NorwAI is a world-leading research center for AI-driven industrial innovation. The NorwAI consortium consists of three universities, two research institutes and 11 companies from media, finance and industri 2.0 sectors - raging from well-established industry locomotives to young start-ups energized by use of AI to transform and develop their businesses. Central to NorwAI is the notion of trustworthiness and sustainability. NorwAI is funded by Norwegian Research Council and consortium partners.I will disseminate and communicate NorwAI works and organize internal and external NorwAI events.

Kommunal Rapport bringer nyheter, debatt, kommentarer og reportasjer om Kommune-Norge. (News, debate, comments and reports on municipalities in Norway)

Universitetsavisa is an independant news outlet published by The Nowegian University of Science and Technology. The Editorial Board is appointed by the Board of the University and the task is twofold:1) Report to the board in the form of an annual report. 2) Be a support for the responsible editor through advice and discussions of matters at the initiative of the editor, and within the framework of the editor's poster in Norway.

Member and leader of the Advisory Board for WAN-IFRA's Global Alliance of Media Innovation, GAMI. GAMI is a toolkit for news media to embrace transformation, reduce risk, drive innovation, and rapidly advance the best innovations and talents to the market.Our mission is to support and coordinate an international ecosystem of innovation centres, entrepreneurs, and rapidly advance the best news media digital innovations and talents to the market.

GAMI - the global association for media innovation - now holds a seat in the executive comitee for the global publishing organization WAN-IFRA, worlds premier matching platform for media executives. The board seat is elected for two years

To års arbeid som daglig leder for SkyLabs fikk løftet resultat og virksomheten i SkyLabs betydelig slik at det strategiske målet om å finne en god og fremtidsrettet industriell løsning for SkyLabs ble oppnådd i april 2024. Loyco i Bergen kjøpte SkyLabs: –Oppkjøpet av Skylabs er et viktig skritt mot å bli en totalleverandør innen lojalitetsbygging for akttører i horeca og retail-bransjen. Vi går fra medlemsadministrasjon og medlemskommunikasjon til å nå alle gjester, sier Christian Erichsen, gründer og administrerende direktør i Loyco. Han forteller at dette inkluderer et forbedret grensesnitt som forenkler integrasjoner og selvbetjening, samtidig som det utvider mulighetene for kundelojalitet og kommunikasjon.Les mer: https://www.shifter.no/nyheter/saas-selskap-kjoper-opp-skylabs/321637

Sky Labs is Norway's leading provider of wifi guestnets to both public and commercials enterprises. Sky Labs help customers to collect and capitalize data from customers, and increase customer loyalty and return on investment. The service is user friendly, easy and to be trusted. Sky Labs er et norsk selskap som tilbyr trådløse gjestenettverk til sine brukere. Tjenesten er enkel og gir sikre og brukervennlige løsninger til våre kunder. Vi har bred erfaring med å forvalte gjestenettverk for alt fra små kafeer og kontorer, til store bedrifter og kommuner.Vi leverer i dag “Public WiFi” til rundt 500 000 unike brukere pr. måned. Vi er blant annet leverandør av WiFi gjestenett til et 30 talls kommuner, Reitan Eiendom, Sintef, Rema1000, Steen & Strøm, Paleet kjøpesenter, KLP, FIS worldcup, Dromedar, Una pizzeria og Uno X kjeden.Selskapet har sitt utspring fra NTNU og Trådløse Trondheims forskningslab.

The List is Trondheim’s only English language publication. We aim to share the best of what's going on by a range of local community members and subcultures, from brought to you by our vast contributor base. There is great stuff going on right outside your door all year around so make sure to get on the list.

Next Media is a innovation cluster for the media industry in Middle Norway including newspapers, broadcast and web industry, universities and media software industry aiming to promote innovation and future media technology. Leading partners includes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norwegian Media Businesses' Association (MBL), Adresseavisen and Polaris Media Group, Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperatuon (NRK) and Trønder-Avisa. In addition membership and associates from media companies, university colleges, web development companies, entrepreneurs, networks and municipalities. Organizes conferences: NxtMediaConference in Trondheim https://nxtmediaconference.no/ (5th edition) in November. Nordic Data Journalism (NODA) which circulates among Nordic countries, next venue is Sødertörn University College in Stockholm, Sweden http://noda2018.se/ (5th ediotin) DigIT: female tech meet-up, next time March 7th 2018 (4th edition) https://www.facebook.com/events/139850496740109/. Finally Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS), annual industry/reseach seminar as a pre conference activity before NxtMediaConference focusing on media research and experiences (3rd edition). https://www.ntnu.edu/nobidsOrganizes topic driven networks: 'Sports Tech Norway' currently organizing and promoting entrepreneurs and companies in sport tech sphere https://www.facebook.com/groups/742086009291986/ and 'VR Norway' organizing and promoting entrepreneurs, companies and institutions making business of the new narratives in emerging visual technologies Organizes research and developments projects: initiate intermedia projects, stimulate entrepreneur and company cooperations and constitutes an one shop stop for consortiums Mentoring: Organizes mentoring programme for media and tech student in association with MBL https://www.facebook.com/groups/135700110419384/Dissemination: competence sharing and disseminations for media innovations in research and cooperation

