NorwAI Innovate
Norwegian industrial and academic AI frontrunner NorwAI invites to NorwAI Innovate Conference 2025. The state-of-the art NorwAI Innovate will update you on innovation, research, and industrial excellence, by the help of internationally renowned keynotes, panels and matchmaking possibilities on AI and innovation. This year the conference is organized with the support of Nemonoor.
Call for posters
We invite master students and PhD students to submit abstracts for the poster session at NorwAI Innovate. The best poster will be awarded a prize of NOK 10 000!
Speakers 2025

Closing session: Looking forward
Karianne Tung, The Norwegian Government
Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance

Closing session: Looking forward
Christian Printzell Halvorsen, Vend
CEO

Opening session
Isabel Barroso-Gomez, DNB
Chief Data Officer

Session: AI in the public
Asgeir Sørensen, NTNU, Department of Marine Technology
Professor, Leader NTNU VISTA CAROS – VISTA Senter

Opening session
Elise Lindeberg, Skygard
CEO

Session: Building AI competence
Liv Dingsør, Digital Norway
CEO

Session: AI in the public
Heidrun Åm, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Sciences
Professor

Session: AI in the public
Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU, Department of Computer Science
Professor, Director NorwAI

Session: AI in the health domain
Bjørn Fjukstad, DIPS AS
Product Manager

Session: Research in NorwAI
Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo, Department of Informatics
Professor - Research Group for Language Technology

Opening session
Juan Carlos Lopez, Schibsted Media
Director of Data & AI

Session: AI in the health domain
Hilde Lovett, Norwegian Directorate of Health
Special Advisor

Session: AI in the health domain
Ketil Thorvik, Hemit
Innovation advisor

Session: AI in the health domain
Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Medbric&NTNU
CTO & Adjunct Associate Professor

Session: Research in NorwAI
Lemei Zhang, NTNU, Department of Computer Science
Postdoc fellow

Session: Research in NorwAI
Lars Bungum, NTNU, Department of Computer Science
Postdoc fellow

Session: Research in NorwAI
Abdul-Kazeem Shamba, NTNU, Department of Computer Science
PhD Candidate

Session: Building AI competence
Thomas Nikolai Blekeli, NRK
Strategic advisor

Session: New AI research centres
Michail Giannakos, NTNU
Professor

Session: New AI research centres
Signe Riemer-Sørensen, SINTEF
Research Manager, WP HYB leader NorwAI

Session: New AI research centres
Gunnar Bovim, Research Council Norway
Chair

Session: Innovation
Haakon Thue Lie, Dehns
IP Management Consultant
Associate Professor II, NTNU, IØT

Session: Building AI competence
Kjersti Wold, SpareBank 1 SMN
Head of Advanced Analytics

Session: Building AI competence
Egil Aslak Aursand Hagerup, NRK
Technology journalist and AI trainer

Jon Nordby, Soundsensing
Head of Data Science

Johannes Voll Kolstø, Norwegian Computing Center
Researcher

Kaaren Hilsen, Telenor AI Factory (Telenor Infrastructure)
CEO

Hanne Dahl Vonen, Hugin Medical & Novo Nordisk Bio Innovation Hub
Founder & Innovation Manager

Simone Casolo, Cognite
Service Lead AI-Energy