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Day 1

Monday, October 14

8:30AM - 9:00AM

Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:00AM - 9:40AM

Brace for Impact: Unleashing Innovation from Oceans to Energy

Session Room: Main Stage
Featuring:
- Girish Rishi, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Cognite
- Kimberly Mathisen, Chief Executive Officer, HUB Ocean
- Kristian Johansen, Chief Executive Officer, TGS
- Paula Doyle, Chief Digital Officer, Aker BP
- Matts Johansen, Chief Executive Officer, Aker Biomarine
9:40AM - 10:20AM

Harnessing Trust, Openness, and Gen AI to Drive Impact in the Energy Transition

Session Room: Main Stage
Featuring:
- Laxmi Akkaraju, Chief Customer Officer, Cognite
- Noriko Rzonca, Chief Digital Officer, Cosmo Energy Holdings
- William Dennett, Chief Digital Officer, Freyr Battery
- Brenda Stout, Vice President Manufacturing, Celanese
10:20AM - 11:00AM

Data & AI: The Foundation for Impact

Session Room: Main Stage
Featuring:
- Geir Engdahl, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Cognite
- Knut Vidvei, SVP Product Management, Cognite
- Karen Czachorowski, Delivery Lead - Technology, Digital, SCM & Corporate, Aker BP
- Naruki Akiyama, Advanced System Development Group Leader, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.
11:00AM - 11:30AM

Break - Networking
11:30AM - 12:10PM

Breakout Sessions

Learning sessions from our Customers
- - Industrial AI
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Meet Celanese's Intelligent Agent
  Featuring:
  - Ibrahim Al-Syed, Director Digital Transformation Manufacturing, Celanese
  - Adam Gottlieb, Data Lead, Digital Manufacturing, Celanese
- - The Digital Journey: Ambition Drives Outcomes
    Session Room: Main Stage
  Build vs Buy: How SLB Pivoted to Unlock Value Faster for Its Customers
  Featuring:
  - Shashi Menon, Vice President, Digital, SLB
  - Sujit Kumar, Director Digital Production & Edge, SLB
- - Data Foundation for Scale
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Getting Started with Industrial DataOps Across Industry
  
  Session Room: Breakout Two
  Featuring:
  - Peter Rockedahl, Chief Technology Officer, Moelven
  - Takayuki Kawahata, Representing Director, Managing Executive Officer, Fuji Oil Company
  - Olivier Lempereur, Chief Data Officer, MaMaTa
12:10pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break & Networking
1:00PM - 1:40PM

Breakout Sessions

Learning sessions from our Customers
- - Industrial AI
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Onboarding Unstructured Supply Chain Data with Industrial Agents
  Featuring:
  - Karen Czachorowski, Delivery Lead - Technology, Digital, SCM & Corporate, Aker BP
- - The Digital Journey: Ambition Drives Outcomes
    Session Room: Main Stage
  One Scalable Digital Solution for Any Enterprise
  Featuring:
  - Martin Miller, Director Data Science and Analytics, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions
  - Joshua Dotson, Industry 4.0 Leader, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions
  - Mark Sass, IT strategy Advisor, Occidental Petroleum
- - Data Foundation for Scale
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  The Critical Role of Industrial Knowledge Graphs in Scalable AI Solutions
  Featuring:
  - Joe Lamming, Senior Analyst, Verdantix
1:45PM - 2:25PM

Breakout Sessions

Learning sessions from our Customers
- - Industrial AI
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Industrial Agents: Opportunities, Challenges, and Reality Check
  Featuring:
  - Kris Narayan, Digital Enablement - Data, Cloud, Automation, NOVA Chemicals
  - Ahmed Musa, Manufacturing Digital Lead, NOVA Chemicals
- - The Digital Journey: Ambition Drives Outcomes
    Session Room: Main Stage
  Bringing New Technology to the New Frontier: Collaboration in Action
  Featuring:
  - Chris Willmore, Guyana Enterprise Digital Manager, ExxonMobil
  - Hervine Jurzak, Guyana Fleet Digital Manager, SBM Offshore
- - Data Foundation for Scale
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Global Scale: Digital Plant of the Future
  Featuring:
  - Ibrahim Al-Syed, Director Digital Transformation Manufacturing, Celanese
  - Ajo Thomas, Global Program Lead, Celanese
2:25pm - 2:55PM

