Norway-Lithuania Industry Forum

20 October 2026 | 12:30-17:30

Christiania Qvartalet Meeting Center | Sentrum, Oslo

Organised as part of Oslo Innovation Week 2026, this forum will explore one of Europe’s key industrial challenges: how to build more resilient and competitive technology and manufacturing supply chains in an increasingly uncertain world. As geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions and growing demand for critical technologies reshape global markets, Europe faces increasing pressure to strengthen capabilities in semiconductors, electronics manufacturing and advanced engineering – key foundations for sectors such as defence, maritime, energy, aerospace and other strategic industries. Bringing together key stakeholders from industry, research, investment and innovation communities in Norway and Lithuania, the forum will focus on practical opportunities for cooperation, industrial partnerships and cross-border investment to strengthen European value chains and build greater industrial resilience and technological competitiveness in critical technologies.

 

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PROGRAMME
12:30–13:00 Registration & Coffee

13:00–13:05 Welcome words

13:05–13:20 From Fragility to Resilience: The Future of Europe’s Technology and Manufacturing Supply Chains
Tomas Prūsas | Lithuanian Engineering and Technology Industries Association (LINPRA)

13:20–13:30 New Opportunities for Industrial Cooperation in Europe
Gunnar Grini | Acting Director, Technology Industries, Federation of Norwegian Industries (Norsk Industri)

13:30–13:45 Investing in Europe’s Future: The Strategic Lithuania–Norway Partnership
Šarūnas Genys | Invest Lithuania

13:45–14:05 Building Europe’s Electronics Manufacturing Base: A Lithuanian Perspective
Vytautas Ilgūnas | TLT PCB

14:05–14:20 Coffee Break

14:20–15:05 Panel Discussion | Resilience Without Self-Sufficiency
Rethinking Nordic–Baltic Strategic Supply Chains
Europe’s resilience depends not on national self-sufficiency, but on stronger and more complementary regional value chains. The discussion will explore how Norwegian strengths in energy, technology and industrial capabilities can be combined with Lithuanian and wider Baltic expertise in engineering, specialised manufacturing and electronics to reduce critical dependencies, strengthen security of supply and build more resilient European value chains.

15:05–15:30 Company Introductions

15:30–17:30 B2B Meetings & Networking Reception