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1: Administrative leader of a four year user-driven Research based Innovation (BIA) project on personalization of news. Norwegian consortium participants are NTNU, Adresseavisen and Cxense and also VTT from Finland. The project has a 4,5 million Euro budget. The main objective is to develop next generation's news recommendation for online news streams. The approach combines news articles' underlying semantics with large-scale analysis of heterogeneous user data. Linked open data is used to disambiguate and enrich entities recognized in news articles and relate them to extensive user profiles that are continuously updated on the basis of users' interaction with the system. Several mediahouses in Polaris Media company will participate. Most of the work on the recommender system itself is done by Cxense, a software company developing and selling user profiling and news recommendation services to the media industry all over the world. 2 Also board member of the steering commitee of BIA project OMEN: Organizing for Media Innovation aims at creating new insights on how to manage, organize and practice innovation and organizational development in companies infused with the traditions, practices and legacy of the newspaper industry. Overall, a key contribution of the project will be to investigate how innovation practices are constituted and enacted when their managing and organizing cannot be built upon more or less accurate forecasting or execution of design. Participants are Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science and the Work Research Institute (AFI), norwegian mediehouses Sunnmørsposten, Nationen and Moss Avis and abroad associated universities in Sweden, Denmark and Australia. This project is running for four years.

Wireless Trondheim is a facilitator of innovation within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, with a special focus on secure, ultra low power, wireless networked IoT nodes, LPWAN networks and web applications.Wireless Trondheim features several research possibilities. The IoT Protolab is modern open electronics laboratory where innovative people can come together to exchange and explore new ideas, technologies and inventions.Wireless Trondheim is managing an open testbed for experimentation with new wireless technologies, sensors and other electronic apparatus that belongs on a wall, a roof or some other strategic location within an urban environment.Wireless Trondheim ownership: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Adresseavisen and Sparebank1 Midt-Norge. Wireless Trondheim is situated at FAKTRY in TRondheim, a community for ambitious startups in hardware-centric disciplines and a playground for students, researchers and corporates.

Mediebedriftenes Landsforening (MBL) er mediebedriftenes bransje- og utgiverorganisasjon. MBL skal bidra til å styrke og verne ytringsfriheten, pressefriheten og informasjonsfriheten som grunnleggende verdier i et demokratisk og åpent samfunn. MBL skal arbeide for gode og stabile betingelser som fremmer et mangfold av økonomisk sunne medier.Nettforum er MBLs faglige digitale råd for prosjekt- og utviklingssamarbeid, fakta- og dokumentasjon for bransjen og initiativer for innovasjon.

Editor in Adresseavisen since 1992 with multiple responsibilities. Current responsibility is external innovation projects, national and international networking. Adresseavisen is Norway's oldest newspaper dating back to 1767 and to-day the country's fifth biggest news- and advertising mediahouse with ten additonal local newspapers situated in the mid-Norway region. Adresseavisen is by far the largest compamy and the digital powerhouse of Polaris Media Group with more than 35 mediehouses. Trondheim is Norway's tech center with NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, hence the close relations and cooperation with the advanced media technology institutes at NTNU.

Headed editorial and commercial build-up of Adressa.no to the nr 1 news site i Mid-Norway 2001-2011 Also headed build-up of national soccer site 100% Fotball (now 100% Sport) 2001-2009, also chairman of Board 100% Fotball 2009-2011Headed build-up of local broadcast radiostation RadioAdressa 2003-2010Transformed broadcast TV-Adressa to web only publications News Editor Adresseavisen 1994-2000Culture- and feature Editor 1992-1994Sunday Editor 1991Sportseditor 1989-1991News Journalist 1985-1989

Editor/director in the Polaris Media Lab situated in Adresseavisen in Trondheim. Adresseavisen is by far the largest compamy and the digital powerhouse of Polaris Media Group. The Medialab is supporting more than 35 newspapers in the Polaris Media Group with development and maintainence of software for editorial and commercial purposes and editorial and business improvements. The Medialab work closely to Schibsted's digital development units with co-location of development teams at Schibsted Tech Polska's Krakow operations serving the Schibsted's publications in Scandinavia. Trondheim is Norway's technological center, hence the Medialab's close relations to the NTNU - the Norwegian tech university.

100% Sport is the leading sport publishing network with Schibsted and Polaris Media mediehouses in all major cities throughout Norway. The network offers live coverage of sports, local, national and international news coverage, statistics and feature content on all platforms on a 24/7 basis. Originally a soccer cooperation, the network expanded to all major Norwegian sports activities in 2010. Publisher 100% Fotball 2001-2009Chairman of the board 100% Fotball DA 2009-2011Board member 100% Fotball 2011-2012Board Member 100% Sport 2012 -2014

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