Opening Session Monday 19:00 - 20:00 - Maritim Hall

Session Manager: Sun Maria Lehmann, Equinor

18:55  Introduction and opening

19:00  Not Too Far From Pharma
- John Spens, Director Data & AI - North America, Thoughtworks
As disruption is a key theme in this conference, let's look at insights from an industry that has been highly disrupted as a result of pandemic - one which is often considered to have similiar complexities to the Energy industry in its requirements for data management. That industry is Life Science.

John will share some of the key innovations that are accelerating the drug discovery process, and improving outcomes for patients.

John Spens joined Thoughtworks in 2003, and has led several strategic engagements for Thoughtworks and has been part of the North America Leadership Team.  John is currently the North American Director of the Data and AI service line.

20:00  'Ice Breaker' - Refreshments and buffet

- Hosted by Schlumberger and Halliburton-Landmark

Plenary Program Tuesday 19th. September

Session Manager: Sun Maria Lehmann, Equinor and Matheus Francisco, Shell

08:25  Opening remarks - Sun Lehmann, Equinor

08:35  Developing Green Energy Projects With Subsurface Data, Workflows & Technical Expertise

- Chris Hughes, Director & Vice President, Lumina Applied Sciences, Inc.

The Importance Of Oil & Gas Industry Technical Experience, Legacy Subsurface Data & Industry Best Practice as Critical Success Factors in Developing Energy Transition Projects

09:00  Navigating New Waters -Equinor's direction for information technology (IT)

- Steffan Sørenes, Manager Emerging Digital Solutions, Equinor

Equinor's new direction guides and aligns people in how to use information technology (IT) to enable a learning and high performing organization, resilient business operations, and faster and better decisions.

09:25 Enabling Large Language Models for Enterprise use at AkerBP
- Jone Myhre-Bakkevig, Functional Lead – Enabling, AkerBP
ChatGPT and other systems based on Large Language Models have sparked a renewed interest in the enterprise use of AI. How can we put these systems in place safely? What challenges do we encounter and how can we mitigate risks? What value can be unlocked?
 

09:50  Coffee Break

10:30  Carbon Dat[a]ing: The most important thing we haven't done yet

- Olivia Winck, Energy Sustainability Lead & David Holmes, General Manager Energy, Dell Technologies

Managing emissions related data across the supply chain is a hugely challenging and largely unsolved problem. It requires the collection and management of complex data types needing geospatial location, complex metadata and provenance. Add a desperate collection of standards and varying degrees of data quality, uncertainty and precision and we have a familiar set of problems...

10:55  Panel Debate hosted by David Holmes, Dell Technologies

- Panel Members: Olivia Winck (Dell), Steffan Sørenes (Equinor), John Spens (Thoughtwork), Mahdis Moradi (NTNU)
"Disruption is the new normal" – whether from Energy Transition and Sustainability, cloud computing, the rise of AI, or the new models of coopetition in Open Source development.  Our panel will discuss the challenges and implications on data management in the Energy sector.

11:30  Wind-up and event updates - Sun Lehmann, Equinor

11:35  Lunch  

12:30  Work Stream Session starts (Parallel Breakout sessions)

Plenary Program Wednesday 20. September

Session Managers: Lisa Blackley, AkerBP and Daniel Brown, OEUK

11:50  Navigating the Evolution of OSDU

- Mahdis Moradi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Opportunities and Challenges in Open-Source Collaborations in the Oil and Gas Industry

12:10  Radically Modernised Data Platforms: A Trusted Source for AI Training, Inferencing, and Conversational Insights via LLMs and Generative AI

- Michael Cleminson, Product Manager Data, SLB Digital

In this talk we will discuss about the importance of using a common platform to establish a ground truth for both your Apps and your AI workflows, including the importance of trusted data in the training and inferencing activities.

12:35  Building AI Applications

- Chandra Yeleshwarapu, Product and Customer Officer, Halliburton Landmark

In this session we will discuss key challenges and few takeaways and learnings from the trenches in building AI applications with the application of the latest models.

13:00  Wind-up and way-forward, Sun Marie Lehmann, Equinor

13:10  Lunch