Webinar series: Smart Water

Smart Water

Webinar: Smart Water - How to get started?

Welcome to the continuation of the Smart Water webinar series with knowledge sharing about smart water, opportunities and how to get started.
WHAT: Webinar
WHEN: 8 and 10 December 2020, at 09:00-11:00
WHERE: Zoom

Smart water products and digital water services can optimize the water industry, improve existing solutions and contribute to creating good solutions for citizens and the environment. At the same time, smart water solutions can help us implement the UN's sustainable development goals.

With the help of smart water meters, for example, leaks can be detected more quickly and the municipality can offer water pricing according to consumption, which will hopefully help to raise awareness of what is required for access to water.

The webinar series will prepare the ground for those of you who want to get started or further develop the work that has already been done, and is aimed at municipalities and suppliers.

 
Tuesday 8 December: Part 2 – Infrastructure
  • Introduction, Welcome, Zoom Driving Rules Retrospect | Anja Wingstedt (Smart Innovation Norway) | 10 minutes
  • From vision to action: "A picture of the future we seek to create" | Jan Aspheim (Hvaler municipality) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Process - equipment, infrastructure, processing and data security: "Many paths to the goal, outline of the process" | Frank Skoglund (Energea) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Equipment - water meter: "How to choose the right type of water meter" | Jon Sund (Kamstrup) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Infrastructure - network: "General information on necessary infrastructure" | Jon Sund (Kamstrup) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Panel Discussion | Martin Vignes Pettersen (COWI), Jon Sund (Kamstrup), Frank Skoglund (Energea) and Jan Aspheim (Hvaler municipality) | 25 min
  • Closing | Anja Wingstedt (Smart Innovation Norway) | 5 min
 
Thursday 10 December: Part 3 – Data processing
  • Introduction, Welcome, Zoom Driving Rules - Retrospect | Anja Wingstedt (Smart Innovation Norway) | 10 minutes
  • Big Data, service development: "Experiences from Hvaler municipality" | Hvaler municipality | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Data processing: "Examples of use of the data" | Martin Vignes Pettersen (COWI) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • AI: "The plans to apply AI to Techni's water meters to detect water leaks in the water supply system of Halden municipality" | John Einar Hulsund (IFE) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Data security: "Data security: simple in theory, difficult in practice" | Bjørn Axel Gran (IFE) | 15 min + 5 min (Q&A)
  • Panel Discussion | Martin Vignes Pettersen (COWI), Jon Sund (Kamstrup), Frank Skoglund (Energea), Jan Aspheim (Hvaler municipality), Jan Einar Hulsund and Bjørn Axel Gran (IFE) | 25 min
  • Closing | Anja Wingstedt (Smart Innovation Norway) | 5 min

Among the contributors are Smart Innovation Norway, Hvaler municipality, Kamstrup, Energa, COWI and IFE. An updated agenda will be published ahead of the webinar.

Smart Water is part of a webinar series with support from the Norwegian Centers of Expertise (NCE).

Webinar: Platform economy

 

Webinar: Platform economy

What opportunities and practices make platforms grow and become profitable?

The sharing economy, or platform economy, is a relatively new term in business, and central to this are digital platforms. The speed of digital development ensures that constantly new business ideas related to platform solutions are realised, and adds something new to the market.

This webinar is the third gathering in the Digitalization Working Group and is FREE for cluster members in NCE Smart Energy Markets and Cluster for Applied AI.

Program
  • 14.00 – 14.10 Introduction and mechanics for all participants
  • 14.10 – 14.30 Intelis and Smart Innovation Norway | Salvador Baille
  • 14.30 – 15.00 Digital Norway | Eirik Andreassen
  • 15.00 – 15.30 ScaleupXQ | Lars Johan Bjørkevoll
  • 15.30 – 16.00 Panel: "Is the platform economy a game for everyone?"

Moderator: Salvador Baille

WHAT:

Webinar on platform economics

WHEN:

2 June 2020, at 14:00-16:00

WHERE:

Webinar / Zoom

QUESTIONS?

