Danish Sound Day 2024

Danish Sound Day 2024

Sound & Acoustics in Architecture & Room Design
5 November 2024

Welcome!

We are thrilled to invite you to Danish Sound Day 2024 at the Royal Danish Academy. The conference will gather researchers, innovative tech experts, entrepreneurs and sound professionals from across the sound community. Join us for an engaging day of exploring sound and acoustics in architecture and room design.

It is well known that poor room acoustics and unhealthy sound environments can lead to serious health implications and cognitive impairment. However, despite years of research and WHO recommendations, acoustic consideration and implementation is often overlooked or underprioritized in design and building practice. Why is that the case, and what can we do to change it? 

The Royal Danish Academy is the ideal setting for presenting leading voices in the field of acoustics, architecture and human sound perception. Besides talks and debates, there will be company demos, guided tours, startup & research pitch presentations and plenty of networking opportunities. 

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with professionals from every corner of the sound field. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Location:
Royal Danish Academy, Philip de Langes Allé 10, 1435 Copenhagen K

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Sound & Acoustics
in Architecture & Room Design

8:00

Registration & Breakfast - visit company stands

Pick up your nametag, grab a cup of coffee and catch–up with your fellow audio friends

9:00

Welcome

Liselotte Lyngsø – moderator of the day

9:10

Acoustics & Psychoacoustics

Finnur Pind, CEO and Founder of Treble Technologies
Nigel Oseland, TED Talk speaker & Environmental Psychologist at Workplace Unlimited

Moderated by Pascal Van Dort, Global Acoustics Ambassador at Rockfon

9.45

Materials & Acoustics

Kirsten Lynge, Co-Founder and Head of Sustainability at Søuld
Steffen Spangmose Pedersen, Head of Design & Innovation at AKUART

Moderated by Isak Worre Foged, Professor WSR, Royal Danish Academy

10:15

Coffee break & visit the stands

10:25

Workshop: Making an Innovation Project

Lars Sommer Søndergaard, Senior Specialist at FORCE Technology
Cheol-Ho Jeong, Associate Professor at DTU
Louise Drengsgaard, Arkitekt at Olav de Linde

This workshop in Auditorium 2 runs in parallel with the “coffee break”

11:00

Soundscaping Explored

Martin Hallberg, Creative Director at Efterklang part of Afry

11:30

Designing Sound Environments

Merete Kinnerup Andersen, Strategic Urban Lead at Cobe Architects
Christopher Barlow, Head of Research & Innovation at KP Acoustics
Valentina Zapata-Rodríguez, Senior Researcher at Oticon

Moderated by Thea Larsen, MSC and Danish Acoustical Society board member 

12:00

Lunch, visit the company booths and networking

12.00

Guided Tour of the Academy

Join a guided tour of the academy facilities, where workstations for textile, knitting and weaving as well as wood, metal, ceramics, and glass will be shown by students of the academy.

13.00

Startup Pitch Battle

The most innovative Danish startups compete in a pitch battle.

13:30

Acoustics in Practice and Process

Louise Drengsgaard Jørgensen, Architect at Olav de Linde
Morten Hell, Head of Acoustic Department  at Sweco
Lars Bertelsen, Area Manager at Bygherreforeningen 

Moderated by Liselotte Lyngsø

14:00

Jury & Prize Ceremony Startup Pitch Battle

Winners of the startup pitch battle will receive feedback from our expert jury and the prizes will be awarded.

14:15

Coffee break & visit the stands

14:15

Workshop: Create your own Soundscape

Martin Hallberg, Creative Director at Efterklang part of Afry

This workshop in Auditorium 2 runs in parallel with the coffee break

14:45

Research Pitch Battle

Hear from the most promising Masters and PhD and post doc researchers at Danish Universities.

15:25

The Power of Sound

Julian Treasure, 5x TED Talk and International Keynote Speaker on Speaking, Listening, Sound & Audio Branding. 

Sound Consultant and Award Winning Author.

15:55

Jury & Prize Ceremony Research Pitch Battle

Winners of the research pitch battle will receive feedback from our expert jury and the prizes will be awarded.

16:10

Danish Sound Award

The “Annual Sound Prize” will be awarded.
The Danish Sound Cluster will wrap up the day’s programme and you will be welcome to stay for a refreshing beer, music, sound installations and product demonstrations.  

