Danish Sound Day 2022

9 November 2022 - 08:00 - 20:00

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DTU Skylab
Centrifugevej 374
2800 Kongens Lyngby                                    

Don’t miss our annual audio conference!

Addressing the opportunities and challenges that no company, no knowledge institution, no municipality or no organization can solve by itself.

Join the annual sound industry event together with professionals and enthusiasts, all sharing the passion for innovation and sound. Get fresh inspiration by talks from the research, business, tech and art worlds, and experience pitches, debates, company demos and sound performances. Meet new people and strengthen your network with colleagues from all corners of the audio tech industry. 

We invite entrepreneurs, researchers, directors, investors, teachers, tech people, students, artists and innovation profiles to get involved, discuss and contribute to a day full of knowledge sharing and mutual inspiration. 

Ticket

1.300

DKK / incl. 25% VAT
Member ticket

700

DKK / incl. 25% VAT
Exhibition stand

3.000

DKK / incl. 25% VAT
Exhibition stand - members

1.500

DKK / incl. 25% VAT

Student ticket

Free

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No-show fee: DKK 200

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Admission ticket(s) Note included in stand reservation

Programme

08:00 - 08:45

Registration & Breakfast

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

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome

By our moderator of this day, Paul Tyler. 

09:10 - 09:30

Key note

Danish Sound – a fresh 2022 industry analysis 

Did you know that the sound industry accounts for 2.5% of the total Danish GDP? Torben will kick-off Danish Sound Day with a fresh overview on the state of the nation. This talk will provide the community with a tangible data analysis on where the Danish sound industry is now and serve as inspiration on envisioning where we are heading.  

Torben Vilsgaard, CEO Danish Sound Cluster

09:30 - 10:00

Key note

Understanding Hearing: Beyond Technology

Modern hearing technology provides valuable support to people with hearing loss. Yet, why do so many hearing aids end up in drawers? And why are so many people with hearing loss still struggling in important communication situations? In this presentation, we will hear from people with hearing loss what matters to them and why good hearing is a matter of utmost importance – to them, their communication partners, and society at large. We will look beyond technology and discuss how a holistic, person-centered approach to hearing care can help people with hearing loss make the most of their technology and improve communication in daily life. 

Ena Nielsen,     Director, Ida Institute 

10:00 - 10:30

Panel Discussion

How are we solving the remaining known hearing-related problems?

A panel of experts from different parts of the industry discuss what is being done today to address the needs and to improve the experience of the hearing technology user.

10:00

Track 1

: Tobias Neher, Professor, SDU

Panelist: Torsten daw, Professor, DTU Health Tech 

Panelist: Anthea Bott, Manager R&D Insights and machine learning, GN Hearing

Panelist: Filip Rønne, Global Head of Scientific Audiology, WSAudiology

10:00 - 10:30

Tour Group 1

DTU Electro & DTU Healthtech - Tour and research demos

Have you ever experienced being in an anechoic or a reverberation chamber? DTU electric gives an exclusive tour to experience their unique labs and what their researchers are working on. 

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10:00

Track 1

Find Agerkvist, Professor, DTU Electro

Torsten daw, Professor, DTU Health Tech 

 DTU research team 

10:30 - 11:00

(panel discussion)

Networking breaks & stands

This is your chance to network with members from other tribes.

SHUFFLE

11:00 - 11:30

Enhancing sonic experiences with Multi-sensory technologies

Will multisensory technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) become a daily occurrence in our lives?
How can the experience of sound benefit from introducing such technologies? 
In this talk Stefania will present several examples of how multi-sensory technologies can be used to enhance sonic experiences, and discuss what is missing for a stronger integration of such technologies in everyday life.

Stefania Serafin, Professor, AAU

(Sound Award of the Year 2021 winner)

11:30 - 12:00

Panel Discussion

Where is modern technology taking sound?

A panel of experts from different parts of the industry discuss what is hot right now in modern technology and how that is influencing sound experiences, new capabilities and the unexpected different directions in the industry. 

10:00

Track 1

moderator: Cumhur Erkut, Professor, AAU

Panelist: Sean Olive, Senior Fellow, HARMAN International

Panelist: Suzanne Sauerman, Consumer Technology Executive

Panelist: Henning Toft Schwarz, Sr. Director Experience & Technology, Jabra

11:30 - 12:00

Tour Group 2

DTU Electro & DTU Healthtech - Tour and research demos

Have you ever experienced being in an anechoic or a reverberation chamber? DTU electric gives an exclusive tour to experience their unique labs and what their researchers are working on. 

