11:30-12:30

Hotel Restaurant

Conference lunch

12:20-13:20

Main stage

Opening Session

Kristoffer Lo, musician

Conference welcome

Jon Atle Gulla, Professor NTNU & Director NorwAI
Sven Størmer Thaulow, Chief Data & Technology Officer & EVP Schibsted

Main keynote speaker: Digitalisation – a key requisite for the green shift

Hilde Tonne, President and CEO, Statnett SF

Coffee break

13:40-15:15

Main stage

Session 2: Research Excellence

Language Technology and Personalization

Chair: Helge Langseth, Professor,  NorwAI, NTNU

Language models and NLP for the detection of fake news and conspiracy theories

Paolo Rosso, Professor, Technical University of Valencia

How to reduce cold start issues in recommender systems

Simen Eide, Data Scientist, Schibsted ASA

What should I wear? Personalized outfit recommendations

Ana Peleteiro Ramallo, Director of Applied Science, Zalando

The Swedish model GPT-SW3

Francisca Hoyer, Program Manager NLU, AI Sweden

Coffee break and refreshments

15:45-16:45

Main stage

Session 3: Network excellence and internet impact

Automation, surveillance society and an open conversation

Chair: Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Adjunct Associate Professor, NorwAI, NTNU

Transformation of text, audio and video

Hiroto Nakajima, Chief Scientist, Nikkei 

Meet the people fighting surveillance

Fiona Coath, Lead Consultant Developer, Thoughtworks

An open conversation

Kjersti Løken Stavrum, CEO Tinius Trust, leader of the Freedom of Expression Commission 

Coffee break

17:05-17:45

Main stage

Session 4: SFI Excellence and talent pitching

NorwAI at work and the poster/demo talent pitching

Chair: Nhien Nguyen, Associate Professor, NorwAI, NTNU

NorwAI Achievements - two years into the SFI journey

Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF and Innovation director NorwAI

Poster & demo presentation

The accepted posters and demos present their work in one minute pitches

Demo & posters exhibition

Dinner

09:00-10:00                   

Main stage                        

Session 5: Hackathon and poster/demo awards

Talents to present their work and award ceremonies

Chair:  Kerstin Bach, Professor,  NorwAI, NTNU & Johan Dahl, Head of Data Science, Cognite 

Hackathon pitches

Four shortlisted hackathon teams present their work

Hackathon award ceremony

Poster and demo award ceremony

Coffee break and refreshments

10:15-11:25

Main stage

Session 6: Industry Excellence

Presenting industry innovations in the energy sector

Chair: Research manager Signe Reimer-Sørensen, SINTEF Digital

Title

Tore O. Sandvik, Norwegian politician, Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) and previously County Mayor of Trøndelag

Aneo - a new player in the Nordic green energy market

Ståle Gjersvold, CEO & Odd Erik Gundersen CTO, Aneo/TrønderEnergi

Solving the industrial data problem

Johan Dahl, Head of Data Science, Cognite

Aize - making heavy assets feel lighter

Boris Mocialov and Eirik Thorp Eythorsson, Data Scientists, Aize

Coffee break

11:45-13:00

Main stage

Session 7: Nordic Excellence

Competition or collaboration in the Nordics

Chair: Rolf Dyrnes Svendsen, Communication Manager, NorwAI

Leading the way on applied AI in Swedeny

Martin Svensson, Co-Director Operations, AI Sweden

Finns at the top of AI in the Nordics

Bjørn Taale Sandberg, CSO, DNA Oyj

Schibsted - a Nordic player 

Sven Størmer Thaulow, Chief Data & Technology Officer & EVP Schibsted

Panel discussion: The Nordic AI Theatre, Competition or Collaboration

Moderator: Simen Eide, Data Scientist, Schibsted

NorwAI Innovate wrap-up

Jon Atle Gulla, Professor NTNU & Director NorwAI

Lunch