16:30

Networking, Demos, Music & Snacks

To make the most out of this celebratory day, the end is as important as
the rest. 
We welcome you to stay for a refreshing beer, music, snacks, product demonstrations – and most importantly, networking! Music by “Almadera – Klanglys Duo“

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Innovationskraft
When you participate in this event, your time will be used as co-financing for the project Innovationskraft, which is funded by the Danish Business Promotion Board and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science at a standard rate. Read more about Innovationskraft 

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Fund Your Business Through Projects

An overview of the funding landscape, with a chance to get feedback and support on your own project ideas.

Explore how startups and SMEs have secured funding through programmes such as Innofounder, InnoBooster, EU funding programmes and other soft-funding opportunities.

This session is also an opportunity to pitch your own project ideas, explore potential collaborations, get feedback, and connect with relevant leads. We will also discuss the possibility of establishing an ongoing network or community around project funding and collaboration.

Tinne Midtgaard

Co-CEO at The Real Sound Company

Kasper Eskelund -

Chief Scientific Officer at Heka VR

Trine Tuxøe

Project Manager at Khora

Rasmus Kjærbo

CEO at Componental

Research at Meta Reality Labs Research Audio​

About Aria 2 research glasses and the research behind Conversation Focus and Hearing Enhancement

Dr. Lunner has more than 30 years of experience spanning hearing technology, audio, cognition and human–machine interaction. In 1995, together with Oticon, he presented the DigiFocus, the world’s first hearing aid based on digital signal processing. His work on low-power digital filter banks became fundamental to several generations of hearing aids, used by millions worldwide, and contributed to two EU IST Grand Prizes.

Dr. Lunner subsequently pioneered Cognitive Hearing Science, demonstrating the importance of cognitive ability and working memory for speech understanding in challenging listening environments and for optimizing hearing-aid signal processing.

He has authored 200+ scientific publications, with approximately 12,000 citations (H-index 54), holds 40+ patents, and has reviewed research for leading journals and international funding agencies. He has also led 40 employees at Eriksholm Research Centre and built extensive collaborations with leading research groups across Europe, North America and Australia.

His contributions have been recognized with, among others, Linköping University Alumnus of the Year (2016) and the William Demant Fellowship (2017) for his role in shaping the future of audiology.

Thomas Lunner

Director, Augmented Hearing

From Acoustics To Wellbeing

Designing Sound Around Human Needs

Mengqiu Zhang – Distinguished Engineer at HARMAN

Mengqiu Zhang leads the Denmark-based innovation team focusing on environmental noise control, spatial audio, and biosensing technologies for hearables. She holds a PhD from The Australian National University and previously worked at Ericsson on MPEG-I immersive audio standardization. Her expertise spans audio signal processing, immersive audio, intelligent listening systems, and next-generation audio experiences.

 

Tanveer Bhuiyan – Senior Engineer at HARMAN

Tanveer Bhuiyan is experienced in deep learning and signal processing, with a focus on DSP, hearing aid applications, and objective Sound Quality models. His expertise also includes sensor technology, audiology, and the analysis, interpretation, and feature extraction of biosignals such as ECG, PPG, and EEG. In addition, he has experience with embedded systems and programming in Python, MATLAB, and C++.

Mengqiu Zhang

Distinguished Engineer at HARMAN

Tanveer Bhuiyan

Senior Engineer at HARMAN

Living With Audio Technology

How does the increasing use and potential of audio and earbuds affect our culture, society, and the way we interact with each other? And how does it affect our hearing health?

Dorte Hammershøi

Juha Backman

Holger Schulze

Torben Christiansen

Dorte Hammershøi – Professor at Aalborg University

Dorte Hammershøi is part of the Acoustics and Hearing research group in the Section for AI and Sound at the Department of Electronic Systems. The group explores how sound is generated, measured and perceived, and how technology can improve sound quality and hearing. Her research is focused on three main areas:

  • Natural sound in virtual environments
  • Prevention of hearing damage
  • Improving treatment and rehabilitation for hearing loss

Dorte is a recognised international award winning researcher for her significant contribution to audio engineering.

