Conference on French-Norwegian AI collaboration

Join us for the conference on French-Norwegian AI collaboration in Trondheim!

An event organized by the French-Norwegian of Commerce in collaboration with the French Embassy, NTNU, the Norwegian Open AI Lab, the French Institute, the Research Council of Norway and the Mid-Norway Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 

Venue: NTNU Gløshaugen - “Innovasjonshub/Gruva” 

Program:

14.00 - Welcome - Toril Hernes, NTNU Prorector

14.05 - Opening remarks - H.E. Florence Robine, French Ambassador to Norway

14.10 - Presentation of Norwegian Open AI Lab and importance of bilateral collaboration on language models - Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU

14.20 - Keynote - AI Research and Industry collaboration - Norwegian model - Sebastien Nicolas Gros, NTNU

14.30 - Panel - Opportunities for new collaborations between the industry, research centers and Academia on AI

Tor Ulleberg, Chief Advisor - Equinor, Telenor, Andrea Pinna, Deputy scientific director - Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI), Kristian Birgirsson, Senior Project Manager - SopraSteria

15.10 - Panel - Focus on opportunities for AI bilateral collaboration on the maritime industry

Naval Group, Odd Erik Mørkrid, Research manager for Maritime ICT and cybernetics - SINTEF Ocean, Ifremer (French national institute for ocean science and technology), Kaj-Robin Weslien, Principal Engineer - Kongsberg Maritime

15.40 - Pitch session - local startups/labs:

-NTNU Ocean and Coasts,

-Frode Halvorsen, Cluster Manager - Ocean Autonomy Cluster,

-Alexis Sevault, CTO & Founder - Cartesian

16.00 - End of the conference

16.00 - 18.00 - Networking Cocktail - NTNU

Deadline for registration: 21 November

Please complete the online registration form and indicate whether you will be attending the networking cocktail

Contacts: 

Elna Rosin – Project Manager – rosin@ccfn.no

Ludovic Caubet – Managing Director – caubet@ccfn.no