ISA Digital Transformation Virtual Conference

Brent is a dynamic and sought-after keynoter, author, and thought leader. He has been featured in prominent publications, including Harvard Business Weekly, Chief Learning Officer and more. As former Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell, Brent drove Shell’s aspiration to be a world-leading learning organization. Over his career Brent led many of Shell’s most critical global transformation initiatives of the 21st century. Initiatives that collectively positioned Shell as a recognized leader in human resource management. Brent is now leveraging his passion to serve as an industry advocate to promote Industry 5.0 as a vehicle for creating a more inclusive and human-centered future across industry. One that improves the human performance experience at work. One experience at a time.

TBA

Paul has been with the DOW Chemical Company for 12 years. He started as a process engineering manager and worked his way up to become the global process technology automation leader, a position he has held for the past 8 years. Within this position, Paul translates busines drivers into technical details in emulsion polymerization, batch manufacturing, and process automation. He is responsible for growth and development of the business aligned process automation organization. Before becoming a process engineer for DOW Chemical Company, Paul was a process engineer at Rohm and Hass for 7 years and completed his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Glenn is a senior industry consultant applying extensive SME experience in Industrial Control Systems (ICS), automation, safety, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), robotics. Mr. Merrell is an ISA Certified Automation Professional with over 35 years of cross-sector multi-discipline expertise in industrial control systems, possessing a wide expertise base in real-time control systems including but not limited to electrical, instrumentation, process, manufacturing, machine and factory automation, Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), industrial networks, SCADA, IACS Cyber Security and many others.

Mr. Merrell has a wide range of cross-sector knowledge spanning many aspects of product and process development projects from stakeholder management, conceptualization through project deployment in North America and global regulatory environments. He has experience encompassing project management, hardware and software development, system testing, quality assurance and quality control, conformity in regulatory environments CFR/FERC/NERC CIP, system-production-product-process validation, hazard assessment/ risk mitigation, and process improvement. Mr. Merrell additionally performs European Union EC/CE compliance self-certification training and compliance in many areas of EU Directives involving ICS and the Machinery Directive.

His client list covers Fortune 500 companies.

Ralph Langner is a German control system security consultant. He is founder and CEO of Langner, Inc., a software company developing the OT-BASE OT asset management software. He gained global recognition for cracking Stuxnet's payload.

His firm is an independent cyber-security firm that specializes in control systems -- electronic devices that monitor and regulate other devices, such as manufacturing equipment. These devices' deep connection to the infrastructure that runs our cities and countries has made them, increasingly, the targets of an emerging, highly sophisticated type of cyber-warfare. And since 2010, when the Stuxnet computer worm first reared its head, Langner has stood squarely in the middle of the battlefield. As part of a global effort to decode the mysterious program, Langner and his team analyzed Stuxnet's data structures, and revealed what he believes to be its ultimate intent: the control system software known to run centrifuges in nuclear facilities -- specifically, facilities in Iran. Further analysis by Langner uncovered what seem to be Stuxnet's shocking origins.

Matt Craig has over 42 years of experience servicing and working in the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) industry within the owner-operator sector for the oil and gas and petrochemical industry markets. Matt currently serves as a consultant for CTG in the Diversified Industries Group. Matt has over 35 years of experience working with and supporting various Plant Design System software systems in support of Plant Lifecycle Model (PLM) initiatives. In addition, Matt was an early adopter and implementor of 3D data capture technologies (e.g., Close-range photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning) in execution support of capital project work. Matt continues to work with 3D data capture technology companies as a subject matter expert (SME) to improve the useability, quality output, speed, and accuracy of 3D data capture technology systems.

Usman is a software enthusiast with an engineering background. He loves interacting with customers and solving challenging industrial problems with the aid of software. He is constantly challenging himself to lower the barrier for others to learn the software and adapt to technology. Usman began his career in a startup organization in FCC catalyst and worked up through product commercialization. Usman brings a decade of R&D and plant experience to his role as a Customer Success Manager.

