Speaker: Ole Hoen, Head of Kongsberg Technology Cluster

Jan Dyre Bjerknes is Founder and Principal of Framsyni AS, a strategic advisory firm focused on autonomous systems, swarm robotics and the Nordic-Ukrainian defence technology corridor. He holds a PhD in swarm robotics from Bristol Robotics Laboratory and has more than 15 years of experience in the Norwegian defence sector, at both primes and startups. Based in Oslo, he travels regularly to Ukraine, where he has gathered first-hand observations on technological innovation and speed. In this talk he shares concrete examples and ideas on how classic defence programmes can learn from those experiences.

Speakers: Ole Hoen, Head of Kongsberg Technology Cluster and selected representatives from industry, customers, universities, and defense.

The panel discussion will introduce the key questions and themes to be explored and addressed throughout the day.

Speakers: Johannes Storvik, Chief Solutions Officer, TECHNIA and Mats Svalstedt, MBSE specialist, TECHNIA.

Speaker: Tarik Chaïb, CATIA CTO, Dassault Systèmes  

Accelerating MBSE & Certification with Generative AI for the Defense Industry

KONGSBERG closed 2025 with a record NOK 125.4 billion order backlog, up 25% in a single year, and it isn’t alone. Across the defense industry, the constraint has shifted from winning contracts to engineering them fast enough, with certification evidence that keeps pace with a widening set of allied customers.

This session looks at how Model-Based Systems Engineering and model-based certification are changing that equation. We’ll also look at where generative AI, now built directly into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, is starting to compress that cycle further, from orchestrating requirements to accelerating simulation and documentation.

You’ll leave with a concrete view of where MBSE and generative AI remove risk and time from your own program, and where certification evidence can be generated rather than assembled by hand.

Key Highlights

A Norwegian Benchmark: KONGSBERG’s journey from document-based systems engineering to a model-based approach on 3DEXPERIENCE — and what changed in practice.

Finding Integration Issues Before Test: Connecting requirements, architecture and behavior in one traceable model to identify integration defects earlier, across engineering disciplines.

From Engineering Silos to Connected Workflows: Bringing mechanical, electrical, electronics and systems engineering together in one model to accelerate collaboration and iterations.

Solving the Variant Challenge: Managing configurations across a growing portfolio of export customers without re-engineering the product from scratch for every variant.

Gudrun Straand has been with KONGSBERG for 13 years, serving as a mechanical designer, working with MBSE, and more recently as a Production Planning Manager and Subject Matter Expert in ERP. She is focusing on the challenges and opportunities KONGSBERG faces as it transforms its manufacturing operations from a local to a global footprint. What role do digital systems play in enabling global manufacturing growth?

Speaker: Mathias Lagestam, DELMIA Sales Expert Specialist, Dassault Systèmes

Industrializing Production Rate with Generative AI & the Supplier Network

Nammo is expanding product capacity across 30 plants in 12 countries. KONGSBERG is standing up production on three continents. Kongsberg Discovery is moving the HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle from bespoke builds to series production. The order book has arrived, the question is whether the factory floor and the supplier network can absorb it without the usual rework, late layout changes and reactive scheduling. This session is about industrializing at the pace the backlog demands: laying out and proving a production line before it’s built, and bringing your supplier tier onto the same digital thread so your rate isn’t capped by their slowest process. We’ll also cover where generative AI and GPU-accelerated simulation are compressing the time it takes to prove a line or a schedule before a single euro of capital is committed.

Key Highlights

Proving the line before you build it: validating layout, throughput and assembly sequence in the virtual factory, so capacity investment decisions are tested before capital is committed.

The multi-site harmonization problem: what it takes to bring product production processes to a common standard across multiple plants and countries, using customer experience.

From bespoke to series: the specific engineering-to-manufacturing gap that opens when a product moves from low-volume demonstrator to certified series production.

Your rate is set by your slowest supplier: practical options for bringing SME and Tier-2 suppliers onto the same 3D data and change-visibility thread without asking them to buy enterprise software.

Open floor: bring a live capacity, ramp-up or supplier-onboarding problem from your own operation; we’ll work through the options together.

Exclusive visit around Cyber Lab 47 - the Kongsberg Catapult

Enjoy a personal demo of the test arena and experience real-time AI projects in the lab.

Daniel Hagen is Associate Professor in Mechatronics at the University of Agder (UiA), where he founded and leads the Intelligent Mechatronics (iTron) research group and directs the Norwegian Motion Laboratory. He is Co-director of SFI CELECT (Centre for Effective Engineering and Learning in Complex Systems) and leads its work package on AI-assisted engineering (WP4). He also co-founded and chairs the Norwegian Society of Mechatronics (NSOM). He has more than ten years of experience from the offshore industry, including as a systems engineer at Cameron Sense/SLB, and holds a PhD in mechatronics (2020) from SFI Offshore Mechatronics. His research focuses on AI-assisted design of mechatronic systems, intelligent digital twins and autonomous load handling.

Speakers: Ole Hoen, Head of Kongsberg Technology Cluster and selected representatives from industry, customers, universities, and defense.

The panel discussion will introduce the key questions and themes to be explored and addressed throughout the day.

Speaker: Ole Hoen, Head of Kongsberg Technology Cluster