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SUMMARY:PROMO 20% Code: 12th Annual Digitalization in Oil & Gas Conference: September 10-11, 2026
DESCRIPTION:\nMasterclass: September 9\nHyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX\nDelivering a Digital Future, Today.\nThe oil and gas industry is undergoing a profound transformation. As the sector navigates evolving market demands and global energy shifts, the strategic adoption of digital technologies is no longer a luxury, it’s the key to driving efficiency, resilience, and value.\nJoin us at the 12th Annual Digitalization in Oil & Gas Conference to explore the top technologies being resourced across the industry. This year, we’ll delve into cutting-edge solutions for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, highlighting the innovations that are revolutionizing workflows, optimizing performance, and enhancing safety.\nConnect with industry leaders and technology innovators to uncover actionable insights on:\nSmart Technology and Automation: Implementing smart solutions to create safer, more efficient operations and enhance asset performance.\nData-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging advanced analytics and real-time data to optimize production, reduce costs, and improve operational visibility.\nDigital Twins & Simulation: Utilizing virtual replicas to model and predict performance, enabling better asset management and risk mitigation.\nWorkforce Development: Empowering your teams with the digital skills and strategies needed to navigate a modern, technology-driven energy landscape.\nDecarbonization and Sustainability: Exploring how digital tools can help achieve sustainability goals and manage energy transition challenges.\nDon’t miss this opportunity to move beyond pilot projects and learn how to implement scalable, value-generating digital initiatives. Engage with peers, participate in interactive sessions, and gain the strategies you need to build a future-ready operation.\nWhy Attend\n● Move beyond AI hype and see what is actually scaling across operations, maintenance, field monitoring, and remote facilities.\n● Learn how operators are connecting OT, IT, cloud, edge, data platforms, and legacy systems without compromising safety or resilience.\n● Hear candid case studies that include implementation hurdles, ROI timelines, governance barriers, and what had to change to make deployments stick.\n● Meet operators, digital leaders, robotics and drone specialists, OT and IT architects, AI and data platform providers, and cybersecurity experts.\nAgenda at a Glance\n● Day 1 focuses on scaled operational value: AI deployment, data foundations, OT–IT integration, governance, and enterprise operationalization.\n● Day 2 focuses on robotics, drones, remote operations, digital twins, workforce transformation, and future-proofing the operating model.\nDay One: From AI Hype to Scaled Operational Value\n\n\n\nThursday, September 10, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00 AM – 8:05 AM\nECN Welcome and Opening Remarks\n\nJim Claunch, Bain & Company\n\n\n\n8:05 AM – 8:35 AM\nRebuilding the Operating Model: Why Digitalization Is No Longer About Buying Tools\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA strategic view of how digitalization changes workflows, management systems, and the way the business runs.\nWilliam Fraizer, Eunike Ventures Baron Unbehagen, Encino Energy Jason McMullen, Noble Corporation Sean McCall, Oceaneering\n\n\n\n8:35 AM – 8:55 AM\nFenceline Sensor and Flyover Analytics in the Field: Leak Detection, Emissions, and Anomaly Detection\n\n\n\nA practical case study on OGI monitoring, drone-based emissions and leak detection, and visual analytics for anomaly identification.\nDeirdre Shepherd, Expand Energy\n\n\n\n8:55 AM – 9:25 AM\nThe AI Wild West: Managing Risk While Accelerating Innovation\n\n\n\nEnergy companies face growing pressure to move quickly with AI, but success depends on creating frameworks that enable experimentation without sacrificing security, compliance, or operational integrity.\nJohn Carney, Novus Consulting Charles Kosa, PBX Cindy Jones, Continental Resources, Inc. Raghu Guda, Delek US Christopher Ollison, Infosys Consulting\n\n\n\n9:25 AM – 9:55 AM\nTurning AI into Results: Scaling Use Cases That Survive the Budget Test\n\n\n\nOperators and practitioners discuss what helped scale high-value use cases, what killed momentum, and how ROI was measured and defended internally.