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KTH Techtalks25 Playitfair - A Game For Recruitment: Britta Nordin ForsbergPlayitfair – a game for recruitment
Playitfair is a digital game for computers and cell phones intended to work as a tool for recruitment and competence development for companies and organisations. The game serves as a complement during the entire employee life cycle in an organisation – from when the employee is being recruited until he or she decides to move on to another job.
Last year a prototype was developed. This year a commercial version of the game will be launched.
In this episode of KTH Tech Talks we meet Britta Nordin Forsberg, talking about the game Playitfair.
2018-01-1118 min
KTH Techtalks24 A brighter program for innovation: Donnie Lygonis and Lisa EricssonA brighter program for innovation
The KTH Innovation Brighter program is a startup program for business development. It is aimed at early stage startups that have a potential of reaching a global market. The program is run by KTH Innovation – a department at KTH Royal Institute of Technology that runs a pre-incubator.
The Brighter program is four months long and the participants get to spend one week in of Silicon Valley.
In this episode of KTH Tech Talks we meet Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation, and Donnie Lygonis, Business Development Coach at KTH Innovation. At the time for the in...
2017-11-3024 min
KTH TechtalksKTH:s Akademiska Kapell: Sagan Om RingenHögtidsstund med KTH:s Akademiska Kapell
Fredagen den 17 november 2017 gör KTH:s Akademiska Kapell ett av sina mest bejublade framträdanden under året: doktorspromotionen och professorsinstallationen i Konserthuset. ”Det kommer att bli en eftermiddag utöver det vanliga”, säger dirigenten Gunnar Julin.
Gunnar Julin är director musices på KTH sedan 2002. Det var också då KTH:s Akademiska Kapell startades.
Lyssna på en inspelning med KTH:s Akademiska Kapell där de framför ingångsmusiken som spelas vid promotions- och installationshögtiden: Sagan om Ringen.
Ljudinspelning: Rasmus Lindgren
Foto: Håkan Lindgren
2017-11-1403 min
KTH Techtalks23 Smart and Sustainable Cities: Mimmi Magnusson, Olga Kordas and Emina PasicA twelve-year program on smart and sustainable cities
Viable Cities is a strategic innovation program on smart and sustainable cities, coordinated by KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The program has received funding of nearly a billion Swedish crowns – roughly 100 million Euros over a 12 year period – from the Swedish Energy Agency, Energimyndigheten, the innovation agency Vinnova and the research council Formas.
In this episode of KTH Tech Talks we meet Olga Kordas – who is the head of the program – talking to Emina Pasic, Mimmi Magnusson from the Swedish Energy Agency about the program Viable Cities.
In the photo: Mimmi Magnusson (the Swedish...
2017-11-0121 min
KTH TechtalksGener och proteiners betydelse för cancerforskning: Mathias UhlénGener och proteiner som är involverade de vanligaste cancrarna
En forskargrupp på Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab, i Stockholm – flera av dem från KTH – har gjort en kartläggning av de gener och proteiner som är involverade i de sjutton vanligaste cancerformerna.
Den här kartläggningen, Pathology Atlas, är en fortsättning på den kartläggning av människans samtliga proteiner, Human Proteome Atlas, som forskargruppen presenterade för några år sedan.
I en artikel i Science, publicerad i mitten av augusti, beskriver forskarna vilka gener som är påslagna i olika cancertyper.
Vad de har upptäckt är att i princip v...
2017-09-2208 min
KTH Techtalks22 Manomotion – a new software for virtual and augmented reality: Sharouz Yousefi and Haibo LiManoMotion – a new software for virtual and augmented reality
Imagine you could interact with various kinds of content in any virtual or augmented environment with real-life intuitiveness. Pick and grab objects, push buttons and other gesture-based interaction that we do in the physical space. Without any wearable sensro, glove or any extra hardware, besides your smartphone.
Well this is possible now, thanks to a software from the startup company ManoMotion. This technology was developed during six years of research at KTH, done by Sharouz Yousefi together with professor Haibo Li.
In this episode of KTH Tech Talks we meet Sharouz an...
2017-09-2118 min
KTH Techtalks21 Moose Rumen For Degradation Of Biomass: Anders Andersson and Henrik AspeborgMoose rumen provides insights on the degradation of biomass
Biofuel has been put forward as a green and renewable to alternative fossile fuels. However, the first biofuels got a lot of criticism since they were produced from food crops and the prodcution was done at the expense of growing food.
An alternative to food crops is wood. But the degradation process of the biomass is a problem here. The current methods are not as cheap and efficient as they need to be for biofuel to be a competitive energy solution.
Henrik Aspeborg and Anders Andersson, two biotechnology researchers at KTH...
2017-08-1513 min
KTH Techtalks20 Algae farming: Fredrik Gröndahl and Fredrika GullfotAlgae farming – a sustainable solution
Cultivating algae for various purposes is being done to quite a large extent today, in research as well as in business.
Seafarm is a research project where algae are being cultivated on the Swedish West Coast for use for a variety of purposes, food and biobased materials, for instance. Seafarm is a joint project between KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers in Gothenburg, Gothenburg University, Lund University, the Linné University and the research council Formas.
Simris Alg is a Swedish company that cultivates algae in order to produce Omega-3 supplements as an alternative to...
2017-06-0822 min
KTH Techtalks19 Gender Equality in Technology – KTH and Scania: Anna Wahl and Sofia WahlneGender Equality in technology – KTH and Scania: Anna Wahl and Sofia Wahlne
Despite efforts from both academia and the industry, women are still underrepresented in technology education and the technology industry. In big tech companies such as Microsoft and Google women make up roughly 30 % of the workforce. At KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 34 % of the undergraduate students and 31 % of the graduate students are women. But only about 16 % of the professors at KTH are women.
In this episode of KTH Tech Talks we meet Anna Wahl, Vice Rector at KTH with responsibility for gender equality, and Sofia Wahlne, Head of La...
2017-05-0315 min
KTH Techtalks18 KTH Innovation And Global Change Award: Gustav Notander and Ilias BergströmAt KTH Innovation early stage tech business ideas are tested
KTH Innovation is a department at KTH Royal Institute of Technology that help researchers and students to commercialize their research results and business ideas. The KTH Innovation pre-incubator supports early stage tech based KTH projects with the potential to become viable companies.
KTH is also one of the partners of H&M Foundation´s innovation challenge Global Change Award. And the first week in April the five winning teams in the challenge come to KTH. KTH Innovation run a boot camp week where the teams get the opportunity to test t...
2017-03-3023 min