Break - Networking
3:00PM - 3:40pm

Breakout Sessions

Learning sessions from our Customers
- - Industrial AI
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Industrial Agents Fireside Chat with Verdantix
  Featuring:
  - Joe Lamming, Senior Analyst, Verdantix
  - Ole Christian Roed, Head of AI, Cognite
- - The Digital Journey: Ambition Drives Outcomes
    Session Room: Main Stage
  Reduce Deferments and Improve Efficiency with Advanced Integrated Activity Planning
  Featuring:
  - Martin Bernold, Senior Expert Planning & Analysis, OMV
- - Data Foundation for Scale
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Manufacturing or Enterprise Data: Where to Start? When to Expand?
  Featuring:
  - Kris Narayan, Director of Digital Enablement - Data, Cloud, Automation, NOVA Chemicals
  - Øystein Aspøy, Digital Platform Manager, Aker BP
3:45PM - 4:25pm

Breakout Sessions

Learning sessions from our Customers
- - Industrial AI
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Insights and takeaways from a Global Deployment Journey
  Featuring:
  - Natalia Klafke, Executive Vice President of Energy & Sustainability, Radix
  - Lucas Oliveira, Account Manager, Radix
  - Ibrahim Al-Syed, Director Digital Transformation Manufacturing, Celanese
- - The Digital Journey: Ambition Drives Outcomes
    Session Room: Main Stage
  Unlocking Value: An Operator’s Perspective on Maximizing Cognite Data Fusion
  Featuring:
  - Ahmed Nasrullah, Head of Data Analytics / System Engineer, Moelven
  - Murray Jackson, Director, GOM MR&I, Technology and Data Analytics, Hess
  - Francesco Giorgetti, Head of Data Analytics, Sierracol Energy
- - Data Foundation for Scale
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Extending Customer Value with Cognite Data Fusion OEM Embedded Solutions
  Featuring:
  - Sigvart Eriksen, Chief Executive Officer, Omny
  - Mark Felder, Chief Technology Officer, Pinnacle Reliability
  - Oliver Haya, Business Manager, Data & Application Platforms, Rockwell Automation
  - Rolf Thu, Chief Technology Officer, Ignos
4:30 PM - 4:40 PM

75 Days to Change the World
Featuring:
- John Markus Lervik, Chief Strategy and Development Officer & Co-Founder, Cognite
7:00 PM - 11:59 PM

IMPACT 2024 Party

Celebrate the energy of IMPACT 2024 with an evening of fun, food, and drinks at The Yardhouse!

Network with fellow attendees and unwind in a vibrant atmosphere.

Speakers

Girish Rishi

Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Girish Rishi is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognite, the leading Industrial DataOps platform company that harnesses the power of data and AI to deliver actionable insights to the energy and industrial sectors. Most recently, Rishi was the CEO at Blue Yonder, a leading supply chain software company. During his tenure, the business transformed into the cloud, driving strong growth, profitability, innovation, customers, and employee satisfaction. Prior to his CEO position at Blue Yonder, Rishi held executive leadership positions at Motorola, Tyco, and Symbol Technologies, where he led global businesses that delivered IoT, software, and services. Rishi has a master’s degree in public policy from Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the University of Hartford, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Mumbai.

Kimberly Mathisen

Chief Executive Officer

Kristian Johansen

Chief Executive Officer

Kristian has served as the Chief Executive Officer of TGS since March 2016. He joined TGS in 2010 as the Chief Financial Officer before becoming the Chief Operating Officer in early 2015. Kristian has almost 20 years of C-level experience for public companies in the construction, technology, and energy industries.

Mr. Johansen also has professional experience from board positions of several public companies in Europe and the U.S., and industry associations such as the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) and EnerGeo Alliance (former IAGC). Currently, he is a non-executive director of two U.S. public companies, Valaris and International Seaways.

Mr. Johansen earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in business administration from the University of New Mexico in 1998 and 1999.

Paula Doyle

Chief Digital Officer

Paula Doyle has been working as chief digital officer at Aker BP since 2022. Doyle previously worked at Cognite as SVP Sales and Marketing and was a member of the Executive management team. Previously she has held a variety of roles within the oil and gas industry for companies such as ABB and Siemens, in Norway and the Middle East. During her time in the Middle East, Doyle established and ran a non-profit industrial technology organisation. Doyle currently sits on the board on the Irish Norwegian chamber of commerce and has previously held board positions at Aker BP and Energy Valley. Doyle holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Limerick.

