The Cluster for Applied AI welcomes Kantega AS to the cluster!

"Kantega is a company where they have a strong focus on value creation together, where all employees have a great ownership of the company and the solutions. In addition, Kantega is perceived as a company that is interested in lifting both its own and others' expertise through cluster work. We are very pleased to welcome Kantega to the Cluster for Applied AI!"

Eli Haugerud, Head of Communities, Smart Innovation Norway


Let's introduce cluster partner Kantega with some quick facts from Head of Technology, Frode Standal:


What do you do in Kantega and what is your role?

Kantega is a 100% employee-owned IT consulting company consisting of technologists, designers and problem solvers. What we all have in common is that we are professionally strong, curious and passionate.

We are a consulting company that aims to be a strategic partner for our customers. Kantega helps customers develop solutions that create value for their business and their users.

We thrive best on business-critical assignments where we get to work closely with the customer and can drive system and business development together with them. Our strength is teams that work closely together and play each other well.

As Chief Technology Officer, one of my responsibilities is to develop the field of data-driven development and AI, through recruitment of specialists, skills development, sales and marketing.  


In our experience, the best solutions come from an interaction between those who have a need and those who will provide a solution.

Frode Standal, Kantega


What are your objectives for the future?

One of our goals going forward is to help our customers become more data-driven so they can capitalize on the value of the data their business owns or has access to.

We help our customers solve organizational, competence and technological challenges. This means increasing collaboration, breaking down silos, automating the collection, processing, aggregation and availability of high-quality data from different sources for different applications, from analytics to decision support to machine learning models integrated into a process flow. 


Do you have a success story or an exciting project you would like to highlight?

I would like to highlight the breadth of what we do. As a consulting company, we work on very different types of problems in different industries, from machine vision solutions for counting people in a vehicle to using machine learning to predict the risk of a loan going to collection.

Some applications contribute to streamlining internal processes in a business, others are about using data analytics and machine learning to personalize user experiences in digital spaces.

Finally, I would like to mention that we are committed to what we call responsible AI. This encompasses everything from privacy, the development of unbiased and explainable models, to sustainability, taking into account that training machine learning models can have a significant energy consumption, and with it a carbon footprint.


Why do you choose to become partners in the Cluster for Applied AI and what is your current or potential place in the AI ecosystem?

Our experience is that the best solutions arise in an interaction between those who have a need and those who will provide a solution. By joining the cluster, we envision getting in touch with other companies and industries than those we usually work with, with the goal of new and interesting customer assignments.

Our place in the AI ecosystem is through our consulting activities to help clients become more data-driven and to realize AI-based applications that increase their competitiveness.


Who: Frode Standal
Role: Chief Technology Officer

Company: Kantega AS
Number of employees: approx. 200
Location: Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim

LinkedIn: Frode Standal