What to expect from Cognite Impact: 2025
Global industrial AI company Cognite is staging its annual user, partner & customer symposium in Houston, Texas from 13-16 October and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team will be in attendance.
The company says that Impact 2025 will focus on accelerating business operations, processes, mechanics and driving agentic AI… as the organisers bring together luminaries from the energy, manufacturing and life sciences sectors.
Featured speakers include Cognite customers ExxonMobil, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, Idemitsu Kosan, Nova Chemicals, Aker BP, Cosmo Energy Holdings, Nippon Shokubai and HMH.
Microsoft (you know what this company does), SLB (digital software for the energy industry, integrating domain knowledge, technology and data to optimise operations) and Radix (document and device management and analytics) are the event’s platinum sponsors.
“To truly unleash agentic AI in industrial operations, Cognite has emphasised an AI-ready data foundation and an open ecosystem,” said Girish Rishi, CEO, Cognite. “At Cognite, we’re building the bridge from AI’s potential to proven business value. Impact 2025 [will enable users to] witness how real-world leaders, customers and partners are leveraging our industrial AI platform to create a more efficient, sustainable, and profitable future.”
Rishi and team further point out that today, agentic AI-driven automation is rapidly becoming a requirement for industrial organisations to remain competitive.
Early A(I)dopters
According to a 2025 report from Capgemini, 82% of organisations are planning to integrate AI agents into their operations by 2027. This surge in adoption is driven by a suggestion that early adopters are already seeing measurable business value, including 25-40% efficiency gains in automated workflows.
“Impact connects innovators to share ideas, learn together, and grow faster,” said Josh Dotson, industry 4.0 capability leader at manufacturing and industrial process control company Koch, a Cognite partner. “In a rapidly changing Industry 4.0 environment, partnerships and knowledge sharing are essential. The connections we make at Impact give us the insights and confidence to accelerate our transformation with more speed and less risk.”
Cognite says that the event’s keynote plenaries and other speakers will examine how AI is being harnessed to accelerate growth, change industries and create value.
Speakers will include: Karl Johnny Hersvik, CEO of Aker BP; Noriko Rzonca, chief digital officer of Cosmo Energy Holdings; Sameer Purao, global CIO & CDO of Celanese; and Bjørnar Erikstad, general manager of Foundation VI.
Building digital strategies
Breakout sessions will focus on agentic AI for industry, the business impact that exists “beyond the AI hype” (says the company) with an opportunity to learn how to track the business outcomes of a digital strategy.
In pursuit of operational excellence, Cognite will explore how AI integration can increase production capacity, enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk. There will be a central focus on how firms should build a scalable, AI-ready data foundation… and that means being able to discover how to solve the industrial data problem by contextualising data.
“We’re empowering our customers to accelerate their digital transformation and unlock significant value by turning AI agents into a foundational part of their operations,” said CPO, Chirayu Shah. “This event is designed to explain how IT teams can hepl organisations move towards autonomous operations and scale AI.”
Cognite Atlas AI is a low-code workbench for building industrial AI agents. Integrated with the data foundation provided by Cognite Data Fusion, Atlas AI makes agentic AI capabilities accessible for industrial organisations to use and improve their existing workflows.
Lifting up heavy-asset industries
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Phoenix with a global footprint extending to Tokyo, Houston and Austin, Cognite works in the “heavy-asset industries” sector such as manufacturing, petrochemicals, mining, energy, telecommunications and other industrial facility operations.
The company has also invested in operations in Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru.
With platform updates sure to feature at the show itself, let’s find out how software application developers, data scientists, systems architects and other key IT staff will be interacting with this company’s technology now and in the future.
