Tag: Thomas Jensen
Thomas Jensen steps down as Milestone Systems CEO
December 4, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Milestone Systems has announced that chief executive officer (CEO) Thomas Jensen has stepped down from his position, effective immediately.
Chairman Lau Normann Jørgensen noted that Vice Chairman of the Board Jeppe Frandsen will serve as acting CEO until a permanent successor is named and will no longer be part of the board. Seymour Liebman, executive vice president of Canon, will join Milestone’s board as vice chairman.
Frandsen brings over 25...
Milestone launching generative AI plug-in for XProtect
November 4, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Milestone Systems has revealed a forthcoming generative AI-powered video analytics plug-in for its XProtect video management software, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA.
Designed to help operators contextualize alarms and focus on what truly matters, the new tool automates video review, filters out false alarms, and based on initial findings could reduce up to 30% of operator alarm fatigue.
A beta version will debut at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona,...
Milestone Systems promotes Martin Stockfleth Larsen to chief marketing officer
September 2, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Milestone Systems has announced the promotion of Martin Stockfleth Larsen to chief marketing officer, effective Sept. 1, 2025.
Over the past three years, Larsen has played a pivotal role in shaping Milestone’s brand and strategic direction. Most recently, he served as interim CMO, where he demonstrated leadership, strategic vision, and a deep understanding of Milestone’s brand, people, and market.
As CMO, Larsen will continue to lead the charge in shaping...
SIA announces program for 2025 Securing New Ground conference
August 21, 2025SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the schedule, speaker lineup and program for the 2025 Securing New Ground (SNG), the security industry’s executive conference, taking place Oct. 14-15 in New York City.
At SNG 2025, the security industry will gather at the New York Marriott Marquis for top-level information sharing, networking and business analysis.
This year’s Securing New Ground conference will shape industry trends...
Milestone’s Project Hafnia comes to Genoa
June 11, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — After launching in the USA, Milestone System's Project Hafnia is now engaged in Europe with the city of Genoa, Italy with the aim to develop AI-driven solutions to enhance traffic management systems and create smarter cities.
Project Hafnia uses regulation compliant video data trained with NVIDIA’s NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Milestone is one of the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI, a reference framework...
Milestone Systems acquires brighter AI
April 9, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Berlin-based technology company brighter AI has been acquired by Milestone Systems, adding anonymization technology to the company's lineup.
In light of artificial intelligence concerns, Milestone sees brighter AI as a solution to regulatory-compliant data. The acquisition also opens up a range of new opportunities with anonymization capabilities and privacy enhancement, which protects data and enables full data privacy. The company said that the addition of...
Milestone CEO emphasizes domain-specific models for success
March 31, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Milestone Systems CEO Thomas Jensen believes Project Hafnia will have an immediate impact on traffic and transportation datasets across diverse city environments, but he says the longer-term impact of the technology is much broader.
“Rather than pursuing general AI, we believe in an agentic approach—smaller, domain-specific models that excel in their respective fields,” he said. “Our long-term vision is to dominate the traffic and transportation...
Annual report sees Milestone reach DKK 2 billion net income
March 27, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —2024 proved to be a successful year for Milestone, breaking new ground through the strategic acquisitions of BriefCam analytics and Arcules cloud, and development of new product offerings and partnerships.
“Milestone has delivered exceptional results in 2024, marked by significant growth in both revenue and earnings,” says Lars Larsen, chief financial officer in Milestone.
Net revenue rose to DKK 2 billion from DKK 1.7 billion in 2023, reflecting a robust...
‘Data lineage is essential,’ says Milestone CEO
March 26, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Milestone System’s Project Hafnia is taking aim at democratizing AI-model training with NVIDIA’s Cosmos Curator, at the heart of which is data that is ethically sourced and regulation-compliant, says Milestone CEO Thomas Jensen.
In a two-part interview, Jensen discusses Milestone’s partnership with NVIDIA, emphasizing its long-standing collaboration in AI-driven video modeling. He highlights the importance of ethical AI development, data lineage...
Milestone unveils Project Hafnia, leveraging NVIDIA Cosmos Curator
March 19, 2025SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Milestone Systems has announced the release of Project Hafnia to build services and democratize AI-model training with high-quality, compliant video data that leverages NVIDIA Cosmos Curator and AI-model, fine-tuning microservices.
The announcement was made on March 18 during NVIDIA’s global conference for AI developers at GTC in San Jose, Calif.
AI developers across the globe share the challenge of finding sufficient high-quality, accurate and reliable video...