Get started
Impact 2025
Resources/Blog/

Key Highlights From Impact 2025

Key Highlights From Impact 2025

Published at: 10/21/2025, 5:53:49 PM

Team Cognite

Cognite

While the week of Impact 2025 has come and gone, the next steps are just beginning. With over twice the growth from last year’s inaugural conference, attendees had more opportunities than ever to learn from industry leaders and peers to accelerate their industrial AI strategies.

Niels Andersen, Principal Analyst & Research Director at LNS research said it well: “The energy at Impact 2025 is buzzing, with lots of great conversations and excitement. Cognite’s moonshot goal to create $100 billion in customer value is inspiring and shows the company has the right priorities. The customer presentations are insightful; they show real projects, real learning, and real value. Cognite and the user base are now entering a new era where the knowledge graph will empower Atlas AI™ to contextualize and process more data than any human can do, with the promise to deliver valuable insights faster and with higher precision.”

Read the full Conference Press Release

This year there were more memorable moments than we could count, but here are a few of the key highlights we wanted to share from around Impact 2025:

Key News and Reporting:

Keynotes:

  • In addition to announcing Cognite’s moonshot goal of delivering $100B in customer value by 2035, Cognite CEO Girish Rishi highlighted how Cognite’s Industrial AI and Data platform is accelerating AI value by unlocking the workforce, unlocking the value chain, and unlocking the ecosystem of partners such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Nvidia.
  • Next, CEO Karl Johnny Hersvik showcased Aker BP’s digitalization journey towards autonomous offshore operations with key insights from their holistic data approach and fundamental business reorganization.
  • Emmanuelle Brechet, VP of Data & Digital Technologies at TotalEnergies detailed their plan to empower domain experts and capture the full AI opportunity by investing in a robust data layer across 39 upstream assets in the next three years.
  • On day 2, the Cognite product team announced their product roadmap which focuses on a breakthrough industrial user experience, enabling partners to build scalable, low-code/no-code agentic AI applications, and delivering scalable predictive AI insights with special guests from Aker BP, Cosmo Energy Holdings, and Celanese.
  • To close out the general sessions, Bjornar Erikstad, champion sailor, four-time paralympian, and CEO of the Stiftelsen VI Foundation discussed how he uses data to improve his sailing performance and get better over time.

Breakouts:

This year, we offered 39 breakout sessions led by customers, partners, and select members of the Cognite team. They were organized into three main tracks (see full speaker list and agenda here):

The Insights track focused on how organizations were able to improve decision-making and accelerate productivity:

  • SLB and Shaya presented on how they are revolutionizing operational efficiency and decision-making with AI and integrated data solutions.
  • Kuraray and Pinnacle showcased how predictive modeling is improving reliability, operational performance, and cost efficiency
  • Radix and International Paper explained how their teams developed a Golden run application on top of the Cognite Data Fusion Platform
  • Cosmo Energy Group shared insights from across their journey with Cognite and how they are unlocking more ROI and operational excellence.

The Innovation track focused on how teams are pushing the limits in terms of creativity and technology in order to deliver ground-breaking solutions.

  • AkerBP built on their keynote appearances by going into detail on how they are using AI agents to reduce manual task time
  • Idemitsu Kosan focused their presentation on how frontline engineers are already using AI agents to reimagine day-to-day operations
  • HMH detailed their vision for next-generation drilling that will use AI-powered insights to help operators shift from reactive to predictive processes.

The foundation track focused on the underlying digital infrastructure required for deploying and scaling digital tools and AI into new and established operator workflows.

  • TGS presented how they integrate subsurface data with operational data from Cognite Data Fusion to transform TGS’s large seismic library into a modern, unified platform.
  • Total Energies expanded on their keynote topic with more depth on their plan to expose more data to their end users with a data products delivery approach.
  • NOVA Chemicals showcased with a demo about how they are delivering operational excellence at enterprise scale with a robust data foundation from Cognite
  • Mamata shared how they use Cognite to design and build a universal and scalable data model that helps them scale use cases without constant rebuilding.

Awards:

With so many examples of AI innovation and progress, it was certainly difficult to pick winners for the five Impact awards announced at the event. But these five leaders rose to the top - congratulations to all the award nominees, finalists, and winners!

Impact award for:

  • AI Innovation: ADNOC Offshore for the large AI vision and corporate commitment and progress with implementing Atlas AI across its business
  • Business Impact: Aker BP for aggressively driving towards autonomous operations for its new $20B offshore assets, leveraging industrial AI.
  • AI Partner: Microsoft for including Cognite as a launch partner in their AI marketplace launch and ongoing sponsorship across top industrial events across the world
  • Cognite Champion: Noriko Rzonca, Cosmo Energy Holdings for championing Cognite not just throughout her own company, but throughout the industrial community in Japan at multiple companies via our AI Summits, user group events, media and speaking engagements.
  • Cognite Community MVP: Aditya Kotiyal, SLB, the top contributor in the Cognite Hub Community via topics, posts, likes, and other engagements

What’s next?

It will be difficult to top the excitement and momentum of Impact 2025, but we are already looking forward to next year in order to showcase the progress made on all the projects that were presented this year. Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to share additional highlights from the conference and hope to further inspire more Industrial AI and data innovation.

We want to hear from you! Have feedback or a suggestion for next year? Engage with us in the Cognite Community or send an email to events@cognite.com.