Agora Program Guide
11-15 March 2019 | Houston, Texas
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We are pleased to welcome you to the Innovation Agora @ CERAWeek. The Agora is an open marketplace for the exchange of ideas on energy innovation, emerging technologies and solutions. It is also a forum to learn and connect. We have an exciting program with many new features and formats designed to facilitate meaningful dialogue and stimulate new thinking. The Agora has expanded to the third level of the George R. Brown Convention Center, just across the skywalk from the Hilton Americas Hotel.
The Agora program covers the range of transformational technology platforms ranging from digitalization, AI, analytics, and connectivity to robotics and drones, blockchain, agile design and additive manufacture and mobility. We have a remarkable community of technologists, investors, thought leaders, government officials and corporate innovators—all dedicated to creating new pathways and solutions for our energy future. Our formats include: • Agora Studio Sessions — highly interactive • Agora Pods — deep-dive presentations, most discussions on emerging and disruptive often in the form of case studies or pitches, that technologies and models of innovation. explore technology solutions in an intimate, relaxed setting. • Voices of Innovation — journeys and insights by distinctive and original thought leaders. • Agora Café — a perfect setting for connecting with colleagues over locally roasted coffee.
We are introducing several new formats: • Agora Houses hosted by preeminent technology • Lyceum Labs offer seminars on critical companies, offering experiences and learning emerging topics in energy and mobility. journeys and a glimpse of what’s ahead. • Lyceum Workshops offer facilitated • The Lyceum — a place for high-impact learning interactive sessions that allow the group to through engagement and collaboration. explore solutions to a specific challenge.
Our sincere thanks to all of the Agora Partners, including Agora Foundational Partners ABB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Emerson, Microsoft Azure, Saudi Aramco, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., and Uptake, for their commitment to this year’s Agora.
We hope you will make the Agora a daily part of your CERAWeek journey, and we look forward to your ideas and contributions to this exciting community.
Sincerely,
Jamey Rosenfield Atul Arya Susan Kish Co-Chairman, CERAWeek Agora Program Advisor Agora Curator, CERAWeek SVP, IHS Markit IHS Markit IHS Markit
3 4 CONTENTS
▶ Innovation Agora 5
▶ Agora Features 6
▶ Agenda 22
▶ Schedule at a Glance 40
▶ Speakers 52
▶ Agora Partners 64
5 With thanks to all of our colleagues listed below, who helped produce the Innovation Agora 2019 @ CERAWeek.
Our CERAWeek Colleagues
IHS Markit Oscar Abbink, Christina Alexiades, Paula Anzer, Atul Arya, Peter Beddow, Kathy Benini, Susan Bevis Bedard, George Capaccio, Kate Chung, Liz Crow, Roslyn Crowell, Charlene Davies, Tom De Vleesschauwer, Ken Downey, Dan Evans, Rob Fraser, Jennifer Fruscillo, Cliff Grossman, Nate Connors, Kate Hardin, Sheila Heffernan, Jenalea Howell, Judson Jacobs, Dewey Johnson, Egil Juliussen, Susan Kish, Silvia Kovatchev, Amy Lee, Sam Lucero, Nishreen Mahesri, Laura Mandel, Megan Coontz McAllister, Bill Morelli, Deena Munn, Carlos Pascual, Scott Priestly, Elaine Reiter, Jamey Rosenfield, Libby Rosenfield, Michele Rodrigues, Dianne Russell, Linda Sanders, Carolyn Seto, Richard Slucher, Erika Smakula, Natalie Smith, Arielle Sourial, Caleb Su, Beatriz Suarez, Todd Szczebak, Pam Taylor, Stephane Teral, Linda Toyias, Ian Weightman, Sam Wilkinson, John Wright, Dan Yergin
Synthesisdesign Susan Groome Jason Ramos
Sparks Robyn Huon Cynthia McArthur
J MASULLO DESIGN Jonathan Masullo
6 INNOVATION AGORA
Explore and share ideas on the future of energy technology and innovation. Connect with technology leaders, innovation pioneers and experts from companies and academia. We offer a range of formats and experiences throughout the Agora, and we hope you will try them all!
▶ STUDIOS ▶ VOICES OF INNOVATION INTERACT LISTEN Dialogues, Conversations Interviews, Talks
▶ PODS ▶ LYCEUM EXPLORE LEARN Case Studies, Startup Pitches Seminars, Workshops
▶ HOUSES & OTHER ▶ MEET UPS EXPERIENCES CONNECT Convening, Collaboration DISCOVER Interactions, Experiential Activities
7 FEATURES
▶ Voices of Innovation
▶ Partner Houses @ Agora
▶ Other Experiences @ Agora
▶ Arab Innovation @ Agora
▶ Mobility Future @ CERAWeek
▶ Startups @ Agora
▶ Venture Day @ Agora
▶ Blockchain @ CERAWeek
8 VOICES OF INNOVATION Join us in the Agora throughout the week for conversations with influential and inspirational thought leaders.
5:45 - 6:30 PM STUDIO 2 MONDAY, MARCH 11 Ashok Belani, Executive Vice President of Technology, Schlumberger Limited, 12:30 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 1 and Blake Moret, Chairman and Chief Ernest Moniz, President & Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell Automation: Executive Officer, Energy Futures Pervasive Automation Initiative, and Lord John Browne, Join Ashok Belani and Blake Moret as Executive Chairman, L1 Energy: What they share their vision to create end-to- will it take to transform the global end solutions and technology platform to energy system? automate entire upstream operations from Hear from a legendary energy expert on drilling to production, well to terminal, challenges of energy transition and the conventional and unconventional, onshore role of the United States as the engine of and offshore. Will this be the answer to provide innovations. Interviewed by visionary leader complete lifecycle and process automation Lord John Browne. solutions? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. 2:00 - 2:30 PM STUDIO 1 Andrew Jassy, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services (AWS): TUESDAY, MARCH 12 Innovation at Scale Andy Jassy will share his insights and 7:30-8:15 AM STUDIO 1 experiences leading one of the world’s fastest Jason Zander, Executive Vice growing companies, how to innovate at scale, and his vision for what’s ahead in the cloud President, Microsoft Azure: Cloud and some of the exciting applications for meets energy energy. Interviewed by Jamey Rosenfield, Join this conversation with a leader of one Founder and CoChairman of CERAWeek and of the world’s most successful technology the Innovation Agora, and SVP, IHS Markit. companies on how the cloud is changing the energy system. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP 4:00 - 4:30 PM INFO DESK and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Book Signing with Angela Stent 9:15 - 10:00 AM DELPHI Join world-renowned expert on Russia and geopolitics Angela Stent and receive a signed Honorable Paul Dabbar, Under copy of her book, Russia Against the West and Secretary for Science, United States with the Rest. Department of Energy: New frontiers of research 4:30- 5:15 PM STUDIO 1 What will be the most transformative Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director, technologies as we look back 20 years from International Energy Agency: Solving now? Hon. Paul Dabbar, U.S. Department the Energy and Climate Puzzle of Energy Under Secretary for Science, will Dr. Birol returns to the Agora for a deep lead a dialogue with the heads of three discussion on energy transition. How fast can US National Laboratories on their role in technology drive this change? How is geopolitics tackling energy’s hardest challenges. shaping global energy markets? Why is shale • Brian Anderson, Director, National Energy the game changer? Can renewables become a Technology Laboratory significant portion of the world’s energy mix? • Doon Gibs, Laboratory Director, Is there irrational exuberance about the pace of Brookhaven National Labs EV penetration? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP • Thomas Zacharia, Director, Oak Ridge and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. National Lab
9 10:30 - 11:15 AM DELPHI and how it changed his life and career. Interviewed Ulrich Spiesshofer, President & Chief by Interviewed by Lance Uggla, Chairman and Executive Officer, ABB: Leading the CEO, IHS Markit. digital transformation 8:30 - 9:15 AM INFO DESK ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer explores some of Book Signing with Lord John Browne the big questions facing the energy industry in the coming years: How are digital technologies Join Lord John Browne to receive a signed copy of transforming energy sector? How is ABB his book, The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good preparing its workforce for this brave new Business. world? And will oil and gas remain a major 9:00 - 9:45 AM STUDIO 2 part of the energy mix for the foreseeable future? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Lal Karsanbhai, Executive President, Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Automation Solutions, Emerson: Making digital transformation real 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 1 How will digital technologies shape the future? Lal Andy Karsner, Managing Partner, Karsanbhai talks about how Emerson places itself Emerson Collective: Disrupting the in a global context, and why they have chosen to global energy system focus on energy as one of its strategic priorities. Thought leader and leading expert on Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy technology innovation, Andy Karsner talks Strategist, IHS Markit. about how entrepreneurs are transforming 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1 the global energy system and how he would design a sustainable energy system. Ray Hunt, Executive Chairman, and Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Hunter Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Hunt Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Consolidated From his early days as a wildcatter in Texas, Ray 2:45 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 2 Hunt has become one the most storied, successful Michael Chasen, Chief Executive and admired oil men of the past half century. Officer, PrecisionHawk: Drones, Described as “an original” he built Hunt Oil into an Disruption, and Energy “outsized presence in a world dominated by Pioneering entrepreneur Michael Chasen giants”. Hunter Hunt, following his father's describes his vision around smart drones footsteps, is leading the company into an and on-demand aerial intelligence, utilizing innovative future, grounded firmly in family values AI and sophisticated geospatial capabilities, and entrepreneurial spirit. Join an intimate father- will provide unexpected benefits. Michael will son conversation. Interviewed by Dan Yergin, Vice share his insights on innovation as a serial Chairman, IHS Markit. successful entrepreneur, including his prior 12:00 - 12:45 PM STUDIO 1 role as co-founder and CEO of Blackboard, an early leader in global eLearning. Iain Conn, Chief Executive, Centrica: Shaping the Energy Transition 4:00 - 5:00 PM STUDIO 1 Join Centrica Group Chief Executive Iain Conn as he H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister takes the audience through the journey from the of Energy & Industry, United Arab utility of today to the energy company of the future, Emirates: Oil and beyond shaped by decentralization of the energy system, Get personal insights into UAE’s journey from a customer power and digitalization. Interviewed by nation rich in oil resources to one that will lead Jason Bordoff, Columbia University. The Middle East into the next technological 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 1 revolution. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Vaclav Smil, Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba, Canada: Reconciling slow transitions and fast climate change Insights from a world-renowned energy expert who WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 describes himself as “scanner of wide horizons, not driller of deeper holes” on past, present and future 7:30 - 8:15 AM STUDIO 1 of energy. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Lord John Browne, Executive Chairman, Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. L1 Energy: The story of the glass closet Come hear this visionary leader and prolific author talk about his personal story of coming out of the closet as a senior executive —
10 1:30 - 2:00 PM INFO DESK 11:15 - 11:45 AM INFO DESK Book Signing with Vaclav Smil Book Signing with Dr. Venkat Sumantran Join Dr. Vaclav Smil to receive signed copies Join Dr. Venkat Sumantran to receive a signed of his books, Oil: A Beginner’s Guide and copy of his book, Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Energy: A Beginner’s Guide. Future of the Car and Urban Mobility.
2:00 - 2:45 PM STUDIO 2 David Keith, Professor, Harvard: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM STUDIO 1 Exploring new avenues to tackle Arun Majumdar, Professor & Co- climate change Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Is it possible to deliberately intervene in Stanford University: Scaling up energy earth's natural system to counteract climate innovations: promises and pitfalls change at scale, i.e. geoengineering? Come Join an energy expert and Stanford hear David Keith, a world-renowned expert on professor and the founding Director of the the science, technology, and public policy of Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy geoengineering. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP (ARPA-E) on what it will take to scale energy and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. innovations and the role of public policy in transforming global energy systems. 4:30 - 5:15 PM STUDIO 1 Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Dr. Vijay Swarup, Vice President, Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Research and Development, ExxonMobil and Dr. Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT 12:45 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 1 Energy Initiative: Solving the world’s Henrik Fisker: Founder, Chairman & challenges through research Chief Executive Officer, Fisker: Designing Hear from Vijay Swarup who leads research the next car, from the inside out and development at one of the world's largest Henrik Fisker's designs have been synonymous energy companies, speak with the head with creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. of a prominent academic center of energy Today, Fisker is designing and developing a research. How will innovation and technology fully connected electric car with autonomous drive new solutions for the twin challenges of driving features, longer range and lower cost decarbonization and growing global energy batteries, set to be the "spiritual successor" to demand? Interviewed by Robert Armstrong, the Fisker Karma luxury electric car. Director of the MIT Energy Initiative. 2:00 - 2:45 PM STUDIO 2 6:00 - 6:45 PM STUDIO 2 Eric Ernst, Chief Technology Officer, Simon Mulcahy, Chief Innovation Formula E: ABB Formula-E driving Officer, Salesforce: Continuous future EV technology innovation Eric Ernst has to ensure that the Formula E How do you change the mindset of the championship series remains at the forefront customer? How do you keep your organization of innovation in motorsport. How does that agile, engaged and motivated? Hear from translate to innovation for the next generation Simon Mulcahy, Chief Innovation Officer at of passenger cars or batteries? Hear an inside Salesforce. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and take from Eric Ernst, Head of Technology at Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Formula E.
3:30 - 4:15 PM STUDIO 2 Ganesh Bell, President, Uptake: Real THURSDAY, MARCH 14 impact of artificial intelligence on power How can companies move beyond the 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 buzzwords of technology, beyond the hype Venkat Sumantran, Chairman, Celeris curve of disruption, into the real areas of Technologies: Faster, Smarter, Greener impact around growth and efficiency? Hear insights from Ganesh Bell, President of Envision a new world of mobility that is Uptake, an industrial artificial intelligence connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and and software leader. personalized. Come hear from Dr. Venkat Sumantran about how the world is moving from the century of the automobile to the century of mobility. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit.
11 PARTNER HOUSES @ AGORA Visit the Partner Houses at the Innovation Agora to experience firsthand the technologies that are transforming the energy system.
Join us in the ABB Partner House and immerse yourself in the Join us for an innovative and immersive “Digital Transformation digital transformation world of autonomous industries and Experience” where employees of fictional ‘Agora Energy’ share electric cars! Test your driving skills in the ABB Formula E how digital transformation has changed their jobs, operations Simulator and your intellect by collaborating with our YuMi and business performance. From reservoir to pipeline to refinery robot. Visit us and learn how ABB is influencing the future of and power generation, Digital Transformation is made real and how we power, produce, work, live and move. practical in just 10 minutes. Emerson industry experts will also be on hand to share how industry leaders are using advanced automation to drive best-in-class performance.
Imagine a future with drone-enabled asset management, AR/VR to enable the workforce of the future, or robotics and machine learning to improve safety and efficiency. Oil and Houston continues to leverage its unique strengths as the energy gas companies of all sizes are partnering with Amazon Web capital of the world by developing disruptive energy technologies Services (AWS) to run business and technical workflows in and innovative companies while capturing new opportunities upstream, midstream, and downstream. Visit the AWS Agora in the renewables sector. Join us in Houston House to learn House to learn more about how AWS is accelerating digital more about the exciting opportunities in our region. World transformation and providing solutions for the modern Petroleum Council (WPC), taking place in Houston in 2020, is energy company. proud to be a supporter of Houston House.
12 Cloud computing is opening opportunities for the energy Visit the Aramco Partner House at the Agora, engage with industry, creating new ways to harness data, increase our world-class researchers, and learn about how we are productivity and transform your business. Visit the Microsoft innovating across the energy value chain. Experts from our
Option C 50k+57k+20k Partner House to learn more and meet with a MS expert. research centers in Detroit, Boston and Houston will be on- hand to discuss how they are developing new applications in7 energy, reimagining manufacturing and creating a more sustainable future. From wireless sensors the size of golf balls suspended in the world’s largest oil reservoirs to America’s most fuel-efficient pickup truck, let our researchers take you on a stimulating tour of their work.
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All Houses are open Monday and Tuesday Guided tours of the Houses are being Please also join on Monday at 6:30 PM 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, Wednesday 9:00 AM - offered Monday - Thursday at 3:00 PM and for the CERAWeek Opening Reception 6:30 PM, and Thursday 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Tuesday - Thursday at 11:00 AM departing and Tuesday at 6:30 PM for the Agora in the Innovation Agora. from Meet Up 1. Open to all CERAWeek Partner Open House Receptions, in the and Agora participants. Agora Atrium.
13 OTHER EXPERIENCES IN THE AGORA ATRIUM
ABB Formula E show car shows the future of mobility Energy Innovation Pioneers ABB’s thought leadership for the future of mobility is on Each year, CERAWeek identifies a select few Energy Innovation display with an ABB Formula E show car. At the center of the Pioneers to showcase their technologies at the Innovation Agora Atrium, see the car and meet Mr. Eric Ernst (Head of Agora, allowing delegates to interact and experience for Technology, ABB Formula E). Visit the ABB Partner House and themselves their promise to disrupt the energy industry. This learn all about our mission to create a sustainable legacy for year, we are featuring: future generations. • JP3: Real-time, sample-less, in-line analysis of hydrocarbon. • Ingu Solutions: Small diameter pipe inspection from the inside. Saudi Aramco Ford F-150 • GHGSat: Satellite-based greenhouse and air quality gas emission monitoring. Saudi Aramco is looking at transportation technology and sustainability in new ways. At the 2019 Innovation Agora, the energy company is displaying a Ford F-150 that runs on a Scheduled Wednesday from 2:00 - 3:00 PM in the Agora Atrium novel opposed-piston engine developed by partner Achates Meet Up 3. Power. The truck, America’s most popular, is being integrated with Aramco’s flagship technology, Gasoline Compression Houston Coffee Roasters Ignition, at its research center in Detroit. The design boosts fuel We’re proud to bring Greenway Roasters to the Agora for the economy by up to 50 percent over existing gasoline engines second year in a row to set up our very own Agora Café. And... and reduces emissions without sacrificing power. Gasoline Compression Ignition enables improved mixture formation prior to combustion. Special fuel can enhance the benefits Enjoy Your Coffee, Served by YuMi® further. Aramco’s Gasoline Compression Ignition and other High demand meets ABB high-tech. Because making and transport technologies were debuted at last year’s North serving coffee is just one of the many tasks, YuMi® – ABB’s American International Auto Show in Detroit and are being dual-arm collaborative robot – can handle. Short for ‘You featured now at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. and me,’ working together to create endless possibilities. The robot was designed to share tasks alongside human co- AVEVA Engage workers without a cage. You can also meet YuMi® in the ABB Partner House. Designed for touch, AVEVA Engage combines market-leading 3D visualization with a seamlessly connected view of project and asset information, delivering a highly efficient and effective decision support capability for capital projects and operations environments. AVEVA Engage’s touch interface dramatically reduces learning time, enabling you to more quickly derive value from your Digital Asset.
14 ARAB INNOVATION @ AGORA
At this year’s Agora, we take a look at the Arab energy innovation ecosystem, mapping out the challenges and opportunities of energy entrepreneurship in one of the world’s largest energy producing regions.
MONDAY, MARCH 11 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
1:00-2:00 PM MEET UP 2 7:30 - 8:30 AM HOUSTON HOUSE Arab Innovation Meetup 1 Energy Innovation in the Arab World: Are we An opportunity for Arab innovators to network and have witnessing a resurgence? discussions that provoke synergies and collaboration in the region The Arab world has recently seen e-commerce and mobility unicorns like Souq.com and Careem, but how is the energy innovation ecosystem? Can aspiring green tech startups make an impact on the region’s long-term energy transition? Join this TUESDAY, MARCH 12 breakfast for an informal discussion. • Abdulmohsen Almajnouni, CEO, RPD Innovations 1:00-2:00 PM MEET UP 2 • Dr. Enass Abo-Hamed, Founder & CEO, H2GO Power Arab Innovation Meetup 2 • Khalil ElShafei, CEO, Aramco Entrepreneurship Center: Wa’ed An opportunity for Arab innovators to network and have • Paddy Padmanathan, CEO, ACWA Power International discussions that provoke synergies and collaboration in the region • Emily Reichert, CEO, Greentown Labs • Dana Dabbousi, Research Assistant, IHS Markit, Chair 6.30 - 7.30 PM AGORA ATRIUM Arab Innovation Reception 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 3 A chance for members of the Arab energy innovation ecosystem Democratizing Geothermal Power to network with their peers and build bridges to foster global Learn how startup Eden GeoPower Inc. works with existing innovation conversations geothermal operators to produce cheap, renewable geothermal energy to be consumed off-grid to power emerging blockchain and hydrogen production technologies. • Ammar Alali, Co-Founder & Board Member, Eden GeoPower
15 MOBILITY FUTURE @ CERAWeek
Across the Innovation Agora and CERAWeek 2019 program this year we feature a mobility focus that spans the intersection of the energy, technology, and automotive industries. The CERAWeek 2019 theme of “New World of Rivalries: Reshaping the Energy Future” is a perfect backdrop for the monumental changes we are seeing in the world of transportation. Across the conference, we address the issues and challenges faced as these industries implement emissions reduction, efficiency increases, and electrification of transport. Our Mobility Future program hones in on specific insights into driverless technologies, electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and regulatory issues, among others. The program includes the following components:
8:50 - 9:15 AM HILTON LEVEL 2 | PLENARY AMERICAS MONDAY, MARCH 11 Welcome & Special Address • William Clay Ford, Jr., Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company 2:30 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 1 • Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit, Chair Driverless Technology: The real disruptor • Robbie Diamond, President & Chief Executive Officer, SAFE 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 • Dave Lauzun, VP of Automotive & Transportation Strategy, Vehicle electrification – understanding the basics Siemens • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & • Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight, Research & Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit Innovation, Arup • Rebecca Yergin, Associate, Covington & Burling LLP 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 2 • Jeremy Carlson, Principal Analyst & Manager, IHS Markit, Chair Virtual Incremental Gallons, Digital Fuel 3:15 - 4:00 PM STUDIO 1 • Alex Kinnier, Chief Executive Officer, Upside Services Agile + Additive = Manufacturing Without Borders 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1 • Charlie Atkins, Director of Development, Wyoming iPark The Quiet ICE Revolution: New tech driving new directions • Jon Hirschtick , Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, OnShape • Jonah Myerberg, Chief Technology Officer , Desktop Metal • Ahmad Al Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco • Gregory L. Powers, Vice President, Global Innovation, Halliburton • SSV Ramakumar, Director, R&D, Board Member, Indian Oil • Bob Braverman, Vice President, Technology, IHS Markit, Chair • Michael Buhr, President & Chief Executive Officer, Filld • Bill Green, Professsor, Postdoctoral Officer, MIT 7:30 - 9:00 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY B • Fellipe Balieiro, Director of Energy & Mobility, Refining & Marketing, IHS Markit, Chair Driving Change: The new frontier of mobility • David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY C Policy, Columbia University Cars and Oil: Reshaping demand • Venkat Sumantran, Ph.D, Chairman, Celeris Technologies • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair • B Anand, Chief Executive Officer, Nayara Energy • Dr. Ayed S. Al-Qahtani, Director of Research Division, OPEC • Liu ChaoQuan, Vice President, CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute • Marianne Kah, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar & Advisory TUESDAY, MARCH 12 Board Member, Columbia University • Daniel Evans, Vice President, Global Refining & Marketing 7:30 - 8:40 AM GRB SALON 5 & 6 Research, IHS Markit, Chair Reinventing Transportation: Buses, transit & fleets • Stephanie Medeiros, Electric Vehicles Charging 2:30 - 3:10 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST Infrastructure - Canada, ABB The Future of Mobility • Chris Nordh, Senior Director – Advanced Vehicle • Derek Kan, Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, Technology & Energy Products, Ryder System, Inc. US Department of Transportation • Vic Shao, Chief Executive Officer, Amply Power • Ulrich Spiesshofer, President & Chief Executive Officer, ABB • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair • Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit, Chair
LOCATIONS: ■ ■ ■ Innovation Agora ■ CERAWeek Program 16 ABB is a proud partner of the Mobility Future Program at CERAWeek and the Innovation Agora 2019.
