At Orca AI’s recent Oslo event – Navigating Tomorrow: AI-Powered Safety and Performance in Maritime Operations – hosted at the Eero Rooftop (in a building designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen that formerly housed the US embassy), the discussion stayed firmly anchored in operational reality.
The panel brought together two shipowners – Nils Aden of Germany’s Harren Group and Trym Otto Sjølie of SFL Management – alongside Kaare Haug, Country Manager Norway, Bureau Veritas, and Frank Relou, Orca AI Regional Sales Manager standing in for CEO and Co-founder Yarden Gross – combining operational, regulatory and technology perspectives in a focused conversation on what is already changing onboard.
The session was moderated by Elizabeth Solvang of communications company AKP, which manages the Blue Maritime Cluster in Sunnmøre on Norway’s west coast.
Set against a backdrop of the crisis in the Middle East, GNSS disruption and increasingly congested sea lanes, the central question was straightforward: what is actually improving safety and performance at sea – and where are the limits?
Increasingly complex operating environment
If there was one shared observation, it was that the operating environment has become harder to manage. (....)