Operational Excellence & Risk Management Summit 2019 | International Quality & Productivity Center | 25 February 2019 | Norris Conference Centers, 816 Town and Country Blvd #210, Houston, TX 77024, USA

If you're in a hazardous industry, you're facing more volatility, complexity and risk than ever before. With markets shifting, regulations changing and pressure to increase efficiency in your operations - how can you deliver consistent operational excellence?

Join over 100 business leaders and learn world class strategies for keeping your people safe, your operations productive and your products sustainable at North America’s leading forum on Operational Excellence & Risk Management. This year's event has tracks on Management of Change, Procedure Management, Operational Risk Management, Human Factors, Safety Culture, Asset Risk Management, Process Safety, Environmental Excellence, Digital Transformation and more

• Assess - and improve - your company's safety culture
• Manage change - without compromising business performance
• Lay the foundation for OE by establishing principles that begin with safety - and then applying them to other areas of the business
• Proactively identify and mitigate low probability yet high consequence events
• Improve your Operations Management System to better identify - and eliminate - sources of risk and value loss in your operations
• Implement changes in leadership thinking and behaviors to drive transformation
• Increase risk visibility by optimizing data and information management - and minimize unplanned events
• Establish a unified operational risk strategy - to ultimately improve business performance
• Strengthen your core operating processes to drive enterprise transformation
• Detect whether your work environments, culture and processes are increasing the likelihood of a risk occurring
• Reduce complexity and variability with clearly defined standards and accountabilities
• Benchmark your company against the characteristics of High Reliability Organizations (HROs)

2019 Speakers:

Jérôme Fady
Vice President, Operational Excellence, Arkema

Jennifer Rogers
Head of Learning, AngloAmerican

Michael Britt
Vice President, Energy Innovation Center, Southern Company

Daniel Lebsack
Global Process Safety Management Lead, Baker Hughes, a GE Company

Grigor Bambekov
Director, Performance & Business Excellence, Andeavor Logistics

David McKay
Head of Maintenance, Reliability & Integrity, Hess Corporation

Greg Bussing
Director, Enterprise Business Improvement, Andeavor

Hugo Ashkar
Global Risk Manager, BP

Julie Thyne
North America Continuous Improvement Leader, Dow Chemical

Rémi Raphael
Director, Business Transformation, Duke Energy

Cristian Matei
Head of Business Transformation, Veolia Group

Gregg Kiihne
Director, Process Safety, BASF

Arun Narayanan
Chief Data Officer, AngloAmerican

Linda Hui Linda Hui
Global Customer Operations Continuous Improvement Manager, Shell Oil Company

Alexander Breskvar
Vice President, Quality Management & EHS, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Jose Pires
Former Global Vice President & Director of Business Excellence, Andeavor

Hani Noshi
Manager, Projects Center of Excellence, BHP Billiton

Ranjana Mehta
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University

Camille Peres
Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University

John Bell
Senior Vice President, AKselos

Mike Bearro
Global Process Safety Leader, Rolls-Royce

David Musgrave
Vice President, Consulting Leader, Dekra

Rajni Walia
Principal Consulatnt, Dekra

Bob Koonce
Founder and Managing Partner, High Reliability Group LLC

2018 Past Speakers:

Alexander Breskvar
Director, Quality, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Gregg Kiihne
Director, Process Safety, BASF

Jose Pires
Global Excellence & Innovation Leader Andeavor

Matt DiGeronimo
Vice President, Operations Veolia

Jordan Workman
Director of Client Development, Performance Solutions by Milliken

Jim Wetherbee
Astronaut and Author, Controlling Risk: 30 Techniques for Operating Excellence

Hugo Ashkar
Global Risk Manager, BP

Todd Muscroft
Country Manager, USA, Procedure Accelerator

Mika Neffling
Sales Manager for NAPCON Games, Neste Engineering Solutions

Camille Peres
Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Texas A&M University

Stacy Owens
Director, Operations, American Water Resources

Lisa Primeggia
General Manager, Consolidated Edison

Michael deBettencourt
Director, AVP, SH&E Training and Development, AECOM

David Wilbur
Founding Member and CEO, Vetergy Group

Lance Muniz
Founding Member and COO, Vetergy Group

Robert Guy
Director, Operational Excellence, Duke Energy Corporation

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Global Lean Operations & Corporate Initiatives, EDP Renewables

Kristen Kulinowski
Board Member, US Chemical Safety Board

Christian McDermott
Country Manager, Voovio

Lee J. Laviolette
Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group

Brian Flis
Managing Director and Energy / Industrial Practice Lead Endeavor Management

Francisco Soto
Managing Director and Process Industry Lead Endeavor Management

2019 Sponsors:

PREMIER SPONSORS:
• Sphera

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• AKSELOS
• DEKRA
• High Reliability Group
• NovaTech
• Rolls-Royce
• Voovio