Manager Learning User Experience (UX) | Shell

Henk Jaap is an experienced Petroleum Engineer with a Geoscience background, with 30 years+ experience in technical & leadership roles in both Exploration as well as Development. He is experienced in Seismic Acquisition, Processing & Interpretation, Quantitative Interpretation as well as Seismic Reservoir Monitoring (4D) and has extensive experience with Subsurface Uncertainties Analysis, Development Options & Concepts Evaluation, Risk Management, Field Development Planning, Proved Reserves & Resource Volumes Determinations, Capability building & Learning, Digitalisation & Innovation in Learning.

He is at present Manager Learning User Experience (UX), responsible to develop, drive and deliver a future-proof ‘paradigm-shift’ in the Learner User Experience (UX) within Shell. This includes both the physical elements (e.g. Learning Centres, Virtual/Hybrid Learning set-up) as well as maturing the User Experience philosophy, approach and tools.

After having completed a PhD in Structural Geology in 1991, Eilard Hoogerduijn - Strating started working in the Oil &Gas industry where he has developed experience through a wide range of positions from Exploration via R&D and Business Planning to Production & Development.

He loves to integrate across discipline interfaces and lead teams in a focused manner to key business decisions and improved performance/delivery. He has implementing LEAN thinking in our organization. In the Onshore Development Team (some 100 staff) the application of LEAN methodologies has significantly accelerated business opportunity maturation and improved product quality.

As manager for new energy solutions in the organization he is now fully involved with the societal and technological discussions on a sustainable energy future in the Netherlands. A successful energy transition and CO2 reduction implies that everybody will continue to have access to reliable, dependable and affordable energy. This can only be achieved through an integrated transitioning approach involving both fossil fuels and sustainable sources. In addition to the technological challenges, this debate strongly hinges on societal acceptance and the strategic decisions the players in the energy industry take.

Derk Loorbach is director of Drift and Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was amongst the first researchers to develop the concept and approach of transition management. He started his professional career working as researcher for the International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, directed by Prof. Jan Rotmans, founder of transition management research. Within his research, Derk focuses on the development of transition management in theory and practice through theory development and action research. In 2004 he started, together with Jan Rotmans, the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (Drift) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he received his PhD in June 2007. In 2011 he became director of Drift.Central theme in his research is the development of an integrated framework for structuring transition management activities and for organizing transition management processes. Transition management is a new governance-model based on complex systems’ thinking and is aimed at facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability.

He is at the forefront of developing science and practice of transitions. He is very well cited in this field and publishes frequently on new insights and practices of transitions as well as with colleagues in other parts of the world active in the field. He has an extensive network in Europe as well as Japan and Australia, where the transitions approach is used. He has been successful in bringing in research funds as well as funding from government and business for experimental applied transition projects. Examples are The Interreg funded MUSIC (applying transition management in 5 European cities), the FP7 funded InContext (applying transition management in the area of sustainable communities in three European countries) and an Australian ARC grant (focusing on actor dynamics in transitions), one of the most competitive research funds in Australia.

Professor John Ludden CBE is Bicentennial Research Professor at Heriot Watt University, following 13 years as Executive Director of the British Geological Survey. Drawing on his extensive experience as an international leader in the earth and environment sector, this Professorship focusses on science governance and diplomacy, with a remit to develop links across disciplines and to strengthen communication with the public and policy makers. 

John builds on his numerous science leadership posts in the UK, France and Canada in the Earth and Environmental sector with a focus on resource development. Serving on and chairing boards in government, academia and industry in the earth, environment and energy sector, he brings a unique expertise in governance. Using all of his experience, he seeks to engender a cultural shift towards a more solutions-based approach at the interface of environmental, engineering and social science that responds to urgent global problems.

Eric Vennix leads the Energy, Resources & Industrials industry within Deloitte North and South Europe. He is also lead partner on a number of clients in the Oil and Gas industry. His initial focus is on Technology projects where he helps clients with business process transformation, implementing ERP/CRM systems and developing an IT strategy, roadmap or design. He is also the Global lead for Deloitte’s ‘Future of Energy’ initiative, where Deloitte eminence on every aspect of the energy transition is brought together. One of his focus areas within the Future of Energy is ‘the Future Workforce’. On this theme he brings the ecosystem players together and helps them with practical solutions and a clear roadmap to deal with the impact the energy transition has on workforce requirements and how the entire public and private ecosystem can join forces to rise to this challenge.