Lars Rinnan is a visionary CEO, angel investor, board member, public speaker, and futurist from Oslo, Norway. Lars has more than 25 years of management experience and has started 6 companies within business analytics and artificial intelligence, all joined together in Amesto NextBridge.

He is the former CEO of Amesto NextBridge, now serving as executive chairman. His entrepreneurial and business experience makes him a valued investor, advisor, and board member for startups within AI and exponential technology. He is on the board and advisory board of several startups within AI and exponential technology. Several venture capital companies request his assistance in evaluating AI pitches, and he is a venture partner with Scale Capital in Copenhagen and an advisor with The Scale Factory in Singapore as well as Rainmkrs Capital in Montreal & Abu Dhabi.

Trained as a military officer, Lars enjoys tough challenges, both in business and in his spare time, where he is an avid freeride skier and mountain biker. Balancing his military background is a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Norwegian Institute of Management and an MBA from Lancaster University (UK).

Lars is a sought-after keynote speaker on AI and the future, and an avid writer and blogger, frequently appearing in media and television. He is at his best when he can utilize his holistic business view and vast network to spot opportunities and create value.

Through his talks, you will gain insight and inspiration about artificial intelligence and exponential technology from one of the most experienced leaders in the field. Lars likes to provoke and engage the audience and mixes in warm humor. He gives approx. 50 talks a year, and is very confident on stage, whether it is big or small. He has given keynotes in Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo, London, Houston, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sofia, Berlin, Valletta, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, and many more, and is recognized as a thought leader in his field.

His company Amesto NextBridge is the de facto reference within data-driven insight in the Nordics and has helped some of the region’s largest and most demanding enterprises improve their operations utilizing cutting-edge AI. Notable projects include helping the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent handle enormous amounts of free text reports regarding covid-19 using Natural Language Processing, decoding how bees communicate to each other within the beehive by way of computer vision, predicting where you can find krill in the Antarctic Ocean on any given day using deep neural nets, and developing synthetic cancer data for the Cancer Registry of Norway.

These kinds of projects have earned Amesto NextBridge a place among the top three most innovative companies in Norway.