Telenor contribution to Digital Transformation of Norway Ieva

Telenor contribution to Digital Transformation of Norway Ieva Martinkenaite Head, Office of Digital Innovation Network (AI / Io. T) Telenor Research, Telenor ASA

1 Why digital transformation in Norway? 2 How Telenor contributes to digital transformation of Norwegian economy?

SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN NORWEGIAN ECONOMY: GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR NORWAY: • • Digital infrastructure – rapid acquisition of new technologies. • High education level. • Political stability and consensus on digitalization. • AI / big data & Io. T – key to new industry development and public services. • • Oil & Gas in decline - high unemployment risk unless new jobs are created. High public cost (low productivity growth & aging population) – difficult to sustain health services A gap in proportion of candidates taking STEM degrees

Key technology developments Internet access Smaller, cheaper, faster Cloud computing Open source software

Source: Ericsson

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1 Why digital transformation in Norway? 2 How Telenor contributes to digital transformation of Norwegian economy?

Telenor R&D initiative: “Digitize Norway”

‘Digitize Norway’ - creating value from data General case Special case: Io. T “Big” Data from any source Capture data Developer boards Telenor initiative Transport data Io. T access network Analytics/ AI: store and analyze data Actions Analytics /AI: store and analyze data Actions The Telenor AI lab Communication plan to stimulate education, research, innovation and entrepreneurship

WE BUILD ON OUR OWN COMPETENCE – LOCATION ANALYTICS • 12 hours of movements aggregated from 2. 3 million users - all captured by Mobile phones connected to Telenor cell towers Oslo region zoom: spotting major roads TURNING RESEARCH TO ACTIONABLE INSIGHT How to run cities smarter? - Improve public transport - Better road management - Tourist analytics

AI-lab

Telenor AI lab at NTNU The Telenor AI lab will drive innovation and research in the fields of big data analytics and AI, through access to real data and problems and close collaboration between industry, research institutes, academia and startups. The AI Lab will run open source software, enabling local experimentation and cloud scale. Focus areas: telco / digital domain issues relevant to Norway; also open to other problems / data. 16

Telenor AI lab – high level overview Course material and exercises Project and master students Startups Professorate Telco AI (1), Post-Docs (2), Ph. Ds (2) AI Lab Infrastructure Physical lab Scientific research Technical support

Io. T innovation network

Io. T Innovation Network – key to Io. T ecosystem development in Norway Telenor will provide LPWA network infrastructure to relevant cities in Norway and engage start-ups, developers and universities to innovate LPWA based services and conduct relevant research. Phase 1 (2016 -2017) • Oslo • Trondheim • Tromsø Phase 2 (to be decided), e. g. : • Horten • Stavanger • Gjøvik

WHAT ? WHY ? – Drive innovation and create Io. T A physical, LPWA network infrastructure for Io. T services, sensors, software, intelligence Coverage in selected areas in Norway - relevant universities, startup communities ecosystem in Norway – Stimulate industry digitalization and new businesses in Norway – Develop new competence and keep talents HOW ? Necessary cloud-based LPWA infrastructure (backend) – Start-ups, entrepreneurs, students can Open innovation - embeddable developer boards – Io. T data will be linked to Telenor AI lab use LPWA platform free of charge (3 -5 yrs) for testing & experimentation – LPWA platform can be used in ongoing Telenor initiatives (e. g. , Smart Kommune) – First pilots in 2016

Why Telenor / why Telenor Research? 210+ million mobile subscribers. More unique ‘big data’ open for use. Io. T, Big Data, AI – digital future. Telenor legacy - contribution to Norway’s digital transformation.

“Digitalization through Io. T and AI ecosystem developoment” Ieva Martinkenaite Ieva. Martinkenaite@telenor. com 22