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10:00

Track 1

Find Agerkvist, Professor, DTU Electro

Torsten daw, Professor, DTU Health Tech 

 DTU research team 

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch, stands & networking

SHUFFLE

13:00 - 13:30

Startup Pitch Battle

4 of 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

  • Edo Fouilloux, Patch XR
  • Jacob U Ahlers, VibroAcoustics
  • Jon Strunge, Nature Plate
  • Nicolai Dyre Bülow, µVox

Jury: Kim Rishøj, Kirsten Lynge and Rene Giese

13:30 - 14:00

Key note

Sonic Citizenship

The relationship we have with sounds around us and our everyday soundspaces can be complete chaos and a cacophony of messy noises – while at the same time, a very fragile relationship too. Marie and Morten have created a framework around this complex and invisible yet audible and present phenomena, and they call it Sonic Citizenship. In a time where COVID has hit the landscape and retracted all beings into isolation, even though the city streets have been more silent than ever, our daily lives on Zoom are still experienced as a rather messy and fragile everyday soundscape, that does not feel silent – rather quite noisy and stressful. This talk will help us reflect in new ways about our soundscapes, defining a framework and practical examples, so we can one day live our sonic lives in a more sustainable, harmonious and responsible way.

Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Assistant Professor, AU

Morten Breinbjerg, Associate Professor, AU

14:00 - 14:30

Panel Discussion

How do we accelerate the sustainability transformation of the sound industry?

A panel of experts from different parts of the industry discuss about their sustainability efforts and what still needs to be done to accelerate and completely transform the sound industry into a fully sustainable one. 

10:00

Track 1

moderator: Human Shojaee, Founder and President, Sustainary

Panelist: Tina Snedker Kristensen, Head of Sustainability and Communications, Troldtekt

Panelist: Kirsten Lynge, Co-founder, Søuld

Panelist: Eric Johnson, Director, Sustainability Advisory, PwC

14:00 - 14:30

Final Tour Group

DTU Electro & DTU Healthtech - Tour and research demos

Have you ever experienced being in an anechoic or a reverberation chamber? DTU electric gives an exclusive tour to experience their unique labs and what their researchers are working on. 

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10:00

Track 1

Find Agerkvist, Professor, DTU Electro

Torsten daw, Professor, DTU Health Tech 

 DTU research team 

14:30 - 15:00

Networking breaks & stands

SHUFFLE

15:00-15:30

Research Pitch Battle

Hear from the most promoting Masters and PhD and psot doc researchers at Danish Universities.

Candidates:

  • Silje Marie Schjødt, Aarhus University, Sandthesizer
  • Mindaugas Dambrauskas, Aalborg University, Music and Noise. Feasibility study of preproduced music that incorporates noise from the hospital's Intensive Care Unit
  • Daniel Michelsanti, Aalborg University, Vision-Assisted Hearing Aid Systems

Jury: Soren Bech, Anthea Bott and Tobias Neher.

15:30 - 16:00

Key note

Objectively speaking – what is good sound quality?

Some (still) say that sound quality cannot be measured. Meet Sean Olive who had the courage to invest many years of his life researching some of the tough questions that many audio professionals would be reluctant to even talk about. With an unparalleled obsession in this field, Sean has proven many of us wrong about what we thought was good sound quality. He has contributed with new useful, objective tools that are at the reach of all headphone manufacturers today. This exciting talk will take us through Sean's journey and research. He will share his learnings, what still needs to be done and which challenges we are facing.

Sean Olive, Senior Fellow at HARMAN International and former president of AES

16:00 - 16:15

Short coffee break

SHUFFLE

16:15 - 16:45

Prize ceremony

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

This year's prizes have been sponsored by Jabra and Bang&Olufsen

16:45 - 17:30

Danish Sound Award

The "Annual Sound Prize" will be awarded. 

The Danish Sound Cluster will wrap up the day's program and you will be welcome to stay for a refreshing beer, music, sound installations and product demonstrations.  

17:30 - 20:00

Networking beer, music & snacks - KLANGLYS

That's it make the bridge out of this celebratory days, the end is as important as the rest. We welcome you to stay for a refreshing beer, music, snacks, product demonstrations – and bridge important, networking! 

Klanglys – coexistence of timbre and light. A sensitive mixture of colorful instrumental arrangements and vocally based refreshing melodies.

All members of klanglys make use of their love for jazz harmonies, rhythmic ostinato figures and natural soundscapes to create pleasant and light projecting melodies. 

For this special occasion of the Danish Sound Day 2022, Klanglys will play both, their original music and well-known Soul and Jazz hits that well accompany their tunes. For more info on Klanglyshttps://linktr.ee/klanglys

Visit the company stands

10:30

break

11:00

Keynote

Get a sneak peek into the future of hearing, and the secret sauce for how to innovate at speed and accelerate for growth. What are the biggest pitfalls? How do you create an innovation-friendly culture?

