29 May SIRIUS General Assembly held 21-22 May 2019

SIRIUS holds a meeting of its General Assembly twice a year, in May and November. The meeting brings together the academic and industrial partners in the centre for two days of discussing research results and networking. This year the meeting was hosted by Schlumberger at their technology centre in Asker. The program consisted of plenary lectures by innovation leaders in Schlumberger, Equinor, IBM and SINTEF. These were followed by posters and demonstrations of work from the SIRIUS Beacons. Day one concluded with demonstrations of partner’s tools and integration frameworks: Schlumberger’s DELFI platform, Kadme‘s WhereOil, Equinor’s Sepes sandbox for data sharing, DNV GL’s Veracity, IBM’s Cognitive Discovery Pipeline and SAP’s HANA integration platforms.

The second day started with presentations from two new partners: Aibel and SINTEF. This was followed by research keynotes by Martin G. Skjæveland, who presented the Ontology Engineering research program, and Geir Horn, leader of the Scalable Computing program, who presented the Melodic EU project and its linkages to SIRIUS. The meeting concluded with a poster session highlighting our research programs and individual Ph.D. projects.

The business meeting held on the afternoon of the 21st approved two new partners in SIRIUS: SINTEF Digital and Aker Solutions.