NND seeks safe, digital solutions for nuclear decommissioning and waste management
Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning aims to handle Norway’s nuclear legacy safely and responsibly in line with regulations and standards. The agencyy sees AI as a valuable tool for nuclear-related safety, efficiency and innovation and will seek to collaborate with others to learn and share from future AI applications.
Research Reactor Decommissioning: In 2018 and 2019, the two research reactors in Norway were permanently taken out of operation. NND will execute the safe decommissioning of research reactors in Norway. Currently, the independent Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) owns and is responsible for the research reactors. However, ownership and responsibility will eventually transition to NND.
Nuclear Waste Management: NND will handle the safe storage, handling, and disposal of nuclear waste in Norway.
Long-Term Planning: NND is still in a build-up phase, dedicating time and resources to planning and organizational development. Once fully operational and licensed by the Norwegian radiation and nuclear safety authority (DSA), NND will be the single point of contact for handling nuclear waste created in Norway.
NND is committed to safely decommission the research reactors and dispose of the nuclear waste in Norway. This process takes 20-25 years and will enable the reuse of the reactor sites for other purposes.
It is also responsible for building and operating new facilities for the long-term management of radioactive waste, ensuring its safety for present and future generations. While not actively working with AI, the agency is open to exploring any technology that can help achieve its mission, including artificial intelligence, robotics, and digitalization.
How do you use AI in the agency?
At the moment it is sparsely used. But we are seeking ways to safely utilize the possibilities.
What goals does the agency have for the future?
Our goal is to fulfill our mission which is to ensure the safe and responsible decommissioning of nuclear facilities in Norway, ensuring long-term safety and environmental protection
Why have you chosen to sponsor the AI+ conference?
It is important for NND to be a part of initiatives like the AI+ conference. Both to support the initiative as such and to get inspiration on how to work better with AI
Facts about the agency:
Name of business: Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning
Number of employees: 56
Location: Halden
Industry: Nuclear decommissioning
Briefly about the product/service: We deliver a cleaner and safer community
Norsk nukleær dekommisjonering is a silver sponsor at AI+ 2024.
Datatjenesten helps structure your company data to get the most out of your new AI tools
Datatjenesten has witnessed and adapted to the rapid changes in technology over four decades, expanding its services and expertise to meet the diverse needs of its customers. Today, the IT company leverages AI to optimize its cloud infrastructure, improve its cybersecurity, automate its workflows, and provide tailored solutions to its customers across various industries from Båtsfjord to Shanghai.
Datatjenesten is a complete service provider of IT and communication services to the corporate market, delivering everything from the phone in your pocket to your cloud-based server needs – and everything in between. Its main market is between Halden and Oslo, but as a solid supplier with local roots for over 40 years, Datatjenesten’s customer base has gradually extended to all corners of the world. Today, they have 21 highly motivated employees, with the ownership structure distributed among most of them. “It’s a model we strongly believe in, and it fosters both engagement and pride in the workplace”, says Karl Jørgen Weme, CTO of Datatjenesten.
We started our company back in 1982 and have recently celebrated 40 years in the industry.It is something we are very proud of. 40 years is a long time in any industry and it wasn’t as obvious back then what lay ahead of us – and the tech oriented world we live in today. We have adopted through the years, adding more services and competence and is today a 40-something in our prime.
Karl Jørgen Weme, CTO, Datatjenesten
Datatjenesten is divided into four departments: Sales, ERP, Support, and Technical. They have expertise in a variety of services and needs that their customers require, often taking on the role of customers’ IT department to build close relationships and understand their challenges and desires.
How do you use AI in the company?
– At Datatjenesten, we utilize off the shelf AI powered tools in a wide range of applications. We have for a long time benefited from built-in AI capabilities in our IT security offerings, which looks for pattern recognition for suspicious behavior of users, abnormal activity from applications and network traffic. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) help us accelerate and automate the quick decision-making process needed to identify and respond to advanced cyber threats. In 2023, we started using ChatGPT based tools such as Copilot, and they have made a difference in how we work. Copilot helps us draft scripts that we can use in our IT management tools, such as automating tasks, troubleshooting issues, or gathering data. It saves us a lot of time and effort of tedious tasks.
Tell about a recent AI-related success story from your company or an exciting project you are working on.
– With the release of Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Norway, we started an internal project to learn how this application works, so we can both use it ourselves and be positioned to help our customers. Instead of exclusively using its own dataset or publicly available information, Copilot can utilize our own data in Microsoft 365. This means it will be able to use your emails, documents and more to help you be productive.
