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NorwAI Innovate 2026 – A unique AI showroom
NorwAI Innovate 2026 will take place on 29–30 September, bringing together participants for talks, networking, and a poster session. Explore more details about the program, speakers, and activities.
Three days of Computer Science at NLDB 2026
An audience from multiple continents were gathered at the 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2026) held at NTNU from 17-19 June, 2026. The gathering attracted researchers and industry practitioners applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Database and Information Systems. Topics covered a wide range of applications in Information Access systems, including Big Data, Social Networks, and Large Language Models.
2026-06-25
Research stay at Stanford University
Jessica Annalena Steppe, a NorwAI PhD candidate at NTNU exploring human-AI collaboration in knowledge work and creativity, spent three months at Stanford University. Her research highlights that the value of generative AI depends less on the technology itself and more on how individuals and organizations engage with it, an insight enriched by exposure to Stanford’s strong AI ecosystem. The stay provided both academic inspiration and new perspectives that she is now applying in her PhD work.
2026-06-12
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Research autumn in Bilbao
A research stay at BCAM in Bilbao in autumn 2025 explored new ways to incorporate inductive biases into probabilistic models. The visit combined theoretical development with close collaboration and now forms the basis for continued work on anomaly detection using Statnett data.
2026-05-26
NorwAI Forum Spring 2026: Research in Motion
Research and user partners gathered in Trondheim on 15 April for the spring edition of the NorwAI Forum.
The research-focused program featured updates from NorwAI’s work packages and presentations spanning trustworthy AI, generative AI in organizations, anomaly detection, streaming data analytics, healthcare LLMs, recommendation systems, time-series learning, and Norwegian language models. A recurring theme was how to translate AI research into solutions that are trustworthy, scalable, and valuable in real-world settings. The forum concluded with a hands-on tutorial on NorwAI LLMs, covering pretraining, fine-tuning, data quality, and practical use of Norwegian language models.
2026-04-30
Norway must build its own language models to be able to test whether they are effective
In DN, debaters Tellef Raabe and Aksel Sterri suggested that Norway should establish a government body with a mandate to test and evaluate AI models before they are rolled out in the public sector, conduct international coordination and provide strategic advice to the authorities.
The diagnosis is good, but incomplete, believe NorwAI's leaders, chairman Sven Størmer Thaulow and professor and director Jon Atle Gulla.
2026-02-26
Students as an innovation resource
Hanne Dahl Vonen is a fifth-year medical student at NTNU. She holds an MSc in Epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she was an Aker Scholar, and she also has previous experience from Novo Nordisk External Innovation. She is the founder and CEO of the startup Hugin Medical, where she and her team use AI to create a more sustainable healthcare system. She compares how Norwegian and US Universities differs on innovation training.
2026-02-26
Slow conversations to form a basis for action against misuse of technology
At the start of January, a group of individuals whose work intersects with AI, power, democracy, truth, security and threat perception, gathered to discuss democratic resilience. With diverse perspectives, from academia, public service, healthcare, the church, labour unions and finance, a crossdisciplinary conversation was fueled on how to navigate technology’s challenges resonsibly.
2026-01-29