Line Lust, Chief Entrepreneur at GN Group

11:45

Track 1

During video game production there is often so much content to be made and so little time - even before an actual game is playable, prototyping and efficiency becomes key. The understanding of working blindly is crucial.

Bjorn Jacobsen, Sound Supervisor at Cujo Sound

11:45

Track 2

Emerging technologies for sound simulation and virtual sound rendering - new advanced acoustic simulations methods, cloud computing and virtual acoustics are revolutionizing how we approach designing acoustics, audio and mitigating noise.

12:15

Lunch

13:15

Startup Pitch Battle

Listen in as 3 of the most innovative Danish startups compete in this pitch battle.

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

Candidates:

Auricle by Pedro Costa

IDUN Audio by Pauli Minnaar

Keybird Instruments by Lander Pinson.

Jury: Jan Abildgaard Pedersen, Tommy Andersen and Peter Peterson

13:45

Entrepreneur Story

Hear the story of SOUNDBOKS that wasn't told in the media - how the company almost died for 18 months - and what did they learn from it?

Jesper Theil Thomsen, CEO & Cofounder Soundbox

14:15

Track 1

Jan Skoglund will speak about audio quality, speech intelligibility and evaluation methods. His background as a software engineer, manager, researcher and musician makes him a perfect fit for today's program. 

Jan Skoglund, Staff Software Engineer, Google

14:15

Track 2

Building bridges between clinicians and engineers within audiology - Abigail Anne KressnerDTU & The Center for Hearing & Balance, Rigshospitalet 

Abigail Anne Kressner, AssistantProfessor DTU, Rigshospitalet

14:45

break

15:15

Research Pitch Battle

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

Download the Slido app to vote for your favorite researcher.

Candidates:

"DuoRhythmo: A collaborative accessible digital musical interface (CADMI) for people

living with ALS (PALS) ”by Master stud. Truls Bendik Tjemsland et al. (AAU)

"Probabilistic deep learning for hearing aid speech separation" by Industrial Ph.D. study Rasmus Høgh (DTU / WS Audiology)

"Vibrotactile augmentation of music for postlingual cochlear implant users" by Ph.D student Razvan Paisa, AAU.

Jury: Cheol-Ho Jeong, DTU Electrical Engineering, Søren Kamaric Riis, Oticon Medical and Jesper Bünsow Boldt, GN Group

15:45

Keynote

Mikkel and Nicolas will talk about their process and experience working on the Oscar-winning film “The Sound of Metal

Mikkel will join us in person and Nicolas will attend virtually.

Mikkel EG Nielsen, Movie editor

Nicholas Becker, Sound Designer

16:30

break

16:45

Prize Ceremony

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

This year's prizes have been sponsored by Jabra and EPOS.

17:15

This year's Sound Award and Goodbye

The "Annual Sound Prize" will be awarded. There is still time to vote. Click here for more info and write to us with your nomination. 

The Danish Sound Cluster will wrap up the day's program and you will be welcome to stay for a refreshing beer, music, sound installations and product demonstrations. 

17:30

Music & Bar

Enjoy the live music from the pianist PJ Fossum and his bassist Rafał Różalski. PJ will perform on the amazing lightweight acoustic piano from a local startup, Keybird

We will be serving cold beers from Amagerbryghus and organic bubbles. You are welcome to stay until the bar runs dry!

Other Activities

Sound installation

"An Invisible Choreography" by Yann Coppier. 

An installation by sound artist Yann Coppier, as a development from his artistic research on Absurd Sounds in collaboration with Den Danske Scenekunstskole, which was published on Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) in 2021. 

Walk around and enjoy a non-anthropocentric point of view: it is not about where you are, it is a space talking to another space.

Yann Copier, sound artist at Studio Oval

Vote

Take part in live voting at the event for the research and startup battles. 

Simply download the app "Slido" and enter the event code: #055180

Company Stands

Take a moment to visit the company stands.

Sound Hub Denmark - Sound technology & innovation growth hub

EPOS audio - headsets for gaming and enterprise, sound cards and microphones for streaming

Symbion - Coworking Space also know as “House of Sound”

Vibracoustics / Norsonic - Sound & Vibration Measurement Solutions

 

Treble Technologies - Wave-based sound simulation for the AEC industry

Kinovox - loudspeakers, microphones and more

Comsol - software for multiphysics simulation

GO measure - supplier of test and measurement equipment

Sponsors

Innovation
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 Innovation power 

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