AI Launch:
Can AI Hurt Your Startup?
Learn how AI can become a liability for early startups, and how to avoid the traps.
- Starts:11:00, 2 March 2026
- Ends:12:00, 2 March 2026
- Location:BI - campus Oslo: The Village
- Price:Free
- Enrolment deadline:01.03.2026 08:00
- Contact:Pamela Echeverria (pamela.echeverria@bi.no)
What works, what fails, and how to build a real competitive moat with AI?
Join Kjartan Slette, COO & Co-Founder, and Tore Åge Ballo, CTO at Unacast, for a session on one of the biggest questions facing early-stage startups today:
Is AI your competitive edge or your biggest risk?
AI can accelerate growth, attract investors, and unlock new opportunities. But used wrong, it can just as easily become a liability — draining resources, weakening your positioning, and leaving you without a real moat.
Lunch will be served from 10:45.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Kjartan Slette is the Co-Founder and COO of Unacast. Previously, he was part of the founding team at TIDAL where he was responsible for all contract negotiations with music labels and rights holders. In addition, he was named a Top 100 Young Leader in Norway.
Tor Åge Ballo is the CTO of Unacast, where he has played a central role since the company’s early days. With a career in technology spanning nearly two decades, he brings broad and deep experience across product leadership, backend engineering, databases, data pipelines, front-end development, data science and AI.
Unacast is a Oslo startup and an award-winning human mobility data company that harnesses device location data, map data, and strategic intelligence to tackle business challenges for the retail, real estate, tourism, transportation, and marketing industries.
About The Village
The Village is BI’s entrepreneurship arena where students, academic communities and partners exchange knowledge, develop new solutions and act as a catalyst for new ventures.
We connect entrepreneurs, industry, the public sector, research, science and capital to create more growth-oriented companies and to position entrepreneurship as a viable career path for students.