Program 2025

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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

Posters NorwAI Innovate 2025

Posters NorwAI Innovate 2025

Unreliable Uncertainty Estimates with Monte Carlo Dropout

Aslak Djupskås (1), Alexander Johannes Stasik (1,2), Signe Riemer-Sørensen (2)

(1) Department of Data Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Ås, Norway
(2) Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics, SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway

Gaussian Process Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Probabilistic Multivariate Function Approximation

Aaron de Leyos (1), Alexander Johannes Stasik (1,2), Signe Riemer-Sørensen (2)

(1) Department of Data Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Ås, Norway
(2) Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics, SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway

Implementing AI in Practice: Insights from a Multi-Case Study Across Organizational Levels

Alae Ajraoui, Nhien Nguyen, Alf Steinar Sætre

Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management , NTNU

Understanding Multimodality in Feature Selection Landscapes

Xavier F. C. Sánchez Díaz, Ole Jakob Mengshoel

Department of Computer Science, NTNU

Key Competencies for Human-AI Collaboration and How Organizations Foster Their Development

Jessica Annalena Steppe, Nhien Nguyen, Ole Hartvig Nissen Johannson, Sinan Maric

Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management , NTNU

Examining the robustness of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to noise for Inverse Problems

Aleksandra Jekic (1), Afroditi Natsaridou (1), Signe Riemer-Sørensen (2), Helge Langseth (1), Odd Erik Gundersen (1)

(1) Department of Computer Science, NTNU
(2) Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics, SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway

Simplifying the Graph Similarity Learning Task with Graph Neural Network

Ahmet Tüzen, Kjetil Nørvåg, Helge Langseth

Department of Computer Science, NTNU

Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Metric for Text Generation

Lars Bungum 

Department of Computer Science, NTNU

Natural Language User Interest Profiles for Scientific Literature Recommendation

Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger

Responsible AI Practices in Organisations: A Systematic  Literature Review

Serinha Murgorgo (1), Nhien Nguyen (1), Patrick Mikalef (2) and Tita A Bach (3)

(1) Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management , NTNU
(2) Department of Computer Science, NTNU
(3) DNV

 

 

 

After-conference seminar

A banner with NTNU and NorwAI logos and the tekst "IP and Innvovation seminar for researchers"

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

 

The seminar is now fully booked.