UiB Innovation Festival: From research to change

The festival will bring insights into the breadth of innovation coming from the university, exploring current issues around innovation, such as how to balance publishing with protecting intellectual property and what the role of UiB is in Vestland’s green transition.

• Registration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for employees and students
• Registration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for participants outside UiB

Register for lunch and snacks during the day. You are also welcome to attend any part of the programme without registering for the innovation festival. 

As a part of InnovasjonsukenOPP, the UiB Innovation Festival promotes collaboration between academia, industry, and the public sector to create groundbreaking solutions.

We look forward to welcoming you to a day filled with inspiration, learning, and networking.

Check out these stands at the Innovation Festival:

In Nordre Allmenning (to the right from the entrance): 

1. TVEPS - Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning 
2. Magnetic brain stimulation machine 
3. eLuna, a mixed reality narrative educational game on climate game, UiB Idé project from 2023
4. Data Delta and Data Iceberg, two educational games adapted from SLATE’s Erasmus+ project Data Literacy for Citizenship (DALI) 
5. VIS - UiB's technology transfer company
6. Innovation Norway
7. Urban Ocean, a UiB student spin-off that received UiB Idé funding in 2023
8. Patentstyret
9. University Library – check if your work has been cited in patents 
10. Communication division at UiB – glow up your Linkedin profile 
11. Photographer - Take a professional profile picture for better online presence

In Søndre Allmenning (to the left from the entrance): 

1. 3d bone printing bioreactor 
2. SFI Smart Ocean
3. TEKLAB 
4. Startuplab
5. “The road ahead” exhibition about climate change
6. Innovation pilots at UiB
7. Division of Research and Innovation at UiB – chat with us to glow up your academic CV 
8. UiB Ferd Career Center for Early-Stage Researchers – chat with us about career guidance and courses for researchers
9. SAMMEN career centre - chat with us about career guidance and courses for students

Programme:

Coffee and light breakfast

08:30 - 09:00

Festival opening and keynote speech

09:00 – 09:30

(in English)

"Building social impact at scale: experiments in arts, humanities and social science commercialisation at the University of Cambridge"

Dr. Emma Salgård Cunha, Senior Associate Commercialisation Director, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge

Since 2018, the University of Cambridge has invested in creating new innovation pathways for researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Within the UK's "impact" landscape, commercialisation is figured as a way to scale and sustain the societal benefit of publicly funded research.  Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Associate Commercialisation Director for Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) at Cambridge Enterprise, will talk through Cambridge's journey to shape and embed a new offering for researchers, enabling innovative and entrepreneurial routes to impact.

Innovation relay

09:30 – 10:15

8 pitches on different types of innovation at UiB (in English):

1. “Oil and gas electrification through offshore wind: Legal Innovation trends”, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Professor at the Faculty of Law
2. “Boosting the blue and sustainable economy in Western Norway: Innovation opportunities with EIT KIC on Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors», Beatriz Balino, PhD, Science adviser to the project: EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community “Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors and Ecosystems”
3.  “Bergen 1320 – Time travel with modern technology”, Irene Baug, PhD, Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, Faculty of Humanities
4.  “The Road Ahead” Ashley Jane Booth, professor of Visual Communication at the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
5. "Novel Double Functionalized Nanodiamonds for Targeted Treatment to Prevent Oral Cancer Recurrence" Daniela Elena Costea, Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
6. "The Value of shared Knowledge" Eli Kristine Økland Hausken, Head of Section at the University Museum of Bergen
7. "From Nestun to the World: NordicNeuroLab – a global actor in neuroscience", Karsten Specht, Professor, Deputy Dean at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology
8. “Quantum sensing for detection of cancer” Justas Zalieckas, PhD, Researcher at the Department of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Coffee break and stands

10:15 – 10:45

Parallel sessions 1

10:45 – 11:15

(in English)

Session 1 in Storsalen – How to balance publishing and protecting intellectual property (IPR)? w/Dag Hellesund, senior innovation adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB, Andreas Westermoen, senior adviser for innovation and research at the Faculty of Medicine, UiB, Johan Gunnar, senior innovation project manager at VIS and Emma Salgård Cunha, Senior Associate Commercialisation Director, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge

Session 2 in Søndre Allmenning 1 – Student Innovation: resources and tools for success w/ Stine Lines and Johannes Helleve, Innovation Pilots at UiB

Session 3 in Nordre Allmenning 3 – Effective use of AI: crash course in prompt writing w/ Hiwa Målen, Senior Adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB 

Lunch and exhibitions

11:15 – 12:15

Parallel sessions 2

12:15 – 12:45

(in English)

Session 1 in Nordre Allmenning 3 – Do you work at UiB and have an innovative idea? Learn how to proceed and what resources are available to you w/ Dag Hellesund, senior innovation adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB, Renate Skoge, manager for TILT - researcher entrepreneurship & senior innovation project manager at VIS and Prof. Emmet Mc Cormack at the Faculty of Medicine, UiB

Session 2 in Søndre Allmenning 1 – Mini-design sprint – innovation tool for quickly creating and testing new solutions w/ Stine Lines and Johannes Helleve, Innovation Pilots at UiB

Session 3 in Storsalen – Responsible innovation - what is it and how to do it? w/ Anne Blanchard, Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, UiB 

Coffee break and stands

12:45 – 13:15

Panel discussion

13:15 – 14:00

Innovation for green transition and UiB’s role in the region (in Norwegian)

Moderator: Håvard Haarstad, Professor, Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) 
Panelists: 
Einar Vaage, Head of project Greenspot Mongstad
Bjarte Fagerås, Senior R&D Advisor, GCE Ocean Technology
Heidi Synnøve Gaustad, Project leader Green Region Vestland, Innovation Norway 
Gottfried Greve, Professor, Vice-Rector for Innovation, Projects and Knowledge Clusters, UiB 

Award Ceremony for UiB Idé 2024 and end of the program

14:00 – 14:30

With project presentations (in Norwegian)