Official Agenda 2026
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07:00 - 09:00
Registration & Refreshment Networking
09:00 - 09:30
Booked for Aodocs
09:30 - 10:00
Business Transformation for Large Corporations – Where Testing Connects
- Testing as a Strategic Enabler
- Ensuring End-to-End Process Integrity
- Data Quality & Migration Readiness
- Connecting People, Process, and Technology

10:00 - 10:30
Booked for WWT
10:30 - 11:00
Enhancing Midstream Operation Reliability with Predictive AI
- Predictive AI for Reliability: Demonstrate how AI models can anticipate maintenance needs, reducing unplanned downtime and improving asset availability.
- Data Integration: Showcase the unification of real-time telemetry and historical operational insights to create a holistic view of compressor performance.
- Enterprise-Grade Deployment: Explore the deployment of the AI platform as Palantir on AWS’s secure and scalable cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, compliance, and operational scalability.
- Operational Impact: Highlight tangible improvements in reliability, maintenance efficiency, and decision-making through predictive insights.

11:30 - 12:00
How Physics-Based Platforms Turn Operational Data into Real-Time Insights That Drive Efficiency, Reliability, and Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation
- Why scaling digital transformation initiatives often stalls at pilot projects—and how physics-based, small-data AI enables enterprise-wide deployment across complex industrial assets.
- How operators can convert fragmented operational data into actionable intelligence to improve production, reliability, and emissions performance—without costly equipment upgrades or infrastructure overhauls.
- What real-world digital transformation looks like in heavy industry: integrating physics-native AI to continuously optimize operations, balance safety and environmental constraints, and unlock measurable ROI.

13:00 - 13:30
Available Session
13:30 - 14:00
Available Session
14:00 - 14:30
The Technology Trinity (Item 3) Real-time Data, Next-Gen Communication & Blockchain
- Real-time 360 degree execution visibility
- A digital nervous system for containerised and contextualized advanced communication from doers’ to decision makers
- A future technology of a multi-cloud hybrid blockchain enabled EPC project delivery system for precision in management of scope and changes ???????

15:00 - 15:30
Fund the Business Case, Not the Pilot: Scaling Digital Twins to 7 Assets and $20-60MM/Year at a Supermajor
- Aligning digital transformation initiatives with business strategy and operational objectives
- Identifying high-value opportunities that deliver measurable business outcomes
- Applying best practices from large-scale engineering, operations, and capital projects
- Balancing technology innovation with practical business and operational requirements
- Driving sustainable, value-based digital transformation through proven implementation strategies

15:30 - 16:00
BOOKED SESSION
From Resistance to Resilience: Leading the Human Side of Digital Transformation
- A proven change management model for deploying digital tools across multi-site operations.
- Strategies for measuring cultural readiness before committing to large-scale rollouts.
- How to identify and empower internal digital champions to drive bottom-up adoption.
- Lessons from Ikeja Electric on bridging the gap between IT strategy and field-level reality.
- A practical framework for sustaining transformation momentum beyond the pilot phase

16:00 - 16:30
The Invisible Intelligence Layer: Engineering Real-Time AI Systems That Serve Billions Without Breaking
- Amazon's real-time AI infrastructure—systems processing millions of decisions per second while maintaining sub-millisecond latency.
- Practical architectural principles for distributed inference optimization, adaptive ranking systems, and federated learning at scale.
- Framework for engineering graceful degradation and extending Zero Trust principles into AI governance.
- Insight into production AI systems operating at global scale—the engineering trade-offs, failure modes, and architectural decisions that determine whether AI infrastructure thrives or breaks under pressure.

