PROMO 20% Code: 12th Annual Digitalization in Oil & Gas Conference: September 10-11, 2026

Masterclass: September 9
Hyatt Regency Houston West | Houston, TX

Delivering a Digital Future, Today.

The oil and gas industry is undergoing a profound transformation. As the sector navigates evolving market demands and global energy shifts, the strategic adoption of digital technologies is no longer a luxury, it’s the key to driving efficiency, resilience, and value.

Join us at the 12th Annual Digitalization in Oil & Gas Conference to explore the top technologies being resourced across the industry. This year, we’ll delve into cutting-edge solutions for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, highlighting the innovations that are revolutionizing workflows, optimizing performance, and enhancing safety.

Connect with industry leaders and technology innovators to uncover actionable insights on:

Smart Technology and Automation: Implementing smart solutions to create safer, more efficient operations and enhance asset performance.

Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging advanced analytics and real-time data to optimize production, reduce costs, and improve operational visibility.

Digital Twins & Simulation: Utilizing virtual replicas to model and predict performance, enabling better asset management and risk mitigation.

Workforce Development: Empowering your teams with the digital skills and strategies needed to navigate a modern, technology-driven energy landscape.

Decarbonization and Sustainability: Exploring how digital tools can help achieve sustainability goals and manage energy transition challenges.

Don’t miss this opportunity to move beyond pilot projects and learn how to implement scalable, value-generating digital initiatives. Engage with peers, participate in interactive sessions, and gain the strategies you need to build a future-ready operation.

Why Attend

● Move beyond AI hype and see what is actually scaling across operations, maintenance, field monitoring, and remote facilities.

● Learn how operators are connecting OT, IT, cloud, edge, data platforms, and legacy systems without compromising safety or resilience.

● Hear candid case studies that include implementation hurdles, ROI timelines, governance barriers, and what had to change to make deployments stick.

● Meet operators, digital leaders, robotics and drone specialists, OT and IT architects, AI and data platform providers, and cybersecurity experts.

Agenda at a Glance

● Day 1 focuses on scaled operational value: AI deployment, data foundations, OT–IT integration, governance, and enterprise operationalization.

● Day 2 focuses on robotics, drones, remote operations, digital twins, workforce transformation, and future-proofing the operating model.

Day One: From AI Hype to Scaled Operational Value

A strategic view of how digitalization changes workflows, management systems, and the way the business runs.

William Fraizer, Eunike Ventures Baron Unbehagen, Encino Energy Jason McMullen, Noble Corporation Sean McCall, Oceaneering

A practical case study on OGI monitoring, drone-based emissions and leak detection, and visual analytics for anomaly identification.

Deirdre Shepherd, Expand Energy

Energy companies face growing pressure to move quickly with AI, but success depends on creating frameworks that enable experimentation without sacrificing security, compliance, or operational integrity.

John Carney, Novus Consulting Charles Kosa, PBX Cindy Jones, Continental Resources, Inc. Raghu Guda, Delek US Christopher Ollison, Infosys Consulting

Operators and practitioners discuss what helped scale high-value use cases, what killed momentum, and how ROI was measured and defended internally.

Habeib Al-Hashimi, Noble Corporation Maru Williams, Chevron Sean Ebert, Altira Group Jim Claunch, Bain & Company

Two practical talks examining how the quality of frontline data and the digitalization of field execution determine what organizations can ultimately do with analytics and AI. From fixing the data-quality problems hidden inside existing technology stacks to turning connected-worker activity into structured operational intelligence, this session looks at how better data is created at the source.

10:25 10:35 The Field Data Quality Problem Hiding in Your Tech Stack — Summer Wilke, Senior Product Manager, GoFormz

10:35 10:55 Connected Worker in Action: How Digital Execution Creates Operational Intelligence — Andrew Christian, Senior Project Engineer, ATR & Brett Newton, Manager, Training – Manufacturing, Chevron Phillips Chemical

Summer Wilke, GoFormz Andrew Christian, ATR Brett Newton, Chevron Phillips Chemical

Industrial AI is at a crossroads. Many organizations are rich in pilots but poor in scale. We’ve seen it before; every leap forward starts with the foundation beneath it. The Roman roads connected an empire, the U.S. highways connected an economy, and Google Maps created a common lens for how the world navigates. Now, manufacturing is building its next great network: the AI Highway. Discover how Albemarle delivered over $150 Million in annual improvements by building an AI Highway.