Matts Johansen

Chief Executive Officer

Matts Johansen has been CEO of Aker BioMarine since 2015. He first joined the company in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his career in Aker BioMarine, Johansen served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Telefónica O2. He studied at Oslo University College and completed executive education at Columbia University.

Laxmi Akkaraju

Chief Customer Officer

Laxmi Akkaraju has more than 20 years of experience in technology, strategy, and business transformation from leadership positions at companies such as GSMA, TietoEVRY, Holte Consulting, and Mu Dynamics. Akkaraju has a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado.

Noriko Rzonca

Chief Digital Officer

William Dennett

Chief Digital Officer

Brenda Stout

Vice President Manufacturing

Geir Engdahl

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder

Geir Engdahl is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Cognite. Engdahl runs Cognite’s R&D department, leading the development of Cognite Data Fusion. In 2011, Engdahl founded Snapsale, a machine learning classifieds startup. He served as CEO and CTO until Schibsted acquired the company in 2017. Before that, he spent three years working as a senior software engineer for Google in Canada. Engdahl has a master’s degree in computational science from the University of Oslo.

Knut Vidvei

SVP Product Management

Karen Czachorowski

Delivery Lead - Technology, Digital, SCM & Corporate

Naruki Akiyama

Advanced System Development Group Leader

Since joined the company in 2006 , Mr. Naruki Akiyama has taken on operation and maintenance work at Showa Yokkaichi Sekiyu, and have been responsible for integration work at Idemitsu and Showa Shell, as well as work related to DX promotion. Currently, Mr. Akiyama is the leader of the Advanced System Development Group in Technology & Engineering Center, promoting productivity improvement of the plant’s activities.

Ibrahim Al-Syed

Director Digital Transformation Manufacturing

Adam Gottlieb

Data Lead, Digital Manufacturing

Shashi Menon

Vice President, Digital

Sujit Kumar

Director Digital Production & Edge

Peter Rockedahl

Chief Technology Officer

Takayuki Kawahata

Representing Director, Managing Executive Officer

Olivier Lempereur

Chief Data Officer

Martin Miller

Director Data Science and Analytics

Joshua Dotson

Industry 4.0 Leader

Mark Sass

IT strategy Advisor

Joe Lamming

Senior Analyst

Kris Narayan

Digital Enablement - Data, Cloud, Automation

Ahmed Musa

Manufacturing Digital Lead

Chris Willmore

Guyana Enterprise Digital Manager

Hervine Jurzak

Guyana Fleet Digital Manager

Ajo Thomas

Global Program Lead

Ole Christian Roed

Head of AI

Martin Bernold

Senior Expert Planning & Analysis

Øystein Aspøy

Digital Platform Manager

Natalia Klafke

Executive Vice President of Energy & Sustainability

Lucas Oliveira

Account Manager

Ahmed Nasrullah

Head of Data Analytics / System Engineer

Murray Jackson

Director, GOM MR&I, Technology and Data Analytics

Francesco Giorgetti

Head of Data Analytics

Sigvart Eriksen

Chief Executive Officer

Mark Felder

Chief Technology Officer

Oliver Haya

Business Manager, Data & Application Platforms

Rolf Thu

Chief Technology Officer

John Markus Lervik

Chief Strategy and Development Officer & Co-Founder

Day 2

Tuesday, October 15

8:30AM - 9:00AM

Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:00AM - 9:30AM

Revolutionizing Industry: The Impact of Real-Time Digital Twins and AI Robotics

Session Room: Main Stage
Featuring:
- Stein Danielsen, Chief Solutions Officer & Co-Founder, Cognite
- Anette Jacobsen, Project Leader Robotics, Equinor
9:45AM - 10:30AM

Breakout Sessions

Join a workshop or panel session
- - Better Together with Partners
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Optimizing User Best Practices: Unlocking the Power of the Cognite Hub Community
  Featuring:
  - Andre Alves, Head of Technology, Radix
  - Henry Martinez, Head of Products - Operations Data, slb
  - Øystein Aspøy, Digital Platform Manager, Aker BP
  - Anita Hærhe, Head of Academy and Community, Cognite
- - For Users, By Users: Cognite Data Fusion in Action
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  A Beginner's Guide to Data Modeling: Charting Your Course
  Featuring:
  - Kristian Nymoen, Head of Data Management and Data Science, Skagerak Kraft
- - Maverick: The Wild West of Data and AI
    Session Room: Breakout Three
  Fully Autonomous Operations: Will it Ever Happen?
  Featuring:
  - Adam Ballard Ph.D, Technology Manager, Hess
  - Kristian Bay Næss, VP Asset Operation - Yggdrasil, Aker BP
  - Richard Climenhage, Commercial Director, ANYbotics
- - Cognite Data Fusion: Deep Dives
    Session Room: Breakout Four
  Cognite Atlas AI: Gen AI for more complex operations
  Featuring:
  - Armin Gharakhanloo, Senior Director of Product Management, AI, Cognite
10:35AM - 11:20AM

