PROGRAMME Official opening Thursday August 15th at 09.00 Keynote speakers Thursday August 15th 09.45–10.30 Anita Schjøll Brede Artificial intelligence, human empathy and future knowledge nitnit.com Artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of the university. AI technology will radically change the way we work, live and learn over the next decade. How will it impact the universities specifically? What changes should you expect, what preparations should you do? And why is it that some people seem overly excited about this, while it honestly is a little overwhelming and scary sometimes? This talk will take us through what AI is (and isn’t), specific use case examples in the university context, the ethical implications and consequences that we need to discuss and some future scenarios. Friday August 16th 09.00–09.45 Professor Jan Gulliksen Digital transformation of universities and higher education kth.se/profile/jangul Digitalisation is the most important societal transformation factor of our time, since the industri-alisation. Internet has given us the opportunities to do things in completely new ways, and even to do entirely new things. This change also affects our universities in ways far more profound than what yet has been seen – new ways of educating, digital transformation of our university admin-istration, research on and with digitalization and for societal collaboration are the main areas of development. This talk will discuss some of the challenges and possibilities of using digitalization to change universities and higher education. Friday August 16th at 12.15 Kati Hagros It always seems impossible until it’s done people.aalto.fi/kati.hagros Aalto University is half way done on implementing it’s 5-year holistic digitalization roadmap. We have set ourselves ambitious goal: we aim to be an acknowledged European leader in digitalization research and practice by 2022. Will we reach this goal? What have we learned on the way? What are the success stories and epic failures so far? What next? This talk will open up what to expect when moving from digitalization hype to real life action. We will finish NUAS Forum by focusing on execution - in a sustainable way. TRACK A Digitalization and Managing Change Thursday 15.08.2019 11:00–11:45 Social media and the modern organization Ragna Kemp Haraldsdottir Adjunct Lecturer, University of Iceland Lecture location t.b.a. Social media has become an influential proxy in our private lives as well as in our workplaces. Some might even claim that we are in the midst of yet another social revolution, as the digital platform of social media has radically changed the way people interact and communicate. Social media has the potential to offer benefits for organizations, that manage to develop appropriatepolicies and practic- es. Still, the use of social media in the workplace also poses challenges, such as the risk of overuse, multitasking, changes in communication patterns,and the risk of weakeningthe importance of richpersonal communicationand strong ties between co-workers.In this presentation I will introduce different aspects of social media use iorganizations, using practical examples and focusing on ways to better understand and make use of the benefits social media brings to a workplace, while managing the potential risks of this social revolution. When Artifical Intelligence meets Learning Analytics Professor Dr. Barbara Wasson Director of the Centre for The Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE) and Professor of Pedagogical Information Science at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway Lecture location t.b.a. Learning Analytics (LA) has emerged over the past 7 years as a promising field of research and do- main of practice. With roots in Artificial Intelligence (in Education), Educational Data Mining (EDM), and Big Data, the field comprises research into the challenges of collecting, analysing and reporting data with the specific intent to improve learning and the contexts in which it occurs. In this talk I will give an overview of the field with specific emphasis on where AI and LA meet. 13:00–13:45 How to succeed in the recruitment process Professor Peter Maassen Univeristy of Oslo Lecture location t.b.a. Information will be updated. University premises and digitalization – impact on everyday life Oddvar Skjæveland Advisor in Mellomrom Architectural Psychology and senior researcher at Høgskulen på Vestlandet Lecture location t.b.a. Different shapes of offices - strengths and weaknesses (cell offices, landscape, activity based) 14:15–15:00 Scan It or Shred It: The Digitalization of Analogue Archives Mikko Eräkaski Development Manager, National Archives of Finland Harald Lindbach Stipendiat medie- og dokumnetasjonsvitenskap UiT: The Arctic University of Norway Lecture location t.b.a. Is it safe to shred documents after digitalization or is it necessary to archive them also? How will the historians of the future access the data being created today? The National Archives of Finland will present their digitalization project and then a historian will discuss the long-term ramifications. How to meet the future with robotization Jere Reinikainen Head of HR and Financial systems and reporting, University of Helsinki Lecture location t.b.a. Examples on how University of Helsinki has been working with robotization. Jere Reinikainen who works as Head of the system team at the University of Helsinki talks about the their work on robotization in economics and HR processes. This lecture will discuss challenges in these processes, what the work has resulted in and how the work has made more organizational parts interested in robotization. Lessons from Denmark – how to manage big digitalization projects Lars Frelle-Petersen direktør i Dansk Industri Digital Lecture location t.b.a. The presentation will give a brief introduction to Danish digitalization policy but focuses on the Danish experiences from governing large sector wide digitalization projects. What works in terms of governance setups, mix of team competences, user engagement? Friday 16.08.2019 10:00–10:45 Bergen digitalization day – sharing digitalization practices Kristine Breivik Assistant Faculty Director, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen Lecture location t.b.a. To succeed with our digital transformation we need to build a culture for digitalisation through creating a common sense of urgency and constantly building knowledge. As universities, we are lucky to have the latest knowledge in house. Let us use this advantage! In October 2017, the Rector-ate at the University of Bergen did just that. They invited all UoB employees to an event they called The Digital Day. Their goals were to inform, inspire and motivate all employees and give them an opportunity to develop their digital knowledge and skills together. uib.no/en/rektoratet/110250/digital-day-employees Working environments in progress in the digital era Niclas Sandstrom Helsinki University Anne Nevgi Lecture location t.b.a. Information will be updated The future (digital) role of controllers in University organizations – challenges and possibilities Professor Matti Skoog Åbo Akademi & Stockholm University Lecture location t.b.a. Matti Skog has for long been interested in the changed role of controllers in his research. This lecture will focus on and give examples of how digitization and artificial intelligence will change the conditions for the profesinal controller. Digital Difficulties – You want change but not for yourself Jaakko Kurhila, Chief digital officer, University of Helsinki Lecture location t.b.a. Traditional research universities perform an eternal task of cultivating select people to advance sci- ence. Selectiveness is an important quality metric. There is increasing societal pressures to widen ac- cess and to be more effective in education. Digital tools do not help unless there is a cultural change. 11:00–11:45 Transforming the university administration – from control to service? Niclas Lindgren senior management consultant and the CEO of Renesans Consulting Dr. Turo Virtanen professor of political science, administration and organisation studies at University of Helsinki Lecture location t.b.a. University administration is often seen as non-supportive, controlling and inhibiting. When asked about how it should be, the need and expectation seems to be for more flexibility, proactivity and cooperation – better service. Traditionally, better service in universities has been achieved by renaming the administration into something with the word ‘service’ and hiring more people. Due to increased competition and diminishing government funding, new ways have to be found. Digitalization offers us new opportunities. But, better service has many dimensions. Who is actually our ‘customer’ or service user and what does he or she really expect? Seen through the eyes of our service user, what does our service offering look like and what’s digital and what’s physical? How do we deliver our services? Do we, as an organisation, actually have a common understanding of ‘good service’ and how it could and should be delivered – do we really have a service culture? Finally, looking at ourselves as leaders in the administration, how do we set targets to, lead and develop our services, and, the most important thing, how do services and actual resources, like money and time, connect? These are complex questions that are continuously battled in the Finnish university sector and here is a