Industry Roadmap: The Future of Oil & Gas 2017 Calgary, January 17 Hosted by TheFutureEconomy.ca and Milestone GRP
Alberta, Canada, January 5, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Join the Canadian oil and gas industry’s most innovative and forward-looking companies to dissect and debate how energy companies must navigate the global energy transition through their approach to innovation, commercialization and productivity. The event will feature industry experts, innovators, disruptor and out-of-the-box keynotes.
Expert Panels
The day’s 3 main panels will each focus on a key transition challenge.
1. The Innovation Challenge
How can we instill a stronger culture of serial innovation within Canada’s oil and gas companies’ practices, strategies and DNA?
2. The Commercialization Challenge
How can we accelerate the path to local and international commercialization for Canadian oil and gas innovation?
3. The Productivity Challenge
How can we increase the speed at which we integrate productivity-boosting technologies and best practices within Canadian oil and gas companies’ operations and organizations?
Focused Interactive Breakout Sessions
The sub-themes to be analyzed in breakout sessions are currently being finalized with our Advisory Board. The following topics are among those identified as the most important to be covered.
- GHG Reduction
- A.I. in Oil & Gas
- Financing Clean Tech
- Climate Risk and Disclosure
- Educating Tomorrow’s Innovators
Post-Event Recommendation Piece
The Delphi Group will produce a thorough recommendation report highlighting the event’s key insights, opinions, conclusions and recommended action points for industry and the Federal and Provincial Governments. The piece will be distributed to both levels of government, as well as to industry, all key stakeholders and the media.
Top-class Speaker Lineup
a) Keynotes:
- Stewart Beck, President & CEO, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
- Don Romano, President & CEO, Hyundai Auto Canada
- IBM Watson: A unique interactive session by IBM Watson, the leading cognitive/A.I. platform on its insights and predictions for the Canadian oil and gas industry in 2017
b) Speakers:
- Richard Adamson, President, CMC Research Institutes
- Lynne Allan, Dean of the McPhail School of Energy, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
- Bruce Edgelow, Vice President – Strategic Initiatives, ATB Corporate Financial Services
- Mike Gerbis, CEO, The Delphi Group
- Jean-Michel Gires, CEO of NextTier Energy Solutions & former President & CEO of Total E&P Canada
- Gordon Lambert, Chair of Alberta Climate Leadership Task Force on Technology & Board Member of Alberta Innovates
- Nick McKenna, VP Oil Sands Development & Subsurface, ConocoPhillips Canada
- Todd Parker, CEO, Blue Spark Energy
- Alicia Quesnel, Partner, Burnett, BD&P LLP
- Marty Reed, CEO, Evok Innovations
- Joy Romero, VP Technology & Innovation at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNRL)
- Cecile Siewe, Director General CanmetEnergy Devon, Natural Resources Canada
- Mark Summers, Director – Projects, Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)
- Alex Zahavich, VP Corporate Development and Applied Research, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Event Info
www.thefutureeconomy.ca/future-oil-gas-2017.html
2016 Edition
The 2016 Industry Roadmap event featured government addresses, and attracted over 400 high-level attendees from government, industry, First Nations, environmental groups, academia, the media, and other stakeholders. Building on this success, the follow-up 2017 edition is definitely not to be missed.
To Purchase Tickets
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-canadas-oil-gas-industry-tickets-29257441796?ref=ebtn
Organized by:
TheFutureEconomy.ca & Milestone GRP
For More Info or Media Accreditation
Contact Tim Penketh
penketh@milestone-grp.com
(514) 550-1705
***TheFutureEconomy.ca can assist in organizing pre-event interviews with speakers and sponsors
Source: Milestone GRP