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October 31st

11:30-12:20
Conference lunch
Hotel Restaurant
12:20-13:20

Opening session 

Main stage
Conference welcome
Jon Atle Gulla, Professor NTNU & Director NorwAI
 
Keynote Speach: Building trust into industrial AI
Remi Eriksen, Group president and CEO, DNV
 
LLM work of the national library
Per Egil Kummervold, National Library of Norway
 
Towards Factual and Trustworthy Large-Language Models
Fredrik Heintz, Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit, Linköping University 
 
15:15-15:45
Coffee break & Refreshments
Mingle Area
13:20-13:40
Coffee break
Mingle Area
Responsible Norwegian Language Models
Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Adjunct Associate Professor, NTNU, Chief Scientist, Kantega
 
16:50-17:05
Coffee break
Mingle Area
Conference Opening: AI musical introduction from the project: "Co-creative spaces"
Notto Johannes Windju Thelle, Head of Section, Oslo Metropolitan University
 
13:40-15:15
Main stage

session 2: Recent developments in large language models

Chair: Özlem Özgöbek, Associate Professor, NTNU
LLMs - What, why and the future of it
19:30-

Dinner

Buffet in the hotel restaurant

13:00 onwards

Demo- and poster exhibition in mingle area

November 1st

09:00-09:45
Main stage

session 5: Reflection, creativity and talents in AI  

Chair:  Özlem Özgöbek, Associate Professor, NTNU
Poster award ceremony

 
09:45-10:15
Coffee break & Refreshments
Mingle Area
Using AI legally – today and when the AI acts arrive
Christian Bendiksen, Partner, Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS
 
AI Regulation: The state of play
Tore Tennøe, Director, The Norwegian Board of Technology
 
12:00-12:20
Coffee break
Mingle Area
A New Class of Marine Robots: from Nature, through University, into Industry
Kristin Y. Pettersen, Professor, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU
 
Title TBA
Tore O. Sandvik, Norwegian politician, Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) and previously County Mayor of Trøndelag
Panel discussion on laws and regulations
Creatively breaking models: A perspective from the arts
Notto Johannes Windju Thelle, Head of Section, Oslo Metropolitan University
AI & I: A Personal Perspective on the Field 
Keith Downing, Professor, Department of Computer Science, NTNU
On Intelligence, on Artistic AI and AI Talent Awards  
12:20-13:00
Main stage

session 7: From Academia to Industry

Chair: Rolf D. Svendsen, Communications Manager NorwAI, NTNU
 
The Conference Punchline
Bringing innovation to industry - a success story
10:15-12:00
Main stage

session 6: Trustworthy AI

Chair: Andreas Hafver, Principle Research Scientist and Team Leader – Emerging Technologies, Group Research & Development at DNV. 
Debate Chair: Siv Sandvik, political editor, Adresseavisen 
Will regulators heed the call for AI regulations, or do we already have laws in place? What does the EU say and what are the government plans?
Frontrunner Schibsted on language models
Daniel Pleus, Data Scientist Lead, Schibsted
 
15:45-16:50
Main stage

session 3: Innovation Excellence

Chair: Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF, Innovation director NorwAI
 
Innovation partners' use cases 
Anti-money laundering via federated learning between banks
Johan Östman, Research scientist, AI Sweden
 
New Tech is good money
Yngvar Ugland, EVP and  Division Director DNB NewTechLab 
 
Matching simulations to the real world
Simone Casolo, Oil & Gas Service Lead and Principal Data Scientist, Cognite, Alexander Stasik, Reearch Scientist, SINTEF
 
17:05-18:25
Main stage

session 4: ResearcH-driven innovation

Chair: Jon Atle GullaProfessor NTNU & Director NorwAI
Research at NorwAI and beyond
NorwAI update- what has been happening in NorwAI? Research contributions from NorwAI
Kerstin Bach, Professor NTNU and Research Director NorwAI
 
Enabling entrepreneurship and venture creation at the ETH AI Center
Viviana Gropengiesser, Director Entrepreneurship, ETH AI Center, Zürich
 
Data and AI in the Norwegian police
Claes Lyth Walsø, Director Knowledge at The Police IT Unit
 
Poster and demo pitches
The accepted posters and demos to be presented in 1 minute pitches
18:25-19:30
Demo, poster exhibitions and aperitif
Mingle Area
NorwAI Innovate wrap-up
Jon Atle Gulla, Professor and Director NorwAI, NTNU
 
AI regulations  – a political perspective 
Grunde Almeland, Norwegian politician and Parliament member representing the Liberal party (Venstre)
 
Kerstin Bach, Professor NTNU and Research Director NorwAI
 
13:00-
Exit lunch
Hotel restaurant
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