Speakers
Speakers
(in alphabetical order by surname)
Terje Brasethvik is a department manager at Bouvet and an adjunct associate professor at NorwAI and the Department of Computer Science, NTNU. Terje holds a PhD from NTNU on the topic of semantic representations and has a post doc in health informatics.
Nhien Nguyen is an Associate Professor at NTNU’s Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. She holds a PhD from NTNU and has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University and MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research interests include innovation management, digital strategy, responsible AI, and human-AI collaboration. Nhien leads the “Innovation Ecosystem” work package at NorwAI and heads the strategic research initiative “Leading Transitions: Co-creating a sustainable future” at her department. She has led and coordinated several EU projects which focusing on integrating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into regional and industrial strategies. Additionally, she has guest-edited special issues on organizational learning and unlearning, ambidextrous strategy.
Stephan Oepen is professor in Language Technologies at the Department of Informatics of the University of Oslo. He is co-founder and current chairman of the Norwegian Cluster for Language Modeling (https://språkmodellklynge.no). Before coming to Norway, Oepen has worked, among others, at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, and a failed Silicon Valley start-up. In recent years, he has served as the technical coordinator for the Horizon Europe initiative HPLT (https://hplt-project.org) and the Digital Europe flagship OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu).
Tellef Solbakk Raabe is project lead at the Fritt Ord Foundation, working on democracy, media, and technology. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge, where he is an affiliated researcher, and writes on media and AI for Aftenposten.
Alexander Stasik:
-Work package leader "Knowledge embeddings and causal ML", AiD, national AI center
-Work package leader "Algorithms and quantum random walks", QIStar, National quantum center
-PostDoc in Computional Neuroscience and Bio-Inspired AI, UiO
-PhD in particle and astro physics, Humboldt University of Berlin
-Bachelor and Master in Physics, University of Bonn, Germany
Inger Anne Tøndel is a Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Directorate of Health, where she is working on digital security and AI. She has a PhD from NTNU, and has previously worked as a researcher at SINTEF Digital.
Hanne Dahl Vonen is a 6th year Medical Student at NTNU and educated as an Epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health. She is the founder and CEO of Hugin Medical, a Norwegian startup using AI and LLMs to ensure better priorities of healthcare resources.