8–12 Jun 2026
Helsinki, Finland
Europe/Helsinki timezone

Testing Our Way to Trust: Earning Confidence in the Face of Uncertainty

9 Jun 2026, 16:00
30m
Paavo

Paavo

Single Presentation - 25 min Testing Our Way to Trust: Earning Confidence in the Face of Uncertainty T&I Trial Mix

Speakers

Adrian Christian Fellman (Sikt) Ingrid Amelia Bruholt (Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research)

Description

At Sikt, the Norwegian NREN, we make high‑impact decisions under uncertainty, balancing diverse stakeholders, federated governance, legacy systems, and limited budgets. Hypothesis‑driven development offers a disciplined way to earn trust by turning assumptions into testable bets, learning from small, safe experiments, and making decisions about when to continue, pivot, or stop. This session translates that mindset into a practical playbook for NREN and R&E contexts. We’ll focus on designing experiments and defining outcomes that matter to our communities, emphasizing adoption, reliability, trust, and resilience. Participants will learn to frame testable hypotheses, run small safe experiments and make clear continue/pivot/stop decisions.

What will the TNC audience take away from your talk?

Participants will be able to frame testable hypotheses, design small safe experiments, pick meaningful metrics, set clear success and stopping rules, and make transparent continue/pivot/stop decisions to improve both cross-institutional and centrally operated services.

Are you a first time speaker at TNC? Yes

Primary authors

Adrian Christian Fellman (Sikt) Ingrid Amelia Bruholt (Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research)

Presentation materials