The world’s demand for clean, renewable energy is growing. Yet many power plants operate with legacy equipment and practices and face significant challenges when using data to upgrade to today’s modern digital standards. This Talk explores how technology can help power generation companies optimize their operations, drive the energy transition, and keep the lights on—in more ways than one.

The manufacturing of goods, increasingly carried out by control technology, is one of the most staple activities for our economies and societies. Many assume that global manufacturing is now more or less fully automated and that the control technology is well established. However, there are still major hurdles to cross when it comes to scaling manufacturing technology, making manufacturing operations more productive, more intelligent, and more sustainable, which this session will explore.

From telecoms to energy, the industries with the largest footprints have dual roles to play in Industry 4.0 and our race to net-zero. They will, on the one hand, rely on new technologies and ways of work to become both sustainable and profitable by 2050. On the other hand, they will also be the chief funders, connectors, adopters, and scalers of new, sustainable solutions and technologies. What are the conversations they're having with their business, operations, R&D, and strategy teams, and how will they navigate the next 30 years? All of that and more in this Talk with leaders at the top of Norway's industries.

As this near-ubiquitous societal push towards sustainability is driving the current energy transition, we must also look at how the transition will impact our energy landscape. How is energy consumption changing as energy generation changes, and vice versa? How can technology improve reliability and resiliency, and what technology needs to be prioritized? In our opening Talk for Day 2, leaders across industry discuss the biggest obstacles and opportunities in the energy industry as it gets ready to support a decarbonized, decentralized, and complex power supply.

This Talk will examine the key catalysts that will ensure the energy transition happens efficiently and effectively. Panelists will cover everything from market dynamics to production optimization as well as the technology that allows operators to get more out of existing resources while tapping into the power of AI and previously inaccessible, scattered historical data.

Evolving load patterns, new energy sources coming online, and aging infrastructure are just some of the challenges facing the power and utilities industry. As the way the world consumes energy changes, technology can help the industry optimize energy demand and supply, reduce expenses, and future-proof their operations.

This Talk explores how.

How the manufacturing leaders of tomorrow are dismantling data silos, integrating operations, connecting services and carefully designing added value services throughout the value chain.

Asset-heavy industries are moving toward automation across the value chain, freeing human creativity and problem solving for tasks that generate more value. Rewiring workplaces and processes for an automated future presents a major challenge. Where should organizations start? This Talk explores what it takes to get to full automation, including in terms of connectivity, infrastructure, data availability, security, and more.

Offshore wind is truly going global, with it’s capacity surging in new markets and new technology innovations opening new opportunities for the industry as it aims to help reach the world's decarbonisation goals. This session will discuss how offshore wind technology can play a key role in green recovery aided by digitalization.

The first day of the ‘The ten thousand days journey toward 2050’.

In this session TietoEVRY have invited some visionary clients from different industries to share their insights and real-time experiences from their journey to next generation of Industry 4.0. 

We will look into the vision, background and reason for engagement. We will elaborate on key-learnings and explore the differences between yesterday’s and today’s challenges. But most of all we will share the good examples and our view on the future to come. 

With a ‘Digital Culture’ established, it is possible to share vision across the organisation, create engagement, get mandate to execute, become more agile and create a relevant and up to speed position for all opportunities that lies ahead. Sounds like dream? It’s not. Today is the first day of tomorrow.

This Talk explores how manufacturers who are committed to digitalization will be able to make the leap from prototypes and proofs of concept to robust digital operations working at scale. What kind of investments and new ways of work are they using to get proofs of concept integrated into production? And why is Industrial DataOps, powered by cloud-based AI, a crucial ingredient in manufacturing’s truly digital transformation?

The engineering, construction, and maintenance activities in today’s energy sector face considerable challenges in executing complex projects in a time- and cost-effective way. The workforce deployed in vast numbers across numerous disciplines on large sites is most critical to businesses. The solution to these challenges is a digital connected worker ecosystem where the workforce, tools, and processes are integrated and automated.

In our case study, our expert will share an innovative AI-led solution for automatically detecting and measuring surface corrosion on FPSOs and stationary remote field assets. Our solution automates critical activities such as data labeling, capturing meaningful images from drone videos, capturing feedback to improve model accuracy, building AI models, training, and deployment.

Learn more about how AI-driven maintenance enables low-cost, effective measurement of a number of personnel-based operational factors with reduced risk, improved safety, and sustainability.

This Talk explores how cloud analytics is a necessary tool for power and utilities companies to transform and converge information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). There are massive opportunities inherent in this, including the abilities to better understand customer usage and demand patterns, comply with regulatory regimes, and predict and address energy constraints or excesses.

Vopak, the world's leading independent tank storage company, has in recent years expanded its digitalization agenda, introduced new technologies for streamlining business operations, and launched new initiatives for data sharing. In this session, Leo Brand, Chief Information Officer at Vopak, and John Markus Lervik, CEO and Co-Founder of Cognite, discuss Vopak's digitalization journey, which is focused on real-time operations, improved efficiency, and sustainability. They will also go into how Vopak's innovation and approach to technology development is driving business model evolution, and where new business opportunities will emerge as Vopak's digital strategy matures.

Cybersecurity leaders and stakeholders come together in this Talk to assess the threat landscape for asset-intensive industries, and help industrial leaders map out a future in which their valuable infrastructure can be secured both physically and digitally.

The digital twin is the foundation for industrial digitalization efforts, delivering real-time insights, accurate forecasting, and intelligent decision-making. In the almost two decades since the term was invented, industry—and the world—have changed dramatically. This Talk explores what’s next for digital twin technology.

New field exploration activities and projects face increasing scrutiny, more cost pressure and sustainability requirements. In what ways can digital be leveraged to deliver these projects faster, cheaper, and with reduced environmental impact? This Talk attempts to answer this with the help of global EPC and technology experts.

“Speaking data” has been shorthand for humans who know how to work with data. What happens when we flip that idea on its head and require data to “speak human”? This Talk will explain how manufacturing organizations can present data in ways that enable domain experts to understand, interpret, manipulate it—and create value.

Net-zero pledges, better materials, and smarter use of data are some of the factors driving renewable energy to a cost tipping point. What does this transformation mean for the global energy industry? This Talk will focus on the financial levers influencing the global energy transition, what technologies financial investors are betting on, and how sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand.

The future of renewable energy depends on how market price, costs, and policy evolve. This talk will touch on the sensible regulation and procurement frameworks, investments in grids and other infrastructure, and digitalization strategies necessary to ensure a streamlined project delivery at a scale to meet growing energy demand.

Cyber attack targets are shifting from individual organizations to the full supply chain. This session explores how to manage inherited vulnerabilities from a wide ecosystem of suppliers in an actionable manner.

Digitalization and new emerging technologies like DataOps, AI, and others are liberating data that was previously inaccessible or fragmented, equipping domain experts with new insights as well as more time to dedicate to innovative problem solving. How are domain experts - maintenance engineers, geophysicists, production specialists - using technology to work better and smarter? In this panel, we look at how digital can propel human innovation.