Helge O. Svela

CEO Media City Bergen, Norway

Helge O. Svela, CEO at Media Bergen City, comes from a position at Bergens Tidende, where he served in several roles over the past 16 years, including editor and journalist. Before joining Bergens Tidende, Svela was a journalist at Rogalands Avis. He was awarded a diploma for one of Norway’s first digital fact-checking projects from SKUP, which is Norway’s most prestigious award for investigative journalism.

The Norwegian Media Cluster, located in Media City Bergen, is a world ­leader in ­augmented ­reality, graphics, AI, virtual studios, broadcast & IP based video, robotics and tools for workflow and visual storytelling.