As the winner of the 2022 Houston Orbie Leadership and 2019 CIO of the Year Awards, Al Lindseth has been a thought leader within the energy sector and IT profession for many years. He has recently left Plains All America to support organisations with what he describes as the crunch issue of how the growing risks like cybersecurity, and other major disruptive forces, are managed amid a need to democratise and expand technology within an increasingly connected workplace. Traditional approaches of handling cyber, analytics, edge and others as separate IT projects and not addressing these needs as various pieces of a major holistic change effort (including many non-technology aspects) are causing them to fail outright or have poor results. Using cybersecurity as an example, Al will show how to apply a more effective and integrated approach.

Scaling digital to achieve goals around the transiton has never been more challenging with many projects failing. This panel explores the leadership capabilities that scale digital and drliver value.

ESG Benchmarks mean that organisations need innovation to provide increasingly profitable sources of sustainable energy. While many energy companies are digitalizing their operations, digitalization is taking on a whole new lens around ESG presenting a real opportunity for IT to show leadership even if wider strategies are not clear. What are the quick wins?

ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities. ESG metrics are not commonly part of mandatory financial reporting, though companies are increasingly making disclosures in their annual report or in a standalone sustainability report. Numerous institutions, such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) are working to form standards and define materiality to facilitate incorporation of these factors into the investment process. What is driving the rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, and what does that mean for the energy and manufacturing industry? ESG factors are used to measure the societal impact of a company and can be calculated to help better determine future financial performance.

Enterprise Architecture is one of the least understood roles in most of the organizations. This session will help the participants understand what it really is and how to leverage the powerful principles of democratization, transparency, and empowerment to build a governance practice that can drive sustainable digital transformation across any company.

In this fireside chat, VEERUM’s solution delivery leaders and a client will explore current trends in the industry that:
•Challenges the status quo and deals in reality (data)
•Improves productivity by up to 33% with less travel to site and simple, unrestricted data access
•Leverages AI/ML models to connect enterprise information management systems to a virtual model of their plant, enabling predictive asset integrity and object class detection
•Organizes existing data into a simple to use cloud-hosted digital twin that can be accessed from any laptop or tablet, from anywhere.
• Provides digital emission monitoring in real-time

Martin Sanchez will share why this is one of the most exciting times for IT to deliver on the promise of data. Sharing insights from human psychology, data analysis and innovation, Martin will describe how a revolution in technology is transforming the outcomes that data can deliver in terms of safety.

If scope 3 emissions come into play the need for energy companies to transform potentially their whole business model will be enormous. What many technology leaders see as transformation is actually just optimization and this attitude will leave their organisations far behind when sweeping regulation or market competition accelerates even further.

This is an explorative look at the future opportunities and challenges facing the energy industry and some of the game changing technology that can expedite the transition.