3:30 - 5:00 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 2 Mobility Executive Forum (by invitation only) Electric Vehicles in China: Road to where? • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair • Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor, Global Economics and Management Group, Sloan School of Management, MIT 4:00 - 5:00 PM STUDIO 2 EV Battery Supply Chain: Scale, Geography & Recycling 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY A • Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute & Professor of The Future of EV Adoption, Investment & Innovation Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines • Adam Jonas, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley • Paul Kearns, Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory • Asaf Nagler, Senior Director, Government Relations, ABB • Jonas Moberg, Head of Corporate Affairs, Trafigura • Daniel Simmons, Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy • Martin Perez de Solay, Managing Director & Chief Executive Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy Officer, Orocobre Ltd • Cathy Zoi, Chief Executive Officer, EVGo • Henning Wicht, Executive Director, Consulting, IHS Markit, Chair • James Burkhard, Vice President, Oil Markets, Energy & Mobility, IHS Markit, Chair
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM STUDIO 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 Planes, Trucks & Ships: Reinventing transportation 8:30 - 10:00 AM LYCEUM WORKSHOP • Erin Galiger, EV Infrastructure Product Manager, ABB • Andrew Gordon, Director Market Analysis, Airbus New Mobility: Reshaping the city of the future – an • Daniel Evans, Vice President, Global Refining & Marketing interactive workshop Research, IHS Markit, Chair • Tom de Vleesschauwer, Senior Director, Automotive, IHS Markit • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 Mobility: The 5 levels of automation 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 • Jeremy Carlson, Principal Analyst & Manager, IHS Markit EV Charging Primer • Heather Flanagan, Marketing Manager, EV Infrastructure, ABB 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 • Erin Galiger, EV Infrastructure Product Manager, ABB Energy Storage Systems and Electrified Vehicles • Simona Onori, Professor, Stanford University 9:00 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 1 EV Charging: Business models & players of the future 2:00 - 3:00 PM STUDIO 1 • Michael Ableson, Vice President of Global Strategy, General Motors What Does the Hydrogen Transportation Economy • Sergej Mahnovski, VP Growth & Innovation, Edison International Look Like? • Jordan Ramer, Chief Executive Officer, EVConnect • Barney Crockett, Lord Provost, City of Aberdeen, UK • Bob Stojanovic, EV Charging Infrastructure North America, ABB • Bashir Dabbousi, Director - Technology Strategy & • Cathy Zoi, Chief Executive Officer, EVGo Planning, Saudi Aramco • Egil Juliussen, Research & Analysis Director, Automotive • Bill Elrick, Executive Director, CA Fuel Cell Partnership Technology, IHS Markit, Chair • James Kast, Fuel Cell Business Analyst, Toyota 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit, Chair The Future of Ride-Hailing & Mobility as a Service • Johan Jungwirth, EVP of Mobility Services, Volkswagen 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 Group of America Decarbonization: From all electric ferries to offshore rigs • Kristopher Luey, Client Success Manager, Vulog • Stig Settemsdal, Global Head of Portfolio Management, Siemens • Jeff Meyer, Research and Analysis Associate Director, IHS Markit 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 • Aric Ohana, Co-Founder, Envoy There • Tom de Vleesschauwer, Senior Director, Automotive, Autonomous Shipping and the Future of Maritime IHS Markit, Chair Transportation • Mikko Lepisto, Digital Lead, Marine & Ports, ABB
17 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Transforming Air Travel • Susan Ying, Vice President Global Partnerships, AmpAire 7:30 - 8:40 AM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY K Grid Interconnectivity and Cities 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY L • Jay Allardyce, Executive Vice President, Industry, Product & EV Charging Infrastructure: How will it develop? Partnerships, Uptake • Eric Ernst, Head of Technology, Formula-E • Amit Narayan, Founder & CEO, AutoGrid • Alex Gruzen, Chief Executive Officer, Witricity • Anders Sjoelin, Lead Division Manager Power Grids • Frank Muehlon, Head, Global Business for Electric Vehicle Division, North America, ABB Charging Infrastructure, ABB • Bud Vos, CEO, Enbala • Vic Shao, Chief Executive Officer, Amply Power • Wade Shafer, Associate Director, Power, Gas, Coal, & • Katie Sloan, Director of eMobility, Southern California Edison Renewables, IHS Markit, Chair • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair
9:00 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 1 12:45 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 1 Integrated Transport Systems for the Future City Voices of Innovation with Henrik Fisker • Datuk Mohamed Najib, Executive Director, Project • Henrik Fisker, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Fisker Management, City of Kuala Lumpur • Ken Downey, Events Director, IHS Markit, Chair • Aric Ohana, Co-Founder, Envoy There • Adie Tomer, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 3 Brookings Institution EVs & The Grid: Friends or enemies? • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair • Doug Arent, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 Scientific Consulting & Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Fuel economy & compliance forecasting: Current prognosis 4:00 - 4:45 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & Electrifying Transportation: How far, how fast? Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit • Pedro Pizarro, President & CEO, Edison International • Patti Poppe, President & CEO, CMS Energy 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1 • Greg Scheu, President, Americas Region, ABB The Quest for Better Batteries • Jone-Lin Wang, Vice President, Power & Renewables, • Khal Amine, Sr Materials, GL/Argonne Distinguished IHS Markit, Chair Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory • Henrik Fisker, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Fisker • Mateo Jaramillo, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Form Energy LOCATIONS: ■ ■ ■ Innovation Agora ■ CERAWeek Program • Elsa Olivetti, Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of Energy Studies, MIT • Sam Wilkinson, Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage Research, IHS Markit, Chair
10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 Voices of Innovation with Dr. Venkat Sumantran • Venkat Sumantran, Ph.D, Chairman, Celeris Technologies • Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit, Chair
18 STARTUPS @ AGORA
The Innovation Agora is proud to host startups and innovators from around the world who are sharing their TUESDAY, MARCH 12 ideas and technologies throughout the week. Interact and engage with these entrepreneurs and disruptors. 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 2 Application of Blockchain to Industry • Andrew N. Bruce, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Data Gumbo
MONDAY, MARCH 11 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1
2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 A Knowledge Integration Perspective on Major Capital Projects and Operations AI Comes of Age: An era of faster, smarter decisions with pragmatic processes • Javier Canon, Director, Maana • Sammy Haroon, Chief Executive Officer, AlphaX Decision Sciences 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 2
2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 3 Going Digital: Managing data in oil & gas Driving Profitability with Advanced Analytics • Gregory Servos, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ovation Data • Steve Sliwa, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Seeq 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1
2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 3 Deep Dive on Machine Learning for Energy Outcomes A Journey Into Industrial Machine Learning: A case study • Adam McElhinney, Chief of Machine Learning & AI Strategy, Uptake • Cedric Fraces, Lead Data Scientist, Oil & Gas, 2predict 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 2
2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1 Virtual Incremental Gallons, Digital Fuel The Arrival of Commercial Fusion Energy • Alex Kinnier, Chief Executive Officer, Upside Services • Bob Mumgaard, Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 Fusion Systems Improving Production Efficiency & Debottlenecking 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 with Filtration Technologies How Can You Use Oilfield Water Intelligence to • Shreya Dave, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Via Separations LOCATIONS: ■ ■ ■ Innovation Agora ■ CERAWeek Program Achieve Your Goals? • Josh Adler, Founding Chief Executive Officer, Sourcewater, Inc. 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1
4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 Dramatically Increase Recovery with World’s Most Autonomous Boosting System Powering Disruption • Alexander Fuglesang, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, • Ben Bodishbaugh, Chief Executive Officer, Evolution FSubsea AS Well Services 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 3 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 1 Organizational Analytics Using Robots for Inspection When It Is Unsafe for Humans • Ben Waber, President & Chief Executive Officer, Humanyze • Fathi Ghorbel, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, inRobotics • Nick Tillmann, Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 Officer, inRobotics AI-aided Digital Technologies for Exploration & 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 Production of Hydrocarbons Using AI-based Software to Transform Data Into • Dimitry Koroteev, Founder, Digital Petroleum & Associate Efficiency & Cost Savings Professor, Digital Petroleum • Dr. John Lovell, Vice President, Technology & Strategy, 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 2 MicroSilicon Unlocking the Economic Potential of Digital Twins • Thomas Leurent, Chief Executive Officer, Akselos
3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 3 Multi-party Collaboration for More Efficient Shipping • Matthew Costello, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Voyager
19 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 2 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 1 Intelligent Control for a Dynamic World Real-time, In-line Hydrocarbon Analysis for Process • Peter Harding, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kelvin Control and Custody Transfer • Matt Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, JP3 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 1 AI-driven Well Timelines for Well Optimization 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 1 • Jeff Dalgliesh, Director, Oil Field Digital Transformation, Maana Robotics-as-a-Service Technology Development • Matt Ondler, President & Chief Executive Officer, 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 Houston Mechatronics New Security Systems to Enable Tomorrow’s Innovations 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 3 • Duncan Greatwood, Chief Executive Officer, Xage Security Clarke Valve 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 3 • Kyle Daniels, Director, President & Chief Executive Officer, Science vs. Engineering in Oilfield Practice: A case study Clarke Valve • Aleksandr Bochkarev, Project Manager, Phystech Geoservice 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 1 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 3 In-line Sensors for Pipeline Inspection Drones, Analytics & the Future of Utilities • John van Pol, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, • Michael Chasen, Chief Executive Officer, PrecisionHawk Ingu Solutions
5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 3 Shortening the Learning Curve for Hydraulic Maximizing Value from Gas and Coal Plants Fracture Simulation • Ted Miller, Energy Industry Director, Uptake • Garrett Fowler, Vice President of Operations, ResFrac Corporation 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 2 Capturing Fugitive Methane Gas from Landfills WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 • Peter Quigley, Chief Executive Officer/Chairman, Loci Controls 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 3 Using Digital Knowledge to Create New Opportunities Accelerating the Growth of the PV Industry Through in Transport & Logistics Wafer Production Efficiency • Almir Alemic, Developer, Maana • Frank Siebke, CFO, NexWafe 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 2 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 1 The Inexcusable Great Divide Early Detection of Methane & GHG Emissions • Tyler Hufstetler, Global Project Manager, Parsable • Robert Kester, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 3 Rebellion Photonics Democratizing Geothermal Power 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1 • Ammar Alali, Co-Founder & Board Member, Eden GeoPower Perovskite PV Solar Cell Development 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 1 • Michael Irwin, Chief Technology Officer, HEE Solar Next-Generation Separation, Purification & 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1 Catalyst Technologies Satellite-based Greenhouse & Air Quality Monitoring • Patrick Fuller, Director of Engineering, NuMat Technologies • Stephane Germain, President & CEO, GHGSat 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 2 Cost-Effective Multilateral Completions of Long Range Electric Trucks. The cheapest and greenest Sidetracks & Wells solution is not enormous batteries and chargers • Alexander Kashlev, Chief Executive Officer, Acting, ADL Completions • Asher Bennett, Founder & CEO, Tevva Motors 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 2 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 3 Kairos Aerospace Building a CO2 Marketplace at Gigaton Scale • Steve Deiker, Chief Executive Officer, Kairos Aerospace • Claude Letourneau, President & Chief Executive Officer, Inventys Thermal Technologies
20 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Energy Web Foundation: An update • Hervé Touati, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web Foundation 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 1 Customer Rewards for Residential Energy Savings 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 2 • Matt Duesterberg, Chief Executive Officer, OhmConnect Wind Power: Broaden your optionality with digital • Jay Allardyce, Executive Vice President, Industry, Product & 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1 Partnerships, Uptake Tidal Turbine Technology 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 3 • Andrew Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Orbital Marine Leveraging Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence to 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 3 Transform Tomorrow’s Digital Utility Artificial Intelligence for Smart Energy • Sid Sachdeva, Chief Executive Officer, Innowatts • Ahmid Nariyan, Chief Executive Officer, AutoGrid 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 2 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1 Transforming Air Travel Energy Storage in Stacked Concrete Blocks • Susan Ying, Vice President Global Partnerships, Ampaire • Merrick Kerr, Chief Commercial Officer, Energy Vault 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 3 Recovering Cooling Water Using Electric Fields A Bright New Future: The rise of hydrogen & • Maher Damak, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, photocatalysis Infinite Cooling • Trevor Best, Chief Executive Officer, Syzygy Plasmonics • Kripa Varanasi, Chairman of the Board, Infinite Cooling
10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 1 Microgrids-as-a-Service • Thomas McAndrew, President & Chief Executive Officer, Enchanted Rock
VENTURE DAY @ AGORA
2019 Venture Day @ CERAWeek Monday, March 11 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
This year at the Innovation Agora, we are proud to host the OGCI Climate Investments Venture Day event. About OGCI Climate Investments: OGCI Climate Investments has allocated up to $50M for OGCI Climate Investments is a $1B+ fund investing promising technologies or business models that reduce in technologies and business models that lower
CO2 via increased efficiency in the following value chains: the carbon footprint of the energy and industrial • Energy, including oil and gas, distribution networks sectors and their value chains. The fund was created • Industrial, materials, construction and heavy industries by the CEOs of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative to take practical action on climate change. We This special event is by invitation-only and will feature invest in innovative companies that are ready to be presentations by a selected shortlist of ~10 companies commercialized and we collaborate with global co- seeking investment, as well as follow-up discussions investors and industrials to achieve speed and scale. and a networking reception. To learn more, visit: oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/ 2019-venture-day.
21 BLOCKCHAIN @ CERAWeek At this year's Agora, explore the world of blockchain, with a special focus on distributed ledger technology and its growing role in the energy industry.
MONDAY, MARCH 11 TUESDAY, MARCH 12
2:30 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 2 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 2 Carbon Trading: Will blockchain change the game? Application of Blockchain to Industry • Don D’Souza, Unit Head for Industrial Mitigation, British • Andrew N. Bruce, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Columbia, Climate Action Secretariat Data Gumbo • Ruben Lubowski, Chief Natural Resource Economist, Environmental Defense Fund 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 2 • Julie Mulkerin, Climate Change Strategy Advisor, Chevron What Is the OOC Blockchain Consortium? • Gerald Prolman, President, Everland • Roger Bhalla, Manager, Supply Chain Systems & Technology, • Kathy Benini, Managing Director, Pricing & Valuation & ConocoPhillips Reference Data, IHS Markit, Chair • Ken Ebest, System Architect, ExxonMobil • Rebecca Hofmann, US Blockchain Strategy & Innovation, Equinor 4:00 - 5:00PM MEET UP 1 Blockchain Meetup 2:45 - 3:45 PM DELPHI Your networking and gathering spot for all things Blockchain. Digital Ledgers: Oil & gas supply chain Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of Oil and • Andrew N. Bruce, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry. Data Gumbo • Rebecca Hofmann, US Blockchain Strategy & Innovation, 4:00 - 6:00 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP Equinor US Blockchain for the Boardroom: An interactive • John Kingston, Executive Editor, Freightwaves workshop • Manas Satapathy, Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, With Data Gumbo. Energy leaders will get hands-on experience Energy, Accenture with a live distributed ledger platform. The workshop will use an • Tomicah Tillemann, Chairman, Global Blockchain Business energy supply chain example to demonstrate the relationship Council, Chair between human-readable contracts, live data and their 4:00 - 5:00PM MEET UP 1 implementation in smart contracts on blockchain. You will walk step-by-step through the automated contract execution process. Blockchain Meetup • William Fox, Chief Product Officer, Data Gumbo Your networking and gathering spot for all things Blockchain. • Lisa Smith, Chief Corporate Development Officer, Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of Oil and Data Gumbo Gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry.
5:00 - 5:45 PM STUDIO 1 Trading and Risk Management: Blockchain and beyond • Rana Basu, Chief Operating Officer, Ondiflo • Dan Berkovitz, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) • Alistair Cross, Chief Operations Officer, Mercuria Energy Trading • Lyon Hardgrave, Vice President, Business & Product Development, VAKT Global • Brad Levy, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit, Chair
22 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
4:00 - 5:00PM MEET UP 1 Blockchain Meetup Your networking and gathering spot for all things Blockchain. Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of Oil and Gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
8:30 - 10:30 AM LYCEUM WORKSHOP Blockchain for the Boardroom: An interactive workshop With Data Gumbo. Energy leaders will get hands-on experience with a live distributed ledger platform. The workshop will use an energy supply chain example to demonstrate the relationship between human-readable contracts, live data and their implementation in smart contracts on blockchain. You will walk step-by-step through the automated contract execution process. • William Fox, Chief Product Officer, DataGumbo • Lisa Smith, Chief Corporate Development Officer, DataGumbo
2:00 - 3:00 PM DELPHI Blockchain and the Power Consumer: Myth or reality? • Ben Bishop, Digital Innovation Specialist, Siemens • Joanna Hubbard, Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder, Electron • Rich Meszaros, Managing Director, Accenture Digital • Sam Salisburg, Innovations Director, Labs, Centrica • Hervé Touati, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web Foundation • Eduard Sala de Vedruna, Executive Director, Global Power & Renewables, Energy, IHS Markit, Chair
23 AGENDA
2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 2 MONDAY, MARCH 11 Innovate and Transform Fast in Oil & Gas When people think about innovative companies, Amazon 12:30 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 1 often comes to mind. This presentation will highlight the key Voices of Innovation with Ernest Moniz and Lord processes and mechanisms that can be adapted and used John Browne: What will it take to transform the by other companies. It will conclude with an illustration of a global energy system? number of innovations at the edge for oil & gas applications. Hear from a legendary energy expert on challenges of energy • Arno Van Den Haak, Head, Worldwide Business Development transition and the role of the United States as the engine of Oil & Gas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) innovations. Interviewed by visionary leader Lord John Browne. 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 3 • Ernest Moniz, President & Chief Executive Officer, Energy Futures Initiative Driving Profitability with Advanced Analytics • Lord John Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy Come hear from Seeq, an Innovation Pioneer alumni, use cases on how its software is being used to optimize business results 12:30 - 3:30 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP for oil and gas companies awash with sensor data. Developing unconventional assets: A simulation • Steve Sliwa, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Seeq workshop 2:00 - 2:30 PM STUDIO 1 This Lyceum Workshop focuses on key upstream decisions involved in finding and developing a shale asset. Working Voices of Innovation with Andrew Jassy: as part of a small team, participants will create a strategy, Innovation at Scale make investments and manage value as the simulation model Andy Jassy will share his insights and experiences leading one produces results. A hands-on way for participants to experience of the world’s fastest growing companies, how to innovate at the risks and realities of shale ventures. scale, and his vision for what’s ahead in the cloud and some • Raoul LeBlanc, Vice President, North American of the exciting applications for energy. Interviewed by Jamey Unconventionals, IHS Markit Rosenfield, Founder and CoChairman of CERAWeek and the Innovation Agora, and SVP, IHS Markit. 1:00 - 2:00 PM MEET UP 2 • Andrew Jassy, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Arab Innovation Meet Up • Jamey Rosenfield, Co-Chairman, CERAWeek, Senior Vice Come together with Arab innovators to network and have President, IHS Markit discussions that provoke synergies and collaboration in the region. 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 The 5 defining characteristics of shales AI Comes of Age: An era of faster, smarter decisions Every shale play needs to closely examine a wide variety of factors. with pragmatic processes This Lyceum Lab will focus on shale play questions including the impact of convergence of previously distinct technologies; We are in an era where AI enables businesses to make faster, the combination of high prices and easy capital; the role of tacit smarter decisions with pragmatic processes. Startup AlphaX knowledge and experience; the importance of evaluation around Decision Sciences will share their experiences and what they have differing rock qualities and decline rates; and the passing of life learned from customers about what works and doesn’t work. phases through trial and error. The Lyceum Lab will also describe • Sammy Haroon, Chief Executive Officer, the critical ingredients that accelerate success. AlphaX Decision Sciences • Raoul LeBlanc, Vice President, North American 24 Unconventionals, IHS Markit 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 2:30 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 2 Knowledge as an asset for Operational Excellence Carbon Trading: Will blockchain change the game? improvement Blockchain holds great promise as a tool to facilitate carbon This Lyceum Lab will explore critical questions around the trading in a world increasingly focused on reducing greenhouse delivery of efficient system designs and quality engineering gas emissions. Can this technology enable environmental outputs in order to remain competitive. In this case study, organizations and energy companies to work together to AGENDA Chevron was able to quickly gain insights around lessons achieve decarbonization goals? How are energy companies learned, HES performance, supply chain optimization, risk adopting a blockchain ledger to trade carbon credits? Can this adjusted designs, and lifecycle cost. This case study explores technology create a more transparent method for exchanging how machine learning and knowledge models were leveraged greenhouse gas emissions certificates? to effectively apply subject matter insights. • Don D’Souza, Unit Head for Industrial Mitigation, British • Babur Ozden, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Maana Columbia, Climate Action Secretariat • Ruben Lubowski, Chief Natural Resource Economist, 2:00 - 3:00 PM MEET UP 1 Environmental Defense Fund AI Meet Up • Julie Mulkerin, Climate Change Strategy Advisor, Chevron • Gerald Prolman, President, Everland Join colleagues from across the energy system for an informal • Kathy Benini, Managing Director, Pricing & Valuation & discussion around the challenges and opportunities of AI/ML Reference Data, IHS Markit, Chair and the energy system. Open to all. 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1 How Can You Use Oilfield Water Intelligence to The Arrival of Commercial Fusion Energy Achieve Your Goals? Hear from CFS, an Engine portfolio company, about how fusion Learn how Sourcewater, an Innovation Pioneer alumni, combines could be a new source of clean energy to meet our increasing big data, machine learning, AI, IoT sensor feeds and satellite energy demands and combat climate change. imagery analytics to help companies achieve operational, • Bob Mumgaard , Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth business development and investment goals. Fusion Systems • Josh Adler, Founding Chief Executive Officer, Sourcewater, Inc.
2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 2 How Do Corporates and Startups Create Value Together? Creating Connected Ecosystems in Oil & Gas Techstars and Equinor team up to present learnings from Explore how proven CRM methodologies and frameworks can Shape the Future of Energy with Equinor in the Techstars help energy companies speed the time to value and remove the Energy Accelerator. inefficiencies of manual processes. • Audun Abelsnes, Managing Director, Techstars Energy • Bobby Dornbos, Principle Solution Engineer, Salesforce • Jens Festervoll, Corporate Liaison, Equinor 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 3 Predicting the unpredictable A Journey Into Industrial Machine Learning: A case study Predicting the unpredictable requires a willingness to think both Many industries, including energy systems, face an increasing rationally and irrationally about the same information and to stream of spatio-temporal data. ML can be used to extract carry concepts and trends to absurd extremes in order to perceive patterns and insights. But what about making sound what might happen. This Lyceum Lab will discuss how to identify predictions? Startup 2Predict will demonstrate some new agents responsible for making outcomes unpredictable. approaches using case studies. • John Gibson, Senior Advisor, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. • Cedric Fraces, Lead Data Scientist, Oil & Gas, 2predict 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 2:30 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 1 Cost & Innovation: Changing upstream dynamics Driverless Technology: The real disruptor Costs trends move apace with prices and activity, with cyclic How will autonomous driving transform the automotive gains often reversed. This Lyceum Lab will focus on the current industry? Fast paced technology innovation is enabling experience of operators in North American tight oil and shale self-driving fleets for mobility services and changing the gas plays, where onshore drilling activity—and costs—are fundamental relationship between car and driver. What is the rising again. Offshore unutilized capacity persists with low future road map for driverless technology? How will it reshape demand and excess supply, and so costs have continued to drift business models? What are the cost, regulatory and consumer lower. Significant cost reductions have been achieved through barriers to implementation? innovations resulting in efficiency gains, project redesign, and • Robbie Diamond, President & Chief Executive Officer, SAFE cycle compression, yet there is an opportunity to roll out such • Dave Lauzun, Vice President of Automotive & Transportation gains more widely. How will costs evolve in the coming years? Strategy, Siemens • Basel Asmar, Director, Upstream Research, IHS Markit • Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight, Research & • Andrew Day, Consulting Director, IHS Markit Innovation, Arup • Pritesh Patel, Executive Director, Capital Costs Analysis • Rebecca Yergin, Associate, Covington & Burling LLP Forum, IHS Markit • Jeremy Carlson, Principal Analyst & Manager, IHS Markit, Chair
25 3:00 - 4:00 PM MEET UP 1 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 Agora House Tour – Afternoon Deep dive into fusion energy Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience Commercial fusion energy offers the first new energy source the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to in decades. It could be an important step toward developing power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a limitless, globally scalable, zero-emissions, environmentally drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors benign energy technology. This Lyceum Lab will provide a deep suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. dive into fusion, including the science and how it will work as an energy source. You’ll hear from an industry leader how new 3:15 - 4:00 PM STUDIO 1 technology could bring fusion energy to the grid faster than expected.
