NorwAI Innovate Conference 2024

NorwAI Innovate Conference 2024

24-25 September | Scandic Nidelven Trondheim 

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Pre-conference meet-up event for AI-center stakeholders

Pre-conference meetup for AI-centre stakeholders

In collaboration with NorwAI, The Research Council of Norway will facilitate a meetup for AI-centre stakeholders.

The target group for the event is AI-centre initiatives representatives, partner-candidates (researchers and industry), and other stakeholders looking to engage.

The purpose is to stimulate cooperation and help develop competitive applications for the main call.

We hope to provide an opportunity for matchmaking and help participants to identify AI-centres of interest. 

September 24th  

09:30-10:00

Mingle area

Registration, coffee and refreshments

10:00-11:30

Main stage

Agenda

  • Introduction by RCN
  • AI-centre initiatives – short pitches from the AI-Centre initiatives
  • Matchmaking - World Café

This event is included in the conference ticket but it is also possible to register for this meetup only, for a small fee to cover administrative costs. The participants-list at meetup event will be shared with the Research Council in order for them to organize the matchmaking activity.

Register here 

 

Conference program

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2024

There will be a demo exhibition in adjacent room  and poster exhibition in the mingle area throughout the conference.

13:00 and onwards

September 24th  

11:30-12:20

Hotel Restaurant

Conference lunch

12:20-13:20

Main stage

Opening Session

  • Opening and highlights, Jon Atle Gulla, Professor and Director of NorwAI, NTNU
  • Welcome from NTNU, Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU
  • Title TBA, Oddmund Hoel, Minister of Research and Higher Education
  • Title TBA, Olaug Råd, Special Advisor, Research Council Norway
  • The Machines must speak Norwegian and the algorithms must understand Norway – why the National Library of Norway is training generative language models, Aslak Sira Myhre, CEO, National Library of Norway
  • Why laws must be freely readable and reusable, Håkon Wium Lie, Chairman, YesLogic
13:20-13:40

Coffee break

13:45-15:30

Main stage

Session 2: Facilitators and Challenges of implementing AI in Norwegian businesses

  • How NRK transforms LLMs into real-life value. Pål Nedregotten, CTO/CPO, NRK
  • Transforming the finance industry through AI. Astrid Undheim, Sparebank1 SMN
  • How do we speed up the use and development of AI in Norwegian Businesses? Rebekka Borsch, Head of Department Skills, Innovation and Digitalization, NHO
  • Title TBA, Sven Størmer Thaulow, Chief Data & Technology Officer for Schibsted ASA

Panel dicussion, moderator: Sven Størmer Thaulow
15:30-16:00

Coffee break and refreshments

16:00-16:45

Main stage

Session 3: Research updates from NorwAI
16:45-17:05

Coffee break

17:05-18:25

Main stage

Session 4: Lightning Talks

  • What does it take for private and public companies to succeed in adopting AI technologies as part of their business model? Eirik Andreassen, Head of Digital Technologies and Industry Networks, Coordinator for EU project Nemonoor (DIGITAL EUROPE), Digital Norway
  • How to integrate research in business, Gorm Grønnevet, VP Analytics and AI, Telenor
  • AI in renewable energy, Odd Erik Gundersen, Chief AI Officer, ANEO
  • Hybrid modelling in the power sector, Halvor Lund, Senior Data Scientist, Statnett
  • Poster pitches
18:25-19:30

Demo- and poster exhibitions and apertif
19:30-

Dinner

 

September 25th  

09:00-09:40

Main stage

Session 5: Innovation

  • Poster award ceremony
  • Innovation in NorwAI
  • Innovation in Media through AI, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet, Director of Data, Schibsted News Media 

 
10:00-10:15

Coffee break and refreshments

10:15-12:00

Main stage

Session 6: AI Act/regulations - Implementation and Implications + Panel

  • What will the AI-act mean for you? Alexandra Schultz, Advisor at the Norwegian Digitalization Agency and co-founder of SiFi Labs, Norwegian Digitalization Agency
  • Regulations for the Digital Economy – Impact on Industry, Till Christopher Lech, Senior Scientist, Head of Smart Data Research Group, SINTEF Digital
12:00-12:20

Coffee break

12:20-13:00

Main stage

Session 7: 

Energy Transition powered by Industrial Data & AI

John Markus Lervik, Chief Strategy & Development Officer and co-founder, Cognite AS 

13:00

Hotel Restaurant

Lunch

Workshop

After-conference workshop (in Norwegian): Bruk av KI-verktøy på arbeidsplassen

 

September 25th  

14:15-15:30

Meeting room

Workshop del 1

Korte foredrag og panel
15:30-16:00 Coffee break & refreshments

16:00-16:45

Meeting room

Workshop del 2

Interaktivt gruppearbeid

Velkommen til workshopen “Bruk av KI-verktøy på arbeidsplassen”, i regi av Norwegian Open AI Lab – NAIL.

Her vil deltakerne få mulighet til å bli enda bedre kjent med tematikker fra konferansens hovedprogram. Deltakerne vil utforske hvordan kunstig intelligens (KI) kan forandre arbeidshverdagen, samtidig som de utforsker hva som er lov og lurt når man bruker denne teknologien.

I sesjonen vil deltakerne få møte blant andre Heine Skipenes, Gunnar Tufte og Inga Strümke fra NTNU.