NorwAI Innovate Conference 2026

29-30 September

NorwAI Innovate i organized as part of the Trondheim Tech Festival in Trondheim, Tuesday 29 September to Wednesday 30 September.

NorwAI Innovate 2026 is proud to collaborate with Hemit and NTNU Business School as key partners for this year's conference. Together, we share a commitment to advancing innovation, artificial intelligence, and knowledge exchange between academia, industry, and the public sector.

We are also grateful for the support of SpareBank 1 SMN, who contributes as a sponsor and helps make NorwAI Innovate a leading meeting place for AI-driven innovation and collaboration.

Program

Registration

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2026

29 September Venue: Banksalen Amfi
12:30-12:45	Opening Session Opening remarks, Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU, Director, NorwAI Keynote speech, Hans Christian Holte, Director of KI Norge
12:45-14:00	Session 1: Language Models Chair: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU, Director, NorwAI Tellef Raabe, Project Lead, the Fritt Ord Foundation The National Library's work with Norwegian language models in the Borealis series, Åse Wetås, National Librarian, National Library of Norway Research and Development for Large Language Models in Norway, Stephan Oepen, Professor, University of Oslo
14:00-14:30	Break
14:30-15:30	Session 2: AI in Industry Chair: Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Associate Professor, NorwAI, NTNU Peet Cremer, Senior Director of Engineering, Cognite Probabilistic Wind Power Forecasting, Kristian Authen, Senior Data Scientist, Statnett Hybrid AI: From power transformers and heat exchangers to hidden planets. Alexander Stasik, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Digital
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-17:15	Session 3: AI Innovation Ecosystem Chair: Nhien Nguyen, Associate Professor NTNU, WP leader INNOECO NorwAI Innovation Ecosystems, Nhien Nguyen, Associate Professor, NTNU and work package leader in NorwAI Healthcare innovation with LLMs, Hanne Vonen, Founder and CEO, Hugin Medical Presentation of NorwAI language models available to the innovation ecosystem, Terje Brasethvik, adjunct associate professor, NorwAI Poster pitches
17:15-19:00	Poster exhibition
19:00	Buffet dinner in Banksalen

30 September Venue: Frimurerlogen
09:00-10:15	Session 4: AI in Health Chair: Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU, Workpackage leader, NorwAI Poster award ceremony Trond Utne, CEO, Hemit Jorunn Thaulow, Co-founder and CEO, Medbric Assessing Quality in Norwegian Clinical Summarization: Developing and Validating an LLM-Based Evaluation Framework, Folke Jernbert, PhD candidate, NTNU Inger Anne Tøndel, Senior Advisor, Information and Security, Norwegian Directorate of Health Panel discussion moderated by Eric Monteiro
10:15-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-12:00	Session 5: AI Impact on business and society Chair: Are Oust, Professor, NTNU Business School Ingar Haaland, Professor, NTNU Business School Lightning talks and panel discussions with Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU Astrid Undheim, Executive Director, Sparebank 1 SMN Tom Einar Nyberg, Head of Data, AI & Emerging Technology, KPMG Moderated by Ingar Haaland

30 September

Venue: Frimurerlogen

09:00-10:15

Session 4: AI in Health

Chair: Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU, Workpackage leader, NorwAI

Poster award ceremony

Trond Utne, CEO, Hemit
Jorunn Thaulow, Co-founder and CEO, Medbric
Assessing Quality in Norwegian Clinical Summarization: Developing and Validating an LLM-Based Evaluation Framework, Folke Jernbert, PhD candidate, NTNU
Inger Anne Tøndel, Senior Advisor, Information and Security, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Panel discussion moderated by Eric Monteiro

10:15-10:45