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• Currently the leader for the Data Science and Analytics department in Equinor’s Subsurface, with responsibility for data science across the subsurface value chain and for both international and Norwegian assets.
• M.S Geology from University of Wisconsin (USA)
• Started with Statoil in Exploration in Houston, Texas in 2015 as a graduate; moved to Stavanger in 2018 and have had roles in data management, data engineering, data analytics and digital product ownership.

Director Cyber Security DNV Norway. In this capacity Boye is responsible for Cyber Security Services offered from DNVworking to support customers ensuring business continuity by managing Cyber Security threats. Boye is a senior expert in Security Services from DNV. Boye is currently Project Sponsor and advisor for all major OT related projects from DNV and was from 2014 to 2021 engaged as Cyber Security Risk Manager for an offshore remotely operated platform program, for Total and Equinor. He has also led several independent readiness reviews for Oil&Gas operators covering operators capability and ICT readiness. In addition, he has led several Cyber Security risk assessments and he headed the
development of national cyber related improvement for the Norwegian petroleum sector for the Petroleum Safety Authority.

Education: MSc Information Technology

Sture has 40 yrs of experience in the offshore and process industry – working in Norway, US and middle east. He has been engaged as a consultant and advisor for operators with maintenance systematics, methods and work processes to drive good performance in the industry.
Tools like CBM and Machine Learning has been explored via projects by OG21 and others. Sture has initiated implementation of new method for Risk based maintenance via standardisation and practical implementation. Currently the engagement is moving towards the renewable industry – using the good experience from oil and gas.

Anette Helgesen has been with Aker BP since 2011. As of March 2022, she entered into a position as Operation Engineering Manager for Yggdrasil Asset Operation. Prior to this she has held different positions in Aker BP and BP Norway, as, HSSEQ Manager, Operations Engineering Manager for the Ula field, Process Engineer and onshore operations supervisor for the Valhall Field. She has a MSc in Chemical Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Mina Saghafian obtained her PhD degree in organizational Psychology from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The focus of her PhD research was on understanding technological changes in safety critical organizations. She continued her research as a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU, Department of Design, where she focused more narrowly on automation and remote operation in safety critical organizations. This research is part of the MAS (Meaningful Human Control in Critical Systems) project. The objective of this project is to understand and ensure that Human Factors and Design principles are employed adequately to ensure Human control in a meaningful way.

Industry working background as a drilling systems automation subject matter expert - and COE technical leader. Degree in Operations Management, continued education within technical specializations, agile project management and organizational studies. Joined the PSA in 2020, leading several auditory campaigns and research and development projects within; human performance in automated systems, cybersecurity in critical infrastructure, and – AI/digitalization risk management.

Torbjørn is heading up Enterprise Digital which combines Equinor’s digital and IT organisations and is an organisation established as part of Equinor’s Technology, digital & innovation business area. Enterprise digital is responsible for Equinor’s core technology platform including managing information security centre, providing infrastructure services, developing enterprise applications, software development, data science as well as developing Equinor’s data platform.

Before this, Torbjørn established and headed up Equinor’s digitalization efforts since 2017. He’s been with Equinor since 2008 in various leadership roles spanning supply chain management, operational analytics, and strategy. Before joining Equinor, Torbjørn worked as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
Education: Torbjørn holds an MSc in Industrial economics and technology management from the Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU) as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from ESADE Business School in Spain and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in the US.

Doyle is Chief Digital Officer in Aker BP. She comes from the position as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cognite, where she was also part of the Executive Management Team. Doyle joined Aker BP in 2022. 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 has a deep knowledge of industrial software space and digitalization processes in heavy-asset industries, and holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Limerick.

Tor Olav Grøtan is senior research scientist SINTEF Digital, and associate professor II at NTNU, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. He holds a MSc in engineering cybernetics from NTH, a MM from Handelshøyskolen BI, and a PhD from NTNU. He has used his broad background comprising digital systems and cyber security, organizational/management science and resilience engineering to work with digital vulnerability and cyber security in the military, healthcare, industrial and critical infrastructure domains, recently focusing on the potential of using resilience thinking to advance the concept of cyber resilience.

