Eirik Andreassen is the coordinator for Nemonoor, a EU/Norwegian funded consortium consisting of Digital Norway, NTNU, SINTEF, IFE, NORA/UiO, ÅKP, Smart Innovation Norway and Norway Health Tech. The aim of Nemonoor is to help Norwegian SMEs build their digital skills and capabilities enabling them to adopt data, digital technologies and AI as part of their operations. 

In Digital Norway, Eirik is responsible for service development, sales and partnership development in DigitalNorway, a company that aims to grow Norwegian enterprises by sharing insight from those that has succeeded with a digital transformation, to those that are eager to get started but uncertain about how to go about it.  We do this by providing services that specifically aim to develop knowledge and skills of SMEs within digitization, rolling out a national collaboration space, and by coordinating industry wide transformation projects.

By education, Eirik is a naval architect from NUST/MIT, and before joining DigitalNorway, he enjoyed more than 20 years of broad international experience as a leader of international companies and multi-national business networks.

Former politician, and vice minister (state secretary) at the Ministry for Research and higher Education.

Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet is the director of data and artificial intelligence at Schibsted Media, where he has worked since 2022. He was previously the CTO of Schibsted's E-commerce & Distribution and is still a board member at Morgenlevering. He spent six years in Australia as the GM of Home Services at Telstra, where he was involved in establishing Telstra Energy as a new business area. Before moving to Australia, he was the Research Manager at Telenor R&D, where he established Telenor's first initiative in the Internet of Things through Telenor Objects.

Gorm Grønnevet has 12 years of experience from Telenor Research and Innovation. Before that he held a post doc for the Norwegian School of Economics and has also worked for the Norwegian Competition Authority.

Odd Erik Gundersen is the head of the AI department at Aneo where he leads the development of AI systems that are deployed throughout the renewable energy company. Odd Erik has a PhD in AI and is an associate professor at NTNU where he teaches, researches, and supervise master and PhD students.

Till Christopher Lech started his career in the software industry, working on data-driven technologies such as semantic web, search technology and data/text mining. Before joining SINTEF, Till was employed as Special Advisor in the Research Council of Norway,  involved in the strategic planning and management of the national ICT research programmes, as well as Norway’s participation in the European Framework programmes. At SINTEF, is working as Research Manager for the Smart Data Group, overseeing a wide portfolio of national and international research and innovation projects in the field of data management, data market places and data spaces. Till is member of the Board of Directors of the European Big Data Value Association.

Dr. John Markus Lervik is the Chief Strategy & Development Officer and co-founder of Cognite, serving as CEO from the foundation to 2022. Throughout his career, Lervik has channelled his passion for liberating data and innovating with technology into companies that revolutionize the ways we work. After finalizing his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), he co-founded Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) in 1997 and served first as Chief Technology Officer and later as Chief Executive Officer until Microsoft acquired the company in 2008 for USD 1.3 billion. He then took the position of Vice President of Enterprise Search at Microsoft before leaving in 2009 to found the software company Cxense, which was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2014. In 2005 Lervik was recognized by Forbes as a member of the E-gang for his pioneering work in the technology sector.

Håkon Wium Lie created Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. He also published Norwegian Laws on CERN's servers that year. As CTO of Opera Software he ensured that CSS and the web could be used on all sorts of devices. He is the chairman of YesLogic, which makes the Prince CSS-to-PDF formatter. In 2015, Håkon sailed from Lima to Easter Island on a balsa raft, making sure the world-wide web is truly world-wide. He has planted an apple orchard in his native Norway, and also owns a pipe organ workshop there.  He holds a MS from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from the University of Oslo.

Halvor Lund studied physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and he has a PhD in modelling of multi-phase flow for CO2 transport. He has worked at SINTEF Energy Research with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects, and later as a software developer and data scientist in the transportation sector. Since 2023, he has employed at Statnett, where he tries to increase the capacity of transformers and power lines using sensors and machine learning.
 

Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian commentator, author, cultural leader and politician. Since 2014 he is director of the National Library of Norway. He has been a leftwing politician, and was for a period leader of the former party Red Electoral Alliance (RV). He has previously been head of Raud Valallianse (now Raudt) and of Foreininga !les and Litteraturhuset in Oslo. His writing is about politics and football, among other things. For his work with !les and The House of Literature, Myhre in 2008 received "Eckbos legaters Kulturpris". He has published several books, and has published articles in The Guardian and The Washington Post in the aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks.
 

Pål Nedregotten is an experienced media executive in Norway with expertise at the intersection of journalism and technology. Currently, he heads technology and product development at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Previously, he served as EVP Data and Technology at Amedia, Norway’s largest publisher. He’s also been chair of the Norwegian Media Business Association. 

Alexandra Schultz is a lawyer working at the Norwegian Resource Centre for Sharing and Use of Data. With a background that includes co-founding the medtech startup SiFi Labs and experience from the Data Protection Authority, she brings a broad perspective to AI regulation and practical implementations and applications of AI. She has followed the Artificial Intelligence act closely and is involved in its implementation in Norway.

Sven Størmer Thaulow, born in 1972, currently serves as the Chief Data & Technology Officer and EVP at Schibsted ASA. Schibsted has 5,000 employees in 4 Nordic countries. This includes a product & technology environment of approx. 1,400 with cutting-edge expertise in the development of consumer services and the processing of large amounts of data.

Sven is also the Chairman of the board of NorwAI (Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation) at NTNU and a board member of several Nordic technology companies, including MazeMap AS and Blocket AB.

His extensive leadership experience in the tech industry includes roles such as CEO of Cisco Norway and Telenor Comoyo, as well as positions as CMO and SVP at Telenor, both in Norway and abroad.

Sven holds a master’s degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from NTNU, with a specialization in computer science. Additionally, he has studied statistics, media, communication, and intelligence at the Norwegian Defence University College. His passion lies in exponential technology, change, and the digital transformation of business and society, making him a sought-after speaker.

Astrid Undheim has been executive director with responsibility for Technology and Development in SpareBank 1 SMN since 2020. She is part of the Board of Directors in BNBank and Eiendomsmegler 1 Midt-Norge, and member of the Council for Statistics Norway. She holds a phd from NTNU from 2009, and has more than 10 years of experience from Telenor Research where she headed the Analytics and AI team.