Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources Summit

There has never been a more critical time for oil and gas, chemicals and resources companies to eliminate sources of risk, cost and complexity in their operations.

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With markets shifting, regulations changing and pressure to increase efficiency in your operations - how can you deliver consistent operational excellence? Join over 250 Heads of OE, Operations, Assets and HSE at the 6th Annual Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources Summit, returning to Calgary June 4-6, 2019.

You'll walk away with the tools you need to:

• Optimize Maintenance and Reliability
• Drive Reliability Excellence using Voice of the Experts
• Manage Change - without Compromising Business Performance
• Increase Risk Visibility by Optimizing Data and Information Management
• Identify the Cultural Gaps that are Impacting your Company's Safety, Quality, Reliability and Profitability
• Strengthen your Core Operating Processes - including Process and Human Safety, Environmental Performance and Compliance - to Drive Enterprise Transformation
• Improve Culture, Competence and Compliance to Build a High Reliability Organization
• Harness big data, analytics and AI to fundamentally transform operational efficiency
• Lead your Millennial Workforce toward Operational Excellence
• Understand the Impact of Human Factors on Safety Performance
• Improve your Management System to better Identify - and Eliminate - Sources of Risk and Value Loss in your Operations
• Enhance Project Performance and Create Standardization across Projects
• Leverage Data and Analytics Tools to Drive out Operations Costs
• Maintain Asset Integrity in a Low $/barrel Environment
• Apply Lean Principles to Manage your Operating Expenses
• Reduce Complexity and Variability with Clearly Defined Standards and Accountabilities

Making the commitment to operational excellence today - to emerge lean, agile and more competitive tomorrow.

Key Themes for 2019 include:

• Human Factors
• Internet of Things
• High Reliability Organizations
• Operational Risk Management
• Cost Performance
• Business Transformation
• Personal and Process Safety
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Asset Integrity Management
• Maintenance, Repair & Operations
• Operations Management Systems
• Digital Operations

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Meet the 2019 Speakers

• Jim Claunch, Vice President, Business Efficiency, Equinor
• Ginette MacIsaac, Director, Operations, LNG Canada
• John Soini, Vice President, Canada Gas Operations, TransCanada
• Stephane Demers, Director of Operations, Montreal Refinery, Suncor
• Arun Narayanan, Chief Data Officer, AngloAmerican
• Troy Geertsen, Vice President, Health, Environment, Safety & Regulatory, Chevron
• Sharon Hauser, Director, Corporate Process & Improvement Office and Learning, SaskPower
• Philippe Gauthier, General Manager, Alberta Unconventionals, Shell Canada
• Martin Huang, Vice President, System Operations, HydroOne
• Walter Kresic, Vice President, Pipeline Integrity, Enbridge
• Cristian Matei, Head of Business Transformation, Veolia Group
• Peter Medlam, Director, Canada Business Unit, Repsol
• Jana Mosley, Vice President, Power Delivery Transformation, ENMAX
• Jose Pires, Former Vice President of Enterprise Business Improvement & Productivity, Andeavor
• Heather Wilcott, Manager, Upstream Digital Strategy, Imperial Oil
• Joy Romero, Vice President, Technology & Innovation, CNRL
• David Trent, Vice President, Technology & Digital, Canfor
• Vinit Verma, Senior Technology Advisor, ExxonMobil
• Hugo Ashkar, Global Risk Manager, BP
• Gerard Lachance, Senior Manager, Performance Quality & Management Systems, Hydro-Québec
• Trevor Williams, Vice President, Nitrogen Operations, Nutrien
• Julie Thyne, North America Continuous Improvement Lead, Dow Chemical
• Mark Sombach, Digital Innovation Group Lead, Cenovus
• Keith Schilling, President, BHGE Canada
• Grigor Bambekov, Director, Performance & Business Excellence, Andeavor Logistics
• Kathy McCrum, Vice President, HR & Safety, SaskPower
• Jawad Masud, Vice President, Commercial Services, Optimization and Design, TransCanada
• Barre Browne, Senior Director, Transformation, Nutrien
• Dennis Heinzlmeir, Alberta Chapter President, Plant Engineering Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC)
• Susan Lubell, National President, Plant Engineering Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC)
• Manuel Reyes Ferras, Manager, SCM Materials Processing, Suncor
• Jeffrey Collins, Independent Energy Advisor & Founder, Corvus
• Camille Peres, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
• Johanne Picard-Thompson, Senior Vice President, Corporate Services, AltaLink
• Justyna Krzysiak, Equipment Class Specialist, Mechanical Engineering & Asset Management, Enbridge
• Tyson Dunlop, Area Technology Manager - Canada, Halliburton
• Bob Koonce, Founder and Managing Partner, High Reliability Group LLC
• Robert Day, Senior Regulatory Advisor, Integrity Advocate
• Peter Adam, Executive Vice President, Add Energy Asset and Integrity Management, Add Energy
• Duncan Kerr, Managing Partner, The Engine Room
• Rajiv Anand, Co-Founder and CEO, Quartic.ai
• Lawrence Short, Senior Manager, Organizational Transformation, DuPont Sustainable Solutions
• Alfonsius Ariawan, Global Solutions Architect, DuPont Sustainable Solutions
• Arjen Bos, Product Owner, Accruent
• Ingrid Dueck, Client Relationship Manager, Consultant, Kepner-Tregoe

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