Confirmed Speakers for Oslo Big Data Day 2023

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Hans-Henrik Merckoll is the Country General Manager of IBM in Norway and has been with the company since 2017. Merckoll has over 20 years’ experience from the Norwegian IT-and services industry and has experience from EVRY, Telenor Telehuset, Hewlett Packard Norway, Compaq, Storebrand, IF Forsikring and THORN. Merckoll holds a Master of Business Administration from BI Norwegian Business School and is chairman of The Norwegian Center for Information Security (NorSIS) and part of the board of IKT- Norge.

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. IBM helps clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to effect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

Open Session and Keynote Speeches, room: Finn Øien (A1-040)

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Kristine Dahl Steidel has extensive experience within leadership and sales management. She has worked for industry leading IT companies since 1997. For the past 16 years, Dahl Steidel has worked in VMware, where she held several leading positions, including country manager in VMware Norway and regional director for the Nordic and Baltic countries. Prior to joining Microsoft Norway as General Manager in November 2021, she held the position as Vice President of VMware's digital workspaces in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before VMware, Dahl Steidel worked for industry leading companies such as Cinet, Merkantildata (ATEA) and WM-data in Norway. Kristine Dahl Steidel holds a master’s degree in management from BI Norwegian Business School, with a major in Organizational Change focused on innovation. Kristine is passionate about leading diverse and inclusive teams. She also cares deeply about the possibilities that lies within technology in order to succeed on creating a more sustainable future.

Open Session and Keynote Speeches, room: Finn Øien (A1-040)

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Tormod Heier is Professor in Military Strategy and Operations at the Norwegian Defence University College in Oslo. Heier has previously served as officer in the Norwegian Army, in the Intelligence Service, in NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, and in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.

Open Session and Keynote Speeches, room: Finn Øien (A1-040)

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Speech:  ASML the most important technology company in the world?

Professor Harald Øverby is Provost for Student Learning. He comes from the position as Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU. His research areas are digital economics, business models, internet law, regulations and governance, and internet architectures. From 2013–2017 he was Head of the Department of Telematics at NTNU. He obtained his PhD in information and communication technology from NTNU in 2005.

Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020

Open Session and Keynote Speeches, room: Finn Øien (A1-040)

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Speech: Aspects of Digital Communication 

Sut I Wong is Head of Department and Professor of communication and management at BI Norwegian Business School. She is also a Professor II at the Department of Psychology at University of Oslo and an adjunct faculty at University of Ljubljana. She is the co-founder and has been the co-director of Nordic Center for Internet and Society at BI. Beside academic work, Sut I is highly involved in the industry and she currently is an advisory board member of two tech start-ups. Her research focuses on both macro and micro foundations of labor-relations. At the macro level, she investigates the differences in institutional environment for employee participation programs across varieties of capitalist models. She also looks at how industrial relation policies can better foster employee participation and organizational identification during mergers & acquisitions.

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Ieva Martinkenaite is the Senior Vice President, Head of Research and Innovation in Telenor Group. Ieva is among the key figures at Telenor Group contributing to building New Generation connectivity and Artificial Intelligence research and innovation ecosystems. Her work also includes advisory to Telenor executives and business leaders on digital technologies and innovation strategy. In addition to more than 15 years of business and research experience, Martinkenaite has held several high-profile regional and national appointments in AI and digitisation, represented Telenor in the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI, and is a Board Member of Telenor Denmark. She currently leads a joint AI task force of ETNO and GSMA Europe, and she is among the experts responsible for European Commission´s AI-related scientific program reviews, such as Horizon Europe and Digital Europe. Martinkenaite holds a PhD in Strategic Management from BI Norwegian Business School.

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
Room: C1-060

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Speech:  The Work of Norges Bank on CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) 

She is part of the "Payments' analysis and innovation" team at Norges Bank. In our work we also engage with the project on "CBDC" (Central Bank Digital Currency). Suela holds work experience on strategy and innovation. She hold a DPhil in Strategy from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Innovation and Strategy from the University of Cambridge. Suela has worked and studied in several European countries - the last ten years in Norway. CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) - what are they and how is Norges Bank working on this topic? The speech will give a general introduction to CBDCs and the work done over the last years from the central bank. 

Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020

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Speech:  The use of (big) data for policy analysis and decision making 

Hilde C. Bjørnland is Professor of Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a Master of Science in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics, and a PhD (Dr.Polit) in Economics from the University of Oslo. She was awarded His Majesty, The King of Norway’s Gold medal for the Ph.D. thesis in social Sciences. Her main research interest are in the areas of applied macroeconomics and time series. Special interests include business cycles, energy economics, commodity prices, and fiscal- and monetary policy. She has published in leading journals such as the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics. She is also the co-author of the book: “Applied Time Series For Macroeconomics”. Her work has been widely disseminated in international media, including for example Financial Times, Bloomberg and LSE Business Review.

The sheer volume and variety of data generated today can provide valuable insights and support decision making in areas such as public health, economic policy and education. For example, big data analytics can be used to monitor and track the spread of diseases, support monetary policy in the interest rate setting, mitigate financial risk and assess the effectiveness of educational policies. In this talk, I will focus on three areas of importance for the use of big data for policy analysis and decision making in particular: 1) Predictive analysis, 2) Real-time monitoring and 3) cost-effective decisions. The main conclusion is that big data can provide valuable insights, improve predictions and support evidence-based decision making. Still, it's important to consider the limitations and potential biases of the data, in order to make informed and effective policy decisions.

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Speech: AI Driven Due Diligence for Startups & Investors 

Tharald Nustad is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech sector. He is the founder of Nordic Impact, a company that incubates and invests in social / environmental impact tech startups and impact funds. He is co-founder Katapult Future Fest, an event focusing on technology, impact investing and the future society, Katapult Accelerator, a leading accelerator for impact tech startups and Katapult Ocean, an accelerator helping and investing in ocean impact tech startups. Nordic impact is very active in the future of education, and how we can create the future we want to live in. Tharald is active in building the impact investing ecosystem in the Nordics, and is an active player in the startup scene. He works with Ashoka helping social entrepreneurs, is an active member of Toniic, a global impact investor network, and is co-chair for the impact investing group in Nexus. He is also active in Mallin, a family office focusing on Impact real estate developments.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Speech:  At this very moment, your data is being traded on the dark web

Nowaday cyber security is a topic on everybody's lips. Yet it's often perceived as both difficult and dull. Emilia Trollmåne believes that cyber security should be fun and enticing. As a representative for Defentry she loves to share her personal perspective on cyber security and why we should embrace human behaviours instead of trying to change them. When was the last time you changed your password? We promise you will change it immediately after this session. Emilia will take you on a journey to the dark web and share with you what she found. Let us give you a clue. She has found you and your data. You will also have the opportunity throughout the day to find out more about the results concerning you and your company by interacting with Emilia and the Defentry team at Oslo Big Data Day 2023. 

