Energy & Basic Resources

Valued experts focusing on the exploration, production, and management of energy sources and raw materials

Cyril Gagnaire

Cyril Gagnaire

Cyril has been working with data since finishing university. First as a data producer while working on offshore oil rigs. Then as a subsurface data manager, which brought him to Perth 12 years ago. Cyril pivoted career into Business Intelligence and Data Engineering 5 years ago and is now a lead data consultant for Arkhana.

Cyril has been working with data since finishing university. First as a data producer while working on offshore oil rigs. Then as a subsurface data manager, which brought him to Perth 12 years ago. Cyril pivoted career into Business Intelligence and ... Show more

Stephanie Selander

Stephanie Selander

Stephanie is a B2B marketer who has worked in technical industries such as thermoplastics, transportation, and power and energy. In her current role as a Marketing Generalist, she drives marketing and outreach initiatives for Neuvik, a cybersecurity services company. Her background as an agency copywriter and a media specialist for a PR firm position her as a strong communicator, connecting the right information to the right audience.

Stephanie is a B2B marketer who has worked in technical industries such as thermoplastics, transportation, and power and energy. In her current role as a Marketing Generalist, she drives marketing and outreach initiatives for Neuvik, a cybersecurity ... Show more

Ahmad Iqtidar

Ahmad Iqtidar

Enthusiastic and goal-oriented Process & Analytics Engineer with hands on experience on selection, designing and implementation of Digital Industrial applications to improve the predictivity, performance & reliability of industrial operations & assets. Working on Engro`s Digital transformation journey with the prime focus on Industrial Digital and Automation solutions.

Enthusiastic and goal-oriented Process & Analytics Engineer with hands on experience on selection, designing and implementation of Digital Industrial applications to improve the predictivity, performance & reliability of industrial operations & asset... Show more

Megan Gerres

Megan Gerres

Megan’s professional philosophy is simple and to the point: “Be comfortable being uncomfortable.” She believes growth in all facets of our lives requires hard work which can be challenging on our bodies, minds, and/or time, but hitting that goal is worth the discomfort we experience during that time of growth. Megan Gerres is the Director of Customer Systems at CPower Energy Management, working closely with internal teams and customers to ensure their customer experience is seamless and effective. Prior to joining the CPower team she's has worked in various industries such as utilities, FinTech, tokenization and digital security. What she loves most about CPower is the team, CPower leaders motivate their teams to find opportunities that cultivate a phenomenal customer experience which ultimately creates a collaborative team culture, constantly evolving to the next level. In her words “It’s super fun, fast-paced, and challenging all at the same time and everyone has a positive attitude!”

Megan’s professional philosophy is simple and to the point: “Be comfortable being uncomfortable.” She believes growth in all facets of our lives requires hard work which can be challenging on our bodies, minds, and/or time, but hitting that goal is w... Show more

John Darrington

John Darrington

John Darrington has been working for the Idaho National Laboratory for the last five years. As the lead architect in the digital engineering department, he works very closely with those seeking to change the world through clean energy. John is a software engineer by trade, and has worked in that field for almost ten years. He has experience in delivering large scale products and leading various sized teams.

John Darrington has been working for the Idaho National Laboratory for the last five years. As the lead architect in the digital engineering department, he works very closely with those seeking to change the world through clean energy. John is a soft... Show more

Andre Grassi

Andre Grassi

Andre Grassi major in Computer Science. Experienced Information Technology Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. With vast international experience, have managed global teams and lived abroad as an expat. Strong leader professional with certified skills in multiple technologies and management. Worked as agile coach, RTE and Product Manager. Now working as Solution Train Engineer for Energy Products & Trading IT.

Andre Grassi major in Computer Science. Experienced Information Technology Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. With vast international experience, have managed global teams and lived abroad as an expat. Strong... Show more

Duncan Drury

Duncan Drury

At NetHope I lead on Connectivity and Infrastructure, with a strong focus on the fundamentals that enable staff and other stakeholders to access the internet, and how these enable the transformation of how services are delivered in the field.

I've worked in the international development sector since 2003, working with Technoserve in East Africa, and leading Christian Aid's international IT team. I chaired NetHope's Connectivity & Infrastructure working group between 2015 and 2017, and have consulted with NetHope and others since 2017.

I'm based in the Lake District of England and enjoy walking in the hills, wild swimming and snowboarding.