07:00 - 09:00
Registration & Refreshment Networking
09:00 - 09:30
Available Session
09:30 - 10:00
The AI Field Manager: Building a Connected Operational Decision Intelligence Layer Across Wells, Water, Vendors, and OPEX.
- Reliable, real-time decision support across well performance, water management, and capital accountability remains an unsolved operational challenge for oil and gas operators - not because data is unavailable, but because the relationships between data are not queryable.
- Critical engineering decisions involving well prioritization, produced water disposal routing, vendor cost attribution, and AFE compliance monitoring require simultaneous access to information distributed across production databases, ERP systems, completions repositories, and AP platforms.
- In the absence of a connected data architecture, this integration burden falls on individual engineers, introducing hours of manual data assembly per query and systematically limiting the frequency and quality of operational analysis.
- This session presents the real-world deployment of the reView Intelligence Platform, a graph-native AI reasoning system, that unified well data, production history, financials, vendor records, AFEs, and water infrastructure into a single auditable, queryable knowledge graph for Civitas Resources with these results in the first six weeks: - $6.7M in annualized disposal cost savings from a 40% reduction in produced water trucking - $12M in avoided capital surprises through early AFE overrun detection - Complex cross-domain query time reduced from 2+ hours to under 10 second

10:00 - 10:30
BOOKED SESSION
Change Leadership – The Secret to Successful Digital Transformation
- What does good (business change) look like
- The role of change leadership in securing the success of your digital transformation
- Top 5 business change best practices to support your digital transformation

10:30 - 11:00
From Blueprint to Evolution: Crafting Digital Transformation Strategies That Drive Business Outcomes in Oil and Gas
- A Strategy-First Framework. Most digital transformation efforts are initiated with a technology roadmap and an implementation plan.
- Anchoring Digital Ambition to Business Outcomes Before Any Initiative Launches. The framework’s first two phases, opportunity definition and strategy architecture, ensure that every transformation initiative is explicitly traceable to a prioritized business objective before investment decisions are made.
- People, Culture, and Operating Model as Strategic Design Inputs, Not Parallel Workstreams.
- MIT Sloan and Deloitte’s research confirms that digitally maturing organizations are four times more likely to equip employees with the skills needed for transformation and nearly twice as likely to have unified leadership driving the effort (Kane et al., 2015).

11:00 - 12:00
Panel Discussion - AI-driven operational optimization

13:00 - 13:30
AI Agents at Enterprise Scale: Petrobras’ Real-World Journey in Intelligent Automation, Regulatory Compliance, and Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas
• How Petrobras architected and deployed an enterprise-wide intelligent automation framework using SAP S/4HANA, delivering a 47% reduction in process cycle times and 31% improvement in decision accuracy across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
• Pioneering implementation of an AI Agents platform specifically designed for regulatory compliance in the oil and gas industry, enabling real-time monitoring, risk mitigation, and automated audit processes at global scale.
• Design and integration of AI-driven financial systems (New Cash Flow Analyzer, TM-TRM, BPC) that increased forecast accuracy by 37%, combined with an enterprise-wide agile transformation that accelerated product delivery 3.5x while boosting employee engagement by 42%.
• Practical lessons learned from building a comprehensive digital skills acceleration program that upskilled over 3,000 employees and created sustainable ecosystem partnerships for continuous innovation.

13:30 - 14:00
Digitizing Well Construction operations to optimize cost per feet
- Improved data accessibility
- Faster data processing and analysis
- Enhanced accuracy and consistency
- Better decision-making
- Improved safety and environmental compliance
- Cost savings

14:30 - 15:00
Practical, Tactical Generative AI Applications in Oil & Gas: Benchmarking and Adoption Trends
- Overview of benchmarks and insights from 70% of North American operators regarding their specific use cases and adoption levels.
- Deep dive into pain points and challenges of scaling Generative AI for practical production environments.
- Summary of key findings and use cases collected from a Generative AI working group involving 25+ North American operators over the past 18 months.

15:00 - 15:30
BOOKED SESSION
Transforming Construction Planning with XR for AWP Sequences
- Introduces collaborative XR technology, enabling users to visualize construction projects in 3D and discuss plans in a virtual environment.
- Highlights XR’s benefits for intuitive design understanding across disciplines, promoting faster decision-making and project visualization before construction.
- Demonstrates smoother project execution and efficiency improvements through case studies of AWP in immersive XR environments.

16:00 - 16:30
BOOKED SESSION
Developing a Digital Transformation Plan for Oil & Gas Industries – From Business Outcome to Technical Capabilities
- Develop a 3-Horizon Map for Digital Transformation
- Identify Technical Capabilities based on Business Outcome and Value Drivers
- Use Design thinking methodology (Case study to demonstrate the process)

