2024 AWS Energy Symposium
Reinventing Energy, Together
Aug. 13-14, 2024 | George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
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Agenda Highlights for August 13-14
August 13 | Empowering the Future of Energy, presented by AWS Women Reinventing Energy
Emceed by Caroline Dettman, CMO, The Female Quotient
| 11:00 – 11:30 AM | Registration & networking |
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM |
Welcome luncheon |
12:45 PM – 12:50 PM |
Opening remarks |
| 12:50 PM – 1:00 PM | Empowering all voices | The journey of AWS Women Reinventing Energy Samhita Shah, Global Head of Industry Marketing, E&U, AWS |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM |
Keynote | Are you AWARE—Embracing your power in tech |
| 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM | Panel | Conscious leadership Niloufar Molavi, Global Oil & Gas Leader, US ESG Tax Leader, PwC Silvestre Rincon, Project Portfolio Advisor & PRIDE Global Cultural Awareness Officer, Chevron Jason Schulweis, Chief Commercial Officer, The Female Quotient Katie Mehnert, Founder & CEO, ALLY Energy Moderated by Jay Shah, Head of Product Marketing for E&U, AWS |
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM |
Think you know when and how to say “NO”? Purva Upasak, Principal CSM, AWS | Ida Machuca, Transformation Success Lead, AWS |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Responsible AI Amruta Karnik, Sr. Solution Architect, AWS |
| 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Closing remarks by The Female Quotient |
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM |
Complimentary headshots | 3rd floor atrium |
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM |
Executive reception |
August 14 | Plenary, Breakout and Workshops
| 7:00 – 8:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks | Reinventing energy, together. Howard Gefen, General Manager, Energy & Utilities, AWS Customer keynotes Manuj Nikhanj, CEO, Enverus Pablo Koziner, Chief Commercial Officer, GE Vernova Keisha Garcia, VP Digital Foundations, Technical Programme Management & Head of Discipline, bp |
| 9:30 – 10:00 AM | Fireside Chat | Modernizing energy operations and advancing decarbonization with technology Moderator: Scott Sanderson, Director, Global Business Development, E&U, AWS Yanni Charalambous, CIO, Oxy | Mike Avery, President, 1PointFive |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Generative AI Scott Rosecrans, VP of Generative AI Pursuits, AWS |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM | Panel | Advancing sustainable and profitable growth in low carbon technology Moderator: Alaina Bookstein, AWS Jenny Koehler, US COO, PwC’s Advisory Business |
| 11:00 – 11:30 AM | Clean Energy Accelerator | Pathways for Powering Rapid Piloting of Emerging Technologies Hassane Elias Kassouf, Head WW Innovation Programs, E&U, AWS |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Innovations in Energy Joseph Santamaria, Director Solution Architecture and Customer Success, E&U, AWS |
| 12:00 – 2:15 PM | Lunch and Spotlight Sessions featuring: Databricks | S&P Global Commodity Insights | Slalom | Seeq |
| 12:40 – 1:00 PM | Spotlight: Rapid Modernization of Energy Systems for Resilience and Security Richard Charlesworth, Senior Director, Slalom | Tracy Derr, Managing Director, Slalom | Jeff Miers, Director, Energy Partners, AWS Featuring: Slalom |
| 1:05 – 1:25 PM | Spotlight: How Proprietary Data Collaboration is Accelerating Oil & Gas Emissions Reductions Raoul Leblanc, VP, Research and Analysis, S&P Global | Ben Wilson, Director, Product & Solutions, E&U, AWS Featuring: S&P Global Commodity Insights |
| 1:30 – 1:50 PM | Spotlight: Navigating the AI Evolution using Seeq Advanced Analytics on AWS Mark Pietryka, Senior Analytics Engineer, Seeq Featuring: Seeq |
| 1:55 – 2:15 PM | Spotlight: Energizing AI: Power of Databricks & AWS at NOV Ali Marzban, Director of Data Science and Analytics, NOV | Shiv Trisal, Global Manufacturing, Transportation, and Energy Industry GTM leader, Databricks Featuring: Databricks and NOV |
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Workshop | Harness generative AI for Oil & Gas | Room 320 A/B (Laptop required) |
| 3:30-4:30 PM | Workshop | Harness generative AI for Power & Utilities | Room 320 A/B (Laptop required) |
| 2:30-4:30 PM | Workshop | AWS Security Jam for the energy sector | George Bush Ballroom (Laptop required) |
| 2:15-4:40 PM | Breakout sessions |
| 4:40 – 6:00 PM | Closing reception |
August 14 | Breakout Sessions | 2:15 PM to 4:40 PM
Powering a modern electric grid
Featuring speakers from
Entergy | Conduit Power | Hitachi | Salt River Project | Bandera Electric | ERCOT
Accelerating the energy transition
Featuring speakers from
Shell | Atlantic Shores | Fugro | Sparkmeter | FlexGen
Transforming energy with generative AI
Featuring speakers from
Continental Resources | PwC | TC Energy | Nextera | Halliburton | ExxonMobil
Modernizing enterprise systems
Featuring speakers from
ExxonMobil | Cohesity | Phillips 66 | bp | OXY
Unlocking subsurface potential
Featuring speakers from
OXY | Shell | EPAM | NVIDIA | Stone Ridge Technology | SLB | Onward | wAIw
Optimizing energy operations with cloud
Featuring speakers from
ExxonMobil | Oxy | Baker Hughes | EPAM