At NetHope I lead on Connectivity and Infrastructure, with a strong focus on the fundamentals that enable staff and other stakeholders to access the internet, and how these enable the transformation of how services are delivered in the field. I've... Show more

Lorenzo Neumann

Lorenzo Neumann

Lorenzo Neumann is a research assistant at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. The research project SteigtUM! aims to develop a rental system for electric cargo bikes and electric cargo scooters in Freiberg. Lorenzo is responsible for developing the rental app as well as the software running on the vehicles and rental stations.

Lorenzo Neumann is a research assistant at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. The research project SteigtUM! aims to develop a rental system for electric cargo bikes and electric cargo scooters in Freiberg. Lorenzo is responsible for devel... Show more

Alex Chao

Alex Chao

Alex Chao is a Principal Product Manager at SambaNova Systems tasked with supercharging SambaNova’s flagship Dataflow-as-a-Service, which delivers machine learning applications and solutions to the enterprise building on top of SambaNova’s groundbreaking new hardware -- the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU).

Over the last decade, he has successfully launched applied ML products across industries in health, gaming, finance, defense, energy, and autonomous vehicles.

Previously, Alex has held product management roles at C3.ai building out their ML Platform and deep learning offering to enterprise customers. He was also a ML practitioner as the first data science hire at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group working on building large scale computer vision and sensor fusion algorithms for self-driving cars. Alex is motivated to help raise the next generation of data scientists and product leaders and has taught and mentored at places like General Assembly, Springboard, and Product School to equip students for their future success.

Alex Chao is a Principal Product Manager at SambaNova Systems tasked with supercharging SambaNova’s flagship Dataflow-as-a-Service, which delivers machine learning applications and solutions to the enterprise building on top of SambaNova’s groundbrea... Show more

Lucas Feiock

Lucas Feiock

Lucas is experienced with data warehousing, data integration visualization, and advanced analytics. He has experience providing solutions in multiple industries including manufacturing, sales, gas and electric utilities, and health care.

Lucas is experienced with data warehousing, data integration visualization, and advanced analytics. He has experience providing solutions in multiple industries including manufacturing, sales, gas and electric utilities, and health care. Show more

Robin Neven

Robin Neven

Data guy with a business view, loving sustainable innovative energy solutions achieved through tech.

Data guy with a business view, loving sustainable innovative energy solutions achieved through tech. Show more

Parul Kapur

Parul Kapur

Parul Kapur leads planning for Shell’s Gulf of America assets, where he focuses on helping teams turn operational complexity into clear, decision-ready insights. He’s been closely involved in shaping the thinking and design behind the Smart Ecosystem (Smart Eco), a Microsoft Power Platform–based planning approach built collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team. Parul is passionate about practical digital transformation that empowers people, improves decision quality, and scales through tools teams actually want to use.

Parul Kapur leads planning for Shell’s Gulf of America assets, where he focuses on helping teams turn operational complexity into clear, decision-ready insights. He’s been closely involved in shaping the thinking and design behind the Smart Ecosystem... Show more

Morten Steen

Morten Steen

Morten Steen er en erfaren sivilingeniør og doktor ingeniør fra NTNU, med bedriftsøkonomisk utdanning fra BI. Med over 20 års erfaring med ledelse av endrings- og forbedringsprosjekter, har han spesialisert seg på arbeidsprosesser, målstyring og organisasjonsutvikling. Hans brede industrielle bakgrunn spenner fra papir, metallurgi, mat og drikke til olje og energi.

Morten Steen er en erfaren sivilingeniør og doktor ingeniør fra NTNU, med bedriftsøkonomisk utdanning fra BI. Med over 20 års erfaring med ledelse av endrings- og forbedringsprosjekter, har han spesialisert seg på arbeidsprosesser, målstyring og orga... Show more

Tom Thill

Tom Thill

Tom Thill is a security engineer whose specializes in endpoint protection and vulnerability management. His work has addressed the identification of large gaps in coverage for endpoint protection, architectures for intrusion-tolerant and multilevel security systems, and risk assessments spanning multi-data center cloud and on-premise infrastructures.

He has developed and led cybersecurity teams in the United States Air Force (2013-2019), in multiple areas of responsibility. While stationed in Davis Monthan Air Force Base, he led multiple teams, one of which that included support to combatant commanders, three-letter agencies and national-level taskings.