\nHabeib Al-Hashimi, Noble Corporation Maru Williams, Chevron Sean Ebert, Altira Group Jim Claunch, Bain & Company\n\n\n\n9:55 AM – 10:25 AM\nMorning Networking Break\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:25 AM – 10:55 AM\nFrom Field Data to Operational Intelligence: Building the Foundation for AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo practical talks examining how the quality of frontline data and the digitalization of field execution determine what organizations can ultimately do with analytics and AI. From fixing the data-quality problems hidden inside existing technology stacks to turning connected-worker activity into structured operational intelligence, this session looks at how better data is created at the source.\n10:25 10:35 The Field Data Quality Problem Hiding in Your Tech Stack — Summer Wilke, Senior Product Manager, GoFormz\n10:35 10:55 Connected Worker in Action: How Digital Execution Creates Operational Intelligence — Andrew Christian, Senior Project Engineer, ATR & Brett Newton, Manager, Training – Manufacturing, Chevron Phillips Chemical\nSummer Wilke, GoFormz Andrew Christian, ATR Brett Newton, Chevron Phillips Chemical\n\n\n\n10:55 AM – 11:25 AM\nFrom Pilot Purgatory to the AI Highway: Why the Roman Roads & Google Maps Foreshadow the Future of Industrial Intelligenc\n\n\n\nIndustrial AI is at a crossroads. Many organizations are rich in pilots but poor in scale. We’ve seen it before; every leap forward starts with the foundation beneath it. The Roman roads connected an empire, the U.S. highways connected an economy, and Google Maps created a common lens for how the world navigates. Now, manufacturing is building its next great network: the AI Highway. Discover how Albemarle delivered over $150 Million in annual improvements by building an AI Highway.\nJonathan Alexander, Albemarle Corporation\n\n\n\n11:25 AM – 11:55 AM\nInternal AI Assistants: What Delivers, What Breaks, What Last\n\n\n\nA practical session on secure internal AI platforms, controlled enterprise assistants, model flexibility, and what users actually adopt.\nSonia V. Clayton, Virtual Intelligence Providers Joe Wempe, Devon Energy Jonathan Alexander, Albemarle Corporation Pearl Chu, SLB\n\n\n\n11:55 AM – 12:25 PM\nOperationalizing AI: Futureproofing and Digitalization Technology\n\n\n\nAI value is rarely determined by technology alone. This session connects compute cost, vendor spend, and model economics with the harder questions of workflow redesign, decision rights, user adoption, and process ownership. It examines what it takes to embed AI into measurable payback.\nKonrad Konarski, Ai Applied Consortium Kyla Spaugh Johnson, Verkada Sean McCall, Oceaneering Brad Nash, ExxonMobil\n\n\n\n12:25 PM – 1:15 PM\nNetworking Lunch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:15 PM – 1:45 PM\nFit for Purpose: Matching AI Architecture to Operational Need\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA practical panel on choosing between model types, deployment patterns, hybrid/on-prem/cloud architectures, and how to avoid overbuilding.\nJeff Brock, Lyondellbasell Inder Karir, Oxy Shuxing Cheng, Chevron\n\n\n\n1:45 PM – 2:15 PM\nThe Organizational Shockwave of AI: Why Governance, Workforce, and Operations Must Evolve Together\n\nKonrad Konarski, Ai Applied Consortium\nAdam Berg, AI Applied Consortium\nElias Brown, AI Applied Consortium\n\n\n\n\n\n2:15 PM – 2:35 PM\nAfternoon Networking Break\n\n\n\n\n\n2:35 PM – 2:55 PM\nAI in Manufacturing Starts with Automation Excellence – Why the Foundation Matters More Than Algorithm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA case study demonstrating how process automation – often treated as an unavoidable operating expense, can be deliberately transformed into a high-yield investment, particularly as advanced algorithms cannot compensate for weak automation & data foundations.\n● Why automation maturity is the primary limiter of AI value in manufacturing\n● How standardized, lifecycle‑managed automation creates reusable data, trust, and scalability\n● A pragmatic pathway to automation‑driven AI implementation, including operator‑facing AI use cases\nJack Hu, Dow\n\n\n\n2:55 PM – 3:15 PM\nQuantum in Energy: Is It Early, Overhyped, or Worth Starting Now?\n\n\n\nA forward-looking discussion on quantum and high-performance computing, framed realistically for the next few years rather than the distant horizon.