Defentry is a Nordic cyber safety company that provides a real-time 24/7 digital monitoring and alert service.  Defentry’s SaaS platform collects global data and perform analyses on critical cyber threats. The data is aggregated and processed in Defentry’s analytics engine to proactively identify data related to fraud. The outcome of the analysis is automatically translated into warnings to companies or end-users with proposed actions on next steps - all to reduce the risk of fraud.

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
Room: C1-060

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Speech:  How data & analytics can help to create a more efficient and dynamic power grid. 

Lars has worked as a strategic advisor and technical consultant throughout the majority of his career. His main focus is on how data & analytics can be used to improve decision-making and create more efficient work processes. At the moment Lars is working with several clients on how data products and technology can be used to enable a more efficient power distribution at PWC. 

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  From legacy data warehouse to an early phase of data driven innovation 

Mats has over 15 years of experience in the field of data and analytics at Storebrand and NBIM. Most recently, he has been deeply involved with onboarding and implementing a powerful modern data stack at NBIM. Focusing on end-user enablement in addition to technology implementation. Passionate about how the forces of simplification and democratization of data can help to drive innovation, transformative change and strengthen data culture initiatives.
Speech title: A URL that speaks a thousand words: words

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
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Speech:  Trends in climate disinformation and greenwashing driven by AI-generated content 

Maria is CEO and co-founder of Factiverse. She has written five books on migration, freedom of speech, technology and entrepreneurship. The amount of unstructured data like news, documents, and social media is growing and impossible to navigate manually. Factiverse provides APIs for businesses that need to extract and validate the information from unstructured data. Their solutions are based on research from the University of Stavanger by cofounder, and associate professor in machine learning Vinay Setty.

Nato warns of an increase in disinformation campaigns with the goal of damaging companies' reputations, the stock market and our societies. According to the University of Baltimore, the annual cost of disinformation is 78 billion USD, and 39 of that is in the finance sector. Topics will covertrends in disinformation, and especially in climate disinformation and greenwashing - chat GPT - the weaknesses of the model and the need to verify the content - increase in unstructured textual data and that Google search is not enough - users don`t find the right and credible information to make the best business decisions. or anything else you need on topics of text mining, machine learning and future of information.

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Speech:  Change is Systemic: How Can We Use Systems Thinking to Change Course

Chris is Sr. Manager at PwC, in their Business Technology group. With over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries, Chris has been a proponent of Systems Thinking in solving wicked problems.

Some problems are simply too complicated to solve, right? How do large, complex organisations address everything from economic uncertainty to the climate crisis? While most organizations will look at their place in the world via market analysis, share price or growth projections, or look internally at inefficiencies to optimize, the more successful organizations adopt a holistic view of the world, their place in it, and how to affect meaningful change through Systems Thinking. In this presentation we will learn: - What is Systems Thinking, exactly? - How we can use Systems Thinking to model uncertain futures with our organization in mind - How we can use Systems Thinking to understand ourselves and our role in change

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Analytics Cloud tactics 

Hamik is an architect for analytics, trying to leverage the best of people, and data. His trying to piece together everything that happens in our domain to a picture we all agree on can support. Like modern tech that can be proven to work.  Buy. vs Build. What do you invest in to make sure your analytical investments succeed? Does infrastructure or custom code give you more of an advantage? 

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  AI Biases and Paradoxes in Social, Medical and Engineering Contexts

Matilda Dorotic is Associate professor at Department of marketing, at BI Norwegian Business School. Her recent research interests center around the impact of emerging technologies (like artificial intelligence) on individual and social welfare. In her studies she looks at the consumer and social impact of new technologies in particular the tensions and paradoxes that AI creates. She works with firms as well as public partners on interdisciplinary projects that involve NTNU, University of Agder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Colorado, but also public partners like Municipality of Oslo, Oslo Police District, United Nations Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (UNICRI) and others. This talk will present insights on the issues and tensions pertaining to the algorithmic bias and human paradoxes in evaluating AI solutions.

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Remembering the human in the age of the algorithm 

IHelge works as a customer strategist in MSD Merck's global organization finding and connecting customer methods, mindset and tools to business opportunities. From measurement systems to data to ways-of.working. He co-creates, experiment with and scale these capabilities with operational teams around the world.

Helge believes their customers hold the key to their future. That making data BIG doesn’t make it any better — on its own. That the wrong data is more dangerous than no data, and that the measure of success are the questions we discover we can ask — not the volume of data we can churn. Through his work he tries to connect the "thick" customer data to the business strategy to make sure the enterprise is able to connect their customer to they business outcomes. We are seeing that when this is not happening it is producing criticial risks for the organization. Making data "big" doesn't make it anything.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech:  Early-stage tech driven DD for investors and startups: How to prepare and the purpose of it. 

Sagar is an entrepreneurial & innovative executive leader with a background in IT, marketing, sales, recruitment, and client relationship management. The majority of his 20 year career has revolved around connecting people, data & technology to help innovate and impact consumers and businesses. Worked at Opera Software for 13 years, going from a few millions to over 350 million users globally. Worked at EXP Group and Katapult VC where he supported investments in 120 tech startups globally after processing a dealflow of 13,000 startups over 5 years. And today he works at RunwayFBU an early stage investor, investing in industrial software tech companies that will utilize data to solve our world's most pressing challenges including Net Zero.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Speech:  People and Culture : the force behind and within Data! 

Elham has experience from a Tech Scaleup (became Microsoft of the year partner), Fortune-500 (The Adecco group), Media, Politics and NGOs. Broad experience from various global leadership positions in driving Transformation and Change. Data is our new oil and currency. How we build and sustain data will form the future of our organization, country and the world. This speech will focus on the People and Culture aspect of data and AI. How we need to alter our mindsets in leadership teams and the organization as whole to become more data driven and truly see the value it creates. This for many is a cultural and leadership transformation. Data and People go hand in hand. I have experienced too many great projects fail because of: lack of leadership, organizational culture not set up for it, data is viewed as a seperate "thing" which the digital/it team needs to handle. If we are to build a greener and sustainable future we must see people and data in harmony with each other and upskill our organizations and leaders on how to handle both in harmony.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech:  Protecting Fundamental Rights in Age of AI: How Would the New EU AI Act Affect Your Business? 

