Dig X Subsurface

SCANDIC LILLESTRØM | OSLO | NORWAY
02-03 DECEMBER 2026 || DIGEX.NO

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About

Geoscience meets technology in the digitalization community.

New digital tools and applications can be catalysts and a competitive edge in better decision-making, evaluation, and improved inter-disciplinary subsurface understanding, in our efforts to to meet the energy demands of tomorrow!

Why?

Digitalization of the subsurface is a rapidly developing field. We are witnessing significant progress in embracing technology opportunities. Yet, there are still challenges and language barriers addressed.

At DigXSubsurface, we lay a foundation for trust in new tools, data, and applications through the presentation of case studies, key learnings, and best practices to develop next-generation subsurface workflows.

For whom?

Geoscientists, data scientists, and digitalization professionals working within the subsurface domain in the traditional and renewable industries:

Oil companies
Service companies
Technology providers
Authorities
Research and educational institutions

Organized by

Digital Academy

advancing our understanding of the subsurface with data science

Knowledge Transfer in the Energy Transition

Registration

Name: DigXSubsurface 2026
Start: 2026-12-02T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-03T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Scandic Lillestrøm

Please contact Ingvild Carstens, events@geopublishing.no, for information about pricing for start-ups, students and out-of-work professionals.

Terms & Conditions:
GeoPublishing AS reserve the right to alter the program. Substitutions to your registration may be made at any time by contacting the organizers in writing on events@geopublishing.no.

Cancellations:

Cancellations must be received in writing to events@geopublishing.no within 30 days of the conference and will be subject to a 20% administration fee. We regret that no refunds can be made after the cancellation deadline. Any cancellations received after the deadline will be liable for the full fee.

Accomodation

SCANDIC LILLESTRØM

NB! Available rooms from 01-02 December. If you need to book before/after, please e-mail events@geopublishing.no, and we can assist you.

Standard single room incl. breakfast, 1 night

01 December - NOK 1,950 incl. VAT
02 December - NOK 1,950 incl. VAT

You can book your hotel room directly when you register for the conference.

How to get there

Stillverksveien 28,
Lillestrom

Flytoget or Vy from Oslo Airport to Lillestrøm

Parking

Parking is available at the hotel

Digital Trailblazer Award

The Digital Trailblazer Award will be presented at Dig X Subsurface 2026

A digital trailblazer paves the way for others, creating a substantial impact and serving as a precursor to further digital innovation and value creation in the subsurface geoscience community. At Dig X Subsurface, we recognize and celebrate these exceptional individuals who dare to push boundaries, think outside the box, and lead the way for their peers as trailblazers driving the subsurface geoscience community into a digital future.

Criteria for nomination

A visionary thinker

Nominees should stand out as visionary in the digital subsurface domain, presenting groundbreaking and innovative perspectives while challenging traditional "silo-based" approaches within the subsurface community.

An interdisciplinary mindset

Demonstrating an interdisciplinary mindset, showcasing their ability to transfer knowledge across different fields.

Thinking outside the box

Draw inspirations from other domains (e.g health technology, as demonstrated by the previous winner) beyond their expertise.

Value creation and impact

The technology developed should already have demonstrated significant value or high impact or have the potential for significant value creation/impact in the future.

The Dig X Subsurface program committee evaluate the nominations and we invite the geoscience community to vote for their favorite during the conference. The program committee will take into account the results of the vote, and select a winner based on a combination of the vote and award criteria.

The winner is announced during the conference dinner on 02 December 2026.

Previous Winners

2023: Robert B. Williams, Senior Biostratigrapher at NPD

2024: Matt Hall, Scientific Programmer at Equinor

2026: Anders Waldeland, Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Centre

NOMINATE

Program

Preliminary Program

Digital Academy

TBA
TBA

Agentic AI / Next generation subsurface workflows

From workflow to agent: Structural-uncertainty ensembles in Petrel
Umedzhon Kakhkhorov, Senior Software Analyst Geoscience at Cegal

Agentic quality control for multimodal table classification in oil and gas archives
Yuchen Mao, Machine Learning Engineer, at Viridien

From data to prospect with the PSS-GEO Subsurface AI-driven platform
Vita Kalashnikova, CEO at PSS-GEO

Multi-agent reporting solution for wellbore interpretation reports
Shilpi Gupta, Domain Data Scientist - Production - TL at SLB

From data to decisions: Towards an agentic well benchmarking assistant for accelerated well planning
Gyunay Namazova, Senior Advisor Reservoir Technology at Petoro & Michael Nickel, Principal Data Scientist at SLB

Foundation Models

Tokens are cheap; Taxonomy is hard evaluating VLM performance on an open palynology benchmark
David Wade, Researcher, Geoscience Data & Analytics at Equinor

Operationalising seismic foundation model features for exploration search and interpretation
Yann Van Crombrugge, Senior Data Scientist and Aina Bugge, Senior Data Scientist at Aker BP

Subsurface Foundation models – The next wave of Subsurface AI
John Brittan, Chief Geophysicist at TGS

Preliminary Program

Gen AI & LLM's

Unlocking unstructured E&P reports: Grounding GenAI in OSDU reference data to standardize well operations reporting
Saradh Tiwari at SLB

"Screen the fault seals, match to July, show me the fan": Executing ensemble-based reservoir workflows with LLM agents
Åsmund Hugo, CEO & Engineer at Svøpe

Stratigraphy-guided AI for reservoir characterization in geologically complex fields
Åsmund Heir, CEO at Ragnarock Geo

Faciesvision: What is my ensemble showing me?
Ashley Clarke, Advanced Geologist at Aker BP

Data management & OSDU

Beyond ingestion: The journey to OSDU-ready seismic data
Sebastian Grebe, Product Manager at Cegal

From survey reports to linked OSDU records: Liberating two decades of Troll monitoring data
Varun Sharman at Equinor

Automated reconciliation, QC and loading of subsurface data to Petrel Studio
Håvar Haaland Sæther, Energy Consultant at Cegal

Program Committee

Joanne Suffert

Technical Sales Advisor at Cegal

Petter Dischington

Geoscientist at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

David Wade

Researcher Geoscience Data & Analytics at Equinor

Pierre Le Guern

VP Customer Success Head at Eliis

Khushboo Havelia

Product Analyst at SLB

Adnan Latif

Head of AI and Global Services at Bluware

Odd Kolbjørnsen

Senior Advanced Data Scientist at Aker BP

Ingvild Ryggen Carstens

General Manager at GeoPublishing

Ronny Setså

Editor in Chief at GeoPublishing

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