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Norris Conference Centers - Houston/CityCentre
Norris Conference Centers - Houston/CityCentre, 816 Town and Country Blvd #210, Houston, TX 77024, USA

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Event Date Mon Feb 24 CST - Tue Feb 25 CST (3 months ago)
In your timezone (EDT): Mon Feb 24 1:00am - Tue Feb 25 1:00am
Location Norris Conference Centers - Houston/CityCentre
816 Town and Country Blvd #210, Houston, TX 77024, USA
Region Americas
Details

The energy challenges we face today have far reaching impacts beyond the sector that require industry partnerships, innovation and collaboration. AI has a critical role to play in navigating these challenges, and energy companies at the forefront are infusing AI into every facet of their operations to optimize production, sustainability and operational efficiencies.

Join 150+ senior operations, digital, data and AI leaders from this event, and unlock the potential of AI within your enterprise. Key points of discussion for 2025 include:

• Pair Digital Twins and Gen AI
• Move Beyond Pilot Purgatory to Scale AI Across the Enterprise
• Leverage gen AI and Data Intelligence to unlock Asset Reliability and Performance
• Monitor, Report and Forecast Emissions Data using AI
• Make the Most of Historical Data to Extract More Value From Existing Infrastructure
• Future proof your AI Investment
• Empower field teams with decision-ready data, simplified maintenance workflows and institutionalized knowledge capture
• Inject Data Driven Decisions into Daily Workflows

6 Key Themes:
• Creating an AI Strategy
Entergy, Crowley, ExxonMobil, Shell and CPChem will share how they set up AI and data functions, secured buy-in from the business and the field, and augmented their workforce to drive better and faster decision making

• Maximizing AI Based Maintenance and Asset Management
Hear Chevron discuss how ML is simplifying digital asset twin development, while ExxonMobil reveal how they are leveraging predictive analytics to reduce downtime in their Permian operations

• Identifying Use Cases for Gen AI
Learn how Shell, Dow, and AAPG are using Gen AI to unlock new operational efficiencies, generating tens of millions of dollars in business impact

• Building the Data Foundation for AI
Hear Noble Corp share how they are automating maintenance management with data models, and BP explain how to leverage Causal AI to objectively analyze “what-if” scenarios and turn data into insights

• Scaling AI Projects
Entergy’s Chief AI Officer will share how they scaled AI to enhance grid reliability, deliver value and drive sustainable growth

• Build, Buy, or Both? Future Proofing your AI Investment
AES, Western Midstream, G.I.S and ExxonMobil will examine how to approach AI-project prioritization and maximize the full potential (and risk!) of AI investments

Speakers

2025 Speakers

Andy Quick
Chief AI Officer, Entergy

Sumeet Trehan
Principal, AI/ML, ExxonMobil

Ido Biger
Chief Technology & Data Officer, Delek US

Peng Xu
Senior Principal, Data Science, ExxonMobil

Bala Rangaratnam
Senior Manager of Data Science, Chevron

Partha Chatterjee
Digital Transformation Expert, Independent

Mark Bohn
Vice President, Transformation and Enterprise Portfolio Management, Western Midstream

Giang Mai
Digital Science Principal - Digital Science and Engineering Team, bp

Brent Railey
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

Paolo Morra
Director of Analytics, DTE Energy

Nav Chawla
Head of Digital, Civitas Resources

Apurva Bedagkar-Gala PhD
Senior AI Solutions Researcher, Shell

Meenakshi Mishra
Principal Data Scientist, ExxonMobil

Dr. Ashwani Dev
Chief Digital Officer, Crowley

Christopher McQuillin
Senior Director, Technical Maintenance Center, Noble Corporation

Erin Boyd
Chief Digital Commercial Transformation Officer, AES Corporation

Amit Kumar
Data Science Technical Project Manager, ExxonMobil

Cathy Normand
Upstream Data Governance Principal, ExxonMobil

Swee-Teng Chin
Statistics Technical Leader, Dow

Dr. Susan Nash
Director of Innovation & Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG

Jason Gee
Data Science Manager, ExxonMobil

Joshua Holtz
Data Science Manager, Dow

Kamil Poplawski
Manager of Reliability and Condition Based Maintenance, Noble Corporation

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Business Process Excellence, EDP

Taylor Witt
Vice President, Digital & PMO, energyRe

Julie Thyne
Global Improvement Director, Dow

Laura Tibodeau
Chief Technology Officer, DAI Global, Inc.

Dr. Michael D. Moore Ph.D.
Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation, Neo4j

Douglas Stephens
Account Executive, Detect Technologies

Ryan Bankhead
SVP Global Sales & Operations, Savant Labs

Maya D'Souza
Digital Science Associate, bp

Dr. Yue Hu
Asset Management Specialist, bp

Diti Sood
Co-Founder and CEO, Bolo AI

Venky Sankaran
AI & Analytics Leader, HSE&C, Sustainability and Process Safety, bp

Hugo Sheng
Senior Director of Engineering, Qlik

Sathisan Vannadil
Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

Jon Krome
Industry Principal - Energy, Celonis

Christian Barlow
Principal Value Engineer, Celonis

Tammy Giesler-Hagans
President of Houston Chapter, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)

Sponsors & Partners

2025 Sponsors

• Bolo.ai
• Celonis
• Detect
• Neo4j
• Qlik
• Savant
• Ansys
• AutogenAI
• EcoMetricx
• Fivetran
• Innovapptive