Tanya Kontsedal is a Senior Petrophysicist at Aker BP. She received her MSc in petroleum engineering with specialization on petrophysics from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow in 2013. Then she joined Schlumberger in 2013 where she worked as a Petrophysicist and software technology consultant for over 8 years with a number of oil and gas companies in Scandinavia. At Aker BP, she has been working both with well interpretation as well as piloting/leading digitalization and improvement projects with the well data in subsurface

Frode is the CTO and responsible for Technology & Innovation at EDRMedeso. He has master’s degree in industrial Mechanics and a PhD in Information Technology. Frode has been working for the company since 2005 having various positions, but the focus has always been on bringing new technologies to the market.

Currently, the focus areas for Frode are simulation technology, new solutions that bring AI into the engineering space, IoT analytics and efficient cloud computing.

Åshild Bakke Flolid is currently heading the implementation of Digital field worker in Drilling and Well in Equinor. She has been working in Johan Sverdrup’s digital team where the Digital field worker was piloted. She is passionate about getting value from digitalization.

She has 30 years of experience in drilling and well, from early phase, planning and operations. Have held different roles onshore and offshore including Drilling Supervisor. She has lived 7 years abroad.

She holds a MSc degree in Marine Resource Development and Protection from the Heriot Watt University, and Petroleum subjects from the University in Stavanger.

Kay Sørbø is a Geo/Data Scientist at Wintershall Dea Norge, with expertise in both geology and data science. He holds an MSc in Geology and has progressively upskilled himself in the domains of data science and machine learning throughout his career. Kay's professional interests lie at the intersection of geosciences, data science, and machine learning. He is passionate about leveraging domain knowledge in geosciences to develop and implement innovative data-driven solutions for subsurface characterization.

Mahad Nadeem Janjua Mahad is a Data Scientist at Wintershall Dea, with expertise in delivering data science and AI based solutions for business needs. With an MSc in Applied Geophysics, Mahad combines his subsurface background with skills in software development, machine learning application and statistical analysis to identify and solve various work stream challenges in the technical/subsurface as well as non-technical domains. Mahad's key interests lie in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

Tony Iskandar:
Tony is currently responsible for AkerBP-Aize program focusing on aligning strategies , ensure deliverables are met and secure value to AkerBP . With 10 years of international experience between middle east and Norway, Tony have a solid projects, operations and well construction background
Tony holds a masters degree in mechanical engineering, started his career in Abu Dhabi as a drilling and wells engineer in Halliburton. He then moved to be a regional advisor for digitization for middle east and north Africa region then moved to Norway as a digitalization leader for drilling and wells then in operations.

Kristian Stadsøy Grjotheim:
With nearly 20 years of experience in project management, product service and service development for offshore operations worldwide, Kristian Stadsøy Grjotheim has broad experience in the O&G industry. As a domain expert, Kristian possesses comprehensive knowledge of design, engineering, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance processes.
Kristian moved from leading a hardware and services group in Aker Solutions to joining Aize in 2020, helping the company develop digital twin software. Since then, Kristian has focused on supporting O&G operators on how to create value from Aize.

Olav Linnestad Aasrum: Olav works with technology and strategy-related topics for Oil-and Gas industry. Olav currently works with the largest operators on the NCS to introduce a standardized approach to enable Additive manufacturing and the use of digital inventories in project deliverables. He has previously worked with strategy, technology, and supply-chain related projects for Energy companies. He holds a MSc in Finance from NHH.

Brede Lærum: Brede is the head of the AM centre of Excellence in Equinor.
He has been employed in Equinor for 25 years, within various engineering and management roles within operations, maintenance, modification and digitalisation, and he has built up the AM Centre if excellence in Equinor. He is the chairman of the Industry collaboration project between; Equinor, TotalEnergies, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Vår Energi, BP, Woodside, and ExxonMobile, with ambition to implement digital supply networks globally.
He also holds the position of chairman for AM Energy, an international network for Additive Manufacturing in the Energy industry and is the chairman of the Norwegian AM, a non-profit organisation which promote AM in Norway across industries.
Brede is also leading the project within Offshore Norway on how to implement On-demand manufacturing and Digital Inventories on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Hans Kristian holds a Master’s Degree in Marine Engineering, with experience from Marine Operations, Subsea maintenance and Life Cycle Information. From 2018 Echo, Equinor`s Digital Twin, has been the primary task. Echo is Equinor`s internally developed front-end visualization tool for our Digital Twin, focusing mostly on 2D and 3D visualization. He has been working both with implementation in the organization, as a product owner for AR/VR and 3D, and from 2022 being Project Leader for Echo.

