Philip Ringrose is Professor in Energy Transition Geoscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) as part of the Centre for Geophysical Forecasting. He has published widely on CO 2 storage technology, reservoir geoscience and flow in rock media, and has recently published the textbooks How to Store CO 2 Underground (2020) and Reservoir Model Design (2021) together with Mark Bentley. He previously worked for Equinor on many CCS projects and hydrocarbon field developments. His research interests include fluid flow in rock media, geophysical monitoring and the energy transition. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Adjunct Professor at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia.

Jan Petter Morten is working as Principal Engineer in the R&D department of Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) Norway, with office in Trondheim. He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 2008 from NTNU, and has industry experience from geophysical imaging, electromagnetics, ultrasound, and development of HPC software. At ASN he develops innovative solutions using DAS and hydrophone fibre-optic sensors for telecom, energy and security applications. He also contributes to scientific research projects with focus on seismology, submarine infrastructure protection, and maritime monitoring.

Pierre is currently the Reservoir Performance Fiber Optics, Geophysics Technical Director for SLB located in Dubai, UAE. This role consists to define and implement new workflows (both operational and software-related), technical competency and training programs, hardware, and overall digital architecture of Borehole Seismic & Fiber optics services. He has authored more than 40 technical papers and patent applications related to those topics. Pierre earned his PhD in Geophysics and his Master in Structural Geology. Pierre has worked for Schlumberger for the past 19 years.

Dr. Gang Yu is the Senior Technical Director of BGP’s Optical Science & Technology Division and Senior Technical Advisor of BGP. Providing technical support and consultancy to BGP’s Optical Science & Technology Division and Non-Seismic Division. He provides technical advice to projects of microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing operation, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) VSP survey and 3D VSP imaging, integrated shale gas reservoir characterization, marine MT and CSEM, land MT and TFEM, borehole-to-surface TFEM, etc. Dr. Gang Yu holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from Chengdu University of Technology of China, and a Ph.D. from Macquarie University of Australia. He is an active member of the SEG, EAGE and SPE.

Henry has been working as a Geophysicist at Woodside Energy since 2016, primarily in the Technology & Innovation group but lately as part of the Global Wells & Seismic group. He joined Woodside after completing an M.Sci. in geophysics and Ph.D. in petroleum geophysics at Imperial College London. Henry’s work involves all aspects of the seismic data life cycle, with projects ranging from acquisition through to interpretation, but chiefly concerns the development and application of novel approaches to seismic imaging and inversion. More recently, Henry has been working with surface DFOS data for both subsurface monitoring and environmental purposes.

Dr. Nader Issa is the CEO and co-founder of Terra15, which specialises in Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) as a manufacturer of interrogators and delivering application solutions. Dr. Issa is an innovator with 20 years of experience delivering new technology solutions for a range of applications such as optical communications, industrial measurement equipment, life sciences and geophysical monitoring & data processing. He has held positions in Australia, Switzerland and Germany in both global corporations and international research organisations. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Sydney in 2005 and BSc (Hons) from Monash University in 2000.

Minann DeSouza is a geoscientist and Product Champion at SLB, specializing in digital solutions for carbon capture and storage (CCS), subsurface monitoring, and energy transition applications. Based at the SLB Norway Technology Center in Oslo, she leads product direction for digital Carbon Storage Monitoring, connecting subsurface insight with real-time operational data to support safe, efficient and regulatory-compliant CO₂ storage. With more than 13 years of experience at SLB, Minann has worked across geoscience, exploration, digital product development, technology strategy and customer engagement in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her career has spanned global exploration support, digital subsurface workflows, energy planning and the development of emerging technologies for the energy transition. In her current role, she works across multidisciplinary teams to translate complex technical challenges into scalable digital solutions, with a particular focus on integrating subsurface, well, facility and real-time monitoring data. She is actively involved in advancing digital approaches to CCS monitoring, measurement, verification and assurance.

Bettina Goertz-Allmann is a senior researcher in the applied seismology group at NORSAR. She earned her PhD in 2008 with a focus on earthquake source physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Afterwards she spent some time as a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich before she joined NORSAR in 2012. She has long experience of microseismic data analysis and earthquake source studies of both natural and induced seismicity. Since over a decade she focuses on analysis of induced microseismicity in Carbon Capture and Storage environments.

Dr. Xue is a Chief Research Scientist with a primary focus on seismic rock physics. He joined in RITE in 2000 and started his professional career in CO2 storage. He was responsible for CO2 monitoring at the first Japanese pilot-scale saline aquifer storage project (Nagaoka project), including laboratory measurements of seismic wave velocity and resistivity changes when injecting CO2 into porous sandstones, and time-lapse well logging and cross well seismic tomography at the CO2 injection site. He was also involved in the offshore large scale CCS demonstration project (Tomakomai project). His areas of expertise include project development and management, governmental sales and contracting, technology consulting and training. He also has teaching experience as a Senior Lecturer and then an Associate Professor in Kyoto University, Japan. Dr. Xue served as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control during 2007-2012 and was responsible mainly for CO2 monitoring. He received a B.S. and an M.S. and Doctor’s degree in faculty engineering from Hokkaido University (Japan), and a best paper award from Society of Exploration Geophysicsits of Japan in 2006.

Mahmoud founded Silixa in 2007. He was the Chief Executive Office till 2017 and then Executive Director prior to the acquisition of Silixa by Luna Innovations in 2023. Prior to Silixa, he founded Sensornet (1998 -2009) which was then received an investment from Shell Technology Ventures Mahmoud worked as a Senior Research Fellow on non-linear fibre optic sensors at King’s College London from 1994 to1998. he successfully managed and completed a European project that led to the formation of Sensornet. From 1990 to 1994, he initiated and manged a Joint Industrial Project (JIP) in fibre optic sensing for oil and gas applications that led to the formation of Sensor Dynamics which was then acquired by Schlumberger in 2001. From 1986 to 1990 he was a Research Fellow at University College London working on fibre optic sensors and integerated photonics devices He was a Joint winner of Metrology Award in 2000, British Telecom Award in 200, Institute of Physics Innovation Award in 2015, and Queens Award in 2021 on the behalf of Silixa.

Malc has 20+ years of experience in the energy sector working for mid-sized, major and super major operator companies across a full spectrum of projects including fluid extraction and fluid injection. His CCS specific insights come from working hands on with more than 20 carbon storage studies and discussing and advising on more than 60 projects.  In his current role he is the global leader for the CCS business in Viridien, with a focus on solutions and strategy.

Dr Konstantin Tertyshnikov received a doctorate degree in geophysics from Curtin University(Australia) in 2014. He was a lead geophysicist on exploration projects in Europe and the MiddleEast. He is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Exploration Geophysics at Curtin University.His main research focus is distributed acoustic sensing technologies, CO2 geosequestration,borehole seismic, mineral exploration, and seismic acquisition.