Dr. Samson Esayas is an associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School with a teaching experience in wide range of topics, including privacy and data protection, LegalTech, Internet governance, and EU competition law at BI, the University of Oslo, and Queen Mary University of London. His research primarily examines the relationship between law, technology, and markets as regulatory tools, with a particular focus on the intersection between data privacy and competition law. Dr. Esayas has published several articles on these issues in reputable academic journals. His doctoral dissertation was awarded His Majesty the King's Gold Medal, which recognizes exceptional young researchers who have made significant contributions to their field of research, based on dissertations evaluated at the University of Oslo.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Future-ready innovator Jennifer Vessels has led global transformation for Adobe, Cisco, Google, Genentech and hundreds of world’s largest organizations. As CEO of Next Step and founder of Executive Growth Alliance (EGA) – an innovation eco-system of F100 companies, Jennifer is in the center of technological change, the future of work, Metaverse/Web 3.0, Innovation Ecosystems and Sustainability. Jennifer Vessels advises executives on how they can leverage the latest digital and societal trends to become future-ready. Her daily activities include leading Next Step and facilitating EGA Executive Growth (peer) Circles in which leaders collaborate to learn, transform, advance sustainability and leverage Metaverse/Web 3. Through work in EGA, which Jennifer founded in 2017, leaders from Ashland, BCW, GE, Norwegian Air, Novartis, RaboBank, Schneider Electric, Yara have solved challenges and //co-created opportunities for 25% growth in value since 2020.

A Silicon Valley native and global nomad committed to delivering lasting results, Jennifer is the ideal speaker to engage and inspire business audiences. As a conference moderator, her curious, collaborative style and unique ability to integrate and demystify concepts ensures audiences leave inspired and committed to return for more. Jennifer provides bold insights, practical examples and future-ready inspiration from keynotes to boardroom advisory and master classes. She applies her real-world experience to accelerate global business transformation, future of work, innovation, sustainability.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech:  Quantum Finance

Isaiah is a visiting Associate Professor of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School, a Quantum Research Scientist at CogniFrame, and an instructor for DataCamp. He previously worked at the Research Division of Sveriges Riksbank, where he conducted research on computational economics, financial technology, machine learning, and quantum computing. He is also the instructor for DataCamp’s “Introduction to TensorFlow 2 in Python” course, which has over 30,000 students, and the author of “Machine Learning for Economics and Finance in TensorFlow 2.” He is currently writing a book on the application of quantum technology to problems in economics and finance for Springer Nature.

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Data-Led Transformation

As a consultant focused on Strategy, Manuel has participated in several types of projects within different industries, and clients. While looking for the best way of providing solutions to his clients, he naturally developed into a driver of advanced analytics solutions such as Business Intelligence, Process Automation, and Machine Learning. 

Data-Led Transformation is Accenture's strategic approach for driving successful digital efforts in companies. This approach considers strategy, people, and technology and the interactions between them.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Collaboration among competitors 

Guro Storlien Evensen is the CEO of The Norwegian Cluster for Cyber Security. She is passionate about securing our digital society and is inspired by the hard work all the cluster partners do every day to make our digital lives safer. She has extensive experience in the field of innovation, business development, and strategic execution. She enables the cluster to address the bigger problems in the cybersecurity industry in Norway. Guro works dedicated for greater diversity in the technology industry.

The Norwegian Cluster for Cyber Security is building Norway’s biggest business collaboration in cybersecurity. To solve the biggest problems, we need diversity and friction to come up with good solutions and implement them. The key to this is learning from each other and sharing information and experience. How is that possible when the same partners are in tough competition with each other? How can competitors unite on mutual problems and focus on problems that are much bigger than one partner can solve on their own?

Track 1 - Defence, Cybersec & Darkweb Workshop room: C2-040

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Nils Jacob holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bergen. After a career as Senior Advisor in Telenor, he joined NTNU & Molde University College as Associate Professor, after which he founded the Bergen Robotics. There, he leads a team of dedicated scientists and engineers with competence in computer vision, advanced robotics, and edge AI. Bergen Robotics develops systems based on their proprietary platform for autonomous imaging of power line infrastructure and components using edge AI in drones and helicopters. 

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Supercharging Your Analytical Capabilities with the Modern Data Stack 

Liam is a Senior Sales Engineer at Fivetran with extensive IT experience. Digital transformation has influenced changes in the data & analytics industry over the last several years, leading to the creation of a modern data stack. In this session, you will learn about the history of a modern data stack, how the data world evolved to necessitate it, and what a modern data stack looks like today. Points to be discussed: - The core components to integrating a Modern Data Stack in your organisation - Best practices to reap the full benefits of a modern data stack for improved business efficiency, reporting & decision-making - The future of data management: How can you take advantage of the emerging trends? 

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
Room: C1-060

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Speech:  Why Ocean data is key to the green shift 

Ester Strommen is the CEO of SYRENNA, and a former management consultant and terrorism researcher. As a young female CEO in the start-up world, Ester is passionate about diversity and inclusion and ensuring this is part of SYRENNAs DNA. Ester has over 7 years’ experience within business consulting and research, leading teams and solving problems from clients in the defense, infrastructure and energy industries. She has also provided green scale-ups with consultancy advice through EYs Amplifier program, fueling her interest in the blue economy, the sustainable energy shift, innovation and ESG and leading her to co-found SYRENNA, an ocean data company. Ester is a 30 year old startup founder, meeting the challenges of being both a young and female founder within the traditional masculine maritime and tech industries.

SYRENNA collects, processes and visualises data from WaterDrones, providing underwater intelligence to the world AND opens the ocean space to everyone, enabling real time science-based decisions. Ocean data is key to the both renewable energy shift, as a central component in planning offshore wind, and the green shift within the maritime sectors. Ocean data is needed at a cheaper pricepoint, and on a continuous basis. Only then will industries have the necessary insight into the health of our oceans to make sustainable choices. Ocean data is one of the biggest data challenges we have going forward. How does one best gather, send and process data from the ocean? 

