Demystifying Recommendations and Artificial Intelligence

Higher seminar with Henrik Lindström and Jussi Karlgren from Spotify (via Zoom).

In this seminar, we will discuss what Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are, and how technology is being used in practice to deliver relevant, and personalized content recommendations at scale. We will demystify how the underlying algorithms work, and give an overview of common approaches and some challenges. In addition, we will give concrete examples of how we at Spotify leverage Machine Learning to ensure high quality recommendations on “Home”, the Spotify start page, as well as in Search.

With Jussi Karlgren, Principal Research Scientist, and Henrik Lindström, Group Product Manager at Search, Spotify.

This is a higher seminar arranged by the department of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University.

For more information and Zoom link, please contact saga.hansen@sh.se .