Frode Jensen, General Manager of National Oilwell Varco Norway (left) and Knut Mjåland, Sales Director for Fenner Mandals met at the Top Leader Forum in Kristiansand.

50 CEOs and GMs gathered for the second of two 2017 Top Leader Forums in Kristiansand Thursday.

Frode Jensen, General Manager of National Oilwell Varco Norway: “This is the place to meet lots of suppliers and partners, and to receive and give information on the state of our industry. The opening talk, which was very interesting, provided a direction for the following dinner talk.”

Knut Mjåland, Sales Director for Fenner Mandals: “We have spent a lot of time on the ultimate buzz word ‘digitalization’. Tonight, digitalization was visualized and explained in a way that made good sense. I appreciate Top Leader Forum as a great arena in which to meet lots of industry people in a short period of time.”

Tor Berthelsen, CEO of KSMV and Elin Vatne, CEO of Boss Industrier found the Top Leader Forum useful and insightful.

Elin Vatne, CEO of Boss Industrier: “It has been a very useful and insightful evening. It is good to spend time with other executives to socialize and talk business. And I appreciated the initial presentation about digitalization of the oil and gas industry.”

Tor Berthelsen, CEO of KSMV: “It is exciting to follow the development within digitalization and big data. The speakers presented excellent examples of how big data is being implemented and illustrated the value of it. The Top Leader Forum is a good mixer for executives in our business.”