Minister of Petroleum and Energy

Digital technologies for long term value creation from the Norwegian continental shelf

The electrification strategy presented in the Energy White Paper earlier this year provides a framework for making Norway greener and better. Stable access to renewable power has been the very foundation of large parts of Norwegian industry. Still, the petroleum sector will remain a significant factor in the Norwegian economy in the years to come, although not on the same scale as today. We will facilitate a future-oriented Norwegian oil and gas industry capable of delivering production with low emissions within the framework of our climate policy. Retaining expertise and technologies in the oil and gas sector is also vital for the development of new industries and technologies such as carbon capture and storage, offshore wind and hydrogen. Digital technologies are increasingly a natural part of solutions in the petroleum industry to achieve efficiency and profitability. We also see Norwegian based providers of digital solutions active in the international petroleum industry.

Secretary General, The Norwegian Forum for Marine Minerals

Marine Minerals – a necessity for an energy transition?

A forthcoming energy transition requires a dramatic ramp up of production of critical minerals for production of key components such as batteries, wind mills, solar panels etc. Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and contain huge resources of such critical minerals. Norway has since 2019 started a process to legislate and open up Norwegian waters for marine mining. This includes an impact assessment process aiming for a start of exploration licensing earliest in 2023/24. The Norwegian Forum for Marine Mineral (NMM) has been established to connect industry, research institutions and Norwegian authorities in order to promote and develop an industrial endeavour towards exploration and production of marine minerals.

Technical Director – Renewable Solutions, Equinor

Equinor’s ambition for renewable energy and how digitalization can help us get there 

As we transition into a broad energy company, we’re taking a step-change in making renewables profitable and economically sustainable. We already have much of what it takes, and we believe our oil and gas expertise as well as our technology-advantages can be leveraged to create business opportunities in the ongoing energy transition.

Head of Material Management, NOROG

The Norwegian Continental Shelf leading the way in Sharing Economy

The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association drives initiatives for improving the quality of supply chain management through tracking equipment, easy access to supplier information and quality assured equipment information. To that end a new solution called Virtual Inventory has been developed that is a result of the trust and collaborative spirit of the companies in the petroleum business in Norway, paired with pragmatic business objectives to the benefit of all stakeholders. Virtual Inventory is a solution that contains all stocked material on the shelf. The service follows the principles of sharing economy and aims to assist in reduced inventories and increase the reuse of materials. Other benefits of the service will be large cost savings and less waste as a result of more reuse. The solution has already proven itself as an very valuable tool for cost reduction and also prevented extremely costly oil & gas production down-time at the platforms.

The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association is a professional body and employer’s association for oil and supplier companies which drives intercompany collaboration by developing and delivering services that benefits the industry as a whole. Under the umbrella of Digitalization, NOROG is modernizing its solution toolbox and services to be a trustworthy and reliable mechanism for the Norwegian petroleum industry defined by, and subsequently meeting, the stakeholders' needs. Virtual Inventory is pointing towards the way of the future with sharing economy, lower resource foot-print and a collaborative environment. 'Compete at what you are good at, share the rest'. Together with the solution developer TietoEVRY, NOROG thinks the concept,  and the solution itself, could be used in other heavy industries in Norway like construction, utilities and more.

Dr. Paula Doyle - Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Cognite

Johannes Berrum - Azure Solution Specialist, Microsoft

Ole Bjørn Tollefsen - Strategic Client Technology Lead, Microsoft 

Industrial DataOps: a new way of managing industrial data with AI

The value of industrial data, liberated and contextualized by a new generation of software solutions available in the cloud is now widely recognized. A willingness to share, open and digest such data is catching on across the energy industry. The time is now to capitalize on this.

Last year Cognite partnered with Microsoft to accelerate industry transformation and bring Cognite’s industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion, on Azure. Cognite Data Fusion on Microsoft Azure, means industrial enterprises can now take advantage of AI services to contextually enrich, fuse and operationalize all of their OT and IT data.

This joint presentation will introduce the audience to a rapidly growing discipline of Industrial DataOps. It will highlight how this new discipline, integrated with Microsoft Azure enables a new way of managing industrial data enterprise-to-enterprise, connecting it from the source to the data consumer in a way that enables the organization to make use of it, innovate with it, and create value from it.

Stein Inge Morisbak – Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Haugaland Kraft AS

Paul Mathias Fiskaaen – Vice President Oil and Gas, CGI Norway

Energy transformation and the journey towards Net Zero by 2030

Haugaland Kraft is an innovative energy company with many exciting initiatives ranging from smart grid and smart cities to homes, buildings and solar. Leading their digitalization projects, Stein Inge Morisbak has a passion for sustainability and the environment. He will talk about how they as a green company will continue to lead the green transition in Norway. In collaboration with CGI, they have developed a solution for virtual storage of energy in the cloud. A world first, the Skybatteri lets energy consumers generate their own power via solar panels and store any excess energy in the cloud. This stored energy can either be utilized at a later time or sold on the energy market.

