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Understanding where the risks lie - A hackers guide to your business

Can you see your business through the eyes of someone who wants to do it harm?. How do look for holes in your defences and where should you be focusing your efforts.

Join Niall Merrigan as he shows you hackers view your organisation. This high level talk shows you some of the tactics that are used to gain access to your information and what you can do now to prevent it happening to you.

Niall Merrigan is a Managing Solution Architect working with Capgemini in Stavanger Norway. He is an internationally recognised speaker on security topics and has presented all over the globe to thousands of people. He specialises in Wifi and Social Engineering style attacks and helps people understand how these attacks work. He is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInder and Azure Insider  and works with Microsoft on the latest and pre releases of their Web and Cloud platforms.

High Performance Computing with SUSE and the Energy Industry
Monday 29th August
Organizations are increasingly turning to high performance computing to deliver massive computing power. This power is required for challenges ranging from high-end, intensive scientific and engineering problems to commercial, data-intensive tasks. 

Unix to SUSE Linux Enterprise
Tuesday 30th August
Unix or Linux? Is There Really Still a Question? Today’s IT professionals are making strategic investments in Linux, preferring its open architecture and low cost to the proprietary—and very expensive—UNIX platform.

Software Defined Storage with SUSE powered by Ceph
Wednesday 31st August
For most enterprise-level businesses, the demand for data storage is growing much faster than the average price for storage is shrinking. This intelligent software-defined storage solution, powered by Ceph, enables you to build cost-efficient, highly scalable storage using commodity, off-the shelf servers and disk drives.

Leonidas, as SUSE Sales Engineer, is technically responsible for Norway and Swenden. He has more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry, and his areas of expertise cover the entire range of SUSE's enterprise products. Leonidas has a vast background in software development and test automation as well as in system and project management, in technical sales, solution design, training and consulting.

How Windows 10 Can Transform Zone 1 Hazardous Locations in Oil & Gas

Join Aegex and Exnor to learn how the Aegex10 Intrinsically Safe Tablet - the first globally certified Intrinsically Safe Windows tablet - can bring the full power of Windows 10 into ATEX Zone 1, IECEx Zone 1 and UL913 CI,II,III D1 hazardous areas. Aegex will demonstrate how the tablet allows crews in the most hazardous environments in disparate locations worldwide to communicate and collaborate in real time, resulting in improved safety, efficiency and productivity. Because the Windows 10 operating system is the preferred OS for enterprises, Aegex devices sync seamlessly and easily with existing IT systems, allowing users in Zone 1 areas anywhere in the world to communicate with the same Microsoft tools or custom-designed apps, plus the same security, as the rest of their organization. Aegex’s uniform platform and unique intellectual property enable the future development of additional solutions for hazardous locations’ Internet of Things. The patent-pending Aegex10 Intrinsically Safe tablets are lightweight yet rated IP65 for industrial conditions and are offered at a price point below most rugged, non-intrinsically safe devices, allowing for universal deployment and a high return on investment. Come and learn how Aegex Windows-based Intrinsically Safe Tablets can help transform your oil & gas or other hazardous location operation into an Industry 4.0 operation.

Envision provide G&G services and Data Management services to the O&G industry. The Petroportal is  Envision’s Hub to customers who use Envisions centralised services . This include Envision Smart Data, a center for services such as:

1) Enfind reservoir pressure database and analyse tool,
2) eSpider data management tool,
3) Ready-To-Go dataset (Petrel, Kingdom, DUG, etc),
4) Remote datamanagement and
5) Studies on pressure data and G&G disciplines.

Mr. Åge Løklingholm has been in the Petroleum industry for more than 30 years. He has a degree in engineering with  solid background within the area of information /data management. Back in the early 1980ies, he was a pioneer, introducing the first digital data and mapping systems in the industry as an employee of Geco and Schlumberger. He assisted in the data management software and services for the first seismic interpretation system Charisma, followed up by developing and introducing the database systems Finder and SeisDB. For 6 years he worked for Petrodata, who operated the national datastore for Norwegian oil industry, DISKOS. He joined Envision in 2004, establishing Envisions Data Management services. He has been actively involved in National Data Repository/Data Management capacity building in Norway, Sudan, Bolivia and Ecuador, and lecturing at Petrad’s regional data management seminars in East - and West - Africa. He has experience from Geco, Schlumberger, Petrodata and Landmark.