Tom has over 12 years of experience in IT and cyber security and holds degrees from University of Maryland (BS) and the Community college of the Air Force (AS). Tom currently is a security engineer at Tucson electric power where he leads multiple endpoint protection programs across various teams. He is passionate about decoding jargon-fueled cybersecurity terms into understandable instructions for the everyday employee and focusing not just on security but the big picture of the business.

Tom Thill is a security engineer whose specializes in endpoint protection and vulnerability management. His work has addressed the identification of large gaps in coverage for endpoint protection, architectures for intrusion-tolerant and multilevel s... Show more

Nirajkumar Radhasharan Barot

Nirajkumar Radhasharan Barot

Nirajkumar Radhasharan Barot is a Lead Software Developer with over 15 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade software solutions for Fortune 500 companies across financial services, energy, and industrial sectors. He specializes in cloud-native microservices platforms, event-driven systems, and digital transformation initiatives that drive operational efficiency and strategic innovation.
Currently at JPMorgan Chase, Niraj leads end-to-end design and implementation of Morgan Money, a leading institutional trading platform managing $31.1B+ in daily trading volume and $400B+ in assets under management. He architected the Cash Optimizer—a rules-based automation engine that transformed liquidity management for 6,700+ corporate clients, significantly increasing transaction efficiency and reducing manual treasury operations. His technical leadership spans full-stack engineering across Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS EKS, and Kubernetes, with deep expertise in real-time transaction orchestration, compliance automation, and disaster recovery patterns ensuring high system availability.
Previously at USAA, Niraj designed and implemented the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) platform, a mission-critical operational risk management system serving multiple business lines. He automated control testing and validation workflows, significantly reducing manual processing time while ensuring comprehensive regulatory compliance with OCC and FRB standards.
At Halliburton, Niraj engineered the data backbone for iCruise, an intelligent rotary steerable system revolutionizing directional drilling. He designed high-performance telemetry pipelines processing real-time downhole sensor data, enabling predictive analytics that optimized non-productive drilling time and delivered substantial cost savings per well. His work supported autonomous drilling initiatives across global deployments in the Caspian Sea, North Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.
Across his career, Niraj has demonstrated exceptional impact through technical innovation, team leadership, and business alignment. He has been recognized with multiple industry awards including the Adam Smith Awards 2024, Hart Energy Engineering Awards, and LTTS World Quality Congress Award. His expertise spans microservices architecture, DevOps enablement (Jenkins, Terraform, CI/CD), observability (Splunk, Dynatrace), security governance (OAuth2, RBAC, AES-256 encryption), and AI/ML integration.
Niraj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from SP University and is SAFe® 5.0 certified. He is passionate about mentoring engineering teams, driving automation-first design principles, and translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions that deliver measurable enterprise value.

Nirajkumar Radhasharan Barot is a Lead Software Developer with over 15 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade software solutions for Fortune 500 companies across financial services, energy, and industrial sectors. He special... Show more

Kashif Parvaiz

Kashif Parvaiz

Kashif Parvaiz is a seasoned Cyber Security executive with over 20 years' experience managing security programs for large private and public sector organizations in the Consulting, Energy, Education and Healthcare sectors. For the last decade, Mr. Parvaiz has had the privilege of managing these organizations' security programs as the CISO.

Kashif is currently the Vice President and CISO of Arancia, in this role he regularly engages with senior executives from clients across all verticals to assess, review and improve their cyber programs.
Prior to his role at Arancia, Mr. Parvaiz was the Regional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a group of the largest hospitals in Ontario. Mr. Parvaiz has overseen the implementation of several successful enterprise-wide security awareness, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, security operations, and incident response programs. In addition, Mr. Parvaiz has developed, managed, and maintained detailed roadmaps to raise organizational cyber maturity levels. Mr. Parvaiz regularly reported to CEOs and board members and has managed multi-million-dollar portfolios. Mr. Parvaiz is an active member in the cyber community and has led thought leadership roundtable discussions for Gartner, IANS and Forrester as well as delivered many keynote presentations at security conferences. Finally, Mr. Parvaiz holds multiple industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCISO and CRISC as well as an MBA.

