Full House for Research Week at the IBA

23. april 202623. juni 2026

Interest was high when the IBA hosted its Research WeeK–event on Wednesday, focusing on AI agents and digital “humans”, which we increasingly encounter when interacting with both businesses and public authorities.

Foto af Tommy og Natasha, der står side om side — “I see Research Week as a kind of crash course where, hopefully, we can gain inspiration on how to put AI to work in our business,” says Tommy Jensen, a partner at MyBookkeeper. He attended the event together with the company’s Marketing Coordinator, Natasha V. Knudsen.

Tommy Jensen, a partner at the accountancy firm MyBookkeeper, was among those who managed to secure one of the free tickets for the sold-out event.

“In our company, we will be using more AI in our day-to-day work. So I hope Research Week can give us inspiration on how to integrate AI into a business like ours. When it comes to AI, we need to define both ‘what do we want?’ and ‘what are we allowed to do?’,” explains Tommy Jensen, who brought the company’s Marketing Coordinator, Natasha V. Knudsen, with him to Research Week at the IBA.

Foto af Jesper Outzen, der står og præsenterer foran publikum — The IBA’s Jesper Outzen explained how to build an AI agent capable of carrying out practical everyday tasks. His presentation concluded with this thought-provoking slide: “When so much can be outsourced to agents, the question is no longer what technology can do, but what we choose to preserve as human practice.”

Among the speakers was Jesper Outzen, who teaches the practical application of artificial intelligence at the IBA. He demonstrated how simple it can be to create your own AI agent. However, he also explained how challenging it can be to ensure that an AI agent performs a task exactly as originally intended.

“It is not about how many AI agents you can build and deploy. It is about having only those that genuinely provide value in your everyday work,” Jesper Outzen explained.

Stemningsfoto — During the break, participants had the opportunity to network and ask questions directly to the day’s speakers.

Among the audience was also Helene F. Førrislund, who had actually been taught by Jesper when she studied at the IBA ten years ago. She now runs her own company, Build Team Balance, which specialises in DISC workshops and team-building activities.

“This is my first visit to the IBA’s new building, so that is a positive experience in itself. Beyond that, I hope Research Week can give me a sense of whether AI can also create value in my business,” says Helene.

Foto af Helene, der deltog i Forskningens Døgn — Helene F. Førrislund runs her own business, Build Team Balance. The day’s topic inspired her to visit the IBA, where she previously studied when the institution was located at a different address in Kolding.

In addition to Jesper Outzen, she and the other participants heard presentations from, among others, the IBA’s Anne Dorthe Larsen, who presented the findings of the research project When AI Feels Human, conducted together with her colleague Edward Abel from SDU. Anne Gerdes spoke about AI Ethics in Practice, before Lasse Jonasson from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies concluded the event with a presentation on AI transformation.