NorwAI Newsletter September 2021

AI EXPERTS HEAD FOR NORWAI INNOVATE

When NorwAI calls upon the Norwegian AI community to gather at NorwAI Innovate on October 20th & 21st, the focus will be on research-based innovations and the societal impact of technology.

NorwAI intends to accelerate the innovations of sustainable and trustworthy AI solutions across Norwegian industry. Hence, industry professionals themselves contribute to the conference both by explaining their hopes and visions as well as giving inside reports on their own AI efforts. Also, national and international researchers will join this first truly major AI conference in Norway. Some of the key note speakers to attend NorwAI Innovate:

John Markus Lervik, CEO & Founder, Cognite
Edvard Moser, Professor and Nobel Prize Winner, NTNU
Nicolai Astrup, Minister of Local Government and Modernization
Ieva Martinkeinate, Vice President, Telenor
Virginia Dignum, Professor, Umeå
Knut Risvik, Partner Architecht AI Core, Microsoft
Maarten de Rijke, Professor, Amsterdam
Asun St Clair, Program Director, DNV
Robert Jenssen, Professor and SFI director, Tromso
Pål-Christian Salvesen Njølstad, Director, Spacemaker
Sven Størmer Thaulow, CDTO, Schibsted

Furthermore, by meeting, relating, and getting to know eachother better, conference participants across professions, companies and borders, will strengthen the national efforts to enter the AI territory.

NorwAI Innovate will take place at venues Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel and Dokkhuset in Trondheim – the first post covid get-together possibility for the AI community.

UNIQUE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

Myths have it that AI experts are perceived speaking a foreign language when communicating to their organizations, and that managers lack sufficient understanding of data-driven business-models. Hence, introducing AI technology is an uphill struggle, it is said.
Well, what is the reality?

We have invited frontrunners to tell their own tales. At NorwAI Innovates the unique tutorial “Towards AI-driven organizations” the industry insiders themselves will reveal their experiences.
In addition, the tutorial will also present interesting findings from the recent NTNU master thesis “Understanding Organizations’ Adoption of AI Technologies: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact” by Theodore Holmsen, a thesis that thoroughly analyzes experiences from AI-adopting organizations.
The tutorial is chaired by professor Endre Sjøvold.
Limited number of available places on a first come, first served basis. Note: separate registration.

MEET EDVARD MOSER IN PERSON!

NorwAI Innovate is proud to introduce Nobel Prize Winner Edvard Moser to give a key note at the conference.

His talk on “Space, time and memory in neural networks of the brain” will undoubtedly interest and attract a wider audience wanting to hear how professor Moser and the teams at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU are pushing even further into the mazes and mysteries of the neural coding in the cortex beyond their 2014 Nobel Prize awarded research.

Artificial Intelligence plays a substantial possibility to further boost the groundbreaking research at the Kavli Institute that already has had a global impact.

The Moser keynote will be the grand finale of NorwAI Innovate on Day 2. Note: this is not a video recording, but an opportunity to learn in person of the remarkable endeavour at Kavli’s.

REMEMBER TO REGISTER! FRIENDLY REMINDER TO PARTNERS

After endless video conferencing and little socialization, allow us to forward a friendly reminder to our partners to register for the conference according to the special invitation sent you earlier.

NorwAI Innovate is an opportunity to finally meet again as the Nordics are lifting the restrictions from the pandemic. A highly professional and a warm, social conference with plenty of time to mingle, would be very attractive to freshen up thoughts and ideas as well as maintain relations and make new ones. Isn’t that what you and your colleagues need just now?

Any questions? Please contact us!

Rolf D. Svendsen, communications manager NorwAI

Karolina Storesund, adm. coordinator NorwAI

NorwAI – Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation. - Sem Sælands vei 5, 2. etg, Gløshaugen, 7034 Trondheim, Norge

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