Harald Wesenberg is an experienced IT innovator with a strong background in the oil and gas industry. With more than 25 years of experience, he has worked as a developer, designer, architect, advisor and more, focusing on how to bring good ideas to fruition through working software. He is an experienced and acknowledged speaker at conferences and workshops both domestically and internationally.

Svenn R Andersen is head of partnerships and business relations at Norwegian Cybersecurity Center (NCSC). NCSC’s partners are owners or operators of critical, digital infrastructure. The purpose of the partnership program is to foster information sharing with the goal of protecting infrastructure, information and sensitive data. Svenn has a multidisciplinary background, and holds degrees in political science, technology and innovation as well as law from NTNU and the University of Oslo. He has previously worked with technology- and innovation projects for both public and private organisations, represented Norwegian business interests in Brussels as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and ran the secretariat for a government working group on digital innovation.

• Leading Advisor Organisational Safety and Human Factors, support the business areas on human and organisational performance, safety systems and design
• Education: master of cognitive psychology from NTNU.
• 12 years at Equinor, expertise within control room engineering, human-machine interaction, human and organisational performance
• Worked as research scientists Nuclear Safety at Institute for Energy Technology, Halden, and risk management consultant at Scandpower.

Jonathan is part the leadership of Capgemini Digital Continuity practice.
Jonathan has been working on transformation program leveraging product lifecycle and business process management systems.
He has been participating in engagements in France, US and UK.

Kristian is an educated geologist and works in the NPD's technology team and the team for reservoir studies. He has previously worked for Shell Norway and is very interested in the technological transition and how we can use data for more informed and better decisions.

Dr. Eirik Larsen is cofounder and CEO of Earth Science Analytics, a company focusing on the commercial application of AI in petroleum geoscience. He has 20 years’ experience from the E&P industry from exploration, field development, production and research. He holds a PhD in Petroleum Geology from the University of Bergen, and is now laser focused on implementation of AI in petroleum geoscience.

Aleek is part of Accenture’s Global Energy Leadership team and has worked with oil and gas clients across the energy value chain on large-scale digital transformation programs. He has a particular passion for helping energy leaders unlock and maximize the potential of their workforces through the use of digital applications, including AI and Generative AI. Aleek also leads Accenture’s Energy Industry Assets and Insights team, which is responsible for producing market-leading thought leadership and IP. Aleek earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University.

Ernst is the IT Cyber Security Lead in Vår Energi and responsible for IT-Security. He has roughly 13 years experience within Cyber Security, of which 10 years in O&G, and five of those with a particular focus on industrial environments. Ernst holds a master’s degree in Information Security and numerous Cyber Security certifications from PECB, ISACA and SANS/GIAC. He has a profound interest in creating continuous assurance of security controls.

Arnela Fazlija: Has a formal background from the University of Stavanger as a petroleum engineer with a master degree in drilling and wells. She began at Shell in the autumn of 2019 as a 'Upstream Productions Graduate' and have since been involved in several digitization initiatives. She now work as a Digitalization Lead where her main tasks revolve around Nyhamna & Ormen Lange Digital Twin.

Bjarki Gudmundsson: Bjarki is A/S Norske Shell Digital Transformation Lead. He serves as the Product Owner of the Digital Twin, driving innovative solutions and digital transformation initiatives within the organization.

Kristin is heading up the Well Excellence function in Vår Energi, where she is overall responsible for the improvement agenda within Drilling & Wells.
Kristin finished her master’s degree in energy and environmental engineering at NTNU in 2007 and started her career as a process engineer in ExxonMobil. Since then, she has had various technical and managerial roles within the offshore energy industry, always striving for simplification and improvement. Kristin held the role as VP Engineering in Aker BP before she managed the overground portfolio in Aker BP’s digital program.
She has also served as a board member for both large and small corporations, lately as Director of the board of Nordic Unmanned.
In 2020, Kristin was honored as one of Norway’s Top 50 women in technology.
In the period 2021 to 2023, she has been an entrepreneur, combining knowledge from her work experience as farmer, journalist, backpacker, founder, and engineer. In October 2022, Kristin and NUAer were awarded Founder of the Year by SpareBank 1 SR Bank.
Kristin is passionate about people and technology.