AGENDA Agile + Additive = Manufacturing Without Borders • Bob Mumgaard, Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth AI and agile design – combined with additive technologies - are Fusion Systems changing the world of manufacturing. How will these impact 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 energy industry strategies? How can energy companies leverage these advances in manufacturing to drive cost reduction and Low emission pathways: Identifying and modeling improved productivity. How will borderless manufacturing plausible alternatives impact carbon emissions? Companies are being asked by Boards and Investors to evaluate • Charlie Atkins, Director of Development, Wyoming iPark business models against energy pathways that would achieve • Jon Hirschtick , Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, OnShape the Paris Agreement climate targets. This Lyceum Lab will • Jonah Myerberg, Chief Technology Officer , Desktop Metal explore how these pathways project a fuel use level and mix that • Gregory L. Powers, Vice President, Global Innovation, Halliburton is markedly different than the current outlook. What projections • Bob Braverman, Vice President, Technology, IHS Markit, Chair are available to look at market and technology changes to meet the GHG reduction requirements? What assumptions are made 3:15 - 4:00 PM STUDIO 2 on technology and efficiency? IHS Climate and Energy Scenarios AI & the Energy System: Disruption or transformation? experts will discuss our low emissions cases and how they are modeled, including ranges of assumptions and key challenges. AI and ML are marching across industries, driving transformation as sectors understand and develop their potential applications. • Andrew Ellis, R&A, Data & Technical Design Executive Where will AI’s impact be felt most in energy? How disruptive a Director, IHS Markit force will AI be for most incumbents? What can companies expect • Steven Knell, Director, Energy Wide Perspectives, IHS Markit and how can they adapt to the AI revolution? • Rick Vidal, Director, Global Energy Scenarios, IHS Markit • Dan Mbanga, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web 4:00 - 5:00 PM MEET UP 3 Services (AWS) • Paul Orland, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tachyus Blockchain Meet Up • Morag Watson, Vice President, BP Your networking and gathering spot for all things blockchain. • Matthew Short, Research & Analysis Director, IHS Markit, Chair Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of oil and gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry. 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 1 Harnessing Data Analytics to Reduce Risk for Oil & 4:00 - 6:00 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP Gas Operators & Insurers Blockchain for the boardroom: An interactive Advances in data analytics, sensor technology and artificial workshop intelligence have ushered in a new era of asset optimization Energy leaders will get hands-on experience with a live in the oil and gas industry, laying a foundation for better risk distributed ledger platform. This Lyceum Workshop will use an assessment models and associated rewards. energy supply chain example to demonstrate the relationship • Bill Hahn, Software Solutions Consultant, Siemens between human-readable contracts, live data and their PLM Software implementation in smart contracts on blockchain. You will walk step-by-step through the automated contract execution process. 4:00 - 4:30 PM AGORA INFO DESK • William Fox, Chief Product Officer, Data Gumbo Book Signing with Angela Stent • Lisa Smith, Chief Corporate Development Officer, Data Gumbo Join world-renowned expert on Russia and geopolitics Angela 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 1 Stent and receive a signed copy of her book, Russia Against the West and with the Rest. Using Robots for Inspection When It Is Unsafe for Humans • Angela Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian Learn how inRobotics, a Rice Innovator, and Rice University and East European Studies, Walsh School of Foreign have developed breakthrough technology to enable widespread Service, Georgetown University robotic, in-service inspection of aboveground storage tanks to reduce human confined space entry, improving safety, efficiency 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 and environmental impact. Powering Disruption • Fathi Ghorbel, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Hear from Evolution Well Services, a TPH Disruptor company, how inRobotics they improve safety while diminishing environmental impacts with • Nick Tillmann, Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, their alternative mobile power generation package. inRobotics • Ben Bodishbaugh, Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Well Services 26 4:30- 5:15 PM STUDIO 1 what we can, could, should, and/or must do. In this Lyceum Lab, Voices of Innovation with Fatih Birol: Solving the he shares the top 10 trends which will shape our lives…forever. Energy and Climate Puzzle • Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight, Research & Innovation, Arup Dr. Birol returns to the Agora for a deep discussion on energy transition. How fast can technology drive this change? How is
5:00 - 5:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 AGENDA geopolitics shaping global energy markets? Why is shale the game changer? Can renewables become a significant portion of Competition between short and long cycle crude the world’s energy mix? Is there irrational exuberance about the oil supply pace of EV penetration? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief The impact of new US onshore oil supply continues to have Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. profound impacts on global supply in the near to medium term. • Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency The investment shortfall over the last five years in longer-cycle • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, barrels will materialize in the next few years. In this Lyceum Lab, IHS Markit we will discuss what are the different components of crude supply over the coming years and what are the critical sensitivities? 4:30 - 5:15 PM STUDIO 2 • Reed Olmstead, Director, North America Plays & Basins, Oil & Gas: Realizing value from digital transformation Upstream Oil & Gas Insight, IHS Markit The oil and gas industry is increasingly embracing digitalization • Nick Thomson, Director, Research & Analysis, Upstream, to help manage costs and increase efficiencies in a volatile oil IHS Markit price environment. At the same time, oil companies sometimes 5:30 - 6:00 PM POD 1 struggle with rapid deployment for this and other technology- related initiatives. What technical and organizational approaches Beyond Hype: Practical roadmap to digital transformation to digitalization are proving most effective? Where is value being The industry is abuzz, but where do you start? How do you realized today? Where do the next wave of opportunities lie? know when you’ve achieved it? This session will make the path • Nick Farrant, Senior Vice President, Industry - Oil & Gas, Uptake clear and actionable. • Tom Moroney, Senior Director - Operations Technology, • Chris Hamlin, Director Operational Certainty Consulting, Emerson Chesapeake Energy • Michelle Pfluegger, General Manager, Chevron 5:30 - 6:00 PM POD 2 • Justin Rounce, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Digital Technology Empowers the Modern Energy Officer, TechnipFMC Workforce: Case studies • Arno Van Den Haak, Head, Worldwide Business Development, As much of the skilled labor force faces retirement, technology is Oil & Gas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) easing the generational transition by providing smart resources, • Judson Jacobs, Executive Director, Upstream Technology, enhanced visualization and task-specific guidance to help new Energy, IHS Markit, Chair workers onboard more quickly and handle complex tasks with 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 better, more complete information to underpin their decision- making. This session will present case studies of how industry Using AI-based Software to Transform Data Into leaders are employing technology, such as VR training of an Efficiency & Cost Savings onsite workforce, to reduce cost and safety risks. Startup MicroSilicon Inc. measures spectral properties of oilfield • Abhilash Nair, Senior Principal Technical Sales Consultant, Aveva fluids and uses AI-based software to extract real-time digital chemistry information at the wellhead or pipeline. Operators 5:45 - 6:30 PM STUDIO 1 use this data to optimize flow-assurance programs, improve Innovative Pathways to Affordable Hydrogen Production efficiency and reduce production costs. Based in Houston, MicroSilicon won the 2018 SPE-ATCE Best Startup Award and was Significant progress is being made in reducing the cost of nominated for World Oil Best Digital Transformation Technology. hydrogen. But it still is not economically competitive, in both money and energy terms, to produce, store, and convert • Dr. John Lovell, Vice President, Technology & Strategy, hydrogen back to useful energy. Many innovative approaches MicroSilicon are being tested; most are not at scale. What are the most 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 3 promising technologies and what are the roadblocks to scale hydrogen production? Diving Deep in Machine Learning for Your Industry • Dr. Enass Abo-Hamed, Co-Founder, H2GO Power Learn how AI and ML tools are transforming industries such as • Everett Anderson, Vice President of Product Development, energy and utilities, healthcare, financial services, media and Nel Hydrogen entertainment, and more. What do you need to get started? • Sam French, Business Development Manager, Johnson Matthey This presentation will introduce you both to the technology and • Dr. R.K. Malhotra, Ph.D., Director General, Federation of to organizational best practices for building AI capabilities. Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI) • Dan Mbanga, Business Development Manager, Amazon • Shankari Srinivasan , Vice President, Energy, IHS Markit, Chair Web Services (AWS)
5:00 - 5:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 10 trends changing our lives Change is constant. We cannot stop it or wish it away. Dr Luebkeman’s role, with his global team, at Arup is to constantly observe what is changing in our world so that we understand 27 5:45 - 6:30 PM STUDIO 2 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 Voices of Innovation with Ashok Belani and Blake Moret: Advanced manufacturing and drilling technology in Pervasive Automation industry 4.0 Join Ashok Belani and Blake Moret as they share their vision to The 4th industrial revolution (4.0) involves the confluence of create end-to-end solutions and technology platform to automate additive manufacturing (3D printing), artificial intelligence, and entire upstream operations from drilling to production, well to sensors. This Lyceum Lab aims to uncover the impact of this terminal, conventional and unconventional, onshore and offshore. revolution on oil and gas. Examples of drilling research that Will this be the answer to provide complete lifecycle and process combines these technologies will be presented including how automation solutions? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief universities must prepare future 4.0 leaders.
AGENDA Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. • Dr. C. Fred Higgs III, Vice Provost, Rice University • Ashok Belani, Executive Vice President of Technology, Schlumberger Limited 9:00 - 11:00 AM MEET UP 1 • Blake Moret, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Defense Fund Methane Emissions V/R Rockwell Automation Try the “Methane CH4llenge” simulation and visit a digitally- • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, simulated wellsite with AR to show the ease and efficiency of IHS Markit controlling key sources of methane emissions, an increasingly important challenge for the oil and gas industry. Brought to the 6:30 - 7:30 PM AGORA ATRIUM Innovation Agora by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Opening CERAWeek and Agora Reception Open to CERAWeek & Agora Pass Holders. 9:15 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 1 Renaissance of Biofuels: Opportunities for scale Rising oil prices coupled with dire regulatory reports on global warming have reinvigorated interest in biofuels as a low carbon TUESDAY, MARCH 12 fuel. What is the status of second generation biofuels technology and the scaleup possibilities? Can biofuels be looked at as a 7:30 - 8:15 AM STUDIO 1 mature technology option? How can biofuels targets be met, Voices of Innovation with Jason Zander: which appear more ambitious at the current pace of scale up? Cloud meets energy How do socio-political dimensions add to the value of biofuels as a cleaner fuel choice? Join this conversation with a leader of one of the world’s most successful technology companies on how the cloud is changing • Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director of Research & Development, the energy system. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Board Member, Indian Oil Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. • Vijay Swarup, Vice President, Research & Development, • Jason Zander, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure ExxonMobil • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, • Cynthia (CJ) Warner, President & Chief Executive Officer, IHS Markit Renewable Energy Group • Gauri Jauhar, Executive Director, Integrated Solutions, 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 1 Energy Wide Perspectives, IHS Markit, Chair Decarbonization vs. Profit: Eliminating the rivalry 9:15 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 2 through exergy Sea Change: Autonomy, automation, offshore & the ocean A new methodology and performance metric from Cambridge Are we at the tipping point where economics and technology University and Emerson builds the bridge between profit and allow for resident deep-water drilling? How will the confluence sustainability through integrated energy and material efficiency. of technologies drive the future supply chain for offshore E&P? • Ana Gonzalez Hernandez, Resource Efficiency Consultant, Emerson How will new frontier technologies will be deployed to supply and automate offshore rigs – including autonomous ships, 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 2 drones, and even automated helicopters? Application of Blockchain to Industry • Josh Broussard, Technical Director, Ocean Infinity Just as web browsers turned TCP/IP into the internet, Data Gumbo • Diana Grauer, Director, External Technology Engagement - Blockchain creates the commercial internet. Named the Most North America, TechnipFMC Promising Energy and Clean Technology Company at the Annual • Nicolaus Radford, Chief Technology Officer, Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum in Houston in September Houston Mechatronics 2018, Data Gumbo connects companies to smart contracts. • Patrick Sobalvarro, President & Chief Executive Officer, • Andrew N. Bruce, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Data Gumbo Veo Robotics • James Bellingham, Director, Center for Marine Robotics, 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chair Vehicle electrification: understanding the basics 9:15 - 10:00 AM DELPHI The pace of automotive engineering innovation has never been greater. This Lyceum Lab will explore how, driven by varying Voices of Innovation with United States Department degrees of regulatory and consumer demand for electrification, of Energy National Labs: New frontiers of research the industry is responding with an increasing plethora of What will be the most transformative technologies as we look technical solutions, commonly referred to as being ‘Electrified’. back 20 years from now? Hon. Paul Dabbar, U.S. Department of • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & Energy Under Secretary for Science, will lead a dialogue with 28 Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit the heads of three US National Laboratories on their role in 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 3 tackling energy’s hardest challenges. The Changing Geopolitical Landscape for Minerals • Honorable Paul Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, and Metals in the Energy Transition United States Department of Energy Changing demand and trade patterns for the mineral and metal • Brian Anderson, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory inputs into core technologies of the energy transformation, such
• Doon Gibbs, Laboratory Director, Brookhaven National Labs AGENDA as batteries and solar PV, are already emerging. These changes • Thomas Zacharia, Director, Oak Ridge National Lab will have impacts on technology development, markets, security, 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1 and geopolitics. A Knowledge Integration Perspective on Major • Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute & Professor of Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines Capital Projects and Operations Many large oil & gas companies face complex operational 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 challenges and opportunities from major capital projects and Defining autonomous operations operations. Leveraging knowledge-centric technology can turn How will autonomous operations incorporate AI, digital twins human expertise and data into digital knowledge for employees and domain expertise? This Lyceum Lab will explore the to make better and faster decisions. challenges and questions surrounding the emerging reality of • Javier Canon, Director, Maana autonomous operations - at scale. 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 2 • Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer, ABB • Susan Peterson Sturm, Digital Lead, Energy Industries, ABB Going Digital: Managing data in oil & gas Hear from Ovation Data, a TPH Disruptor company, about how 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 to efficiently manage vast amounts of data currently collected Digitalization deployed, from advanced analytics to and used in modern analytics. How do we future proof this artificial intelligence data for years to come? The answer involves a combination of cloud migration, new data architecture, and state-of-the-art This Lyceum Lab is intended to provide a core understanding digitization and preservation techniques. of the array of solutions being pursued, clarity around the common parlance in use, and an IHS Markit perspective on • Gregory Servos, President & Chief Executive Officer, which technology options will succeed and why. Ovation Data • Ben Bishop, Digital Innovation Specialist, Siemens 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 3 • Stif Olav Settemsdal, Global Head of Portfolio Management, Digitalization in Oil & Gas: Case studies Siemens This session presents case studies of Oil & Gas digitalization in 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 1 both upstream and downstream sectors of the Russian market. Understanding Unconventional Oil & Gas It will provide an analysis of accordance between business values and use of digital technologies (such as big data, Productivity: Challenges and opportunities machine learning, etc). There is now an abundance of production, completion (e.g. • Semen Budennyy, Chief Executive Officer, MIPT Centre of hydraulic fracturing), and geological data from unconventional Engineering and Technology fields with thousands of wells. Combining this data with modern computing techniques, such as artificial intelligence, can provide 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1 substantial insight into patterns of productivity to resolve this uncertainty and inform decisions. Deep Dive on Machine Learning for Energy Outcomes • Justin Montgomery, PhD Candidate, MIT Operations across the energy ecosystem present many opportunities for machine learning to create efficiencies, 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 2 predict potential failures and optimize productivity. See how supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks and Virtual Incremental Gallons, Digital Fuel other techniques can be applied to provide valuable insights Startup GetUpside brings analytics to petroleum marketers and directed actions from industrial data. and dealers delivering incremental petroleum purchases with • Adam McElhinney, Chief of Machine Learning & AI Strategy, Uptake measurable and proven ROI. GetUpside uses a marketplace business model based on analytics to change the way that 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 2 gasoline is sold. What Is the OOC Blockchain Consortium? • Alex Kinnier, Chief Executive Officer, Upside Services Learn about how the OOC Blockchain Consortium is building a network to create oil and gas industry solutions and standards, leveraging blockchain technology to reduce costs, increase timeliness and eliminate disputes in any given process. Featuring Rebecca Hofmann, Chairman of the OOC Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium. • Rebecca Hofmann, US Blockchain Strategy & Innovation, Equinor • Ken Ebest, System Architect, ExxonMobil • Roger Bhalla, Manager, Supply Chain Systems & Technology, ConocoPhillips
29 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1 • Catherine Robinson, Executive Director, IHS Markit The Quiet ICE Revolution: New tech driving • Rick Vidal, Director, Global Energy Scenarios, IHS Markit new directions • Jone-Lin Wang, Vice President, Power and Renewables, IHS Markit Although batteries and electric motors are expected to play a major role in the future, there is a wide spectrum of views on 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 2 how fast the transition from Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) A Robotic Wellbore Intervention Technology to EVs might be. New technological breakthroughs such as “homogeneous charge compression ignition” may improve ICE Development Project efficiency by 20-30%. How will these ICE improvements affect The presentation will cover the background, development and future opportunities for a wireline deployed robotic wellbore tool AGENDA competitiveness with electric vehicles? Could cost parity be delayed by new technology and new business models? How will for complex operations not possible until now. this impact the penetration of EV and the composition of the • Henning Hansen, R&D Manager, Aarbakke Innovation AS car fleet of the future? • Ahmad Al Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 3 • Michael Buhr, President & Chief Executive Officer, Filld The Engine: How a new venture model empowers • Bill Green, Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, MIT tough tech startups • Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director of Research & Development, Learn how The Engine works with founders tackling the world’s Board Member, Indian Oil most profound problems by clearing a path to commercial • Fellipe Balieiro, Director of Energy & Mobility, Refining & success through its unique venture model of infrastructure, Marketing, IHS Markit, Chair funding, and access. 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 • Reed Sturtevant, General Partner, The Engine Energy Infrastructure: How vulnerable to cyber attack? 11:00 - 11:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 Headlines alert us to the risks of aging energy infrastructure Will retail fuel price populism freeze downstream across North America, and enormous vulnerability to cyber- investment in Mexico and Brazil? attacks, both state-sponsored and individual. How likely are those attacks to really happen, and what will be the damage? Fuel price populism, all the way from the refinery to the retail What are the new sources of cyber risk and the state of the art pumps, continues to be a lever that governments use to responses to mitigate these? Are there good short- and long- control inflation and gain voters’ support, particularly in Latin term solutions to the cybersecurity problem? America. In Mexico with the Energy Reform, a populist new administration threatens to impose price ceilings. In Brazil, • Benjamin Beberness, Vice President & Global Head, Oil & a countrywide truck drivers’ strike last year put pressure on Gas Business Industry Unit, SAP the government that ended up with temporary subsidies. The • Gary Freburger, President Process Automation, Lyceum Lab will explore what the future may hold for fuels Schneider Electric price policies and their immediate impact on downstream • Michael Lester, Director - Cybersecurity Strategy, investments in two of the largest economies in Latin America? Governance & Architecture, Emerson • Jeff Wilson, Research & Analysis Director, IHS Markit, Chair • Tom Kloza, Global Head of Energy Analysis, Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), IHS Markit 10:30 - 11:15 AM DELPHI • Felipe Perez, Consulting Director, Oil Markets, Midstream & Downstream, Energy, IHS Markit Voices of Innovation with Ulrich Spiesshofer: Leading the digital transformation 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MEET UP 1 ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer explores some of the big questions Agora House Tour – Morning facing the energy industry in the coming years: How are digital Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience technologies transforming energy sector? How is ABB preparing the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to its workforce for this brave new world? And will oil and gas remain power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a a major part of the energy mix for the foreseeable future? drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. • Ulrich Spiesshofer, President & Chief Executive Officer, ABB • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 1 IHS Markit Data Residency Perspectives 10:30 - 12:30 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP Stringent data residency requirements can sometimes restrict Mapping the energy transition with scenarios: An the use of cloud service providers (CSPs) to drive innovation and interactive workshop can have a negative in-country economic impact. The discussion will focus on the ability to achieve high levels of data protection In this Lyceum Workshop, we will apply the IHS Markit scenario while preserving nation-state regulatory sovereignty. building methodology and extensive group interaction to develop high-level long-term scenarios focused on economy- • Bill Vass, Vice President, Engineering, Amazon Web wide deep decarbonization, and the potential technological Services (AWS) and socio-political challenges. Participants will be divided into teams, each to explore and develop a plausible scenario. • Mark Griffith, Vice President, Energy Strategy & Policy, IHS Markit • Steven Knell, Director, Energy Wide Perspectives, IHS Markit 30 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 2 to creating and sustaining an innovation ecosystem, ensuring How to Build a Holistic Cyber Security Approach for data integrity and privacy in the age of dark web and cyber Your Enterprise espionage and more. • Reginald DesRoches, Dean, George R. Brown School of For any industrial company, securing operational technology Engineering, Rice University can be daunting. Learn how a holistic approach using people,
• Antonio Merlo, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Rice University AGENDA process and technologies can sustainably strengthen your • Peter Rossky, Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, company’s cyber resilience. Rice University • Susan Peterson , Digital Lead, Energy Industries, ABB • Kenneth B. Medlock, Senior Director of the Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute, Chair 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM STUDIO 1 Is Data the New Oil? 1:00 - 2:00 PM MEET UP 2 For over a century, oil has been one of the most valuable Arab Innovation Meet Up commodities and helped to create the modern global economy. Come together with Arab innovators to network and have As companies find new ways to derive value from analyzing discussions that provoke synergies and collaboration in the region. the data associated with finding, producing, processing, and marketing this commodity, it too is becoming a key resource and 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 source of competitive advantage. What steps are companies taking to ensure ownership and access to the data generated by Enabling Digital Transformation & Data Sovereignty their assets, and what new opportunities are emerging from it? Through the Intelligent Edge • Colette Cohen, Chief Executive Officer, The Oil and Gas Oil and gas and other energy producers often operate in Technology Centre challenging environment where internet access is non-existent • Craig Hayman, Chief Executive Officer, Aveva or very expensive. In cases where data security is required • Hussein Shel, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Azure by companies or mandated by government, on-premise • Kentaro Kawamori, VP, Chief Digital Officer, Chesapeake cloud services provide a good solution because you get the Energy Corporation functionality of the cloud without the data leaving the company. • Carolyn Seto, Director, Upstream Marketing & Innovation, • Gaurang Chandrakant, Principal Programmer, Azure Stack, IHS Markit, Chair Microsoft
11:35 AM - 12:35 PM STUDIO 2 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 2 Collaborative Robots: Robots & humans in the Subsea Electrification: The gateway for industry 4.0 future workplace Putting a fully automated oil and gas production facility on Robots have had a role in production – safely isolated. Today, the seafloor has been one of the holy grails of oil and gas robots are expanding their role, whether as caretakers in the exploration. Learn about this partnership between ABB and home or service providers in the café. Meanwhile, humans are Equinor where innovative technology being developed in gaining enhancements to their natural strength and endurance. Northern Europe will change the way companies can deliver What are the new models for human-robot interface? What will power, not only reducing risk but also carbon footprint. be the impact on the future workplace, from off-shore drilling to • Katrine Hilmen, Head of Engineering & Technology Studies, the factory floor? IA Energy, ABB • Roger Barga, General Manager, Robotics & Autonomous • Per Erik Holsten, Vice President, Hub BU Manager for North Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Europe, ABB • Michael Chasen, Chief Executive Officer, PrecisionHawk • Nicolas De Keijser, Manager, Sales & Marketing, ABB 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 • Ian Weightman, Senior Vice President, Technology, C-Suite: What should you be asking about data science? IHS Markit, Chair In this Lyceum Lab, Yaacov Mutnikas, Chief Data Scientist at IHS Markit, will explain data science and its potential for business 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 1 transformation. He will look at the tools and technologies that Voices of Innovation with Andy Karsner: Disrupting enable data science; why the topic is garnering such interest at the global energy system the moment; and the practical questions business leaders need to Thought leader and leading expert on technology innovation, ask before embarking on a data science strategy. The session will Andy Karsner talks about how entrepreneurs are transforming leave participants with a good understanding of the topic as well the global energy system and how he would design a sustainable as the key success factors for building data science into business. energy system. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy • Yaacov Mutnikas, Executive Vice President, Chief Data Strategist, IHS Markit. Scientist, IHS Markit • Andy Karsner, Managing Partner, Emerson Collective • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, 2:00 - 3:00 PM MEET UP 1 IHS Markit AI Meet Up Join colleagues from across the energy system for an informal 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 2 discussion around the challenges and opportunities of AI/ML What’s New at Rice: A conversation and the energy system. Open to all. Rice University started its second century as a leading research and education institution. School leaders will share insights on the research agenda ahead, from the future of the workforce 31 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1 2:45 - 3:45 PM DELPHI Dramatically Increase Recovery with World’s Most Digital Ledgers: Oil & gas supply chain Autonomous Boosting System Digital Ledger technology promises to make data transparent Hear how startup Fsubsea’s disruptive autonomous boosting across the oil and gas supply chain from a single drop of oil in a technology creates an opportunity to increase recovery from reservoir to an end-user’s gas tank. What are the benefits - and the existing subsea wells in a lean, flexible and environmentally risks – of managing and optimizing this data through blockchain sustainable way. technology? What new applications and strategies are being • Alexander Fuglesang, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, developed, and what is being learned from initial deployments? FSubsea AS • Andrew N. Bruce, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
AGENDA Data Gumbo 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 • Rebecca Hofmann, US Blockchain Strategy & Innovation, Improving Production Efficiency & Debottlenecking Equinor US with Filtration Technologies • John Kingston, Executive Editor, Freightwaves • Manas Satapathy, Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, Hear from Via Separations, an Engine portfolio company, about Energy, Accenture how filtration is an underutilized unit operation across the energy • Tomicah Tillemann, Chairman, Global Blockchain Business and manufacturing sectors, leaving $2 billion of unrealized energy Council, Chair savings in a single production process alone. Leveraging highly robust membranes for small molecule separations and unique 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 integration into prevailing process flows can positively affect AI-aided Digital Technologies for Exploration & bottom lines. Production of Hydrocarbons • Shreya Dave, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Via Separations Present and future applications of AI for oil and gas upstream will be illustrated by several case studies that show the actual 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 3 value of AI for de-risking investments in the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. Organizational Analytics • Dimitry Koroteev, Founder, Digital Petroleum & Associate Learn how Humanyze, a TPH Disruptor company, introduces Professor, Digital Petroleum organizational analytics to corporate leaders to leverage thousands of data points about workflow processes and 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 2 organizational health to understand how work is actually getting done and know exactly which levers to pull to drive efficiency. Unlocking the Economic Potential of Digital Twins • Ben Waber, President & Chief Executive Officer, Humanyze Award-winning startup Akselos presents a brief overview of how advancements in Digital Twin technology translate to 2:45 - 3:15 PM STUDIO 2 more economic benefits for the oil and gas industry. Voices of Innovation with Michael Chasen: Drones, • Thomas Leurent, Chief Executive Officer, Akselos Disruption, and Energy 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 3 Pioneering entrepreneur Michael Chasen describes his vision Unlocking Methane Reductions through Virtual Reality around smart drones and on-demand aerial intelligence, utilizing AI and sophisticated geospatial capabilities, will Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) made it possible to find and provide unexpected benefits. Michael will share his insights on fix methane leaks in virtual reality with the Methane CH4llenge. innovation as a serial successful entrepreneur, including his How can virtual reality support and advance global methane prior role as co-founder and CEO of Blackboard, an early leader reduction initiatives? in global eLearning. • Isabel Mogstad, Senior Manager, EDF+Business, • Michael Chasen, Chief Executive Officer, PrecisionHawk Environmental Defense Fund • Erik Horn, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Fair Worlds 2:45 - 3:45 PM STUDIO 1 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 Models of Innovation: Today & tomorrow Shale performance: A look under the hood Innovation in energy requires hard work, commitment, money and patience - plus creativity and invention. What are the This Lyceum Lab will focus on the 5 levers of value creation: unit strengths and weaknesses of the current innovation ecosystem costs, well pads, high-grading, lateral length, and production in the energy industry? How are corporations and startups per foot. Where is the industry for well design trends and finding one another in this fertile technology and innovation completion optimization? What is the impact on economics and environment? What new models offer significant opportunities capital efficiency on the magic of compounding? What is the to accelerate the pace of energy innovation? perfect laboratory to test these ideas? • Barbara Burger, President, Chevron Technology Ventures • Raoul LeBlanc, Vice President, North American • Nicoletta Giadrossi, Board Member, IHS Markit Unconventionals, IHS Markit • John Gibson, Senior Advisor, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 • Amit Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, Moblize • Reed Sturdevant, General Partner, The Engine Crude oil quality trends: Too light and too sweet? • Nick Lowes, Vice President, Oil & Gas Consulting, Energy, Since 2012, global crude quality has shifted to a lighter slate. IHS Markit, Chair Sour crudes will become tighter in the near term due to combined effects of the Venezuela supply drop and tumbling Iranian exports. How will crude importers be impacted by changes in global trade 32 patterns? Can refiners easily absorb new crude qualities? This 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 Lyceum Lab will explore these and related questions. New Security Systems to Enable Tomorrow’s Innovations • Premasish Das, Senior Director, Energy, IHS Markit Xage Security, a Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures portfolio • Stephen Jew, Associate Director, Energy Downstream company, has developed technology to support the new wave Research & Consulting Group, IHS Markit of industrial innovation and increased efficiency by protecting • Ha Nguyen, Director Oil Markets Research, IHS Markit against the risks of cyber compromise. AGENDA 3:00 - 4:00 PM MEET UP 1 • Duncan Greatwood, Chief Executive Officer, Xage Security Agora House Tour – Afternoon 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 3 Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience Science vs. Engineering in Oilfield Practice: A case study the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to The case study will focus on contradictions between scientific power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a and engineering approaches and common barriers in the drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors innovation process, specifically in implementation of particular suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. new technologies and predictive software tools from prototypes to business cases. 