Agenda

As artificial intelligence reshapes our economies, it is also driving new demand for energy, infrastructure and innovation. Iceland’s Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate explores how clean energy can power the AI revolution while supporting green growth, energy security and shared prosperity — and why the transition must work for people, businesses and communities alike.

In this session, Arash Ghazanfari, CxO Advisor from Dell Technologies, will share the strategies they have developed for adopting AI internally at Dell Technologies and some of the key lessons they have learnt along the way.

This session explores how Nox Medical is leveraging two decades of clinical sleep data to pioneer AI-driven diagnostics. With sleep apnea remaining significantly underdiagnosed, the opportunity for AI to transform healthcare outcomes is enormous — yet so are the challenges.

How do you embrace innovation without exposing your critical data into the ”wild”?

Hvað gerist þegar gervigreindin er komin í hendur starfsfólks? Ásta Sigríður Fjeldsted, forstjóri Festi, segir frá fyrstu skrefum samstæðunnar og því hvers vegna menning, öryggi og virk þátttaka stjórnenda skipta ekki síður máli en tæknin sjálf.

Þórður Ingi Guðmundsson ræðir framtíð Íslands í heimi gervigreindar við þau Katrínu Jakobsdóttur og Berg Ebba Benediktsson.

As organizations move from AI experimentation to business-critical deployment, success depends on more than models and technology. It requires trustworthy data, strong governance, measurable outcomes, effective risk management, and clear executive ownership. In this keynote, Neil Sholay explores what separates organizations that are successfully scaling AI from those stuck in perpetual pilot projects. Drawing on insights from global enterprises, the session examines how leaders can build AI strategies that deliver measurable business value while maintaining trust, transparency and accountability. This reflects major themes explored in Oracle's recent AI Changes Everything leadership discussions around governance, risk, trust and enterprise adoption.

Leadership in the age of AI

Most organizations no longer need convincing that AI matters. The harder question is why so many AI experiments never become real operational value. Corey Harpe leads Modeling and Data Science at Veitur, Iceland's largest utility, where AI has to work inside water, wastewater, district heating, and electricity operations, a world where a wrong answer isn't an awkward demo, it's a cold house in January. Drawing on deployed products, measured results, and honest failures, this talk shows what actually determines whether AI creates value: trust, ownership, changed workflows, and measurement.

As an automation developer, Eva Rut has built automation solutions across a wide range of industries and systems. Drawing on this experience, she will explore how organizations can turn the rapid evolution of AI and automation into real business value by identifying what is worth automating, where AI can make the greatest impact, and how to move from exciting possibilities to solutions that actually work in practice.

AI is everywhere right now, and so is the noise. Beyond the hype and the flood of "AI slop," a specific question deserves attention: is this technology actually making a difference, or just making headlines?

In less than two years, GreenFish has gone from an idea on paper to operating globally. Sveinn shares the lessons, challenges, and key decisions that shaped the journey, and what Icelandic startups can learn from building for international markets from day one.

Access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enabled economic growth and a wide variety of societal impacts across Europe and worldwide over the last decade. HPC is indispensable for many Icelandic startups, SMEs, large industry, and the public sector to advance technology, improve products and services, make processes more efficient, or reduce production and operating costs. This short talk highlights selected HPC impacts in AI applications in Iceland in the context of EuroHPC AI Factories.

Join us for a live panel on AI in Iceland. Featuring experts previously interviewed on Advania’s podcast Tæknital (Tech Talk), the discussion will explore how AI is shaping business, society, innovation, and the future of Iceland. Moderated by Sylvía Rut Sigfúsdóttir, Director of Communications at Advania.

Bjarki is the Program director of Situational Awareness at CERT-IS. He will go over the topic of AI in Cyberattacks & Vulnerability Assessments in Iceland. The talk will cover how the evolution of AI has affected CERT-IS, how they operate and the services they provide to their constituents.

How can organizations use AI to go further and perform better in their daily operations? Valþór Druzin Halldórsson is Director of Data Services & AI at Íslandsbanki, where he leads data infrastructure, governance, analytics, and AI adoption across the bank. With experience spanning finance, software, telecommunications, and aviation, he is passionate about data-driven transformation, practical AI applications, and digital innovation.

Trust is the essence of Icelandic society. It acts as a social and interpersonal glue, a building block in industry and finance, and has shaped Icelandic culture and standards throughout sectors and centuries. This applies on a structural level, where implementation and enforcement of rules have often depended on trust-based procedures over prescriptive ones, and on a personal level, where trust has shaped beliefs, norms, and worldview in a homogenous and safe setting. The advent of AI is not the first challenge to trust and its role in Icelandic society, but much indicates it may be the most effective one yet. A small, high-trust society built on informal accountability is precisely the kind of place deepfakes, synthetic voices, and algorithmic decision-making can do the most damage, because the usual social safeguards were never designed to catch them. This talk explores where AI is quietly eroding that trust, and where, deployed deliberately, it can help rebuild it, from tools that verify what's real to systems that extend Iceland's trust-based instincts rather than replace them.

Cyber resilience in the AI era. The ability to absorb a hit, adapt, and keep going. Guðmundur Arnar Sigmundsson looks at how AI is reshaping the threat landscape, from voice phishing, vulnerability exposures to AI-driven scams, and why the same technology gives defenders more leverage than they've had in years. A grounded but optimistic look at building organizations that thrive in an AI-driven world.