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Speech:  The Evolution in Open Banking

Trung Minh Tran is Chief Product Officer in ZTL, and has extensive experience within leadership, business and product development and innovation. With more than 15 years of experience working with building new business models, radical innovation and product growth international in Banking and Finance sector. Currently he is working as CPO in ZTL with focus on building products and scale internationally in Nordics and Europe. Trung has previously worked in finance sector heading Digital Innovation in DNB within Large Corporates and international with focus on building new business models that will generate new revenue.  Prior to joining DNB, he held the position as managing consulting in Capgemini leading various innovation projects within Telecom and Finance sector both in Nordics and Europe. He is passionate about creating world class customer experience products that is scalable globally but also innovation that would disrupt current business. It is all about customer centric approach

Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020

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Speech:  Searching for a highway towards automated machine learning (AUTO-ML) as a service for social good

Dijana Oreški works as an associate professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. She has received her Ph.D. in the field of data science and machine learning, developing new techniques for feature selection in the data mining process. She has published over 80 scientific articles in the field of data science and machine learning. Her research work is focused on the implementation of machine learning algorithms in social science. She has worked on numerous international projects in the related field. Over the last few years, we have witnessed a huge number of machine learning algorithms development and their applications in a broad spectrum of domains. The application of these algorithms and the process of developing quality models is complex, iterative, and time-consuming. There is a need to automate that process and determine which algorithm is best to use in a specific situation, in a particular domain. Previous research suggests that dataset characteristics considerably impact the performance of the machine learning algorithms and proves that the choice of the “best” algorithm is dependent on the given dataset. In this talk, social science data characteristics are explored with a special focus on the renewables energy sector data characteristics, their usage in meta-models development, and finding patterns between data characteristics and machine learning algorithms performance to achieve a step closer to automated machine learning. 

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  How Natural Language Processing has found its way into a news media organization - a short story about successes and failures 

Martin Kermit is a seasoned data scientist with more than 20 years of experience with data analysis from academia as well as various industries. Since 2019 he has been the Head of Data Science in NHST Media group, where the business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv is one of the main publications. Kermit holds a PhD in machine learning and neural network from 2003 as one of the first in Norway. His main interests is to help organizations become data driven and how machine learning and data analysis technologies can be implemented succesfully, both technically as well as from a business perspective.

Natural language processing (NLP) has found a large number of practical use cases in later years, spanning from basic spell checkers and social media monitoring to complex chatbots capable of interacting with humans in a conversational way. NLP technology opens many doors for development of the media industry in many ways. As with all cool, new technology, stakeholders must be aware of the strengths and weaknesses, to unleash the best of the technology. Integration into the business processes should only happen when clear goals are defined, and performance indicaters agreed upon and effect measured at every step on the way. Today, they have automated pipelines to drive reader engagement, aid reporters in their publication process as well as a system to categorize news topics in Dagens Næringsliv, which we will take a closer look at in this talk.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Machine learning in the food industry: a game changer for long-term sales forecasts 

Unlock the full potential of your sales data and elevate your predictions to new heights! The challenge of accurately forecasting sales for units/articles with a clear hierarchy (type/group/unit) is a common one. However, most companies settle for predicting each unit separately, ignoring the rich structure in their data. With our innovative method, we harness the power of this hierarchy to make more informed predictions for each unit, leading to a remarkable improvement in overall sales forecasting, and less waste. Join us on the cutting edge of sales prediction and watch your results soar! 

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Optimizing Workforce Management in a Norwegian Police Operations Center Using Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics 

Wei-Ting Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science and Analytics. Her current research focuses on Bayesian network structure learning and its applications in fault detection, quality prediction, and process control. She also has experience using machine learning to improve decision making on several data science projects in industry. BI Norwegian School is currently working with the Norwegian Police on a project to improve current shift planning using predictive and operations research models. The goal is to allocate the necessary resources to meet the demands of different periods, while maintaining or improving staff workload. Demand analysis in selected regions will be presented, followed by a brief description of how forecast demand can be used as input to support other operations research models.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Open standards based Digital Twin for Space applications 

Tord Kaasa completed his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2019 within the field of microsatellite design at NTNU. He joined Jotne in 2021 where he works as a project manager for EU, ESA, and defense related projects. This talk presents the concept of open standards based Digital Twins and some examples of how Jotne has incorporated the ISO 10303 standard to improve the data exchange, sharing, and archiving processes in the supply chain and over the life cycle of multiple space and Aeronautics projects. Having all data in a standardized repository, allows various tools that need to access data across different domains to be seamlessly integrated. 

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Empowerchain - A Blockchain for the Circular Economy

With a Law Degree from the University of Oslo, Wilhelm has over 15 years of cross-sector involvement. With experience as a founder, in executive management and on a board of directors in several start-ups, Wilhelm has built several companies from scratch. Scaling teams, building strategic partnerships and raising funds in an international environment. Wilhelm has operated in the Nordics, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and in industries ranging from oil & gas, renewable energy, mining, blockchain technology and app development. He is currently the CEO of Empower, a digital platform for the circular economy, co-founder of the Empowerchain and Chairman of the Oslo Blockchain Cluster and the solar energy company SolarBank AS. 

Empower is launching a new layer 1 blockchain in the Spring of 2023, a Proof of Stake blockchain tailored for incentivising the Circular Economy. One of the first ever Norwegian Layer 1 blockchains and integrated into a platform that is already in use on every continent, tying together the global waste management industry. 

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Speech:  Profit generation and sustainability hand in hand 

Kristin Nyberg is the CEO of twoday, a new Nordic consulting company with 2500 employees. Kristin has worked with IT and development throughout her career, and in recent years, she has built up several profitable businesses. Kristin is passionate about technology, especially in relation to social responsibility. She highlights that technologists have a responsibility to use our expertise to move the world forward. In addition, Kristin is a champion of diversity in the workplace and wants to get more women into the tech industry. In 2022, Kristin was named one of Norway's top 50 tech women, in addition to being among Norway's top established female tech leaders. The value of good insight is efficiency and better decision making. When utilizing data we see that profit generation goes hand in hand with sustainability. The desired outcomes of most data insight projects are profit generation, to become more competitive in the market, to identify new business opportunities, and so on. However, when implementing these data strategies, we are able to identify new areas for ESG.

In this speech, Kristin will share some examples and best practices from Twoday’s customer cases. Keywords: Better decision making, data democratization, social responsibility. 

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Multimodal learning with textual data for corporate bankruptcy prediction 

Rogelio A. Mancisidor received his BS and MS in Finance from BI Norwegian Business School and his PhD in Machine Learning from UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2021, under the primary supervision of Professor Robert Jenssen. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and Analytics at BI Norwegian Business School. His current research interests include deep generative models, Bayesian modeling, variational inference, multimodal learning, and text analytics. His research introduces for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the concept of multimodal learning in bankruptcy prediction models. He use the Conditional Multimodal Discriminative (CMMD) model to learn multimodal representations that embed information from accounting, market, and textual data. Rogelio's empirical results show that the classification performance of our proposed methodology is superior compared to that of a large number of traditional classifier models. He also show that the proposed methodology solves the limitation of previous bankruptcy models using textual data, as they can only make predictions for a small proportion of companies. Finally, he introduces an index that is able to capture the uncertainty of the financial situation of companies during periods of financial distress.

Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020
 

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Speech:  Climate Risk and Commodity Currencies 

Vegard Høghaug Larsen is an Associate Professor of Data Science and Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School, and a manager of the research centre [email protected]. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and obtained his Phd in Economics from BI Norwegian Business School in 2017. He works in the intersection of economics and data science where he use methods from machine learning and natural language processing to answer questions related to the transmission of economic shocks, how agents form their expectations, and how we can measure unobserved concepts such as sentiment, uncertainty and climate risk. Larsen has previously held a position as senior researcher at Norges Bank. 

Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme climate- and weather-related events, but also the pressure to adjust to a lower-carbon economy. We propose a measure of climate change transition risk and document that when it unexpectedly increases, major commodity currencies experience a persistent depreciation in line with economic theory. Expanding the analysis to a richer set of countries we find a significant negative correlation between a country’s fossil fuel export dependency and exchange rate response to transition risk. The proposed measure adds value compared to alternative climate risk measures, and we show that not distinguishing between different climate risk components might give misleading conclusions about the economic consequences of climate change.

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Speech:  Designing intelligent organizations 

Vegard is an Associate Professor in Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School and a Senior Research Fellow with Accenture. He is researching and teaching on strategy, new organizational forms, digitalization, and business models. His areas of expertise also include governance and organization design, communities and crowdsourcing, open innovation, digital strategy as well as the impact of AI on management. Vegard is responsible for the National Top Management Program in Healthcare together with Bjørn Erik Mørk and Academic Coordinator for the Executive MBA Digital track. Vegard has 16 years of strategy consulting experience from Accenture where he has done more than 30 strategy, business development, and improvement projects for clients across digital media, telecom, and IT/high tech industries, as well as in public administration.

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
Room: C1-060

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Speech:  Culture Intelligence new datareport on the GenZ Culture

Tone founded Culture Intelligence in 2014, a SaaS company with the purpose to radically improving how people work together to create value. Tone has 20+years of expertise in values systems, culture shifts and leadership development. She has held leading positions in different organisations, combined with international leadership development facilitation, that has all contributed to a broad base for analysing and transforming the human side of business. As part of the Oslo start-up ecosystem, she now brings a novel approach to data analytics in culture-driven business growth. Tone is a key-note speaker, blogger and a published co-writer and is currently part of the expert mentor team in Digital Well Ventures.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech:  We are continuing our journey into the future with Artificial Intelligence here at  Norwegian Tax Administration 

 Nader Aeinehchi is a senior architect in Norwegian Tax Administration (Skatteetaten). Formerly, he worked with modernization of National Civil Registry. He has been a programmer for 36 years.  Nader has a profound interest in Artificial Intelligence and has successfully lead several AI-projects. His current interest areas are Agent Technology and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

 Rashmi Ganapati Naik is a machine learning engineer at Skatteetaten with a focus on the adoption of ML/AI technologies aimed towards enhancing the overall effectiveness of services offered to the public. She has previously worked as a mentor at NeuralMet, a student body at OsloMet for tech enthusiasts, where she organized several events including a Hackathon to generate interest and enthusiasm for AI in the local student community. Apart from her education in Applied Artificial intelligence, she has a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering and a Master degree in Engineering Management.   

In the recent years, we have been pursuing the possibilities in AI-technologies for offering substantially better services to citizens and companies in Norway. Here, in the Innovation Labs at NTA, we have been experimenting with Natural Language Processing and Applied Cognitive Technologies.  We would like to take this opportunity to showcase our journey so far.”

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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 Auke Hunneman is Associate Professor at the Marketing Department of BI Norwegian Business School. He also is one of the developers and Associate Dean for BI's Master of Science in Business Analytics. Auke earned his PhD in 2011 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and he obtained his Master’s degree in economics in 2004 at the same university. 

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Increasing efficiency using AI in private & public sector: case studies by DNB and TILDE 

As a Senior Key Account Manager, Kristine advises and supports European governments, public administrations and international companies in advancing their operations in today’s multilingual world by introducing AI driven language technologies. She helps clients to develop and implement solutions to overcome language barriers when communicating across multilingual communities and markets, when automating processes and increasing efficiencies using latest language technologies. 

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Speech:  Startup Norway , Investor Networks & The current Tech Funding Climate

Eirik is on a mission to onboard more private and professional investors to the Norwegian startup scene. He has through his role at Startup Norway been running investment programs for hundreds of startups and investors about how to succeed with pre-seed and seed-stage fundraising/investing. He has also played a key role in the development and delivery of Startup Norway’s core investment initiatives like Angel Challenge (Masterclass program), VC Challenge (VC fund accelerator), and Startup Norway Investor Network.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Speech:  Tracking Startups

Chul Christian Aamodt is a media owner and part of the management of Europower, a part of DN Media Group. As a board professional and chairman in the investment company metrics.no, he assists IT-companies with growth and internationalisation. He is also the host in the technology podcast "Teknologioptimistene". Metrics was among the mayor shareholders in Mintra when the company was aquired by the Riverside for almost half a billion NOK. He has also actively participated in several other M&A's which enable growth and internationalisation.

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Speech:  AI in Rational Bureaucracy: Organisational challenges, resolutions and way forward 

Ulas Burkay is head of Data Science at Skatteetaten and leading Data Science Center of Excellence. Prior to Skatteetaten, Ulas was Director in Gartner Consulting, responsible for Data and Analytics practice in the Nordics. Before Gartner, he was in EY’s EMEIA Advisory Center of Excellence for Analytics and Digitalization, serving to clients from Ireland to Japan, from Finland to Dubai. Ulas is also serving as an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at University of Southeastern Norway. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management and Master of Science in Technology Management from BI Norwegian Business School. He occasionally delivers seminars at universities and conferences on technology management, innovative business models and advanced analytics.