Kashif Parvaiz is a seasoned Cyber Security executive with over 20 years' experience managing security programs for large private and public sector organizations in the Consulting, Energy, Education and Healthcare sectors. For the last decade, Mr. Pa... Show more

Elvis Moreland

Elvis Moreland

A driven and strategic security leader with proven experience in delivering assurance for business systems and operations. Insightful and innovative in reducing enterprise risk, operational risk, and cyber risk using proven people, process, and technical methods. Expertise in implementing security and privacy policy, plans, processes, tools, procedures, and governance for both on-premise and the cloud. Expert in solid statutory and regulatory policy and governance programs to meet or exceed mandates such as CISA, FISMA, FFIEC, HIPAA, CMS, DFARS, DHS TSA, GDPR, and CCPA. Currently retooling and pursuing an MBA in Cyber Security Management.

A driven and strategic security leader with proven experience in delivering assurance for business systems and operations. Insightful and innovative in reducing enterprise risk, operational risk, and cyber risk using proven people, process, and techn... Show more

Christiane Hoppe-Jones

Christiane Hoppe-Jones

Christiane Hoppe-Jones is a Senior Scientist at American Water with more than 17 years experience in the analysis and treatment of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs). Since joining American Water in 2019, Christiane has worked on many research projects about PFAS in source and drinking waters.

Christiane Hoppe-Jones is a Senior Scientist at American Water with more than 17 years experience in the analysis and treatment of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs). Since joining American Water in 2019, Christiane has worked on many research proj... Show more

Kayla Martinez

Kayla Martinez

Kayla Martinez serves as an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer at TYLin in Chicago, Illinois. She has contributed to a range of water and wastewater projects nationwide, helping in the design and implementation of control systems.

Kayla Martinez serves as an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer at TYLin in Chicago, Illinois. She has contributed to a range of water and wastewater projects nationwide, helping in the design and implementation of control systems. Show more

Takayuki Goto

Takayuki Goto

Former JMSDF submarine crew with 15+ years in embedded systems. Experienced with Zephyr, Linux, and RTOS across automotive, consumer electronics, medical wearables, PCs, and edge AI projects. Served as engineer, manager, and technical sales bridging firmware and AI solutions. Currently manages space service initiatives, leveraging Zephyr and embedded expertise to drive next-generation applications in the aerospace and edge domains.

Former JMSDF submarine crew with 15+ years in embedded systems. Experienced with Zephyr, Linux, and RTOS across automotive, consumer electronics, medical wearables, PCs, and edge AI projects. Served as engineer, manager, and technical sales bridging ... Show more

Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas

Serial startup CTO Gareth brings engineering best practice to the world of software development.

Originally an Electrical Engineer with a background in Process Control and Lean Manufacturing, Agile felt like the natural way to work as he followed his passion and moved into the world of Software Development.

He is now spreading the message of small batch sizes, continuous improvement and self organisation and has implemented agile principles in diverse industries.

Serial startup CTO Gareth brings engineering best practice to the world of software development. Originally an Electrical Engineer with a background in Process Control and Lean Manufacturing, Agile felt like the natural way to work as he followed ... Show more

Mitch van Huuksloot

Mitch van Huuksloot

I am an architect on the Azure Data SQL Customer Success Engineering team. We work directly with customers to help them move their Microsoft or competitive data estate to the Azure or complex modernizations to later SQL versions. Our focus is unblocking customers, providing feature enhancement feedback to the product team and creating/publishing reusable blogs, scripts and tools. I have been with Microsoft almost 24 years in total, with a 7 year break as a CIO at a local ISV, and prior to Microsoft a Corporate software engineering lead for 10 years.

I am an architect on the Azure Data SQL Customer Success Engineering team. We work directly with customers to help them move their Microsoft or competitive data estate to the Azure or complex modernizations to later SQL versions. Our focus is unblock... Show more

Ridwan Oseni

Ridwan Oseni

Oseni Ridwan Damilola is a passionate and emerging geoscientist with expertise in geospatial analysis, petrophysics, seismic interpretation, and static reservoir modeling. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology from Olabisi Onabanjo University and is currently a researcher with DigGeoNaija Limited while serving his National Youth Service at Dharmattan Nigeria Limited. Skilled in tools such as Techlog, Petrel, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, and Google Earth Engine, he has contributed to projects on land use, geotourism, environmental conservation, well log analysis, and seismic studies, including leading geospatial initiatives for Nigeria’s first Geospatial Atlas. His research on climate change, land use dynamics, and geoheritage conservation has appeared in platforms like Urban Climate and Zenodo. Ridwan is also an active member of NAPE, AAPG, SPE, and SEG, bringing technical expertise, research insight, and leadership to advancing energy and environmental solutions.

