Immersive Learning: the Potential of AI for Training and Business Applications
Digitalization
Facilitator: Tim Chappell, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Speakers:
Rajan Puri, PBF Energy
Keith Hoffman, Exxon Mobil Corporation
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World Refining Outlook
Sustainability
The Energy Transition to a lower carbon future will play a significant role in the Refining Industry. How our industry – in the US and around the world - will adapt to changing market conditions going forward is evolving. However, the US will be well positioned to take advantage of opportunities. This session will highlight challenges and concerns that will impact our Refining outlook.
Facilitator: Susan Grissom, AFPM
Speakers:
John Auers, RBN energy
Alan Gelder, Wood Mackenzie
Debnil Chowdhury, S&P Global
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Monetization Including IRA - IRA & ISCC+
Sustainability
Several new technologies have been developed to produce renewable fuels and petrochemical products. However, monetization of these new renewable streams is important to justify commercialization and utilization. This session will highlight IRA and ISCC+ incentives for monetization.
Facilitator: Jeff Sexton, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Speakers:
Bill Kessom, GreenStar BCS
Soheil Razjouyan, GreenStar BCS
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Digital Twins: Demystifying Asset and Visual Twins - Insights into Digital Twins, Keys to Their Successful Creation and Value
Digitalization
In the context of a refinery, petrochemical or chemical facility, Digital Twins can be used to model and simulate the structure and behavior of equipment, systems, and processes. This session will decompose and demystify the ‘Asset’ and ‘Visual’ virtual representations and their association with one another as Digital Twins. Supported by key use cases that are commonly faced by every operating facility along with actual achieved benefits.
Participants will:
- Gain a basic practical understanding Digital Twins in their primary forms,
- Secure guidance as to the accepted prerequisites, methods, and required level of effort to craft and deploy Digital Twins,
- Learn about Digital Twin sustainment challenges and mitigation strategies, and
- The achievable benefits to be realized from Digital Twin initiatives supported by actual use case experiences.
Facilitator: Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
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Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
Adam Williams, Motiva Enterprises LLC
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How to Attract, Recruit, and Retain Great Employees
Leadership, Emerging Leaders
Attracting and keeping talented employees is a critical activity of any organization. Steve Anderson, PhD., will share research and his experience of over twenty years in helping health care organizations hire and keep the best employees. During this interactive session you will learn the critical components of creating a culture that empowers employees and attracts the best talent. He will also share how to create hiring processes that weeds out the pretenders and get the best candidates. Dr. Anderson will talk about the necessity of holding accountable, and possibly terminating, problem employees that harm your culture of excellence.
As a result of attending this speech participants will:
- Gain insight into five functions of management.
- Learn how to design a hiring system to locate and hire the best talent.
- Understand how to develop those employees.
- Understand how to create a review system that rewards good behavior and holds accountable “bad” behavior.
Facilitator: Lawrence Moreaux, LyondellBasell Industries
Speaker:
Steve Anderson, PhD., Integrated Leadership Systems
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The Digital Reality Ecosystem: How ExxonMobil is Moving to a Visual Way of Working through Open Asset Digital Twins
Digitalization
The industrial sector is going through digital transformation. ExxonMobil's Digital Reality Ecosystem, aka the Industrial Metaverse holds huge benefits with its ability to visualize their sites and offer seamless immersive and connected experiences across their fleet of assets. As this is an emerging technology space, there are diverse sets technologies that will need to be curated as the Industrial Metaverse is still in infancy stage. This session will explore existing and potential industrial use cases of the metaverse, augmented/mixed reality to illustrate the various functions, applications, and benefits of the technology. Participants will:
- Gain an understanding of how ExxonMobil is moving to a visual way of working utilizing innovations and new technologies
- Learn about the components of the ecosystem
- Appreciate the value of data interoperability
Facilitator:
Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Speakers:
Athicha 'M' Dhanormchitphong, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
Kyle Daughtry, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
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