3:00 - 4:00 PM MEET UP 2 • Aleksandr Bochkarev, Project Manager, Phystech Geoservice WHOI – Center For Marine Biotics Meet Up Oceans and machines: Join the Woods Hole Oceanographic 4:00 - 4:45 PM STUDIO 1 Institution (WHOI) for an informal discussion around Voices of Innovation with UAE Minister Suhail al the potential for the next generation of exploration and Mazrouei: Oil and beyond development in the oceans , enabled by the conversion of a range of disruptive technologies. Get personal insights into UAE’s journey from a nation rich in oil resources to one that will lead The Middle East into the next 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 1 technological revolution. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. AI-driven Well Timelines for Well Optimization • H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy & Industry, AI algorithms provide energy companies the capabilities to United Arab Emirates digitally re-construct well histories by mining historical well • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit information and data. Using real-world data and examples, this session will explore how oil and gas companies are creating 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 a digital knowledge layer for wells that provides a timeline of China’s future gas supply: Competition for a significant well events, leading to increased yield and efficiency. growing market • Jeff Dalgliesh, Director, Oil Field Digital Transformation, Maana Many global gas suppliers have been eyeing China as a prime 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 2 destination. Indeed, in the IHS Markit outlook, China’s natural gas demand will grow roughly 100 Bcm every five years through Intelligent Control for a Dynamic World 2030. How does the government view gas import dependency? Will Hear how Kelvin, Inc., an OGCI portfolio company, uses AI to unconventional gas development reach a level that threatens import simplify the management of complex systems and enable growth? In this Lyceum Lab, IHS Markit gas experts will share their physical systems to optimize and operate themselves. insights on different factors affecting the future of gas supply to China. • Peter Harding, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kelvin • Anna Galtsova, Research & Analysis Associate Director, IHS Markit 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 3 • Jenny Yang, Director, China Power, Gas, Coal & Renewables, Multi-party Collaboration for More Efficient Shipping IHS Markit Learn how startup Voyager, a participant in the first Techstars • Xizhou Zhou, Managing Director, IHS Markit Energy Accelerator in partnership with Equinor, developed the world’s first multi-party collaboration platform to help large Oil 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 & Gas companies and leading shipowners unlock millions in lost Future transit of Russian gas through Ukraine: To the value from operations in the transportation of bulk commodities brink and beyond? such as crude oil, chemicals and gas. As the current contract for transit of Russian gas through Ukraine • Matthew Costello, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, enters its final year, lack of clarity over the terms of transit after Voyager December 2019 poses considerable uncertainty for the security of European gas supply. Previous Russian-Ukrainian gas disputes 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 1 were resolved at the 11th hour—or after midnight—facilitated by Beyond Hype: Practical roadmap to digital transformation EU involvement. However, finding a compromise under today’s The industry is abuzz, but where do you start? How do you know circumstances will be even more challenging than in the past. This when you’ve achieved it? This session will make the path clear Lyceum Lab will focus on these critical questions and how they and actionable. may play out. • Chris Hamlin, Director Operational Certainty Consulting, • Philippe Frangules, Vice President, Energy, IHS Markit Emerson • Steve Lewandowski, Vice President, Global Olefins, IHS Markit • Veeral Mehta, Senior Consultant, Midstream Oil & NGLs, IHS Markit • Darryl Rogers, Vice President, Midstream Oil & NGL Research and Consulting, Energy, IHS Markit 33 4:00 - 5:00 PM MEET UP 3 hydraulic fracturing, wellbore, and reservoir simulator. Blockchain Meet Up Fracturing, shut-in, and production are seamlessly described with a single continuous simulation. This yields unparalleled Your networking and gathering spot for all things blockchain. benefits in modeling parent-child relationships, frac hits, Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of oil and refracs, DFITs, and more. gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry. • Garrett Fowler, Vice President of Operations, ResFrac Corporation 4:00 - 5:00 PM STUDIO 2 5:00 - 5:45 PM STUDIO 1 EV Battery Supply Chain: Scale, geography & recycling Trading and Risk Management: Blockchain & beyond Increased sales and penetration of EVs and the leading battery Financial services provide clear cases of the effective use of AGENDA technology are creating pockets of suppliers dominating the blockchain to reduce costs, improve transparency, increase market. Small clusters of mining and refining infrastructure are liquidity, and ultimately improve markets. Can blockchain do concentrated - creating risks of potential supply interruptions. How the same for energy trading in all its forms, and ultimately risk will geopolitical concerns factor in the battery supply chain? Is there management? Can the industry work together to create secure room - and a resource base - for new entrants to disrupt the status platforms for deal validation, risk management, compliance quo? How will recycling and re-use impact the current system? monitoring? Can blockchain technology handle confirmation, • Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute & Professor of trade reconciliation, and chain of custody documentation to Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines transform global markets? • Paul Kearns, Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory • Rana Basu, Chief Operating Officer, Ondiflo • Jonas Moberg, Head of Corporate Affairs, Trafigura • Dan Berkovitz, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures • Martín Pérez de Solay, Managing Director & Chief Executive Trading Commission (CFTC) Officer, Orocobre Ltd • Alistair Cross, Chief Operations Officer, Mercuria Energy Trading • Henning Wicht, Executive Director, Consulting, IHS Markit, Chair • Lyon Hardgrave, Vice President, Business & Product Development, VAKT Global 4:00 - 5:00 PM DELPHI • Brad Levy, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Loans Transforming the Upstream Business Through at IHS Markit & Chief Executive Officer of MarkitSERV, IHS Digital Twins Markit, Chair A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process, or system that aims to enhance information management and 5:00 - 5:45 PM STUDIO 2 collaboration. It also allows organizations to consider a range Industrial Energy Efficiencies: The path to decarbonization of plausible scenarios for an asset and assess their potential Energy efficiency is one of the most important tools for avoiding outcomes. What are potential applications across the energy climate change by reducing use of fossil fuels. The industrial industry and what will be their impact? sector offers many opportunities for energy savings from utility • Indy Chakrabarti, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Marketing, energy efficiency programs. Where are these opportunities and Emerson what are the barriers to faster implementation? What are some • Jim Claunch , Vice President, Business Excellence, Equinor of the technological and policy solutions? • Adeeb Gharzouzi, Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, • Paolo Bertuzzi, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Energy, Accenture Director, Turboden • Dr. John M. Lervik, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Cognite • Chris Knittel, George P. Shultz Professor, Applied • Amish Sabharwal, Global Head of Engineering Business, Aveva Economics, MIT • Oscar Abbink, Director, Upstream Research Group, • Pratima Rangarajan, Chief Executive Officer, OGCI IHS Markit, Chair Climate Investments • Peter Zornio, Chief Technology Officer, Emerson 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 2 • Catherine Robinson, Executive Director, IHS Markit, Chair Enabling Subsurface Intelligence in the Cloud Hear how many oil and gas companies leverage intelligent cloud 5:00 - 5:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 and edge services to drive scale, productivity and intelligence for Decarbonization of liquid fuel: Are the programs working? subsurface workload across the upstream lifecycle. The Transportation sector is one of the largest sources of global • Hussein Shel, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Azure carbon emissions, responsible for 14% of GHG emissions globally but 28% of US GHG emissions (EPA estimates). Currently, the 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 3 vast majority of the transport sector’s emissions come from Drones, Analytics & the Future of Utilities combustion of petroleum-derived fuels. The sector is thus a key Major transformations are underway in the global energy sector. target in efforts to reduce carbon emissions and reduce fossil Learn how utilities are replacing inefficient field operations tools fuel consumption. In this Lyceum Lab, we will discuss the major with more precise and expedient technologies to adopt greater pathways for reducing the carbon footprint of transportation, uptime, security and efficiency. include increasing vehicle efficiency, electrification, and reducing the carbon intensity of motor fuels, focusing on progress • Michael Chasen, Chief Executive Officer, PrecisionHawk achieved in the light and heavy duty vehicle segments. 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 • Denton Cinquegrana, Chief Oil Analyst, OPIS, IHS Markit Shortening the Learning Curve for Hydraulic • Blake Eskew, Vice President, Oil Markets, Midstream, Downstream & Chemicals, IHS Markit Fracture Simulation ResFrac Corporation, a Rice Innovator, is changing hydraulic 34 fracture simulation with its fully coupled, three-dimensional 5:00 - 5:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 7:30 - 8:30 AM STUDIO 2 The future of exploration and whole basin strategies Energy Innovation Pioneers: Reshaping upstream Exploration is challenged by competitiveness with short-cycle oil & gas investments, and the longer-term growth options. This Lyceum Digital transformation is reshaping the upstream oil and Lab will explore how this leads to competition for capital from gas industry in multiple ways—creating new rivalries different business models, internal and external. In parallel, among energy supplies, companies, and industries; altering AGENDA enhanced production technologies, digitalization, analytics, technology sourcing and development activities; and recasting and infrastructure strategies are now available as “whole basin the nature of work. Startups play a key role in this next phase of strategies”. How will these factors impact competition for capital? industry transformation. This panel will explore how startups • Jerry Kepes, Executive Director, Plays & Basins, Upstream are enabling digitalization to reshape the energy future. Oil & Gas Insight, IHS Markit • Stephane Germain, President & Chief Executive Officer, GHGSat • Keith King, Senior Advisor, North America Plays & Basins, • Matt Ondler, President & Chief Executive Officer, IHS Markit Houston Mechatronics • Kareemah Mohamed, Principal Research Analyst, IHS Markit • Matt Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, JP3 • John van Pol, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, 6:00 - 6:30 PM AGORA ATRIUM Ingu Solutions Special CERAWeek Keynote Address: Agora Viewing Party • Carolyn Seto, Director, Upstream Marketing & Innovation, Join us to watch Michael Pompeo, US Secretary of State, present IHS Markit, Chair a Special Keynote address on The Role of Energy in 21st Century 8:30 - 9:15 AM AGORA INFO DESK Global Politics. Book Signing with Lord John Browne 6:30 - 7:30 PM AGORA ATRIUM Join Lord John Browne to receive a signed copy of his book, The Arab Innovation Reception Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business. Come together with members of the Arab energy innovation • Lord John Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy ecosystem to network with peers and build bridges to foster global innovation conversations. 8:30 - 10:00 AM LYCEUM WORKSHOP New mobility: Reshaping the city of the future – An 6:30 - 7:30 PM AGORA ATRIUM interactive workshop Agora Partner Open House Receptions This Lyceum Workshop will explore how the advent of New An opportunity for the community to visit the Agora with hors Mobility will make its impact felt upon cities of the future. d’oeuvres served in the Agora Houses. Participants will consider and explore how the effects of the mobility revolution could influence the development of a more human-centered, innovative, sustainable and affordable urban form for our future cities. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit • Tom De Vleesschauwer, Senior Director, Automotive, IHS Markit 7:30 - 8:30 AM HOUSTON HOUSE Energy Innovation in the Arab World: Are we 9:00 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 1 witnessing a resurgence? EV Charging: Business models & players of the future The Arab world has recently seen e-commerce and mobility The emergence of EVs and the different charging modes unicorns like Souq.com and Careem, but how is the energy represent a behavioral shift for consumers. Providing the right innovation ecosystem? Can aspiring green tech startups make specification of infrastructure, in the right location, brought to an impact on the region’s long-term energy transition? Join this market at the right time, will be critical for market participants breakfast for an informal discussion. to thrive in the new EV ecosystem. Will the majority of EV drivers charge at home at night instead of during the day? How will • Abdulmohsen Almajnouni, CEO, RPD Innovations charging be handled for vehicle fleets? What are the implications • Dr. Enass Abo-Hamed, Founder & CEO, H2GO Power for power systems, policies and economics? • Khalil ElShafei, CEO, Aramco Entrepreneurship Center: Wa’ed • Michael Ableson, Vice President of Global Strategy, • Paddy Padmanathan, CEO, ACWA Power International General Motors • Emily Reichert, CEO, Greentown Labs • Sergej Mahnovski, Director, Growth & Innovation, • Dana Dabbousi, Research Assistant, IHS Markit, Chair Edison International • Jordan Ramer, Chief Executive Officer, EVConnect 7:30 - 8:30 AM STUDIO 1 • Bob Stojanovic, EV Charging Infrastructure North America, ABB Voices of Innovation with Lord John Browne and • Cathy Zoi, Chief Executive Officer, EVGo • Egil Juliussen, Research & Analysis Director, R&A, Lance Uggla: The story of the glass closet IHS Markit, Chair Come hear this visionary industrialist talk about his personal story of coming out of the closet – and how it changed his life and career. Interviewed by Lance Uggla, Chairman and CEO, IHS Markit. • Lord John Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy • Lance Uggla, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, IHS Markit 35 9:00 - 10:00 AM DELPHI 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 Life on the Edge: The next computing revolution EV charging primer Edge computing enables computation to be performed on Battery myths abound as these technologies expand their distributed devices, moving computing power closer to the impact. This Lyceum Lab will focus on how EVs change the way user. Combined with artificial intelligence techniques and consumers think about “fueling” their vehicle, the current and machine learning, the new paradigm is unleashing a new set projected charging infrastructure and public charging business of applications that is limited only by the imagination. How and operational models will the cloud – along with distributing compute to the telco • Heather Flanagan, Marketing Manager, EV Infrastructure, ABB and enterprise edge – create new disruptions in business and • Erin Galiger, EV Infrastructure Product Manager, ABB industrial processes? How quickly are these being deployed, and AGENDA where? How will these together enable digitized businesses? 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 • Casey Coleman, Senior Vice President of Government Satellite imagery exploitation Solutions, Salesforce This Lyceum Lab will introduce attendees to some of the most • Sujit Kumar, President, Agora, Schlumberger common satellite imagery products available for commercial • Bill Vass, Vice President, Engineering, Amazon Web Services use. Topics include the processes associated with analyzing (AWS) satellite imagery, and examples of finished products - explaining • Clifford Grossner, Senior Research Director, IHS Markit, Chair their use and significance. 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 1 • Sean O’Connor, Principal Research Analyst, IHS Markit Early Detection of Methane & GHG Emissions 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1 Rebellion Photonics, a Rice Innovator, is a platform provider of Perovskite PV Solar Cell Development intelligent visual monitoring solutions for the oil & gas industry. Its award-winning Gas Cloud Imaging (GCI) solution helps Learn about startup HEE Solar’s perovskite PV solar cell the industry address two of its biggest challenges, improving development, which focuses on device durability. The company’s safety, and reducing its carbon footprint with early detection of CAPEX process, a newspaper-like printing methodology for high- methane and GHG emissions. volume manufacturing that does not require high temperatures or high vacuum levels allows for low-cost production. It includes • Robert Kester, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, 16 US and 40 international patents. Rebellion Photonics • Michael Irwin, Chief Technology Officer, HEE Solar 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 2 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 2 Projecting Energy & Climate for the 21st Century Houston’s Technology Ecosystem Projections of energy and climate over the 21st century show that the aim of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to well Station Houston, founded in 2016, provides startups and others below 2°C implies a transition to an energy system over the in the technology ecosystem with access to space, programming next 50 years with radically lower carbon dioxide emissions and and a community of like-minded entrepreneurial members. a radically different fuel mix than currently in use. Over two short years, its membership has grown to include 180 startups, 350 members, 130 mentors, and dozens of high-impact • Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Initiative strategic partnerships with corporations that represent the key industries driving Houston’s economy. This presentation will 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 3 highlight Station Houston’s role in driving innovation in Oil and Accelerating the Growth of the PV Industry Through Gas and Industrial Technology. Wafer Production Efficiency • Gabriella Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, Station Houston Hear from NexWafe, a Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures portfolio company, about their disruptive kerfless wafer technology 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1 that reduces silicon waste by more than 90%, and the energy Satellite-based Greenhouse & Air Quality Monitoring consumption and CO2 emission of the wafer production by 50%. GHGSat, an Innovation Pioneer, provides satellite-based This enables the PV industry to produce high-efficiency solar cells global monitoring services for greenhouse gas and air quality at low cost and paves the way for future growth of the industry. emissions from industrial facilities. Their technology enables • Frank Siebke, CFO, NexWafe more frequent and precise measurements of emissions than comparable alternatives, allowing operators to manage assets 9:00 - 9:45 AM STUDIO 2 more efficiently, identify and fix problems sooner, reducing the Voices of Innovation with Lal Karsanbhai: Making environmental and financial costs posed. digital transformation real • Stephane Germain, President & CEO, GHGSat How will digital technologies shape the future? Lal Karsanbhai talks about how Emerson places itself in a global context, and 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 2 why they have chosen to focus on energy as one of its strategic Long Range Electric Trucks: The cheapest and greenest priorities. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy solution is not enormous batteries & chargers Strategist, IHS Markit. Electrification of trucks is daunting. Tackling the challenges with • Lal Karsanbhai, Executive President, Automation unique approaches to the overall electric vehicle system can Solutions, Emerson produce results that far exceed generally accepted technologies. • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, Hear about how novel adaptation of tech from an adjacent industry IHS Markit, Chair helps create a solution for one of the greatest concern for all EVs. 36 • Asher Bennett, Founder & CEO, Tevva Motors 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 3 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 3 System Value of Energy Storage in Low Carbon Grids Building a CO2 Marketplace at Gigaton Scale The rise of wind and solar generation in the electricity sector has Inventys, an OGCI portfolio company, aims to halve carbon driven interest in “flexible” technologies, like energy storage, capture cost through its breakthrough technology, using a to manage the increased variability in electricity supply. This distributed supply model to build a CO2 marketplace, enabling talk will discuss the economic potential for storage in future the utilization of CO2 at scale. AGENDA low-carbon grids and its sensitivity to various technology and • Claude Letourneau, President & Chief Executive Officer, system descriptors. Inventys Thermal Technologies • Dharik Mallapragada, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1 Voices of Innovation with Ray and Hunter Hunt with 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 Dan Yergin Key transformations driving development of From his early days as a wildcatter in Texas, Ray Hunt has become cybersecurity technology one the most storied, successful and admired oil men of the past As cyber attacks and data breaches continue to be disclosed half century. Described as “an original” he built Hunt Oil into at an alarming rate, every industry is looking for more effective an “outsized presence in a world dominated by giants”. Hunter ways to protect users, data, and networks. Attacker motivations Hunt, following his father’s footsteps, is leading the company and profiles vary from industry to industry, but there is a into an innovative future, grounded firmly in family values and short list of common issues: explosion of connected devices, entrepreneurial spirit. Join an intimate father-son conversation. transformations in architecture, creation of a true security Interviewed by Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit. fabric, and evolution of threats themselves. In this Lyceum Lab, • Ray Hunt, Executive Chairman, Hunt Consolidated we’ll look at changes in how organizations protect themselves, • Hunter Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Hunt Consolidated focusing on the impact on energy and critical infrastructure. • Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit • Jenalea Howell, Director, Transformative Technologies, IHS Markit 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 The Future of Ride-Hailing & Mobility as a Service 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 Ride-hailing and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is growing What’s right and wrong with CCUS: A political and rapidly, shifting vehicle miles travelled away from the private economic perspective car and potentially signaling an energy/propulsion shift towards Carbon capture, utilization, and storage will be pivotal electrification. The substantial growth of urban mobility services to a low-carbon energy future, but CCUS is emblematic of is expected to impact customers and business models. Will this capital-intensive energy projects that face difficulties in shift help accelerate consumer adoption of EVs? Will mobility securing investment for early deployment phases. While many services help the consumer see the vehicle as a generic device engineering assessments of the technology exist, none has that can be optimized for passenger transport? systematically investigated the broader economic and political • Johan Jungwirth, Executive Vice President of Mobility forces that influence project outcomes. This Lyceum Lab will Services, Volkswagen Group of America introduce new methods to evaluate—and perhaps predict—the • Kristopher Luey, Client Success Manager, Vulog determinants of CCUS project success. • Jeff Meyer, Research & Analysis Associate Director, IHS Markit • David Victor, Professor; Co-Director, Laboratory on • Aric Ohana, Co-Founder, Envoy There International Law & Regulation, UC San Diego • Tom de Vleesschauwer, Senior Director, Automotive, IHS Markit, Chair 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 1 Real-time, In-line Hydrocarbon Analysis for Process 10:30 - 11:15 AM DELPHI Control and Custody Transfer Decarbonization of Power: Which technologies will JP3, an Innovation Pioneer, is a real-time data analytics make a difference? company providing crude oil, NGL and natural gas quality and The power sector has the potential to have significant impact valuation information. Their optical analyzer technology utilizes on decarbonization, from switching to natural gas to optimizing spectroscopy and chemometrics to determine the chemical delivery and transmission to new models for managing yield composition and physical properties of a hydrocarbon stream. The across the system. However, which will really drive material live data is used to balance gas plants, ensure timely and accurate impact? How will storage change the game and at what cost custody transfer, and to purchase optimized crude feedstocks. and pace? What lies ahead for renewables, natural gas, and • Matt Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, JP3 distributed energy? • Fatima Al Shamsi, Assistant Undersecretary for Electricity 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 2 and Future Energy, United Arab Emirates Ministry of How Being Customer-centric Is Disrupting Utilities Energy and Industry • Charles Cameron, Director of Technology, Engineering & Rapid innovations in grid modernization and distributed energy Centrica Innovations, Centrica resources are breaking down the traditional relationship • Agustin Delgado Martin, Chief Innovation & Sustainability models in the energy ecosystem. Learn how modern utilities Officer, Iberdrola are embracing digital to transform the customer experience, • Katherine Hamilton, Chair, 38 North Solutions improve operational efficiencies, and are unlocking value for • Philippe Frangules, Vice President, Energy, IHS Markit, Chair their customers like never before. • Cody Girod, Principal Solution Engineer, Salesforce 37 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 1 pipeline flow, this technology combines miniaturized sensors Robotics-as-a-Service Technology Development and ML to detect leaks, geometric defects and magnetic features that threaten pipeline performance and safety - without Houston Mechatronics, an Innovation Pioneer, is a vertically service interruption. Pipers™ can eliminate the need for human integrated service company focused on robotics and intelligent intervention, reducing inspection costs, improving maintenance, automation. Through fit-for-purpose robotics, their services and lowering repair / replacement expenditures. offer significant cost savings and safety improvements over conventional methods. They work across a diverse portfolio of • John van Pol, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, projects including subsea robotics, advanced manufacturing Ingu Solutions and pipe inspection. 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 2
AGENDA • Matt Ondler, President & Chief Executive Officer, Houston Mechatronics Technology Offerings Toward Decarbonization This presentation will introduce Indian Oil’s decarbonization 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 2 strategies through three pathways: Energy efficiency, innovative Electric Vehicles in China: A road to where? process technologies, and bio-pathways. Electric vehicle sales have increased rapidly in China in recent • Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director of Research & Development, years. What’s behind the numbers? This session examines Board Member, Indian Oil the origins of China’s electric vehicle industry, drivers of 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 3 experimentation and innovation, and future prospects for Chinese-made EVs in domestic and international markets. Clarke Valve, an OGCI portfolio company • Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor, Global Economics and Clarke Valve, an OGCI portfolio company, designs and Management Group, Sloan School of Management, MIT manufactures proprietary control valves for the industrial market. These valves are cost effective, energy efficient and 11:00 - 11:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 virtually eliminate fugitive methane emissions. Robotics in the cloud: The autonomous future of • Kyle Daniels, Director, President & Chief Executive Officer, oil & gas Clarke Valve Join this Lyceum Lab to get a core understanding of the solutions 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM STUDIO 1 being pursued, clarity around the common parlance in use, and a critical perspective on which technology options will succeed Special Address - Collaboration for Energy Innovation: and why. The case for Denmark’s Green Transition • Roger Barga, General Manager, Robotics & Autonomous Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, will speak Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) about energy transition and the case of Denmark. Denmark is a world leader in decarbonizing its energy system. Forty years ago, 11:00 - 11:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 over 90% of its energy came from imported oil. Today, it meets Shale growth drivers and limits almost half of its electricity demand from renewables, especially wind. This has driven significant changes in Denmark’s economy, The growth of shale production has been dramatic in both oil including building strong export sectors that leverage this and gas - whether in new plays and basins, incubation and expertise -- embodied by renewable giants Orsted and Vestas, maturation, declining wedge production, efficiency and other whose North American CEOs will offer their perspectives. factors. This Lyceum Lab will review the range of factors affecting the outlook for shale growth. • HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark • Thomas Brostrøm, President, Ørsted NA • Raoul LeBlanc, Vice President, North American • Chris Brown, President, North America, Vestas Unconventionals, IHS Markit • Jamey Rosenfield, Co-Chairman, CERAWeek, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MEET UP 1 Agora House Tour – Morning 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM STUDIO 2 Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience Planes, Trucks & Ships: Reinventing transportation the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to While electric cars grab the headlines, innovations in trucking, power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a aviation and shipping segments – all big oil consumers in their drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors own right – potentially might play an even greater threat to suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. oil’s hegemony. What are the major technology developments in transportation outside of automotive? Will these create an 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM MEET UP 2 “aggregate disruption” in transportation demand? How will Environmental Defense Fund Methane Emissions V/R electrification of transport beyond passenger cars impact the Try the “Methane CH4llenge” simulation and visit a digitally- future of mobility? simulated wellsite with AR to show the ease and efficiency of • Asher Bennett, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tevva controlling key sources of methane emissions, an increasingly • Erin Galiger, EV Infrastructure Product Manager, ABB important challenge for the oil and gas industry. Brought to the • Dan Evans, Vice President, Global Refining & Marketing Innovation Agora by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Research, IHS Markit, Chair
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 1 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM DELPHI In-line Sensors for Pipeline Inspection Storm Over Plastics: Innovative technology solutions Ingu Solutions, an Innovation Pioneer, provides in-line screening The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of 38 technology for small diameter pipe inspection. Travelling with the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 industry investments at risk. Plastics have high energy that can Energy Storage Systems & Electrified Vehicles be converted to electricity, synthetic gas, fuels, and feedstock. Hear about the role of energy storage systems in the current What are some of the innovative technologies that can enable transportation system and future energy grid landscape. Focus energy recovery from plastics? What technology pathways are will be on technical challenges and open problems to accelerate being developed to address single use plastics? How will the the shift towards low-carbon energy. AGENDA chemicals industry respond to the storm over plastics? • Simona Onori, Professor, Stanford University • Mircea Dinc, Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT • Scott M. Gallager, Scientist, WHOI 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 2 • Brett Howard, Diretor, Chemical Management, Regulatory & Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council Impact of Digitalization on Emissions • Rachel Meidl, Fellow in Energy & Environment, Rice University This session will explore how the deployment of digital • Dewey Johnson, VP, Research & Analysis, Chemical, technologies can help scale the oil and gas industry’s efforts IHS Markit, Chair to reduce methane emissions. • Brian Forbes, Managing Director, Accenture Consulting, 12:00 - 12:45 PM STUDIO 1 Accenture Voices of Innovation with Iain Conn: Shaping the • Isabel Mogstad, Senior Manager, EDF+Business, Energy Transition Environmental Defense Fund Join Centrica Group Chief Executive Iain Conn as he takes the • Sylvain Vaquer, Manager, Accenture Strategy, Energy, Accenture audience through the journey from the utility of today to the 2:00 - 2:45 PM STUDIO 2 energy company of the future, shaped by decentralization of the energy system, customer power and digitalization. Interviewed Voices of Innovation with David Keith: Exploring by Jason Bordoff, Columbia University. new avenues to tackle climate change • Iain Conn, Chief Executive, Centrica Is it possible to deliberately intervene in earth’s natural system • Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in to counteract climate change at scale, i.e. geoengineering? International & Public Affairs, Columbia University Come hear David Keith, a world-renowned expert on the science, technology, and public policy of geoengineering. Interviewed by 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 1 Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. Voices of Innovation with Vaclav Smil: Reconciling • David Keith, Professor, Harvard slow transition and fast climate change • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, Insights from a world-renowned energy expert who describes IHS Markit, Chair himself as “scanner of wide horizons, not driller of deeper holes” 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 on past, present and future of energy. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. US shale play review • Vaclav Smil, Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba, This Lyceum Lab will review the evolution of the top wells in Canada the US since the unconventional revolution, plays that did and • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, did not work, harvesting cashflow from early plays to fund new IHS Markit, Chair plays, and will look at the latest well results in new areas. • Morgen McGuire, Senior Research Analyst, IHS Markit 12:45 - 1:30 PM STUDIO 2 What’s New at MIT: A conversation 2:00 - 2:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 MIT works to advance the frontiers of research and technology— Mobility: The 5 levels of automation bringing this knowledge to bear on society’s greatest challenges Autonomous driving technologies are bringing about significant to help make a better world. These innovators from the MIT change in the automotive industry. Driverless fleets enable Energy Initiative discuss how today’s lab projects can become on-demand mobility services, but the relationship between car tomorrow’s energy solutions, and how researchers address and driver/owner/user will also change—and not just over the the challenge of focusing on the right problems to solve. This long-term. This Lyceum Lab will focus on the spectrum from includes developing key enabling technologies for the energy assistance, automation, and autonomy; sensing and computing transition to improving efficiencies in existing technologies and technologies that transform the vehicle from mechanical to the built environment. digital; the role of regulation and policy in shaping this sector; • Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative and consumer acceptance of new and future vehicle features. • Khartish Manthiram, Warren K. Lewis Career Development • Jeremy Carlson, Principal Analyst & Manager, IHS Markit Professor in Chemical Engineering, MIT • Christoph Reinhart, Professor, Director of Building Technology 2:00 - 3:00 PM MEET UP 2 Program, MIT Innovation Pioneers Meet Up & Demos • Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor & Doherty Chair, MIT Energy Innovation Pioneers showcase their technologies at the • Susan Kish, Agora Curator, CERAWeek, IHS Markit, Chair Innovation Agora, allowing delegates to interact and experience 1:30 - 2:00 PM AGORA INFO DESK for themselves their promise to disrupt the energy industry. Book Signing with Vaclav Smil Join Dr. Vaclav Smil to receve signed copies of his books, Oil: A Beginner’s Guide and Energy: A Beginner’s Guide.
