Events

2026

Complexity Science Hub (October 5-7, 2026): From Fear to Forecast: Understanding AI Swarms
Workshop participant - Vienna, Austria
Interdisciplinary discussions on collective AI behaviour, methods for studying AI swarms, and interventions to detect, steer, or disrupt harmful coordination.

KAI Seminar, Kristiania (September 30, 2026): Malicious AI Swarms as Social Systems: Coordination, Influence, and Collective Dynamics
Invited speaker - Oslo, Norway
Nordic-Baltic Roundtable: Maritime Domain, Resilience, and Industry (September 29, 2026): New Challenges - Are We Up to It? AI Scenarios
Invited speaker and panellist - Vilnius, Lithuania
COM4AI (Communication for AI) (September 15, 2026): When Humans Become Machines and Machines Become Human
Speaker - Online
Nobel Peace Center (September 3, 2026): Nobel Peace Conference 2026: Democracy on the Brink
Invited guest - Oslo, Norway
Also invited to the official reception at Oslo City Hall on September 2, hosted by the Mayor of Oslo on the occasion of the conference.

Arendalsuka 2026 (August 12, 2026): Samfunnsdebatten under angrep, med desinformasjon som våpen
Speaker and panellist - Arendal, Norway

DW Global Media Forum 2026 (June 23, 2026): How do malicious AI swarms threaten democratic elections?
Panellist - Bonn, Germany
EU DisinfoLab (June 18, 2026): From Botnets to AI Swarms: Tracking Emerging Risks Through an AI Influence Observatory
Speaker - Online
Dataforeningen / AI Sør-Øst (June 9, 2026): Lunchwebinar: From Cyborg Propaganda to Malicious AI Swarms: Cognitive security and the new architecture of influence
Speaker - Online
Industriuka 2026 (June 1-4, 2026): Speaker at Industriuka 2026
Speaker - Porsgrunn, Norway

TEDxBratislava (May 30, 2026): TEDxBratislava: A Touch of Lightness
Speaker - Bratislava, Slovakia
Data Week 2026 (May 6, 2026): Data & AI for Europe’s Security and Defence: Trustworthy Intelligence in a Geopolitical Era
Panellist - Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Helsinki Committee Annual Meeting (April 23, 2026): From Cyborg Propaganda to Malicious AI Swarms: Cognitive Security and the New Architecture of Influence
Invited speaker - Oslo, Norway
Invited lecture on AI-driven influence operations, synthetic consensus, and threats to democratic resilience.
Sikkerhetskonferansen 2026 (National Security Conference) (April 22, 2026): From Cyborg Propaganda to Malicious AI Swarms: Cognitive security and the new architecture of influence
Speaker - Oslo, Norway

ACM CSCW 2025 (October 3 (online) and October 18 (Bergen), 2025): Beyond Information: Online Participatory Culture and Information Disorder
Workshop co-organiser - Bergen, Norway, and online
Co-organised a workshop on participatory online culture, misinformation, and disinformation, bringing researchers together to identify research priorities, interventions, and ways to support the research community.

re:publica 2023 (June 7, 2023): Die 5G-Apokalypse: Blick auf ein Digital Wildfire und seine Entstehung
Speaker - Berlin, Germany

MediaEval 2022 Workshop (January 12-13, 2023): FakeNews Detection
Task co-organiser - Bergen, Norway, and online
Co-organised the FakeNews benchmark task combining tweet text and social-network graphs to detect COVID-19 conspiracy narratives and their spreaders. The 2022 edition's workshop was held in January 2023 alongside MMM 2023.

Summer Academy: The Geopolitics of Disinformation (August 31, 2022): Conspiracy Theory Dynamics in Social Networks
Speaker - Bonn, Germany

MediaEval 2021 Workshop (December 13-15, 2021): FakeNews: Corona Virus and Conspiracies Multimedia Analysis Task
Task co-organiser - Online
Co-organised the FakeNews benchmark task on detecting COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy topics in tweets, including whether posts promote or discuss those narratives.

MediaEval 2020 Workshop (December 11 and 14-15, 2020): FakeNews: Corona Virus and 5G Conspiracy
Task co-organiser - Online
Co-organised the first FakeNews benchmark task, evaluating text-based and network-based methods for detecting COVID-19 and 5G conspiracy misinformation.