Building Bridges with Industry

This first industry track session in a CLARIN Annual Conference brings together academics, research infrastructure experts and industry representatives from the Spanish industry landscape specialising in AI and language technologies, as well as healthcare, customer support and telecommunications. The objective of the session is to build and open up bridges between industrial R&D, academic research and existing resource infrastructures such as CLARIN ERIC. The industry experts will provide their perspectives on the value of collaborating with academic institutions and research infrastructures to foster more effective knowledge, data and technology transfer in order to accelerate technological advancements and create broader societal benefits. This session is organised by Henk van den Heuvel and Iulianna van der Lek from CLARIN ERIC in close collaboration with Albert Cañigueral and Maite Melero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Programme 14:00 Welcome & Introduction by Henk van den Heuvel (CLARIN ERIC) (5 min) 14:05 Industry Presentations | Chair: Henk van den Heuvel (10 min per presentation) Expanding the reach and building connections: lessons from the CKAN project by Adrià Mercader (Link Digital) Translating AI Safety and Security Research into Industry Practice by Pau Rué (Alinia AI) AI: The future of Mobile Interaction by Jordi Luque Serrano (Telefonica Innovación Digital) Evaluating LLMs for factuality in multilingual, low-resourced scenarios associated with domain adaptation by José Manuel Gómez-Perez (Expert.AI) 14:50 CLARIN’s Role in Building Bridges by Henk van den Heuvel (CLARIN ERIC) (10 min) 15:00 Round Table Discussions | Moderator: German Rigau (CLARIN-ES) (25 min) How can the resources of academia and RIs create value for industry? 15:25 Conclusions and Wrap-Up (5 min) For more details about the workshop speakers, please see the programme page.