Digital Offshore ’25
Digital Offshore ’25
Connect | Innovate | Accelerate
Unlocking value through data and digitalization
Digitalization offers significant opportunities and benefits for the offshore energy industry to improve efficiency and reduce costs, enable development, enhance safety, and reduce emissions.
Energy Research & Innovation Newfoundland & Labrador (ERI) and the Digital Resource Initiative (DRI) are hosting Digital Offshore ’25, a conference about industry trends and insights on opportunities and challenges presented by the digital transformation of Newfoundland and Labrador’s energy sector.
Digital Offshore ’25: Connect | Innovate | Accelerate will focus on looking at topics and speakers who are on the pathway of unlocking value through data and digitalization.
The conference will provide a space to explore challenges and opportunities for digitalization as well as demonstrate locally-developed solutions that can assist to meet these needs.
This event will be held at the St. John’s Convention Centre on March 25-26, 2025.
Digital Offshore ’23 was a sold out event so Register Now to confirm your space!
In partnership with Oceans Advance, an optional Ecosystem Tour of local facilities and tech companies will take place on Thursday, March 27, 2025 (space is limited).
See Digital Offshore ’25 Conference AGENDA
Are you interested in showcasing your digital solutions, expanding your visibility in the innovation ecosystem and meeting potential collaborators?
Take a look at our Sponsorship and Exhibit Package.
Contact Dwayne Hopkins (dwayne@technl.ca) or Dave Finn (dave.finn@erinl.ca) for more information.
About Digital Resource Initiative
Digital Resource Initiative is an ecosystem partnership of techNL, Energy NL and Mining Industry to support the digital transformation of the provincial energy and mining industries. Digitalization of these industries has the potential to reduce emissions, increase competitiveness and create employment. With continued support from Energy NL, techNL will drive the DRI to work with key industry stakeholders to focus on the identification of value producing digitalization opportunities and conduct key strategic capacity building activities for local tech companies in the energy sector. By expanding our local expertise and technology skill set through the digital transformation process, the DRI will spur innovation to deliver local digital solutions for the industry on the Field of the Future.
About ERI
Energy Research & Innovation Newfoundland & Labrador is a not-for-profit organization that identifies collaborative research, development and demonstration (RD&D) opportunities and facilitates projects on behalf of Newfoundland and Labrador’s (NL’s) offshore oil and gas industry. With safety as the foundation of our industry and the work we do, Energy Research & Innovation directs RD&D to support the offshore industry’s sustainability through technology development and innovation.
About our Platinum Sponsor: Halliburton
Halliburton Landmark software solutions – Providing E&P professionals with software-driven lifecycle insights that generate new ideas, actions, and results to maximize asset value.
Find out more at Halliburton Software Solutions and follow us on LinkedIn at E&P Software.
Check out the techNL event code of conduct here.
Hourly Schedule
Day 1 - Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
- Doors open, registration begins
- 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
- Opening Remarks
- Dave Finn – CEO, Energy Research & Innovation NL (ERI) • Dwayne Hopkins – Manager, Digital Resource Initiative, techNL
- 8:40 AM - 8:55 AM
- Opening Greetings
- Hon. Andrew Parsons – Minister of Industry, Energy, and Technology, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Session 1 - Challenges and Opportunities
- Industry panel where operators across sectors articulate their needs and interests and share what would add value to their digitalization initiatives.
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
- Networking Break
- Sponsored by: Cenovus Energy
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Session 2 – Use Cases
- Speakers will discuss what are key focus areas for digitalization in their organizations and/or sectors.
- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Session 3 – Lunchtime Keynote
- Sumeet Trehan, Principal Data Scientist, ExxonMobil
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Session 4 – AI & Productivity
- A panel exploring the importance and role of AI in enhancing productivity for Canada, the province and companies.
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Networking Break
- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Session 5 – Leadership in Digitalization
- Sponsored by: ExxonMobil Canada
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Social
Day 2 - Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
- Doors open and registration begins
- 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
- Opening Greetings
- 8:40 AM - 10:00 AM
- Session 6 – Celebrating the Ecosystem
- Sponsored by: Equinor
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Networking Break
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Session 7 - Getting Value from Data
- How can data owners get more value from their data, a foundational priority for digitalization.
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Session 8 – Opportunities in AI
- Case studies where speakers share how they have used, are using or are planning to use AI to deliver value to their companies.
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
- Session 9 – Lunchtime Keynote
- Tony Bonen - Executive Director, Economic Research, The Conference Board of Canada (TBC)
- 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Session 10 – Digitalization Across the Supply Chain
- Use cases on how companies are using digital products to deliver value to their companies / clients.
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
- Closing Keynote
- 4:00 PM
- Conference Closing Remarks