Chairman's Welcome: Jeff Ramsey, President & CEO, Flint Hills Resources, AFPM Chairman of the Board
Leadership Award Presentation: U.S. Senator Joe Mancin, (D-West Virginia)
President's Report, State of Association: Chet Thompson, President & CEO, AFPM Cedric Richmond, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Representative Garrett Graves, (R-Louisiana 6th District)
Keynote Presentations:
What's REALLY On The Mind Of America
Most public opinion experts can only tell you what they think is on the minds of ordinary Americans, but Dr. Frank Luntz lets ordinary Americans speak for themselves. Through thousands of hours of intense direct response/focus group dial testing, Dr. Luntz has his fingers on the pulse of every issue Americans talk about today. Dr. Luntz will provide expert insight and analysis that can help you, the business leader, the politician, or just the average citizen, understand the thoughts and feelings of the average American.
Speaker: Frank Luntz, Pollster and Communications Expert
3. Cyber Threats in the Oil & Gas Industry
This session will provide an in-depth cyber threat briefing on key issues to the oil and gas industry pipelines and facilities; and cyber threats to pipelines both in the US and abroad.
Speaker: Sergio Caltagirone, Dragos
4. Flow Accelerated Corrosion Gridding
This session will focus on mixed reality applications for fast augmented gridding of elbows and/or straight piping. This demonstration will show how this application can reduce costs, increase reliability, and enhance safety.
Speaker: Martin Rosemond, TEAM Industrial Services
5. Robotics Breakthrough for Industrial Process Autonomous Operations
This session will describe how robotics can simulate operator rounds with many humanlike capabilities such as sight, hearing, smell, and tactile feel, which allow them to read gauges, record sound signatures, use thermal imaging to read hot and cold spots, and determine valve positions as the first steps toward to enabling autonomous operations.
Discover how robots are becoming part of the mainstream in industrial operations, how they can perform the "dull, dirty and dangerous" tasks and allow workers to perform more meaningful tasks, and how they can perform tasks to enable operations having difficulty placing new employees.
Speaker: Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and author: The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s
The nation’s midstream sector - the integrated system of pipelines, railroads, ports, waterways, roads, and storage facilities - is the backbone of the fuel and petrochemical product supply chains. Recent events have highlighted the importance of midstream issues to our industry and new legislation and policy could have a drastic impact on midstream sector in the next decades. This panel explores supply chain issues and opportunities in the refining and petrochemical sectors. Hear the latest developments from industry leaders in our energy supply chain.
Panelists: Omar Garcia, Chief External Affairs Officer, Port of Corpus Christi Bill Lam, US Supply Chain Lead for Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Deloitte