Jonathan Alexander, Albemarle Corporation

A practical session on secure internal AI platforms, controlled enterprise assistants, model flexibility, and what users actually adopt.

Sonia V. Clayton, Virtual Intelligence Providers Joe Wempe, Devon Energy Jonathan Alexander, Albemarle Corporation Pearl Chu, SLB

AI value is rarely determined by technology alone. This session connects compute cost, vendor spend, and model economics with the harder questions of workflow redesign, decision rights, user adoption, and process ownership. It examines what it takes to embed AI into measurable payback.

Konrad Konarski, Ai Applied Consortium Kyla Spaugh Johnson, Verkada Sean McCall, Oceaneering Brad Nash, ExxonMobil

A practical panel on choosing between model types, deployment patterns, hybrid/on-prem/cloud architectures, and how to avoid overbuilding.

Jeff Brock, Lyondellbasell Inder Karir, Oxy Shuxing Cheng, Chevron

A case study demonstrating how process automation – often treated as an unavoidable operating expense, can be deliberately transformed into a high-yield investment, particularly as advanced algorithms cannot compensate for weak automation & data foundations.

● Why automation maturity is the primary limiter of AI value in manufacturing

● How standardized, lifecycle‑managed automation creates reusable data, trust, and scalability

● A pragmatic pathway to automation‑driven AI implementation, including operator‑facing AI use cases

Jack Hu, Dow

A forward-looking discussion on quantum and high-performance computing, framed realistically for the next few years rather than the distant horizon.

Raj Gautam, ExxonMobil Jeremy First, PhD, BP

A fast-moving lightning round on responsible AI in operations, semantic data products, fast model upgrades, and safe automation in OT environments:

Topic subject to change

• 3:15 – 3:30 From Vision to Value: Unlocking Data and AI ROI in Oil and Gas – Shaun Connolly, VP, Strategic Services, Precisely
• 3:30 – 3:40 Governance, lineage, and auditability for enterprise AI framework– Omar Omar, Senior Advisor in AI Engineering, Phillips 66

Shaun Connolly, Precisely Omar A Omar, Phillips66

A case study on where digital twins still create value through standardization, simulation, Turnaround P&S, LOTO preparation. Maintenance & Operational training, and emergency preplanning.

Richard Jackson, Kuraray America Inc.

A curated showcase of deployable technologies. In this showcase, an innovator will practical their solutions built for oil and gas.

You will:

● See a curated showcase of applications designed for real operational environments.

● Hear real-world examples and measurable outcomes aligned with operator priorities

David Benham, ROAM-AI

Day Two: Robotics, Drones, Remote Operations, and Future-Proofing the Operating Model

A Day 2 opener on portfolio strategy, centers of excellence, standardization, and scaling digitalization across assets and regions.

Sean Barnes, Wolf Executives Rebecca Hofmann, Blockchain for Energy Baron Unbehagen, Encino Energy Raj Rapaka, ExxonMobil

A presentation on avoiding lock-in, building adaptable data foundations, and maintaining flexibility across tools, models, and vendors.

Joe Wempe, Devon Energy

A panel on governance boards, auditability, lineage, SAP/SOX realities, risk review and what production-grade AI requires in large industrial companies.

David Crawley Bernardo Braunstein, Noble Corporation Al Lindseth, CI5O Advisory Prasanna Venkatesh, Tamboran Resources

An overview of deploying Spot to automate data collection, improve asset integrity, and scale digitalized reliability workflows in refining operations

Dan Slowick, Boston Dynamics

A broad panel on inspection robots, drone-in-a-box systems, ground robots, subsea robotics, and where economics work in real operations.

Peter Dill, Peter Dill Inc. Jared Markes, Devon Energy Ram Seetepalli, Motiva Merry Frayne, Ph.D., Boston Dynamics

A session on OT cybersecurity, edge protection, segmented architectures, drones and robotics oversight, and safe deployment in high-consequence environments.

Hani Elshahawi, NoviDigiTech Daniel Bartucci, Owl Cyber Defense Al Lindseth, CI5O Advisory Brad Nash, ExxonMobil Hector Perez, Black & Veatch

Roundtable leaders will open these highly interactive, peer-driven roundtables with a brief 5-minute introduction and a short overview of the topic, which can include a case study, lessons learned, or an industry update.

Each roundtable covers a different topic, allowing attendees to choose the discussion most relevant to them.

