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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 MediaJuan 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
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 LLMsLemei 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 practiceChristian Printzell Halvorsen, CEO, Vend
  • Closing remarksJon Atle Gulla, Professor, Director NorwAI, NTNU, Department of Computer Science

13:00

Hotel Restaurant

Lunch