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javaBin
javaBin is the Norwegian Java User Group (JUG), a non-profit, volunteer-driven community organization with approximately 3,000 members and branches across Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, and several other Norwegian cities. Founded over 25 years ago, it organizes JavaZone — one of the world's largest community-driven Java conferences — held annually every September in Norway, attracting around 3,500 participants and 200 speakers. Beyond JavaZone, javaBin runs regular meetups, student events, and educational programs throughout the year.
JavaZone 2026
JavaZone 2026 is Norway's biggest community-driven Java conference, organised entirely by volunteers from javaBin (the Norwegian Java User Group) at Nova Spektrum in Lillestrom near Oslo on 2-3 September 2026. Around 3,600 attendees and roughly 200 speakers cover the JVM ecosystem, developer tooling and software craftsmanship. By design no speaker is paid and no talk can be bought onto the program, which is selected by an independent committee.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is an Oslo-based game-based learning platform that has transformed how educators, trainers, and corporate teams engage audiences through interactive quizzes, presentations, and knowledge checks. The platform has hosted billions of cumulative participants across 200+ countries and serves both the K-12 education market and enterprise training use cases. Kahoot! went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has acquired complementary edtech products including Clever and Motimate to expand its learning ecosystem. With its combination of consumer virality and enterprise adoption, Kahoot! is one of Norway's most recognizable global technology brands and a defining example of gamification applied to learning at massive scale.
Kristine Dahl Steidel
General Manager of Microsoft Norway, leading the technology company's commercial, cloud, and artificial-intelligence business in the Norwegian market. A seasoned technology executive focused on digital transformation and responsible AI adoption, she is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Liv Dingsør
Managing Director of Digital Norway (Digitalt Norge), a national non-profit initiative that helps Norwegian businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate digital transformation and adopt data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence. She is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Mike Kus
British designer, creative director, and photographer who founded Kus—Studio, with a career spanning web and brand design for technology companies. Known for his distinctive visual style and large following in the design community, he is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
NDC Conferences
NDC Conferences is an Oslo-based conference company that runs the NDC series of software development events across Europe, Australia and the United States, including NDC Oslo, NDC London, NDC Porto and the industrial-software edition NDC TechTown in Kongsberg. Its programmes centre on hands-on engineering content — .NET, C++, security, architecture, testing and agile practice — delivered as multi-day conferences with pre-conference workshops. The company operates as NDC Conferences AS from Skippergata 17a in Oslo.
NDC Oslo 2026
NDC Oslo is one of Europe's largest independent software developer conferences, organised by NDC Conferences at Oslo Spektrum from 14–18 September 2026. The 2026 edition features around 154 speakers across 165 sessions plus 16 hands-on workshops, covering .NET, cloud, AI, security, and software craftsmanship.
Netlife
Oslo-based design and technology consultancy that created and hosts Y Oslo, a conference for people building valuable products and services for real people. The event covers design, UX, technology, content, product, and business development through talks, discussions, and workshops, and has run since 2019.
No Isolation
No Isolation is a Norwegian scale-up founded in 2015 that develops telepresence robots to combat social isolation. Its flagship product, the AV1 robot, serves as a physical avatar in classrooms for children with long-term illness or special education needs, keeping them connected to school and peers when they cannot attend. The company now serves over 900 customers across 19 countries with more than 3,000 AV1 units deployed in around 2,500 schools, supporting over 10,000 children. No Isolation won the 2025 EURORDIS Company Award for Health Technology.
NORA Annual Conference 2026
Flagship gathering of the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium at the National Museum in Oslo, summarising Norway's leading AI research, innovation, and education initiatives.
Norway Health Tech
Norway Health Tech is Norway's largest and leading health technology cluster, bringing together more than 350 member organizations including companies, investors, healthcare providers, municipalities, and research institutions. Founded to drive growth in the health industry and accelerate innovation, the organization operates offices in Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger. It organizes the annual Healthtech Festival series held across Norway and runs major public-private partnership initiatives such as Health2B at Oslo Science Park and the Nordic Health Connect project. The cluster also leads efforts in health technology for defence and emergency preparedness.
Oda
Oda is an Oslo-based online grocery delivery company that has built one of Europe's most efficient automated grocery fulfillment operations. Originally launched as Kolonial.no, the company rebranded to Oda and developed proprietary warehouse automation technology that enables it to pick and deliver grocery orders at significantly lower cost than traditional supermarkets. Oda expanded into Finland and Germany and has raised over $400 million from investors including SoftBank. The company represents Norway's most ambitious attempt at reimagining grocery retail through technology and logistics innovation, offering a compelling alternative to the dark-store model pursued by rapid delivery startups.
Oliver Schöndorfer
Austrian typography consultant and designer who runs 'Pimp my Type', a platform teaching designers and product teams how to use type effectively in user interfaces and brands. A popular educator on font selection and UI typography, he is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Oslo Business Forum
Norwegian organizer of the Oslo Business Forum, founded by Christoffer Omberg and Marius Roed Wang to empower leaders to change the world. The annual conference brings roughly 3,000 leaders, a majority of them C-level, to Lillestrom for keynotes from globally recognized authors, executives, and thinkers on leadership and innovation.
Oslo Innovation Week 2026
Norway's largest innovation festival spanning a full week with 100+ events across Oslo, organized by Innovation Norway and the City of Oslo. Covers cleantech, ocean tech, healthtech, and fintech with 10,000+ participants. Most events are free or low-cost, making it highly accessible.
Porterbuddy
Porterbuddy (legally Instabox Norway AS, part of the Instabee Group) is an Oslo-based last-mile delivery company offering flexible, same-day home delivery for e-commerce orders, letting customers choose their delivery time and track shipments via SMS and a live tracking link. The company prioritises electric vehicles for deliveries and offers contactless delivery with photo confirmation, handling thousands of parcels daily for online retailers of all sizes.
reMarkable
reMarkable is a Norwegian technology company based in Oslo that develops digital paper tablets designed to replicate the feel of writing on paper while reducing digital distraction. It was founded in 2013 by Magnus Haug Wanberg, who conceived the idea while studying at Harvard after finding it hard to focus on a laptop. Its first device, the reMarkable 1, began shipping in 2017, followed by the reMarkable 2 (2020) and the Paper Pro (2024). The company sells e-paper writing devices alongside a Connect subscription service offering features such as cloud storage and handwriting conversion. By May 2022 reMarkable reported it had sold over 1 million devices and reached a $1 billion valuation.
Skyfall Ventures
Skyfall Ventures is an Oslo-based venture capital firm. Its published portfolio is concentrated in AI and technology-driven companies, spanning industrial automation, customer-support software and defence technology. The firm does not state a stage or sector mandate on its own site, so none is recorded here.
StartupLab
StartupLab is Norway's largest technology incubator and most active early-stage investor, founded in 2012 at the Oslo Science Park in partnership with the University of Oslo. It operates six industry-specific programs including a dedicated Energy and Climate track, has supported over 450 tech startups, and has invested in more than 130 companies. Notable alumni include reMarkable, Kahoot, No Isolation, and Huddly. At ONS 2026 in Stavanger, StartupLab chairs the Scale-Ups committee, curating the dedicated exhibition and pitching venue in Hall 4 for energy startups and scale-ups at the Seed-to-Series-B stage.
