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Alberto Iniesta
Director - Worley Customer Solutions
Chemical Engineer with international experience in plant design and operations in oil and gas processing facilities. He worked early in his career at Honeywell UOP as part of their FOS team (Field Operating Services) primarily covering commissioning and start-up activities. He then worked at Repsol as a Senior Process Engineer as part of their Downstream and Upstream businesses and later lead the Digital Twin transformation program for Repsol E&P business worldwide. He is currently assigned as Director – Worley Customer Solutions- for Digital Twin technology.
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Carlos Tapia
Chief Executive Officer and Owner
Carlos Tapia is an energy consultant for the Mexican market. He has over 25 years of experience working on several technical and commercial projects in the oil, natural gas, and electricity sectors, including companies like Pemex, CFE, Enagas, Abengoa, Daewoo, and others.
Currently, he is the CEO of Balam Energy, a consultancy firm specializing in developing commercial and business development strategies for companies in Mexico.
Mr. Tapia holds a BSc in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and an MSc in Control Systems from The University of Sheffield in the UK.
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Linnea Russell
Asset Performance Product Manager
Linnea Russell holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering. She has spent 13 years working in process simulation for chemical engineers including training, consulting and product management. She has technical experience related to gas and liquids processing, early processing facilities and carbon capture. She is currently the Product Manager of Process Engineering and Process Twin for Digital & Integration division within SLB, based in Calgary, Canada.
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István Szőke
Research Manager at llfe
István's work revolves around integrating nuclear simulations with AI, data, and robotics techniques to pioneer novel approaches to nuclear and other safety-critical processes. He accomplishes these goals through his various roles: as the Research Manager for the Applied Physical Sciences department of IFE, Technical Lead at the IAEA Centre for Holistic Approach to Digitalisation and Robotics for Sustainable Nuclear Decommissioning, Deputy Director at the Norwegian Nuclear Research Centre, Head of Research at the DECOM Cluster for Decommissioning and Repurposing, and Acting Director of the Norwegian Nuclear Association.
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James Haw
Vice President of Automation and Digital Strategy
James (Jim) Haw, Vice-President Automation and Digital Strategy for Operations technology Specialists (OTS) has over 35 years of industrial automation experience in the paper, plastics, refining, and upstream oil & gas industries.
He most recently created the first-ever “born digital” plastics recycling facility and has published several articles on its development. He was recently honored by the International Society of Automation (ISA) for this work by being awarded 2023’s Excellence in Technical Achievement award for envisioning, creating, and implementing PureCycle Technology’s “Born Digital” program.
Jim holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Texas. He has been a career leader of the International Society of Automation having served at the local, regional, and national levels. He also holds certifications as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), and Project Management Professional (PMP).
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Mr. Arun Kumar
General Manager - Operation Excellence & Engineering
Arun Kumar is working with HPCL‐ Mittal Energy Ltd., India, as Head of Operation Excellence and Engineering of high complexity Refinery complex, Guru Gobind Singh Refinery. Has more than 35 years of experience in the areas of erection, commissioning, maintenance, equipment reliability, turnaround planning and execution, troubleshooting and performance improvement of Rotating Equipment, in Process Plant / World Class Oil Refinery. He has performed leading responsibilities in Digital transformation drive including APM.
He has presented number of technical papers at international venues and lectured at Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia, including tutorials, case studies, discussion groups and panel discussions. He is advisory committee member of Asian Turbomachinery and Pump Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University and also member of Turbomachinery Society of Japan.
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Mr. Arun Kumar
General Manager - Operation Excellence & Engineering
Arun Kumar is working with HPCL‐ Mittal Energy Ltd., India, as Head of Operation Excellence and Engineering of high complexity Refinery complex, Guru Gobind Singh Refinery. Has more than 35 years of experience in the areas of erection, commissioning, maintenance, equipment reliability, turnaround planning and execution, troubleshooting and performance improvement of Rotating Equipment, in Process Plant / World Class Oil Refinery. He has performed leading responsibilities in Digital transformation drive including APM.
He has presented number of technical papers at international venues and lectured at Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia, including tutorials, case studies, discussion groups and panel discussions. He is advisory committee member of Asian Turbomachinery and Pump Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University and also member of Turbomachinery Society of Japan.
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Emmanuel Haizel
General Manager - Engineering & Projects
Emmanuel Haizel is a Chartered Engineer and Project Manager with over 16 years of international multi-disciplinary project experience within operator and contractor organizations including drilling, FPSO project engineering, performance management and reporting. His industry exposure spans West Africa, Europe, East Africa and North America. Emmanuel has been involved in Onshore/land and deep-water oil and gas exposure ranging from basin opening exploration and appraisal activities, greenfield developments, Pre-FID (Final Investment Decision) to first oil, facilities engineering and brownfield FPSO modifications. He has also been involved in Operations and Maintenance activities across the value stream.
He is a Project Manager (PMP), certified by the Project Management Institute, (USA) and a professional engineer (CEng) chartered by the UK Engineering Council through the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK. He is also a registered professional Engineer (PE) with the Ghana Institution of Engineers. He is a Mechanical Engineer, holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Emmanuel has trained, mentored, and coached managers and leaders across different industries internationally. In Africa alone, Emmanuel has trained project leaders and executives from countries including Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, and Ghana.
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Michal Ukropec
Chief Excutive Officer
Michal Ukropec, CEO at twinzo
CEO, serial entrepreneur, and passionate about the newest technology. The last couple of years working
on the "twinzo - digital twin," bringing digital twins to everyone. To manufacturing plants, ports, offices,
everywhere...
Personal motto (if needed)
“Fighters never quit. Quitters never fight.
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George Perrett
Operational Excellence Director
George Perrett is a lifelong resident of the “petrochemical capital of the world,” Beaumont, Texas. As a process improvement junkie and Six Sigma Black Belt, he has supported the energy industry globally working for multiple supermajor operators in the downstream, mid and upstream sectors of the oilfield in over 46 countries. For over 36 years he has built high performance contractors and vendors “from A to Z” to support our operators embedding in companies including Amazon, Entergy, Department of Energy and Zurich. Additionally, his team established the global compliance model of contractor safety in use today contributing to a 95% reduction in contractor recordable accidents. He has worked for global partners including ESSO, Gazprom, PetroChina, PDVSA, Marathon, Shell and CNOOC. He holds degrees from the University of Houston, Beijing Business University and after 22 years completed his MBA at the University of Texas.
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Nazim Choudhary
Director Market Development
Nazim joined iBwave in 2012 after spending several years working with Various OEMs and integrators such as Ericsson and SNC-Lavalin. With Over a decade of experience in the telecommunication domain, Nazim works closely with Network operators worldwide on refining, standardizing, and optimizing their deployment lifecycles with the use of iBwave’s software suite of products.
Based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Nazim’s current mandate revolves around new product integration and Market Development, with a specific focus on Converged Networks. His area of expertise extends to Cloud Architecture, FTTX Networks, Radio Access networks, IOT, public safety, security, in-building wireless/wireline networks, and Wi-Fi technology.
Nazim has a Bachelor of Engineering with a specialization in Computer Science from Concordia University.
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