Neil has helped Hess build a world-class portfolio, leading Exploration Excellence, pre-developments and new-venture exploration of the Atlantic Margin, with a focus on Guyana, Suriname, Gulf of Mexico and Canada. Industry macro analysis is used to assess competitor exploration strategy and progress discoveries through to projects via Pre-Development concept selection.  

Prior to joining Hess in March 2015, Neil was with BP for over 30 years. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Exploration, leading BP’s exploration operations in South America, where he led a program focused on the Brasilian deepwater Equatorial Margin, East Coast and offshore Uruguay. From 2004-10, he was Vice President, Global Exploration and Renewal, leading new ventures for BP. Earlier in his career Neil held a number of Exploration Manager positions in the FSU in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, East Siberia and Sakhalin. 

Raphael Moura is a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Liverpool, specializing in incident and human factors learning, and Master in Risk Management from Cranfield University, both in the UK. He has an MBA in Enterprise Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a degree in Production Engineering with emphasis in Mechatronics from CEFET-RJ and a postgraduate degree in Offshore Systems from UFRJ. 

Moura is a Regulatory Specialist who has been admitted to the ANP since November 2005. Current Superintendent of Operational Safety and Environment, he has held several strategic and leadership roles at the Agency, having been Head of the Coordination of Operational Safety, Superintendent of Infrastructure and Handling, Advisor to the Board of Directors and Exploration Superintendent. He was the Agency's Acting Director General from September to December 2020, and Interim Director from June to December 2021. 

In the academic field, he is an honorary researcher at the University of Liverpool-UK and editor of the journal of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers (ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part B: Mechanical Engineering).

Francois Baillard is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Iraya Energies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Iraya Energies is a scale-up company specialized in Machine Learning applied to Geoscience and Engineering, focused in the field of managing unstructured data within the Oil and Gas industry. Francois comes with a wide experience in geoscience working in technical, sales and management roles for Iraya, CGG and Total Energies. 

In Iraya, he is responsible of the R&D, implementing new Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence technologies covering supervised and unsupervised learning for Deep Technologies to extract valuable knowledge from unstructured data. Prior to this, he spent 11 years in CGG respectively based in Norway and Malaysia where he worked on integrated solutions to close the gap between different G&G disciplines: geophysics (acquisition, processing, QI, interpretation), geology (structural geology, sedimentology, biostratigraphy) and petrophysics (rock-physics). 

He is also the author of 25+ technical publications for EAGE, APGCE, IPA and the Geological Society of London in the field of Machine Learning, Geophysics, Seismic Reservoir Characterization and Geology. Francois holds a MSc degree in Physics from Telecom Physics, Strasbourg, and a MSc degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC business school, Paris, France. He also has 2 certifications in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning (Stanford Univ., United States) and Deeplearning.ai by Andrew Ng. Francois is a creator and committed to decarbonization of the economy.