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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Industry Keynote Luncheon Panel (Separate Registration Required) – Shell Place

  • Chad Ford, Sunexo Solutions Inc
  • Chief Vern Janvier, Chipewyan Prairie First Nation
  • Deanna Burgart P.Eng, CET, Indigenous Engineering Inclusion Inc.
  • Stephen Buffalo, Indian Resource Council of Canada

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Keynote Luncheon Opening Address by Hon. Jason Kenney (as part of Keynote Luncheon) – Shell Place

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Keynote with The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Natural Resources – Main Stage, Hall C

  • The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Natural Resources, Government of Canada

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Climate Change and the Oil Sands

  • Gary Millard, Suncor Energy Inc.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Panel #1: Digital Disruption in the Energy Industry: the Next Generation of Oil Sands Production (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • David Chevrier, P.Eng., ISM Canada, an IBM Company
  • Terry Chmelyk, Spartan Controls
  • Roland Labuhn, Deloitte
  • Dr. Trent Keough, Keyano College

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Applied Research and Innovation for O&G Clean Energy Solutions (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • Lisa Bzdurreck, MacPhail School of Energy & Applied Research and Innovation Services (ARIS)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Major Disruption that Reverberates Down the Entire Value Chain (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • Geoff Hughes, Park Digital

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Panel #2: Solving Challenges with Location-based Technologies (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • John van Pol, Ingu Solutions
  • Braydon Lane, Turkana
  • Wilson Howe, Symroc
  • Jonathan Neufeld, TECTERRA

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Keynote Luncheon with Rick Mercer (Separate Registration Required) – Shell Place

  • Rick Mercer,

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Greetings on Behalf of the Government of Alberta

  • Laila Goodridge (UCP), Government of Alberta

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Panel #3: Future Workforce Trends in the Oil Sands (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • Chief Vern Janvier, Chipewyan Prairie First Nation
  • Karim Zariffa, Oil Sands Community Alliance
  • Shelley Powell, Suncor Energy Inc.
  • Joe MacNeil, Worley
  • Edward Courtoreille, Mikisew Group of Companies
  • Carol Howes, PetroLMI division of Energy Safety Canada
  • Rory O’Connor, MEG Energy

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Panel #4: Conditions for Success in Innovation (Main Stage – Hall C)

  • Wes Jickling, COSIA
  • Warren Shaw, GHGSat Inc.
  • Scott Nelson, Titanium Corporation
  • Zhihong (John) Zhou, Ph.D., P.Geol., Alberta Innovates
  • Steve MacDonald, Emissions Reduction Alberta