OGAT Week 2025 Sessions
DAY ONE: Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Seminars
7:30 am - 7:50 am
Registration and Networking
8:00 am - 8:10 am
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME ADDRESS
Speaker
Lance Medlin EVP, Engineering and Operations - Element Fuels
8:10 am - 8:40 am
Executing Our Global Digital Transformation Initiative: AI & ML at Scale to Capture and Create Value, Improve Effectiveness, and Drive Optimization
• The strategic vision driving disruption: How digitalization is improving our organization and enhancing decision-making • How AI-driven insights enable us to optimize processes, streamline workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and accelerate […]
Speaker
Jonathan Alexander Manufacturing AI & Advanced Analytics Manager - Albemarle Corporation
8:40 am - 9:10 am
Encouraging Human-Centric Digital Transformation: Harmonizing AI and Disruptive Technologies with Human Intervention and Natural Intelligence
• Questioning techniques to identify needs and highlight prime use cases for disruptive technology implementation • Preparing your organization: Creating a flexible digital strategy with suitable guardrails that ensure workforce […]
Speaker
Partha Chatterjee Data & Analytics SME - Shell
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Big Data Analytics: Exploiting Cloud Computing and Edge Device Capabilities for Superior Data-Driven Decision-Making
• Harnessing real-time insights: Creating transparency across operations for optimized business performance and reduced downtime with proactive maintenance • Safeguarding personnel and assets: Utilizing predictive analytics to anticipate safety hazards […]
9:40 am - 10:30 am
QUICKFIRE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS WITH TrueContext and Voovio
This session provides an additional opportunity to meet with our AI/ML, IoT, Automation, Process Control, OT, and Data Analytics product and solution providers in the exhibition hall to learn more […]
10:30 am - 11:00 am
NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBITION
Seminars
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Defining Our Digitally Enhanced Future to Maximize Stakeholder Value With Suitable Technology and Applications
Speaker
Philippe Daroux Operations Technology Product Line Manager - Chevron
Seminars
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Utilizing Advanced Analytics & Big Data for Improved Decision-Making to Minimize Risks and Boost Efficiency
Seminars
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Evolving Organizations to Adopt Cutting-Edge Technologies That Drive Unmatched Operational Excellence
Speaker
Bikram Sharda Business Intelligence & Productivity Director, Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure Business - Dow
Seminars
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Enhancing Asset Health Management with IIoT: Enabling Real-Time Feedback to Transform Oil, Gas, and Chemical Operations
Seminars
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Adopting Transformative Mindsets and Re-Evaluating Digitalization’s ROI to Identify Strategic Long-Term Value
Speaker
Jan Shumate Director, Worldwide Engineering & Construction Solutions and Corporate Manufacturing Automation Transformation - Eastman Chemical Company
Seminars
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
How will Immersive Technologies, Digital Twins and Connected Worker Solutions Reshape Organizations and Empower our Workforces of the Future?
• Transformative benefits of immersive technology within existing learning, workforce development and operational risk management environments • Preparing our organizations and stakeholders to embrace disruptive technology, immersive and mixed realities […]
Speaker
Jennifer Rogers Executive Officer, Learning Technology Standards Committee - IEEE
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Leading Outcome-Based Business Transformation: Normalizing Continuous Innovation to Stay Competitive, Relevant and Resilient
• Strategic approaches to digital disruption: Identifying stakeholders impacted by technology implementation, who will use it and why • Tailoring your messaging and conveying clear benefits of technology innovation to […]
Speaker
Prabhu Ramachandran Senior Manager Digital Transformation - Kaneka North America
Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITION
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Digital Twins: Exploring a Game-Changer for Asset Integrity, Optimization and Operational Improvements
• Combining the power of AI and digital twins to enable advanced data simulation and predictive modeling for superior process optimization • Quickly and effectively demonstrating value to overcome adoption […]
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
QUICKFIRE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS WITH SOTI
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBITION
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Achieve ESG Goals, Minimize Environmental Impact and Boost Sustainability
• How disruptive technologies can fast-track our progress towards low-carbon objectives and ease our journey towards net zero goals • Creating a tech-supported, data-driven roadmap for decarbonization, sustainability and energy […]
Seminars
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Exploring Strategies for Pioneering Sustainability, Decarbonization and Energy Transition with Technology- Driven Innovation
Speaker
- Lance Medlin EVP, Engineering and Operations - Element Fuels
Seminars
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Combining Existing Knowledge with AI for Enhanced Decision-Making and Increased Operational Efficiency
Speaker
Diti Sood Co-Founder & CEO - Bolo AI
Seminars
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Navigating Complexities of Process, Technology and Innovation When Driving Digital Disruption and Human- Centric Change
Speakers
Jacob Vizinat Senior Manager Technology - Hess Corporation
Jason Harry Offshore Technology & Innovation Advisor, - Hess
Seminars
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Transforming Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability Across Industrial Workforces with Immersive Technology
Seminars
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Leveraging Evolving Technology and Digital Solutions to Close Skills Gaps and Amplify our Existing Talent
Speaker
Lisa Williams Sr. Director Operations Talent Strategy and Employee Experience - Dow
Seminars
5:20 pm - 6:05 pm
Panel Discussion: Digitally Redefining the Future: Aligning Disruptive Technologies with Clear Business Objectives and Human-Centric Transformation
Our panelists will share insights on how technology can support organizational objectives and overcome rising operational costs, environmental pressures, resource constraints, generational transition and dynamic market conditions. • Preparing for […]
Speakers
