Yngvar Ugland

Yngvar Ugland is EVP & Head of New Tech Lab in DNB, which is responsible for exploring new technologies in Norway’s largest and oldest bank, through its offices in Bjørvika, San Francisco, and Palo Alto.

Yngvar is currently pursuing an Industry PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and has held an Industry Professor II position at The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen. He is a permanent lecturer at Singularity University, and also often appears on TV, in podcasts, newspaper articles, chronicles, debates and on stages, both in Norway and abroad.

In 2023 he was nominated for the award “Nordic AI Influencer of the Year”. In 2024 he was featured on the coverpage of the Top 100 Nordics in AI feature magazine and in 2024 he won the award “Nordic AI Professional of the Year”. He is an author of several book, most recently The Moonshots Method.

Yngvar has a degree in mathematics from NTNU and has built products, technologies, cultures, and companies for decades.