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Day 1 (September 17)

Moderator: Leonid Konik, Chief Executive Officer - Editor-in-Chief, IG ComNews

10:00-10:30 Big Picture

• Welcome Speech
  Kirill Kravchenko, Member of the Management Board, Deputy CEO for Administration, Gazprom Neft
• Priorities and Transformations in Oil and Gas Post-2020 
  Simon Cushing, Research Director, Energy and Utilities team, Gartner
   

10:30-12:00 Session 1. Plenary discussion: Digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, slumping prices and demand for hydrocarbons

Discussion questions:

 

• Have newly implemented digital technologies helped oil & gas companies to mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic? 
• Can digital technologies enable a quick switch to remote or unmanned work at continuous cycle facilities (upstream, downstream, pipe-lines)?
• Do digital transformation programs and strategies need to be revised in view of large-scale switch to remote/hybrid work and cuts in corporate expenses? 
• What is the role of digital technologies for the mitigation of drastic reduction in hydrocarbons’ prime costs?
• Has the 2020 market situation created new opportunities or new barriers for cooperation between oil & gas sector with digital companies (in predictive analytics, AI, Big Data, and etc.)?
• How can oil & gas players recover or reinforce their image of “dream companies” for digital technology experts?
• Optimization  of State Information System for Fuel and Energy Complex: direct integration with corporate information systems rather than companies having to fill up special forms on a weekly basis
• Is it time for oil & gas companies to start investing into digital projects on other markets (similar to Rosatom’s data centers or Sberbank’s digital eco-system)?

 

Discussion participants:

• Rinat Gimranov, Head of IT Department, Surgutneftegaz
• Alisa Melnikova, Director of Digital and Information Technologies, SIBUR; Director General, SIBUR Digital
• Alexey Medvedev, CIO, NOVATEK
• Igor Zakharchenko, Head of Center for IT Support Development, IT Support Department, LUKOIL
• Dmitry Pilipenko, Head of Cluster Energy, SAP CIS

12:00-12:30 Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition 

12:30-14:00 Session 2. New ideas and proposals from global IT companies in response to drastic changes in the oil & gas market

• Corporate IT platforms in industrial holdings: fast Корпоративные ИТ платформы в холдингах: onboarding experience for new applications and IT teams
  Anton Dumin, Head of the Department of IT, Automation and Telecommunications, Gazprom Neft
• Blockchain transformation of Oil&Gas Industry
  Olga Ilyina, Blockchain Offering Leader, IBM CEE
• Answer to global challenges to accelerate digital transformation with the help of modern Russian technologies in telecom
  Konstantin Lukin, General Director, SUPERTEL
• Transformation of income sources for oil and gas companies
  Alexander Mashika, Oil & Gas Industry Lead, Yandex.Cloud
• Data is more expensive than oil: Intelligent data management and control
  Boris Eschenko, technical consultant, Commvault
• How to increase the efficiency of industrial exploitation using a digital information model
  Lev Skurikhin, Project Manager, SNH MeisterSoft
• Interactions monitoring in technology segments: when the dreams come true 
  ​Vasily Tomilin, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

14:00-14:30 Digital Lunch: Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

14:30 Session 3. Themed sections

14:30-16:00 Session 3А. Digital upstream The new accelerators for production processes: digital services and models Leonid Tikhomirov, CEO, ITPS Big Data, Video Analytics, Quants Roman Gots, Head of Big Data & Security Department, Atos Russia & CIS Forecasting the technical condition of equipment based on Russian IT technology Artem Markelov, Project Manager, ROTEC Robotic automatization of routine processes in support of oil and gas field development Dmitry Skvortsov, General Manager of technological development block, Tyumen Petroleum Research Center (Rosneft) Principles of creation a digital twin of an asset to solve the problems of different scale Andrey Margarit, Program Director for Upstream Product Management, Gazprom Neft What has been changed in the application of digital technologies in oilfield services Vladimir Chizhikov, Head of the Center for Upstream Strategy and Development,  Gazpromneft-Nefteservis Discussion questions: Digital field vs unmanned field – similarities and differences How to ensure maximum safety of staff at continuous operation facilities, where most staff can’t work remotely  New role of drilling support and field remote control centers   16:00-16:30 Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

