Mads Klokker, Head of ENT HN Surgery & Audiology and CHBC, MD, Assoc. Prof

Rikke Schriver Nielsen, Strategy and Innovation Officer, Hearing and Balance Center, ENT dept

Stefanie Serafin, Full Professor and Head of Multisensory Experience lab at Aalborg University Copenhagen

Abigail Anne Kresner, Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Denmark and Rigshospitalet

Federica Bianchi, Senior Researcher, Cognition & Hearing, Oticon

Torben Christiansen, Director of Technology, R&D, EPOS

Who, as part of the conversation, will present their latest research about the effect of noise attenuation on reaction time and listening effort during a dual task.

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Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Associate Professor Sound Studies, Aarhus University

Sissel Raahede Lundgård, Research Assistent Audio Design, Aarhus University

Who, as part of the conversation, will present their study about how improving the soundscapes in nursing homes improves the health and well-being of the staff and residents.

A conversation about “best practice”, creativity and experimenting in research – moderated by audio, acoustic and sustainability expert Morten Roar Berg.

Troels W. Kjær, Neuroscientist, author and former doctor and chief physician at Rigshospitalet

• How does the brain process sound?
• What problems do noise and unpleasant sounds cause?
• Are there any cognitive consequences of noise?
• How does the brain listen to music compared to listening to sound?

Katalin Vikuk, Project Manager, Heka VR 

Anders Bargum, Ph.D student, Aalborg University Sound & Music Computing, Heka VR 

• HEKA VR is a virtual reality platform that leverages the power of sound in a virtual setting
• Through Avatar Therapy schizophrenia patients learn to cope with auditory hallucinations
• Schizophrenia is the second most expensive mental illness with very few sufficient treatment methods

Carsten Olesen – President, HARMAN Consumer Audio

Carsten Olesen is a valued public speaker for Industry specific events with an extensive knowledge of the Consumer Audio market. He is based at the HARMAN EMEA Headquarters located in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands, and holds both engineering and business administration degrees.

Carsten Olesen started his career with HARMAN in 1999. He started as a Brand Director for HARMAN International, then moved to the Sales organization, where he was responsible for Commercial Strategy, Execution of Business Plan, Strategic Account Development, and Commercial and Distribution Policy.

In January 2009 he became the Commercial Director for HARMAN International in the EMEA Region. In 2012 he moved to the position of GM & VP of the EMEA Region. Under his leadership, the EMEA organization has undergone massive growth, as has the Consumer Audio Market.  

In June, 2019, Mr. Olesen was promoted to the position of President of the Consumer Audio Division. In this role, Carsten leads Global Consumer Audio business including the Engineering and Design functions. In 2020, he won the prestigious International TCG Leadership Award from the Grand Jury, comprised of the top executives of the leading tech retailers across Europe.

LOCATION: STUDIO HALL

Take a peek in the labs of Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center, Rigshospitalet 

• Surgery, Cochlear Implants:

  Steven Andersen will present: Temporal Bone Imaging and Simulation. Hear about how we use cone-beam CT to look into the patients’ middle and inner ear, about 3D printed models of the temporal bone for surgical training, and VR simulation for training and patient-specific preparation of the patient’s surgery.

• Spatial Hearing:

  Quirin Mühlberger will present that the goal of the spatial hearing lab at CHBC is to transfer the benefits of virtual acoustics, as e.g. known from the AVIL at DTU, to the clinic and the patients. This enables more realistic testing conditions for e.g. speech in noise tasks or hearing-aid and cochlear implant fitting. This presentation will give insight in the current work going on and give some outlook to new projects.

• Dizziness and Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV):

  Louie Rino Rogalla will do a short presentation on how examination of the eyes help doctors assess the inner ear, and how we use this information to automate diagnostics of dizziness. His Ph.D.  is on using computer vision and deep learning of eye-movements in the field of dizziness.

• Audiology – Audio Verbal Therapy: Signe Wischmann will give a short presentation on her PhD project on gamification in auditory rehabilitation. Her focus will be on developing and testing apps to children with hearing loss and their parents to use in clinical practice

The most innovative Danish startups compete in a pitch battle.

Our panel of judges is made up of experienced entrepreneurs, investors and business strategy advisors.

Candidates: 

• Componental, by Rasmus Kjærbo – a customizable and programmable, open-source audio effect and synthesizer
• Sumondo by Vishal Sisodia – An app that offers music therapy using “nature-inspired music” or “ambient world music”
• Venge by Mikkel Venge – Acoustic panels, sustainably sourced and with ample design options

Jury: 

• Hanne Breddam (IT Kartellet, VAEKST, IT-Universitetet i København m.fl.
• Flemming Sorensen, Keystones
• Lone Percy-Smith, Adjunct professor, PhD MA Audiologist, Copenhagen Center for Hearing and Balance Center, Rigshospitalet

Peter Gerstoft is a Danish-American scientist and engineer specializing in ocean acoustics, seismology, and signal processing. He is a Distinguished Data Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego and an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego and DTU, Copenhagen.

Gerstoft began his career in acoustics and vibrations at Odegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe (1987–1992). He then served as a Senior Scientist at the NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy, from 1992 to 1997. Between 1999 and 2000, Gerstoft worked as a Senior Seismic Acoustic Officer with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. He has been a Data Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography since 1997.

Since 2013, he has held an adjunct faculty position in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, where he teaches courses on seismology, data assimilation, and machine learning for physical systems.

LOCATION: STUDIO HALL

Designing smart glasses and hearables that support awareness, comfort and safety

People are exposed to reproduced audio on a scale never seen before in the history of the technology. We are seeing a larger push towards the creation and use of smart glasses/hearables as non-specialist equipment meant for the general public. These kinds of devices render virtual audio into an acoustic scene that the listener remains physically present in, and do so continuously, in environments beyond what most manufacturers are able to account for in the development process. 

This introduces risks to our wellbeing, including masking real-world cues needed for awareness and safety, increasing cognitive load, and causing unpleasant or dangerous audio failures in unexpected acoustic conditions. Treble’s SDK allows you to prototype your devices and your algorithms in realistic, complex environments long before the manufacturing or release date.

How startup innovation creates sound impact within healthtech, musictech, defence and deeptech, and what established companies gain from it.

SoundInvest, CEO Michael Böwadt and founders from Sound Hub Denmark’s international ecosystem share how new applications, technologies, partnerships and investment opportunities open doors to new solutions, markets and collaborations. Afterwards, you can meet the innovators and try their inventions in the demo area.