The Leading Event Dedicated to Leveraging AI to Power Intelligent Operations and Maximize Asset Performance
Returning, February 23-25, 2026
Houston, TX
The 2025 AI in Energy Summit welcomed more than 150 senior operations, digital, data, and AI leaders from across the energy sector, for two action-packed days of learning and networking.
The summit took place in Houston, where leaders gathered to learn how to leverage AI to drive asset performance and operational efficiencies across their organization. Through 10+ real-world operator case studies, 4 dedicated tracks, four 90-minute operator-led workshops, multiple keynotes, and much more, attendee's walked away with valuable knowledge in how to create an AI strategy, identify use cases of AI, build the data foundation for AI and how to scale AI projects.
After an incredible Summit, the 3rd AI in Energy Summit will take place in February 23-25, 2026!
2025 Speaker Recap
Sumeet Trehan
Principal, AI/ML
ExxonMobil
Ido Biger
Chief Technology & Data Officer
Delek US
Bala Rangaratnam
Senior Manager of Data Science
Chevron
Partha Chatterjee
Digital Transformation Expert
Independent
Giang Mai
Digital Science Principal - Digital Science and Engineering Team
bp
Brent Railey
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Jennifer Schwertz-Ohrin
Chief Innovation Officer
G.I.S
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
Laura Tibodeau
Chief Technology Officer
DAI Global, Inc.
Ryan Bankhead
SVP Global Sales & Operations
Savant Labs
Venky Sankaran
AI & Analytics Leader, HSE&C, Sustainability and Process Safety
bp
The AI in Energy Summit 2025 Themes
Creating an AI Strategy
Entergy, Crowley, ExxonMobil, Shell and CPChem shared 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
Chevron discussed how ML is simplifying digital asset twin development, while ExxonMobil revealed how they are leveraging predictive analytics to reduce downtime in their Permian operations
Identifying Use Cases for
Gen AI
Shell, Dow, and AAPG shared how Gen AI to unlocked new operational efficiencies, generating tens of millions of dollars in business impact
Building the Data Foundation for AI
Noble Corp shared how they are automating maintenance management with data models, and BP explained how to leverage Causal AI to objectively analyze “what-if” scenarios and turn data into insights
Scaling AI Projects
Entergy’s Chief AI Officer shared 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 examined how to approach AI-project prioritization and maximize the full potential (and risk!) of AI investments
What made our 2025 Edition so special:
10+ Real-World Operator Case Studies across 2 Action Packed Days
4 Dedicated Tracks on Asset Performance Management, Operational Optimization, Data Management and Workforce, Change Management & Tech Implementation
NEW Exclusive Insights and Operator Use Cases from ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, bp, Dow, Civitas Resources, Western Midstream and more!
Four 90-minute Operator-led Workshops and a Post-event Masterclass with ExxonMobil
Wondering what's in store?
Download the 2025 Event Guide
All the information you need, in one handy document!
While we work behind the scenes to host our 3rd edition, check out our 2025 Event Guide, for an in-depth look at what was discussed this past February.
AI in Energy Content Library
Interview:
Harnessing Gen AI for Workflow and Maintenance Optimization
We sat down with 2024 event speaker Partha Chatterjee, Principal, Data Analysis at Shell to better understand how to improve operational efficiency through AI. Read as Partha reveals practical strategies and lessons learned for operators looking to leverage Gen AI for real-time decision-making, with a vision for using Gen AI tools to streamline complex workflows.
Case Study:
Advancing Gen AI-Enabled Asset Reliability at Dow
Dow Chemical Company is currently leveraging GenAI capabilities to automatically extract key failure information that enables the analysis of reliability metrics from multiple sources and sites, including both structured and unstructured data. Hear exclusive insights from Technical Leaders and Executives at Dow,
What Our Attendees Said:
Such a terrific summit. It's so good to be in person again. These gatherings give us a boost of activation energy
Many of the presentations helped me to see where my company has done well or what we could have possibly done if we would have had some of this insight.
Good value. The panels were excellent. There was some very good discussions with people that knew what they were talking about.
The conference was fantastic and all the sessions were very informative and speakers were highly accomplished. It was quite refreshing and I was able to learn quite a few concepts and it provided me with an opportunity to network with my industry peers
A lot of value specially to people who are just engaged on this subject. Opportunity for collaboration between companies ( Operators, technology and consulting companies)
Very valuable. First one I have attended and was pleasantly surprised at the content and participation
The event was most well-prepared, comprehensive, pertinent event I've attended in a long time!
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