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AmCham Transatlantic Business Assembly: Pressure & Agility

Category: AmCham News

AmCham Transatlantic Business Assembly: Pressure & Agility Immediately following AmCham’s Annual Meeting, members and partners turned to the Transatlantic Business Assembly where Jason Turflinger warmly welcomed guest speakers Richard H. Riley, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, and Sissel Lønning Andresen, Pfizer Norway’s Country Manager. On the agenda were two of the most important issues impacting transatlantic […]

Source: AmCham

AmCham’s 2021 AGM: New Chair & Board Members, Strong Staff Bolster Future-Oriented Footing

Category: AmCham News

Ketil Nordengen, leader of both 3M’s EMEA Sales and Norway operations, was duly appointed as Chair of AmCham’s renewed Board of Directors during last week’s virtual Annual General Meeting. Microsoft’s Kristine Beitland and KPMG’s Charlie Lea were also named as the Board’s First and Second Vice Chairs, respectively.

Source: AmCham

AmCham Financial Forum: Operationalizing Analytics & Effective Compliance Programs

Category: Accounting / Financial

On the one-year anniversary of the lockdown in Norway, financial leads from Schjødt, BAT, Citi, Connectum Capital Management, Crawford & Company, Escalon Services, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, OSM Aviation Management, Raise Gruppen, Roche, SAS Institute, Sonitor, and Wavetrain Systems gathered virtually for the first Financial Forum of 2021.

Source: AmCham

Published: April 10, 2021

March 2021 AmCham Digitalization Forum: Pragmatism Prevails

Category: AmCham News

AmCham member representatives warmly welcomed Datatilsynet Director Bjørn Erik Thon to the first 2021 meeting of the Digitalization Forum. Given ongoing US-Europe Privacy Shield negotiations, the virtual roundtable dialogue – which ranged from Covid-19 era concerns to the digital platform economy, GDPR, and Grindr – was particularly timely.

Source: AmCham

Rising Leaders: Be a premissleverandør and get yourself some handlingsrom

Category: AmCham News

Rising Leaders participants and AmCham members were joined by Curt Rice of Oslo Metropolitan University for a virtual afterwork session.
Originally from Rochester, MI, Dr. Rice only intended to go to Norway for one year but ended up staying for the last 30 years and becoming the first non-Norwegian to be at the helm of an institution for higher education in Norway.
Dr. Rice shared how his career development has been driven by his conviction that discovery of new knowledge, research and education are essential to improving society. Making universities better, therefore, has the potential to make societies better. Yet at the same time, he sees growth in science and research skepticism – and the increased responsibility of research advocates.

Source: AmCham

Published: April 10, 2021