Dennis Brandl the founder and chief consultant for BR&L Consulting specializing in Manufacturing IT. For those not involved in manufacturing, this includes ERP to shop floor system integration, MES specification and design, General and Site Recipe implementations, industrial networks and process automation cyber system security. Dennis has been involved in automation system design and implementation in a wide range of applications over the past 25 years with a heavy focus on the ISA 88 Batch Control System and ISA 95 Enterprise/Control System Integration areas. The applications have included biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical plants and oil refineries, food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, Space Shuttle test systems, PLC based systems from Texas Instruments, Siemens, and Modicon, and batch control systems from Sequencia. Dennis has been an active member of ISA’s SP95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee and is editor of the set of standards. He is a USA expert on batch control to IEC, is the chairman of the ISA SP88 Batch System control standard, and is the chairman of the IEC and ISO Joint Working Group on Enterprise/Control Integration. Dennis has written numerous papers and articles on business to manufacturing integration and flexible manufacturing solutions, has a regular column in Control Engineering, has authored the book “Design Patterns for Flexible Manufacturing”, available through ISA, and the book “Plant IT – Integrating Information Technology into Automated Manufacturing”, available through Momentum Press. He has a BS in Physics and an MS in Measurement and Control from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MS in Computer Science from California State University.

Russell works on standards development in manufacturing for digital factory, Industry 4.0, industrial internet of things, machine to machine communication, machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, predictive health and maintenance, and digital twin.

He runs the MTConnect Institute, which is the ANSI-accredited standards developer for the MTConnect standard with 400+ members. The standard includes domain specific vocabulary for CNC machine tools, milling machines, lathes, boring and drilling machines, electrical discharge machines, lasers, waterjets, plasma cutters, robots, cutting tools, sensors, 3D printers, and other factory equipment and devices for discrete manufacturing, as well as nascent information models for parts, processes, materials, supply chain, and manufacturing execution systems. Companion specifications for OPC UA, B2MML, and QIF incorporate cybersecurity and protocol, manufacturing execution, and quality and inspection data.

MTConnect is widely supported by machine and control builders around the globe and adopted by manufacturers of all sizes in aerospace, automotive, medical device, and oil. He works on standards development in manufacturing for digital factory, Industry 4.0, industrial internet of things, machine to machine communication, machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, predictive health and maintenance, and digital twin. I run the MTConnect Institute, which is the ANSI-accredited standards developer for the MTConnect standard with 400+ members. The standard includes domain specific vocabulary for CNC machine tools, milling machines, lathes, boring and drilling machines, electrical discharge machines, lasers, waterjets, plasma cutters, robots, cutting tools, sensors, 3D printers, and other factory equipment and devices for discrete manufacturing, as well as nascent information models for parts, processes, materials, supply chain, and manufacturing execution systems. Companion specifications for OPC UA, B2MML, and QIF incorporate cybersecurity and protocol, manufacturing execution, and quality and inspection data.

Adrian’s career began in the traditional fixed telecommunications area within British Telecom in the UK. In 1984, he joined the Radio Regulatory Department of the DTI where he was involved in a broad variety of operations – including a spell in surveillance programs. This brought him in to the mobile radio systems domain, which further sparked a long lasting interest in radio standards.

As the European Community expanded and the Single Market evolved, European network standards, and specifications for the nascent GSM system, became increasingly necessary – leading to the creation in 1988 of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI). In 1991, he was seconded to ETSI, then recruited as a full-time employee, some two years later.

Dr Paulina Chan received PhD, DIC in EEE specializing in Communications at Imperial College London, MSc (Business) at Birkbeck College, University of London, and PhD (honoris causa) International Open University - WHO/UNICEF Alma-Alta Declaration. As the Principal of an international consortium on multinational technology business, Paulina works with trans-disciplinary professionals across continents to foster collaborations and development in innovative technologies, intelligent infrastructures, and green energies.

Her career includes Managing Directors and expatriates of AT&T/Lucent Technologies in the US, Asia/Pacific Region, and the EU; Project Director of Exxon/Mobil Corporation Headquarters, New York NY; China Regional General Manager and expatriate of ICO Global Communications London and Beijing; and Senior Adviser of the EU for Hungary.

Dr Chan is Imperial College Ambassador (Hon). She is active in professional societies: at the IEEE she chaired and published in many programs and technical session committees of major national and international conferences, including ICC, DSP, GlobeCom, NTC, and INFOCOM. She is also the Founding Champion of the Imperial College Mentoring Program to guide young scientists / technologists / engineers / managers-in-training to develop career paths and personal growth. She is Life Member of Universal Energy Alliance (US, EU, AP). Paulina was Guest at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (2009) in honor of Sir Charles Kao.

Dave has over 40 years of solving tough business problems through innovation and education. Mr. Lafferty founded Scientific Technical Services to help companies increase performance while improving safety and integrity through the application of technology and process improvement. The primary focus is the digitalization of the energy industry. Providing services in the areas of:

• Marketing, new product development and strategy setting
• Presale support
• Technology consulting and advisor role
• Fractional digital transformation manager

Dr Paulina Chan received PhD, DIC in EEE specializing in Communications at Imperial College London, MSc (Business) at Birkbeck College, University of London, and PhD (honoris causa) International OpenUniversity - WHO/UNICEF Alma-Alta Declaration. As the Principal of an international consortium on multinational technology business, Paulina works with trans-disciplinary professionals across continents to foster collaborations and development in innovative technologies, intelligent infrastructures, and green energies.