\nRaj Gautam, ExxonMobil Jeremy First, PhD, BP\n\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:40 PM\nHuman-Governed Autonomy in Industrial Operations\n\n\n\nA fast-moving lightning round on responsible AI in operations, semantic data products, fast model upgrades, and safe automation in OT environments:\nTopic subject to change\n\n3:15 – 3:30 From Vision to Value: Unlocking Data and AI ROI in Oil and Gas – Shaun Connolly, VP, Strategic Services, Precisely\n3:30 – 3:40 Governance, lineage, and auditability for enterprise AI framework– Omar Omar, Senior Advisor in AI Engineering, Phillips 66\n\nShaun Connolly, Precisely Omar A Omar, Phillips66\n\n\n\n3:40 PM – 4:00 PM\nSTOs* with Digital Twins: Enhancing Plant Operation\n\n\n\nA case study on where digital twins still create value through standardization, simulation, Turnaround P&S, LOTO preparation. Maintenance & Operational training, and emergency preplanning.\nRichard Jackson, Kuraray America Inc.\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 4:10 PM\nFLOW: Powerful, Automated, and Secure Enterprise-wide Transacting\n\nRob Ratchinsky, Point Eight Solutions\nDJ Kruitbosch, Blockchain for Energy\n\n\n\n\n\n4:10 PM – 4:25 PM\nKnowIdea – TBC\n\nYatharth Sejpal, KNOWIDEA Technologies Ltd.\n\n\n\n4:25 PM – 4:40 PM\nDigitalization Showcase\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA curated showcase of deployable technologies. In this showcase, an innovator will practical their solutions built for oil and gas.\nYou will:\n● See a curated showcase of applications designed for real operational environments.\n● Hear real-world examples and measurable outcomes aligned with operator priorities\nDavid Benham, ROAM-AI\n\n\n\n4:40 PM – 4:45 PM\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:45 PM – 5:45 PM\nDrinks Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay Two: Robotics, Drones, Remote Operations, and Future-Proofing the Operating Model\n\n\n\nFriday, September 11, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00 AM – 8:05 AM\nWelcome and Chair’s Opening Remarks\n\nSean Barnes, Wolf Executives\n\n\n\n8:05 AM – 8:35 AM\nThe Scaling Imperative: From Point Solutions to Portfolio Value\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Day 2 opener on portfolio strategy, centers of excellence, standardization, and scaling digitalization across assets and regions.\nSean Barnes, Wolf Executives Rebecca Hofmann, Blockchain for Energy Baron Unbehagen, Encino Energy Raj Rapaka, ExxonMobil\n\n\n\n8:35 AM – 9:00 AM\nAvoiding Lock-In: Designing a Data Foundation That Can Evolve\n\n\n\nA presentation on avoiding lock-in, building adaptable data foundations, and maintaining flexibility across tools, models, and vendors.\nJoe Wempe, Devon Energy\n\n\n\n9:00 AM – 9:30 AM\nOperationalizing AI in a Regulated Industry: Governance That Enables Scale\n\n\n\nA panel on governance boards, auditability, lineage, SAP/SOX realities, risk review and what production-grade AI requires in large industrial companies.\nDavid Crawley Bernardo Braunstein, Noble Corporation Al Lindseth, CI5O Advisory Prasanna Venkatesh, Tamboran Resources\n\n\n\n9:30 AM – 9:50 AM\nSpot on Site: Deploying Mobile Robotics for Enhanced Refinery Reliability\n\n\n\nAn overview of deploying Spot to automate data collection, improve asset integrity, and scale digitalized reliability workflows in refining operations\nDan Slowick, Boston Dynamics\n\n\n\n9:50 AM – 10:20 AM\nMorning Networking Break\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:20 AM – 10:50 AM\nRobotics and Physical AI: Automating the Dangerous, Dirty, and Dull\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA broad panel on inspection robots, drone-in-a-box systems, ground robots, subsea robotics, and where economics work in real operations.\nPeter Dill, Peter Dill Inc. Jared Markes, Devon Energy Ram Seetepalli, Motiva Merry Frayne, Ph.D., Boston Dynamics\n\n\n\n10:50 AM – 11:10 AM\nThe Next Frontier of Digitalization: Turning Enterprise Knowledge into Operational Intelligence\n\nMahesh Venugopalan, Infosys Consulting\nLarry Bowden, Woodside Energy\n\n\n\n\n\n11:10 AM – 12:00 PM\nSafety, Cybersecurity, and Reliability in More Autonomous Operations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA session on OT cybersecurity, edge protection, segmented architectures, drones and robotics oversight, and safe deployment in high-consequence environments.\nHani Elshahawi, NoviDigiTech Daniel Bartucci, Owl Cyber Defense Al Lindseth, CI5O Advisory Brad Nash, ExxonMobil Hector Perez, Black & Veatch\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM\nNetworking Lunch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM – 1:45 PM\nRoundtable Discussions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoundtable leaders will open these highly interactive, peer-driven roundtables with a brief 5-minute introduction and a short overview of the topic, which can include a case study, lessons learned, or an industry update.\nEach roundtable covers a different topic, allowing attendees to choose the discussion most relevant to them.