Ieva Martinkenaite

Senior Vice President, Research and Innovation at Telenor Group

Ieva Martinkenaite leads the Research and Innovation unit in Telenor Group. She has more than 15 years of experience in product development, business research and advisory. She holds several high profile regional and national appointments in AI. Among those are Board memberships in Norwegian Open AI-lab, Norwegian Research Council Advisory Expert Group on AI, International Advisory Board of Flanders AI, and the Singapore´s Government International Advisory Council on Ethical use of AI and Data.

Concurrently, Ieva leads a joint AI task force of Europe’s largest telecommunication operator association ETNO and GSMA Europe. During 2018-2020, Ieva represented Telenor in the EC’s High-Level Expert Group on AI which provided ethical guidelines for building Trustworthy AI in Europe.