PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen, as well as Master Student Kian Sartipzadeh, together with other attendees at the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme.
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PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen, as well as Master Student Kian Sartipzadeh, together with other attendees at the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme.

Visual Intelligence represented at the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme

PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen attended the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme, which invited emerging talent to a unique programme designed to inspire, educate, and connect young professionals with senior leaders from global tech giants.

Visual Intelligence represented at the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme

PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen attended the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme, which invited emerging talent to a unique programme designed to inspire, educate, and connect young professionals with senior leaders from global tech giants.

By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence

The Datacloud Global Congress is described as the data centre industry's go-to-event for data-center deal-making, strategic partnerships, and high-level collaboration. The event gathers leading hyperscale and neocloud providers like Nscale, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google, and was organized from June 2nd to 4th 2026.

As part of the congress, Visual Intelligence PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen, as well as UiT AI Master Student Kian Sartipzadeh, were invited to the Talent in Tech programme: an initative which invites emerging talent to a unique programme designed to inspire, educate, and connect uoung professionals with senior leaders from global tech giants like Google, Microsoft, AWS, Meta, and more.

The Talent in Tech programme provided ample opportunity to attend the full main event and exhibition, tailored workshops led by industry mentors, and to establish connections in digital infrastructure.

Thrun, Salomonsen and Sartipzadeh together with other young business professionals at the Datacloud Global Congress. Photo: Private

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