Breakout Sessions

Join a workshop or panel session
- - Better Together with Partners
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Accelerate the Energy Transition with AI with Microsoft and Cognite
  Featuring:
  - Christoph Schittko, Architecture & AI Lead, Microsoft
  - Jason Schern, Field CTO, Cognite
- - For Users, By Users: Cognite Data Fusion in Action
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Data Modeling Mastery: Unlocking the Secrets of Complex Structures
  Featuring:
  - Mike Heinze, Guyana Enterprise Lead Data Architect, ExxonMobil
  - André Asbjørnsen, Vice President, Data Operations, Aker Solutions
  - Maria Kenderkova, Senior Specialist: IM & Digitalization, Aker Solutions
  - Guillaume Poulain, Asset Information Model Manager / Technical Authority Data & Information, SBM Offshore
- - Maverick: The Wild West of Data and AI
    Session Room: Breakout Three
  Old Historians are Dying, What's Next?
  Featuring:
  - Øystein Aspøy, Digital Platform Manager, Aker BP
  - Morten Enholm, VP Data Gateway Solutions, TGS Prediktor
  - Knut Vidvei, SVP Product Management, Cognite
- - Cognite Data Fusion: Deep Dives
    Session Room: Breakout Four
  DataOps Built for Scale: How to Orchestrate Complex Industrial Data for Enterprise
  Featuring:
  - Jørgen Lund, Senior Product Manager, Data Workbench, Cognite
  - Susanna Furland, Principal Product Manager, Cognite
11:25AM - 12:10PM

Breakout Sessions

Join a workshop or panel session
- - Better Together with Partners
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Go Beyond Hype to Value with Industrial AI for Asset Intensive Industries
  Featuring:
  - Natalia Klafke, Executive Vice President of Energy/Sustainability, Radix
- - For Users, By Users: Cognite Data Fusion in Action
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  North Star Vision: Illuminating the Path for Your Organization’s Industrial Data
  Featuring:
  - Paul Lightfoot, SVP of Product Design, Cognite
  - Adi Veerubhotla, Principal Product Designer, Cognite
- - Maverick: The Wild West of Data and AI
    Session Room: Breakout Three
  Applying AI To Industrial Supply Chain: Focused Case Study & Panel
  Featuring:
  - Michael Thomas, President, Ascend SC
  - Jason Schern, Field CTO, Cognite
  - Lauritz Lont, Senior Director Atlas AI Strategic Development, Cognite
- - Cognite Data Fusion: Deep Dives
    Session Room: Breakout Four
  Collaborative Planning: Custom-fit workflows for Turnarounds, Campaigns, and Shutdowns
  Featuring:
  - Hunter Beck, Senior Director of Product Management, Cognite
12:10PM - 1:00PM

Lunch Break & Networking
1:00PM - 1:45PM

Breakout Sessions

Join a workshop or panel session
- - Better Together with Partners
    Session Room: Breakout One
  Rapid Time to Value with Industrial Data Fabric Powered by Cognite Data Fusion
  Featuring:
  - Ashtad Engineer, Worldwide Smart Manufacturing Solutions, AWS
  - William Dennett, Chief Digital Officer, Freyr Battery
- - For Users, By Users: Cognite Data Fusion in Action
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Building Applications on top of Cognite Data Fusion Quickly
  Featuring:
  - Olivier Lempereur, Chief Data Officer, MaMaTa
  - Brage Strand Kristoffersen, Senior Petroleum Engineer, Aker BP
  - Stig Harald Gustavsen, Metering Technician , Aker BP
  - Sverre Olsen, Digital Solutions Lead, TGS
- - Maverick: The Wild West of Data and AI
    Session Room: Breakout Three
  Fine Tuning Proprietary Language Models: Is it Worth it?
  Featuring:
  - Sverre Brandsberg Dahl, GM Energy Innovation, Microsoft
  - Paula Doyle, Chief Digital Officer, Aker BP
- - Cognite Data Fusion: Deep Dives
    Session Room: Breakout Four
  RCA: Accelerate time-to-resolution
  Featuring:
  - Andreea Pastinaru Oprea, Senior Director of Product Management, Asset Health, Cognite
1:50PM - 2:35PM

