DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY 24th MAY
08.00
REGISTRATION and COFFEE
08.40
Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Prashant Soni
Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
08.50
OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION
Using IoT to reduce your carbon footprint
- How oil and gas stakeholders are demanding a higher degree of accountability on the measurement, mitigation and reporting of the carbon production process.
- Some examples of how IoT devices and applications can be used as a tool to reduce carbon footprint and their impact on the environment.
- A look to the future
MODERATOR
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
Maan Iskander, Technical Services Department Manager, Aramco Europe
Dr. Subrata Bhowmik, Principal Engineer –Subsea Digital & Automation, McDermott International
09.20
CYBER SECURITY SESSION
Road to a Cyber Resilient O&G
- Cyber challenges in today’s O&G sector
- Key principles to ensure Cyber Resilient O&G
- Digitalization and Innovation in O&G – the cyber enablers
Luis Morais, CISO, Galp
09.45
PRACTICAL SOLUTION SESSION
Shedding light on siloed and scattered information through a digital twin
- IoT, machine learning, predictive analyses, and augmented reality are all good, but how do you set yourself up to unlock the value of information with new technologies?
- What are the building blocks needed to go from unstructured data to a digital twin of an asset?
- How can a digital twin create a workspace that transforms how an organisation works and collaborates?
Christian Møller, CPO, Aize
NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK // 1-2-1 MEETINGS
10:05
PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS
11.30
PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE CASE STUDY
Augmented Engineering Intelligence for Industrial Equipment in the Energy Sector
- How predicting failure is a very well known and difficult problem: known failure modes are scarce, let alone unknown failure models – “black swans”
- Equipment generating immense streams of multidimensional data, representing highly connected systems – easy for humans to miss patterns
- How the mostly unlabelled data makes it almost impossible to create an acceptable supervised ML model.
- Total’s unsupervised deep learning approach, inspired and adapted by the works of Google on smart buildings, to create a set of Early Warning Notifications for industrial equipment
Pedro Santos, Senior Data Scientist, TotalEnergies
11.55
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
True Digital Twin – World class lifetime extension & real-time structural integrity assessment
- Structural health monitoring
- Structural integrity
- Predictive maintenance
- Digital twin
Nadir Azam, Global Business Development Manager Offshore Structure
12.15
DATA SHARING SESSION
Data sharing and the need to both cooperate and compete
- A look at the role of Artificial Intelligence as a dominant area of the term “digitalization” in the future in all disciplines and work processes.
- How the need for data is radical compared to present and drive the need to share more data between companies.
- High value potential vs numerous but achievable obstacles
- Key to success: the belief in the participants that their ability to create value out of a dataset greater than their own is larger than the downside by giving some of their data away
Roy Rusaa, Chief Digital Officer, Petoro
12.35
COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSION
Reflections on sharing data – structural integrity management
A discussion focusing on the practical implementation data sharing in the context of structural integrity management.
We will be exploring what would the potential benefits/value be with regards to safety/structural integrity if operators shared data?
Nadir Azam, Global Business Development Manager Offshore Structure
Roy Rusaa, Chief Digital Officer, Petoro
12.45
NETWORKING LUNCH
13:50
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
Mobile transition of the offshore domain.
How the Oil&Gas Industry can benefit from being fully connected in a landscape where the boundaries between onshore and offshore are removed.
Øyvind Skjervik, Chief Architect, Tampnet
14:02
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
Carrier Grade & Dedicated Cellular
More coming soon.
Jess Thompson-Hughes, Sales Director – BTEB IoT Enterprise, Ericsson
14:15
ROBOTICS MARKET UPDATE
Robotics in the oil and gas sector - a market update
- How robots are cheaper, smarter, more flexible and easier to train over recent years
- Why this makes it easier for robots to infiltrate new industries and produce new use cases at scale
- Applications within oil & gas – with advances in technology, how robots are being redefined as physically embodied artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
- A look to the immediate, medium and long term future of robotics in oil and gas
Viktor Klein, Global Product Manager, Robotics, Waygate Technologies
14.40
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
Demystifying digital twins – what to think about when shopping for digital twins/data operations platform for brownfields
- How to maximize any industrial asset, regardless of age and digital maturity?
- What data management capabilities do we need to build and scale use cases effectively?
- How else data operations platform can enable your digital twin and make your brownfield safer, more performant, and sustainable
Dr. Paula Doyle, SVP Energy, Cognite
NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK // PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS
15:05
PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS
HOSTED ROUNDTABLE
At the forefront of Oil & Gas Evolution with Private 5G Networks
- The future expectation of Oil & Gas Industry
- The triggers of technology needs – The challenges
- Breakthrough challenges with Private Wireless Network
- A huge range of 5G applications
- The story of success
Martin Green, Head of Business Development, Edzcom
16.55
LEGACY SYSTEMS CASE STUDY
Using IoT to get more from ageing assets
A holistic approach to IoT applications at CEPSA’s Energy Parks
- The connectivity journey at La Rabida Energy Park
- Process improvement applications
- IoT value maximization: 5G, NB-IoT and the LoraWan experience
- Present and future developments: Integration is key
Francisco Salguero, Head of Reliability, Cepsa
16.30
TALENT GAP PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
Addressing Talent Gaps in the Oil & Gas Industry
This session will explore how a large, global oil company that perform soil exploration and energy production, addressed its AI, ML and data analytics challenges through an effective talent transformation strategy.