 

Juha Backman –  Senior Audio Technology Specialist at Bang & Olufsen

 

Holger Schulze –  Professor in musicology, Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab

Holger Schulze is professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. His sonic anthropology explores how sounds and listening in the 21st century stabilize, disrupt, and permeate everyday life. Artistic practices and everyday objects are both of equal concern to his sonic critique. 

As one of three editors-in-chief of The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, (along with Jennifer Stoever and Michael Bull) he fosters and disputes the pluriform artistic and scholarly research that emerged since he co-founded the world’s first master’s program in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2006. 

His publications include: Meme Music (2026), Sonic Fiction (2020), The Sonic Persona (2018)

 

Torben Christiansen – Head of R&D at DPA Microphones

A New French Standard

What would it take for Denmark and the EU to follow the French and make an ISO standard for acoustic quality in restaurants and bars? 

We’ve talked and discussed acoustics in restaurants and bars for what seems like forever. In France, they’re trying a different approach and have introduced a standard. Is it time for us to follow the French and introduce a standard for acoustic quality here in Denmark?

Join us for an interactive session where we investigate potential solutions and look for ways to work actively on this matter on the other side of the session.

Pascal van Dort

Global Acoustics Ambassador at Rockfon

Ole Vestergaard

CEO at Alpha Akustik

Making Music Experiences Accessible To All

Expanding experiences with multisensory stimuli

Live music brings people together, yet concerts often rely on hearing and familiar ways of participating. This workshop explores how haptic feedback, visualizations, spatial audio, and audience interaction can offer more ways to experience and shape a performance.

Working with performers and participants with diverse sensory abilities, we will discuss, create and evaluate inclusive concert experiences where accessibility becomes part of the artistic design.

Stefania Serafin

Head of Computer Science Section

Marie Pollmann-Larsen

Team Manager at DTU Skylab

AI: Embrace, Resist, Adapt?

How do we benefit from technology without losing the core values of being creative, thinking human beings?

 

An audience interactive panel conversation about use and impact of AI in engineering, education and society.

Lars Tirsbæk

Miriam Plon Sauer

Cumhur Erkut

Nick Dunkerley

Lars Tirsbæk – Head of Studies at Sonic College

Lars Tirsbæk is a sound designer and Head of Studies at Sonic College at UC SYD. He leads the Sonic Days sound conference and serves as Chair of the Danish Section of AES. His work connects professional sound practice, education, and technology, with a particular focus on immersive audio, artificial intelligence, and the development of the sound education of the future, both nationally and internationally.

Miriam Plon Sauer – Global Chief Strategy Officer at AKQA

Working at the intersection of strategy, creativity, AI and culture, Miriam has more than 20 years of experience shaping brand strategies for global names including Netflix, LEGO, Nike, Google and Spotify.

She played a key role in developing “Sounds Right,” the groundbreaking initiative by the Museum for the United Nations and Spotify that made NATURE an official recording artist and directed music royalties toward nature conservation. The campaign won four Cannes Lions, including the 2025 Grand Prix for Innovation.

Today, Miriam explores how sound, technology and creative strategy can create new connections between brands, people and culture.

Cumhur Erkut – Associate Professor at Aalborg University

A PhD and Associate Professor Cumhur works on research and innovation in Audio AI Engineering, spanning machine learning, digital signal processing, immersive systems, and real-time intelligent audio applications. His work integrates data, models, and software engineering into deployable AI solutions across embedded, edge, immersive and cloud environments. 

He has experience in designing hands-on learning pathways that translate research concepts into industrial practice through modern engineering workflows focused on reproducibility, automation, and lifecycle management.

Nick Dunkerley – Co-Founder and CEO of Hindenburg

Nick Dunkerley is a lifelong advocate for audio storytelling. He began his career as a radio host, sound engineer, and producer at Danish National Radio (DR), where he learned that the way a story is told is inseparable from the truth it carries. 

Frustrated by technology getting in the way of that responsibility, he co-founded Hindenburg to support those who take storytelling seriously, journalists, producers, and documentarians working to make sense of the world.

He is a frequent speaker and lecturer, known for his perspective that technology should never replace judgment – but support it.

Creative Use of Noise Reduction

How do we treat background sounds in audio, communication and conversation?
When is it unwanted noise, and when is it important context for a better understanding?