While public organisations have made significant progress in digitizing critical services and processes, they have a different challenge in developing and adopting big data and AI driven solutions for two reasons. Firstly, public organisations have traditionally established, reactive, rule-based decision-making processes with hierarchical control mechanisms - Now they have opportunity to adopt technologies, allowing them to use information more proactively. Secondly, they are urged to develop and manage new solutions in an agile manner, with a start-up mentality. These require significant technological, organisational and behavioural changes. We are going to present how we tackle with these challenges at Skatteetaten.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  AI - build or buy / With an example from the Norwegian health sector

A strategic leader and thinker, this seasoned Senior Consultant boasts two decades of experience in IT technology, development, project management, and bridging the gap between business and technology. Renowned for tackling complex challenges and fostering robust relationships across consulting, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. A versatile professional with a multifaceted background encompassing roles such as programmer, tester, team lead, architect, project manager, product manager, partnership manager, and angel investor.

Developing an AI system is a complex process that requires in-depth specialist knowledge for success. In this presentation, we will share a very basic model that has been helpful in initial discussions with clients about AI projects. We will also examine how this model can be applied to address some of the challenges we discovered when writing a report on AI usage in the healthcare sector. This model can be used in other sectors as well.

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Speech:  Everyday Blockchain

Veteran in the blockchain space since 2012. Founder and chairman of two of the earliest and most prominent blockchain companies in Norway, BitGate and BitSpace. Also an experienced computer engineer, holding a M.Sc in Electronics from the University of Oslo. In 2009, pseudonymously named Satoshi Nakamoto created the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain in 2009. Since then, the technology and the industries around it have matured immensely, to the point that using blockchain today is just as easy as using your favorite traditional Banking App. In this talk, I will explore the opportunities for mainstream adoption that lie ahead of us in the coming years.

Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020

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Speech: Entreprenurship at Digital Innlandet & The Norwegian Cluster for Cyber Security 

Gunn Mari is educated within international business administration and tourism, with a high interest for business development, innovation and leadership. Her work experience is very broad within different business fields. Gunn Mari is also an experienced board member; from non-profit organisations, foundations, private businesses and listed corporations. Always focusing on building relationships, she has an impressive professional network and is the current acting Head of the digital network initiative Digital Innlandet.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Speech: Democratizing your data platform to become more data-driven 

Head of AI and Data Engineering at KnowIt Objectnet, with 18 years of public cloud experience. Has worked in a wide variety of sectors, stacks, continents and companies. Worked with cloud data platforms for 8 years, including technologies like Dataiku, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, GCP and Azure, and methodologies like data domains, data mesh. Enthusiastic about responsible yet pragmatic value-focused engineering, and the path to make organizations data driven. 

How can you empower more of your organization to become data-driven by building your data platform in a simpler and more self service manner? How to separate data work from cloud engineering? Why is it impossible for your organization to become data driven in short time by decree? Why is domain knowledge so crucial to make useful data products? Why is source domain and end user involvement so important for iterative cultivation of data products and data platforms?

Corporate Plenary Session: Positive Implications from applying recent technologies
Room: C1-060

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Speech:  Cyber Threat Intelligence in Practice

Alan is the head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Defendable with many years of experience in Cyber Security, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He's passionate about cyber threat landscape, data and malware analysis coupled with computer forensics. Alan is also an Associate Professor at BI focused on Cyber Security and Machine Learning. He's an open source contributor focused on cyber security -in the context of machine learning. Alan believes that raising cyber security awareness through the means of demonstration, can deliver better awareness.

Track 1 - Defence, Cybersec & Darkweb Workshop room: C2-040

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Speech:  Increasing efficiency using AI in private & public sector: case studies by DNB and TILDE 

Leader and Lean enthusiast with many years of experience. Worked in various positions: implementation of Lean and training, transfer of services, establishment and management of branch administration, management of bank operations departments and various efficiency and change projects. Doctoral student of the University of Latvia with a focus on efficiency and lean application in the service industry. What best reflects the everyday: "There is nothing permanent except change." — Heraclitus and #lifetimelearning. Strategy and case study for using of Chatbot technology in DNB. 

Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Speech:  AI Quality

Current ways to ‘understand’ AI systems 2. Why these current AI Models are defective. 3. Multidimensional AI Models for Qualities, And Costs 4. The AI Stakeholder Model 5. Understanding AI Strategies in light of Multiple Quality and Cost Attributes 6. Teaching The Multi-AI model to students and research students as a tools for researching AI developments. 7. The Quality distinctions between Large Language Model (LLM) AI and the next AI generation (AGI, Artificial General Intelligence) 8. The Penta Model as a basic high level view of any AI system. 9. The Principles of AI Understanding, outside the blackbox.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060

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Speech:  Cluster for Applied AI and how to succeed with AI

Tore Lie is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in consulting, project management, architecture, and development. After spending seven years at eSmart Systems as a member of the team that established Grid Vision as one of the leading virtual inspection tools for powerline inspections, Tore has joined Smart Innovation Norway as Cluster Leader of Cluster for Applied AI to help others succeed in using AI as a tool for change. Tore's diverse background includes previous roles as a Consultant/Project Manager at Metier & CA and an Architect/Developer at IBM & Concrea. Additionally, he has a passion for performance, having previously been a table hockey hero and a producer/actor. Tore enjoys being on stage and discussing topics related to AI and other subjects. He will talk about Cluster for Applied AI and how and what we are doing to help our members succeed.

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Building a Powerful User and Entity Behaviour Analytics System Using Snowflake 

A reformed political scientist turned statistician because the only way to be right is to have data behind your position. Professionally, Oskar drives data engineering and data science use cases at Snowflake's customers in the Nordics and EMEA. User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), includes anomaly detection and profiling by conducting (advanced) analytics and machine learning on top of internal user footprint data (e.g. SSO, email, VPN, Github usage, etc.). UEBA helps corporate IT and security teams capture early signs of internal risk in a timely manner. At Snowflake, we find great value in leveraging our own data cloud for this use case from start to end, from sourcing data from cloud provider logs and applications, to storage, analysis, machine learning, and presentation. 

Track 1 - Defence, Cybersec & Darkweb Workshop room: C2-040

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Speech:  Generative Design and AI in Architecture and Property Development 

Ragnvald Sannes is a senior lecturer at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and the Associate Dean for the bachelor's program in Digital Business. His teaching includes strategy, innovation, and organizing in the context of digital technology. He has ongoing research activities at BI. Generative AI in design work can help architects and property developers to create and compare many alternative solutions. We report from ongoing research on the use of the Spacemaker software by property developers, architects and urban planners. Our findings may be useful in the context of how generative AI like ChatGPT will influence different tasks.

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  Crating a Digital Twin that can capture all Space-Time events in one system 

Developed and thought system engineering methods to help companies succeed in product development of complex products. Currently a co-founder of a startup where we are inventing and developing smarter ways of structuring data for Digital Twins, and Conceptual Computing (a completely new type of AI). Digital Twins can be powerful for managing complex physical assets, but current solutions quickly become very complicated. I will show you the method we invented for describing any part of the world and its changes in space-time in one simple integrated system. 