Julie Thyne Global Improvement Director - Dow
Andrea Course Digital Innovation Program Manager - Shell- Prabhu Ramachandran Senior Manager Digital Transformation - Kaneka North America
- Jan Shumate Director, Worldwide Engineering & Construction Solutions and Corporate Manufacturing Automation Transformation - Eastman Chemical Company
Bret Bement Director Supply Chain, Petrochemicals N. America - BASF
Harvinder Singh Platform & Services Manager - Knowledge Management - bp
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS & END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Speaker
- Lance Medlin EVP, Engineering and Operations - Element Fuels
6:10 pm - 7:10 pm
DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY TWO: Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Seminars
8:00 am - 8:20 am
REGISTRATION & NETWORKING
8:20 am - 8:30 am
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Laying the Foundations for AI Success: Building Data Infrastructure to Harness Generative AI and LLMs
• Cultivating a data-centric approach to unite stakeholders • Centralizing and democratizing data for empowered innovation: Smashing data silos to enable informed, data-driven decision-making and optimized processes across the workforce […]
Speaker
Abhay Singh Manager Data Engineering & Governance - Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Navigating the Digital Revolution: Harnessing AI and Disruptive Technologies to Transform Industrial Operations and Deliver Tangible Results
Speaker
Varun Anand PMP, PMI-ACP, CM Enterprise Architect and Business Partner - The Lubrizol Corporation
9:30 am - 10:00 am
The Digital Expert for Knowledge Transfer: Creating a More Reliable Workforce
• Implementing digital tools to ease workforce turnover challenges, resulting in reliance on fewer SMEs across downstream operations • Optimizing knowledge capture and transfer methods: Leveraging a digital SME to […]
Speakers
Christian McDermott SVP of Americas - Voovio
Francis Montemurro Operations Director - Voovio
10:00 am - 10:50 am
QUICKFIRE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS
10:50 am - 11:20 am
NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBITION
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Control What You Can: Preparing Workforces for Widespread Digital Disruption
Speaker
Peter Dill Senior Manager - Indirect Purchasing - Huntsman Corporation
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
Driving Standardization in Process Automation: Unlocking the Benefits of Standardized Technology Across Oil, Gas, and Chemical Industries
• Enhancing consistency and efficiency: How can standardized automation processes enable uniformity of operations, increase reliability, boost productivity and minimize downtime? • Tackling integration and interoperability challenges: Strategies for harmonizing […]
Speaker
Jack Hu Process Automation Director - Energy - Dow
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm
Unlocking the Power of Connected Assets: Developing a Suite of Digital Technologies that Improve Efficiency, Safety and Operational Transparency
• Seamless monitoring and intervention: Utilizing IoT devices to enable accurate and timely monitoring of assets and facilities • Advanced Analytics and AI: Reduce costs, increase efficiency and maximize resources […]
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITION
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm
Faster, Safer and Better: Unlocking Operational Efficiency with AI in Oil, Gas and Heavy Industries
• Discovering Generative AI’s role in enhancing knowledge accessibility across the enterprise • Learning about the transformative impact of AI on decision-making and how it’s enabling faster, safer and better […]
Speaker
- Diti Sood Co-Founder & CEO - Bolo AI
Seminars
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITION
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm
Faster, Safer and Better: Unlocking Operational Efficiency with AI in Oil, Gas and Heavy Industries
• Discovering Generative AI’s role in enhancing knowledge accessibility across the enterprise • Learning about the transformative impact of AI on decision-making and how it’s enabling faster, safer and better […]
Speaker
- Diti Sood Co-Founder & CEO - Bolo AI
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
IoT Best Practices for Improved Connectivity and Robust Data Management in Process Industries
• How can developing an IoT connected ecosystem enable us to unlock the benefits for digitally optimized process industries? • Digitally enhancing the decision-making support: Utilizing IIoT devices for faster, […]
Speaker
Esteban Baquero Senior Technology Manager (Digital Operations Center) - Dow
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Overcoming AI’s ‘Blackbox’ Perception by Inspiring and Upskilling Stakeholders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Solve Business Challenges
Speaker
Jay Chen Natural Science AI Team Lead - Shell
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Capitalizing on Momentum for Emerging Tech and Digital Disruption to Help Accelerate Existing Digitalization Initiatives
Speaker
Bryan (Damon) Shackelford Automation : XR Project Manager - Eastman Chemical Company
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Harnessing the Power of Digital Twins and Data Simulation for Asset Optimization Across Complex Processes, Systems and Infrastructure
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Strategies for Safeguarding Digitally Transformed Assets and Critical Infrastructure from Emerging Cyber Threats
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Evaluating Real-World Applications for AI, Considering the Implications and Defining Effective Strategies for Smart Deployment
Speaker
Bryan Kaus Manager, Global Development Projects - Neste
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Finding the Sweet Spot for Integrating AI and Disruptive Technologies to Create and Articulate Tangible Value
Speaker
- Harvinder Singh Platform & Services Manager - Knowledge Management - bp
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Empowering & Uniting Frontline Workforces to Reveal Untapped Potential and Opportunities with Digitally Connected Technology
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Suitability of Digital Solutions for Enabling Decarbonization and Accelerated Progress Towards Energy Transition and Net-Zero
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Harnessing Evolving Technology Advancements to Digitally Transform Frontline Industrial Workforce Capabilities
Speaker
- Julie Thyne Global Improvement Director - Dow
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Leveraging Generative AI to Drive Greater User Adoption and Efficiency from Existing Data and Analytics Processes
Speaker
- Abhay Singh Manager Data Engineering & Governance - Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Seminars
4:50 pm - 5:00 pm