The energy sector is facing an unprecedented transformation: decarbonizing operations and increasing sustainability amid a rising demand for energy. Operators must act now to make sure they don’t fall behind in an increasingly environmentally conscious world, while making sure operations remain uncompromised. On this panel, industry leaders will discuss their top strategies for navigating such a paradigm shift, including:

• Addressing the sustainability agenda and what it means for transformation
• How to get executive buy in for transformation and sustainability projects
• What does successful transformation look like?
• Identifying your company’s distinctive capabilities and how to leverage them to accelerate transformation
• Centering low carbon initiatives in your transformation plans

Bhushan Ivaturi

Chief Information Officer
Enbridge

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Roeland Vertriest

Chief Transformation Officer
DuPont

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Dr. Erin Boyd

Chief Digital Commercial Transformation Officer
AES Corporation

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Julie Thyne

Global Improvement Director
Dow, Inc.

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Join Andrea Hine, Suncor Connected Worker Product Owner and Andrew Norton, Energy Vertical Lead for OtterBusiness, as they guide you through the process of establishing a successful connected worker strategy. They’ll be walking through four streamlined steps — discover, develop, deploy and measure — and they’ll demonstrate how these steps are being effectively implemented.

Key areas for discussion and engagement:

•         Connectivity

•         Hardware/App decision-making 

•         Worker privacy

•         Safety considerations

•         Shared device vs. 1-to-1 device deployments

Andrea Hine

Connected Worker Product Owner
Suncor

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Andrew Norton

Vertical Sales Lead
Energy for OtterBusiness

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• Overview of DuPont’s transformation from 2020 to the present: How DuPont has secured and maintained its place as a global innovation leader
• How DuPont drives rapid improvement across a 100-site plant network by optimizing its digital transformation strategy
• Key considerations when laying out your transformation roadmap to ensure measurable success
• Connecting Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation through the Integration of Industry 4.0 Technologies including digital twins and Intelligent Predictive Maintenance tools to drive process improvement
• Lessons learned from the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies: successes and challenges
• The future of digital transformation at DuPont

Roeland Vertriest

Chief Transformation Officer
DuPont

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In a disrupted world, how do you build a culture and practices where extraordinary collaboration and innovation become ordinary? A high-performance organization that consistently delivers exponential leaders, growth, and value creation in times of uncertainty and rapid change.

Learn how a leading Energy organization successfully transformed its business and culture while engaging more than 14,000 employees worldwide to execute 2,000+ innovations yielding over $1 billion in additional earnings within 18 months.

Jose Pires

Founder & CEO
Global Excellence & Innovation

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Regardless of whether you are upstream, midstream or downstream in the value chain, ensuring your assets and workforce experience minimal downtime and maximum productivity without compromising on safety, making use of state-of-the-art remote monitoring technology linked to central operating centers will allow your operators to get the most out of the assets they’re operating.

• Optimize plant safety, uptime and efficiency
• Avoid the need for manual measurements across a range of assets including turbines, compressors and motors
• Gather the data necessary to make reliability a company wide effort that permeates cross-function by addressing organizational culture challenges

Hugo Ashkar

Risk Authority – Wells, Projects, and Subsurface Organizations
BP

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Albert Kouam Kamdem

Supervisor, Information Management, Operations support & Optimization
ConocoPhillips

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Julie Thyne

Global Improvement Director
Dow, Inc.

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• How has Vermilion Energy harvested the best of its legacy business while transitioning to new operating models?
• Solutions for managing the time and cost involved with upgrading legacy systems and harnessing vital data from those systems to minimize wasted effort
• Learn how to invest intelligently in emerging technologies and implement them into your wider digital network, leading to improved operational efficiency across multiple aspects of the business
• How has the sustainability agenda impacted Vermilion’s digital strategy?

Denis Drolet

Senior Operations Engineer, Real Time Operations
Vermilion Energy

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• How Conocophillips increased its user uptake of new technology to drive its digital transformation
• How to get your workforce on board: getting the right and up-to-date information to the right people
• What are the most common barriers to user uptake and how do you overcome them?
• How to obtain leadership buy-in to new technology and the importance of fitting technology into your workplace culture

Albert Kouam Kamdem

Supervisor, Information Management, Operations support & Optimization
ConocoPhillips

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Now more than ever, operators need an airtight strategy and proactive leadership team to drive their transformation process. Learning the skills necessary to facilitate change across your enterprise is crucial to see success during periods of instability. This session will equip you with the lessons and skills needed to inspire improvement across the board.

• Key insights into successful transformation, and how transformation leaders within the energy sector can leverage these lessons into a game-plan for change
• How to effectively invest in your assets, infrastructure and people
• Managing change management: How to identify specific solutions that fit your company’s requirements for transformation and effectively scale them, preventing wasted investment
• Learning how to elevate and accelerate the skillsets of your workforce through the successes of non-energy enterprises with similar transformation processes

Jawad Masud

Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer
TC Energy

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This structured networking session is the ideal opportunity for you to capitalize on time out of the office by speaking to each of our event partners in attendance and learning about the essential solutions available to your specific challenges. How does it work? It’s easy. You spend five minutes at a booth of your choice, and when the bell rings you’ll be directed to the next one to start another round of learning and networking. At the end of the session, you’ll have met a selection of our event partners, and for any you have missed, you can connect with at the networking cocktail reception at the end of the day. 

• An in depth look into Enbridge’s Microsoft Copilot EAP Program – successes and lessons learned
• How generative AI can be leveraged to improve workforce efficiency and productivity across the board and the future role of AI in operations at Enbridge
• Assessing the hard dollar values of digital pilots, navigating the legal and privacy concerns, and key factors to look for when measuring success
• Setting your long-term digital strategy to enable success, how Enbridge is reducing cost and complexity while increasing resilience

Tim Barnes

Head of Technology Foundation Architecture
Enbridge

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• Learn to recognize the human element in technology adoption, particularly the challenges faced by frontline workers
• Understand the importance of continuous communication and support throughout the technology adoption life cycle
• Develop organizational empathy and engagement with frontline workers to design and implement effective systems
• Sharing how insights from outside industries can impact the energy sector, a look into the universal challenges and solutions with response to change

Justin Lake

CEO & Co-founder
Skyllfull

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• How a major energy company has successfully grown a grassroots data team and fostered a culture rooted in data
• The role of data in transformation and why identifying useful data is so important
• How to navigate the challenges around measuring ROI
• The benefits of prioritizing data in your enterprise and where data, people, and processes intersect

Michael Henry

Former Manager of Data Analytics
ARC Resources

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• Understanding the landscape: Gain insights into the current state of operational excellence
• Future-proofing strategies: Learn about emerging trends in operational excellence like digital transformation, sustainability, remote work and understand the Importance of adapting to these changes
• Leadership imperatives: Learn about what leaders must do to embrace the future of operational excellence and leverage it as competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business landscape

Biju Misra

Director, Corporate Business Services/Automation Center of Excellence
Enbridge

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Join speakers, sponsors, and attendees for an evening full of laughter and drinks. Immerse yourself in our expansive Expo Hall and make valuable connections with the top suppliers in the industry showcasing their latest solutions and services, while enjoying refreshments and lively conversation with fellow attendees.