Bent Erik Bjørkli is vice President and Head of the Kognifai Partner Program, Digital Ocean, at Kongsberg Digital. He believes in a more efficient, collaborative and transparent maritime industry, using digitization as a tool to make it happen. He sees it as his job is to offer the best combined solutions through external partnerships with the early adopters in offshore and shipping.

His background is from the Norwegian Naval Academy and submarine services, followed by various customer support and product positions in Kongsberg. He is now leading a team to create a growing coalition of companies that want to work with KONGSBERG to improve efficiency at sea using new technologies through a digital ecosystem called Kognifai.

We talk about disruption through partnerships and how smaller teams can succeed where larger organizations fail.