Breakout Sessions

Join a workshop or panel session
- - Better Together with Partners
    Session Room: Breakout One
  The journey towards autonomy: How SLB provides insight and unlocks value
  Featuring:
  - Colin Smith, Technical Marketing Manager, slb
  - Gaojing (Melody) Cao, Head of Productions APM & DT, slb
  - Brandon Cavallaro, Head of Product - Production Assurance, slb
  - Alex Chambers, Director of Partner Success, Cognite
- - For Users, By Users: Cognite Data Fusion in Action
    Session Room: Breakout Two
  Tracking Outcomes with Customers to Ensure ROI
  Featuring:
  - Vivek Massy, Senior Director - Industry Transformation, Cognite
  - Janos Hidrowoh, Director Major Projects, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
- - Maverick: The Wild West of Data and AI
    Session Room: Breakout Three
  Private SaaS: The New Frontier for Data, Security, and Control in the AI Era?
  Featuring:
  - Harald Laastad, Vice President Enterprise Data Management and Platform, Equinor
  - Ibrahim Itani, Head of Analytics and Innovation, Marathon Petroleum
  - Marc-André Langlais, Vice Président, Technologie Numérique / Chief Digital Officer, ArcelorMittal
- - Cognite Data Fusion: Deep Dives
    Session Room: Breakout Four
  Cognite 2025 Product Roadmap
  Featuring:
  - Hunter Beck, Senior Director of Product Management, Cognite
2:40PM - 3:00PM

Your Impact Starts From Here

Closing Keynote

Speakers

Stein Danielsen

Chief Solutions Officer & Co-Founder

Anette Jacobsen

Project Leader Robotics

Andre Alves

Head of Technology

Henry Martinez

Head of Products - Operations Data

Øystein Aspøy

Digital Platform Manager

Anita Hærhe

Head of Academy and Community

Kristian Nymoen

Head of Data Management and Data Science

Adam Ballard Ph.D

Technology Manager

Kristian Bay Næss

VP Asset Operation - Yggdrasil

Richard Climenhage

Commercial Director

Armin Gharakhanloo

Senior Director of Product Management, AI

Christoph Schittko

Architecture & AI Lead

Jason Schern

Field CTO

Mike Heinze

Guyana Enterprise Lead Data Architect

André Asbjørnsen

Vice President, Data Operations

Maria Kenderkova

Senior Specialist: IM & Digitalization

Guillaume Poulain

Asset Information Model Manager / Technical Authority Data & Information

Morten Enholm

VP Data Gateway Solutions

Knut Vidvei

SVP Product Management

Jørgen Lund

Senior Product Manager, Data Workbench

Susanna Furland

Principal Product Manager

Natalia Klafke

Executive Vice President of Energy/Sustainability

Paul Lightfoot

SVP of Product Design

Adi Veerubhotla

Principal Product Designer

Michael Thomas

President

Lauritz Lont

Senior Director Atlas AI Strategic Development

Hunter Beck

Senior Director of Product Management

Ashtad Engineer

Worldwide Smart Manufacturing Solutions

William Dennett

Chief Digital Officer

Olivier Lempereur

Chief Data Officer

Brage Strand Kristoffersen

Senior Petroleum Engineer

Stig Harald Gustavsen

Metering Technician

Sverre Olsen

Digital Solutions Lead

Sverre Brandsberg Dahl

GM Energy Innovation

Paula Doyle

Chief Digital Officer

Andreea Pastinaru Oprea

Senior Director of Product Management, Asset Health

Colin Smith

Technical Marketing Manager

Gaojing (Melody) Cao

Head of Productions APM & DT

Brandon Cavallaro

Head of Product - Production Assurance

Alex Chambers

Director of Partner Success

Vivek Massy

Senior Director - Industry Transformation

Janos Hidrowoh

Director Major Projects

Harald Laastad

Vice President Enterprise Data Management and Platform

Ibrahim Itani

Head of Analytics and Innovation

Marc-André Langlais

Vice Président, Technologie Numérique / Chief Digital Officer

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