The minister of Trade and Industry, Monika Mæland, gave a presentation on the topic “Industry of the Future”. In the photo above, Monika Mæland and SFI Offshore Mechatronics centre director Geir Hovland.

The Annual Global Outlook was held in Arendal as a part of Arendalsuka 2016. The conference was filled with very interesting speakers, touched upon important issues and a success. The SFI Partner responsible for WP7, GCE NODE, put together this great event. Both challenges and opportunities presented were relevant for the future activities in SFI Offshore mechatronics.

Read more here. The full program of Energy Outlook (PDF).

There is still more interesting events all week in Arendal. The complete program is to be found here.

On June 21 WP7 organised a workshop which started with a focus on trends & votes on findings from SFI strategic study.

The picture above shows Øystein T. Berg opening the WP7 workshop.

The picture above shows Hege Kverneland, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NOV presenting among other topics NOV’s Drilling Automation System.

The entire program was as follows:
Anne Grete Ellingsen, CEO GCE NODE. OPENING REMARKS
Øystein T. Berg, Partner, InFuture FINDINGS FROM SFI STRATEGIC STUDY
Audun Finnestad, Director PwC MEGA TRENDS AND RADICAL OPPORTUNITIES
Bjørn Rudshaug, Strategic Project Manager Automatic Drilling Control, Statoil. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF BIG DATA TRANSFORMATION
Hege Kverneland, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NOV. IMPACT OF ACCELERATED DIGIZATIONS
Øyvind Boye, CEO NYMO. Kim A. Jørgensen, Analyst Lundin. Tor Arne Hauge, CEO OTECHOS. SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION IN THE NEW ECOSYSTEM
Arnt Aske, Industry Consultant, GCE NODE WHEN THE NATURE OF INNOVATION IS CHANGING. HOW TO INNOVATE FASTER AND AT SCALE
Øyvind Mydland, CEO StepChange. TRENDS IN THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED
Marit Dolmen & Arnt Aske OPEN DISCUSSION
SESSION 2 FOR SFI MEMBERS, WP7. DISCUSSIONS WP7 FINDINGS. Øystein T. Berg, Partner, InFuture

The workshop had 55 registered participants and was well received, in particular the interactive mode organised by InFuture.
The day ended with a drilling rig visit at NYMO.

On April 13 a full-day reference group meeting / workshop was organised at NOV’s offices at Kjøita 21-25, Kristiansand. The goal of the workshop was to present current status and plans, but also to align the research with input from the industry partners. The following partners were present: NTNU, UiA, NOV, MHWirth, Cameron, Bosch Rexroth, Klüber Lubrication and ABB (by video). Several new PhD positions in WP2 and WP4 will be filled during 2016, and the research in these two work-packages is now ramping up. It is of high priority in the SFI that the research in all work-packages is coordinated with the interests of the industrial partners.