Morten Thorkildsen

Morten Thorkildsen is a senior Nordic technology leader and advisor specialising in digital health, cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure resilience. He is the Project Lead of the Nordic Cyber for Healthcare Forum, on behalf of DNV, bringing together leading hospitals, health regions and national health authorities across the Nordic countries. Morten is Chairman of Itera ASA and served on the Board of Oslo University Hospital from 2020–2026. He previously been fulltime engaged as board chairman of Sykehuspartner HF, Norway’s largest healthcare ICT organisation, and spent 27 years with IBM, including ten years as CEO of IBM Norway. His recent work includes digital-health programmes in Iceland and strategic advisory work for the Norwegian defence sector. He has distinctive Nordic experience with HIMSS maturity assessments at both hospital level (EMRAM/INFRAM) and national level (CCMM). He speaks on healthcare cybersecurity, AI, digital health, hybrid threats and the resilience of critical infrastructure.