Climate AI Nordics

Climate AI Nordics

Nordic network for collaborations around tackling climate change using AI and machine learning.

2025 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change

Event date: 2025-05-13

Event location: Gothenburg, Sweden

As extreme events following climate change are getting ever more frequent, humanity needs to tackle the new reality on a changing planet on many fronts. Many of the approaches which are in use or under development can be strengthened using advanced analytics tools and optimization techniques. The 2025 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change will gather researchers from the Nordics. This one-day, in-person workshop, will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, May 13th 2025. The workshop will feature a mix of keynotes, oral presentations, and posters around the topics of AI for climate change, including AI for biodiversity and the green transition. The workshop will be a meeting point for a wide range of researchers from (primarily) around the Nordic countries, but other interested people will be welcome too.

Together, we will help the Nordic AI community to find the most impactful directions of future research in the field.

Shedule

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Speaker instructions

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Keynotes

Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh

Oisin Mac Aodha is a Reader (aka Associate Professor) in Machine Learning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (UoE). He was a Turing Fellow from 2021 to 2024, currently an ELLIS Scholar, and a founder of the Turing interest group on biodiversity monitoring and forecasting. Oisin’s current research interests are in the areas of computer vision and machine learning, with a specific emphasis on 3D understanding, human-in-the-loop methods, and computational challenges in biodiversity monitoring.

Christian Igel, University of Copenhagen

Christian Igel is a professor at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is the director of the SCIENCE AI Centre. Furthermore, he is a co-lead of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Denmark and a Fellow of ELLIS, European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems. Christian’s reserach interests include support vector machines and other kernel-based methods,evolution strategies for single- and multi-objective optimization and reinforcement learning, PAC-Bayesian analysis of ensemble methods, deep neural networks and stochastic neural networks, and applications of machine learning that help achieve the sustainable development goals.

Oral presentations

For more information about the program, check the detailed schedule.

  • Dan Stowell, Tilburg University: Bioacoustic AI for nature: how can it tread lightly?
  • Stefanos Georganos, Karlstad University: Unequal Cities in a Changing Climate: AI and Geospatial Approaches to Urban Resilience
  • Alouette van Hove, University of Oslo: Navigating methane plumes: A journey from drone observations to flux estimates
  • Edmond Sacre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Mapping and conservation of aquatic species - potential advances with deep learning
  • Shorouq Zahra, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden: The challenges of using LLMs to extract data on extreme climate events
  • Nico Lang, University of Copenhagen and Pioneer Centre for AI: TBA
  • David Thulke, RWTH Aachen University: Assessing and Improving ClimateGPT’s Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation
  • John Martinsson, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden: Understanding the World Through Sound: Enhancing Biodiversity Monitoring

Poster presentations

The workshop will also have a poster session with 30 posters, check the schedule for details.

Topics

The workshop will feature presentations about Earth observation, computer vision, soundscape analysis, natural language processing, geometric machine learning, optimization, natural language processing, and multimodal modeling for climate related applications. Applications in green infrastructure, species distribution modeling, biodiversity monitoring.

Further topics of interest: The role of policy change, the use of AI to tackle climate change within built environments, transport, material, and product development. AI method development that benefits AI applications within climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Workshop information

Date and time: 2025-05-13, 09:00-18:00 + Social dinner until late

Place: Lindholmen Science Park, Lindholmspiren 5, Gothenburg, Sweden

Organization

The workshop is organized by Climes, The Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes in collaboration with Climate AI Nordics. The day will end with a poster session and dinner.

Pricing

The first 65 free seats for the workshop are now sold out, and the fee for registration is from now on SEK 1000. This includes lunch and coffee. The fee will have to be paid March 31 at the latest.

A limited number of students can be reimbursed for travel and hotel for the workshop. The deadline for applications have now run out and we have contacted the students who were selected for funding.

Click here to register for this event!

The deadline for registering to this workshop is March 31. For questions, contact the organizers.

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