• Cognitive systems: how are they augmenting expert knowledge in the Oil and Gas industry? What is the future of AI in the industry?
• Lessons learnt from implementing IBM Watson within Woodside Energy’s offshore operations
• Blockchain: what is it and what are the use cases within Oil and Gas?

Luq Niazi, Global Managing Director, Chemical and Petroleum Industries, IBM

• Where are oil companies starting in their digitalisation efforts?
• Which improvements do companies want to see from contractors and suppliers, to support this digital transformation?
• What needs to be done to ensure we all are going in the same direction as an industry?

Moderator: Kieran Kavanagh, VP of Digital Solutions, Wood

Einar Landre, Lead IT Analyst, Equinor
David Edem, Director, Digital and Information Management, Chrysaor E&P Ltd
Kaveh Pourteymour, CIO and Vice President, Seadrill
Peter Black, Founder & Managing Director, Energysys
Brendan Sullivan, Chief Technology/Information Officer, RigNet

• The strategy behind using digital twins on FPSOs at Premier Oil
• Case example 1: data analytics for a gas turbine (power generation or mechanical drive)
• Case example 2: data analytics for the flexible risers that connect the FPSO to the subsea wells
• What are our next steps in the digitalisation of FPSOs?

David Hartell, Senior Development Manager, Premier Oil

• Overview of Akselos Technology
• Case Study: FPSO 
• Workflow for Floating Assets

John Bell, Senior Vice President, Akselos
Hans Kolsters, Senior Offshore Structures Engineer and Technical Authority, Shell Global Solutions

• The Wintershall approach for implementation of digital technologies in the offshore environment for production optimisation and operational excellence
• Plug and play modular operational environment: creating a real-time monitoring suite
• Field case implementation

Vitaly Elichev, Senior Production Technologist, Wintershall Noordzee B.V. He
Esteban Muñoz, Asset Manager, Wintershall Noordzee B.V. He

• How can we transition to a digital way of working without interruption to operations?
• Protecting internal knowledge throughout the process of automation and roboticization of work
• Can we avoid being exclusively tied to a single vendor when we go digital?
• Managing the cybersecurity issues without negating the desired performance improvements

Moderator: John Pearson, Chief Corporate Development Officer and Group Managing Director, Western Hemisphere, Petrofac

Raahil Burhaani, CIO, Essar Oil (UK) Limited
Kieran Kavanagh, VP of Digital Solutions , Wood
Darrell Knight, EVP, Global Accounts, FutureOn
Malcolm Brown, Head of IT, Ithaca Energy

• How should we work in the future? How can we change the entire company culture to be faster and more agile?
• What can we learn from the start-up model? Should we be undoing silos and hierarchies to foster greater speed and collaboration?
• Taking an agile approach to experiments with new technology to accelerate the pace of innovation and focus efforts where they are needed
• Converting teams throughout the business to accept different ways of working with a digital presence

Moderator: Martin Copeland, Managing Director, Head of EMEA Oil and Gas, RBC Capital Markets

John Saiz, Principal Industrial Fellow, University of Cambridge IfM
David Hartell, Senior Development Manager, Premier Oil
Neil Forrest, Vice President Operational Integrity, Seadrill
Alex Campbell, Continuous Improvement Practitioner, Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS), Scottish Enterprise

• Extending collaboration to the wider supply chain across the industry: how can we work together?
• Putting the right incentives in the right place to get everyone to cooperate
• Working remotely across geographically diverse teams: information sharing and remote monitoring
• Data sharing across the value chain to improve overall cost efficiency: how can we make this happen?
• Do we need standardisation of systems and data formats to enable supply chain optimisation? What efforts are being made on this front?

Moderator: Ian Phillips, Chief Executive and Chairman – SPE Aberdeen Section, OGIC

Barry Authers, Commercial Director, Veracity, DNV GL
Elgonda la Grange, Director Digital Solutions, Dresser-Rand
Dr Fionn Iversen, Chief Scientist, IRIS
Mark Carrier, Market Development Director, Oil and Gas, Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

• What benefits have other industries realised from their digitalisation journeys? How has Industry 4.0 affected the bottom line?
• Examples of automated processes and technologies that have been applied in other industries that could be transferred to Oil and Gas
• Stumbling blocks from the implementation of robotic automation, AI and other digital technologies: how can we avoid the same problems?

Moderator: Ben Thuriaux, Principal, Arthur D Little

Esa Jokioinen, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Ship Intelligence, Rolls-Royce
David Sanders, Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Dr Paul Cantwell, Oil and Gas Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Advanced Forming Research Centre
Philip Lawson, Head of Marine UK, ABB

• Where is the greatest potential for future applications of this technology?
• How can we address the regulatory concerns about the ‘black box’ of machine learning?
• Creating organisational readiness, gaining trust in a machine-driven method of decision making
• The role of a hybrid approach to introducing machine learning and AI into operational processes

Moderator:Dr Caroline Chibelushi, Knowledge Transfer Manager - Artificial Intelligence, Innovate UK

Jeroen van der Hoek, Investment Manager, Equinor Technology Ventures
Michael Schnurbus, Project Manager, Siemens
Ray Hall, Energy Sector Director, Tessella
Lelio Souza, Chief Executive Officer, Intelie, a RigNet Company

• Experiences of using drones for inspections, assembly, monitoring and supply
• Overcoming the challenges of using augmented reality to support operations and maintenance
• Successes and potential future applications for virtual reality
• Experiments with 3D printing within a tight regulatory framework

Moderator: Christopher Blackford, COO, Sky-Futures

Julien Da Vela, UAVs and Robotics Officer, Total
Mika Tienhaara, COO, Manufacturing Technology Norwegian Catapult
Simon Evans, Digital Engineering Development Manager, Atkins, a member of SNC-Lavalin Group
Pierre Vilpoux, Chief Business Officer, UAVIA

• How are we collaborating with start-ups, smaller tech providers and universities on digital projects?
• Accelerating partnerships to achieve outcomes sooner: which tendering and contracting processes can be by-passed without exceeding acceptable business and legal risk?
• Tapping into the potential: combining the external organisation’s knowledge of the technology with your knowledge of the industry
• Partnering and building networks with universities: Hackathons, innovation programmes and research collaborations

Moderator: Gordon McConnell, VP of Commercial and Regional Innovation, Professor of Practice, Robert Gordon University, Scotland

Anders Mynster, Co-founder, Nordic IoT Centre
Fredrik Tukk, Digital Transformation Architect, Maersk Drilling

• Digitalising and integrating the value chain: working smarter, at lower costs
• Making use of machine learning, AR, 3D printing, drones and AI as an economic imperative
• Changing organisational culture to support agile innovation and new digital ways of working
• Collaborating with start-ups, smaller tech providers and universities
• Any other issues facing the Oil and Gas industry

Moderators:
Jonathan Carpenter, Group Head of Strategy, Petrofac