Her career includes Managing Directors and expatriates of AT&T/Lucent Technologies in the US, Asia/Pacific Region, and the EU; Project Director of Exxon/Mobil Corporation Headquarters, New York NY; China Regional General Manager and expatriate of ICO Global Communications London and Beijing; and Senior Adviser of the EU for Hungary.

Dr Chan is Imperial College Ambassador (Hon). She is active in professional societies: at the IEEE she chaired and published in many programs and technical session committees of major national and international conferences, including ICC, DSP, GlobeCom, NTC, and INFOCOM. She is also the Founding Champion of the Imperial College Mentoring Program to guide young scientists / technologists / engineers / managers-in-training to develop career paths and personal growth. She is Life Member of Universal Energy Alliance (US, EU, AP). Paulina was Guest at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (2009) in honor of Sir Charles Kao.

Jim is a dynamic, bilingual executive with working experience in multiple industries, countries and cultures. A change agent recognized for leadership, positivity, energy and influencing skills with the ability to build and lead diverse, high performing teams to results that consistently exceed expectations. Current focus is on digitalization and the transformation of the energy industry including speaking at many different conferences on the subject. Recognized as a thought leader and visionary in this space. - Fractional digital transformation manager.

Sujit has over 20 years of experience working with Schlumberger on research and development and global market strategies. He has covered a vast area in global management and brings a wealth of knowledge from South America, Southeast Asia and Europe on supply chain management, research and development, and successfully implementing changes in the oil and gas industry. Agora is his start-up, created and incubated by Schlumberger. Agora provides the Digital Operations Platform for Oil and Gas industry to reduce operational cost, reduce GHG Emissions and improve operational efficiency. Operators can harness the full power of edge computing, IoT and Artificial Intelligence at the edge to enable Internet of Intelligent Things.

Ken Nguyen has over 25+ years of experience in Engineering and Digital Solutions with the last 20 years focused on transformation and delivery. Mr. Nguyen, an Electrical Engineer, is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE). Currently, he is a Program Manager at BP when where he oversees Digital Modernization and Transformation delivery for major capital projects. Prior to joining BP, that he held various management positions at Symantec, Baker Hughes, IBM, and Shell.

Christian is global lead for Immersive Field Simulator(IFS), a virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR)-based training tool which provides targeted, on-demand, skill-based training for workers. He owns end-to -end offering marketing, go-to-market strategy and works closely with the technology team for continuous product improvements. He is very excited to bring these technologies to the refining and industrial space to further improve operational efficiencies.
Christian comes with 6 years of experience working in the process control industry. He has a background of working as a chemical engineer, focus being multiple refinery startups and control improvement projects

Gary has over 21 years of consulting experience after working for many years in the oil and gas industry in control and process automation. He’s worked on many significant projects including a few pipeline plans in Russia and Canada. He has successfully worked on and implemented standards for the industry as a consultant and as an ISA subject matter expert as well.

Maurice is an experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of success in the industrial automation industry from his 13 years with Yokogowa as a VP of Global Strategic Technology and an Executive Advisor.

He is skilled in Digital Transformation, Innovation, Petrochemicals, Process Control - specializing in Batch and Procedure Automation, Refining, and Control Systems Design. He has a strong background in standards development and support on a global basis. He is a seasoned professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) & BSc focused on Chemical Engineering from Aston University. His passion is helping to develop tomorrow's engineers by lecturing at universities throughout the UK.

In the past 5 years Andy has worked to transform the North Sea IMDC team’s relationship with the business from being seen as a clerical services, to that of a technology partner.

Andy’s last challenge before leaving Bp was to work with the wider IMDC community to share key aspects of the North Sea approach to Information Management and 3D visualization for exploitation in the other Regions. Now, after 31 years at BP, Andy is starting his own venture and showcasing his experience as a key way to implement Digital Transformation within an organization./p>

The petroleum industry has recognized that DOF technologies make it possible to provide more efficient, accurate, and timely information to decision makers. Business value has already resulted from some DOF technology implementations, but there is still much opportunity to be captured and many lessons to learn to take full advantage of the digital oilfield.

