The Nordic approach to AI rests on collaboration: trust in institutions, democratic values, and a region that works as one. OLAS brings together senior people from technology and industry, entrepreneurship, science, culture and education, because AI is shaped well only when many fields work on it together. We meet in person, everyone contributes, and membership is free and by invitation.
A community of people who build, govern and study.
OLAS is a community of senior leaders across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Members come from technology and industry, from entrepreneurship, science, culture and education. The mix is deliberate. AI now reaches into work, health, law, learning and the arts, and no single profession sees the whole picture.
We are inclusive by design. What counts is what you have done and what you are willing to share, not your title or the size of your employer. The room stays mixed on purpose, and it stays useful because everyone in it contributes.
Four things you can count on.
Direct access to senior people across sectors who take your call and give you a straight answer.
The problem you are stuck on has usually been solved somewhere else. Here you meet the people who solved it.
Small rooms and real problems, where you can speak freely and think out loud among equals.
Introductions, candid advice, and a second opinion from people who understand your position.
Different fields, the same questions.
Members come from very different places, so the agenda is broad on purpose. What holds it together is a shared interest in how this technology is built, who it serves, and what it changes. Members propose what we take up next.
How systems are built, tested and held to account, and what sensible regulation looks like in practice.
Where AI genuinely helps: research, medicine, energy, climate and the natural world.
What changes for artists, writers, musicians and performers, and what is worth protecting.
How we teach, what young people need to learn now, and what we owe them.
Jobs, skills, and how organisations adopt this well rather than quickly.
Truth, trust, sovereignty, and how open societies hold up under pressure.
Join once. After that, it is yours.
You ask for an invitation and tell us enough to know who you are. Every request is read by a person, and membership is free.
We meet in person across the Nordics: dinners, working sessions, and visits hosted by members in their own organisations.
You bring experience, an introduction, a room in your company, or an afternoon of your time. Everyone gives as much as they take.
Three rules hold it together. Everyone contributes, so there is no audience here. We meet in person, and the community lives offline. And we collect nothing from your visit to this site: no cookies, no trackers, no analytics. The only details we hold are the ones you choose to send when you ask for an invitation, and we never share them.
Each scale sits at roughly 137.5° from the last — the golden angle. Follow the curves and they resolve into thirteen spirals one way and twenty-one the other, consecutive Fibonacci numbers, exactly as a pine cone grows.
A pattern from the forest.
The OLAS mark is the spiral of a pine cone, the pattern it uses to pack the most seed into the least space. One core holds it together, and the scales open when the conditions are right. That is how we would like this community to work.
Partners add to the room.
Some of the best gatherings happen because an organisation opens its doors, hosts a session, or brings expertise worth hearing. We work with a few, Nordic and international. No money changes hands, and we take one partner to a category.
Partner with OLAS →The decisions being taken now about how these systems are built, governed and used will shape work, learning and public life across the Nordics for years. They are too broad for one company, one discipline or one government to get right on its own.
OLAS brings the people who carry that responsibility into the same room, away from screens. The work is practical: digital sovereignty and data security, keeping our families and colleagues safe online, the environmental cost of what we build, and the space left for human creativity in art, sport, science, education and industry. Membership rests on what you have done and what you are willing to share. Everyone contributes, and everyone supports the people beside them.
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