Epsis’ aims at assisting our clients within the fields of Operational Excellence, Integrated Operations and Collaborative Working. We do this by providing solutions and consulting services to our clients to delivering changes in operational performance, collaboration, information management, decision-making and new ways of working; resulting in increased production, reduced downtime and improved cost savings. We will demonstrate our patented solution Epsis TeamBox and discuss how Epsis TeamBox can help realizing value for our clients. We will also discuss how Epsis TeamBox work in the PetroPortal, and how Epsis and EVRY together can assists clients realizing value through Integrated Operations.

Jan-Erik Nordtvedt has more than 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, most of it connected with technology and technology company management, product commercialization and consulting. After beginning his career with Statoil, Jan-Erik has gained experience in academia, research institutions and service companies. Since 2001, Jan-Erik has been involved in integrated operations as CEO in Epsis. Epsis is focusing on deliver value for operator and service companies through implementation of solutions  to improve operational performance.

I would be speaking about how new, semantic technology, delivered through PetroPortal, will open up new ways of working in the areas of integrated planning, work preparation, and execution: inherently more efficient and cost effective, saving time and money, and with the benefits of decision making, change control, and what-if analysis in real-time.

Derek Göbel is the founder and CEO of Avito Loops AS. He has had 14 years of international experience with Royal Dutch Shell: in a global SAP Implementation, as Maintenance Supervisor offshore, as Offshore Installation Manager, and Turnaround Manager. He has just returned from Malaysia where he has managed several Integrated Operations (IO) projects, as well as a program of IT- and IO-projects for Deepwater. He was also advisor to PETRONAS on Enhanced Recovery and Integrated Operations. One of his achievements has been broadly publicized in a number of key oil & gas conferences: a decision support system that optimizes production in a complex, integrated gas network.

EVRY is a strong player in the oil & gas IT arena with deliveries of critical services to more than 80 companies in the industry. We deliver everything from basic IT services on premise or in the cloud, including desktop, collaboration and ERP solutions (SAP IS-OIL). In the specific O&G portfolio we can offer production monitoring applications, gas allocation & trade, data and database management (Documentum ®). EVRY has developed a novel platform for delivering high intensive graphics (seismic) and high performance computing (reservoir) via the net with total transparency between Windows and Linux. The PetroPortal (www.petroportal.no) can deliver what you need for seismic interpretation and reservoir simulation on a variety of technical platforms, including FlexPod® for easy set-up also locally and on IBM’s SoftLayer® giving global coverage. The EVRY PetroPortal is the most powerful and dynamic platform available for technical applications (25 of the most commonly used have been tested).

Tom E Henriksen has a degree in applied geophysics from University of Oslo and a Master of Technology Managment from MIT Sloan. He has worked at as geophysicist and IT manager in Hydro O&E, given many talks on the topics of Knowledge Management and Integrated Operations. He also lectures at Norway’s business school BI. He currently leads EVRY’s Oil & Gas vertical.

Oil and gas goes virtual

Visit a site without physically being present. With the use of 3D visualisation, movements and hand gestures you can participate in a digital assembly of an oil and gas construction.

Project Execution management goes visual

How to prioritize and avoid bottleneck’s resulting in reduced project execution time? Increase the ability to deliver right quality on time with our visual dashboard that combines information from different engineering systems.

Insight to action

Using the power of SAP HANA to enable better decision making in a world of big data.

3 Steps to Circular economy with significant savings in the process

Most companies can obtain significant savings through optimizing the amount of PC’s and furthermore, greatly reduce running costs if they take on board a lifecycle model that guarantees a well working PC to end users. Utilizing a lifecycle model allows the companies to support circular economy which in turn, supports green values & the growth of developing economies.

12 year career in 3 Step IT covering key account management in Finland and new sales in the Nordics and the Baltics. On top of actively working in sales, I have also been responsible of our operations in Denmark and the Baltics. My current focus is on international accounts & new deals and our international partners.

Enhancing Cyber Security for Critical Assets

Rik has worked at Cisco for nine years primarily in the Energy industry, including lead roles in Energy Management and Energy Optimization, and Communications and Security for Power Utilities and Process Control Industries. He leads the Energy Architecture team and drives the global development of Cisco’s reference architectures, use cases, and security for the Oil & Gas industry. Prior to this he worked for a Cisco service provider partner for 8 years focused on converged solutions.

