CuttingEdgeAI: Sovereign AI Infrastructure brings together researchers, engineers, policymakers, and industry representatives to discuss how societies can build and govern resilient, trustworthy, and competitive infrastructure for AI. The seminar will address questions such as:
- What does sovereignty mean in the context of AI compute, data governance, cloud services, and foundational AI models?
- How have past visions and expectations of sovereign digital infrastructure aligned with today’s reality—and what can we learn moving forward?
- How can digital infrastructure be designed to meet strategic, economic, and ethical requirements?
- What are viable alternatives or complements to global hyperscale cloud providers in ensuring greater sovereignty and control?
This seminar is part of the CuttingEdgeAI series, which aims to shed light on the latest developments in artificial intelligence that are important for research, innovation, and society in Norway and beyond.
Live stream
Program
| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome and introduction | Michael Solvang, CEO of NORA |
| 09:05 – 09:25 | Designing Norway’s Data Infrastructure: Do the 2022 Recommendations Still Hold? | Kenneth Ruud, Director General at Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) |
| 09:25 – 09:50 | LLMs as infrastructure | Åse Wetås, National Librarian, National Library of Norway |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | AI Sovereignty Through Collaboration: A Nordic–Canadian Path | Laurence Marie Anna Habib, Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Art & Design, OsloMet |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Building Norway's Sovereign AI Infrastructure with Sigma2 | Andreas Halberg Hagset, Head of the National AI Factory, Sigma2 |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Telenor's AI Factory | Jawad Saleemi, Director of AI, Data & Cloud, Telenor |
| 11:10 – 11:50 | Panel: Sovereign AI Infrastructure | Moderator: Michael Solvang
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| 11:50 – 12:20 | Light lunch | |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Turning regulatory obligations into machine-executable rules | Abdul Wahab Majeed, Vigilens AI |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Technical Deep Dive: Accessing and Operationalizing AI Workloads on Sigma2 Infrastructure | Abdulrahman Azab Mohamed, Senior Advisor, Sigma2 |
Note: There may be small changes to the program.
 | This event is co-funded by the European Union's DIGITAL EUROPE Programme, under Grant Agreement No. 101255754. |
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