39 2:00 - 3:00 PM STUDIO 1 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 3 What Does the Hydrogen Transportation Economy Cloud: Infinite computing power & possibilities Look Like? This session will explore use cases where the sheer infinite While costs are high at present, the transport sector could allow compute power of the cloud can provide decision-makers with for the fastest development of the use of hydrogen. What is the critical insights in hours rather than months. The idea of defining technology pathway ahead for hydrogen? What are the most risk envelopes or maximizing field production or NPV in a few promising transportation applications - from fleets to heavy duty hours is a game changer; the impact goes beyond traditional vehicles to ports? What will be the pace of their development? metrics and is a huge competitive advantage for the business. What will be the role of policy incentives in accelerating hydrogen • Franz Deimbacher, Worldwide Technical Leader for Energy,
AGENDA development? Will transport lead to broader applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) industry, power generation and homes? • Barney Crockett, Lord Provost, City of Aberdeen, UK 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 • Bashir Dabbousi, Director, Technology Strategy & Planning, Using Digital Knowledge to Create New Saudi Aramco Opportunities in Transport & Logistics • Bill Elrick, Executive Director, CA Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) This case study of shipping smarter at Aramco explores how • James Kast, Fuel Cell Business Analyst, Toyota decision-making through a knowledge-based application • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & combines the power of AI with subject matter expertise. Ultimately, Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit, Chair this has the potential to increase resource utilization and decrease costs in the shipping sphere. 2:00 - 3:00 PM DELPHI • Almir Alemic, Developer, Maana Will Quantum Computing Disrupt Energy - and When? Quantum supremacy – the anticipated advantage of quantum 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 2 over traditional computers – is still yet to be achieved, but Capturing Fugitive Methane Gas from Landfills quantum is widely expected to be the next leap forward in computing. What is the current and future state of this Loci Controls, a TPH Disruptor Company founded by two MIT technology? How will the energy industry harness the power of graduates in 2013, leverages low-cost sensor technology, cellular quantum computing to address practical challenges of costs, communication, and cloud based computing to automate the safety, performance, efficiency and lower emissions? What collection of methane for landfill gas_to-energy (LGTE) and are the risks – including cyber – from this new and potentially decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. disruptive technology? • Peter Quigley, Chief Executive Officer/Chairman, Loci Controls • Leonardo Duenas-Osario, Associate Professor, Civil & 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 3 Environmental Engineering, Rice University • Marco Fiorentino, Distinguished Technologist, HPE Labs Maximizing Value from Gas and Coal Plants • Ben Porter, Director of Business Development, Quantum Leaders in power generation are balancing their power mix Computing, Microsoft Azure between thermal and renewables, however for some, thermal • Ian Weightman, Senior Vice President, Technology, energy will constitute the majority fuel source for the foreseeable IHS Markit, Chair future. Either way, innovators need ways to lower O&M costs, improve capital positions, and generate more power with less 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1 gas and coal resources. Explore the potential to create a “digital The Science of Marine Microplastics: What do we circle of impact” across a fleet portfolio, and exceed targeted know/need to know? operating KPIs There are likely over 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean • Ted Miller, Energy Industry Director, Uptake today, yet we we can only account for less than 1% of this by 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 sampling at the surface. How these products impact ocean life and human health is an open yet critical question. Long- Impact of Quantum Computing on Global Military term solutions to these issues include moving from a linear to Balance of Power? circular economy by generating value in recycling plastics. How will new quantum technologies alter the traditional • Scott Gallager, Associate Scientist, WHOI balance amongst states, and between states and non-states? This Lyceum Lab will explore these and related questions. 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 • Anika Torruella, Sr. Research Analyst, IHS Markit Decarbonization: From all electric ferries to offshore rigs The offshore oil and gas and marine industries are under 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 immense pressure to minimize environmental impact, while How cloud delivered AI and ML-based services may maximizing operational efficiency. The presentation will cover disrupt the energy sector the evolution of an emissions-cutting energy storage solution, Cloud service providers introduce a plethora of pre-built AI from the world’s first all-electric ferry to its recent application and ML components that when deployed may drive energy on an offshore drilling rig. sector costs down with new business processes. With the cloud • Stig Olav Settemsdal, Global Head of Portfolio Management, service providers making AI and ML much easier, there are Siemens many VC funded startups taking the risk to develop disruptive applications. This Lyceum Lab will review the AI and ML based cloud services and cover select transformative startups targeting to disrupt the energy sector. 40 • Clifford Grossner, Senior Research Director, IHS Markit 3:00 - 4:00 PM MEET UP 1 • Rich Powell, Executive Director, ClearPath Agora House Tour – Afternoon • Dr. Emily Reichert , Chief Executive Officer, Greentown Labs • John Snead, Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience US Department of Energy the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to • Timothy Gardner, Vice President, Power & Gas Consulting, power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a IHS Markit, Chair drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors AGENDA suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 1 Next-Generation Separation, Purification & 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 1 Catalyst Technologies An IoT Platform to Improve Your Company’s Intelligence Innovation is hard. The discovery process is complex and results Case study from startup Agora Edge Services on an IoT platform in the lab are often divorced from performance in the field. Hear which securely connects any edge field device to enterprise E&P how startup NuMat Technologies is pairing high-performance data environments, facilitating the collection and analysis of computing with advances in chemistry to dramatically critical data, resulting in real-time, actionable intelligence. accelerate commercialization of next-generation separation, • Sujit Kumar, President, Agora, Schlumberger purification and catalyst technologies. • Patrick Fuller, Director of Engineering, NuMat Technologies 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 2 The Inexcusable Great Divide 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 2 Companies in the oil and gas industry have invested a Cost-Effective Multilateral Completions of Sidetracks tremendous amount of money in the digital ecosystem of the & Wells office environment, yet they have not invested in the digital Hear from Russian startup ADL Completions about its ecosystem of the field worker, ie the boots on the ground. This development of domestic multi-well completion technologies leaves a large portion of workforce potential untapped and is and the future of multilateral completion. a contributing factor to retaining young, talented employees who have come to expect technological solutions. Learn from • Alexander Kashlev, Chief Executive Officer, Acting, Parsable, a Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures portfolio company, ADL Completions about a new approach 4:00 - 4:30 PM POD 3 • Tyler Hufstetler, Global Project Manager, Parsable How Do Diversity & Inclusion Improve Innovation? 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 3 Intuitively, we know that having more diverse teams is a good Democratizing Geothermal Power thing, but is there data to prove that it matters? Is there a way to improve diversity and innovation that will increase your bottom Learn how startup Eden GeoPower Inc. works with existing line? This session will focus on data that shows the business case geothermal operators to produce cheap, renewable geothermal for diversity and the positive impact it can have on innovation. energy to be consumed off-grid to power emerging blockchain and hydrogen production technologies. • Melissa Ruths, Vice President Plantweb Solutions & Services, Emerson • Ammar Alali, Co-Founder & Board Member, Eden GeoPower • Laura Schafer, Vice President of Sales, Precision Fluid 3:30 - 4:30 PM STUDIO 2 Control, Emerson Digital Skills & the Workforce 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 1 In the last century, workforce in OECD countries evolved from Transformation and disruption in the ocean energy sector primary focus on agriculture to industry. Today, it’s shifting from The industry is at an inflection point on technological industry to… what? How are we training our students, as well opportunities that have the potential to be transformative as our existing workers and executives? Are we ready for a future and disruptive. Using Oil & Gas and marine survey as case world where the only experience that counts is the experience of studies, this Lyceum Lab will demonstrate how a forward- learning and changing? looking approach can illustrate technologies that are going to • Leah McGowen-Hare, Senior Director, Salesforce fundamentally change how we operate offshore. • Biswajit Roy, Director, HR & BD, Oil India • Jim Bellingham, Director, Center for Marine Robotics, WHOI • Mike Train, President, Emerson; Chairman, Emerson • Leslie-Ann McGee, Assistant Director, WHOI Automation Solutions, Emerson • Susan Kish, Agora Curator, CERAWeek, IHS Markit, Chair
3:30 - 4:30 PM DELPHI Financing Innovation Across the Energy System How will energy innovation be financed in the future? New sources of capital are emerging – from foundations and philanthropic investors to industry consortia, super angels, public sources, and crypto-currencies. How are investor expectations changing, and what new hybrid models of investment are emerging? What will be the role of traditional investors? How will the new generation of investors impact the energy innovation ecosystem?
• Rhea Hamilton, Ventures Director, OGCI Climate Investments 41 MONDAY, MARCH 11 GRB LEVEL 3
LYCEUM LYCEUM LYCEUM POD 1 POD 2 POD 3 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 DELPHI GENERAL LAB 1 LAB 2 WORKSHOP 7:30 AM 7:45 AM 8:00 AM 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:45 AM
AGENDA 9:00 AM 9:15 AM 9:30 AM 9:45 AM 10:00 AM 10:15 AM 10:30 AM 10:45 AM 11:00 AM 11:15 AM 11:30 AM 11:45 AM 12:00 PM 12:15 PM
12:30 PM 12:30 - 1:15 PM 12:45 PM Voices: Ernest Moniz & 1:00 PM Lord Browne 1:00 - 2:00 PM 1:15 PM Arab Innovation 1:30 PM Meet Up 12:30 - 3:30 PM MEET UP 2 1:45 PM Developing Unconventional 2:00 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM Innovate and Driving Voices: Assets: A 2:00 - 2:50 PM 2:00 - 2:50 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2:15 PM AI Comes of Age Transform... Profitability... Andrew Jassy simulation The 5 Defining Knowledge as workshop AI Meet Up 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM Characteristics an Asset for OE 2:30 PM 2:30 - 3:15 PM 2:30 - 3:15 PM MEET UP 1 The Arrival of How Do A Journey Into of Shales Improvement Driverless Carbon 2:45 PM Commercial... Corporates... Industrial... Technology: The Trading: Will 3:00 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM real disruptor blockchain... 3:00 - 3:50 PM ...Oilfield Water Creating 3:00 - 4:00 PM Cost & 3:15 PM Intelligence... Connected... 3:00 - 3:50 PM 3:15 - 4:00 PM 3:15 - 4:00 PM Innovation: Agora House Predicting the Agile, Additive AI and the Changing Tour - Afternoon 3:30 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM Unpredictable Harnessing Data and the Energy System: upstream MEET UP 1 3:45 PM Analytics... Automobile... Disruption... dynamics 4:00 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:50 PM Powering Low emission 4:00 - 4:50 PM 4:00 - 5:00 PM 4:15 PM Disruption pathways: Commonwealth Identifying Blockchain 4:30 - 5:00 PM 4:30 PM 4:30 - 5:15 PM Fusions and modeling Meet Up Using Robots 4:30- 5:15 PM 4:00 - 6:00 PM Oil & Gas: plausible... 4:45 PM for Inspection... Voices: Blockchain for Realizing value Fatih Birol the Boardroom: from digital... 5:00 PM 5:00 - 5:30 PM 5:00 - 5:30 PM An interactive Using AI-based Diving Deep in 5:00 - 5:50 PM workshop 5:15 PM Software... Machine... 5:00 - 5:50 PM 10 Trends Global Supply Changing Our 5:30 PM 5:30 - 6:00 PM 5:30 - 6:00 PM System Beyond Hype: Digital Lives 5:45 PM Practical... Technology... 5:45 - 6:30 PM 5:45 - 6:30 PM 6:00 PM Innovative Voices: Pathways to Ashok Belani & 6:15 PM Affordable... Blake Moret
6:30 PM 6:30 - 7:30 PM 6:45 PM Opening CERAWeek and 7:00 PM Agora Reception 7:15 PM ATRIUM
7:30 PM 7:30 - 8:30 PM 7:45 PM Agora Community 8:00 PM Dinner 42 TUESDAY, MARCH 12 GRB LEVEL 3
LYCEUM LYCEUM LYCEUM POD 1 POD 2 POD 3 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 DELPHI GENERAL LAB 1 LAB 2 WORKSHOP 7:30 AM 7:30 - 8:15 AM 7:45 AM Voices: Jason Zander 8:00 AM AGENDA 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:45 AM
9:00 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 9:50 AM Decarbonization Application of 9:00 - 9:50 AM Advanced 9:15 AM vs. Profit... Blockchain... 9:15 - 10:00 AM 9:15 - 10:00 AM 9:15 - 10:00 AM Primer on Manufacturing Sea Change: Vehicle and Drilling 9:30 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM Renaissance of Voices: 9:00 - 11:00 AM Autonomy, Electrification Technology in A Knowledge Going Digital: Digitalization Biofuels... DOE Labs Environmental automation... Industry 4.0 9:45 AM Integration... Managing data... in Oil & Gas... Defense Fund 10:00 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM Methane 10:00 - 10:50 AM Emissions V/R Deep Dive on ...OOC Blockchain The Changing 10:00 - 10:50 AM 10:15 AM Machine... Consortium? Geopolitical... Digitalization MEET UP 1 Defining Deployed, Autonomous 10:30 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM from Advanced Understanding Virtual 10:30 - 11:15 AM Operations Energy Voices: Analytics... 10:45 AM Unconventional... Incremental... The Quiet ICE Infrastructure: Ulrich Revolution... 10:30 AM - 11:00 - 11:30 AM 11:00 - 11:30 AM How vulnerable... Spiesshofer 11:00 AM 11:00 - 11:50 AM 12:30 PM 11:00 AM - A Robotic The Engine: Will Retail Mapping 12:00 PM 11:15 AM Wellbore... How a new... Fuel Price the Energy Agora House 11:30 AM 11:30AM - 12:00PM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:35 AM - Populism Freeze Transition with Tour – Morning Data Residency How to Build a Downstream Scenarios: An 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM MEET UP 1 11:45 AM Perspectives Holistic Cyber... 12:35 PM Investment... interactive ...Robots & workshop 12:00 PM Is Data the humans in New Oil? the future 12:15 PM workplace 12:30 PM
12:45 PM 12:45 - 1:30 PM 12:45 - 1:30 PM What's New 1:00 PM Voices: at Rice: A Andy Karsner 1:00 - 2:00 PM conversation 1:15 PM Arab Innovation 1:30 PM Meet Up MEET UP 2 1:45 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM Enabling Digital Subsea 2:00 - 2:50 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2:15 PM Transformation... Electrification... C-Suite: What should you be AI Meet Up 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 PM asking about MEET UP 1 Dramatically Improving Organizational data science? 2:45 PM Increase... Production... Analytics 2:45 - 3:15 PM 2:45 - 3:15 PM Today & Voices: 2:45 - 3:45 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM tomorrow Michael Chasen AI-aided Digital ...Potential of Unlocking Digital Ledgers: 3:00 - 3:50 PM 3:00 - 3:50 PM 3:00 - 4:00 PM 3:15 PM Technologies... Digital Twins Methane... Oil & gas supply Shale Crude Oil chain Agora House Performance: A Quality Trends: Tour – Afternoon 3:30 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM Look Under the Too light and AI-driven Well Intelligent Multi-party Hood too sweet? MEET UP 1 3:45 PM Timelines... Control for a... Collaboration...
4:00 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:45 PM 4:00 - 5:00 PM 4:00 - 5:00 PM 4:00 - 4:50 PM Beyond Hype: New Security Science vs. 4:00 - 4:50 PM 4:00 - 5:00 PM Voices: EV Battery Transforming China’s Future 4:15 PM Practical... Systems... Engineering... Future transit Minister Al Supply the Upstream Gas Supply: Blockchain of Russian Mazrouei Chain: Scale, Business Competition Meet Up 4:30 PM 4:30 - 5:00 PM 4:30 - 5:00 PM gas through geography & Through Digital for a growing ...Subsurface Drones, Ukraine... MEET UP 3 4:45 PM Intelligence in... Analytics... recycling Twins market
5:00 PM 5:00 - 5:30 PM 5:00 - 5:45 PM 5:00 - 5:45 PM 5:00 - 5:50 PM Shortening the 5:00 - 5:50 PM Trading and Risk Industrial Decarbonization 5:15 PM Learning Curve... The Future of Management: Energy of Liquid Exploration and Blockchain... Efficiencies... Fuel: Are the 5:30 PM Whole Basin programs Strategies 5:45 PM working? 6:00 PM 6:00 - 6:30 PM Keynote Address 6:15 PM Viewing Party 6:30 PM 6:30 - 7:30 PM Open House 6:45 PM Reception 7:00 PM 7:15 PM 7:30 PM 7:45 PM 8:00 PM 43 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 GRB LEVEL 3
LYCEUM LYCEUM LYCEUM POD 1 POD 2 POD 3 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 DELPHI GENERAL LAB 1 LAB 2 WORKSHOP 7:30 AM 7:30 - 8:30 AM 7:30 - 8:30 AM Energy 7:45 AM 7:30 - 8:30 AM Reshaping Innovation in Voices: upstream oil the Arab World... 8:00 AM Lord Browne & gas HOUSTON 8:15 AM HOUSE
8:30 AM 8:30 - 9:15 AM Book Signing with 8:45 AM 8:30 - 10:00 AM New mobility: Lord John Browne
AGENDA 9:00 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 10:00 AM Reshaping INFO DESK Early Detection Projecting Accelerating 9:00 - 9:45 AM 9:00 - 10:00 AM EV Charging: 9:00 - 9:50 AM the city of the 9:15 AM of Methane... Energy... the Growth... Life on the 9:00 - 9:50 AM Business Voices: Satellite future - Edge: The next EV charging models & Lal Karsanghai imagery An interactive 9:30 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM computing primer players of the exploitation workshop Perovskite PV Houston's revolution 9:45 AM Solar Cell... Technology... future
10:00 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:50 AM 10:00 - 10:50 AM Satellite-based Long Range System Value of Key What’s right 10:15 AM Greenhouse... Electric Trucks.... Energy Storage... transformations and wrong with driving CCUS: A political 10:30 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM ...Hydrocarbon How Being Building a CO2 10:30 - 11:15 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM development of and economic The Future of 10:45 AM Analysis... Customer... Marketplace... Voices: Ray & Decarbonization cybersecurity... perspective Ride-Hailing & Hunter Hunt of Power... 11:00 - 11:30 AM 11:00 - 11:30 AM Mobility... 11:00 AM 11:00 - 11:50 AM 11:00 AM - Robotics-as- Electric Vehicles Robotics in 11:00 - 11:50 AM 12:00 PM 11:15 AM a-Service... in China... the cloud: The Shale growth Agora House 11:30 AM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - autonomous drivers and Tour – Morning In-line Sensors Technology 11:30 AM - HRH Crown future of oil limits 12:30 PM 11:30 AM - MEET UP 1 11:45 AM for Pipeline... Offerings... 12:00 PM Princess Mary & gas Planes, Trucks 12:30 PM Clarke Valve, an & Ships: Storm Over 12:00 PM OGCI portfolio 12:00 - 12:45 PM Reinventing Plastics... company 12:15 PM Voices: transportation Iain Conn 12:30 PM
12:45 PM 12:45 - 1:30 PM 12:45 - 1:30 PM What's New 1:00 PM Voices: at MIT: A Vaclav Smil 1:15 PM conversation 1:30 PM 1:30 - 2:00 PM Book Signing 1:45 PM with Vaclav Smil 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM Energy Storage Impact of 2:00 - 2:45 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM What Does 2:00 - 2:50 PM 2:15 PM Systems... Digitalization... Will Quantum 2:00 - 2:50 PM Innovation the Hydrogen Voices: Mobility: The Computing US shale play Pioneers Meet Transportation David Keith 5 levels of 2:30 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM Disrupt Energy - review Up & Demos The Science Decarbonization: Cloud: Infinite Economy Look automation and When? MEET UP 2 2:45 PM of Marine... From all electric... computing... Like?