This talk will further outline CGIs energy journey to a net zero CO2 emission goal by 2030, and how to achieve this green transition. As a technology driven company, CGI is at the forefront of the ongoing digital transformation, which includes the energy sector and sustainable green solutions. The presentation will also highlight other initiatives, such as a concept in collaboration with Green Edge Compute, that utilizes the heat from data centers, using liquid-based cooling systems to generate district energy to heat buildings and homes.

Maximilian Georg Schuberth – Leader Digital Solutions - Equinor Renewables, Equinor

Thomas Gudmestad – Business Unit Manager / Delivery Responsible, Bouvet

Preparing for the future of offshore wind operations

Equinor’s ambition to become an offshore wind major sets a clear demand towards accelerating digitalisation. The combination of unmanned turbines and a range of dynamic factors impacting power production, require a substantial build-out of monitoring capabilities and the ability to constantly take optimized decisions given the high level of complexity. For digitalisation to succeed means to translate the wealth of data into actionable information, which then becomes decisions that drive safety, efficiency and thus value creation. 

This talk will highlight how digitalization is supporting and reshaping the operational decision-making processes. 

Kenneth Titlestad – Director Cyber Security, Sopra Steria

Tommy Evensen – Head of OT Cyber Security, MHWirth

Industrial cybersecurity – With lifes at stake

The presentation focus on Operational Technology (OT) and zooms in on Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS/ICS). A brief introduction is provided on how such systems operate major industrial plants and factories, and perspectives are provided on vulnerabilites, interconnections to office/cloud-systems and cyber attack trends. With this backdrop, explanation is provided on how this results in risks for major accidents, environmental accidents and deaths. The presentation concludes with giving an overview of best practices to mitigate the risk for cyber attacks against such systems.

Egil Andrè Knutsen – Domain Manager, Norsk Olje & Gass

Kalle Ringsby – Manager ICT, Operations, Norsk Olje & Gass

Agile Cloud Adaption Journey

Egil Andre and Kalle will lead us through Norsk Olje & Gass Cloud adaption, how this will have effected on the interaction throughout the Norwegian Continental Shelf and how using this strategy will help to improve the scalability of database capabilities while reducing cost and risk.

Senior Consultant – Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at mnemonic & Associate Professor at NTNU

Cyber Incident Response Preparedness for the Energy Sector – Do you have what it takes to handle a disruptive cyber incident?

Several organisations in the energy sector have recently been hit with disruptive cyberattacks. One recent example is the ransomware attack that led to several days production shutdown of Colonial Pipelines in the US. In Norway the energy sector software supplier Volue was also hit by a ransomware attack, fortunately in this case the incident did not affect the production environment of any of their customers. In view of the current threat landscape, any company should be prepared to handle a ransomware attack. Companies operating in the energy sector need to take extra precautions in preparing for an incident that might impact their own or customers OT environment. In this presentation you will learn about the steps to take in order to have this preparedness in your organization before being hit by a potential disruptive cyberattack.

EMEA CISO, Fortinet

Cybersecurity for Production: Protecting Your Crown Jewels

A successful attack on your production environment can be disastrous, financially, reputationally, environmentally. Operational Technology has now become a target for the same sorts of cyberattack that IT has faced for over forty years. But without forty years of experience at protection. The air gap is gone, IT and OT networks are converging, and attackers view production as a juicy new target. How can operations teams, with their focus on safety and uptime, learn lessons from IT? And how can their IT counterparts become sensitive to the real-time challenges of physical processes? In this session Joe Robertson, EMEA Chief Information Security Officer for Fortinet, will discuss what OT and IT can offer each other to meet their common objective to keep the organization running.

Joe Robertson represents Fortinet to the CISO community, where he advises the executive committees of large enterprises as their digital transformation strategies require security-driven networks and holistic security approaches. He is heavily involved in securing Operational Technology, especially the sectors of manufacturing, automobile, pharmaceuticals, and oil and gas. In over four decades in the security and networking business Joe has held technical, marketing, management, and executive roles at companies as diverse as Juniper Networks, Dimension Data, Bay Networks, IBM, and AT&T. He also founded and was on the board of directors of a network security startup.

