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Danish Sound Day 2024 - Danish Sound Cluster

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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Funding 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

Introducing "EAR"

Bridging product data and perception

FORCE Technology is now launching “EAR”, an online platform designed for consultants, manufacturers, and the general public. EAR stands for Environmental Acoustics & Reverberation, and the site currently features tools for evaluating product characteristics using auralization, a room acoustics estimation calculator based on EN ISO 12354-6, and more.

In this demo, you’ll be guided through the different parts of the platform, which range from tools suitable for laypeople to advanced users. We’ll also briefly touch on the motivation behind the project and explain how you can gain access to a trial license.

LOCATION: NEW HALL

Mads Bolberg

Julie Liengaard

Inside The A-Lab

Meet the engineers behind Harman’s audio innovation

Step inside the world of cutting-edge audio engineering with this exclusive workshop hosted by Harman. Meet the engineers behind some of the most advanced consumer and professional audio products on the market today.

  • Explore how Harman develops premium sound experiences

  • Discover Harman’s involvement in research on hearing health, including areas like tinnitus mitigation and auditory wellness

  • Learn about the challenges and breakthroughs in audio signal processing, acoustic design, and embedded systems

  • Get insights into working with global audio brands under the Harman umbrella like JBL and AKG

  • Engage directly with engineers, ask questions, and see real-world product development up close

Whether you’re an aspiring engineer, audio enthusiast, or industry professional, this is a unique chance to connect with the minds shaping the future of sound.

LOCATION: STUDIO 3

Tanveer Bhuiyan

Mengqiu Zhang

Søren Majlund

Auracast Is Here!

Market products, use cases, and consumer insights

Auracast has long been a topic of discussion and anticipation in the audio and connectivity field. While the technology has been known for some time, only now are we beginning to see real-world experimentation and exploration of its groundbreaking potential.

In this panel, we will provide a brief overview of the Auracast technology and highlight some of the products currently available. More importantly, we will share crucial experience insights from concrete projects and ongoing research exploring the practical use of auracast in various settings. These include a collaborative project between GN and The Royal Danish Theatre, as well as research into the use of sound in museums conducted at Sonic College.

Join us as we move from theory to practice – and from possibilities to real-world experiences, and explore new opportunities with us.

LOCATION: NEW HALL

Thomas Olsgaard

Birgitte Folmann

Nanna Jelsgaard

Chip Design

Crafting chip strategy

Join us for an interactive panel discussion that explores the evolving landscape of chip design and strategic deployment in hearing aids and next-generation audio devices. As the demand for more intelligent, efficient, and compact audio technology grows, semiconductor innovation plays a crucial role in shaping the future of auditory experiences.

Our expert panel brings together leaders from chip manufacturers, hearing aid companies, and audio tech innovators to discuss topics like:

  • Emerging trends in low-power, high-performance chip design

  • Strategies for integrating AI and machine learning on edge devices

  • Balancing form factor, battery life, and processing power in hearing aids

  • Cross-industry insights from broader audio applications including wearables, consumer electronics, and assistive technologies

Whether you’re a hardware engineer, product strategist, or simply curious about the future of smart audio, this session will provide unique insights into the intersection of microelectronics and sound technology.

LOCATION: STUDIO 3

Farshad Moradi

Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen

Peter Siegumfeldt

Mark Brooks

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

Jonas Næsby

Startup Pitch Battle

Three of the most promising and innovative sound startups in Denmark will compete for great prizes. With help from you in the audience the jury will choose a winner.

 The Startups

 The Jury

LOCATION: STUDIO HALL

Mikkel Eskesen

Camilla Roll-Lund

Mikki Gabriel Simonsen

Kristian Klok Pedersen

Five-Minute Findings

Research presentations on stage followed by interactive Q&A with the attendees on the floor
Music Training for Hearing Impaired

by Jesper Andersen – Associate Professor and Lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Abstract to be announced.

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Signals in Conversation: Multimodal Speech and Gaze Dynamics in Polyadic Turn-Taking

by Mark Douradao – PhD at Aalborg Univerrsity and GN Group

Conversations are inherently multimodal: participants coordinate not only through speech, but also via gaze, timing, and subtle behavioral cues. This talk presents data-driven insights from natural four-person conversations recorded with synchronized speech, gaze, and motion tracking in both quiet and noisy conditions,  focusing on how these signals can predict turn-taking outcomes, including who speaks when, how turns are yielded or retained, and whether overlaps occur.  

The findings illustrate how gaze and speech jointly support smooth interaction in co-present communication and point to opportunities for future technologies, including conversational agents, hearing aids, and communication technologies, to better align with the realities of natural group dynamics. 

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A Machine Learning-based Surrogate Model for Sund Field Prediction Based on Plane Wave Superposition
by Matteo Calafá – PhD Student at DTU
 
Scientific machine learning has recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional numerical solvers for sound field estimation in enclosed spaces. While physical models can be naturally incorporated into the learning framework, they often incur high computational costs due to the large number of internal evaluation points and the repeated use of automatic differentiation. To address this, we propose a novel architecture that produces outputs inherently satisfying the underlying physical constraints. This allows the neural network to focus solely on enforcing surface impedance boundary conditions and/or available measurement data, resulting in significantly faster convergence and improved accuracy. A benchmark test shows that the method matches the performance of state-of-the-art room acoustics simulations, with particular advantages in the mid- to high-frequency range.
 
LOCATION: STUDIO HALL

Jesper Andersen

Mark Dourado

Matteo Calafá

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.

Hossein Soleimani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Eddy Bøgh Brixen

Pascal van Dort