Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Thursday 12 March

09:00-09:45
Welcome and introduction

09:45-10:45
Individual presentations (5 minutes per person). Please introduce yourselves and comment on how your work and interests relate to the overall symposium description. 

10:45-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Introductions (continued) - we have allocated more time to ensure there is sufficient space to engage each other and ask questions.

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:00
AI as Framing / Beyond digital escapism

Presentation: Roger Strand (Professor at the University of Bergen, NO)

14:00-16:00
Datacenters

Mads Dahl Gjefsen (Senior Researcher at NTNU Social Research, NO): Digital Growth from Cloud to Fog

Laura Watts (Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, NO): Flatlands and Liveable Futures (including role-playing game ’Northdark’)

16:00-16:15
Coffee break

16:15-17:00
AI and existential risk

Presentation: Gernot Rieder (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen, NO)/Kjetil Rommetveit (Professor at the University of Bergen, NO).

19:00
Dinner

Day 2, Friday 13 March

09:00-09:15
Introduction to Day 2

09:15-10:15
Energy and AI

• What are some main uses of AI in efforts to enable renewables into energy grids?
• How do these align with overall visions and agendas of Twin Transitions?

Presentation: Zora Kovacic (Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES) with comments from Siddharth Sareen (Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, NO).

10:30-10:45
Coffee break

10:45-12:00
The Material Library of Minerals

Presentation: Maja Van Der Velden (Professor at the University of Oslo, NO) with comments from Devyn Remme (PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen, NO).

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:00
Two research projects 

Ana Delgado (Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, NO): Biodiversity and AI 

Thomas Völker (Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, NO): Aquaculture and AI 

14:00-15:00
Agroecology and AI

• What are some main uses of AI in agriculture?
• How does big agritech appropriate and use AI?

Presentation: Louisa Prause (Senior Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, DE) with comments from Brian Wynne (Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, UK).

15:00-15:15
Coffee break

15:15-16:00
Summing up and way forward. We will ask everyone to revisit the presentations and discussions from both days. How would you like to take this further? (in terms of: collaborations, networks, publications, etc.).