Conference Program

Oct. 08           Oct. 09             Oct. 10

The slides of talks given during the conference are available for download on the program below 

Venue: Chalmers Conference Center - Chalmersplatsen 1 -  41258 Göteborg

  • 08.10.18 - Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads, Chalmers Conference Center (Scania hall)
  • 08.10.18 - Welcome Reception at "The House of William Chalmers"
  • 09-10.10.18 - ECSS Main Conference, Chalmers Conference Center (Conference hall RunAn) 
  • 09.10.18 - Conference Dinner, Chalmers Conference Center (Restaurant “Kårrestaurangen”)
  • 10.10.18 - ECSS Working Sessions (by invitation only)

Monday, 08 October 2018

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-17:00  Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads

18:30-20:30 ECSS 2018 Welcome Reception at The House of William Chalmers (Södra Hamngatan 11, 411 14 Göteborg)


Tuesday, 09 October 2018

8:30-09:00  Registration

09:00-09:10  Conference Opening

  • Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President)
  • Stefan Bengtsson (President of Chalmers University of Technology)

09.10-10.40  Session 1 "Intelligence"

Session Chair: Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President)

  • John Shawe-Taylor - University College London 
    "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    [Slides]
  • Hannu Toivonen - University of Helsinki  
    "Computational Creativity"
     [Slides]

10:40-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:30  Session 2 "Society"

Session Chair: Lynda Hardman (CWI / Utrecht University)

  • May Britt Thorseth - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    "Ethics in the Age of Informatics, Big Data and AI" 
    [Slides]
  • Klaus Tochtermann - ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
    "Towards the European Open Science Cloud - The Role of Computer Science" 
    [Slides]

12:30-13:30  Lunch

13:30-14:30 Informatics Europe - ERCIM 2018 Awards Ceremony (Public Session) [Slides]

Best Practices in Education Award (sponsored by Microsoft Research)
Minerva Informatics Equality Award (sponsored by Google)
ERCIM Cor Baayen Award (sponsored by ERCIM)
  • 14:10-14:30 Winner Announcement (Jos Baeten, President ERCIM) followed by short talk by Winner   [Slides]

14:30-16:00 Session 3 "Education" 

Session Chair: Michael Caspersen (It-vest - networking universities)

  • 14:30-15:05  Georgi Dimitrov - European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture
    "EU Perspectives on Digital Education"
  • 15:05-16:00 Panel on Informatics Education 
Panel Chair: Michael Caspersen (It-vest - networking universities) [Slides]
Panellists:    Gianfranco Basti (Pontificia Università Lateranense) [Slides]
                     Hilde G. Corneliussen (Western Norway Research Institute) [Slides]
                     Georgi Dimitrov (European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture)

16:00-16:30  Coffee Break

16:30-17:15 Special Session Informatics Europe Activities

Session Chair: Cristina Pereira (Informatics Europe Executive Director)

17:15-18:45 Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly

Session Chairs: Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President), Cristina Pereira (Informatics Europe Executive Director)

19:00-22:00  Conference Dinner (Chalmers Conference Center, Restaurant “Kårrestaurangen”)
                    


Wednesday, 10 October 2018

08:30-09:00  Registration

09:00-10:30  Session 4 "Interfaces"

Session Chair: Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

  • Wendy Mackay - INRIA 
    "Creating Human-Computer Partnerships" 
    [Slides]

  • Amy Loutfi - Örebro University 
    "Robots and Autonomous Systems for All"

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  

11:00-12:30  Session 5 "Directions"

Session Chair: Pekka Orponen (Aalto University)

  • Luca Cardelli - Microsoft Research and Oxford University
    "Molecular Programming" 
    [Slides]
  • Per Delsing - Chalmers University of Technology
    "Quantum Computers, How do They Work and What Can They do?" 
    [Slides]

12:30-14:00 Lunch Seminar and Closing Session

Session Chair: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg)

  • 12:30-13:15 Lunch
  • 13:15-14:00 Mark Coeckelbergh - University of Vienna
    "Ethics of Robotics and AI: Moral Responsibility and Societal Challenges" 
    [Slides]
  • 14:00 Closing the Conference

14:15-17:30  Working Sessions (in parallel, by invitation only)

  • Meeting of National Informatics Associations

Session Chair: Hélène Kirchner (INRIA)

  • Women in Informatics Research and Education

Session Chair: Lynda Hardman (CWI / Utrecht University)

  • The Wide Role of Informatics at Universities

Session Chair: Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London)