Contact Marianne Jansson Bjerkman or Victoria Næss Jensen

Webinar: Smart Water

Webinar: Smart Water

Welcome to the continuation of the Smart Water webinar series with knowledge sharing about smart water, opportunities and challenges!

Smart water products and digital water services can optimize the water industry, improve existing solutions and can contribute to creating good sustainable solutions for citizens and municipalities. At the same time, smart water solutions can help us implement the UN's sustainable development goals.

With the help of smart water meters, for example, leaks and deviating water quality can be detected more quickly and the municipality can use the data to, for example, offer water pricing according to consumption, which will hopefully help to raise awareness among end users and provide a better basis for decision-making.

The webinar will prepare the ground for those of you who want to get started or further develop the work that has already been done, and is aimed at municipalities and suppliers.

The webinar series is organized under the auspices of NCE Smart Energy Markets and Arbeidsgruppe Smart Vann, Smart Innovation Norway.

Date: Monday 14 June 2021

Time: 09.00-11.30

Location: Zoom (link to the webinar is available upon registration). Put the day in your calendar!

Target group: Municipalities, specialist communities, suppliers

Questions? Contact Ulrika Holmgren by e-mail or mobile +47 467 46 210

Agenda

09.00-09.10 Welcome – Retrospect | Anja Wingstedt, Smart Innovation Norway

09.10-09.15 Practical information about Zoom and driving rules | Ulrika Holmgren, Smart Innovation Norway

09.15-09.30 How we can contribute and facilitate for municipalities and business in the process of a smart water project | Britt Viljugrein, Smart Water Norway – Water cluster

09.30-09.45 Anchoring, innovation and the big smart city image | Jørn Johnsen, COWI

09.45-10.00 Open systems, data and new services as well as how to reduce leakage to 8% in the water supply | Simon Granath, VA SYD/Malmö

10-10.10 Break

10.10-10.25 How to innovate with citizen involvement and co-creation | Susanne K. Stigberg, Øyvind Stokseth, HIØ and Halden municipality

10.25-10.40 Reuse of the AMS network | Nils Erik Pettersen, aPOINT

10.40-10.55 Announcement and requirement specification, how to ask to get the right answer | Trym Sandblost, Trondheim municipality

10.55-11.10 Experiences from a pilot project with automation of data transfer from remotely read water meters | Svein Ekre, Ringsaker/HIAS

11.10-11.30 More questions/Summary/Conclusion | Anja Wingstedt, Smart Innovation Norway

Digital Innovation - continuing education course

 

Digital innovation - continuing education course

Do you and your business work to develop new digital services and products, but need competence and skills to achieve this
success? Is it experienced as demanding to work with the data drive
innovation, and you need increased knowledge of how such processes
should be operated?

In collaboration with the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo and DigitalNorway, we offer our cluster members two credit-bearing courses in digitalisation, technology and innovation, with heavily discounted course fees. This is a unique opportunity to invest in highly relevant and formal competence that will contribute to making your business more equipped to work with data-driven innovation processes.

Further education in digital innovation

The training courses will take place in Q1 of 2021, and it is possible to participate in both courses. There will be 2+1 day gatherings, and the gatherings will take place in the Oslo area. There will be a requirement for formal competence upon admission to the study, in the form of general study competence and a minimum of 2 years' experience from relevant work.

Course 1:
Organization of digitization and innovation processes (5 credits)

How can your business operate and facilitate innovation processes of new digital services and products?
The course gives you the knowledge and skills to use existing data and information as a resource in the innovation process. We review examples of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can be used, how this affects the development of business models and how the business creates value from data through participation in ecosystems.

*The course is suitable for you who are managers, middle managers,
business developer or otherwise has responsibility for innovation.

Course 2:
Digitization technology and innovation processes (5 credits)

How can your business use IoT, AI/ML, Blockchain, digital platforms or other digital technologies to innovate?
The course provides an introduction to various digital technologies with a particular focus on how these can be utilized for product and service innovation. Specifically, we address topics such as continuous development, interdisciplinary teams, BizDev & DevOps, platforms for application development and the use of APIs.

*The course is suitable for you who are an IT consultant, developer, or otherwise
has IT responsibility.