\nThis is followed by a 30-minute peer discussion, with the leader facilitating questions, feedback, and practical exchange. The final 5 minutes are dedicated to aligning on five clear industry recommendations which will be included in the post-conference report.\nChoose one topic that aligns with your most urgent priority.\nTopic subject to change\n\nUnlocking AI ROI: Why Process Intelligence and Operational Context are the Missing Links – Nick Gosda, Strategic Account Manager, Celonis & Josh Mars, Senior Value Engineer, Celonis\nBuilding an AI-Ready Data Foundation: Governance, Lineage, and Business Ownership – Ram Seetepalli, Director, AI & Digital Solutions, Motiva Enterprise LLC\nTrusted Data or Just More Data: The Field Quality Problem Hiding in Your Analytics Stack – Summer Wilke, Senior Product Manager, GoFormz\nAgentic AI in Operations: Where Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters Most – Peter Dill, Independent Consultant–Global Procurement and Supply Chain Transformation\nChoosing the Right Model, Tool, and Architecture for the Job -** Joseph Lamb, Director of Sales, Titan Consulting**\nReconciling Innovation Initiatives, Transformation Ambitions, and Change Management – Raj Rapaka, Digital Transformation / Technology Scouting & Ventures Advisor, ExxonMobil / Rebecca Hoffmann, CEO, Blockchain for Energy\nDigital Twins After the Hype: Where They Still Deliver Operational Value – Bernardo Braunstein, Head of Global OT Data Management, Noble Cooperation\nFrom Investment to Impact: Extracting Data and AI Value in Oil and Gas — Shaun Connolly, VP, Strategic Services\nField Smart Technology and Edge Telemetry: Building the Data Capture Layer for Future AI – Walter Egbueze, Environmental Engineer, Third Coast\nOperationalizing AI in a Regulated, Asset-Heavy Business: Governance That Enables Rather Than Blocks -** Christian Manasseh, CEO,** Mobius Logic\nSafety, Cybersecurity, and Reliability in More Autonomous Operations Prof. Maria Burns, University of Houston\nWorkforce 2030: Reskilling, Role Redesign, and Protecting Critical Expertise – Lisa William, Senior Director, Operations Talent Strategy and Employee Experience, Dow\nStandardizing Asset Data Across Sites Without Locking Yourself Into One Vendor -** Wassil Bouali, Technical Sales Manager, RiConnect**\nPhysical AI in Industry: Connecting Robotics, Sensors, and Decision Systems – Ashley Raimondi, Enterprise Sales Engineering Manager, Boston Dynamics\nFuture-Proofing the Operating Model: What to Standardize Now for the Next Wave of AI -** Andrew Christian, Senior Project Engineer, ATR**\nHow AI is Transforming Materials Management in Asset-Intensive Operations – Christopher Ollison, Associate Partner, Infosys Consulting\nOperational Intelligence from Field to Desk: Scaling Local-First Intelligence in Operations — Taggard Andrew, Solutions Architect\n\nNick Gosda, Celonis Ram Seetepalli, Motiva Summer Wilke, GoFormz Peter Dill, Peter Dill Inc. Joseph Lamb, Titan Consulting Raj Rapaka, ExxonMobil Rebecca Hofmann, Blockchain for Energy Bernardo Braunstein, Noble Corporation Shaun Connolly, Precisely Walter Egbueze, Third Coast Christian Manasseh, Mobius Logic, Inc. Maria Burns, University of Houston Wassil Bouali, RI Connect Ashley Raimondi, Boston Dynamics Andrew Christian, ATR Josh Mars, Celonis Christopher Ollison, Infosys Consulting Taggard Andrews, webAI\n\n\n\n1:45 PM – 2:05 PM\nAfternoon Networking Break\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:05 PM – 2:35 PM\nWhat Actually Works in the Field\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTopic subject to change\n2:05 2:15 From Isolated Tools to an Intelligent Operating Layer — Louis Hughes, Director of Industrial Intelligence\n2:15 2:35 Enough AI Hype – Tell me what people are really doing — Robyn Fuentes, President, Improving\nRobyn Fuentes, Improving\n\n\n\n2:35 PM – 3:10 PM\nWorkforce 2030: Upskilling, Simulation, and the Future of Work in a Digital Industry\n\n\n\nA practical workforce session on retiring expertise, digital twin–based training, end-user programmability, and new role design in a more automated sector.\nSean Barnes, Wolf Executives Sharon Birkman, Birkman International Lance Duncan, LyondellBasell\n\n\n\n3:10 PM – 3:45 PM\nWhat Oil & Gas Can Borrow from Tesla, NASA, SpaceX, Advanced Manufacturing, and Robotics Leaders\n\n\n\nA cross-industry panel on simulation, robotics, AI-first workflows, manufacturing automation, and what is realistically transferable to oil and gas.\nAman Sethi, Ford Motor Inc. Clark Dressen, MxD USA Michael Mathews, ORU\n\n\n\n3:45 PM – 3:50 PM\nChair’s Closing Remarks\n\n\n\n
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