NorwAI Innovate 2026

• Welcome and opening remarks, Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU, Director, NorwAI
• Keynote speech: AI Norway: From ambition to responsible action, Hans Christian Holte, Director of KI Norge

Chair: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU, Director, NorwAI

• Building Models Is Not Enough: The Case for a Norwegian AI Safety Institute, Tellef Raabe, Project Lead, the Fritt Ord Foundation
• The National Library's work with Norwegian language models in the Borealis series, Åse Wetås, National Librarian, National Library of Norway
• Research and Development for Large Language Models in Norway, Stephan Oepen, Professor, University of Oslo

Chair: Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Associate Professor, NorwAI, NTNU

• Training industrial timeseries foundation models using simulated data, Peet Cremer, Principal AI Researcher, Cognite
• Probabilistic Wind Power Forecasting, Kristian Authen, Senior Data Scientist, Statnett
• Hybrid AI: From power transformers and heat exchangers to hidden planets, Alexander Stasik, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Digital

Chair: Lisa S. Græslie, Senior Project Manager, SINTEF Digital

• Innovation Ecosystems, Nhien Nguyen, Associate Professor, NTNU and work package leader in NorwAI
• Healthcare innovation with LLMs, Hanne Vonen, Founder and CEO, Hugin Medical
• Assessing Quality in Norwegian Clinical Summarization: Developing and Validating an LLM-Based Evaluation Framework, Folke Jernbert, PhD candidate, NTNU
• Applying NorwAI Large Language Model for specialized chatbots: presentation and live demonstration, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Postdoctoral Fellow in Large Language Models, NorwAI, NTNU
• Poster pitches

Chair: Eric Monteiro, Professor, NTNU, Workpackage leader, NorwAI

• Poster award ceremony
• Ellen Rønning-Arnesen, State Secretary, Ministry of Health and Care Services
• How Can Large Language Models Help Address the Healthcare Worker Shortage?, Trond Utne, CEO, Hemit
• National rollout of LLM tools in Norwegian hospitals, Jorunn Thaulow, Co-founder and CEO, Medbric
• Defining and Testing Quality for AI-Powered Health Advice, Inger Anne Tøndel, Senior Advisor, Information and Security, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Panel discussion moderated by Eric Monteiro

Chair: Are Oust, Professor, NTNU Business School

• AI Impact on business and society, Ingar Haaland, Professor, NTNU Business School

Lightning talks and panel discussions with

• Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU
• Astrid Undheim, Executive Director, Sparebank 1 SMN
• Tom Einar Nyberg, Head of Data, AI & Emerging Technology, KPMG

Moderated by Ingar Haaland