Rik has represented Cisco in a number of Industry and standards bodies including IEC 61850 for industrial communications, and IEC 62351 for industrial security, as well as UK Lead for Cigre SC D2. He has written for industry publications, and authored a number of white papers including Industrial Cyber Security, Distributed Industrial Control Systems, Next Generation Operational Field Telecoms, and Fog computing, and co-authored industry technical brochures. He is also a lead author for the Cisco validated designs for Connected Refinery and Processing Facilities, and Connected Pipelines.

Rik holds a Bachelor’s Degree in science and an MBA focused on international leadership.

Transforming business processes in Oil & Gas

Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA - Introduction to business cases - How to get started

Enabling next generation Integrated Operations.

Oil & Gas companies are facing expectations and challenges from many stakeholders.

• Improve efficiency of operations in challenging markets.
• Enable new operational models for new fields
• Ensuring health, safety, environment and security in all operations.

Realizing these objectives will require a digital transformation of "the way we work and operate fields". New analytics technology and a holistic integration of digital oilfields will be necessary to achieve this. IBM will illustrate how new technology is adopted by leading E&P companies, and how best practices from other industries will benefit Oil & Gas.

Cambium Networks ATEX/HAZLOC Wireless Solutions - Performance, Safety and Value

Oil and gas exploration, extraction and production entail sophisticated and complex processes to achieve productivity and profitability goals. State-of-the-art communication systems are crucial to the success of those efforts, and the safety afforded by those systems is paramount. Our PTP 700 and 450i systems are ATEX and HAZLOC certified to operate safely in oil and gas environments. With more than 60,000 systems deployed worldwide, we have the expertise to help you successfully plan, deploy, operate and manage your wireless communication network successfully. Performance, safety and value - you get all three with our PTP solutions

Subsurface and wells application support

CGI will share how we provide support for upstream exploration and production applications for the global oil and gas industry. We help our clients maximize the business value deriving from a cost effective and intelligent management of their applications. We leverage our extensive industry and technology knowledge and industrialized approach to deliver cost savings and business agility through operational excellence and on-going improvements.

Vantage POB (Personnel On Board) – safety, security and efficiency

The leading personnel tracking and flight scheduling system for the oil and gas industry. CGI will share how we deliver this to the industry as a shared service or a stand-alone implementation. Vantage POB is highly scalable and offers a flexible, proven and reliable solution for both smaller and larger operators.

Five key trends intensifying organisations need to transform.

CGI local and global oil and gas leaders discuss the key findings from 1000 interviews with leaders across 10 industries and 20 countries.  The 2016 CGI Global 1000 insights point toward five global industry trends that demonstrate clients’ need to accelerate digital transformation.

Raymond E. Cline, Jr. is currently VP, Consulting, in the USCS BU and serves as the CGI Oil & Gas Industry lead. He has over 30 years of experience working at the intersection of energy and information technology. Ray is responsible for developing internal and client strategies to provide practical and innovative business solutions to meet the changing needs of oil and gas clients. Ray previously held a variety of positions in academics, private industry and national laboratories. He has delivered projects for Shell, BP, PDVSA, BG, and US/DOE. Ray serves on the board of HARC, a research hub providing independent analysis on energy, air, and water issues. Ray earned a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Kent State University.

Fact-based decision support - a requirement for cost-efficient and safe operations

Do you have a lot of data, but are unable to utilize its full value in your daily operation?

Real-time integrated planning and control: closing the Loop to achieve the next wave of efficiency improvement

How the cloud and semantic technology can help transform resource utilisation, eliminate wasted time, and streamline your work processes.

Fortinet Security Fabric - Security Without Compromise

The role of the network in a business strategy is more important than ever, and ensuring it’s both fast and secure is critical. Having the right security woven throughout the network can make the difference between running a smooth, safe network or being the latest security breach headline. Simply deploying security end to end is not enough. These solutions must work together to form a cooperative fabric, spanning the entire network, linking different security sensors and tools together to collect, coordinate, and respond to any potential threat. And it must do this wherever it occurs, in real time, with no network slowdowns. In this presentation Fortinet will present its Security Fabric, a unique industry solution.

The most cost-effective way to handle data integration and archiving in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Reorganizations

Manage your information transition for 1/10th of the cost by using automated tools like Loops and XpertBI

Insight through digitalization

In a world of connected people and things, the new data landscape is the centrepiece of digital change, enabling insight at the point of action and creating entirely new business value.