Women in Geoscience & Engineering Session
Wednesday 5 June from 15.00 to 17.00, South Gallery Room 20/22
The Women in Geoscience & Engineering is a Special Interest Community of EAGE established in 2013. With the experience of 5 successful editions organized at each EAGE Annual in the past years, the WGE Team will present a new Special Session in London 2019! The theme of the Conference - “Embrace Change” - will be the red thread of the session, which will feature a diverse panel of speakers, a lively Q&A and time for informal networking.
Make the most of your experience at the EAGE Annual by attending this Special Session and connecting with professionals supporting women in geoscience and engineering worldwide!
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All delegates are invited. This session is free of charge and does not require any pre-registration. Join the WGE LinkedIn group to receive updates about all EAGE activities for Women in Geoscience and Engineering.
Keynote Speaker
Robbie Gries
Founder and President, Priority Oil & Gas LCC
GSA President 2018-19
Evolution of Women’s Careers in Petroleum Geology: One Hundred Years
Robbie Gries is President of the Geological Society of America and has worked with the Executive Committee and GSA staff during her term on ethics, diversity, expansion of collaborative activities with other societies, increasing energy industry involvement and a new decadal strategic plan. She is author of "Anomalies - Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917-2017". Robbie is also the founder and President of Priority Oil & Gas LLC, a Denver-based natural gas production, petroleum exploration and development company with producing properties in Kansas and Wyoming.
She has been in the petroleum industry for over 45 years and has been an independent since 1980. She has combined the business side of oil and gas with her passion for the science of geology and published over 30 papers. She is the 2012 recipient of the AAPG Michel T. Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award. She was the first famale president of the 35,000-member association and expanded the footprint of the organization by visiting over 44 countries and all six of the newly formed AAPG Regions. Robbie has been a Director for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and an officer, leader, and scientific contributor to the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists.
She was noted as one of the Top Women in Energy by the Denver Business Journal in 2018. Robbie earned a B.S. degree in geology from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in geology from The University of Texas at Austin where she serves on the Advisory Council for the Jackson School of Geosciences Geology. Robbie is a co-founder of GeoScience World, an international internet resource for the geosciences providing digital access to geological publications to over 20 countries. Robbie is past president of the Colorado Women’s Forum and 1997 recipient of the Woman Leader of Excellence Award from the Colorado Women’s Leadership Coalition. In 1974, she was a founder of People House, a Denver based center for Human Potential.
Panel Speaker
Julie Vonnet
Senior Strategic Marketing Planner - Flow Measurement
Emerson Automation Solutions
Julie works at Emerson and is currently based in Stavanger, Norway. She has been in the Oil and Gas Industry since 2006, after she graduated from ENSG, the National School of Geology in Nancy, France (MSc in Geoscience and Engineering). She is currently senior strategic marketing planner for the Emerson E&P software business unit. Before joining Roxar Software Solutions, now part of Emerson E&P Software, she first worked at Total in Norway and then Beicip-Franlab, near Paris, France. Julie has a broad experience of the oil and gas value chain and has held various positions in different technical domains before moving on to marketing and strategy. She also acts as the professional development pillar leader for the Emerson Women in STEM group in Norway.
Panel Speaker
Antonio Gallego Mingo
Senior Exploration Geologist
CEPSA
I am a geologist because of a school science teacher in 7th grade. Obviously he was a geologist.He was a bit more than a teacher, he was able to transmit his passion for what he was doing. Now it is my turn.
I was born in Chile, grew up in Spain and went back to Chile where I became a geologist. I met a wonderful woman and we got married and we had five kids. As family we lived and worked in different countries in Latin America, Middle East and currently in Spain. For the last five years I have been team leader and my role has been focused in evaluating oil and gas prospects, but also developing, encouraging and challenging young geoscientist: women and men. Last year I received an invitation to participate in the EAGE-WGE Mentoring program. I decided to participate. Professional women around the world are looking for a space to be heard, and more importantly there is a lot to learn from them.
Panel Speaker
Alicia Newton
Director of Science and Communications
The Geological Society of London
Alicia has been with the Geological Society since 2018, and oversees the policy, education, outreach, and conference teams. A key goal of this work is to spur interest in geology as both a subject and a potential career path in students from a broad range of backgrounds. Prior to joining the Geological Society, Alicia served as a senior editor at Nature Geoscience. She is a member of the Earth Science Women’s Network, which supports peer-to-peer mentoring for women working in the geosciences. Originally from Albany, NY, Alicia obtained her PhD at the University of South Carolina. She has been based in London since 2007.
Panel Speaker
Gill Gordon
UK HR Director
Schlumberger
Gill has spent most of her career with Schlumberger and has been HR Director UK since September 2014, based in London. She has held many different positions including HR Director for the global seismic business, WesternGeco; Director Executive Compensation for Schlumberger, and HR Director for the global R&D population. She played a key role in setting up and developing a shared services organization for the HR function in Europe, Caspian and Africa and was also HR Director for a global electricity and gas utilities business. Gill has been involved in a number of strategic initiatives in the areas of career development, diversity and mobility as well as numerous acquisitions and divestitures. During this time, she has spent over ten years in expatriate assignments in France, Germany and the US. Gill started her career in international HR at Ford Motor Company and has a BA Hons. in French & German from Heriot-Watt University. She is Chair of the Permits Foundation, which is an independent, not-for-profit organisation campaigning globally to improve work permit regulations to make it easier for partners of expatriate staff to gain employment during an international assignment.
Here is what the participants of the 2018 edition said about the WGE Special Session:
"Superb session! Thank you everyone!"
"Brilliant presentation […], fantastic panel session, great interaction between audience and speakers. Thanks for two truly well-spent hours, this was an inspiring session and I am looking forward to future events."
"Very punchy and efficient to boost boldness and self-confidence."
Click here to read more about the WGE Special Session 2018.
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