3:00 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:50 PM 3:00 - 3:50 PM Using Digital Capturing Fugitive Maximizing 3:00 - 4:00 PM Impact of How cloud 3:15 PM Knowledge... Methane Gas... Value from... Quantum delivered AI Agora House 3:30 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM Computing on and ML-based Tour – Afternoon An IoT Platform The Inexcusable Democratizing 3:30 - 4:30 PM Global Military services may MEET UP 1 3:45 PM to Improve... Great Divide Geothermal... 3:30 - 4:30 PM Financing Balance... disrupt... Digital Skills & Innovation 4:00 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM 4:00 - 4:30 PM the Workforce Across the 4:00 - 4:50 PM 4:00 - 4:50 PM Next-Generation Cost-Effective How Do Diversity Energy System 4:00 - 5:00 PM 4:15 PM Separation... Multilateral... & Inclusion... Transformation Assessing LNG Blockchain and disruption potential in Meet Up 4:30 PM 4:30 - 5:00 PM 4:30 - 5:00 PM 4:30 - 5:00 PM in the ocean South and 4:30 - 5:15 PM 4:30 - 5:30 PM Demand Kairos Open Data 4:30 - 5:30 PM energy sector Southeast Asia MEET UP 3 4:45 PM Response... Aerospace... Universe... Voices: New Energy Voice of Mayors: Vijay Swarup Technology The energy city 5:00 PM 5:00 - 5:30 PM 5:00 - 5:30 PM Pathways for 5:00 - 5:50 PM Autonomous Creating the of the future 4:30 - 6:30 PM China Natural Gas 5:15 PM Shipping ... Largest Clean... Decarbonization Liquids (NGLs) vs. profit: A and the global 5:30 PM workshop in chemical reality 5:45 PM market 5:45 - 6:30 PM 6:00 PM Nuclear Fission: 6:00- 6:30 PM New pathways Voices: 6:15 PM Simon Mulcahy 6:30 PM 6:45 PM 7:00 PM 7:15 PM 7:30 PM 7:45 PM 8:00 PM 44 THURSDAY, MARCH 14 GRB LEVEL 3
LYCEUM LYCEUM LYCEUM POD 1 POD 2 POD 3 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 DELPHI GENERAL LAB 1 LAB 2 WORKSHOP
7:30 AM 7:30 - 8:30 AM Energy 7:45 AM 7:30 - 8:30 AM Innovation Nature Based 8:00 AM Pioneers: The
Solutions AGENDA future of electric 8:15 AM power 8:30 AM 8:45 AM
9:00 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 9:30 AM 9:00 - 10:00 AM Customer Solar Plus 9:00 - 10:00 AM 9:00 - 10:00 AM 9:00 - 9:50 AM 8:30 - 10:30 AM Geo- 9:00 - 9:50 AM 9:15 AM Rewards... Storage Equals... Integrated 5G Providing a What is the Blockchain for engineering: What is TCFD Transport Backbone to the future of the boardroom: How real and where is it 9:30 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM 9:30 - 10:00 AM Systems for the Smart Energy & batteries in the An interactive and how going? Tidal Turbine Artificial Future City Mobility Future power sector? workshop 9:45 AM Technology Intelligence for... immediate?
10:00 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:30 AM 10:00 - 10:50 AM Energy Storage Catalyzing the A Bright New Fuel economy 10:00 - 10:50 AM 10:15 AM in Stacked... Sustainable... Future... & compliance Data, forecasting: governance, 10:30 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:00 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM 10:30 - 11:15 AM Microgrids-as-a- Energy Web 10:30 - 11:15 AM Current and security... Digital Twins Voices: Urban Resilience 10:45 AM Service Foundation... The Quest for prognosis Venkat in a Changing Better Batteries 11:00 - 11:30 AM 11:00 - 11:30 AM 11:00 - 11:30 AM Sumantran Climate 11:00 AM 11:00 AM - Exploring the Wind Power: Case Study: 11:00 - 11:50 AM 12:00 PM 11:15 AM Role of CCUS... Broaden your... Technology... Myths and 11:00 - 11:50 AM realities: Energy, Business cases Agora House 11:30 AM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM environment, for microgrids Tour – Morning Distributed Transforming Leveraging 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM 11:30 AM - Carbon economy MEET UP 1 11:45 AM Energy... Air Travel Machine... 12:30 PM Voices: Buildings: Hydrogen: What Arun Majumdar A scaleable 12:00 PM role in heat & market for power? 12:15 PM hydrocarbons 12:30 PM 12:45 PM 12:45 - 1:15 PM 12:45 - 1:15 PM Voices: What's New 1:00 PM Henrik Fisker at Stanford... 1:15 PM 1:30 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2:00 - 3:00 PM CarbonHouse: A EVs & The Grid: 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2:00 - 2:45 PM 2:15 PM new paradigm... Friends or... Blockchain Innovation Powering the Voices: and the Power Pioneers Meet Cities of the Eric Ernst 2:30 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM 2:30 - 3:00 PM Consumer: Up & Demos What Can a City A New Reality: Future Myth or reality? MEET UP 2 2:45 PM Learn from... Augmented... 3:00 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:30 PM Recovering Decarbonization 3:00 - 4:00 PM 3:00 - 3:50 PM 3:15 PM Cooling Water... vs. Profit... Agora House An ethical crisis Tour – Afternoon 3:30 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM in computing? Renewables & 3:30 - 4:30 PM 3:30 - 4:15 PM MEET UP 1 3:45 PM New Energy... Power: Voices: Realizing value Ganesh Bell 4:00 PM from digital transformation 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 4:45 PM 4:00 - 4:45 PM Hilton Level 4 | Plenary East 5:00 PM Electrifying Transportation: How far, how fast? 5:15 PM 4:00 - 4:45 PM Hilton Level 4 | Plenary West European Energy Security Dialogue 5:30 PM 4:45 - 5:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Plenary East 5:45 PM Digital Transformation & the Future of Power 6:00 PM 4:45 - 5:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Plenary West Coal's Grand Challenges & Opportunities 6:15 PM 5:40 - 6:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Gallery A 6:30 PM Outlook for Global Fuels in 2019 6:45 PM 5:40 - 6:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Gallery D Why Power Costs Vary Globally: Technologies & fuels 7:00 PM 5:40 - 6:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Gallery G 7:15 PM Reducing CO2 in North American Power: Emerging technologies? 5:40 - 6:30 PM Hilton Level 4 | Gallery J 7:30 PM Solar and Storage: Exploring cost trends & business models 7:45 PM 8:00 PM 45 4:00 - 4:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 4:30 - 5:30 PM STUDIO 2 Assessing LNG potential in South and Southeast Asia New Energy Technology Pathways for China In total, LNG demand across the South and Southeast Asia region China’s energy system is undergoing an unprecedented transition. are forecast to reach 45 million tons in 2018, a 20% increase from Coal consumption is plateauing and renewables are growing the previous year. This Lyceum Lab will explore how sustainable rapidly. China’s transition pathways will impact rest of the word. demand growth is increasingly uncertain. Price sensitive buyers What policies will China implement to steer investments selected are wavering, especially when LNG prices soar, prompting some technologies? Will China lead the world in the adaption of electric to renegotiate existing contracts. New players will compete to vehicles? Will CCUS become a reality in China? procure supply. How have the emerging markets of Asia fared • Larry Cochrane, Managing Director & CTO, Azure Global
AGENDA in LNG demand growth? What infrastructure developments are Energy Industry, Microsoft Azure taking place? • Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor, MIT • Geena Chatterji, Sr. Research Analyst, IHS Markit • Sarah Ladislaw, Senior Vice President & Director, Energy & • Vidur Singhal, Senior Gas Analyst, South Asia Power, Gas National Security Program, CSIS Coal & Renewables, IHS Markit • Xizhou Zhou, Managing Director, IHS Markit, Chair • Chong Zhi Xin, Associate Director, IHS Markit 4:30 - 5:30 PM DELPHI 4:00 - 5:00 PM MEET UP 3 Voice of Mayors: The energy city of the future Blockchain Meet Up Mayors are at the center of leading the energy transition. Your networking and gathering spot for all things blockchain. According to the United Nations, close to 70% of worlds’ Featuring the OOC Blockchain Consortium, a network of oil and population will live in urban areas by 2050, including an additional gas blockchain enthusiasts who are transforming the industry. 2.5 billion people. Cities will play a critical road in achieving Paris climate goals. This first annual gathering of mayors at CERAWeek 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 1 will examine new models for cities from around the world - from Demand Response: Energy efficiency in the power sector smart cities to mobility mavens and everything in between. City leaders will share their experiences and challenges in driving these What is the future of energy efficiency in the electricity sector? innovative transitions. One of the major challenges for demand response will be to identify improved methods of contracting for the service. We • Barney Crockett, Lord Provost, City of Aberdeen, UK highlight the savings opportunities associated with a utility • Aibek Krambaev, Deputy Governor, Region of Atyrau, shift towards new demand response procurement practices. Kazakhstan • Christine Sagen Helgø, Mayor, City of Stavanger, Norway • Ian Schneider, Research Assistant, MIT • Michael Savage, Mayor, City of Halifax, CA • Sylvester Turner, Mayor, City of Houston, Texas 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 2 • Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair Kairos Aerospace, an OGCI portfolio company Kairos Aerospace, an OGCI portfolio company, provides actionable 4:30 - 6:30 PM LYCEUM WORKSHOP data on major sources of methane emissions from aerial surveys. Decarbonization vs. profit: A workshop in reality • Steve Deiker, Chief Executive Officer, Kairos Aerospace Conventional management cultures pit operational sustainability at the cost of profit. Capital projects prioritize upfront cost control 4:30 - 5:00 PM POD 3 over long-term returns. New Exergy-based approaches and Open Data Universe in Oil & Gas automation resolves this rivalry. This Lyceum Workshop seeks Hear how many oil and gas companies are utilizing cloud to understand how a new, single metric for energy and material services to enable a standard repeatable data platform resource efficiency can reduce manufacturing impact on the deployment which allows them to work across all of their environment, create a new plant design certification scheme and collected data, as well as enable AI, data sharing and new open sources of investment for sustainability. partnerships. The presentation will cover how cloud services • Ana Gonzalez Hernandez, Resource Efficiency Consultant, can be used across the upstream lifecycle to enable data driven Emerson innovation for oil and gas companies. • Chris Hamlin, Director Operational Certainty Consulting, • Kadri Umay, Director of Industry Technology Strategy, Microsoft Emerson
4:30 - 5:15 PM STUDIO 1 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 1 Voices of Innovation with Vijay Swarup: Solving the Autonomous Shipping & the Future of Maritime world’s challenges through research Transportation Hear from Vijay Swarup who leads research and development Over 90% of world trade is carried by ships that are designed to at one of the world’s largest energy companies, speak with have humans on board. Optimally employing technology allows the head of a prominent academic center of energy research. for more efficient utilization of vessel crews, reduction in fatigue How will innovation and technology drive new solutions for the and increased safety. Learn from a case study about future-proof twin challenges of decarbonization and growing global energy technologies like augmented reality, sensor fusion and machine demand? Interviewed by Robert Armstrong, Director of the MIT learning that are already deployed today to increase safety and Energy Initiative. availability of ships, and how autonomous shipping is expected to evolve in the future. • Vijay Swarup, Vice President, Research & Development, ExxonMobil • Mikko Lepisto, Digital Lead, Marine & Ports, ABB • Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative, Chair 46 5:00 - 5:30 PM POD 3 Creating the Largest Clean Technology Incubator in THURSDAY, MARCH 14 the US Hear about the history of Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech 7:30 - 8:30 AM STUDIO 2 incubator in the United States, and its growth from 4 startup Nature Based Solutions AGENDA companies in 2011 to a community of roughly 100 startup Nature Based Solutions (NBS) is the use of nature for tackling companies working in 100,000 square feet of space today. variety of socio-environmental challenges including climate • Dr. Emily Reichert, Chief Executive Officer, Greentown Labs change. NBS may present a short-term opportunity to mitigate emissions and may be able to deliver about a third of GHG 5:00 - 5:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 reductions required. What are some of these solutions? What is Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) and the global the cost? How are some of the challenges such as verification chemical market being addressed? Global NGLs availability and downstream product requirements • Marielle Canter Weikel, Senior Director, Responsible are underpinned by upstream production, refinery throughputs, Mining & Energy, Conservation International and chemical and petrochemical feedstock demand. IHS • David Victor, Professor; Co-Director, Laboratory on International Markit experts will lead this Lyceum Lab through an interactive Law & Regulation, University of California, San Diego dialogue covering the global and U.S. NGL availability over the • Fiona Wild, Vice President, Climate Change & Sustainability, short and long term, project opportunities and risks across the BHP Billiton midstream supply chain to support downstream demand, ethane • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, competition and selection, chemical industry disruptors, emerging IHS Markit, Chair technologies (CTO and MTO) on NGL demand, and managing risks. 7:30 - 8:30 AM DELPHI • Steve Lewandowski, Vice President, Global Olefins, IHS Markit • Veeral Mehta, Senior Consultant, Midstream Oil & NGLs, Energy Innovation Pioneers: The future of electric power IHS Markit In an environment of technological change and ambitious • Darryl Rogers, Vice President, Midstream Oil & NGL Research public policy requirements, the electric power sector has the and Consulting, Energy, IHS Markit monumental task of discovering the technologies and business models that achieve society’s goals at the lowest cost to 5:45 - 6:30 PM STUDIO 1 consumers. New innovations, spanning generation and storage to Nuclear Fission: New pathways engaging the end consumer, are necessary to meet the challenge. This panel discusses how startups foster innovation and their New studies suggest nuclear is vital to decarbonization. Nuclear vision for the future of electric power. power is still actively being developed in emerging markets such as China, UAE, and Korea. Meanwhile, a new generation of • Matt Duesterberg, Chief Executive Officer, OhmConnect startups are advancing new modular and small-scale designs • Merrick Kerr, Chief Commercial Officer, Energy Vault that address issues of waste and cost. What are the new policies, • Thomas McAndrew, President and Chief Executive Officer, technologies and business models that hold greatest promise for Enchanted Rock reintroducing nuclear energy as a viable option? • Andrew cott, Chief Executive Officer, Orbital Marine • Alex Klaessig, Director, Power & Renewables, IHS Markit, Chair • Rita Baranwal, Director, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN), Idaho National Laboratory 8:30 - 10:30 AM LYCEUM WORKSHOP • Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering; Director, CANES, MIT Blockchain for the boardroom: An interactive workshop • Robert Ethier, Vice President, Market Operations, Energy leaders will get hands-on experience with a live distributed ISO-New England ledger platform. The Lyceum Workshop will use an energy supply • J. Clay Sell, Chief Executive Officer, X-Energy chain example to demonstrate the relationship between human- • Robert Stoner, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, readable contracts, live data and their implementation in smart MIT Energy Initiative, Chair contracts on blockchain. You will walk step-by-step through the automated contract execution process. 6:00- 6:30 PM STUDIO 2 • William Fox, Chief Product Officer, DataGumbo Voices of Innovation with Simon Mulcahy: • Lisa Smith, Chief Corporate Development Officer, DataGumbo Continuous innovation 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 1 How do you change the mindset of the customer? How do you keep your organization agile, engaged and motivated? Hear from Customer Rewards for Residential Energy Savings Simon Mulcahy, Chief Innovation Officer at Salesforce. Interviewed OhmConnect, an Innovation Pioneer, connects the smart home by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. to the smart grid, combining IoT and smart grid technology with • Simon Mulcahy, Chief Innovation Officer, Salesforce the ability to communicate in real time. OhmConnect addresses • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, the challenges of grid congestion, reliability, and stability by IHS Markit, Chair reducing electricity usage. Via the #OhmHour event, customers are empowered to provide targeted reductions in power use and pay users for participating. • Matt Duesterberg, Chief Executive Officer, OhmConnect
47 • Steve Koonin, University Professor, New York University THURSDAY, MARCH 14 • David Victor, Professor; Co-Director, Laboratory on International Law & Regulation, University of California, 9:00 - 9:30 AM POD 2 San Diego • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, Solar Plus Storage Equals Powerful Solutions IHS Markit, Chair Energy storage is a key component of the new energy world with massive developments in utility-scale grid and connected battery 9:00 - 10:00 AM DELPHI storage solutions. This talk will explore the potential for energy 5G Providing a Backbone to the Smart Energy & storage to combine with renewable generation to manage Mobility Future
AGENDA shaped or peaking generation; to improve grid resiliency and energy efficiency; and to drive innovations in demand response. The arrival of 5G (fifth-generation) mobile communication technologies could usher in a wide set of changes in mission- • Nathanael Esposito, President, Solar and Storage, North critical infrastructure within the energy industry and the America, E.ON automobile of the future. New communications systems, cloud 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 computing, and processing based on AI and adaptive learning are critical features driving innovation in these sectors, which are What is TCFD and where is it going? both set to benefit significantly from upcoming 5G rollouts. Which This Lyceum Lab will provide an overview of the Task Force on players will be first to market with these new systems? Will 5G be Climate-related Financial Disclosures, its recommendations the panacea to connect all the nodes seamlessly? Where will the and how they can be implemented in practice. investment come from that is needed to advance this technology? • Fiona Wild, Vice President, Climate Change & Sustainability, • Rishi Bhaskar, Vice President Energy & Public Sector, Ericsson BHP Billiton • Mishka Dehghan, Vice President, 5G Development, Sprint • Steven Kwast, Lieutenant General , United States Air Force 9:00 - 9:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 • Raj Paul, Regional Industry Business Leader-Automotive What is the future of batteries in the power sector? Americas, Microsoft Join this Lyceum Lab to get a perspective on the drivers for • Sam Lucero, Senior Principal Analyst, M2M & IoT, adoption of batteries in the power sector, and the disruptive IHS Markit, Chair potential that they have, as well as the challenges and barriers 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 1 to uptake. The applications that are core to batteries playing a part in the power grid, as well as technology and cost trends Tidal Turbine Technology will also be discussed. Scotland-based Orbital Marine Power, an Innovation Pioneer, • Sam Wilkinson, Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage is an offshore engineering company focused on developing and Research, IHS Markit commercializing turbine technology to generate sustainable electricity from tidal stream resources. For over 15 years, 9:00 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 1 the company has been at the forefront of the sector with the Integrated Transport Systems for the Future City development of its proprietary and novel floating platform solution. Recently, Orbital Marine Power demonstrated their New models for personal mobility, public transport, and urban technology at the full/2 MW scale. development highlight the need for a new paradigm in the city of the future. How will EVs, ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles • Andrew Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Orbital Marine reshape the future of urban mobility? How will cities develop 9:30 - 10:00 AM POD 3 integrated long-term approaches to urban transportation systems in the face of considerable short-term uncertainty over Artificial Intelligence for Smart Energy future technology and consumer preferences? What are the Technology is changing the power landscape. Learn how policy and investment choices, and what can be gleaned from leveraging AI-powered predictive controls can drive forecasting new means of data analytics? and segmentation to control notifications, IoT devices and grid assets. • Datuk Mohamed Najib, Executive Director, Project • Ahmit Narayan, Chief Executive Officer, AutoGrid Management, City of Kuala Lumpur • Aric Ohana, Co-Founder, Envoy There 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 1 • Adie Tomer, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Energy Storage in Stacked Concrete Blocks Brookings Institution Energy Vault, an Innovation Pioneer, is developing a modular, • Abe Yokell, Chief Executive Officer, Congruent Venture highly scalable, gravity-based energy storage system to enable • Kate Hardin, Vice President, IHS Markit, Chair grid-scale integration of intermittent renewable energy sources. 9:00 - 10:00 AM STUDIO 2 Inspired by pumped hydro, their technology replaces the water with custom-made low-cost cylindrical blocks constructed from Geo-engineering: How real and how immediate? waste debris and concrete materials and topography with cranes. Solar Radiation Management or Solar Geoengineering techniques • Merrick Kerr, Chief Commercial Officer, Energy Vault aim to reflect a small proportion of the Sun’s energy back into space, counteracting the temperature rise caused by increased 10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 2 levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. What is the cost and Catalyzing the Sustainable Production of Fuels technical feasibility of these technologies? What are the political, and Chemicals ethical, legal issues? What are the risks of these approaches? What will be some of the potential deployment strategies? Carbon-based fuels and chemicals account for the majority of energy production, storage and use across the globe. This talk • David Keith, Professor, Harvard 48 will describe new ideas, avenues and possibilities for technology dispersed blockchain initiatives, and facilitates technology to reinvent the way that we produce these important molecules, through easy-to-implement applications. leveraging the latest advances in renewable electricity. • Hervé Touati, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web Foundation • Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Stanford 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM STUDIO 1
10:00 - 10:30 AM POD 3 The Quest for Better Batteries AGENDA A Bright New Future: The rise of hydrogen & photocatalysis Batteries will clearly play a fundamental role in the electrification Hear from Syzygy Plasmonics, a TPH Disruptor company, about of the transport system. Equally, they will also play a growing role the decades-old discussion of the promise of photocatalytic in adding flexibility into the electricity system to cope with the hydrogen to mitigate carbon emissions from industry. As a potential impacts of rising electric vehicle charging infrastructure confluence of factors are rapidly improving photocatalysis as well as increasing levels of renewable generation. A flurry and enabling it to dramatically reduce the cost of hydrogen of innovation is underway to develop next generation battery production, the time for a hydrogen-powered economy might technology that seeks to addresses challenges of cost, supply finally be here. chains, safety, and energy density How will battery technologies • Trevor Best, Chief Executive Officer, Syzygy Plasmonics evolve in the future? What roles will they play? Will stationary battery energy storage help defray infrastructure costs for 10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 additional charging infrastructure? Fuel economy & compliance forecasting: Current prognosis • Khal Amine, Sr Materials, GL/Argonne Distinguished Fellow, The pace of automotive engineering innovation has never been Argonne National Laboratory greater. Driven by varying degrees of regulatory and consumer • Henrik Fisker, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, demand for electrification, the industry is responding with an Fisker increasing plethora of technical solutions, commonly referred • Mateo Jaramillo, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, to as being ‘Electrified’. This Lyceum Lab will explore the Form Energy impact of these trends on fuel economy and compliance. • Elsa Olivetti, Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of Energy Studies, MIT • Andrew Fulbrook, Executive Director of Powertrain & • Sam Wilkinson, Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage Compliance Forecasting, IHS Markit Research, IHS Markit, Chair
10:00 - 10:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 10:30 - 11:15 AM STUDIO 2 Data, governance, and security: The foundations of Voices of Innovation with Dr. Venkat Sumantran: rapid innovation in the cloud Faster, Smarter, Greener In this Lyceum Lab, executives will learn about the foundations Envision a new world of mobility that is connected, heterogeneous, upon which capabilities like AI/ML, Predictive Analytics and intelligent, and personalized. Come hear from Dr. Venkat rapid innovation are made possible in the cloud. They will also Sumantran about how the world is moving from the century of the be provided with a roadmap to enabling their business to easily automobile to the century of mobility. Interviewed by Atul Arya, and effectively employ these capabilities. SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. • Rohan Mathews, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web • Venkat Sumantran, Chairman, Celeris Technologies Services (AWS) • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit, Chair 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 1 Microgrids-as-a-Service 10:30 - 11:15 AM DELPHI Enchanted Rock, an Innovation Pioneer, provides services that Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate enable commercial, industrial and institutional customers to Recent tragic events have focused great attention on building achieve higher levels of facility electrical reliability for a fraction more resilient cities. Climate change will have implications for of the costs of traditional diesel backup generation ownership. cities of the future, including protecting against sea level rise, The delivery system is an ultra-quiet, ultra-clean natural gas weather-related risks, and fires. What does this mean for future microgrid that provides buffering services to the electric grid energy infrastructure? What innovative building materials, new operator to help integrate wind and solar. construction methods and technologies will lead the way in • Thomas McAndrew, President & Chief Executive Officer, urban development? What can be learned from recent disasters Enchanted Rock for future best practices? • John Berger, Chief Executive Officer, Sunnova 10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 2 • Lara Cottingham, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Houston Digital Twins • Naheed Nenshi, Mayor, City of Calgary Learn how the digital twin supports and removes uncertainty • Gil Quiniones, President & Chief Executive Officer, NY during design and configuration while supporting applications Power Authority and ensuring availability and reliability through condition • Susan Farrell, Vice President, Energy-Wide Perspectives, monitoring and advanced services. IHS Markit, Chair • Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer, ABB
10:30 - 11:00 AM POD 3 Energy Web Foundation: An update Hear how the Energy Web Foundation is developing a market standard that ensures interoperability, reduces costs, aligns 49 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 1 11:15 - 11:45 AM AGORA INFO DESK Exploring the Role of CCUS in a Rapidly Changing Book Signing with Dr. Venkat Sumantran Energy System Join Dr. Venkat Sumantran to receive a signed copy of his book, A grand challenge for the energy sector is the large-scale Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility. deployment of CCUS technologies, which are essential for • Venkat Sumantran, Ph.D, Chairman, Celeris Technologies cost-effective global decarbonization. However today, there are only a handful of operational facilities and the growth of CCUS 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 1 has stagnated. Why? This session will explore the increasing Distributed Energy Resources: Economics & challenges and complexities to scale for CCUS as the power, distributional impacts
