Gastech 2024

Event Summary

Gastech is a premier event focused on driving the energy industry towards sustainability through vision, innovation, and action. By bringing together strategic visionaries and technical experts, Gastech aims to create a lasting climate impact and accelerate the global energy transition. This year’s event in Houston emphasizes decisive action and collaboration to address pressing energy challenges. With a focus on purposeful investments, transformative partnerships, and technical innovation, Gastech serves as a transformative forum to propel the energy industry towards a more sustainable future.

Session Details

Wednesday, September 18 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Moderator: Philippe Herve | SparkCognition
Session Title: Technology to deliver low carbon energy

Thursday, September 19 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Speaker: Andrea Omidifar | Director of Solution Architecture, SparkCognition
Session Title: Harnessing AI for LNG terminal operations: A case study of National Grid, Grain LNG Terminal

Our Speakers

Andrea Omidifar

Andrea Omidifar is the Director of Solution Architecture for SparkCognition, a leading Industrial AI company. She and her team help businesses adopt Data Science and Machine Learning capabilities to operations, maintenance, and safety-minded organizations across the oil & gas, energy, and manufacturing sectors. With a background in Industrial Engineering and Data Science, she values the efficiency that can be gained by automation in the workplace and advocates for human-centered design and applying deliberate thoughtfulness to the impact that AI technology solutions bring to our every-day professional lives. In her free time you can find her road cycling in the hills of Austin, TX.

Philippe Herve

Philippe Herve is SparkCognition as the SVP of Energy and Sustainability. He is an executive with US and international success in operations, P&L, technology, business development, marketing, sales, and client relations. His has comprehensive experience in oil and gas spans large-scale project leadership, IT, engineering, manufacturing, and operation. Herve holds multiple patents in the field of ultrasonic and has authored many technical papers. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Over the years, Mr. Herve has frequently been published in Bloomberg, Oil & Gas Journal, Journal of Petroleum Technology, World Oil, The Houston Chronicle, Drilling Contractor, and is a frequent speaker on diverse management and engineering subjects.

Our Representatives

Jason Chadee

Jason Chadee serves as SparkCognition Director of Energy Sales. He brings over 25 years of digital, engineering and research experience in Energy across Oil & Gas, Wind Energy and Utilities to his role where he helps oil and gas upstream to improve their operations by implementing AI at scale. He has authored 13 peer reviewed publications and presented at several international energy conferences.

Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown serves as Director of Energy Sales for SparkCognition. He brings over 25 years of helping Oil & Gas, Chemical, Utilities and Natural Resource companies solve complex operational problems with digital solutions, leveraging his background as a software engineer, data architect and entrepreneur.

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