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