and information management with focus on cloud services and data centre solutions. We help our customers to store, connect, protect, secure and drive value through their data whilst increasing agility, productivity and efficiency. We’ve completed thousands of successful projects around the world, have more than 4,000 customers and currently manage hundreds of petabytes of information in the cloud. We employ over 1,200 people in 12 countries across Europe and North America. Founded in 1994, our parent company, Proact IT Group AB (publ), was listed on Nasdaq Stockholm in 1999 (under the symbol PACT). For further information about Proact’s activities please visit us at www.proact.eu
Exhibition information
Do you want to deploy a complete workflow for a Virtual Chatbot into production in 5 minutes?
HPE will demonstrate how our Private Cloud AI platform greatly simplifies going from development and experimentation to production-grade operation. HPE Private Cloud AI is a turn-key pre-integrated solution with all the tools you need to work with generative AI or classical Machine Learning. Our platform features HPE´s trusted hardware and all the software required to work with your data, finetune your models and the deploy them into production. The software stack includes Nvidia AI Enterprise and a curated set of opensource tools, all pre-installed and pre-integrated.
About HPE
Did you know that HPE builds 7 out of the top 10 supercomputers in the world? Fuel your future with HPE, where cutting-edge technology meets artificial intelligence to drive unprecedented innovation. HPE delivers world-class AI solutions, from AI-driven networking to enterprise AI solutions, that accelerate the time to value for generative and agentic AI.
Exhibition information
IBM will be participating in the event and in the workshops as exhibitor with their experts. Some of the areas IBM will cover are:
- Our ongoing initiatives with AI Sweden
- AI & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
- AI use case demos and how to get started
The IBM event staff:
- John Magnusson, Brand Technical Specialist, Hybrid Cloud Platform & AI, E-mail: john.magnusson@se.ibm.com
- Victoria Nordin, Brand Technical Specialist, AI Assistants, Data Platform, E-mail: victoria.nordin@se.ibm.com
- Wanmeng He, AI Accelerator Leader, Client Engineering, E-mail: Wanmeng.He@ibm.com
- Håkan Andersson, Principal Technical Sales Leader, IBM Technology, North, E-mail: Hakan.C.Andersson@se.ibm.com
About IBM
The mission of IBM is to be a catalyst that makes the world work better. We aim to have a positive impact globally, and in the communities where we operate, through business ethics, environmental commitment and responsible technology. IBM’s adaptive AI solutions are designed to solve real business problems. Employing an open, enterprise-grade AI approach that provides more choice, greater flexibility to best fit your business needs. Prioritizing safety and compliance with a holistic AI governance approach for your AI systems.
The partnership with AI Sweden is an important and strategic collaboration initiative that connects well with IBM’s strategy to help organisations and the Swedish society to accelerate the use of AI.
Exhibition information
Simplify your AI Journey with Intel. Unlock the power of AI to achieve your goals, with the support of our expertise, tailored hardware and software solutions, and our partner network.
About Intel
Intel is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
Exhibition information
How can smaller models compete with large? Some of the answer is related to Instructlab. We will show and tell about it at our booth. We are also ready to talk about how we help you getting your models to production with less pain.
The Red Hat event staff:
- Johnny Westerlund, Red Hat Solution Architect
- Wen Zhou, Red Hat AI Engineering
- Andreas Bergqvist, Red Hat AI Sales
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions.
Enterprises around the world trust our broad portfolio of hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native application development and automation solutions to deliver IT services on any infrastructure quickly and cost effectively.
Exhibition information
At our exhibition, you will find a federated machine learning system built for object detection. The AI model can be updated and retrained in real time to quickly learn from newly acquired data. Through a user interface (UI), users can collect and annotate data in real time.
The Scaleout event staff:
Victor Valadi, E-mail: viktor@scaleoutsystems.com
About Scaleout
Scaleout helps organizations make better decisions faster by bringing AI closer to the data source. Our framework enables organizations to build intelligence across their operations while protecting sensitive information. We serve defense, automotive, and industrial companies who need reliable, real-time insights without compromising data control.
Exhibition information
You will find our experts and researchers exhibiting at the event at the back part of the main hall.
- Robert (Bobby) Bridges - AI Security
- Johan Östman/Fazeleh Hoseini - Decentralized AI & Privacy Preserving & LeakPro
- Danila Petrelli/Billy Jörgensen - Data & datasets & copyright & NLU
- Jonatan Permert - Digital Assistant & SveaGPT
- Mauricio Munoz - Automotive
- Sofia Hedén - Talent
Stories from the AI Labs
In our cross-sector collaborative environment, AI Labs' work can uncover new and unexpected synergies. Projects are often included in one of our consortiums, which enables them to draw on progress made in adjacent domains. For example, you may find development done for the healthcare domain applicable to the space domain. Findings can then be shared and spread throughout the AI Sweden ecosystem through the work of AI Sweden’s Adoption and Ecosystem teams.
Edge models provide researchers with new insight into marine ecosystems
When will an AI model reveal your sensitive data?