Elaine NG

Martin Bergmann

Eirini Liapikou

Elaine NG – Director of Research at Oticon

Elaine Ng is Director of Research at Oticon A/S, Denmark, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden. A trained clinical audiologist, she brings more than 20 years of experience spanning audiological practice and hearing research. Since joining Oticon in 2017, she has led BrainHearing research, exploring the interplay between hearing, cognition, and communication, and how hearing aids can support better communication and cognitive outcomes for people with hearing loss.

 

Martin Bergmann – Co-Founder and CTO at Augmented Hearing

Martin has 28 years of experience in digital audio, AI, and software development. He holds an MSc in Engineering and has a track record of spotting technology opportunities that meet real user needs, and of taking them from first concept to market-ready product. Along the way he has led numerous initiatives across research, engineering, and product.

As CTO of Augmented Hearing, Martin sets the technical direction of the company and its Sharpi product: real-time, causal speech enhancement that deploys across a range of hardware platforms, from servers to embedded devices. Sharpi is built for demanding environments such as contact centers, emergency dispatch, and critical communications, where speech clarity matters. His long background in hearing care keeps the work anchored in how people actually listen and where communication breaks down, so the solutions are both technically advanced and practical to deploy.

 

Eirini Liapikou – Senior Audio & Embedded Software QA Engineer at Bang & Olufsen.

Eirini holds an MEng degree in Civil Engineering, MSc in Acoustic Engineering from DTU, and studied Sound and Music Computing at Aalborg University. Before B&O she worked on hearing and headset technology (GN,Oticon and more). She has published in JASA on lowering headphone listening levels through touch, and is building a real-time audio feedback system for judo falls. Outside engineering, she is as a performer/music producer, with airplay on Greek National radio.

 

Danish Sound Award - Past Winners

2025 PURIFI

2024 INVISIO

2023 ICEpower

2022 DPA Microphones

2021 Dorte Hammershøi / Stefania Serafin

Pascal van Dort

PhD Research Projects

Who Are My Conversational Partners?

Turn-Taking-Based Identification in Multi-Talker Scenarios

by Leila Eslami

In multi-talker environments, hearing aids face a challenge beyond noise reduction: identifying which talker the user intends to engage with. This presentation focuses on a turn-taking-based approach that uses voice-activity patterns to identify conversational partners. I will present the Conversational Alignment Score (CAS), its generalization to conversations with different numbers of talkers, and recent results showing how identification accuracy depends on the amount of observed conversational activity. I will also briefly discuss head movement as an additional behavioral cue that may support faster and more robust conversational partner identification.

 

Subject‑Independent Auditory Attention Decoding from Mobile EEG via Contrastive Learning

by Asjid Tanveer

This study shows how portable headcaps (mobile EEG) can track which speaker a person is listening to in multi-talker environments. Using a contrastive learning framework, we use a deep learning three model pipeline where the framework matches EEG brain signals directly to speech patterns across three listening scenarios. The model outperforms traditional decoding methods and works in a subject-independent manner, offering a practical path forward for smart hearing aids.

Leila Eslami

Industrial PhD

Asjid Tanveer

PhD Fellow

Research Projects

From Parts to Products: Hybrid and Modular System-Level Analysis for Component Design

By Hossein Soleimani

Modern engineering demands robust predictability when integrating complex components into systems, particularly in vibroacoustics. This talk explores designing components based on system-level responses while preserving the freedom to analyze isolated parts experimentally or numerically. Attendees will discover how these frameworks minimize design iterations and enhance reliability across industrial applications.

 

 

Collaboration results in collaboration: an industrial PhD on modeling and experimental research in building acoustics

By Melanie F. Gotfredsen

Accurate and predictable prediction models for innovative building constructions are needed to minimize the use of resources from over-engineered designs. The attendees will learn more about the upcoming PhD project which seeks to develop predictive simulation tools that reduce the material, energy and financial resources required to design acoustically optimised buildings. Furthermore about how this project came to be with ROCKWOOL A/S, DTU and NIRAS A/S.

 

Hossein Soleimani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Melanie F. Gotfredsen

Upcoming Industrial PhD Student

Samuel A. Verburg

Assistant Professor at DTU Electro