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LDS Country Workshop in Norway

The European Language Data Space, the Language Council of Norway and the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency are bringing together experts from the Norwegian Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Norway.

  • digital single market | large language model | natural language processing | artificial intelligence
  • Tuesday 28 October 2025, 09:00 (CET)
  • Oslo, Norway

Programme

  1. 28 Oct 2025, 09:00 - 09:30 (CET)
    Registration
  2. 09:30 - 09:40 (CET)
    Welcome and introduction

    Åse Wetås, Språkrådet 

  3. 09:40 - 09:50 (CET)
    Welcome by the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance

    Karianne Tung, Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance 

  4. 09:50 - 10:20 (CET)
    Welcome by the European Commission: The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space

    Annika Antikainen, European Commission

  5. 10:20 - 10:50 (CET)
    European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort

    Georg Rehm, LDS, DFKI

  6. 10:50 - 11:10 (CET)
    Coffee Break
  7. 11:10 - 11:40 (CET)
    The importance of language data for the development of LT solutions future steps

    Jon Atle Gulla, NorwAI, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

  8. 11:40 - 12:40 (CET)
    Language Data and Language Technologies in Norway and for Norwegian - Panel session

    Olav Astad Kristiansen, Norwegian Digitalisation Agency (Moderator)

    Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo
    Morten Forfang, Computas
    Umair M.  Imam, bineric
    Øystein Åsnes, Norwegian Digitalisation Agency
     

  9. 12:40 - 13:30 (CET)
    Lunch Break
  10. 13:30 - 13:45 (CET)
    Norwegian Language Data from the Web: Reflections from HPLT and OpenEuroLLM

    Stephan Oepen, HPLT, University of Oslo

  11. 13:45 - 14:45 (CET)
    Language data production, management, and market development: overcoming obstacles – Panel session

    Matias Jentoft, The Language Council of Norway (Språkrådet) (Moderator)

    Liv Dingsør, Digital Norway
    Thale Gjerdsbakk, Boost AI AS
    Lene Reneflott, Grafill/Kopinor (Kopinors forhandlingsutvalg for kompensasjonsmodell til rettighetshavere i bokbransjen)
    Svein Arne Brygfjeld, The National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket)
     

  12. 14:45 - 14:50 (CET)
    Conclusions

    The Language Council of Norway and the Digitalisation Agency (Språkrådet og Digitaliseringsdirektoratet)

  14. 14:50 - 15:30 (CET)
    Coffee Break and Networking

Practical information

When
Tuesday 28 October 2025, 09:00 (CET)
Where
Håndverkeren
Rosenkrantz' gate 7, 0159 Oslo, Norway
Who should attend
The workshop is open to everybody and is mainly addressed to data owners and data providers, LT developers and SMEs, as well as to public administration executives, officers and partners.
Languages
Norwegian, English
Organisers
Language Council of Norway | Norwegian Digitalisation Agency | European Language Data Space
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Description

LDS Country Workshop Norway
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