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Oslo - People Tech Maritime
Thon Hotel Slottsparken, March 17, 2026
Pathways to achieving digital maturity
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Gold sponsor
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Tore Lybekk, Head of IT, Torvald Klaveness
Halvor Ribe, CFO, Ugland Marine Services
Mikael J. Karlsson, Founder and Chair, IMPA Save, and Head of Business Development, Northern Marine Group
Anders Sjåholm Rimehaug, Senior Project Manager, Torghatten
Maturity with maritime digital implementations means getting many different things right.
In our People Tech Maritime - digital forum in Oslo on March 17, we'll discuss how companies are making progress in all of these directions, also building on discussions from our events in Athens (Oct 2025) and Bergen (November 2026).
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Scroll down to see our outline agenda for the event, and our ideas about how digital maturity can be defined in shipping.
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Shipping company speaking enquiries: Vaida Berkecz, vaida@peopletechmaritime.com
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Sponsorship / provider speaking enquiries:​​​ David Jeffries, djeffries@onlymedia.co.uk, Tel 44 208 150 5293. Sponsorship opportunities include speaker slot / gold sponsor, panel slot / silver sponsor, exhibition opportunities​
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EVENT OUTLINE AGENDA:
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SECTION ONE:
Are we on a pathway to achieving digital maturity - what is working and what is not?
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9.30 Shipping speaker
9.50 Shipping speaker
10.10 Provider speaker
10.30 Discussion
11.00 Break
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SECTION TWO:
How can we get more value and maturity from advanced technologies, without getting lost in complexity?
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11.30 Shipping speaker
11.50 Provider speaker
12.10 Panel: How can we get more value and maturity from advanced technologies, without getting lost in complexity?
Moderator: Tore Lybekk, Head of IT, Torvald Klaveness
Tore Lybekk is VP & Head of IT at Torvald Klaveness, a Norwegian deep sea shipping company at the forefront of digital innovation in maritime logistics. With more than 20 years of experience from the oil and gas industry, he brings a pragmatic, industrial perspective to digital transformation in shipping. Tore leads the group’s IT and data agenda, covering core infrastructure, cybersecurity, and a modern data platform. He has a particular focus on building AI literacy and turning data and generative AI into concrete business value across the organization. ​​​​​​​
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1.00 LUNCH
SECTION THREE:
Can we better support decision making for decarbonisation with mature digital technologies?
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2.00 How can we calculate carbon emission footprint for the entire maritime supply chain?
Mikael J. Karlsson, Founder and Chair, IMPA Save Initiative (International Marine Purchasing Association)
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The IMEF Initiative is a global shipping Industry project bringing together shipowners, managers, maritime suppliers, service and software suppliers who work towards promoting and standardizing an activity-based method for calculating the full environmental impact of maritime products from origin to delivery.
The initiative focuses on the production phase using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies to measure the products carbon footprint on Scope 3 emissions. Aligning the maritime supply chain reporting their carbon footprint to owners and Managers.
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2.20 How we helped our crew reduce fuel with existing technology
Anders Sjåholm Rimehaug, Senior Project Manager, Torghatten
- Anders is responsible for implementing the energy efficiency program at Torghatten, Norway's largest ferry operator
- He will discuss a project which supported crew to save 2-6 % of fuel with existing technology
- Working with crew and supporting culture development were the most important elements
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2.40 Provider speaker
3.00 Discussion
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3.30 BREAK
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SECTION FOUR:
What is best practise achieving maturity with cybersecurity?
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4.00 Maintaining cyber security in a shipping company - perspective from JJ Ugland Companies
Halvor Ribe, CFO, Ugland Marine Services
​Halvor Ribe is responsible for finance, insurance and ICT at JJ Ugland Companies, which own/manage a fleet of bulk carriers, shuttle tankers, PSV’s, ocean-going barges and heavy-lift crane vessel.
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4.30 Discussion
5.00 Close
What digital maturity means:
Here are some ideas on what digital maturity means for shipping, building on discussions at People Tech Maritime - digital in Athens in October 2025:
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SUPPORTING PEOPLE TO MAKE DECISIONS: Mature software should support decision making and situation awareness of people in all maritime operational roles, on the ship and in the office
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SUPPORTING DECARBONISATION: Mature digital technology will support decision making and awareness around decarbonisation, for deck and engine crew, vessel performance / efficiency managers, technical superintendents, safety departments, commercial management, senior decision makers.
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TECHNOLOGY MAINTAINABILITY: Mature digital technology will be easy to manage, integrate with other tools and update.
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COMPONENTS APPROACH: It is likely that mature digital technology will be made up of a number of different components, so companies can choose the elements which work best for them and prove most robust and reliable. This means the components will be able to integrate easily with others, including components made by other software houses.
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GETTING BENEFITS FROM AI: Mature digital technology will support companies in getting the most from developments in AI. This means software tools which can "talk" to AI systems, and the ability to use free standing AI tools, such as to create custom training materials.
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SUPPORTING CO-ORDINATION - mature digital technology supports all departments in shipping companies to work well together - procurement, maintenance, crewing, commercial, safety. Rather than each work in their own 'silos' and co-ordinate over unstructured e-mail, the software tools for each department will 'talk' to software tools from other departments.
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CONCRETE BENEFITS: mature digital technology will provide tangible benefits, such as finding ways to reduce crew travel costs and make concrete savings.
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PROVIDE RETURNS TO BOTH INVESTORS AND SHIPOWNERS: There can be a conflict between the interests of technology investors and shipowners in developing technology, if shipowners want a range of products to serve their business, and investors want to put money in a "point solution" which does one task very well and they envisage selling many times over to recoup their software development cost and make a profit.
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GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH IT AND OPERATIONS : mature digital technology is something both IT staff and operations / business staff in a shipping company will like and be able to work with, so both get along well.
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BE CYBERSECURE - mature digital technology will be robust to hackers, without creating onerous additional work for staff, such as with drawings which need someone to enter a hashcode to access
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BE UNDERSTANDABLE - mature digital technology is understandable by people using it and the people who manage it
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MAKE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK EASIER - make the administrative part of work easier to do, rather than more cumbersome