This is followed by a 30-minute peer discussion, with the leader facilitating questions, feedback, and practical exchange. The final 5 minutes are dedicated to aligning on five clear industry recommendations which will be included in the post-conference report.

Choose one topic that aligns with your most urgent priority.

Topic subject to change

1. Unlocking AI ROI: Why Process Intelligence and Operational Context are the Missing Links – Nick Gosda, Strategic Account Manager, Celonis & Josh Mars, Senior Value Engineer, Celonis
2. Building an AI-Ready Data Foundation: Governance, Lineage, and Business Ownership – Ram Seetepalli, Director, AI & Digital Solutions, Motiva Enterprise LLC
3. Trusted Data or Just More Data: The Field Quality Problem Hiding in Your Analytics Stack – Summer Wilke, Senior Product Manager, GoFormz
4. Agentic AI in Operations: Where Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters Most – Peter Dill, Independent Consultant–Global Procurement and Supply Chain Transformation
5. Choosing the Right Model, Tool, and Architecture for the Job -** Joseph Lamb, Director of Sales, Titan Consulting**
6. Reconciling Innovation Initiatives, Transformation Ambitions, and Change Management – Raj Rapaka, Digital Transformation / Technology Scouting & Ventures Advisor, ExxonMobil / Rebecca Hoffmann, CEO, Blockchain for Energy
7. Digital Twins After the Hype: Where They Still Deliver Operational Value – Bernardo Braunstein, Head of Global OT Data Management, Noble Cooperation
8. From Investment to Impact: Extracting Data and AI Value in Oil and Gas — Shaun Connolly, VP, Strategic Services
9. Field Smart Technology and Edge Telemetry: Building the Data Capture Layer for Future AI – Walter Egbueze, Environmental Engineer, Third Coast
10. Operationalizing AI in a Regulated, Asset-Heavy Business: Governance That Enables Rather Than Blocks -** Christian Manasseh, CEO,** Mobius Logic
11. Safety, Cybersecurity, and Reliability in More Autonomous Operations Prof. Maria Burns, University of Houston
12. Workforce 2030: Reskilling, Role Redesign, and Protecting Critical Expertise – Lisa William, Senior Director, Operations Talent Strategy and Employee Experience, Dow
13. Standardizing Asset Data Across Sites Without Locking Yourself Into One Vendor -** Wassil Bouali, Technical Sales Manager, RiConnect**
14. Physical AI in Industry: Connecting Robotics, Sensors, and Decision Systems – Ashley Raimondi, Enterprise Sales Engineering Manager, Boston Dynamics
15. Future-Proofing the Operating Model: What to Standardize Now for the Next Wave of AI -** Andrew Christian, Senior Project Engineer, ATR**
16. How AI is Transforming Materials Management in Asset-Intensive Operations – Christopher Ollison, Associate Partner, Infosys Consulting
17. Operational Intelligence from Field to Desk: Scaling Local-First Intelligence in Operations — Taggard Andrew, Solutions Architect

Nick Gosda, Celonis Ram Seetepalli, Motiva Summer Wilke, GoFormz Peter Dill, Peter Dill Inc. Joseph Lamb, Titan Consulting Raj Rapaka, ExxonMobil Rebecca Hofmann, Blockchain for Energy Bernardo Braunstein, Noble Corporation Shaun Connolly, Precisely Walter Egbueze, Third Coast Christian Manasseh, Mobius Logic, Inc. Maria Burns, University of Houston Wassil Bouali, RI Connect Ashley Raimondi, Boston Dynamics Andrew Christian, ATR Josh Mars, Celonis Christopher Ollison, Infosys Consulting Taggard Andrews, webAI

Topic subject to change

2:05 2:15 From Isolated Tools to an Intelligent Operating Layer — Louis Hughes, Director of Industrial Intelligence

2:15 2:35 Enough AI Hype – Tell me what people are really doing — Robyn Fuentes, President, Improving

Robyn Fuentes, Improving

A practical workforce session on retiring expertise, digital twin–based training, end-user programmability, and new role design in a more automated sector.

Sean Barnes, Wolf Executives Sharon Birkman, Birkman International Lance Duncan, LyondellBasell

A cross-industry panel on simulation, robotics, AI-first workflows, manufacturing automation, and what is realistically transferable to oil and gas.

Aman Sethi, Ford Motor Inc. Clark Dressen, MxD USA Michael Mathews, ORU