In recent times, Continuous Improvement has seen a renewed interest within organizations. In an information and technology-saturated environment, your process for optimizing operations becomes more important than ever. It is crucial that operators develop long-term strategies to ensure that continuous improvement practices become ingrained in the organizational DNA, leading to lasting positive change. You will learn:

• How to create a culture of continuous improvement and strategies for engagement and empowerment
• How to embed OpEx methodology into your daily workflows 
• Understanding how your workforce responds to change to prevent transformation burn-out
• Tried and tested methods of encouraging and harnessing innovative ideas from every level of the organization to fuel continuous improvement initiatives

Faraz Shahid

Director - Supply Chain Center of Excellence
Cheniere Energy

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Without great leadership, organizational success is impossible. It is imperative that leaders understand the ‘why’ behind leading effectively and re-imagine how they can successfully drive enterprise-wide change. Attend to learn:

• How effective management can set your organization above the rest and why a new approach to leadership is so important
• How to hone your leadership skills to inspire true excellence
• Methods for managing change and inspiring improvement across your workforce
• The benefits of leading by example and the psychology behind effective leadership

Dr. Alauddin Ahmed

Founder
ValueInfinity

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Emerging technologies offer incredible opportunities for increased growth and process refinement, but without a foundation of Operational Excellence to guide their scaling and implementation, according to a report by McKinsey, over 70% fall flat and lead to wasted investments. Leveraging the new applications of OpEx in a digitized world will reward your organization and lead to increased efficiency gains across the board. You will learn:

• How to ensure the safety and quality of operations remains a priority in an age of cost reduction and budget cuts
• How you can leverage Operational Excellence for competitive advantage and increased efficiency
• The importance of continuous improvement and how to drive down digital complexity while doing so

Justin Ceterski

Global Manufacturing Excellence Lead
Shell

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Are your frontline software investments failing to thrive? Are you experiencing high turnover rates? The key to maximizing ROI is successful digital adoption, proper usage, and workforce retention. Achieve this via audience specific, immersive training paired with device accessible self-help resources. The resulting increase in confidence, competence, and job satisfaction will yield lower turnover. Traditional training methods fall short—it's time to stop forcing your workforce into a rigid training program and start tailoring your program to fit their needs.This workshop will guide you in:

• Tailoring Training and Support: Move beyond one-size-fits-all classroom instruction and ineffective slide decks. Learn how to design training and support services that resonate with your deskless audience.
• Creating Flexible Training Opportunities: Discover how to implement asynchronous or hybrid training sessions to save on time and travel expenses.
• Real-World Practice: Apply proven learning theories by immersing your workforce in authentic workflow simulations, ensuring they practice as they will perform on the job.

Carina Jones

Senior Instructional Designer
Skyllful

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As organizations move from legacy to digital, digitizing procedures must become a core part of that transformation to ensure operations are both efficient and adaptive. Failing to do so will cause you to fall behind as operations become increasingly intelligent. This workshop walks you through:

• Addressing the limitations of current methods for recording procedures, especially with an increasingly connected workforce
• Adapting your process digitization approaches, prioritizing function and user accessibility and experience
• Understanding the benefits of process automation in an increasingly competitive energy market
• Driving operational excellence through process optimization, visibility, and accountability

Elliot Lander

Managing Director, Founder
ATR Smart Procedures

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Asset monitoring and maintenance is a challenging task, especially when assets are located in remote and hard-to-reach areas. By deploying AI-powered autonomous monitoring systems, you can significantly reduce costs and enhance the safety and efficiency of your assets. This workshop addresses:

• Understanding the bigger picture from reservoirs to refineries, learn how AI-driven autonomous monitoring systems can provide comprehensive insights and benefits.
• Maximizing Data Utilization: Leverage AI to better manage your entire oilfield, prevent unplanned shutdowns, and avoid costly repairs through predictive maintenance.
• Intelligent Automation and Digital Insights: Reduce transportation costs and improve decision-making with AI-enabled automation and actionable digital insights.

George Gakuru

Head of Technology Growth Programs
Fujitsu

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Managing risk is becoming an increasingly more complex issue for operators of all sizes. With growing complexity comes growing risks to safety, and understanding the importance of managing these risks and becoming a High-Reliability Organization will be the key to your success. This workshop discusses:

• Exploring the key characteristics of a High-Reliability Organization
• Increasing safety, reliability, and profitability as a High-Reliability Organization
• Creating a culture of responsibility through management and operating models

Bob Koonce

Founder and President
High Reliability Group

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Tim Doelger

Director of Business Development
High Reliability Group

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Asset management, monitoring, and maintenance are some of the core functions of Operational Excellence. Intelligent digital twin technology can provide you with instant information on your asset health and activity, leading to tangible efficiency gains and increased workforce safety.

You will learn:

• Combining AI and digital twin technology to provide a single, trusted data foundation for operations and analytics across assets and facilities
• Sustaining your advanced digital twin models and maintaining your data integrity to ensure your simulations remain accurate and error-free
• How Digital Twins can lead to improved decision making, reduce risk, and increase efficiency

Yorinde Knegtering

Growth Manager
Kongsberg Digital

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Miguel Valdez

VP Growth
Kongsberg Digital

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James Woodward

Director, Customer Transformation
Kongsberg Digital

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With the rapid pace at which technology is evolving, as well as the increasing demand for power, operational resilience becomes a top priority. Process mining offers the chance to achieve business outcomes through identifying inefficiencies and driving transformation. This workshop will explore:

• How to streamline operations intelligently to reduce costs and increase ROI
• Key advantages of process mining, including simplifying operations, process optimization, and standardization
• How advanced process mining can address challenges such as data quality and concept drift

With disruption steadily becoming the norm for operators, EHS management has become more important than ever. Embedding digital technologies into your risk management strategy can give your company the edge it needs to protect both its assets and its workforce, and truly champion safety. This workshop will address:

• Making technology a core component of your safety strategy and decision-making processes
• Recording and reporting safety data, allowing for better decision making and compliance
• What it takes to build a true safety culture across your organization

Mike McFarlane

Trustee
AI Applied Consortium

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Harnessing your data to effectively drive decision making within your operations is a difficult task, but the potential efficiencies gained from doing so are enormous. This workshop will showcase the benefits of data-informed decision making to ensure operations are aligned with organizational goals. This workshop discusses:

• Managing our data effectively to drive operational excellence
• Why more data isn’t always better data and the importance of a strong foundation for data storage and upkeep
• Extracting valuable insights and drive informed decision-making processes across all operational functions
• The best practices for leveraging data to identify areas for optimization and inform ongoing operational excellence initiatives

Swapna Setty

Director of Data Management
Oxy

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Chelsie Contreras

Senior Data Advisor of IT Data Strategy & Governance
Oxy

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In this interactive and hands-on session, Julie and Jeff will take participants through a step-by-step approach to implementing and using Lean and Six Sigma to achieve operational excellence, including:

• Integrating digital capabilities into Lean and Six Sigma frameworks to accelerate organizational change, technology adoption and process standardization
• Strategies for applying Lean and Six Sigma principles to manage the human side of change
• Assessing your organization’s current state and developing benchmarks and metrics for process improvement
• Factoring non-financial value into operational excellence and keeping Lean Six Sigma a critical component of the corporation

Julie Thyne

Global Improvement Director
Dow Inc.

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Jeff Tremont

Operational Excellence Director
DuPont

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