Steffan’s focus area is on the interface between OT and IT, and setting a direction and vision for making operational data and information from the physical world available in the IT platform in a secure and interoperable way through data capture, contextualization, and distribution across the value chain with the purpose to support analytics, monitoring, optimization, and business processes. Steffan has been at Equinor since 2011 and has had several roles within the OT/IT integration landscape. He was an OT/IT architect in the Johan Sverdrup project for 5 years, one of the largest oil & gas fields in Norway, where the main activity was to drive adoption and implementation of OPC UA as a connectivity framework within OT and between OT and IT. Steffan has been the lead IT architect in Equinor’s Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) supporting all plants with forward looking operations based on data and insights, and since January 2017 he has been an architect in Omnia Industrial IoT Platform, Equinor’s platform in Microsoft Azure collecting sensor data from Equinor operated plants (oil & gas and wind) and making them available through APIs to internal and external clients all over the world.