General Information
What is a Forum?
SPE Forums offer an exclusive opportunity to discuss complex industry challenges with top technologists, innovators, and managers. The forums’ limited size and intensive format maximize your opportunity to contribute. The objective is to stimulate thought, accelerate innovation, and inspire the development of new technology.
To create a cohesive group in which discussion is free flowing, potential delegates are invited to apply and all attendees will be selected by the steering committee. Participants are encouraged to come prepared to contribute their experience and knowledge, not to be spectators or students.
If you have a role to play in meeting the challenges of tomorrow head-on, apply today. Participants will be selected based on their ability to contribute to the discussion and to represent their stakeholder group.
How Participation Benefits You – and Your Organization
- Learn in days what would usually takes months – even years – of research to learn.
- Effectively focus on a topic that directly relates to your work.
- Gain insight and perspective through conversations with peers who share your same interests.
- Meet with other experts from international companies, research institutes, and universities in an off-the-record format.
- Form professional relationships that will continue after the forum has ended.
The Forum Series Format
The SPE Forum Series provides nine alternate morning, afternoon, and evening sessions of scheduled and unscheduled presentations with maximum time available for informal discussions and exchange of experience. Presentations are generally limited to three or four slides. Breakout sessions for discussions are common. A short, written summary of major issues and consensus arising from the forum may be prepared and distributed to attendees after the forum at the discretion of the program committee and with appropriate SPE approval.Forum Guidelines
- Participants are expected to attend every session.
- Lengthy, formal presentations are discouraged to promote maximum discussion.
- SPE Forums are conducted off the record to support the free interchange of information and ideas.
- Written papers are prohibited, and extensive note taking is not allowed.
- Mechanical recording of any portion of the forum in any form (photographic, electronic, etc.) is prohibited.
- Information disclosed at a forum may not be used publicly without the originator’s permission.
- Participants are requested to omit reference to forum proceedings in any subsequent published work or oral presentation.
