DAVE FINN – CEO, ERI NL

DWAYNE HOPKINS – Manager, Digital Oil and Gas Initiative, techNL

8:40-8:50

Opening Greetings

HON. ANDREW PARSONS – Minister of Industry, Energy, and Technology, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (Video Address)

8:50-9:30

Session 1

Session sponsored by: Equinor Canada

Open Offshore – Digitalization Roadmap

SCOTT HUMBER, Senior Manager – Digitalization, Aker Solutions
Digitalization offers huge potential to boost the competitiveness of the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore, enhance safety and reduce emissions. This presentation will outline a path to creating a foundation for digitalization in the region and highlight some key digital initiatives of most relevance and potential value to NL including what are the barriers.

9:30-10:30

Session 2

Session sponsored by: CAPP

Panel – Delivering Digitalization in the Offshore
Moderator: SCOTT HUMBER, Senior Manager – Digitalization, Aker Solutions
Perspectives of key stakeholders on the opportunities and challenges for digitalization in the NL offshore.
• Operator: MIKE JONES, ExxonMobil/Hibernia Management & Development Company Ltd.
• Global/Tech Supplier: PAOLA MARTINEZ, SLB
• Local Supplier: JEREMY WHITTLE, Crosbie Group
• Start-up/Tech Co: JOHN CADIGAN, Enaimco

10:30-11:00

Networking Break

Sponsored by: Omega 365

11:00-12:15

 Session 3

Session sponsored by: GRI Simulations Inc.

Improving Implementation 1 – People, Culture and Collaboration

What can be done to improve the pace, success rate and value derived from implementing digital initiatives, focusing on critical factors that are often more influential than the technology itself – regulatory requirements, risk and safety, and the talent needed to make it happen.

Moderator: STEVE TAYLOR, Keyin College

• Collaboration, culture change – TYLER BEATTY, ExxonMobil

• Talent attraction and development – MIKE MASON, FYFIT, techNL

• Collaboration models for innovation – VIDAR HEPSØ, Equinor ASA (virtual)

• Managing change – ARVID MARKHUS, Omega

• Collaboration Models – JOY ROMERO, CNRL/Clean Resources Innovation Network (virtual)

12:15-1:45

Luncheon Keynote

The Data Driven Oil Company

GEOFFREY CANN, Author

Introduction by Jon Allwood, Regional Director, North America, Hatch

The expression ‘data is the new crude oil’ is so often repeated that it’s practically a meme. And capital markets seem to think so too, with the lofty valuations they grant to the digital industry leaders, like Apple and Microsoft. The question is how can oil companies, with their footprint and huge resource base, become data driven. How can they harness their own data to improve the performance of the industry and capture some of that value. It is time to change the mindset of the industry from ‘data OR oil’, to ‘data AND oil’. In so doing, the industry can capitalize on its own immense data capacity, and become the digital giant it was meant to be.

1:45-3:00

Session 4

Improving Implementation 2 – Risk and Regulatory

Moderator: GEOFFREY CANN, Author
• Regulator’s perspective on digitalization – SCOTT TESSIER, C-NLOPB
• Assurance of robotics and autonomous systems – DR. AMY DEEB, Lloyd’s Register
• Human factors in control – DR. STEVE MALLAM, MI
• Cyber-security – CHRIS PIERCEY, Natural Resources Canada (virtual)

3:00-3:45

Session 5

Lessons Learned from the Digital Innovation Front Lines
Moderator: MICHELLE SIMMS, President & CEO, Genesis

A panel of different perspectives from the digital innovation frontlines: startups, investors, and customers and their views on the successes and failures
of digital transformation in the NL oil & gas industry and how to make
investment more attractive and successful.

•Virtual Marine (virtual)

•ABHIJIT CHATTERJEE, Managing Director & Co-Founder, qualiTEAS

•ANTHONY PEACH, R&D Project Manager, Fugro

•CHAD COLLETT, CEO, SubC Imaging

3:45-4:30

Closing Keynote

Climate Change, Risk Mitigation and Digital Technology

SHAWN ALLAN, Global Technical Leader Digital Technology, WSP

4:30-6:00

Social Event

Sponsored by: Subsea 7

Bannerman Room, Main Floor, SJCC