Ocean Industry Leadership (OIL) 2025
November 13, 2025 - November 14, 2025
Future Leaders in the Maritime and Ocean Industries
Welcome to our Leadership Program
Develop skills to navigate global security and trade challenges, energy transition, digital transformation and business excellence.
Designed for leaders in the ocean industries aiming to enhance their strategic capabilities.
Strategic challenges facing the industry
- Navigating an unstable global security and trade landscape
- Energy Trilemma, Zero Emissions goals, and climate neutrality
- Complex digital transformation, (including AI & Cybersecurity)
- Cultural and organizational change
- New business and financing models
Contact Ocean Industry Forum Oslofjord (OIFO) for more information on pricing and registration.
Program
Module 4: Energy, Economics and Sustainability
Theme: Sustainability and green energy transition
Benefits for the participants
- Increased knowledge of global and regional factors
- Enhanced skills in strategic work and transformation ability
- Improved knowledge of business management and financing
- Strengthened industry network: local, regional and international
- Increased attractiveness as an employee and as a leader
Benefits for the OIFO member organisations*
- Positive reputation and increased ability to attract talent
- Strengthened leadership and organizational maturity
- Enhanced innovation capacity and adaptation to change
* and the other partners in the Maritime Oslofjord Alliance
Interested to join our program or learn more about it?
Contact Tom O. Kleppestø, General Manager, OIFO
Phone:
+47 22 33 57 00 / +47 48 14 40 00
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Ocean Industry Leadership (OIL) is developed by BI and OIFO in a fruitful and creative collaboration. OIFO’s board was represented by board members Bern Blikstad (DNB Bank ASA), Henrik Alpo Sjöblom (Kongsberg Maritime AS) and Geir Terje Nevøy (Wilhelmsen Ship Management AS – Wilhelmsen Group) as the program committee.
OIFO is Maritimt Forum Oslofjorden region, which covers 7 counties: Oslo, Akershus, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Østfold, and Innlandet. The Maritime Oslofjord Alliance includes Oslo Shipowners’ Association, i.e. the Oslo Chapter of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, and Shipping & Offshore Network. Our office is at the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association. BI Norwegian Business School is a member of OIFO since its founding in 2012 with professor Randi Lunnan in the Board.
OIL will be offered to members of all three associations. For any non-members who might want to join the program, an additional fee will be added to the program fee.