March 20-21, The Autonomy Conference 2018, Scandic Bystranda Hotel, Kristiansand, Norway

Go to the Registration Site for the conference (in Norwegian).

March 20:

09:50 Karin Sundsvik, Norwegian Association of Electric and Automatic Control: Welcome Speech

10:00 Brage Baklien, Ministry of Transportation and Communications: Opening Speech (in Norwegian)

10:30 Arne Rinnan, Kongsberg Seatex AS: Sensing Autonomy

11:30 Kristian Knausgård and Morten Ottestad, University of Agder: Mobile Robotics from an Educational Point of View

12:00 Aksel A. Transeth, SINTEF Digital: Delivering goods with drones

13:30 Pål Johan From, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Autonomous Robots for Agriculture

14:00 Peter Due, Kongsberg Maritime AS

15:00 Bjørn Rudshaug, Statoil ASA: Automatic drilling control

15:30 Liv Almås Carlsen, International Research Institute of Stavanger: Autonomous Drilling: Optimization of drilling parameters and handling of drilling related problems

16:00 Alexey Pavlov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Robotic drilling rig for research and education

16:45-18:00 Geir Hovland, University of Agder: Introduction to Blockchain Technologies and Practical Exercise using the NXT API (bring your own laptop)

March 21:

09:00 Harald Martens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Artificial Intelligence, analysis of big data sets

09:30 Jeppe Sverdrup, Kongsberg Digital: Kognifai

10:30 Lior Yaffe, Jelurida B.V: State-of-the-art within blockchain technology

11:20 Harald Wesenberg, Statoil ASA: Blockchain is the answer, what was the question again?

12:50 Sven Edgren, DNV GL – Business Assurance: Blockchain as enabler to solidify supply chain integrity in food & beverage sector/with use case example(s).

13:30 – 16:00 Blockchain Practical Excercises, Part 2. How to set up and use the Ardor/Ignis wallet.

March 22, Ardor Hackaton, Scandic Bystranda Hotel, Kristiansand, Norway

Go to the Registration Site for the hackaton. This event is sponsored by SFI Offshore Mechatronics and is free for the participants, but the number of seats is limited to 50.

Program for the hackaton event:

08:00 – 08:30 Coffee/tee

08:30 – 10:00 Ardor API programming, test page, account creation, node JS module, security considerations

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee/tee

10:30 – 11:30 Using the Ardor API exercises (Javascript skills recommended)

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 14:00 Ardor server side add-ons, custom bundlers, dbshell

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee/tee

14:30 – 16:30 Building Ardor add-ons exercises (Java skills required)