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  It's the end of programming as we know it (and we'll be fine) 

Leon Moonen is the head of Data-Driven Software Engineering at Simula Research Laboratory and a professor of Data Science at BI Norwegian Business School. His research is aimed at the design and development of advanced, data-driven techniques and tools that support software engineers with the assessment, evolution, and operation of large industrial software systems. He is particularly interested in using text as data in machine-learning applications. His homepage is https://leonmoonen.com. 

In this talk, we will explore the state-of-the-art, the opportunities, and the potential drawbacks of AI assistants that support software engineers in their work. Such assistants are enabled by recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on source code. In particular, we will look at various levels of code generation, the use of LLMs for understanding existing programs, and applications of LLMs for automated program repair and automated program improvement.

Track 5 - Analytics and Business Intelligence, room: C2-060 

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Speech:  “Scaling tech companies: How can executive programs be helpful?” 

Per Ingvar Olsen is professor at Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. His research is primarily within business network dynamics, entrepreneurship, innovation, and industrial change. Most of his teaching is executive and corporate education in business development theories and practices. He is presently also the co-director and head of research at the Center for Connected Care at Oslo University Hospital – working with the cluster of innovation ecosystem to research and develop innovative new healthcare services. 

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Speech:  Chief Information Security Officer/Security Architect 

Øystein is the CISO of Defendable AS and has his background from regional healthcare services in Norway. He holds a masters degree from the University of Oslo within law, privacy, informatics and public- and governmental politics. Øystein is a certified ISO27001 Lead Implementer and practices security architecture on a daily basis. Øystein believes in information security as an enabler for the business, rather than the constraint. There is not one single cyber security solution that will fit all - but there is a solution that can be tailored to your needs.

The speech addresses Zero Trust as a strategical principle and mindset, rather than a heavy focus on technology. The speech will be held as a storytelling session where both theory and practice is exemplified by interacting with the audience. The speech is not designed to give answers directly, but challenge the listener to understand and contextualize Zero Trust-principles within their own organization and mindset.

Track 1 - Defence and Cybersecurity; Dark web workshop, room: C2-080

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Public Plenary Session: AI, big data and digitalization to support decision making
Room: C1-010

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Room: C1-010

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Workshop: "Cyber Threat Intelligence in Practice"

Tor Andre Breivikås manage the Intelligence services within If Insurance, supporting top-tier management, stakeholders, line of businesses and our Special Investigation Units (SIUs) with Intelligence, risk mitigation and advisory in all domains.

Track 1 - Defence, Cybersec & Darkweb Workshop room: C2-040

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Workshop: "Cyber Threat Intelligence in Practice" 

Elmas is the Product Manager for Cyber Insurance at If Insurance in Norway, with many years of experience in the Norwegian and Nordic Insurance market. He's passionate about data, cyber threat and how insurance can help the customers in regards with cyber risks. Elmas also believes that raising awareness regarding Cyber insurance through demonstration can deliver better understanding.

Track 1 - Defence, Cybersec & Darkweb Workshop room: C2-040

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Speech: How will Norway be able to compete with world leading Chines battery-operators or other battery cell producers in 2030 

Terje has more than 25 years international leadership experience. He has been leading global high competence teams focusing on large scale transformation and how to build a more sustainable world. In recent years Terje has been heavily involved in developing battery industry in Norway, he has also contributed to the development of our national battery strategy. Today Terje is working as board-member and advisor for several businesses.  His story is about the fascinating world of battery industry and Norway entering this global business. The business is about sustainability, an extremely rapid market growth, new regulations, large scale innovation, new technology in all parts of the value chain and AI will underpin all key processes.

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Speech: How to build industry 4.0 and why ChatGPT is not intelligent 

Working on how to build an effective an AI driven Industry 4.0, by digitizing buildings using Tim Berns lees, POC for semantic web, Solid. Current project: How to optimize space mgmt in hospitals. Working on how to build an effective an AI driven Industry 4.0, by digitizing buildings using Tim Berns lees, POC for semantic web, Solid. Current project: How to optimize space mgmt in hospitals 

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech:  An overview of the proposed Artificial Intelligence act

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Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech: EU AI act and how to assure trustworthy AI 

30 years’ of experience in digitalization, data driven value creation and ensuring quality and trust in interorganisational value networks and supply chains. Methods and services for assurance of digital assets (AI/ML, data, digital twins, sensor systems) has been key focus last 7 years.

EU plans to publish the EU AI act spring 2023. The talk will give insight in how this will impact AI vendors and users, and discuss approaches for assuring AI and establish compliance to the act.

Track 3 - Law, Compliance & HR, room: C2-005

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Speech: Mathematical optimization for a fresher and healthier future 

Currently managing a team of 6 data scientists at BAMA, the leading company within fruits and vegetables in the Nordics. We industrialize insights from data, through machine learning and mathematical optimization, to support key business decisions. Previously leading the data-team at Urban Sharing, a Norwegian tech start-up within the micro-mobility space. Background from NTNU within Industrial Economics and Technology Management.

The key challenges we address in BAMA are how to reduce food wastage and increase the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables in Norway. To support this, our Data Science team has developed and implemented several models using mathematical optimization to support, improve and automate both operational and tactical supply chain decisions.

Track 2 - Applied Emerging Tech, room: C1-010

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Speech: AI for inspection of critical infrastructure 

Been developing software for the energy industry for more than 25 years. Part of the founding team in eSmart Systems that has built and scaling eSmart Systems from 6 to 110 people and raising $80m+ in funding. Mentor for several start-ups. Recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director

The power grid is the single largest and the most important asset in the world. This is how Smart Systems enables virtual inspection of the power grid with the help from AI.

Track 6 - New Tech in Energy Sector, room: C1-060

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Track 7 - Fintech, room: C2-020

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Speech:   Design-Driven Entrepreneurship Method and sample projects/Spin-offs

Design-driven entrepreneurship (DDE) is a cross-disciplinary methodology that combines principles of design and its ways of thinking & doing with traditional entrepreneurship practices.
DDE equips the entrepreneurship journey with methods and tools from design such as: Human-Centered Design, Co-Design, Systemic Design, Service Design, Interaction Design and tangible interactions, Design Anthropology, Business Design, Product Design, Spatial Design, etc.
DDE method target founders from various backgrounds and industries, established startups and scaleups, innovation ecosystem players such as accelerators, incubators, and investment arms, as well as the creative community of designers themselves.

