Grete Owre

Head of Section

Grete Øwre works for the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency as leader for a team designing the shared digital ecosystem together with partners across the public and private sector. Grete has wide experience in how to maximize business value based on IT and technology.
She has previously worked for the Norwegian Labour- and Welfare Administration (NAV), where she was in charge for the portfolio priority process and lead a team of enterprise architects. Later she moved on to facilitate the transition from waterfall, project-oriented development processes in NAV, to a product-oriented organization based on agile development.
Grete has a master’s in business- and administration from The Norwegian School of Economics and is also a Lizentiat from the University of Mannheim.

CIO Experience Executive Insights Q&A: Norway A Digital Country

During the Covid pandemic, Norway had to respond fast to a wide variety of challenges: Management of Covid tests, Electronic ID to foreign workers, compensation to businesses and to persons who were laid off from work, etc. Our digital ecosystem both played an important part in responding to the challenges and to contribute to collaboration, interoperability and sharing between the actors participating in the ecosystem. We will share our experiences from this period based on practical examples of what was achieved by people working together across organisations. We will demonstrate how trustful co-operation and technology together were vital to handle the pandemic.

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