WHAT:

Course in digital innovation

WHEN:

First part of 2021

WHERE:

Oslo area

Course (webinar): Game technology in practice

 

Video: Join the webinar about gaming technology!

Course (webinar): Game technology in practice

- How can I use gaming technology in my company?

If you want to know how you can simulate processes and product development in a more affordable way, you should join the webinar series on game technology in week 24 !

The purpose of the course is to provide a basic introduction to "real-time technology", which is used in games, among other things, so that businesses gain basic skills that enable them to start using technology from the game world in concrete, value-creating applications.

As a participant you get:

  • Insight into what gaming technology is
  • Inspiration through concrete examples
  • Concrete advice and tips on what you can get started with - and with whom

Technology with a starting point in the gaming world already has a significant influence on our everyday lives, on the business world and on society in general - often without us realizing that it is gaming technology at the bottom. Technology development is ever faster and expectations are rising for areas where game technology can make a big difference. This can affect the way we work, think and interact, for example in training, competence development, evaluation, preparedness and profiling.

The course is held as a series of three two-hour webinars that build on each other, followed by voluntary "speed dating" with presenters and/or other participants on the last day. Here you will have the opportunity to discuss how game technology can be relevant in your own company, as well as discuss any collaborative projects.

It is FREE for all our cluster members in the NCE Smart Energy Markets and Cluster for Applied AI to participate. For non-members, it costs NOK 990 to participate. This is invoiced after the webinar.

WHAT:

Three two-hour webinars on game technology

WHEN:

Week 24:
Monday 8 June, Thursday 11 June and Friday 12 June - from 09.00 to 11.00

WHERE:

Webinar / Zoom

(See summary from the three days by clicking on the link in the title)

Layout and content

Welcome to the Partner Conference 2020!

 

Welcome to the Partner Conference 2020!

We are well underway in putting together an exciting program with talented speakers, and this year also want to facilitate meetings between members following good feedback on last year's event.
WHAT:

The partner conference 2020

WHEN:

22 October 2020

WHERE:

The simulator center at Remmen Knowledge Park in Halden


This year, partners from both of our business clusters, NCE Smart Energy Markets and Cluster from Applied AI, are on the guest list, and we are very much looking forward to meeting you all!

Participation in the Partner Conference is FREE for cluster members, and lunch and refreshments will be served.

NOTE! Due to Covid-19, there will be a limited number of physical places during the conference, but we will also stream the conference live. It will be an adapted arrangement because those who follow the conference digitally, with, among other things, "breakout rooms". Follow the link below to choose whether you want to participate physically or digitally. The first-come, first-served principle applies.

PROGRAM

08.00-09.50: Annual meeting of NCE Smart Energy Markets     

10.00-10.10: Welcome | Lecturer Inge Michael Bilet and Head of Clusters Eli Haugerud

10.10-10.30: EU Advisor (INJECT) | Qazi Sohail Ahmad, EU advisor Smart Innovation Norway

10.30-10.55: Green leadership | Karoline Nystrøm, CEO Schneider Electric 

10.55-11.20: Management in times of crisis | Grete Aspelund, managing director of Sweco Norge AS and chairman of Abelia

11.20-11.30: Break     

11.30-12.00: Workshop: The new normal 

12.00-12.40: Lunch and mingling + digital café    

12.45-13.05: Technology and innovation | Magnus Aleksander Due, CDO at Goodtech

13.05-13.25: AI as an enabling technology for green innovation | Valeriya Naumova, Director Simula Consulting 

13.25-14.00: The partners' pitch

  • Inge Grini, CEO Intellectual labs
  • Øyvind Grandahl, Const. Head of Communication and digitalisation Halden municipality
  • Robert Ekrem, CEO Völur
  • Per Gjerløw, Director Business Development / EU Project Coordinator, Schneider Electric Norway
  • Stein Aamot, Partner & Patent Attorney, Zacco Norway

14.00-14.10: Break

14.10-14.42: Panel discussion

  • Morten Skaug, director of continuing education at Østfold University College
  • Tina Skagen, COO at eSmart Systems
  • Salvador Baille, consultant, writer, content creator, analyst and speaker
  • Eli Haugerud, Head of Clusters in Smart Innovation Norway (background leading strategic innovation efforts at Tekna)

14.42-14.50: Selection of this year's cluster partner | Inge Michael Bilet and Eli Haugerud

14.50-15.00: Summary and conclusion

Business delegation to Sweden - with AI at the centre

 

Unique opportunity to participate in a business delegation to Sweden!