Because of this, we’ve learned a lot about how we need to assess and confirm if our own data is structured in good way and that access permissions to all data is sufficient. Once data structuring is ready, it’s like having a very skilled secretary or co-worker. It can write documents for you, do research, brainstorm with you and more. I was really impressed with the Copilot for Microsoft 365 feature in Microsoft Teams. For instance, the digital meeting solution, where this tool can transcribe everything that is said during a meeting. Then later it can make meeting notes and summarize them for you. Also, if you ask Copilot questions about the meeting, and it will make great conclusions about what was said and concluded.
What goals does the company have for the future?
– As CTO, I don’t have any plan to create or implement AI on our own. But we will continue to make strategic decisions where we move our IT systems and processes to modern tools where we can make use of software developers who apply AI to those tools or specific tasks. As a partner for many great developing companies, I feel we are in a good position.
Our slogan says a lot about who we are: “Big enough to deliver, small enough to care.”
Karl Jørgen Weme, CTO, Datatjenesten
Why have you chosen to sponsor the AI+ conference?
– Datatjenesten has been working with IT systems for a long time, gradually implementing AI. Even before it was “thing”. AI has long made its way into both ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software and generally within standard office support, and what we have seen so far barely scratch the surface of what to come and expect in the future. Datatjenesten serves corporate clients across a wide range of industries, but they all have in common the need for support regarding the use of IT systems and how to interact with AI functionality in those systems. We often take on the role of our customer’s IT department.
Living and working so close to one of Norway’s most powerful AI competency environments, it was exciting to become a member of the Cluster for Applied AI. We see the value of having this environment available not least because it opens for exploring new business opportunities. At the AI+ conference, we have a platform that strongly contributes to the development of AI for the benefit of us and our customers, and therefore, we have chosen to contribute sponsor funds to this event in 2024.
Norway’s top tech law firm reveals how AI boosts their business
Simonsen Vogt Wiig, one of Norway’s top tech law firms, boosts its business by using AI tools to automate and optimize various legal processes, such as document analysis, contract drafting, due diligence, and risk assessment. By using AI, Simonsen Vogt Wiig can deliver faster, more accurate and cost-effective solutions to its clients.
Simonsen Vogt Wiig is a law firm in Norway with a team of 185 lawyers, specializing in business law and have a strong focus on technology.
Their foremost position in the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sector is validated by prestigious rankings, including a Band 1 rating by Chambers and Partners and Tier 1 in Legal 500 within TMT.
Simonsen Vogt Wiig aims to be the go-to firm for tech suppliers, buyers, and investors, offering services beyond tech law, also including mergers and acquisitions, financing, labor law, and more.
How do you use AI in the company?
We’re now witnessing significant benefits in terms of efficiency and quality by using Large Language Models. These are some of the use-cases:
Text Enhancement: Instead of relying on AI for initial drafts, we craft comprehensive documents and then employ AI to refine and elevate the language, ensuring precision and clarity that align with our high standards.
Concise Text Generation: With carefully crafted prompts, AI assists us in creating succinct text elements, such as individual contract clauses, streamlining our workflow and enhancing our competitive edge.
Text Interpretation: Legal text interpretation is a domain where creativity is key. Surprisingly, AI has demonstrated a valuable capacity to present multiple interpretations, offering a fresh perspective on legal analysis.
Document Translation: We began with simple chat interactions. Now, we’ve progressed to uploading entire documents for translation, preserving original formatting. We still meticulously review each translation for accuracy. We also use other digital tools, for instance:
tools for process risk analyses to better present and show the anticipated outcome of legal disputes (Eperoto).
recently we started with a tool that provides timeline functionally that is automatically created when providing several documents (Juristic).
create legal structures based on information from company registries (Juristic).
Furthermore, we are sometimes using the AI tool Luminance for Discovery cases to search for pertinent information in large collections of documents.
Tell about a recent AI-related success story from your company or an exciting project you are working on.
We are piloting private ChatGPT installation, hosted on Microsoft Azure and localized in the UK. This GDPR-compliant installation allows us to interact with AI without the need to anonymize data, ensuring client confidentiality while exploring the capabilities of ChatGPT and other technologies.
What goals does the company have for the future?
As the number of AI-applications is enormous and changing constantly we have a multiple track strategy. We aim at Microsoft Copilot for general use, a legal chatbot based on Azure Open AI and we keep looking at best-of-breed legal AI-applications for drafting, clause library, legal research and automation purposes.
Looking ahead, we believe that legal resources and services behind paywalls will be more effectively used, using AI. We also believe that the development of specialized contract drafting tools will mature.
Our approach remains cautious yet proactive, as we pilot new tools before fully integrating them into our practice.
Why have you chosen to sponsor the AI+ conference?
Our sponsorship of the AI+ conference stems from a positive experience last year and the belief that it is an excellent opportunity to connect with AI professionals. We invite you to engage with us—whether it’s before, during, or after the conference, through LinkedIn or email, we’re open to conversations.