Name: LDS Country Workshop Sweden
Start: 2026-09-04T09:00:00
End: 2026-09-04T17:00:00
Location: IVA Konferenscenter

This event has ended.

The European Language Data Space is bringing together experts from the Swedish industry, public administration, and research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of language technologies and AI-based tools in Sweden.

Event Recording

digital single market | artificial intelligence | large language model | natural language processing
Friday 4 September 2026, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST)
Sweden

Programme

4 Sep 2026, 08:45 - 09:15 (CEST)
Coffee and registration
09:15 - 09:20 (CEST)
Welcome
Fredrik Heintz, Linköping University

Presentation
09:20 - 09:40 (CEST)
The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space
Annika Antikainen, European Commission
Presentation
09:40 - 10:00 (CEST)
The Alliance for Language Technologies
Edouard Geoffrois, ALT-EDIC Director
Presentation
10:00 - 10:20 (CEST)
European Language Data Space: Building the market for language data to power AI in Europe
Georg Rehm, DFKI
Presentation
10:20 - 10:40 (CEST)
AI and Language Technology in Sweden - A Language Policy Perspective
Rickard Domeij, Isof and LDS representative for Sweden
Presentation
10:40 - 11:00 (CEST)
Break
11:00 - 11:20 (CEST)
Training LLMs using Swedish data on Swedish compute for Swedish society
Taras Kucherenko, National Library of Sweden
Presentation
11:20 - 11:40 (CEST)
SE.LLMA - Swedish LLM Arena
Jonas Unger, Linköping University
11:40 - 12:10 (CEST)
Beyond Existing Benchmarks: What Does It Mean for an AI Model to Understand Swedish?
- High-quality language data, cultural context and domain expertise in model development and evaluation: Sara Öhrvall, Practitioner-in-residence, SSE
12:10 - 13:00 (CEST)
Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:20 (CEST)
Språkbanken, a national research infrastructure for language data
Markus Forsberg, Språkbanken
Presentation
13:20 - 13:40 (CEST)
AI in editorial media: What does it mean to get it right?
Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet, Director of Data & AI, Schibsted Media
Presentation
13:40 - 14:00 (CEST)
Cultural Aspects of Generative Language Model Quality
Jussi Karlgren
Presentation
14:00 - 14:45 (CEST)
Introduction and Panel discussion
Anders Ynnerman, Amy Loufti, Sara Öhrvall, Sara Stymne, Karin Westling Palm and others.
Led by Fredrik Heintz
14:45 - 15:00 (CEST)
Conclusions
15:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
Networking with snacks
15:30 (CEST)
Ending

Practical information

When: Friday 4 September 2026, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST)
Where: IVA Konferenscenter
Grev Turegatan 16 114 46, Stockholm, 114 46, Sweden
Languages: English, Swedish
Organisers: Linköping University

Description

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