Monday, October 27
Opening Keynote: 8:15am - 9:00am
Chris Angelides
Managing Director
Ernst & Young LLP
Biography: Chris Angelides has three decades of international, technical, and commercial, experience in the Energy industry across the value chain. He has held senior leadership roles in Strategic Planning, Operations, and Stakeholder Management. His experience includes managing Business Unit with P&L responsibility, developing, and implementing Sustainability and Decarbonization Strategies, and establishing Alliance Partnerships to support the Energy Transition.
He currently serves as a Managing Director in Oil and Gas consulting at the Ernst & Young LLP (EY) Houston office. He is focused on supporting EY clients in their Energy Strategy, Decarbonization & Sustainability journeys. His expertise is in Integration of New and Conventional, Mobility, Hydrogen Economy, CCUS, ESG for industry, and a Just & Fair Transition.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston (UH) Bauer College of Business, where he teaches courses on Intro to Oil & Gas Strategy and Sustainability & ESG for Industry. He also serves as a Board Member of the UH Bauer College, and as an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for Energy Corporate Social Responsibility (CECSR) at UH Energy.
Monday, October 27
AI Plenary Session: 11:00am - 11:45am
Brent Railey
Global Manager of Data & Analytics, Digital Transformation
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Talk Title: AI Hype Housekeeping: Filtering the Marketing Noise to a Signal of Real Applicability Signal
Talk Summary: Just as a filter has trade-offs (a tight filter removes a lot of what you need, but requires more frequent cleaning/replacement; and a less discriminant filter gets the big stuff, is less maintenance, but might let something through that causes problems), so does filtering the promises and claims and marketing about AI that comes from consultants, software vendors, and service providers. What's real vs. marketing hype to sell me something that doesn't really work? Is it a panacea or does it introduce problems of its own? How can my organization handle the onslaught of marketing promises and seemingly unrealistic claims? This session aims to introduce answers to these challenges.
Biography: Brent Railey is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, where he has worked for the last 19 years in various roles, all over the world, from IT to commercial to supply chain. His achievements at CPChem in analytics include creating the self-service analytics program and forming the Data Science team, as well as delivering multiple high-value advanced analytics projects. His passion is torturing data until it tells the truth hidden within it.
Monday, October 27
Pre-Reception Plenary: 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Ted Furlong
Global Data Science Leader for OFSE Digital
Baker Hughes
Talk Title: The Digital Leap: Strategies for Integrating New Technology into the Organization (A Digital Twin Case Study)
Talk Summary: The presentation will address the challenge of moving beyond digital pilot projects to achieve enterprise-wide adoption. Key talking points will cover the need for executive leadership and a cultural shift that views technology as a core business enabler, not just an IT project. Using the Digital Twin as an example, the presentation will detail strategies for organizational redesign, breaking down silos, addressing the talent and skill gap, and establishing strong data governance to ensure new technology successfully drives measurable business value and operational excellence.
Tuesday, October 28
Keynote Address: 8:15am - 9:00am
Shobhana Mani
Vice President, Innovation and Digital Science, Technology
bp
Talk Title: Digital Innovation: The Catalyst for Accelerating Technology Development at the Interface of Physical-digital
Biography: Shobhana Mani is the VP for Innovation and Digital Science at bp. In this role, she is accountable for driving innovation across technology, physical and digital, with a business focused innovation ecosystem that leverages specialized capabilities and expertise including innovation management, multi-scale modelling and digital science.
Prior to joining bp in Aug 2023, Shobhana spent 12 years at Halliburton, where she held multiple technology, commercialization, and product leadership roles – most recently serving as Director of Investor Relations. Prior to Halliburton, she held technical and leadership roles at General Electric and Phillips Semiconductors. Her experience includes research and development in electronics, sensing technologies and distributed control systems.
Shobhana holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.
Tuesday, October 28
Renewables Plenary Session: 11:00am -11:45am
Céline Gerson, Group Director Americas & President USA, Fugro
Dickie Martin, Director of Innovation, Americas, Fugro
Talk Title: Geodata-Driven Innovation: Accelerating Renewable Energy with Digital Intelligence
Talk Summary: Fugro's decades of experience in the Oil & Gas sector have built a foundation of geoscience, engineering, and operational excellence that is now powering the future of renewable energy. In this keynote presentation and fireside chat, we will share how Fugro is transforming the way Geo-data is captured and delivered to achieve its vision of creating a holistic and real-time digital twin of Earth by 2030. Through advancements in uncrewed vessels, AI-powered analytics, cloud-native platforms, and remote operations, Fugro is improving the speed, quality, and safety of Geo-data solutions, which serve as the backbone for informed decision-making throughout the lifecycle of energy assets.
Biography: With over 25 years of experience, Céline has a proven record of successfully growing complex technical businesses across various industries. Céline is a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Fugro N.V. and also leads the strategic growth and P&L management for Fugro Americas. Before joining Fugro, Céline held numerous executive roles worldwide, from strategy to commercial to global P&L business management for Fortune 500 companies in the energy and industrial markets. Along with being a Harvard Business School Alumna, Céline holds a Bachelor’s degree from the European University of Brussels and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston. She is particularly passionate about energy diversification, sustainability, and digital transformation.
Biography: With nearly 40 years of experience, Dickie leads innovation across Fugro Americas, driving advancements in remote operations, autonomous systems, and AI-powered Geo-data solutions. He has held leadership roles in pioneering technologies that enhance safety, efficiency, and insight across energy, infrastructure, and ocean science sectors. Dickie collaborates globally to develop and commercialize cutting-edge systems – from autonomous vessels and subsea robotics to cloud-based analytics platforms. He is particularly passionate about the transformative potential of agentic AI and the emerging possibilities of artificial general intelligence.
Tuesday, October 28
O&G Plenary Session: 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Patrick Bangert
VP & Chief of AI
OXY
Talk Title: Delivering Global Business Value Across Upstream Oil & Gas
Talk Summary: This keynote explores several use cases of AI within the core business of upstream oil and gas. Patrick will discuss both the technical and scientific context of developing these AI solutions, as well as the necessary cultural transformation required to successfully derive business value from them in real-world operations.
Biography: Patrick is the Chief of Artificial Intelligence at Occidental Petroleum where he leads a global cross-functional team to improve many physical and human processes by leveraging advanced analytics and AI. His thought leadership on AI has won him several awards and makes him a popular speaker at conferences and events.
Previously, he was senior vice-president for data, analytics, and AI at Searce, which provides professional services for Google Cloud and AWS. He headed the profit center that is responsible for all projects with a data scientific character globally. Before Searce, Patrick was the vice-president for corporate strategy at Samsung SDS where he led the AI Division from 2020 to 2023 bringing AI tools and services into Samsung Cloud for computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning with a particular focus on medical imaging.
As a volunteer, Patrick spent six years co-directing the Digital Energy Technical Section of the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and published their quarterly newsletter.
Before joining Samsung, Patrick spent 15 years as CEO at algorithmica technologies, a machine learning software company serving the chemicals and oil and gas industries. Prior to that, he was assistant professor of applied mathematics at Jacobs University in Germany, as well as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Patrick obtained his machine learning PhD in mathematics and his Masters in theoretical physics from University College London, and his business degree from INSEAD.
A German native, Patrick grew up in Malaysia and the Philippines, and later lived in the UK, Austria, Nepal and USA. He has done business in many countries and believes that AI must serve humanity beyond mere automation of routine tasks. An avid reader of books, Patrick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.