The Connected Worker: Energy Summit 2025 | ASDEvents | 18 March 2025 | The Westin Galleria Houston, 5060 W Alabama St, Houston, TX 77056, USA

The Energy Industry's Only Event Dedicated to Transforming Frontline Operations

For many energy companies, day-to-day workflows for managing critical operational activities rely on face-to-face communication, paper and spreadsheets.

This manual way of working reduces efficiency, control, quality, compliance and response times - and increases operating expenses.

Connected Worker solutions provide the opportunity to unify your workforce and operational processes into a single digital workflow.

With these solutions, oil and gas and utility companies can gain real-time visibility into field and plant-critical activities and improve how frontline workers track, monitor, and collaborate on operational processes, improving their accuracy, efficiency, and safety.

This event provides the opportunity for you to get hands-on with the essential solutions you need to empower your frontline workforce, hear real-word case studies from energy and utility leaders, and network with your industry peers.

Join Over 300 Digital and Operations Leaders and Learn how To:
• Create a safer work environment, boost compliance and improve efficiencies through automation
• Make your data mobile and reduce rework, downtime and time to decision
• Improve workforce mobility and maximize the use of data to continuously enhance process and asset performance
• Increase collaboration, remove organizational silos and enable cross-functional decision making throughout the asset lifecycle and supply chain
• Increase user adoption of connected worker technology
• Give field workers access to the information they need, where and when they need it

What is a Connected Worker?
A Connected Worker is Efficient, Informed, Collaborative, Productive, Mobile, Safe, and Connected. This is achieved by having remote communication tools which allow collaboration with colleagues, facilities and control centers, anytime, anywhere. Real-time access to data and digital work instructions, when and where it is necessary. Access to safety protocols, real-time updates and hazard alerts to reduce the risk of accidents and injuries, access to operational intelligence to aid fast and accurate data-driven decisions, and so much more.

Discover the solutions to create your own Connected Workforce

Key Topics of Discussion Include:
• Driving Profit through Increased Workforce Collaboration & Productivity: Shell, Coca-Cola, Murphy Oil and Civitas Resources discuss how their use of AI and Data Analytics technology makes this a reality.
• Enhancing Enterprise Agility through Data Analytics: BASF, CNX, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Koch, and Thermon Inc reveal ways to break down data siloes and enhance enterprise agility, frontline collaboration, and data-driven decision-making.
• Identifying Use Cases for Gen AI: Learn how Albemarle, ENGIE North America Inc & Georgia Pacific are using Gen AI to unlock new levels of plant and field performance.
• Making your Data Mobile: Hess Corporation will share how their new scheduling tool is reducing downtime and driving efficiency in the field.

2025 Speakers

Reynaldo Gonzalez
Principal Cybersecurity Architect, Cummins Inc.

Mason Jones
Manufacturing Digital Manager, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

Jan Shumate
Director Worldwide Engineering & Construction Solutions/Corp Manufacturing Automation Transformation, Eastman

Ted Stoves
Product Owner – Connected Worker Group, Chevron

Ron Norris
Director of Innovation, Georgia Pacific LLC

Chiru Botre
Engineering Researcher II, Digital Transformation and Innovation, Kaneka North America LLC

Robert Pitts
Global Projects IT, Global Projects IT Discovery and Strategy Manager, ExxonMobil

Mark A. Prosser
Digital Manufacturing Mobility Advisor, ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery

Samuel Parra
NA Manufacturing Integration Lead (GEC/DI), BASF

Kimberly Williams
Vice President Syrup Manufacturing NAOU, The Coca-Cola Company