Compare's journey to AIM2 North in Oslo can be a step towards seriously increasing cooperation with Greater Oslo. Compare's CEO Magnus Bårdén made two appearances at the symposium - and perhaps DigitalWell Arena can become a bridge to our neighboring country.
On AIM2 North, an event niched towards AI and machine learning, Magnus Bårdén took the opportunity to highlight human values. DigitalWell Arena's collaboration platform for a health society, where people, with the help of innovation and digital technology, become an active party rather than a pawn in the system, seems to have made an impression.
"We are fighting for the health society of the future. But we cannot solve the issue of health by ourselves, it requires cooperation - and that is why we are here to look for cooperation with Norway", said Magnus Bårdén.
Our neighboring country received a quick summary of the strategic work areas that DigitalWell Arena is built around. How ideas processed in an open innovation environment are backed up with technical knowledge, evaluated and tested, scaled up together with the business world, become a source of new research and knowledge that generates new projects.
The audience was guided through the model with the help of a real innovation case.
"By presenting DigitalWell Arena, I gained many valuable contacts, including with Innovation Norway and insurance companies that want to work with health. Xplorico, who arranged the conference, are good at supporting entrepreneurs, and there is plenty of fertile ground for expanded collaboration around innovation and entrepreneurship together with the Oslo region. Simply a good day at work!” says Magnus Bårdén.
That the interest in Värmland, Compare and DigitalWell Arena is really serious was also demonstrated by the fact that Magnus Bårdén was offered the opportunity to make his presentation twice. Both for the visitors who followed the trail of AI and ML in business and those who followed it in the public sector.
Also in general, Magnus Bårdén thinks that the event gave a lot of new impressions to process:
"The day at Aim2 North was very inspiring. Above all, I take with me the innovative power that the entrepreneurs showed by using AI. We must stimulate it and make better use of it in Värmland."
Karlstad and Värmland denote the western one.
Magnus Bårdén was not alone in thinking old-fashioned thoughts about cooperation in an extended Oslo region, which extends to Värmland. Also Steinar Svalesen, director corporate finance, Beringer Finance and co-owner of Xplorico, presented an image of a "power house" when he spoke at AIM2 North's Great Hall.
A force field where both Karlstad and Compare were clearly drawn on the map!