The infusion of digital technologies into hydrocarbon upstream industries has significantly impacted the E & P business environment. In this new environment, it is imperative for organizations and their leaders to formulate and deploy strategies to:

• Strengthen the competencies of industry professionals
• Ensure that business-side leadership is driving DOF innovation
• Align organizational capabilities to support the use of DOF technology

Pioneers are exploring venues to create adaptive business environments capable of integrating this rapid technological change into their strategies and business value architecture. Continued improvisation of implementation methods can result in the perception that DOF is just very uncertain and wasteful to warrant significant time, attention, and resources. This paper describes a more ordered and disciplined implementation methods that may be used to facilitate tangible DOF progress.

This presentation also undertakes the mission of uncovering various strategies and technologies for leveraging knowledge, experience, and decision making that could accelerate the progress of DOF implementation. Some of the content of the paper is based on actual survey results, on field observations, and on rational speculation about future trends and advances in DOF technologies and their implementation.

Saeed Mubarak is currently an intelligent fields and petroleum engineering consultant and a knowledge officer at Saudi Aramco, based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He began his career in 1992 with Saudi Aramco where he worked as Reservoir, Production, Drilling & Completion, Facilities, Knowledge Management, and Intelligent Fields engineer and specialist. He has led several important teams including the strategic team managing the world’s largest intelligent fields in Saudi Aramco.

He is the Chairman of SPE Digital Energy International Technical Section (DETS) and an advisory committee member in the Data Science and Engineering Analytics of SPE. He has served in numerous SPE technical steering and program committees and was member in the SPE Management and Information advisory Committee, a member in the SPE International M&I awards advisory committee, and Texas A&M University SPE student chapter Industry Advisor.

Saeed has thirty years of Petroleum Industry and has served the industry in various capacities that span across local and international levels, technical and administrative, simple to leadership roles. He was an SPE international distinguished lecturer, a panelist, keynote or invited speaker and discussion leader of in numerous events held in 20 counties including conferences, workshops, forums, symposia and social events. He is also a recognized as a thought-provoking author who has published tens of articles to promote innovation and challenge conventional wisdom within & beyond the digital energy and intelligent field including a book titles: “Any Version of History is just a Story”.

His contributions to industry were recognized by renowned technical, governmental and social authorities. He is recipient of several recognitions including the 2009 SPE Regional Management and Information award, 2012 WorldOil Innovative Thinker award, 2013 Saudi King’s award for innovation and the 2014 SPE international award for management and information. He also earned the 2011/2012 SPE Saudi Section "Community Service Award" for his contribution to Social programs. He was a finalist in 2016 WorldOil Lifetime Achievement award, and the international 2019 SPE Distinguished Service Award, and the 2019 SPE Distinguished member award.

Saeed holds a bachelor degree in Chemical engineering and a master degree in petroleum engineering, both from KFUPM.

Karen E. Willcox is Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences and the Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Computing Systems. Prior to joining the Oden Institute in 2018, she spent 17 years as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she served as Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the founding Co-Director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering, and the Associate Head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Willcox holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and masters and PhD degrees from MIT. Prior to becoming a professor at MIT, she worked at Boeing Phantom Works with the Blended-Wing-Body aircraft design group. Her research has produced scalable computational methods for design of next-generation engineered systems, with a particular focus on reduced-order modeling as a way to learn principled physics-based approximations from data and on multifidelity formulations to leverage multiple sources of information in decision-making and uncertainty quantification. Her model reduction and multifidelity methods are widely applied across the scientific and engineering community, and have been incorporated into industry/government codes for aircraft system design and environmental policy decision-making. She currently has funded projects supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, ARPA-E, Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and Sandia National Laboratories. Willcox currently leads several multi-institution research teams: she is Co-director of the Department of Energy AEOLUS Multifaceted Mathematics Capability Center on Advances in Experimental Design, Optimal Control, and Learning for Uncertain Complex Systems; she leads an Air Force MURI team on Machine Learning for Physics-based Systems; and she leads the Rise of the Machines team developing robust, interpretable, scalable, efficient methods for digital twins under the Department of Energy AI and Decision Support for Complex Systems program. Willcox has co-authored more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and advised 62 graduate students, including 21 PhD students.

In addition to her research pursuits, Willcox is active in education innovation. She served as co-Chair of the MIT Online Education Policy Initiative, co-Chair of the 2013-2014 Institute wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, and Chair of the MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Board. She is a recognized innovator in the U.S. education landscape, where she is a 2015 recipient of a First in the World Department of Education grant that developed and deployed educational technologies in community colleges. She continues to direct the MIT Mapping Lab, which develops technologies for the future of digital education.

