2026 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate

Registration and pricing

The fee for registration is 1000 DKK (incl VAT), which includes lunch, coffee and dinner.

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Registration deadline: June 5th (AoE)

About the event

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 2026 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate will gather researchers from the Nordics. This one-day, in-person workshop, will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 26th 2026. 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.

This workshop is the 2nd annual workshop in this series of workshops organized by Climate AI Nordics. For a summary of the 2025 edition click here.

Theme of the 2026 workshop: In this year’s edition of the workshop, we have the following thematic questions for guiding the overall programme, including the afternoon panel discussion:

• Why should AI for climate be discussed with a Nordic focus?
• What are the unique aspects and commonalities of Nordic, European, and global approaches to tackling climate mitigation & adaptation?
• What roles can Nordic industries, start-ups and not-for-profits play in terms of AI for climate impact, and what is needed to strengthen this impact?

Shedule

Click here to see the workshop schedule.

Opening keynote

Céline Heuzé, University of Gothenburg

Céline is docent and Senior Lecturer in climatology at University of Gothenburg. She uses in-situ observations, climate models, AI and remote sensing to study the interactions between deep ocean, sea ice / glaciers, and atmosphere, mostly in the Arctic for now. She is a receiver of the 2022 Ocean Science division Outstanding Early Career Scientist award of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), and the 2024 Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS) Birger Karlsson science prize.

Invited talks

Joakim Bruslund Haurum, University of Southern Denmark

Title: Computer Vision and Multimodal AI for Ecological Monitoring

Abstract: Measuring biodiversity is crucial for understanding ecosystem health. However, differentiating different species often requires taxonomists who have acquired expert level knowledge over several years. This is both time inefficient and the science of taxonomy has been de-prioritized over the years. Therefore, developing Computer Vision and AI methodologies and benchmarks specifically for biodiversity monitoring is of great importance, in order to alleviate, assist, and enable domain experts. In this talk, I will present recent work from the BIOSCAN-ML group where we have developed the multimodal benchmarks and methods for insect biodiversity monitoring. Uniquely these developments no only work on images of insects, but also incorporate the strong domain knowledge embedded into DNA barcode and text-based representations of taxonomic labels.

Joakim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, and also affiliated with the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Joakim works on both foundational machine learning and computer vision, as well as their application in domains such as biodiversity monitoring. His recent work centers on handling messy, real‑world expert data and designing computer vision models that can generalize in open‑world conditions—critical for large‑scale biodiversity assessment.

Frida Berry Eklund, Klimatkollen

Frida is a Swedish climate strategist, author, and activist specializing in climate communication and civic engagement. She serves as a co-founder and spokesperson of the Swedish climate organisation, Klimatkollen – an independent, AI-powered platform designed to make climate data—such as corporate and municipal carbon emissions—accessible and transparent for the general public. Her role focuses on bridging the gap between complex data and public understanding to hold policymakers accountable. Frida is also appointed European Climate Pact Ambassador, promoting civic climate action across Europe.

Poster presentations

The workshop will also have a poster session (see schedule), where attendants can specify whether they’ll bring a poster when registering for the event. In doing so, one can also opt to give a short oral presentation about the poster during the workshop (to be selected by the workshop organizers).

Topics

The workshop will feature presentations on topics such as 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. Sustainable AI.

Note: We warmly welcome also work-in-progress (i.e. also not yet published works) as well as descriptions of ongoing projects and similar.

Industry session

This session, organized in association with AI Denmark, brings together researchers and industry practitioners who are applying AI to challenges in climate and conservation. In smaller groups, participants will brainstorm the opportunities and obstacles that emerge at the intersection of academic research and real-world industry practice.

Workshop information

Date and time: 2026-06-26, 09:00-18:00 + Social dinner until late

Place: University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Street address: Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg.

Organization

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

Registration and pricing

The fee for registration is 1000 DKK (incl VAT), which includes lunch, coffee and dinner.

Click here to register for the event!

Registration deadline: June 5th (AoE)

Organizers

Nico Lang, Global Wetland Center / University of Copenhagen. Also in the core team of Climate AI Nordics.

Ankit Kariryaa, University of Copenhagen. Also in the core team of Climate AI Nordics.

Aleksis Pirinen, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Also a co-founder of Climate AI Nordics.

Olof Mogren, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Also a co-founder of Climate AI Nordics.