14:30-16:30 Session 3B. Telecommunication systems and services for the oil & gas sector Guest moderator: Vitaly Shub, Head of Leading Research Center, Skoltech 5G Private Networks. International experience in industries Alexander Romanov, Head of Business Development in Russia, Ericsson Digital ready infrastructure Igor Tucha, Head of Telecommunications Systems Practice, SIBUR Practices of building a trusted mobile platform for oil and gas companies Mikhail Zubov, Pre-sale engineer, Open Mobile Platform Ltd. 5G for Oil And Gas Industry Dmitriy Polpudenko, Executive Marketing Manager, Huawei Eurasia New competitive VSAT solutions based on the Yamal-601 satellite Julia Babkina, Head of Department for Work with End Customers, Gazprom Space Systems Private LTE/5G networks for company Industry 4.0 Pavel Bahteyarov, Issue Manager – PLTE, Mobile TeleSystems PJSC Next Generation Platform for Private LTE & 5G networks Andrey Kosenko, Senior Business Solution Strategist, VMware Smart Oil & Gas: Industrial automation based on NB-IoT solutions Dmitry Ivushkin, Head of Development Department, ICBcom     16:30-16:45 Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

Session 4. Themed sections

16:30-18:00 Session 4А. Digital refinery Guest moderator: Innokenty Petrov, Independent Expert Development vector: digital refinery Alexander Rubinstein, Director of Project Management Directorate, Avtomatika-service Digitalization experience at brownfield production facilities Rustem Shakirov, Director, TatITneft Unified Operations Centre for better information management and careful decision making Sergey Mashin, Key Account Manager, AVEVA Ltd. (AVEVA Group) Cyber security management in the context of digital transformation: PETRONAS experience Sharul A-Rashid, Custodian Engineer, Instrument and Control, Group Technical Solutions, PETRONAS Azmi Hashim, Principal Engineer, Instrument & Control, Project Delivery & Technology, PETRONAS Digital simulation modelling as a tool for oil and gas companies to overcome the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic Alexey Korablev, Chairman of the Board, NP “Cluster of High Technologies and Engineering “Creonomyca”, Academician of the Russian Engineering Academy

16:45-18:00  Session 4B. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML) Multi Plant Production Optimisation with AI Complex Continuous Production Process Alexey Anikin, Industrial Sector Leader, IBM CEE Practical aspects of machine learning application in the oil and gas service company’s activity Artem Khodyaev, Deputy Head of  the IT Support and Telecommunications Service, Gazprom Nedra Implementation of a digital risk management system in the oil and gas industry Yana Krukhmaleva, Ex-Head of Project for Implementation of the Project & Risk Management System, Gazprom Condition-based prediction of equipment status and maintenance using AI (rather than simply following the technical regulations) Anton Kostrov, Development Consultant, Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul, Klinkmann (Wonderware Russia & CIS) Industrial AI. Solutions development by Gazprom Neft Andzhey Arshavskiy, Director of Data Analysis and Simulation, Gazprom Neft

Day 2 (September 18)

Moderator: Leonid Konik, Chief Executive Officer - Editor-in-Chief, IG ComNews

10:00-12:30 Session 5. Workplace of the future

10:00-12:00 Part 1. The workplace of the future: practical ideas and cases (reports)

• IT education in large corporation -  how to make the environment to learn what you like, not what you need
  Diana Syunyaeva, Head of Division for Business Analyses and IT Development, Gazprom Neft
• Efficient office space. Workplace automation and control
  Andrey Burkin, Head of OS Sales Department, RICOH Rus
• Video communication of the future
  Konstantin Ishmamedov, Customer  Manager, Logitech
• Efficient Video- and Audio communications. How to improve communications and collaborations in hybrid working model
  Sergey Grinchenko, System Engineer in Russia/CIS, Poly (Polycom+Plantronics)
• Current and future trends in high-performance computing technologies
  Andrey Sysoev, product manager HPC/AI, Lenovo
• A new approach to collaboration. Workplace of the future
  Maxim Repin, Collaboration Teams Leader, Cisco
• Secure remote access to information resources
  Roman Mylitsin, Director for Innovations, Astra Linux Group

 

12:00-12:30 Part 2. The workplace of the future: discussion

Discussion questions:

• How should corporate information systems change in view of increased demand for remote/hybrid work? 
• A fresh angle on cloud services now that a large share of the staff are still working remotely
• Virtualization as a tool to enable remote work 
• Video collaboration platforms as a key element of remote working: big global services vs domestic products vs in-house solutions
• New digital technologies to support remote teamwork
• Technologies to connect new staff members and external specialists with remote teams 
• Safe remote workplace as a service
• Distributed users’ software and hardware maintenance amid extensive remote work: new ideas and business models 
• Security of corporate IT resources when working remotely 

 

Discussion participants:

• Vladimir Kuritsin, Head of IT Department, Zarubezhneft
• Nikolay Zalevskiy, Director of Digital Technologies and Innovations Department, Naftna Industrija Srbije a.d. (NIS)
• Anatoliy Chekmarev, Head of IT Department, Gazprom Export
• Diana Syunyaeva, Head of Division for Business Analyses and IT Development, Gazprom Neft
• Andrey Burkin, Head of OS Sales Department, RICOH Rus
• Konstantin Ishmamedov, Customer  Manager, Logitech
• Maxim Repin, Collaboration Teams Leader, Cisco
• Roman Mylitsin, Director for Innovations, Astra Linux Group
• Andrey Mukhortov, Head of IT Directorate, Gazprom EP International

