Terje Nilsen is Director Disruptive Technologies at Kongsberg Discovery. He has a background in computer science and management, and has mostly worked with real-time programming. Terje has worked on military drones control software, and AI for drone computer vision, data storage technologies and communication.

Today, Terje is Head of Kongsberg Quantum strategy, and member of several international Quantum technology forums. He advices the Norwegian government om Norvegian Quantum Strategy work.

At AI+2025 Terje held a legendary 50 minute “Quantum pre-party” session at Kulturhuset. This year he comes back with new insights and perspectives