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Darryl Willis, Microsoft Corporation
Topic: Respond, recover and reimagine with the new digital workforce
As Vice President, Energy Industry, Darryl Willis leads Microsoft’s strategy to drive digital transformation for companies within the power & utilities, oil & gas and mining verticals. He leads a global team focused on helping businesses thrive amid this sector’s complexity using innovative solutions and partner strategies that empower operational efficiency, improve productivity, accelerate the energy transition and uncover new business models.
Neil Hookway, Woodside Energy
At Woodside Energy, Neil Hookway manages all aspects of Subsurface Data and Computing from strategy development through to day-to-day operations, focused on delivering the digital revolution across subsurface. In his keynote, Neil will be sharing Woodside's strategic partnership with Schlumberger in 2019 to leverage the secure cloud-based DELFI software environment to increase consistency, reduce study cycle time and foster innovation in its subsurface characterization and development activities. He will be addressing the dual challenges of the oil price shock and COVID 19 arrived on the back of Woodside successfully deploying DELFI into a number of assets as well as the opportunity to create value by accelerating the roll-out of DELFI in support of remote working while minimising ongoing technical debt. The talk will go on to outline Woodside’s work in 2020 to pursue this opportunity and the challenges and benefits experienced.
David Hicks, IHS Markit
Topic: The Future-Proof E&P Company
David leads the digital transformation capabilities within Energy at IHS Markit. The company’s innovation trajectory has accelerated by implementation of best data science practices from the finance sector following the merger between IHS and Markit. This drives proof of concept through to delivery for technologies that link sourcing and commercial outcomes to geoscience interpretation and engineering.