12:30-13:00 Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

13:00-14:00 Session 6. New digital technologies to meet growing ecological requirements, for monitoring and other complex tasks in oil & gas sector

• Technologies for preventing oil spills
  Vladimir Chuprov, Russia Campaign Director, Greenpeace
• Digital space services and integrated environmental monitoring system based on remote sensing data for the benefit of oil and gas enterprises
  Elena Natarova, Head of Marketing Department, JSC "Terra Tech" 
• Environment protection activities’ automation at Gazprom group
  Sergey Konyaev, Deputy chief of Directorate – Head of Division for Environment, Gazprom

 

Discussion questions:

• Nornickel case: lessons to be learned in order not to make the same mistake
• How to ensure real-time information about oil spills?
• How to get the coordinates and total area of the spill immediately?
• Unmanned flying vehicles (UFV) – new developments and needs to adjust their legal status

 

14:00-14:30 Digital Lunch: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

14:30-16:00 Session 7. In-house software development by oil & gas companies vs outsourcing 

• Priority directions in import substitution of custom-made software for oil & gas sector
  Olga Oleneva, Project Director, Competence Center for Technology Development of Fuel & Energy Sector, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
• "The Reserve" product - success story in Gazprom Neft group 
  Irina Moskvitina, Director of Program for cross-functional development and increasing efficiency of inventory and logistics management , Department for Inventory and Logistics Management, Gazprom Neft;
  Roman Ojik, Product Manager, Gazprom Neft
• Optimization of oil and gas corporations' expenses using the core domestic technologies
  Alexander Belokrylov, CEO, BellSoft
• Software development for oil & gas: one-timer or one for all
  Sergey Nikitin, Head of Product Management Group, Gazinformservice LLC

Discussion questions:

• Can in-house software development by vertically-integrated oil companies be efficient?
• What types of software products can be developed by oil & gas companies and their IT subsidiaries?
• Do vertically integrated oil companies need to coordinate their SW development to make sure they don’t create duplicating products? 
• Is it advisable to use the services of offshore software developers for dedicated industry-specific IT solutions? 
• Will there be a boom in the market of low-code development platforms (Appian, Visual LANSA, KiSSFLOW, Mendix, OutSystems, Salesforce, Microsoft PowerApps and etc.) as an alternative to expensive developers? 
• Will IT-subsidiaries of oil companies dedicated to software development be entitled to new tax benefits for software companies (insurance contribution for IT companies has been reduced from 14% to 7.6%, and profit tax – from 20% to 3%)?
• What will be the impact of VAT on software products, which will be implemented in January 2021, for IT subsidiaries of oil companies, dedicated to software development, and narrow-focused independent developers? 
• Is there a chance that domestic software will be featured on global IT companies’ price lists? (in the footsteps of ASUproekt, whose project ‘Upstream Field Activity Management’ was included into SAP’s global price list)

 

Discussion participants:

• Rustem Shakirov, Director, TatITneft
• Vladimir Pavlov, Deputy Director of R&D and Innovations Department, Rosneft
• Olga Oleneva, Project Director, Competence Center for Technology Development of Fuel & Energy Sector, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
• Alexander Belokrylov, CEO, BellSoft
• Sergey Nikitin, Head of Product Management Group, Gazinformservice LLC
• Fyodor Bayrakov, Head of Directorate for 1C, Gazpromneft-Digital Solutions

 

16:00-16:30 Digital Coffee Break: Digital Coffee Break: brief video clips from partners, time to visit the 3D exhibition

16:30-18:00 Session 8. The future of digital technologies in oil and gas sector: adjusted views and forecasts

• Gazprom Neft Digital Technology Vision: benchmarking of digital technologies application by the leading industrial companies
  Mikhail Korolkov, Head of Digital Technology Center, Gazprom Neft
• Gazprom Neft new “IT-cluster” as a tool speed-up the digital transformation
  Alexey Poperlyukov, Director General, Gazpromneft-Digital Solutions
• Transforming technologies, which should be on the radar of oil and gas companies
  ​Maxim Grigoriev, Executive Partner, Gartner

Discussion participants:

• Mikhail Korolkov, Head of Digital Technology Center, Gazprom Neft
• Alexey Poperlyukov, Director General, Gazpromneft-Digital Solutions
• Maxim Grigoriev, Executive Partner, Gartner
• Oleg Laktyushin, CIO, Metalloinvest Group
• Ekaterina Frolova, Deputy General Director for Production, Industrial Service Company “InfoTrans” (Russian Railways Group) 
• Alexey Cholovskiy, Director, Oil & Gas, Accenture Russia and Kazakhstan