Anja Loug Helland, Head of Advisory, co-founder of BI Builders

Mark Nyberg, Senior Advisor Financial at Petoro

The certainty of the uncertain future - how to build a flexible and scalable data platform using automation, with industry example from Petoro

Technology is moving faster than ever before, and the only constant is change. When building a data platform for the future, organizations need a flexible and scalable solution which can grow and evolve at the same speed as the increasing amount and variety of data. BI Builders’ data automation solution, Xpert BI, enables an agile growth path for the data foundation for better and faster insights.

Anja Loug Helland shares some of BI Builders success stories of how Xpert BI as an accelerator for building and maintaining a good data foundation. The focus is how both smaller and larger customers within in the oil/gas/energy industry can utilize their data to measure and improve their entire value chain from operations, sustainability goals, management reporting and ensuring data governance and traceability.

Mark Nyberg, Senior Advisor Financial at Petoro, joins Anja on stage to share the success of Petoro's data platform, TORA.

Regional Director, Veeam Software

Modern Protection against even the most Advanced Attacks on Data

Data is regarded as one of the most valuable assets in organizations and a necessity to keep buinesses running. The economy and reputation of organizations are at stake in the event of data loss and down time. At Veeam we experience an increase in companies that are reinforcing the protection of their data against ransomware attacks. With the accessibility to technology that originally was developed for the organizations with utmost critical needs for data security, Veeam Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, ensure that all companies can manage the protection of data well secured from even advanced ransomware attacks. Through this talk we will share our experiences and recommendations from working directly with organizations that have been hit by ransomware attacks and have recovered.

Magne Eide – Chief Commercial Officer, InfoTiles

Adam Wood – Chief Product Officer, InfoTiles

Scalable and cost-effective Internet-of-Everything in Asset Operations

Compared to only a few of years ago, it is now common knowledge that we should concentrate our data in the cloud, comprehend the context of data, and be ready for Machine Learning and AI. The need to maintain competitiveness – by using data to drive optimal decisions – is now the law of the jungle. But the challenges persist: how do we obtain a solution that scales economically, avoid significant upfront investment, and get to value as soon as possible?

CEO, Vanora

Modernising a 150 year old business

The ocean industries are facing an important transformation. As the global need for resources increases, our oceans represent enormous opportunities. But for sea-based industries to grow sustainably, we need to limit our negative operational footprint. Vanora is the premier, global platform for responsible ocean procurement. Our mission is to provide the ocean industry with procurement services that set the standards for convenient, transparent and responsible practices.

Managing Director, Glex

Collaborative, visual and modern portfolio management for Energy companies

Managing and making decisions on a portfolio of energy assets, whether it’s hydrocarbons, offshore wind parks or deep sea minerals, involves a multitude of data-sources, people from multiple disciplines, subjective opinions and a lot of uncertainty. Having access to all relevant data about your assets and opportunities is needed to see the big picture and make good qualitative decisions. Over the last few years, a revolution has happened in terms of liberating, contextualizing, and unlocking the value of industrial data. Companies like Cognite, Arundo Analytics and Kongsberg Digital, as well as industry initiatives like OSDU and NOROGs Released Wells Initiative ensures that there has never been more quality data accessible. The increasing amount of data available brings with it increasing needs for proper collaboration and visualization tools that enables organizational overview, and gives end-users continuous access to the full picture of what they and their team works on.

Glex Energy is a map-based, data-driven collaborative platform that enables exploration, renewables, and business development teams to easily build, maintain, analyse, and present a portfolio of assets, supported by a large collection of curated public and third-party data. In this talk we will explore how building and organizing a living portfolio of energy assets, visualized in context with cultural data, documents, media, news and more, enables teams to screen and analyse more opportunities, improve decision making, and increase communication and collaboration.

Kathryn Vince-Odozi – Energy Field Director, Dell Technologies in conversation with Håvard Gil – Director of Cloud Operations, Cegal AS, will discuss the three key strategies it is driving to support its joint customers

1. Continuing to make the cultural and behavioural changes needed to ensure that products, services, operations, supply chains and go-to-market are aligned with our climate and sustainability goals and objectives.
2. Building a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for the energy industry, with our partner ecosystem.
3. Revolutionising technology procurement by enabling customers to purchase technology based on low-friction, business outcome based, consumption pricing that minimises and mitigates climate impact.

Meeting these conflicting goals is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Kathryn Vince-Odozi is Energy Field Director with the Global Energy program at Dell Technologies, leading business development for the oil & gas and utility industry solutions across EMEA. With more than 20 years’ experience in the energy industry, she is ideally positioned to engage customers on their business challenges to help them improve operations and accelerate the energy transition, from leveraging Big Data to deploying digital solutions at the edge.

Kathryn holds a Ph.D in Geology and joined Dell Technologies in 2018, bringing extensive technical and business development experience from the Upstream, Downstream and Renewable Energy industries.