This year, our focus of our invited speakers will be on career development. We will bring to you the four most common paths after a PhD.
Make sure you check the schedule if you want to catch any of the talks. All of them will be streamed in the conference room to the left in Gather.town!
Entrepreneurship Path
HighFive is the future arena of Halland with a mission to drive and facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Featuring two incubators, a project arena, and a meeting point for new entrepreneurs, established businesses as well as for students and researchers, HighFive has witnessed the birth and growth of many ideas, entrepreneurs and companies.
Listen to Gabriella Hildebrand, student coach at HighFive, interviewing two researchers who chose to take their work to the next level by starting their own businesses. Take part in their greatest insights, learn from their mistakes, and take the opportunity to ask your own questions.
Anna Petersson, Innovation Manager at HighFive, will round off by introducing AI.m, a project lead by HighFive in cooperation with Halmstad University, helping businesses in Halland become more competitive with the help of human centred AI. Find out how you can become a part of AI.m where you will be putting your knowledge to use while helping local companies and extending your network at the same time.
Jens Nygren
Professor in Health Innovation at Halmstad University and co-founder of Galaco AB.
Jens is a researcher and entrepreneur focusing on promotion of child health through intervention based initiatives supported by digital health innovations developed in collaboration with end users and community stakeholders. Co-founder of Galaco AB providing digital tools supporting care organisations in involving children in care.
Anita Santa’Anna
Data innovation strategist and founder of ResearchOnTheGo
Anita holds a PhD in Information Technology – Signal and Systems – from Halmstad University, Sweden. She started her research career developing methods and algorithms for analysing human movement using wearable sensors. After 12 years as a researcher at Halmstad University, Anita now spends her time as a consultant at Viniam and her new venture ResearchOnTheGo AB where she is developing tools for easy and secure collection of self-reported data using mobile phones.
Anna Petersson
Innovation manager at HighFive, Program & Innovation Leader AI.m, Business & Strategy Designer
Anna is passionate about change and the creation of sustainable and prosperous business focusing on man, design, and new technologies with AI at the very heart of it. She is driven by progress and what new technology and digital tools can do to ensure a better future – where innovative thinking creates opportunities for man to operate and live within the boundaries of our planet.
Gabriella Hildebrand
Student coach at HighFive
Gabriella is passionate about helping people finding their own answers to what they want, what it takes to get there, and getting it done. As a student coach at HighFive, Gabriella helps students at Halmstad University, with or without business ideas, sharpen their entrepreneurial skills preparing them for entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and becoming more employable in a competitive world.
Research Center Path
Joakim Rosell finished his PhD in 2016 at the Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University. He later started as I research development engineer within environment perception and sensor fusion at Volvo GTT, and today he works as a senior researcher at Humanized Autonomy at RISE.
Industry Path
Babak Rostamzadeh is an accomplished manager and technical expert with experience in sales, program and engineering management and advanced engineering development. For the past 20 years he has focused on building and managing highly motivated project and engineering teams. He has successfully lead multi-site project teams across the United States, Europe and South-East Asia.
Babak has maintained his technical expertise in system safety arena through out his career. He has represented Sweden in the ISO 26262 international standardization committee since 2005.
In 2015 Babak left a management position to start Carabiner AB, a specialist engineering company whose core values are professionalism, diversity, networking and social responsibility.
Higher Education Path
Sonja Buchegger is a professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), in the Theoretical Computer Science division (TCS). She also coordinates the security cluster of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). Previously, she was the vice director of the VR ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, School of Information, and a pre-doc at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the Network Technologies Group. Her Ph.D. is in Communication Systems from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and she received a graduate degree in Computer Science and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and in Business Administration from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She received a Future Research Leader grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and establishment and project grants from the Swedish Research Council. Her research interests are in privacy-enhancing technologies, decentralized communication systems, and more broadly in security and networks.