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IO Center organized an innovation forum for speakers, advisory board, program committee and invited guests for a network dinner 14 September and a workshop 15 September.

Place: SAS Radisson BLU Royal Garden
Network dinner: Wednesday 14 September 19:00 – 22:00
Work shop: Thursday 15 September 09:00 – 15:00

Network dinner Wednesday September 14th:
Key address by Professor Jon Kleppe, Chairman of IO Center Board, IO Center and Manager of Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at NTNU, Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics

Preventing Major Accidents Workshop
Proactive safety and environmental management – how can we cope with the unexpected?

Chaired by:
Lars Bodsberg, Sintef Technology-and-Society
Inge Manfred Carlsen, SINTEF-Petroleum-Research

Introduction for the work shop
When experiencing accidents like Deepwater Horizon, an obvious question is how could so much go wrong at the same time? Answering this question is not straightforward, but an important aspect is how to manage an increasing degree of complexity.

This increasing complexity in offshore operations results in new demands on how we think about safety and it has been questioned whether safety research has failed to keep pace with the otherwise rapid technological development.

We need innovative thinking concerning how to cope with the unexpected. Furthermore, we need to improve our capabilities to interact and make decisions in an environment of increasing degree of complexity and uncertainty.