Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work.

Follow us on LinkedIn and visit our website to get a deep dive on innovation at Amazon, and explore the many ways you can engage with our scientific community. https://www.amazon.science/

You can talk to Amazon at their remote booth (via Zoom) on Apr 11 10:30-11:00, Apr 12 12.00-12.30 and Apr 13 12.00-12.30.

Bloomberg is building the world’s most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 6,500+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal and other products to solve complex, real-world problems. ​

C++ is one of our core programming languages. We are constantly pushing the language to its limits because our code needs to be scalable, reliable and extremely fast — especially since every millisecond counts in the finance industry. Our C++ experts build everything from low-level libraries and components to some of the most performant financial applications and trading systems in the world. They also contribute to the C++ standard.

You can talk to Bloomberg both at their physical booth at the conference or at their remote booth (via Zoom) on Apr 11 12:30-13:00, Apr 12 10.00 – 10.30 and Apr 13 12.30 – 13.00.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and we advance that mission every day in incredible new ways. Research across Google provides new ways of looking at old problems and helps transform how we all work and live, and we think the biggest impact comes when everyone in the world can access it. To that end, we use state-of-the-art computer science techniques to solve problems for our users, our customers and the world, making it easier for you to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of people you love, breaking down language barriers, or helping you get things done with your own personal digital assistant.

SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. Since 1963, we have promoted research, development and education in the area of search and other information access technologies.

We sponsor or co-sponsor several conferences including SIGIR, CIKM, JCDL, WSDM, ICTIR, CHIIR, ECIR and recently started the SIGIR Student Travel Grant program to help students attend these conferences. We publish SIGIR Forum, a twice-yearly newsletter, maintain SIGIR-list and support IR-related events through our Friends of SIGIR program.

Region Stavanger is the official convention bureau and destination company that promotes the beautiful Stavanger region. Our mission is to increase the number of visitors to our region either it is for leisure purposes or attending scientific conferences and events. Region Stavanger has a strong collaboration with regional academic institutions, such as the University of Stavanger through our Local Ambassador Programme. This a free, impartial service that can help transform great ideas into successful meetings that will have a lasting impact. Our vision is to increase the number of successful international meetings held in the Stavanger region, for both the city and the organizer.

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than twenty-two million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares and more. Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.

You can talk to Wayfair at their remote booth (via Zoom) on Apr 11 15.30 – 16.00, Apr 12 12.30 – 13.00 and Apr 13 10.00 – 10.30.

Cobrainer is a skill data platform for large organizations that offers a variety of services such as skill-based career pathing, job matching, recruiting, staffing, re-skilling, up-skilling and skill-based reporting for strategic workforce management applications. Powered beneath by a unique skill knowledge graph that ensures organizations always have access to latest skill trends and industry standards for all skill-related processes. All Cobrainer services are built in our headquarter located in Munich, Germany.

You can talk to Cobrainer at their physical booth at the conference

ELSEVIER is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance engineering, healthcare, and life sciences and improve research and professional performance. Based in the Netherlands, Elsevier is the world’s leading publisher of science, engineering and health information and serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide. It is a part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier. Website: https://www.elsevier.com/

MediaFutures is a new research centre at the University of Bergen that develops advanced new media technology for responsible and effective media user engagement, media content production, media content interaction and accessibility, as well as researches on novel methods and metrics for precise audience understanding. The centre is a consortium of the most important media players in Norway. User partners include NRK and TV 2, the two main TV broadcasters in Norway, Schibsted, including Bergens Tidende, and Amedia, the two largest news media houses in the Scandinavia/Norway, as well as the world-renowned Norwegian media tech companies Vizrt, Vimond, Highsoft and the global tech player IBM. Website: https://mediafutures.no

Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming service and provides hundreds of millions of listeners and millions of creators a service for streaming music and podcasts over the Internet. Spotify’s catalog contains over 82 million tracks, and more than 3.6 million podcast titles and serves 406 million monthly active listeners including 180 million subscribers across 184 markets. Spotify is based in Stockholm with a number of offices all over the world.

You can talk to Spotify at their physical booth at the conference.

Stavanger AI Lab (https://www.uis.no/en/research/stavanger-ai-lab) connects researchers, educators and students at Universift of Stavanger (UiS) with partners in industry, business and public sector with the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development. The research activity ranges from fundamental to applied research, with machine learning, deep learning and robot technology as the main focus or tool. Innovation will be one of the goals, where involvement of industry partners and creative student projects are essential.

Vespa.ai is an open-source search and recommendation serving engine.

You can talk to Vespa at their remote booth (via Zoom) on Apr 11 13.00 – 14:00

Founded in 2001, the L3S research center develops methods and technologies for digital transformation and researches the effects of digitization. Based on this, it derives options for action, recommendations and innovation strategies for industry, politics, and society.

The L3S is internationally renowned for its cutting-edge research in the field of artificial intelligence and for the development of application-oriented AI methods in the areas of production, mobility, medicine, and education.

As a joint institution of Leibniz Universität Hannover and Technische Universität Braunschweig, the L3S is a leading research institute in the field of artificial intelligence. More than 30 professors from different disciplines and universities are members of the research institution. In total, more than 150 scientists with more than 20 different nationalities work at the L3S, including many PhD students.

The Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) is the largest academic initiative on AI innovation in Norway. Hosted at NTNU in Trondheim, the center coordinates research and innovation activities among three universities, two research institutes and 11 companies.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is the largest university in Norway with headquarters in Trondheim. NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth that also includes the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities.

Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a mission is to empower people in their daily lives. We do this by providing leading online marketplaces, build world-class media houses, and help great companies scale.

Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical publisher, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content via innovative information products and services. Springer is part of Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers.

You can talk to Springer about “How to publish a book with Springer” at their remote booth (via Zoom) on Apr 13 at 15.00 – 15.30.

With over 20 years of experience in translating state-of-the-art AI & Machine Learning research into products, Textkernel is the global leader in machine intelligence for matching people and jobs. Our multilingual AI solutions for recruitment and HR professionals radically improve and accelerate the connection between employers and candidates. Do you share our passion for Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning and building human-centred AI? Join our Amsterdam-based team of 30+ nationalities via www.textkernel.careers!

You can talk to Textkernel at their physical booth at the conference

Thomson Reuters is a content-driven technology company and one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers. Our customers operate in complex arenas that move society forward — law, tax, compliance, government, and media – and face increasing complexity as regulation and technology disrupt every industry. Our team brings together information, innovation and authoritative insight to keep customers up to speed on global developments. We’re on a mission to help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage. Join us in building the next generation of AI-enabled solutions for legal, risk, and tax & accounting professionals. http://tr.com/ai-jobs

Signal AI is transforming decision making through augmented intelligence. Our AI-powered decision augmentation platform sifts through the world’s deluge of information to help professionals make more informed decisions.  
Signal AI is one of the fastest growing global AI companies with offices in London, NYC and Hong Kong and over 600 global clients including Google, Bank of America and Deloitte.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, formerly known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in information technology (IT) and computer science, both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Founded in 1956, BCS has played an important role in educating and nurturing IT professionals, computer scientists, computer engineers, upholding the profession, accrediting chartered IT professional status, and creating a global community active in promoting and furthering the field and practice of computing.