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Event Date | Mon May 13 EDT - Thu May 16 EDT (7 months ago) |
Location |
Hotel Arts, Calgary, Alberta
119 12 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0G8, Canada |
Region | Americas |
The energy sector is facing a period of transformative change. Enterprises must adapt to rising energy demands, address net-zero regulations and targets, and integrate comprehensive digital strategies to leverage innovative technologies across the business, all while maintaining day-to-day operations and minimizing disruption.
This year’s Summit will provide you with key insights and tools for navigating the complexities of transformation without compromising operational performance. The 2024 program expands on the success of our 10+ years serving Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals and Resources to ensure long term, embedded transformation. With a highly interactive agenda featuring over 30 industry-leading speakers through a range of keynotes, panels, workshops, and peer-led discussion groups, the 2024 summit will give you the skills needed to navigate the transformation of your organization’s culture, processes, and technology effectively, all while accelerating sustainability and maintaining your competitive advantage in a volatile market. Key themes for 2024 include:
• Driving enterprise level transformation: Strategy, processes, technology, leadership and culture
• Delivering transformation at scale while balancing short-term pressures and maintaining the integrity of operations
• Thriving through disruption: Investing in your assets, infrastructure and people
• Realizing the full promise of new and innovative technologies such as generative AI, predictive analytics, connected worker technologies and more
• Maintaining trust during transformation - with employees, customers, investors, vendors and regulators
• Identifying your company's distinctive capabilities and aligning them with your transformation goals
• Organizational design and governance: What does successful transformation look like?
• Planning for the operational and organizational impact of decarbonization and the sustainability agenda
2024 Speakers
Joy Romero
President, Clean Resource Innovation Network
Tim Barnes
Head of Technology Foundation Architecture, Enbridge
Roeland Vertriest
Chief Transformation Officer, DuPont
Joseph Muglia
Director, System Operations and Grid Automation, Hydro Ottawa
Caralyn Bennett
President, Canadian Heavy Oil Association
David Grosvenor
Continuous Improvement Manager,Business Transformation, Shell
Charlotte Plombin
Director, Low Carbon - Canada, ConocoPhillips
Wajeehullah Arain
Director - Process operations, Refinery Leadership Team, Co-op Refinery Complex
Biju Misra
Director, Corporate Business Services/Automation Center of Excellence, Enbridge
Tammy Bilbo-Palms
Superintendent - Operational Excellence, TotalEnergies
Hugo Ashkar
Risk Authority – Wells, Projects, and Subsurface Organizations, BP
Justin Ceterski
Global Plant Operations Excellence Lead, Shell
Albert Kouam Kamdem
Team lead, Information Management, Operations support & Optimization, ConocoPhillips
Carlos Sarmiento
Diversity and Inclusion Director, SLB
Matthew O'Connor
Former Senior External Communications Advisor, PETRONAS Canada
Gary Brown
EAM Manager, Denbury Inc.
Philip Evbomoen
Corporate Talent Manager, SLB
Dr. Wendy Cukier
Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Jeremy van Loon
Director, Sustainability, Parkland
Julie Thyne
Global Improvement Director, Dow, Inc.
Mashel Gonyora
Manager SHE:Enablement, Compliance and Assurance, Sasol
Richard Itiveh
Vice President Asset Management, TransAlta Corporation
Denis Drolet
Senior Operations Engineer, Real Time Operations, Vermilion Energy
Reynaldo Glombowski
Process Improvement Lead, TC Energy
Gérard Lachance M Sc.A
Continuing Education Consultant, University of Sherbrooke
Jose Pires
Founder & CEO, Global Excellence & Innovation
Dr. Gabriela Silva
Manager, Sustainability, TransAlta Corporation
Michael Henry
Manager of Data Analytics, ARC Resources
2024 Sponsor
• Voovio