Cognite Sets Ambitious $100 Billion Moonshot Goal at Impact 2025, Showcasing Industrial AI Leadership
Cognite, the global leader in industrial AI, has announced a bold moonshot goal to deliver $100 billion in realized customer value by 2035 during its annual Industrial AI and Data Conference, Impact 2025. The sold-out event, which saw attendance more than double year-over-year, underscores Cognite’s leadership in driving digital transformation across industries through artificial intelligence. With a theme centered on “Unlocking AI,” the conference brought together top industrial customers, partners, and AI innovators to demonstrate how organizations are transitioning from vision to tangible business impact.
Unlocking AI: A Blueprint for Transformation
In his opening keynote, “Unlock AI to Accelerate Value,” Cognite CEO Girish Rishi outlined the critical factors propelling industrial digital transformation. He emphasized the transformative role of AI in unlocking value at multiple levels—workforce, value chain, and ecosystem—and highlighted the centrality of the Cognite Industrial AI and Data Platform in achieving these goals.
Rishi elaborated on three key pillars of Cognite’s strategy:
- Unlock the Workforce: Leveraging agentic AI and AI-ready, intelligent data to augment the industrial workforce. This empowers employees with actionable insights, enabling them to make smarter decisions faster.
- Unlock the Value Chain: Extending the reach of AI and intelligent data from the plant floor to the enterprise level and across the supply chain. This ensures seamless integration and maximizes operational efficiency.
- Unlock the Ecosystem: Building open platforms that foster collaboration and drive AI-driven value across an expanded partner ecosystem. By democratizing access to AI tools, Cognite is accelerating innovation and adoption.
“Cognite’s moonshot goal is to deliver $100 billion of realized value to customers by 2035,” said Rishi. “This bold goal is not just an aspiration; it’s a pledge of partnership. By unlocking the workforce, the value chain, and the entire ecosystem through Industrial AI, we are committed to making that value a tangible reality for every single customer.”
Real-World AI Success Stories Take Center Stage
The conference agenda was meticulously designed to showcase practical, high-impact AI implementations across multiple industrial verticals, including chemicals, life sciences, and energy. Attendees heard firsthand from industry leaders who demonstrated scalable AI use cases, providing valuable insights into their digital transformation journeys.
Key highlights included:
- Aker BP’s AI Journey: CEO Karl Johnny Hersvik shared how the company achieved success by adopting a holistic data approach and reorganizing its business to accelerate AI transformation. His keynote, “Unlocking AI Transformation for Asset-Heavy Industries,” underscored the importance of leveraging data as a strategic asset.
- TotalEnergies’ Data Layer Investment: Vice President of Data & Digital Technologies Emmanuelle Brechet detailed how TotalEnergies is accelerating digital transformation by investing in a robust data layer across 39 assets. This investment empowers domain experts and captures the full potential of AI, driving measurable business outcomes.
“The energy at Impact 2025 is buzzing, with lots of great conversations and excitement,” said Niels Andersen, Principal Analyst & Research Director at LNS Research. “Cognite’s moonshot goal to create $100 billion in customer value is inspiring and shows the company has the right priorities. The customer presentations are insightful; they show real projects, real learning, and real value. Cognite and the user base are now entering a new era where the knowledge graph will empower Atlas AI™ to contextualize and process more data than any human can do, with the promise to deliver valuable insights faster and with higher precision.”
Celebrating Excellence Across the Ecosystem
Cognite also celebrated groundbreaking AI innovation and value by announcing the winners of its annual Cognite Awards, which recognize excellence across the global ecosystem. Finalists spanned diverse geographies and industries, including process and discrete manufacturing, energy, and beyond. This year’s winners included:
- ADNOC Offshore: Recognized for AI Innovation.
- Aker BP: Honored for Business Impact.
- Microsoft: Named AI Partner of the Year.
Individual accolades went to Noriko Rzonca, Chief Digital Officer of Cosmo Energy Holdings, for championing industrial change both within her organization and across Japan’s industrial community. Aditya Kotiyal, Integration Champion at SLB, was recognized as the top Cognite Community MVP for his contributions.
Unveiling Groundbreaking Product Advancements
Throughout the event, Cognite unveiled major advancements in its product portfolio, solidifying its position as the leading Industrial AI and data platform. Key developments include:
- Breakthrough Industrial User Experience: A redesigned, AI-enabled interface simplifies complex workflows, augments decision-making, and delivers insights directly to operations, maintenance, and production teams. This enhancement ensures that users can harness the full power of AI without requiring specialized expertise.
- Scalable Agentic AI Applications: Cognite introduced a new Industrial Experience for Partners, enabling them to build scalable, low-code/no-code agentic AI applications. This initiative expands the open data ecosystem, fostering greater collaboration and innovation.
- Advanced Anomaly Detection: In partnership with the world’s AI infrastructure leader, Cognite delivered scalable predictive AI insights through LLM-based time series anomaly detection. This cutting-edge capability allows organizations to identify anomalies in real-time, improving operational reliability and reducing downtime.
“The new capabilities we unveiled at Impact 2025 mark a pivotal step in achieving our goal to deliver $100 billion of realized value to customers by 2035,” said Chirayu Shah, Cognite Chief Product Officer. “By introducing highly intuitive industrial experiences, an expanded set of powerful AI agents, and advanced anomaly detection powered by time series LLMs, we are reshaping the industrial software landscape. With an open ecosystem approach, the unified Cognite Industrial AI and Data platform is enabling customers to achieve more business value at a significantly faster pace than ever before.”
Platinum Sponsorship Elevates the Event
The success of Impact 2025 was further amplified by the support of Platinum Sponsors such as AWS, Microsoft, Radix, and SLB. Their contributions underscored the collaborative spirit of the conference, highlighting the importance of partnerships in driving industrial AI forward.
A New Era of Industrial AI
With its ambitious moonshot goal, groundbreaking product innovations, and a thriving ecosystem of partners and customers, Cognite is poised to redefine the future of industrial AI. By focusing on unlocking the workforce, value chain, and ecosystem, the company is delivering tangible results that empower organizations to thrive in an increasingly data-driven world.
For businesses seeking to harness the transformative power of AI, Cognite’s Impact 2025 demonstrated that the path to success lies in collaboration, innovation, and a relentless focus on delivering real-world value.
About Cognite
Cognite makes Generative AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable industrial data & AI platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