DDE methods are applicable all throughout the entrepreneurship journey. However, they are even more needed and impactful during the so-called “valley of death” period - from incubation graduation up until the seed and VC stage - where startups are suddenly alone but not very much on their feet yet. Also for designers, DDE brings the tools and understanding that they need from business development and company growth, so they also can put their creative solutions into business themselves and not be dependent on corporates or any buyers. 

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Investor Panelist 1

Tharald Nustad is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech sector. He is the founder of Nordic Impact, a company that incubates and invests in social / environmental impact tech startups and impact funds. He is co-founder Katapult Future Fest, an event focusing on technology, impact investing and the future society, Katapult Accelerator, a leading accelerator for impact tech startups and Katapult Ocean, an accelerator helping and investing in ocean impact tech startups. Nordic impact is very active in the future of education, and how we can create the future we want to live in. Tharald is active in building the impact investing ecosystem in the Nordics, and is an active player in the startup scene. He works with Ashoka helping social entrepreneurs, is an active member of Toniic, a global impact investor network, and is co-chair for the impact investing group in Nexus. He is also active in Mallin, a family office focusing on Impact real estate developments.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Investor Panelist 2

Łukasz is partner and investor in multiple venture capital funds, business angel, mentor, advisor, in start-ups from various sectors. Since 2019, he is active as General Partner in Satus Starter VC. He is an experienced proffesional with demonstrated history of working in consulting industry with companies from various sectors. Ex-Leader of multiple teams and regional offices in Big 4 Company (PwC). Supervisory board member in number of organozations, including publicly  listed companies.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Investor Panelist 3

Steinar Svalesen has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT/media/telecom industries with special focus on venture transactions in the technology space. He currently serves on executive boards of Scandinavian early-stage and growth technology companies in addition to serving as a mentor for young tech entrepreneurs. Steinar is a partner at Cyrus, Ridgehaven Ventures and Sr. Advisor at Anchora Capital.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Investor Panelist 4

Raja is the Founder of The Visionary Company AS. She is a University Lecturer, Entrepreneur, Community Builder, Startup Advisor, and Investor in 50+ startups. Raja has launched several initiatives in Norway to help foster the startup ecosystem.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Investor Panelist 5

Dr Masha Stromme is Co-Chair and Investor at family office PAACS Invest, focusing on the Healthcare Industry. Key focus on macro trends within the healthcare industry, namely technology platforms with a particular focus on precision health. Active portfolio includes precision health companies Exact Therapeutics AS (listed on Euronext Growth), PubGene Inc, Hemispherian AS, GenieUs Genomics (Australia). Previously: D.Phil. in Genetics and Neuroscience at Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley (London, UK), Altium Capital (Apax, London, UK), Arctic Securities (Oslo, Norway)

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Moderator of the Investor Panel

Startups are the real job creators and problem solvers of this century. Berg Moe wants to encourage even more companies to have a global approach to their rollout and will develop a platform to make it easier to reach out to potential customers, partners, and investors to succeed. He has more than 30 years of experience with funding, coaching, and growing companies and taking great ideas to the next level. Have an extensive global network of people in both the seed funding and venture capital world. Berg consider himself an entrepreneur by heart and he is always looking for win-win scenarios.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

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Medlytic is an insight platform for the healthcare system that helps healthcare professionals test new technology - before and after it is launched - and provide their input on areas that concern them.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

MEDLYTIC Webpage

3rd Floor Savings wants to revolutionize corporate purchasing data. Through SavingsTracker, a plug-and-play application, they enable really smart and simple price analysis and savings projects that guarantee good delivery precision and link to the climate impact of purchases. It is simply a future solution for profitable and sustainable purchasing. 2024 larger corporation must publicly disclose their impact on both environment and society and we are starting our journey to become an impact company.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

SAVINGSTRACKER Webpage

Protecting employees against accidents and work-related environment risks. Exagard is a mobile, web-based platform for safety training, which makes it possible to overview and easily monitor the level of competence within the workplace's risk zones. With the Exagard app, your company can via automatic reminders ensure the correct safety skills of each employee and minimize the risk of serious incidents and injuries. Machine safety, systematic fire protection work, and systematic work environment work are three of many areas of use, which Exagard visualizes and simplifies.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

EXAGARD Webpage

Deepfakes, disinformation and detection: How can journalists know what is real? It´s critical important to separate true from false in the news. Factiverse can check your questions. Fact-checking in Factiverse is done by powerful deep neural networks which learn from past patterns of fake news. Factiverse provides evidence in the form of a brief summary containing important points for classifying a certain claim as true or false. Fake news detection was started as a research project at University of Stavanger, Norway and researcher Vinay Setty.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

FACTIVERSE Webpage

Ai2Ai is creating a revolutionary technology that removes the barriers between the digital and physical worlds. They are on a mission to bring back fun and inspiration to healthy activities through gamification and digitalization. Building new things based on Artificial Intelligence or the Internet of Things (IoT), leaves room for endless possibilities in many business sectors. Every day, we need to keep the focus on doing the ethically correct things with the right people. The team background comes from developing a top-of-the-line sensor technology in all parts of the world.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

AI2AI Webpage

Mood Social delivers fun activities and experiences in your area entirely based on your interests. Truly get to know your city by meeting friends and people nearby who enjoy the same activities as you! Discover what to do in your city, where to go, and what to visit.

MOOD Social Webpage

Respiratory monitoring is a crucial aspect of patient care in hospitals, however it is frequently omitted, inaccurately measured and not recorded, leading to poor monitoring that is involved in 31% of hospital preventable deaths. The sensor from Eupnea is pasted on the chest. Using an accelerometer, gyroscope and AI algorithms, collected in a wireless sensor technology, Eupnea can more accurately and reliably measure respiratory rate, distinguish between different breathing patterns and alert to changes that give clinicians and patients valuable information on disease development.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

EUPNEA Webpage

Sprout by kamamuta Games is a psychological , decision based adventure game where players internalize certain skills and driving forces that they can apply to the real world. The game invites you do enhance your personal development and growth.

 Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

KAMAMUTA GAMES Webpage

Haawk.ai offers high-tech robotic camera systems connected to airborne drones that, among other things, can inspect power grids with high precision. The technology has been developed to obtain high-resolution images from fast-moving objects, such as drones. Haawk.ai´s solution delivers a is greener, safer, more efficient, and more accurate inspections.

Track 4 - Start-ups and Scale-ups, room: C1-000

HAAWK.AI Pitch Video at A-Match in Sweden