Andreas Bjune Kjølseth is the Founder & CEO of Infraspace, a Norwegian tech scale-up transforming how civil infrastructure is planned through AI-powered generative design. With a background in civil engineering, BIM, and computational design, he founded Infraspace to challenge inefficiencies in traditional workflows and rethink how infrastructure is designed.
He leads a team of civil engineers and software developers building a platform that enables rapid exploration of thousands of design alternatives—optimizing for cost, environmental impact, and land use.
Under his leadership, Infraspace is used by leading Nordic firms including Norconsult, COWI, and Ramboll, and has gained international recognition as a Top 50 Construction Tech Startup by CEMEX Ventures and winner of “Best Product” in the EU’s CASSINI Challenges.
Infrastructure planning is too complex, time-critical, and important to rely on traditional, manual workflows alone. Next-generation planning software powered by generative design enables engineers and planners to explore thousands of design alternatives automatically—revealing better outcomes, faster, and with far stronger decision support.
This session shows how generative design works in practice, beyond theory and hype. Through real customer cases and specific infrastructure projects, we demonstrate how teams have used the technology to reduce planning time, lower costs, and evaluate trade-offs related to constructability, environmental impact, and performance at an early stage.