Marco Geerinck, AVP EMEA, Udacity
17:20
PANEL DISCUSSION
A 360 degree view of IoT and digitalisation
- Embracing new digital solutions following Covid-19 in order to maintain operations when access to labour was limited
- Digitalisation and IoT trends across the globe within Oil and Gas; a look at Europe, the United States, and North Africa
- The acceleration of the digitalisation trend – a look at short, mid and long term future projections
MODERATOR
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
Darren Lindsay, Client Director, Librestream
17:50
CHAIR'S THOUGHTS ON DAY ONE
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
18.00
END OF DAY ONE | DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY TWO - THURSDAY 25th MAY
08.00
REGISTRATION and COFFEE
08:15
CHAIR'S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
08.20
DIGITAL TWIN PRESENTATION
Digital Twin for Assets: Digital replicas of physical assets to improve maintenance operations
- Maintaining the digital twin developed during asset construction to improve asset management and performance.
- Predicting potential maintenance issues and optimising operating
- parameters to elongate asset life and reduce downtime.
- Resolving problems quickly via the digital twin
Dr. Subrata Bhowmik, Principal Engineer –Subsea Digital & Automation, McDermott International
08:45
IIoT THOUGHT LEADER SESSION
The Industrial IoT and the Purdue reference model
– How the Purdue reference model has been widely in use in the oil and gas industry for decades.
– With the emergence of the IoT, there are different ways of achieving the same outcome.
– A look at how the emerging IIoT trends may influence and be influenced by the Purdue reference model on topics such as:
- Cybersecurity/IACS security
- Analytics/Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
- Sensors and sensor capabilities and more…!
Harald Wesenberg, Specialist IT, Equinor
09:10
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION
An emerging playbook for digitalization of Oil and Gas assets
More coming soon
Espen Krogh, CEO, Prediktor
NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK // 1-2-1 MEETINGS
09:35
PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS
HOSTED ROUNDTABLE
11.00
THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION
Asset Integrity Operations Software Applications
- Development of custom programs in order to: continuously monitor vessels and piping in creep operation
- Creep control; what is normally done and its disadvantages. A look at more accurate systems to control the equipment
- Integrity Operating Windows control software applications
Fabrizio D’Antonio, Asset Integrity Manager, Milazzo Refinery
11.25
PANEL DISCUSSION
How edge computing will support digital transformation in the oil and gas industry
- How edge can enable real-time analysis of data
- How will oil and gas companies benefit from edge computing enabled use cases?
- The LoRaWAN and Edge partnership accelerating digital transformation
- The challenges with edge computing
MODERATOR
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP
Harald Wesenberg, Specialist IT, Equinor
András Buti, Automation and Process Intelligence Manager, Mol
Robert Bakelaar, IoT Solution Architect, Royal Vopak
11:55
DIGITAL TWIN CASE STUDY
Asset Digital Twin. A Systems of Systems Engineering Approach
- How Digital Twin technology is increasingly capturing the attention of the academic and industrial communities; a backbone within the digital transformation.
- The growing interest in system of systems (SoS) as a new generation of complex, emerging and heterogeneous systems to realize a common goal,
- How it has become the focus of various applications; military, security, aerospace, manufacturing, service industry, health care and energy industry among many others.
- A look at SoS Engineering approach to Digital Twin for supporting industrial assets through the entire lifecycle, as well as the industrial experience and outlook along the Digital Twin journey.
Dr. Edmary Altamiranda, Lead Technology Engineer – Concept Development & Technology, Aker BP
12.20
PROCESS ENGINEERING SESSION
The Use of Sensors and Data Analytics in Crude Oil Tanks
- Using data analytics to calculate charge/discharge
- Looking at daily trends
- Calculating raw petroleum types in terms of composition
Derya Dokur, Operations Superintendent, TUPRAS
12:45
NETWORKING LUNCH
13:45
TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE CASE STUDY
Preparing our People for Tomorrow - Digital transformation, new ways of working and change management
- What type of competence or skill-sets will we be needing in the years to come?
- The O&G industry is changing. How with digitalization and increasing focus on low-carbon & low-cost the industry will need a new type of competence in addition to the technical know-how.
- A look at what Aker BP have done so far in competence development, ‘new ways of working’, change management and what the company plans to do
Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology,Aker BP
14:10
IoT AND DIGITAL STRATEGY
Integration - putting it all together for a strong IoT and digital strategy
- How to embed digital and ensure we keep it consistent with an overall corporate strategy
- Standing back – combining efforts across different parts of the business
- When NOT to deploy/develop digital/IoT solutions
Lee Hodder, Head of Strategy & Sustainability, Galp
14:35
PANEL DISCUSSION: INCREASING ADOPTION OF IoT
Bringing all parties to the table
- How adoption of IoT and other technologies is still nascent: is an overly fixed mindset to blame?
- The dichotomy between the operator in the plant and the decision-maker at the top wanting to optimise processes.
- The importance of involving the operator who’s actually seeing the pain point; how getting everyone on the same page within a business is important to move forward
Fabrizio D’Antonio, Asset Integrity Manager, Milazzo Refinery
Dr. Edmary Altamiranda, Lead Technology Engineer – Concept Development & Technology, Aker BP
Roy Rusaa, Chief Digital Officer, Petoro