AGENDA transportation, and industry sectors converge. Distributed energy resources (DERs) can create immense value • Emre Gençer, Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative by reducing power system costs and empowering consumers. However, if not deployed with care, DERs can drive billions in 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 2 additional costs. When and where do DERs create value? How Wind Power: Broaden your optionality with digital should we incentivize DER installation? Who should own DERs - This session will explore how AI and analytics can develop risk/ utilities or private companies? This talk is based on research that reward profiles for wind fleet management, providing transparency leverages large empirical data sets of electricity consumption and clarity for resource allocation and provider negotiation. and demographics. • Jay Allardyce, Executive Vice President, Industry, Product & • Scott Burger, Research Associate, MIT Partnerships, Uptake 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 2 11:00 - 11:30 AM POD 3 Transforming Air Travel Case Study: Technology innovation drives integrated Hear how startup Ampaire, a participant in the first Techstars asset analytics Energy Accelerator in partnership with Equinor, is developing On average, humans are able to process visuals 60,000 times commercial electric aircraft that make flying clean, quiet, safe, faster than text. Learn how large oil and gas companies utilize reliable and more accessible to everyone than ever before. data-in-context by using a digital twin of their assets to derive • Susan Ying, Vice President Global Partnerships, Ampaire knowledge and wisdom for key business decisions throughout the operations lifecycle. 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM POD 3 • Todd Kubiak , Senior Technical Sales Consultant, Aveva Leveraging Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence to Transform Tomorrow’s Digital Utility 11:00 - 11:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 1 Hear how startup Innowatts has built a meter-level predictive Myths and realities: Energy, environment, economy energy footprint methodology by utilizing machine learnings Distinguished professor and acclaimed author Vaclav Smil from over 21 million customers worldwide and how that can tackles the perceptions and misperceptions commonly held lead to lower energy costs for consumers. about energy, the economy and the environment. • Sid Sachdeva, Chief Executive Officer, Innowatts • Vaclav Smil, Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba, Canada 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM STUDIO 1 11:00 - 11:50 AM LYCEUM LAB 2 Voices of Innovation with Dr. Arun Majumdar: Scaling Business cases for microgrids up energy innovations: promises and pitfalls This Lyceum Lab will explain the forces driving growth in Join an energy expert and Stanford professor and the founding the different segments of the microgrid market. It will also Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) survey new research that helps explain choice of technology on what it will take to scale energy innovations and the role of public in microgrids and how those choices affect cost of electric policy in transforming global energy systems. Interviewed by Atul service, reliability and emissions of CO2. Participants will gain Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit. an understanding of how to use analytical modeling tools to • Arun Majumdar, Professor & Co-Director, Precourt Institute provide decision support. for Energy, Stanford University • Ryan Hanna, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, California, San Diego IHS Markit, Chair • David Victor, Professor; Co-Director, Laboratory on International Law & Regulation, University of California, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM STUDIO 2 San Diego Carbon Buildings: A scaleable market for hydrocarbons 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MEET UP 1 Sequestering carbon in building materials is an innovative carbon management solution. What are the applications and Agora House Tour – Morning innovations for carbon fiber as a construction material? Are Join a tour of the Agora Houses: Race a Formula E car, experience carbon buildings the solution for a greener energy future? the future of digital energy from the oil field through refinery to Can carbon composite replace steel and concrete? Are carbon power plant, figure out how to harness data effectively, use a buildings a “civilization scale” growth market for hydrocarbons? drone to manage physical assets, and check out wireless sensors • Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor Department of suspended inside an oil reservoir. The tour lasts about an hour. Architecture, MIT • Mike Lepech, Professor, Stanford University • Carl Mesters, Chief Scientist Chemistry & Catalysis, Shell 50 • Steve Nolet, Technology & Production Manager, TPI Composites 2:00 - 2:45 PM STUDIO 2 • Marc Von Keist, Program Manager, ARPA-e Voices of Innovation with Eric Ernst: ABB Formula-E • Dewey Johnson, VP, Research & Analysis, Chemical, driving future EV technology IHS Markit, Chair Eric Ernst has to ensure that the Formula E championship series 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM DELPHI remains at the forefront of innovation in motorsport. How does that translate to innovation for the next generation of passenger AGENDA Hydrogen: What role in heat & power? cars or batteries? Hear an inside take from Eric Ernst, Head of Heat and power account for 60% of emissions globally. Technology at Formula E. Renewables deployment has made some progress, however • Eric Ernst, Chief Technology Officer, Formula E there is still a long way to go. Could hydrogen help in meeting • Ian Weightman, Senior Vice President, Technology, mid-century emissions targets in the heat and power sectors? IHS Markit, Chair • Kunal Chandra, Vice President, New Energy Businesses, Siemens Power and Gas 2:00 - 3:00 PM STUDIO 1 • Didier Holleaux, Executive Vice President, Engie Powering the Cities of the Future • Jan Willem van Hoogstraten, Chief Executive Officer, EBN • Catherine Robinson, Executive Director, IHS Markit, Chair Cities are at the heart of the energy transition to a lower carbon world. How will innovation in building design and systems 12:45 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 1 evolve to meet increasingly demanding goals of reduced energy use and efficiency? How is technology and data science being Voices of Innovation with Henrik Fisker: Designing applied to shape the urban environment of the future? What are the next car, from the inside out the opportunities and risks for incumbent and new operators to Henrik Fisker’s designs have been synonymous with creativity, power the city of the future? innovation and entrepreneurship. Today, Fisker is designing • M. Maxine Ghavi, Group Senior Vice President, Microgrids and developing a fully connected electric car with autonomous & Grid Edge Technologies, ABB driving features, longer range and lower cost batteries, set to be • Barbara Humpton, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens USA the “spiritual successor” to the Fisker Karma luxury electric car. • Steve Koonin, University Professor, New York University • Henrik Fisker, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Fisker • Naheed Nenshi, Mayor, City of Calgary • Ken Downey, Events Director, CERAWeek, IHS Markit, Chair • Roger Kranenburg, Vice President, Energy Strategy & Policy, Eversource, Chair 12:45 - 1:15 PM STUDIO 2 What’s New at Stanford: A conversation 2:00 - 3:00 PM DELPHI Stanford is recognized as a leader in technology and engineering, Blockchain and the Power Consumer: Myth or reality? and its location in the heart of Silicon Valley has solidified Blockchain holds great promise for transforming and democratizing its position as being at the forefront of that ecosystem. Hear the power distribution system of the future. Can this technology from Stanford leaders on their agenda for energy technology, move to scale in developed economies? What is the potential to sustainability, digitalization and policy. drive change in emerging economies where an established power • Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Stanford University system is not available? Will blockchain evolve to distribute power • Mike Lepech, Professor, Stanford University effectively on a peer to peer basis? Will blockchain realize its • Arun Majumdar, Professor & Co-Director, Precourt Institute potential to disrupt incumbent retail energy models? for Energy, Stanford University • Ben Bishop, Digital Innovation Specialist, Siemens • Susan Kish, Agora Curator, CERAWeek, IHS Markit, Chair • Rich Meszaros, Managing Director, Accenture Digital • Sam Salisburg, Innovations Director, Labs, Centrica 2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 1 • Hervé Touati, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web Foundation CarbonHouse: A new paradigm of global building • Eduard Sala de Vedruna, Executive Director, Global Power & production Renewables, Energy, IHS Markit, Chair What if we changed the paradigm of building and building 2:00 - 3:00 PM MEET UP 2 materials to actually use carbon and drive decarbonization? This talk will explore what happens if technology exists to leverage Innovation Pioneers Meet Up & Demos carbon gas deposition to create carbon materials - and the price Energy Innovation Pioneers showcase their technologies at the of carbon fiber is reduced by two orders of magnitude. This could Innovation Agora, allowing delegates to interact and experience create an entirely new genre of all-carbon buildings which are for themselves their promise to disrupt the energy industry. resilient, autonomous, multi-functional and actually reduce the world’s “carbon footprint”. • Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor Department of Architecture, MIT
2:00 - 2:30 PM POD 3 EVs & The Grid: Friends or enemies? This session will take a deep dive into the challenges (and opportunities) of EV infrastructure, charging and how that can induce challenges or “be friendly” to the power system. • Doug Arent, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Scientific Consulting & Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory 51 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 1 3:30 - 4:15 PM STUDIO 2 What Can a City Learn from the University of Voices of Innovation with Ganesh Bell: Real impact California’s Path to Carbon Neutrality? of artificial intelligence on power The University of California, comprising ten campuses and five How can companies move beyond the buzzwords of technology, medical centers, is on a path to carbon-neutrality by 2025. In the beyond the hype curve of disruption, into the real areas of impact first decade of UC’s carbon neutrality initiative, both positive around growth and efficiency? Hear insights from Ganesh Bell, surprises and setbacks surfaced and course corrections were President of Uptake, an industrial artificial intelligence and made. Since a large university is a coherent, moderately-dense software leader. community with a population similar to that of a small city, • Ganesh Bell, President, Uptake
AGENDA some of the “lessons learned” may have value to cities that are developing climate policy goals and action plans. 3:30 - 4:30 PM STUDIO 1 • Wendell Brase, Associate Chancellor, Sustainability, Power: Realizing value from digital transformation University of California - Irvine The power sector is experiencing a confluence of major technological shifts: growing penetration of renewables; use 2:30 - 3:00 PM POD 2 of digital technologies to help predict, manage, and control A New Reality: Augmented, virtual & mixed reality complex power networks; and increasing concerns for security for energy applications of power networks from cyber-attacks. How will the power Digital twins of industrial assets that look and behave, like their sector navigate through these changes while continuing to real-world counterparts offer a number of tangible benefits. meet demands of customers? How are new entrants disrupting These include real-time risk assessments, as well as testing and the sector? What will be the role of regulation in the face of fast training in risk-free, virtual environments. This session will look changing digital technologies? at augmented, virtual and mixed reality for energy applications. • Doug Arent, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, • Ben Bishop, Digital Innovation Specialist, Siemens Scientific Consulting & Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 1 • Larry Cochrane, Managing Director & CTO, Azure Global Recovering Cooling Water Using Electric Fields Energy Industry, Microsoft Azure • Sonny Garg, Global Lead, Energy Solutions, Uptake Power generation and industrial plants are one of the largest users • Bob Yeager, President, Power & Water Solutions, Emerson of freshwater globally, and most of it is used for cooling. Infinite • Mark Griffith, Senior esearchR Director, IHS Markit, Chair Cooling, a Rice Innovator, has an MIT-developed, patent-pending technology that uses electric fields to recover water from cooling 4:00 - 4:45 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST tower exhaust plumes, drastically reducing water needs and costs. Electrifying Transportation: How far, how fast? • Maher Damak, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Infinite Cooling • Pedro Pizarro, President & Chief Executive Officer, Edison • Kripa Varanasi, Chairman of the Board, Infinite Cooling International • Patti Poppe, President & Chief Executive Officer, CMS Energy 3:00 - 3:30 PM POD 3 • Greg Scheu, President, Americas Region, ABB Decarbonization vs. Profit: Eliminating the Rivalry • Jone-Lin Wang, Vice President, Power & Renewables, IHS Markit Through Exergy 4:00 - 4:45 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY WEST A new methodology and performance metric from Cambridge European Energy Security Dialogue University and Emerson builds the bridge between profit and sustainability through integrated energy and material efficiency. • Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary of Energy, United States Department of Energy • Ana Gonzalez Hernandez, Resource Efficiency Consultant, • Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States, Emerson German Embassy Washington • Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit 3:00 - 3:50 PM LYCEUM LAB 2 An ethical crisis in computing? 4:45 - 5:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST Computers brought tremendous societal benefits; they Digital Transformation & the Future of Power also brought significant societal costs, such as threats to • Ganesh Bell, President, Uptake cybersecurity and loss of privacy. As we face the much broader • Paul Browning, President & Chief Executive Officer, issue of how to deal with technology’s impact on society, we Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPSA) ask if this is an “ethical crisis.” Technology is driving the future, • Augustine Delgado Martin, Chief Innovation & Sustainability but how will we provide the steering? Officer, Iberdrola • Moshe Vardi, Professor, Rice University • Gil Quiniones, President & Chief Executive Officer, NY Power Authority 3:30 - 4:00 PM POD 1 • Jone-Lin Wang, Vice President, Power & Renewables, IHS Markit Renewables & New Energy Solutions Join us to see how new technologies like artificial intelligence can be used to support the integration of renewables and distributed energy resources. The presentation will give examples of new grid investment strategies, operations support and new energy markets. 52 • Per Christian Honningsvaag, Director, Power & Utilities, Microsoft 4:45 - 5:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY WEST Coal’s Grand Challenges & Opportunities FRIDAY, MARCH 15 • George Dethlefsen, Chief Executive Officer, Corsa Coal • Howard Gatiss, Chief Executive Officer, CMC Coal 7:30 - 8:45 AM HILTON LEVEL 2 | PLENARY AMERICAS Marketing Company CERAWeek 2019: What lies ahead? AGENDA • Glenn, Kellow, President & Chief Executive Officer • Jim Burkhard, Vice President, Oil Markets, Energy & • Peabody Garold, Spindler, Chief Executive Officer Mobility, IHS Markit • Jim Thompson, Senior Director, Coal, Energy, IHS Markit • Susan Farrell, Vice President, Energy-Wide Perspectives, IHS Markit • Raoul LeBlanc, Vice President, North American Unconventionals, 5:40 - 6:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY A IHS Markit Outlook for Global Fuels in 2019 • Shankari Srinivasan, Vice President, Energy, IHS Markit • Roger Diwan, Vice President, Financial Services, IHS Markit • Jone-Lin Wang, Vice President, Power & Renewables, IHS Markit • Charles Nevle, Vice President of Production, PointLogic • Atul Arya, Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist, Energy, OPIS by IHS Markit IHS Markit • James Stevenson, Senior Director, Global Coal, Energy, IHS Markit • Gautam Sudhaker, Director, Global LNG, IHS Markit 8:45 - 9:10 AM HILTON LEVEL 2 | PLENARY AMERICAS • Sam Andrus, Executive Director, Energy, IHS Markit Special Dialogue • Mike Dunleavy, Governor, Alaska 5:40 - 6:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY D • Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit Why Power Costs Vary Globally: Technologies & fuels • Rafael McDonald, Director, Global Gas & Global LNG, IHS Markit 9:30 - 10:00 AM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST • Isabella Ni, Senior Asia-Pacific Analyst/Technology Researcher, What’s Ahead in Washington? IHS Markit • John Cornyn, Senator, United States Senate (Texas) • Anna Shpitsberg, Director, Global Power and Renewables, • Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit IHS Markit • Emanuel Simon, Associate Director, IHS Markit 10:00 - 11:00 AM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST • Xizhou Zhou, Managing Director, IHS Markit Competitiveness, Trade & the Future of Global Markets 5:40 - 6:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY G • Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, US Reducing CO2 in North American Power: Emerging Department of Justice, Antitrust Division • Nick Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, technologies? American Enterprise Institute • Alex Klaessig, Director, Power & Renewables, IHS Markit • Christof Ruhl, Economist, Crystol Energy • Wade Shafer, Associate Director, Power, Gas, Coal, & • Hon. Susan Schwab, Professor, University of Maryland, & Renewables, IHS Markit Strategic Advisor, Mayer Brown LLP, Mayer Brown LLP • Patrick Luckow, Associate Director, IHS Markit • Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit • Mark Griffith, Senior Research Director, IHS Markit 11:15 - 11:45 AM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST 5:40 - 6:30 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | GALLERY J Creating Resilient Cities for the Future Solar and Storage: Exploring cost trends & business models • Sylvester Turner, Mayor, City of Houston, Texas • Francesco d’Avack, Senior Analyst, Global Renewables, IHS Markit • Jim Burkhard, Vice President, Oil Markets, Energy & Mobility, • Sam Huntington, Senior Research Analyst, PGCR, IHS Markit IHS Markit • Sam Wilkinson, Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage Research, IHS Markit 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM HILTON LEVEL 4 | PLENARY EAST • Edurne Zoco, Research & Analysis Director, Solar & Energy Energizing Energy Innovation: The long view Storage, Energy Technology, IHS Markit • Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative • Jim Goldinger, Managing Director, ClearSky Power & Technology Fund • Steve Koonin, University Professor, New York University • Connor Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer & Director, Office of Technology Transitions, US Department of Energy • Vijay Swarup, Vice President, Research & Development, ExxonMobil • Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit
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Speaker Title Company Oscar Abbink Director, Upstream Research Group IHS Markit Bilal Abdallah Account Executive Aramco Trading Co Audun Abelsnes Managing Director Techstars Energy Michael Ableson Vice President of Global Strategy General Motors Enass Abo-Hamed Co-Founder H2GO Power Josh Adler Founding Chief Executive Officer Sourcewater Ahmad Al Khowaiter Chief Technology Officer Saudi Aramco H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei Minister of Energy & Industry United Arab Emirates Fatima Al Shamsi Assistant Undersecretary for Electricity and United Arab Emirates Ministry of Future Energy Energy and Industry Ammar Alali Co-Founder & Board Member Eden GeoPower Almir Alemic Head of Industry Ecosystem Maana Jay Allardyce Executive Vice President - Industry, Uptake Product & Partnerships Abdulmohsen Almajnouni CEO RPD Innovations Khal Amine Sr Materials, GL/Argonne Distinguished Fellow Argonne National Laboratory Brian Anderson Director National Energy Technology Laboratory Everett Anderson Vice President of Product Development Nel Hydrogen Doug Arent Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, National Renewable Energy Scientific Consulting & Energy Analysis Laboratory Tim Armstrong Vice President, Automotive IHS Markit Robert Armstrong Director; Professor of Chemical Engineering MIT Energy Initiative Atul Arya Senior Vice President & Chief Energy Strategist IHS Markit Basel Asmar Director, Upstream Research IHS Markit 54 Speaker Title Company Charlie Atkins Director of Development Wyoming iPark Fellipe Balieiro Director of Energy & Mobility, Refining & Marketing IHS Markit Rita Baranwal Director, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation Idaho National Laboratory in Nuclear (GAIN) Roger Barga General Manager, Robotics & Amazon Web Services (AWS) Autonomous Services Rana Basu Chief Operating Officer Ondiflo Morgan Bazilian Director, Payne Institute & Professor of Colorado School of Mines Public Policy Benjamin Beberness Vice President & Global Head, Oil & Gas SAP Business Industry Unit Ashok Belani Executive Vice President of Technology Schlumberger Limited Ganesh Bell President Uptake James Bellingham Director, Center for Marine Robotics Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Kathy Benini Managing Director, Pricing & Valuation & IHS Markit Reference Data Asher Bennett Founder & Chief Executive Officer Tevva SPEAKERS John Berger Chief Executive Officer Sunnova Energy Corporation Dan Berkovitz Commissioner U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Paolo Bertuzzi Chief Executive Officer Turboden Trevor Best Chief Executive Officer Syzygy Plasmonics Roger Bhalla Manager, Supply Chain Systems & Technology ConocoPhillips Rishi Bhaskar Vice President Energy & Public Sector Ericsson Fatih Birol Executive Director International Energy Agency Ben Bishop Digital Innovation Specialist Siemens Aleksandr Bochkarev Project Manager Phystech Geoservice Ben Bodishbaugh Chief Executive Officer Evolution Well Services Jason Bordoff Professor of Professional Practice in Columbia University International & Public Affairs Diane Brady Founder db Omnimedia Wendell Brase Associate Chancellor - Sustainability University of California - Irvine Lysle Brinker Research & Analysis Executive Director IHS Markit Josh Broussard Technical Director Ocean Infinity Lord John Browne Executive Chairman L1 Energy Andrew Bruce Chief Executive Officer Data Gumbo Semen Budenny Chief Executive Officer MIPT Centre of Engineering and Technology Michael Buhr President & Chief Executive Officer Filld 55 Speaker Title Company Jacopo Buongiorno Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering; MIT Director, CANES Barbara Burger President Chevron Technology Ventures Scott Burger Research Associate & MITEI Energy Fellow MIT Energy Initiative Charles Cameron Director of Technology, Engineering & Centrica Centrica Innovations Javier Canon Director Maana Marielle Canter Weikel Senior Director, Responsible Mining & Energy Conservation International Jeremy Carlson Principal Analyst & Manager IHS Markit Indy Chakrabarti Senior Vice President, Strategy & Marketing Emerson Kunal Chandra Vice President, New Energy Businesses Siemens Power and Gas Gaurang Chandrakant Principal Programmer, Azure Stack Microsoft Michael Chasen Chief Executive Officer PrecisionHawk Geena Chatterji Sr. Research Analyst IHS Markit Denton Cinquegrana Chief Oil Analyst, OPIS IHS Markit Jim Claunch Vice President, Business Excellence Equinor Larry Cochrane Managing Director & CTO, Azure Global Microsoft Azure Energy Industry Colette Cohen Chief Executive Officer The Oil and Gas Technology Centre SPEAKERS Casey Coleman Senior Vice President of Government Solutions Salesforce Iain Conn Chief Executive Centrica Nathaniel Connors CERAWeek Program Manager IHS Markit Michael Costello Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Voyager Barney Crockett Lord Provost City of Aberdeen, UK Alistair Cross Chief Operations Officer Mercuria Energy Trading HRH Crown Princess Denmark Mary Elizabeth Yi Cui Professor Stanford University Don D'Souza Unit Head for Industrial Mitigation British Columbia, Climate Action Secretariat Honorable Paul Dabbar Under Secretary for Science United States Department of Energy Dana Dabbousi Research Assistant IHS Markit Bashir Dabbousi Director, Technology Strategy & Planning Saudi Aramco Jeff Dalgliesh Director, Oil Field Digital Transformation Maana Maher Damak Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Infinite Cooling Kyle Daniels Director, President & Chief Executive Offier Clarke Valve Premasish Das Senior Director, Energy IHS Markit Shreya Dave Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Via Separations 56 Speaker Title Company Andrew Day Consulting Director IHS Markit Nicolas De Keijser Manager, Sales & Marketing ABB Tom de Vleesschauwer Senior Director, Automotive IHS Markit Mishka Dehghan Vice President, 5G Development Sprint Steve Deiker Chief Executive Officer Kairos Aerospace Franz Deimbacher Worldwide Technical Leader for Energy Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agustin Delgado Martin Chief Innovation & Sustainability Officer Iberdrola Reginald DesRoches Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering Rice University Robbie Diamond President & Chief Executive Officer Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) Mircea Dincă Associate Professor of Chemistry MIT Bobby Dornbos Principle Solution Engineer Salesforce Ken Downey Events Director, CERAWeek IHS Markit Leonardo Duenas-Osario Associate Professor, Civil & Rice University Environmental Engineering Matt Duesterberg Chief Executive Officer OhmConnect SPEAKERS Ken Ebest System Architect ExxonMobil Andrew Ellis R&A, Data & Technical Design Executive Director IHS Markit Bill Elrick Executive Director CA Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) Khalil ElShafei CEO Aramco Entrepreneurship Center: Wa'ed Blake Eskew Vice President, Oil Markets, Midstream, IHS Markit Downstream & Chemicals Nathanaël Esposito President Solar PV & Storage NA E.ON Climate & Renewables North America Robert Ethier Vice President, Market Operations ISO-New England Daniel Evans Vice President, Global Refining & IHS Markit Marketing Research Nick Farrant Senior Vice President, Industry - Oil & Gas Uptake Susan Farrell Vice President, Energy-Wide Perspectives IHS Markit Jens Festervoll Corporate Liaison Equinor Henrik Fisker Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Fisker Heather Flanagan Marketing Manager, EV Infrastructure ABB Brian Forbes Managing Director, Accenture Consulting Accenture William Fox Chief Product Officer Data Gumbo Cedric Fraces Lead Data Scientist, Oil & Gas 2predict Philippe Frangules Vice President, Energy IHS Markit Gary Freburger President Process Automation Schneider Electric Sam French Business Development Manager Johnson Matthey
57 Speaker Title Company Alexander Fuglesang Founder & Chief Executive Officer FSubsea AS Andrew Fulbrook Executive Director of Powertrain & IHS Markit Compliance Forecasting Patrick Fuller Director of Engineering NuMat Technologies Harikumar Gadde Senior Carbon Finance Specialist The World Bank Erin Galiger EV Infrastructure Product Manager ABB Scott Gallager Associate Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Anna Galtsova Research & Analysis Associate Director IHS Markit Timothy Gardner Vice President, Power & Gas Consulting IHS Markit Sonny Garg Global Lead, Energy Solutions Uptake Emre Gençer Research Scientist MIT Energy Initiative Stephane Germain President & Chief Executive Officer GHGSat M. Maxine Ghavi Group Senior Vice President, Microgrids & Grid ABB Edge Technologies Fathi Ghorbel Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer inRobotics Nicoletta Giadrossi Member of the Board IHS Markit Doon Gibbs Laboratory Director Brookhaven National Labs John Gibson Senior Advisor Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
SPEAKERS Larry Gilreath Security Solutions Architect, SM. Globals Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cody Girod Principal Solution Engineer Salesforce Ana Gonzalez Hernandez Resource Efficiency Consultant & Emerson Commercialization Manager Andrew Gordon Director Market Analysis Airbus Mark Goulthorpe Associate Professor Department of Architecture MIT Diana Grauer Director, External Technology Engagement - TechnipFMC North America Duncan Greatwood Chief Executive Officer Xage Security Bill Green Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering MIT Mark Griffith Senior Research Director IHS Markit Clifford Grossner Senior Research Director IHS Markit Bill Hahn Software Solutions Consultant Siemens PLM Software Katherine Hamilton Chair 38 North Solutions Rhea Hamilton Ventures Director OGCI Climate Investments Chris Hamlin Director Operational Certainty Consulting Emerson Ryan Hanna Post-doctoral Researcher University of California, San Diego Henning Hansen R&D Manager Aarbakke Innovation AS Lyon Hardgrave Vice President, Business & Product Development VAKT Global
