Agenda

The workforce was the protagonist of the digital change during the pandemic, and will lead organisational changes, as demonstrated by cases in which remote working brought efficiency, delivered results, and established closer connections across usual department lines and ranks. How was this feasible?

In addition, this session will encompass new learning loops in academic and training organisations, that include new formats and new content to provide the needed skills of the industry:

• Remote working
• Leadership in virtual teams
• Data/Content creation
• Data analytics
• Digital connectivity
• Interfaces in operational loops: Employees—Equipment
• Mindset changes
• Enhancing HSSE using digitalization
• Connected technologies
• The role of content creation and the rise of the ‘internal influencers’

Presentations and Speakers:

• John Hudson, Global Lead, Subsurface, Shell— Leveraging Emerging Opportunities and the Potential of the Learner-Worker Economy
• Kenton Gray, Chief Technology Officer, Datagration—Lessons Learned about Employee Mobility using Cloud-based
• Reem Al-Shammari, Global Thought Leader in Cyber Security and Digital Transformation, Kuwait Oil Company—Leading Digital Transformation Journey with a CISO mindset

Keynote Speaker(s):

One of the most difficult elements of the pandemic was the budgetary reductions of training in all organisations. Still, employees need upskilling, to address the evolving digital future. This session will address how employees dealt with these changes, and what organisations, academia, and stakeholders implemented to support employees’ upskilling during the pandemic and how they envision the new training ecosystem in the post-pandemic period.

• New learning formats and schemes
• E-learning
• Gamification of the learning loops
• Massive training workflows: how and why?
• Mentoring in the virtual world
• Capture of knowledge: Digital knowledge-transfer from experienced to fresh graduates
• The new academia for the digital era
• Digital events, here to stay?

Presentations and Speakers:

• Susan Howes, Vice President of Engineering, Subsurface Consultants & Associates—Virtual Training Value Through the Eyes of Recruiters
• Qinzhuo Liao, Assistant Professor, KFUPM—Academia and the Digital Upskilling Syllabi

Chairperson(s):

Keynote Speaker(s):

Brian Sullivan
Executive Director
IPIECA

We have accomplished many years of digital advancement and carbon abatement in a matter of months, but far more is required to lock in these improvements and build on them to enable our industry to drive towards decarbonisation goals in line with the Paris agreement. Novel digital capabilities are transforming our ability to reduce or eliminate the need for full-time on-site operators. We have realised, we can be just as effective and more efficient with only a tiny fraction of the traveling we thought was necessary to conduct business. The lowest carbon emissions, lowest environmental footprint, lowest cost barrels will be the last barrels produced. How will we collaborate as an industry to retain the license to operate by rapidly decarbonising our assets, our supply chains, and the products we sell?

• IOT, edge computing, machine vision, and AI.
• New forms of equipment surveillance and GHG satellite monitoring.
• Virtual presence via augmented reality to troubleshoot issues with punctual and deep expertise.
• Digital sustainability as a carbon net-zeroing strategy.
• The remote working impact in carbon footprint—what brings the post-COVID era to the office space?
• New collaboration strategies with non-oil organisations.
• Open and collaborative data platforms, shared infrastructure, and consortium-based consensus around data formats, definitions, attribute mapping, and open access.
• Connected and centralised data ecosystems that reduce waste and improve the re-use and use of shared infrastructure.
• Digital in renewal energy sources and energy transition phase.
• Certification of provenance of fluids from rock to point-of-sale.

Presentations and Speakers:

• Conor Kelly, Leads Sustainability Team, Azure Global Energy—Future—How Do We Make “It” Happen?
• Binu Mathew, Chief Technology Officer, C3.ai—Big Data Analytics
• Carlos Diaz, Chief Sustainability Officer – South Europe, Middle East and Africa, SAP—Paradigm Shift towards Intelligent E&P