Forogh is an Industry Expert at Canvass AI, a software provider that makes AI accessible to industrial engineers. In her role, Forogh enables and educates users on the benefits of using AI in industrial operations, thus bridging the divide between industrial process engineers, data science and machine learning. Prior to joining Canvass, she held similar roles at Emerson Impact Partners across Canada for 10+ years, where she worked with manufacturing and oil and gas companies to develop their digital transformation initiatives through process automation and data analytics. Forogh has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

The petroleum industry has recognized that DOF technologies make it possible to provide more efficient, accurate, and timely information to decision makers. Business value has already resulted from some DOF technology implementations, but there is still much opportunity to be captured and many lessons to learn to take full advantage of the digital oilfield.

The infusion of digital technologies into hydrocarbon upstream industries has significantly impacted the E & P business environment. In this new environment, it is imperative for organizations and their leaders to formulate and deploy strategies to:

• Strengthen the competencies of industry professionals
• Ensure that business-side leadership is driving DOF innovation
• Align organizational capabilities to support the use of DOF technology

Pioneers are exploring venues to create adaptive business environments capable of integrating this rapid technological change into their strategies and business value architecture. Continued improvisation of implementation methods can result in the perception that DOF is just very uncertain and wasteful to warrant significant time, attention, and resources. This paper describes a more ordered and disciplined implementation methods that may be used to facilitate tangible DOF progress.

This presentation also undertakes the mission of uncovering various strategies and technologies for leveraging knowledge, experience, and decision making that could accelerate the progress of DOF implementation. Some of the content of the paper is based on actual survey results, on field observations, and on rational speculation about future trends and advances in DOF technologies and their implementation.

Saeed Mubarak is currently an intelligent fields and petroleum engineering consultant and a knowledge officer at Saudi Aramco, based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He began his career in 1992 with Saudi Aramco where he worked as Reservoir, Production, Drilling & Completion, Facilities, Knowledge Management, and Intelligent Fields engineer and specialist. He has led several important teams including the strategic team managing the world’s largest intelligent fields in Saudi Aramco.

He is the Chairman of SPE Digital Energy International Technical Section (DETS) and an advisory committee member in the Data Science and Engineering Analytics of SPE. He has served in numerous SPE technical steering and program committees and was member in the SPE Management and Information advisory Committee, a member in the SPE International M&I awards advisory committee, and Texas A&M University SPE student chapter Industry Advisor.

Saeed has thirty years of Petroleum Industry and has served the industry in various capacities that span across local and international levels, technical and administrative, simple to leadership roles. He was an SPE international distinguished lecturer, a panelist, keynote or invited speaker and discussion leader of in numerous events held in 20 counties including conferences, workshops, forums, symposia and social events. He is also a recognized as a thought-provoking author who has published tens of articles to promote innovation and challenge conventional wisdom within & beyond the digital energy and intelligent field including a book titles: “Any Version of History is just a Story”.

His contributions to industry were recognized by renowned technical, governmental and social authorities. He is recipient of several recognitions including the 2009 SPE Regional Management and Information award, 2012 WorldOil Innovative Thinker award, 2013 Saudi King’s award for innovation and the 2014 SPE international award for management and information. He also earned the 2011/2012 SPE Saudi Section "Community Service Award" for his contribution to Social programs. He was a finalist in 2016 WorldOil Lifetime Achievement award, and the international 2019 SPE Distinguished Service Award, and the 2019 SPE Distinguished member award.

Saeed holds a bachelor degree in Chemical engineering and a master degree in petroleum engineering, both from KFUPM.

Join Marco Van Goethem as he does a deep dive into Technip Energies’ Process Analytics to showcase successful cultural implementation of Digital Transformation within a company.

Marco obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and has 23 years of experience in the modelling of steam cracking and reforming furnaces. As one of the main authors of SPYRO®, he has contributed to the development of several of Technip Energies proprietary technologies, i.a.: EARTH®, Swirl Flow Tube®, Large Scale Vortex® Burner, NOX Post Processor, multi-lane cracking furnace simulation. Marco had different roles within the company and is now responsible for SPYRO® for Asset Management (SAM) a new cloud based service of Technip Energies

A proven R&D leader, digital transformation advocate, and energy transition acolyte, with a strong technical background in full-waveform inversion & seismic processing, seismic survey design, and technology project management, Andrew empowers teams of technical experts to understand problems and develop solutions within a strategic, business driven framework. He delivers value through the development & adoption of transformative technologies and assurance of technology disruptors. Andrew has been with BP for the last ten years, but has a wealth of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry having worked for ExxonMobile, Schlumberger, and Tallisman Energy. He obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Queen’s University in Canada in Physics and Geophysics respectfully. Then, he obtained a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario.