NorwAI Innovate Conference 2025

23-24 September | Scandic Nidelven Trondheim

Conference program

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2025

September 23rd
11:30-12:30 Hotel Restaurant	Conference lunch
12:30-13:35 Main stage	Opening Session Chair: Rolf D. Svendsen, NTNU Opening and highlights, Jon Atle Gulla, Professor and Director of NorwAI, NTNU Concrete applications of AI in Media, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet, Director of Data & AI, Schibsted Media Ensuring Secure and Responsible AI - A Data Center Perspective, Elise Lindeberg, CEO, Skygard AI Factory, Øyvind Solberg Moe, Chief of Staff, Telenor AI Factory Domain spesific LLMs in health care, Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU, Department of Computer Science and Ketil Thorvik, Innovation Manager, Hemit
13:30-13:40	Break
13:40-14:30 Main stage	Session 2: New AI research centres Chair: Benjamin Kille, NTNU AI and Innovation: Shaping the Future of Research and Technology, Gunnar Bovim, Chair of the Research Council of Norway Hybrid Intelligence and human learning, Michail Giannakos, Professor, NTNU, Department of Computer Science Synergies between NorwAI and the Norwegian Center on AI for Decisions (AID), Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Research Manager, SINTEF, WP HYB leader NorwAI
14:30-15:00	Coffee&snacks break
15:00-15:50 Main stage	Session 3: AI in the public Chair: Rolf D. Svendsen, NTNU Embodied AI in Cyber-Physical-Systems Enables a Paradigm Shift in Ocean Science, Industry and Security, Asgeir Sørensen, Professor, Director AMOS, NTNU, Department of Marine Technology AI and democracy, Heidrun Åm, Professor in Sociology, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science Leading with Data: How Ethical Foundations Drive AI Success, Yngvar Ugland, Head of NewTechLab, DNB
15:50-16:00	Break
16:00-17:05 Main stage	Session 4: AI in the health domain + panel Chair: Eric Monteiro, NTNU Joint AI plan for the safe and effective use of AI in the Norwegian health and care services 2024 - 2025. Hilde Lovett, Senior Adviser, the Norwegian Directorate of Health LLMs in Action: Integrating AI into Norwegian Electronic Health Records. Bjørn Fjukstad, Product Manager, DIPS AS Panel discussion: Hilde Lovett, Bjørn Fjukstad, Ketil Thorvik, Jon Espen Ingvaldsen
17:05-17:20	Break
17:20-18:30	Session 5: Research in NorwAI Chair: Terje Brasethvik, NTNU From Cortex to Code: Comparative Insights into Reasoning in Brain Networks and LLMs, Lemei Zhang, Postdoc fellow, NTNU Online Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text: What Metrics Make a Difference? Lars Bungum, Postdoc fellow, NTNU Contrast All The Time: Learning Time Series Representation from Temporal Consistency, Abdul-Kazeem Shamba, PhD candidate, NTNU LLM evaluation in the Mimir project: how can we assess the value of copyrighted materials in LLM training? Lilja Øvrelid, Professor, UiO Poster pitches
18:30-19:30	Poster exhibition
19:30-	Dinner

September 24th
09:00-10:15 Main stage	Session 6: Innovation Chair: Nhien Nguyen, NTNU Poster award ceremony Creating a culture of innovation at Norwegian Universities, Hanne Vonen, Founder of Hugin Medical and Innovation Manager at Novo Nordisk Bio Innovation Hub AI and IP: The balance between openness and control of innovation, Haakon Thue Lie, IP Management Consultant, Dehns & Associate Professor II, NTNU Applied anomaly and change point detection algorithms for online monitoring, Jon Nordby (SoundSensing), Johannes Voll Kolstø (Norwegian Computing Center) From Anomaly to Answer: AI Agents for Industrial Equipment Root Cause Analysis, Simone Casolo, Service Lead AI-Energy, Cognite
10:15-10:35	Coffee&snacks break
10:35-11:25 Main stage	Session 7: Building AI competence Chair: Terje Brasethvik, NTNU Digital imagination- a key competence for all in 2025, Annita Fjuk, PhD, Innovation Lead, Digital Norway From idea to internal success: How we built NRKGPT and trained 1500 employees in AI, Thomas Nikolai Blekeli, Strategic advisor, NRK, Egil Aslak Aursand Hagerup, Technology journalist and AI trainer, NRK AI Competence in Practice: How a Shared Learning Project is shaping the future of Customer Service, Kjersti Wold, Head of Advanced Analytics, Sparebank1 SMN
11:25-11:40	Coffee break
11:40-12:45 Main stage	Session 8: Looking forward Chair: Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU Looking forward – the next digital chapter, Karianne Tung, Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance AI - from promise to practice, Christian Printzell Halvorsen, CEO, Vend Closing remarks, Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, Director NorwAI, NTNU, Department of Computer Science
13:00 Hotel Restaurant	Lunch

After-conference seminar

After-conference seminar:

IP & INNOVATION SEMINAR FOR RESEARCHERS

IPR and business strategies for AI Inventions

24. September 2025 |14:00-16:00 | Scandic Nidelven, Trondheim

This seminar will be especially relevant for researchers at NTNU but is also open to master's students and others interested in the commercialization of AI research and innovation.

Learn how to commercialize your knowledge and research results including what to do, who to contact, how to protect IP and how to get funding.

Time
14:00-14:15	Introduction to the NTNU innovation ecosystem and TTO Anders Aune, Business Development Manager, NTNU Technology Transfer
14:15-14:45	Intellectual property and AI Hans Christian Blom, IPR manager, NTNU Technology Transfer
14:45-15:00	Coffee & refreshments break
15:00-15:30	Experiences from commercializing AI solutions in startups Alf Egil Edvardsen, CEO, Mia Health Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, CTO, Medbric
15:30-15:45	Perspectives on commercializing AI solutions from industry Sven Størmer Thaulow, chair ExB NorwAI and previously EVP, Vend Marketplaces
15:45-16:00	Q&A