Keynotes & public talks
Research-grounded talks on responsible media AI, health AI, recommendation and human behaviour, including journalism, misinformation and food choices.
Typical format: a tailored 30–45 minute keynote.
Speaking, advice and collaboration
Ways to work together
Flexible formats ranging from one focused session to a longer research collaboration.
Executive briefings & advisory
Focused sessions for boards and leadership teams on AI opportunities, risks, governance and strategy.
Format: an executive briefing or workshop.
Responsible AI consulting
Independent advice on personalisation, trust, transparency, evaluation and human–AI interaction.
Short-term or ongoing support for product and evaluation questions.
Project sprints & applied research
Short collaborations to frame a problem, design a study, evaluate a prototype or de-risk an AI concept.
Format: a focused project sprint or research collaboration.
Moderation & programme design
Expert moderation and programme development for conferences, workshops, panels and strategic meetings.
Academic evaluation
Independent review of grants, appointments, promotions, PhD work and research programmes. Examples include grant evaluation for EPSRC, FWO and NWO, senior programme-committee service at ACM SIGIR, and editorial responsibility for UMUAI.
How I contribute
Research experience behind the collaboration
I work with companies, public organisations, research institutions and event organisers on responsible AI for media and health, recommender systems and technologies that shape human behaviour. Engagements draw on my research and experience building SFI MediaFutures, from keynotes and executive briefings to focused evaluations and collaborative studies.
Research to practice
Examples from research partnerships
Examples of research translated into prototypes, field studies and organisational learning.
Responsible personalisation with TV 2
Recommendation and editor-support approaches tested with partner data, users and newsroom workflows.
View the case →Verification with Faktisk.no
Verification tools for audiovisual content, including the Tank Classifier and Language Checker.
View the case →Content provenance with Project Reynir
A three-country study of how C2PA provenance information influences trust in news images.
View the case →Experience
Professional service and invited venues
Founder and Director of SFI MediaFutures, and Founder and Leader of the DARS research group.
- Former Board Member, Media City Bergen (2021–June 2022)
- ACM RecSys Workshop/Late-Breaking Results Co-Chair (2018–2020)
- ACM SIGIR Senior Programme Committee (2020–2021)
- UMUAI Special Issue Editor (2019)
- Selected invited venues include the Alan Turing Institute, Amazon, AAAI ICWSM at Stanford, the ACM RecSys Summer School, Lerchendal, Oslo AI and Arendalsuka
Process
From enquiry to agreed scope
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Send a short enquiryDescribe the goal, audience and preferred format.02
Align on scopeWe agree on outcomes, timing and the most useful format.03
Prepare and deliverI tailor the contribution to your organisation and audience.Start a conversation
Discuss a keynote, advisory need or collaboration
For speaking, advisory, press and professional collaboration enquiries, send a short note about your audience, goal and timing through my private professional email.
Media resources
Press images
High-resolution images for press and event use. Credit: MediaFutures / University of Bergen.
For press and event-use requests, contact me at my private professional email.
Download press kit (.zip)Includes copy-ready bios, image credits and high-resolution press images.