10th Annual Digitalization in Oil and Gas Conference 2024 | Energy Conference Network | 4 September 2024 | Hilton Americas-Houston, 1600 Lamar St, Houston, TX 77010, USA

This event continues to explore the intersection between digitalization and decarbonization and the transformation required across the sector to remain relevant, resilient and achieve business value. Building for tomorrow, creating facilities for the future, planning for a lower carbon market, and realizing value are key objectives for the energy sector.

Operators are currently seeking simple solutions to routine problems that can be deployed across their organizations. Realizing capabilities and value whilst scaling up existing solutions are key priorities for the teams involved in the digital transformation journey, but deployment remains an obstacle. To address the challenge of aging assets, it is important for operators to continue digitizing and modernizing their facilities and create new capabilities to extend the lifetime.

Key questions to consider in 2024
Strategy:
• How is bimodal transformation and IT/OT convergence continuing to impact the sector?
• Is data organization and the age of experimentation largely over and deployment is the priority?
• Will the consolidation and mergers enable faster deployment of technology solutions across organizations and drive value on a larger scale?
• How are large-scale operators investing for the future to ensure they stay relevant?
• Is it time to replace digital transformation with sustainable transformation?
• Will the potential reduction in IT budgets have a positive or negative impact on innovation?

Technology:
• How will new technologies and new thinking play out against scaling up of existing technologies?
• How will the rise of DeepTech solutions - providing technology solutions based on substantial scientific or engineering challenges, impact the energy sector?
• What defines a "digital transformation" project? Does this include any new software? Or is there a specific threshold that flags something as a digital transformation?
• What end applications of digitalization have unlocked the most value to date?
• Are the cloud environments just a stop gap until we can get the systems that move the product smart enough to handle it?
• How can the industry ensure that data gathering and consumption isn’t compounding GHG issues?
• How much GHG reductions have been achieved using digitization and how do you quantify that?

Talent:
• Are corporate culture (including leadership) and organizational structure some of the biggest impediments to true digital transformation?
• How can operators attract top-tier talent to join digital teams which typically may not be the primary choice for IT professionals?
• How can operators address individual support and training for the future while keeping an engaged individual?
• With so many companies investing in the same areas, a gap has been created between supply/demand of talent for AI and Automation, how are organizations thinking about addressing this issue and ensuring they have the talent in place to deliver on these initiatives while keeping costs down?
• What steps are being taken to break the knowledge gap for digital proficiency and capabilities?

2024 Speakers

ADVISORY BOARDS:

Todd Anslinger
IIoT & Automation Specialist, Chevron Technology Center Asset Performance

Jim Claunch
Expert Partner, Bain & Company

Andrea Course
Digital Innovation Program Manager, Shell

Ahmed Hashmi
Managing Partner, e-squared capital LP and e-squared advisors LLC

Tracy Paddock Beam
Board Member, AccelESG

SPEAKERS:

Kevin Alborzi
Lead Product Manager, BP

Ali AlGhamdi
Digital Transformation Director, Aramco

Nawaf Alhaddad
Innovation & Technology Officer, Aramco

Varun Anand
Enterprise Architect and Business Partner, Lubrizol Corporation

Todd Anslinger
IIoT & Automation Specialist, Chevron Technology Center Asset Performance

Kevin Armstrong
Chief Revenue Officer, Summit Hosting

Srimoyee Bhattacharya
Data Science Team Lead, Shell Oil Company

Morgan Bowling
Director, Industry, Seeq

Brandon Brown
VP & CTO, Vital Energy

Erjola Buzi
Sensors Technology Manager, Dow

Ryan Carlson
Technology Evangelist, Soracom

Navdeep Chawla
Head of Digital, Civitas Resources

Shuxing Cheng
Principal Research Data Scientist, Chevron

Jim Claunch
Expert Partner, Bain & Company

Andrea Course
Digital Innovation Program Manager, Shell

Joe Davis
VP and Chief Information Officer, Continental Resources

Greg Dolezal
VP Information Technology, Diamondback Energy

Clark Dressen
Principal, Dressen Consulting

Tanima Dutta
Geophysical Advisor, ONGC Videsh

Hani Elshahawi
Managing Director, NoviDigiTech

Shaam Farooq
Chief Information Officer, Atlas Energy Solutions

Apurva Gala
Principal Science Expert - AI, Shell

Christine Galib
Early-Stage Startup Advisor | Adjunct Professor | Author

Jason Gislason
Chief Digital Officer, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

Lucas Green
Director, Technical Excellence, Contango Resources

Al Lindseth
Principal, CI5O Advisory

Diogo Lino Machado
IT Manager, Petrobras

Eli Maftoum
Senior Project Manager, Cohesive

Sandeep Mukherjee
Petrophysicist Advisor, Apache Corporation

Tracy Paddock Beam
Board Member, AccelESG

Sudhir Pai
Chairman-Board of Directors, Technology Collaboration Center

Evgenia Polyakova
Digital Science Lead, BP

Andre Seichi Ribeiro Kuramoto
Senior Consultant, Electronic Engineer, Petrobras

Heath Satterfield
CIO, Devon Energy

Sarah Jane Sherman
Vice President Supply Chain Management, Excelerate Energy

Yousef Hamedi Shokrlu
Senior Data Scientist, Ovintiv

Kate Stevenson
CEO/Co-Founder, Novus Consulting

Baha Tanju
Digitalization Lead, Chevron

Tim Tarpley
President, Energy Workforce & Technology Council

Allison Kennedy Thurmond
VP Asset Management, Equinor

Lisa Williams
Operations Contract Labor Strategy Director, Dow

2024 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cohesive
• Seeq
• Servicenow
• Soracom
• Zededa

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Summit