Innovation Norway invites Norwegian companies to participate in the business delegation to Sweden. It is happening in connection with a planned visit by Crown Prince Haakon.

In this context, the Cluster for Applied AI has had the opportunity to put artificial intelligence on the agenda during the delegation's first stop in Gothenburg. Here we will put together an event where we will have the opportunity to showcase products and solutions from selected partners in the cluster.

There will also be an opportunity to get to know our partner AI Innovation of Sweden in Gothenburg, and their competent environment. It is here, at Lindholmen Science Park, that the event will take place.

Being part of a business delegation is a unique chance for companies to build networks and increase their knowledge of the Swedish market.

For partners who are interested in participating or can offer products and solutions where AI is part of the technology picture, interest in having their solution demonstrated from the stage can be reported to cluster coordinator Marianne Bjerkman: marianne.bjerkman@smartinovationnorway.com

We are coming back with an exciting program that will put our environment and partners on the map!

WHAT:

Business delegation to Sweden

WHEN:

POSTPONED due to the corona pandemic. New date during spring 2021.

WHERE:

Gothenburg and Stockholm

THEME:

Collaboration, research and innovation for sustainable business

PRICE:

We await clarification regarding costs for the cluster's partners.

AI breakfast with Zacco and Cluster for Applied AI

 

AI breakfast webinar: Securing data with a focus on value creation, rights and obligations

- Welcome to the FREE digital breakfast seminar with Zacco and Cluster for Applied AI

In today's digital world, all organisations, regardless of size, need to make sure that they have the right level of security measures, so that trust (Digital Trust) is created both with their own employees, partners and customers/clients. Not only is it important to keep the company's internal data, its employees and client/customer data safe, it also guarantees brand reputation. Furthermore, it can create completely new assets and opportunities for your business. Therefore, Zacco has a 360° perspective on intangible values.

In this webinar, we will focus on strategies for protecting and securing data and innovations. Through examples, we will go into what is legally sustainable protection of trade secrets, patents and legal protection for collected data.

Take your morning coffee with us via Zoom and fill your head with knowledge!

You will meet these:

  • Stein Aamot – Patent Attorney
  • Claus Chr. Schmidt – European Patent Attorney
  • Jens Hermann Ruge – Attorney at Law
  • Geir Olav Dybwad – Regional Manager Cyber Security Norway/CISO Zacco Group


Do you have questions? Contact project manager Marianne Bjerkman

THEME:

Securing data with a focus on value creation, rights and obligations

WHEN:

6 October, at 09.00-10.30

WHERE:

Zoom


Zacco is a modern IP consultancy with 150 years of experience with innovative thinking. Since 2016, the group has expanded its expertise to include services within Cyber Security and Secure Development, and every year since then Zacco has been named "Scandinavian Firm of the Year".

Cluster for Applied AI is led and operated by Smart Innovation Norway, which also leads the gold-certified cluster NCE Smart Energy Markets. The cluster's aim is to make Norwegian business better equipped to adopt artificial intelligence, through open innovation, network effects and competence development.

Working group for technologists

 

Working group for technologists

Are you a developer or technologist and find it difficult to find time to meet like-minded people and for relevant training?

We have created a separate forum for the cluster's technologists, which we want to become a meeting place and a space for skills development and exchange of ideas. Here you can take your work with you and sit side by side with others from similar industries, and you can get professional top-up in the form of relevant posts.

If you are a technologist and want to participate, we would like your input on future programs for this group!

If you have questions about the initiative, or suggestions for activities, contact cluster coordinator Marianne Bjerkman: marianne.bjerkman@smartinovationnorway.com

WHAT:

Coworking for technologists in the cluster

WHEN:

TBA

WHERE:

Zoom and/or the Simulator Center at Smart Innovation Norway in Halden