I'm on a mission to explore what the world might look like in 2029. The podcast features interviews with tech startup founders and researchers, addressing pressing issues like climate change, hunger, and disease. These changemakers are aiming for a better world in 2029. The future is better than you think!
CEO and founder of ForestSAT.
ForestSAT is a Forest Fire Prevention and Forest regeneration service that leverages Earth Observation Satellite images, remote sensing, and IoT data; simulating extreme weather conditions due to climate change on its ML / Ai platform to provide actionable intelligence, large fire prevention tools through its forest management system to forest carers, community, and stakeholders.
He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, policy, and sustainability, with a focus on responsible AI development and real-world impact. His background spans programming, design, data science, and social science, shaped by experience as a startup founder, NGO co-founder, board member, and advisor across commercial, civic, and international research environments.
He has worked with global actors including the United Nations, the Red Cross, and KPMG, focusing on AI applications, risk, and international development. For five years, he led work on AI policy and ethics with the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium, and most recently spent a year working in Brussels within the European AI Office.
He holds an MSc in Social Data Science from the University of Copenhagen and continues to explore language and culture through studies in Mandarin and French.
Dag Olav Hessen is a Norwegian biologist and Professor at the University of Oslo. He is widely recognized for his research on aquatic systems, ecology, and evolution, as well as for his influential public communication on biology, environmental issues, and nature conservation.
He earned his cand.real. degree in zoology in 1982, completed intermediate studies in public law in 1984, and received his dr.philos. in biology in 1988. He was appointed Professor of Biology at the University of Oslo in 1993. Hessen has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1998, and from 2025 also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Since 2018, he has led the interdisciplinary Centre of Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene (CBA) at the University of Oslo, a research hub focused on climate systems, feedback mechanisms, and the global carbon cycle.
An outgoing Northern-Norwegian looking to fix food and enjoy life.
Chief Commercial Officer at Avisomo, where we have created the world's most flexible, automatable, and scalable vertical farming system. I believe vertical farming will be an important part of the future, sustainable food system, and we are here to prove it.
We have just finalized our industrial pilot - a retail-integrated, "no hands" vertical farm built as a joint venture with Coop Norway. Products in stores this fall.
Before Avisomo, I was a serial founder focused on culture and sustainability, a TV producer and director, a musician, and a DJ. I still play music at every occasion imaginable, and I love both talking and DJing at conferences.
As the CEO and co-founder of Aqua Alarm, I have been leading the development and implementation of hydroinformatics technology that increases public safety and reduces water utility OPEX for over eight years. I have a background with using software to solve safety and competency problems within Oil&Gas and other sectors.
My mission is to create simple and sustainable solutions to complex safety problems, using software, data science and water science. I have international experience from Oil&Gas and tech industries, having worked for several large corporations, public service organisations and universities. I also have extensive experience as a manager and owner at WEsustain, a company that provides tools and practices for occupational risk management..
I am a CEO and board member who loves the challenge of lifting an organization to new heights – helping an organization find new sustainable sources of energy and growth and innovating in sustainable business models and partnerships.
I have more than 25 years of experience in Tech, Consumer Goods, Healthcare in North America, Europe and Asia. Today, I am enjoying living in Norway where I led a period of enormous growth and transformation over 5 years as the GM of Microsoft Norway and was the CEO of Orkla Home & Personal Care.
I have now taken on the most important challenge of my career, as a Friend of Ocean Action and the CEO of an ambitious foundation - HUB Ocean, working at the cutting edge of data, technology and collaboration, aiming to change the fate of the ocean.
I am the CEO of iNANOD AS. iNANOD AS is a start-up with the mission of abolishing pain and agony related to cancer chemotherapy. iNANOD is an exciting project that uses a collaborative operational model and is recognised and supported by Oslo Cancer Cluster.
iNANOD AS implements an innovative idea to develop IPR/ FDA of cancer nano-medicines. iNANOD AS wishes to grow and function through collaborative research. It has established an experienced panel of advisors to support our mission.