58 Kate Hardin Vice President IHS Markit Speaker Title Company Peter Harding Chief Executive Officer Kelvin Sammy Haroon Chief Executive Officer AlphaX Decision Sciences Craig Hayman Chief Executive Officer Aveva Dr. C. Fred Higgs III Vice Provost, John and Ann Doer Professor of Rice University Mechnical Engineering Katrine Hilmen Head of Engineering & Technology Studies, ABB IA Energy Jon Hirschtick Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer OnShape Rebecca Hofmann US Blockchain Strategy & Innovation Equinor US Didier Holleaux Executive Vice President Engie Per Erik Holsten Vice President, Hub BU Manager for North Europe ABB Per Christian Honningsvaag Director, Power & Utilities Microsoft Erik Horn Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer Fair Worlds Brett Howard Director, Chemical Management, Regulatory & American Chemistry Council Technical Affairs
Jenalea Howell Director, Transformative Technologies IHS Markit SPEAKERS Joanna Hubbard Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder Electron Tyler Hufstetler Global Project Manager Parsable Barbara Humpton Chief Executive Officer Siemens USA Hunter Hunt Chief Executive Officer Hunt Consolidated Ray Hunt Executive Chairman Hunt Consolidated Michael Irwin Chief Technology Officer HEE Solar Judson Jacobs Executive Director, Upstream Technology, Energy IHS Markit Mateo Jaramillo Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Form Energy Thomas Jaramillo Associate Professor Stanford University Andrew Jassy Chief Executive Officer Amazon Web Services (AWS) Gauri Jauhar Executive Director, Integrated Solutions, IHS Markit Energy Wide Perspectives Stephen Jew Associate Director, Energy Downstream IHS Markit Research & Consulting Group Dewey Johnson Vice President, Research & Analysis, Chemical IHS Markit Guido Jouret Chief Digital Officer ABB Egil Juliussen Research & Analysis Director, R&A IHS Markit Johan Jungwirth Executive Vice President of Mobility Services Volkswagen Group of America Valerie Karplus Assistant Professor, Global Economics and MIT Management Group, Sloan School of Management Lal Karsanbhai Executive President, Automation Solutions Emerson Andy Karsner Managing Partner Emerson Collective 59 Speaker Title Company Alexander Kashlev Chief Executive Officer, Acting ADL Completions James Kast Fuel Cell Business Analyst Toyota Paul Kearns Laboratory Director Argonne National Laboratory Jerry Kepes Executive Director, Plays & Basins, Upstream IHS Markit Oil & Gas Insight Merrick Kerr Chief Commercial Officer Energy Vault Robert Kester Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Rebellion Photonics Keith King Senior Advisor, North America Plays & Basins IHS Markit John Kingston Editor at Large Freightwaves Alex Kinnier Chief Executive Officer Upside Services Susan Kish Agora Curator, CERAWeek IHS Markit Alex Klaessig Director, Power & Renewables IHS Markit Tom Kloza Global Head of Energy Analysis, Oil Price IHS Markit Information Service (OPIS) Steven Knell Director, Energy Wide Perspectives IHS Markit Chris Knittel George P. Shultz Professor, Applied Economics MIT Steve Koonin University Professor New York University Dimitry Koroteev Founder, Digital Petroleum & Associate Professor Digital Petroleum
SPEAKERS Aibek Krambaev Deputy Governor Region of Atyrau, Kazakhstan Roger Kranenburg Vice President, Energy Strategy & Policy Eversource Todd Kubiak Senior Technical Sales Consultant Aveva Sujit Kumar President, Agora Schlumberger Limited Steven Kwast Lieutenant General United States Air Force Sarah Ladislaw Senior Vice President & Chief Technology CSIS Officer, Energy & National Security Program Dave Lauzun Vice President of Automotive & Siemens Transportation Strategy Raoul LeBlanc Vice President, North American Unconventionals IHS Markit Mike Lepech Professor Stanford University Mikko Lepisto Digital Lead, Marine & Ports ABB Dr. John Lervik Founder & Chief Executive Officer Cognite Michael Lester Director - Cybersecurity Strategy, Governance Emerson & Architecture Claude Letourneau President & Chief Executive Officer Inventys Thermal Technologies Thomas Leurent Chief Executive Officer Akselos Brad Levy Senior Vice President, Global Head of Loans IHS Markit at IHS Markit & Chief Executive Officer of MarkitSERV Steve Lewandowski Vice President, Global Olefins IHS Markit 60 Speaker Title Company Dr. John Lovell Vice President Technology & Strategy MicroSilicon Nick Lowes Vice President, Oil & Gas Consulting, Energy IHS Markit Ruben Lubowski Chief Natural Resource Economist Environmental Defense Fund Sam Lucero Senior Principal Analyst, M2M & IoT IHS Markit Dr. Chris Luebkeman Director for Global Foresight, Research & Innovation ARUP Kristopher Luey Client Success Manager Vulog Sergej Mahnovski Director, Growth & Innovation Edison International Arun Majumdar Professor & Co-Director, Precourt Institute Stanford University for Energy Dr. R.K. Malhotra, Ph.D. Director General Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI) Dharik Mallapragada Postdoctoral Associate MIT Energy Initiative Khartish Manthiram Warren K. Lewis Career Development MIT Professor in Chemical Engineering Rohan Mathews Principal Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dan Mbanga Business Development Manager Amazon Web Services (AWS) SPEAKERS Thomas McAndrew President & Chief Executive Officer Enchanted Rock Adam McElhinney Chief of Machine Learning & AI Strategy Uptake Leslie-Ann McGee Assistant Director Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Leah McGowen-Hare Senior Director Salesforce Morgen McGuire Senior Research Analyst IHS Markit Kenneth B. Medlock Senior Director of the Center for Energy Studies Baker Institute Veeral Mehta Senior Consultant, Midstream Oil & NGLs IHS Markit Amit Mehta Chief Executive Officer Moblize Rachel Meidl Fellow in Energy & Environment Rice University Antonio Merlo Dean, School of Social Sciences Rice University Carl Mesters Chief Scientist Chemistry & Catalysis Shell Rich Meszaros Managing Director Accenture Digital Jeff Meyer Research & Analysis Associate Director IHS Markit Ted Miller Energy Industry Director Uptake Jonas Moberg Head of Corporate Affairs Trafigura Isabel Mogstad Senior Manager, EDF+Business Environmental Defense Fund Kareemah Mohamed Principal Research Analyst IHS Markit Ernest Moniz President & Chief Executive Officer Energy Futures Initiative Justin Montgomery PhD Candidate MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering Blake Moret Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rockwell Automation
Tom Moroney Senior Director - Operations Technology Chesapeake Energy 61 Speaker Title Company Julie Mulkerin Climate Change Strategy Advisor Chevron Bob Mumgaard Chief Executive Officer Commonwealth Fusion Systems Yaacov Mutnikas Executive Vice President, Chief Data Scientist IHS Markit Jonah Myerberg Chief Technology Officer Desktop Metal Abhilash Nair Senior Principal Technical Sales Consultant Aveva Datuk Mohamed Najib Executive Director, Project Management City of Kuala Lumpur Ahmit Narayan Chief Executive Officer AutoGrid Ha Nguyen Director Oil Markets Research IHS Markit Steve Nolet Technology & Production Manager TPI Composites Sean O'Connor Principal Research Analyst IHS Markit Elsa Olivetti Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of MIT Energy Studies Reed Olmstead Director, North America Plays & Basins, IHS Markit Upstream Oil & Gas Insight Matt Ondler President & Chief Executive Officer Houston Mechatronics Babur Ozden Founder & Chief Executive Officer Maana Paddy Padmanathan CEO ACWA Power International Sergey Paltsev Deputy Director MIT Energy Initiative
SPEAKERS Carlos Pascual Senior Vice President IHS Markit Pritesh Patel Executive Director, Capital Costs Analysis Forum IHS Markit Felipe Perez Consulting Director, Oil Markets, Midstream & IHS Markit Downstream, Energy Martín Pérez de Solay Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Orocobre Ltd Susan Peterson Sturm Digital Lead, Energy Industries ABB Michelle Pfluegger General Manager Chevron Ben Porter Director of Business Development, Microsoft Azure Quantum Computing Rich Powell Executive Director ClearPath Gregory Powers Vice President, Global Innovation Halliburton Gerald Prolman President Everland Peter Quigley Chief Executive Officer/Chairman Loci Controls Gil Quiniones President & Chief Executive Officer NY Power Authority Nicolaus Radford Chief Technology Officer Houston Mechatronics Dr. SSV Ramakumar Director of Research & Development, Indian Oil Board Member Jordan Ramer Chief Executive Officer EVConnect Pratima Rangarajan Chief Executive Officer OGCI Climate Investments Sanjay Ravi General Manager, Automotive Industry Microsoft Azure 62 Speaker Title Company Dr. Emily Reichert Chief Executive Officer Greentown Labs Christoph Reinhart Professor, Director of Building Technology Program MIT Catherine Robinson Executive Director IHS Markit Darryl Rogers Vice President, Midstream Oil & NGL Research IHS Markit and Consulting, Energy Jamey Rosenfield Co-Chairman, CERAWeek, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit IHS Markit Peter Rossky Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences Rice University Justin Rounce Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer TechnipFMC Gabriella Rowe Chief Executive Officer Station Houston Biswajit Roy Director, HR & BD Oil India Melissa Ruths Vice President Plantweb Solutions & Services Emerson Amish Sabharwal Global Head of Engineering Business Aveva Sid Sachdeva Chief Executive Officer Innowatts Christine Sagen Helgø Mayor City of Stavanger, Norway SPEAKERS Eduard Sala de Vedruna Executive Director, Global Power & IHS Markit Renewables, Energy Michael Savage Mayor City of Halifax, CA Laura Schafer Vice President of Sales, Precision Fluid Control Emerson Ian Schneider Research Assistant MIT Andrew Scott Chief Executive Officer Orbital Marine J. Clay Sell Chief Executive Officer X-Energy Gregory Servos President & Chief Executive Officer OvationData Carolyn Seto Director, Upstream Marketing & Innovation IHS Markit Stig Olav Settemsdal Global Head of Portfolio Management Siemens Hussein Shel Principal Program Manager Microsoft Azure Matthew Short Research & Analysis Director IHS Markit Frank Siebke CFO NexWafe Vidur Singhal Senior Gas Analyst, South Asia Power, Gas IHS Markit Coal & Renewables Steve Sliwa Chief Executive Officer & Founder Seeq Dr. Vaclav Smil Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of Manitoba Lisa Smith Chief Corporate Development Officer Data Gumbo John Snead Executive Director, Loan Programs Office US Department of Energy Patrick Sobalvarro President & Chief Executive Officer Veo Robotics Ulrich Spiesshofer President & Chief Executive Officer ABB Group Shankari Srinivasan Vice President, Energy IHS Markit
63 Speaker Title Company Angela Stent Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian Georgetown University and East European Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Bob Stojanovic EV Charging Infrastructure North America ABB Robert Stoner Deputy Director for Science and Technology MIT Energy Initiative Reed Sturdevant General Partner The Engine Venkat Sumantran, Ph.D Chairman Celeris Technologies Vijay Swarup Vice President, Research & Development Exxon Mobil Stephane Teral Research & Analysis Director IHS Markit Matt Thomas Chief Executive Officer JP3 Nick Thomson Director, Research & Analysis, Upstream IHS Markit Tomicah Tillemann Chairman Global Blockchain Business Council Nick Tillmann Co-Founder & President & Chief Executive Officer inRobotics Adie Tomer Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution Anika Torruella Sr. Research Analyst IHS Markit Hervé Touati Chief Executive Officer Energy Web Foundation Mike Train President, Emerson; Chairman, Emerson Emerson Automation Solutions Sylvester Turner Mayor City of Houston, Texas SPEAKERS Lance Uggla Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer IHS Markit Kadri Umay Director of Industry Technology Strategy Microsoft Arno Van Den Haak Head, Worldwide Business Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Oil & Gas John van Pol Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Ingu Solutions Sylvain Vaquer Manager, Accenture Strategy, Energy Accenture Kripa Varanasi Associate Professor & Doherty Chair MIT Moshe Vardi Professor Rice University Bill Vass Vice President, Engineering Amazon Web Services (AWS) David Victor Professor; Co-Director, Laboratory on UC San Diego International Law & Regulation Richard Vidal Director, Global Energy Scenarios IHS Markit Marc Von Keist Program Manager ARPA-e Ben Waber President & Chief Executive Officer Humanyze Jone-Lin Wang Vice President, Power & Renewables IHS Markit Cynthia (CJ) Warner President & Chief Executive Officer Renewable Energy Group (REG) Morag Watson Vice President BP Ian Weightman Senior Vice President, Technology IHS Markit Alex West Research & Analysis Associate Director IHS Markit 64 Speaker Title Company Henning Wicht Executive Director, Consulting IHS Markit Fiona Wild Vice President, Climate Change & Sustainability BHP Billiton Sam Wilkinson Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage Research IHS Markit Jan Willem van Hoogstraten Chief Executive Officer EBN Jeff Wilson Research & Analysis Director IHS Markit Jenny Yang Director, China Power, Gas, Coal & Renewables IHS Markit Bob Yeager President, Power & Water Solutions Emerson Rebecca Yergin Associate Covington Dan Yergin Vice Chairman IHS Markit Susan Ying Vice President Global Partnerships Ampaire Abe Yokell Chief Executive Officer Congruent Ventures Thomas Zacharia Director Oak Ridge National Lab Jason Zander Executive Vice President Microsoft Azure Chong Zhi Xin Associate Director IHS Markit
Xizhou Zhou Managing Director IHS Markit SPEAKERS Mike Zimmerman Chief Executive Officer & Founder Ionic Materials Cathy Zoi Chief Executive Officer EVGo Peter Zornio Chief Technology Officer Emerson
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Emerson is a global automation engineering, technology and digital transformation leader, propelling the world’s premier industrial companies into benchmark setting performance throughout the lifecycle of their investments. At Emerson, we call it Top Quartile. For decades, leaders in oil & gas, refining, power, chemical, mining and other industries have turned to Emerson’s expertise and innovations to deliver predictable project success. Emerson has been called upon to provide services and technologies to the world’s largest and most complex projects, helping customers eliminate unnecessary capital construction costs, reduce project complexity and restore schedule certainty. Once an asset is up and running, our clients leverage Emerson’s unparalleled automation technology portfolio to achieve Top Quartile operational performance through maximum production availability and throughput, lower energy costs and reduced safety risk. Emerson’s leadership extends from pervasive sensing technologies and the most reliable control elements to the industry’s most advanced software platforms for operations management and asset health. Emerson’s employees around the world wake up each day ready to take on our customers’ toughest challenges, turning “never been done before” into “consider it solved” PARTNERS
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is a Cloud first, Mobile first company delivering technologies that help businesses worldwide take advantage of mobile, enterprise social, and cloud computing trends to drive growth. Microsoft helps you to move to the cloud on your terms; getting the most value from your existing IT investments while giving you the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. www.microsoft.com PARTNERS
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Saudi Aramco is the leading global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. Further information can be found at www.saudiaramco.com. PARTNERS
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Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. is an integrated investment and merchant bank providing high quality advice and services to the energy industry. The company offers sales and trading, and research coverage on approximately 140 issuers worldwide. The firm’s investment management complex has more than $1.9 billion AUM dedicated to the energy space. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, TPH also has offices in Calgary, Denver, London and New York. PARTNERS
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Uptake is a leading independent advanced analytics software company creating a world that works. We challenge what’s possible with the energy that powers our world and chemicals that create modern-day life.
Industry giants like Berkshire Hathaway Energy, multinational petrochemical companies, and others across the globe use Uptake’s software to identify problems before they occur. Together, we are setting new standards for productive, secure, safe and reliable operations. PARTNERS
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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Designed for touch, AVEVA Engage combines market-leading 3D visualization with a seamlessly connected view of project and asset information, delivering a highly efficient and effective decision support capability for capital projects and operations environments.
AVEVA Engage’s touch interface dramatically reduces learning time, enabling you to more quickly derive value from your Digital Asset. PARTNERS
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Centrica is a customer facing, international energy and services company. Our business is founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We supply energy and services to over 25 million customer accounts mainly in the UK, Ireland and North America through brands such as British Gas, Bord Gáis and Direct Energy, supported by around 15,000 engineers and technicians. Everything we do is focused on satisfying the changing needs of our customers, as we help to reduce their carbon footprint through advances in technology.
Globally, the energy system is becoming more decentralised, customers have more choice, and technology is accelerating the pace of change. Our strategy is aligned to these trends by giving customers more choice and control, enabling them to be increasingly efficient in their use of energy.
We are focusing investment on our customer-facing businesses and see growth potential in five key areas: Energy Supply, Energy Services, Connected Home, Distributed Energy and Power, and Energy Marketing and Trading. We have three divisions: Centrica Consumer, Centrica Business and Exploration & Production. The anchor of our Centrica Consumer business has always been energy supply and in-home installation and servicing. This remains the core of this division.
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We’re Equinor, an international energy company with a proud history. Formerly Statoil, we are 20,000 committed colleagues developing oil, gas, wind and solar energy in more than 30 countries worldwide. We’re the largest operator in Norway, among the world’s largest offshore operators, and a growing force in renewables. Driven by our Nordic urge to explore beyond the horizon, and our dedication to safety, equality and sustainability, we’re building a global business on our values and the energy needs of the future.
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GE Power is a world energy leader providing equipment, solutions and services across the energy value chain from generation to consumption. Operating in more than 180 countries, our technology produces a third of the world’s electricity, equips 90 percent of power transmission utilities worldwide, and our software manages more than forty percent of the world’s energy. Through relentless innovation and continuous partnership with our customers, we are developing the energy technologies of the future and improving the power networks we depend on today. For more information please visit www.ge.com/power, and follow GE Power on Twitter and on LinkedIn
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Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent, and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Our technology is built on Google’s private network and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence, and open source software. We offer a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring people, insights, and ideas together. Customers across more than 150 countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment for today’s digital world. PARTNERS
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Hunt Consolidated, Inc. is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. The areas of activity of the different Hunt companies include oil and gas exploration and production, refining, LNG, power, real estate, investments, ranching and infrastructure. Hunt seeks to be a growth-oriented industry leader respected throughout the world for the quality and competency of its people, the efficiency and scope of its operations, and its rich heritage of honesty and integrity.
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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IndianOil) is India's flagship national oil company with business interests straddling the entire hydrocarbon value chain – from refining, pipeline transportation and marketing of petroleum products to exploration & production of crude oil & gas, petrochemicals and natural gas and globalisation of downstream operations.
With a turnover of US$ 78.56 billion for the year 2017-18, IndianOil is India's largest commercial enterprise and the leading Indian corporate in Fortune's 'Global 500' listing.
The IndianOil Group of companies owns and operates 11 of India's 23 refineries with a combined PARTNERS capacity of 80.70 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA), i.e., approximately 1.60 million barrels per day. Its cross-country pipelines network spans over 14,100 km and its 47,800 customer touch-points cater to the energy needs of a billion people. With a 33,000-plus work- force, extensive refining, distribution & marketing infrastructure and advanced R&D facilities, lndianOil plays a significant role in fueling the socio-economic development of the country.
With India being the fastest growing large economy in the world today, IndianOil is investing big in refining, petrochemicals and natural gas segments. IndianOil continues to expand its business operations abroad through its overseas establishments in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, the UAE, Singapore and USA. During the year 2017-18, the Company has set up offices in Myanmar and Bangladesh too.
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Maana organizes the world's industrial data and human expertise into digital knowledge to enable millions of experts to make better decisions affecting global economy and human civilization. Using our Knowledge Platform™ and its proprietary Computational Knowledge Graph™, Fortune Global 500 industrial companies drive answers to operational questions that direct the future. Operating internationally, Maana is a privately-held company with offices in Menlo Park, California; Bellevue, Washington; Houston, Texas; London, UK; and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. To learn more about Maana and our Knowledge Platform™, visit www.maana.io.
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Moblize is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the Oil & Gas unconventional market that supports challenging operations for the life of the well, and ultimately across the entire E&P industry. We are dedicated to creating Zero Decision Latency enterprises, by amplifying insights and empowering your teams to make quicker and more informed decisions, significantly increasing cost efficiency and profitability.
Our innovative software platform integrates third party equipment, services, and a wide range of software products with E&P clients in one central hub, greatly simplifying workflows. It PARTNERS currently serves as a single source of truth for your Drilling & Completion Planning-Execution- Analysis-Reporting needs, with the entire oil & gas market and regions on the horizon.
We proudly support 50 plus E&P companies across 18 major Shale Plays and over 20% of the US O&G market. Moblize was established in 2005, and is headquartered in Houston, TX.
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Climate Investments is a $1+ billion fund investing in technologies and business models that lower the carbon footprint of the energy and industrial sectors and their value chains. The fund was created by the CEOs of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative to take practical action on climate change. We invest in innovative companies that are ready to be commercialized and we collaborate with global co-investors and industrials to achieve speed and scale.
This year we’re excited to partner with CERAWeek to host our first Venture Day of 2019, part of our ongoing venture series aimed at attracting leading technology that can materially reduce CO2. On March 11, we will be offering up to $50M to promising technologies or business models that reduce CO2 via increased energy efficiency in the Energy and Industrial value chain.
To learn more about OGCI Climate Investments, please visit www.oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/climate-investments/.
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as an Agora Partner of CERAWeek 2019 PARTNERS PrecisionHawk is a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise. PrecisionHawk’s client list includes Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in 150 countries, spanning a range of industries, including agriculture, energy, insurance, government and construction. To date, PrecisionHawk has raised more than $100 million from leading venture capital firms including Third Point Ventures and Millennium Technology Value Partners, with strategic investments from enterprise customers and partners including Comcast Ventures, DuPont, Intel Capital, NTT Docomo, and Yamaha Motor. The company, founded in 2010, is privately held and headquartered in Raleigh, NC. More information about PrecisionHawk can be found at www.precisionhawk.com or on Twitter @PrecisionHawk.
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Located on a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is approximately 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close- knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life by the Princeton Review and for best value among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Rice is a comprehensive, leading research university that fosters diversity and an intellectual environment that produces the next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow's thinking.
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Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customer in a whole new way.
The Salesforce Customer Success Platform includes industry-leading services spanning sales, service, marketing, commerce, and across every customer touchpoint. Salesforce will power more than 2 trillion B2B and B2C transactions this year for more than 150,000 companies and millions of Trailblazers--the individuals and their organizations who are using Salesforce to drive innovation, grow their careers and transform their businesses. PARTNERS Salesforce is committed to a set of core values—trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. The company is ranked #1 on Fortune’s World’s Best Workplaces list, and Forbes has ranked the company one of the world’s most innovative companies for eight years in a row.
Salesforce is #285 out of the Fortune 500 (2018). Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco with 30,000 employees globally, and is publicly listed on the New York Stock
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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for 170 years. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world's largest producers of energy-efficient, resource- saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation, power transmission, and oil and gas solutions, as well as a pioneer in infrastructure, automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens generated revenue of €83.0 billion and net income of €6.2 billion. At the end of September 2017, the company had around 377,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.
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Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy helps shape the university’s energy research and education efforts across campus. Stanford Energy’s goal is sustainable, affordable and secure energy for all people. Some 200 faculty members, together with their students, are creating PARTNERS ingenious technologies and policies to help make that happen.
Companies have worked productively with Stanford Energy through its industrial affiliates program, gifts and the Strategic Energy Alliance for sponsored research. All of these programs help educate scholars in engineering, earth sciences, business, law and humanities to meet today’s global energy challenges. These students have spun out more than 70 energy-related companies – most in the past few years. Stanford Energy also brings together thought leaders from industry, finance, government and the non-profit sector, as it did with the recent Global Energy Forum, to create a common vision for our shared energy future. energy.stanford.edu
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