Climate AI Nordics

Climate AI Nordics

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

More info on the 2026 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate


Climate AI Nordics is excited to now provide more information about our upcoming annual workshop - The 2026 Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate - to be held on June 26th, 2026 in Copenhagen! Registration link coming very soon!

Similar to last year’s inaugural workshop in Gothenburg, we’ll have a day full of exciting keynotes, oral presentations and posters, as well as plenty of interaction among attendants.

We’re glad to announce our first three confirmed speakers:

  • Céline Heuzé, Senior Lecturer in climatology at University of Gothenburg. Céline uses in-situ observations, climate models, AI and remote sensing to investigate the role of the deep ocean in the climate system, from its present and future stratification in climate models to its interactions with the cryosphere and atmosphere. Her research group increasingly uses deep learning to do so, to downscale the models, detect patterns in the sea ice, or find the drivers of observed variability.

  • Joakim Bruslund Haurum, 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, co-founder of 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.

More speakers to be announced in the near term!

In this year’s edition of the workshop, we have the following thematic questions for guiding the overall programme:

  • 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?

Registration: We’ll very soon be posting a link for registering to the event!

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