Amir Haghi leads reservoir engineering and geomechanical R&D and field studies at Viridien. He brings nearly two decades of experience delivering high-impact subsurface solutions for energy and carbon storage. He leads geomechanical studies for global CCS projects across the North Sea, the U.S. offshore sector, and Asia; directs the development and enhancement of Geosim®, Viridien’s fully coupled reservoir-geomechanics simulator; and established the Seismic-Integrated Geomechanics Assessment Plan (Sigma-P), a workflow for high-fidelity geomechanical modeling, fault-stability assessment, and risk management. Amir holds a Ph.D. in Geomechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta and a degree in Business Leadership, Impact, and Management from Harvard Business School. He is the author of more than 35 papers and received the University of Alberta’s N.R. Morgenstern Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis. He chairs the Geomechanics Special Interest Group at SPE Calgary and the InterPore Minisymposium on Poromechanics and Induced Seismicity. Amir returns to the EAGE CO₂ Storage Monitoring Workshop series as a keynote speaker, having previously presented at the inaugural EAGE workshop in Toronto in 2025.

David is a geologist with more than 25 years of experience in resource exploration within the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Throughout his career, he has specialised in carbonate sedimentology, initially supporting hydrocarbon exploration and, for the past 14 years, focusing on CO₂ injection projects for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and geological carbon sequestration.Having been involved in some of Alberta's earliest commercial CO₂ injection projects, David was the primary author of the Clive EOR Measurement, Monitoring, and Verification (MMV) Plan. This was the second MMV plan of its kind approved in Alberta after Shell Quest and the first to successfully address the challenges of implementing a cost-effective monitoring program.At Entropy, David has expanded his role to include MMV program coordination, leading the development of monitoring programs for projects in Cochrane, Medicine Hat, and Valhalla, as well as overseeing operational MMV activities at the Belle Plaine facility in Saskatchewan.