Hugo Ashkar

Risk Authority – Wells, Projects, and Subsurface Organizations BP

Hugo is the Risk Manager for the Global Projects Organization (GPO) at BP in the Exploration and Production Segment. Hugo leads the execution of risk management activities across a global portfolio of 70+ offshore & onshore construction projects with a CAPEX value exceeding $50bn. He works with and leads a community of risk professionals that integrate the risk discipline across the GPO portfolio of projects, drive standardization, and deploy learnings. Formerly Hugo spent 17 years in leadership roles in NASA programs (for The Boeing Company & McNeal Schwendler Corporation) in the specialty engineering areas of Risk Management, Reliability, Safety, Quality, and Systems Engineering before joining BP in June of 2012. Hugo graduated from California State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He earned M.S. degree in Systems Architecture Engineering from USC.

Conference Day 1: May 14, 2024

11:00 AM Panel: Optimizing Asset Monitoring through Digital Transformation

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

Conference Day 2: May 15, 2024

11:10 AM Sustainable Operational Excellence in a Shifting Landscape

  • Priming your enterprise to effectively navigate the energy transition while minimizing operational impact
  • How to build organizational resilience to prepare for the move towards low-carbon energy
  • Embedding sustainability at the core of your operational transformation
  • How are changing market pressures affecting decarbonization efforts with the backdrop of the current geopolitical climate?

2:00 PM Panel: Maintaining Trust Throughout your Transformation with Employees, Customer, Investors, Vendors and Regulators

Effectively communicating your transformation process and retaining trust in your enterprise is crucial. Panelists will discuss:

  • How to maintain shareholder confidence and encourage investment in a climate of changing attitudes towards the energy sector
  • Tips to keep your workforce, customers, and stakeholders on board with you during your transformation
  • What the future of information-sharing looks like and how regulations are driving this change
  • How to manage your public image amid large-scale transformation: communicating your successes and failures
  • How to effectively communicate your transformation goals and operational changes across your enterprise

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Hugo.

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