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Join us for the opening ceremony, celebrating the start of two exceptional SPE events; 20HSE and 20LACPEC. We encourage you to take advantage of the technical programming and networking opportunities that these co-located events offer. Mr. Fawaz Bitar, IOGP Chairman, will present the IOGP Outstanding Young Professionals Award.

The Executive Plenary session will bring together industry executives and leaders to discuss their perspectives on the region’s foremost challenges and opportunities. A special emphasis on the interdependency between sustainable development and technology advancement will provide the audience with actionable insights to support regional and global growth efforts, intersecting touch points on how organizations are adapting and aiming to thrive with the wake of COVID-19.

The global spread of Covid-19 (SARS-Cov-2), since its emergence in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has resulted in widespread industry disruption. This pandemic has made concentration on controlling and preventing infections in multiple work environments necessary. Along with that, the protection of employee mental health, both inside and outside of the workplace, have been addressed in order to develop an enhanced understanding of employee behaviors and cultures to help them keep themselves safe, whilst carefully managing return to work strategies.

Over the years companies have transformed their safety programs by engineering out hazards and introducing policies and procedures that minimize risk. They have also introduced hazard and behavior observation programs to engage employees in the identification and action on risk. Is this enough? Does a management program mean that employees are truly engaged and own their safe working environment, or, does it mean that management is still dictating the terms and means of achieving a safer work place. Employee engagement should not stop asking employees to fill out a few observation cards each month, but rather should go a step further and ask employees to be actively involved in “owning” safety in their work area. This should be the next stop in the journey and requires leadership to both promote the idea and step back from mandating safety so as to encourage self and team reliance. What does this look like and how would it work?

Ensuring healthy habitats are critical to successful conservation measures. It is also creates an opportunity for companies to assess and mitigate risk to their operations and businesses on ecosystems. Industry can work with organizations to enhance habitat and define the benefit in terms of stakeholder value, including shareholders. There are opportunities to measure and incorporate carbon benefits, maintain access to needed resources, and reduce ongoing efforts for the entire supply chain to manage impacts. This panel will frame out the issues, opportunities, and tools or ideas on how to better incorporate ecosystem goals and efforts into the business. We will provide you an approach to actively develop your own example of how to apply what you learn to your organization during the session. The interactive session will allow participants to ask questions to the panelists that are meaningful to your organization.

Come engage with five leading Vice President's of HSE functions in our industry. Hear their learnings from our turbulent times, listen to their thoughts on the HSE function of the future and most of all engage with them and let's build a new conversation that talks talent and career development and serves our function's increasingly vital role in enabling contemporary business performance in touch with society, in touch with cutting edge learnings on human behavior.

As we stand on the threshold of the new decade, it is certain that the future will look very different than the past. This session will address the challenge of how the oil and gas industry can continue its beneficial contribution to energy access while reducing its direct and indirect impacts. The panelists bring immense experience in industry policy and best practices; decision-making factors, new technologies and investments and new practices needed to evolve with new understandings of what "sustainable" really means.

The concept of partnership shapes everything we do and forms our collaborative approach to Health. Partnerships have been highlighted within the Sustainable Development Goals as a means of strengthening the progress of global health and economic development. Our industry is rapidly transforming and with innovation and technology advancements we are reimaging the role of partnerships in keeping our workforce, their families and communities healthy. Within the energy sector, addressing health within the workplace is critical for ensuring a fit for duty workforce. Outside of the workplace, health is also a target of corporate responsibility efforts. Whether inside or outside the fence, cross-disciplinary and cross-sector partnerships have been effective in providing positive value for health outcomes.

As a follow-on to the Leadership and Engagement panel session, this discussion will focus on what companies and industry groups are doing to create the leaders of tomorrow. Both practical current examples and future visions will be shared, and participants will be encouraged to push the envelope of what we currently see as leadership development.

Ensuring a healthy, productive and well-governed ocean provides significant opportunities for business and global economic growth. All sectors of society must work together to leverage ocean sustainability, not only to protect the ocean itself, but to ensure people and planet can prosper and thrive. This session will explore the current threats to the oceans, what the oil and gas industry is doing to support and encourage responsible ocean business and what further actions could be taken, by the oil and gas industry, in sustainable ocean business to help meet the challenges?

We have long recognized that people don't go to work intending to perform poorly, and that there are many factors which affect people’s performance. There is awareness that errors are human, and not malicious, however our organizational culture often results in the hiding of errors based on fear of punishment. We seek to encourage “Stop Work Authority”, although people are often unwilling to exercise this, as a result of organizational pressure or cognitive biases. Our challenge today is not so much to understand these aspects of safety as to put the relevant principles into day-to-day practice. We have the tools and some appreciation of how to implement them, however there remains a gap. We need to communicate how and why we need change, and create means for teams to learn and apply behaviors which will put these tools to work, leading to sustainable safety performance.

For Oil and Gas companies, respecting human and labor rights in the communities where they operate is not only a prevalent stakeholder expectation, but it is also increasingly seen as essential to project success. In the past four decades, companies have developed robust and efficient initiatives aligned with international standards and guidelines. The panel will address important guiding tools, techniques, processes, systems, and reporting mechanisms available to companies that have helped the industry reach new levels of accountability and transparency regarding respect for Human Rights.

Local Content policies can have a significant impact on O&G projects. They can determine the extent to which Operators are able to contribute to the economic development of host countries. Local Content has evolved over time, not only from the governments’ perspective, but also from the IOCs’ approach. Hence, the importance of advocating for realistic and sound policies, as well as and promoting regulations that encourage investment. Lessons learned in countries like Nigeria, Angola, Brazil and Mexico have served as evidence that prescriptive and burdensome legislations around Local Content deters investment, slows economic development, increases the risk of corruption and does not add value to O&G projects. This panel will focus in on the importance of advocating for realistic and sound policies, as well as and promoting regulations that encourage investment.