Oseni Ridwan Damilola is a passionate and emerging geoscientist with expertise in geospatial analysis, petrophysics, seismic interpretation, and static reservoir modeling. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology from Olabisi Onabanjo University and is currently ... Show more

Oddbjørn Oftedal

Oddbjørn Oftedal

Jærbu med godt humør og over 30 års erfaring innan administrasjon og vedlikehald av lagringssystem og UNIX løysinger hjå eit bredt spekter av kunder.

Jærbu med godt humør og over 30 års erfaring innan administrasjon og vedlikehald av lagringssystem og UNIX løysinger hjå eit bredt spekter av kunder. Show more

Viktor Beregszaszi

Viktor Beregszaszi

Viktor is a senior designer at Ørsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer company. He combines design thinking and gamification with a hint of rebellion against the corporate mundane to create a potent cocktail of engaged learning, motivated behavior shifts and shared laughter.

Viktor is a senior designer at Ørsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer company. He combines design thinking and gamification with a hint of rebellion against the corporate mundane to create a potent cocktail of engaged learning, motivated... Show more

Anirudh Khanna

Anirudh Khanna

With over 17 years of dedicated experience in the critical fields of backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery, I have developed a deep understanding and expertise in safeguarding data and ensuring business continuity in the face of ever-evolving cyber threats. My career journey has been driven by a relentless pursuit of excellence in protecting vital information assets and supporting organizations in their quest for robust, fail-safe recovery strategies.

With over 17 years of dedicated experience in the critical fields of backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery, I have developed a deep understanding and expertise in safeguarding data and ensuring business continuity in the face of ... Show more

Juan Orozco

Juan Orozco

Juan Orozco is a Senior Manager with Bosch Connected Industry, leading a global DevOps team to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient operations for Industrial IoT software. Passionate about DevOps and the cloud, he thrives on exploring new technologies and staying at the forefront of innovation. Juan holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is also a Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Juan Orozco is a Senior Manager with Bosch Connected Industry, leading a global DevOps team to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient operations for Industrial IoT software. Passionate about DevOps and the cloud, he thrives on exploring new t... Show more

Christopher Nwosu-Madueke

Christopher Nwosu-Madueke

Christopher is a mobile engineer passionate about creating innovative apps that solve real-world problems. He's a natural storyteller who loves simplifying complex concepts so they are easy to understand while delivering exceptional user experiences.

Christopher is a mobile engineer passionate about creating innovative apps that solve real-world problems. He's a natural storyteller who loves simplifying complex concepts so they are easy to understand while delivering exceptional user experiences. Show more

Christophe Villemer

Christophe Villemer

Christophe is an engineer entrepreneur passionate about creating value through collaboration. He has been involved in open source communities for 20 years also acting as an evangelist for numerous open source projects. At Savoir-faire Linux, he drives strategic and technological partnerships to develop new market, particularly those related to the Energy sector.
He is the main representative of the company to the Linux Foundation Energy where he plays a role of promotion and evangelist of the activities and projects. He actively participates in the development and success of the SEAPATH project, in which Savoir-faire Linux is very involved.

Christophe is an engineer entrepreneur passionate about creating value through collaboration. He has been involved in open source communities for 20 years also acting as an evangelist for numerous open source projects. At Savoir-faire Linux, he drive... Show more

Desiree Acosta

Desiree Acosta

I'm Miwok, with ancestral homelands surrounding Sacramento, California. Our stories and sovereignty are not relics of the past — they are the foundation for powerful futures. I believe technology should serve Native communities, not define us. My work focuses on using tech thoughtfully to amplify Indigenous knowledge, voices, and resilience.

Currently, I serve as President of Natives in Tech, a national nonprofit where I lead efforts to connect Native communities to technology through mentorship, education, and culturally-rooted innovation. I also work as a Cultural Technologist for a Federally Recognized Tribe, designing and implementing STEAM education initiatives, digital storytelling projects, and grant-funded programs that expand youth access to Tribal knowledge systems.

🔹 Core Values: Indigenous self-determination, ethical storytelling, cultural preservation, and community-driven innovation.
🔹 Key Strengths: Program development, digital education strategy, grant writing, cross-sector partnerships, cultural technology leadership, instructional design, eLearning technical development, learning management system integration, professional voice over coordination, evaluation and assessment, multimedia and document design

I am passionate about growing projects where Indigenous sovereignty, education, and technology converge. I’m seeking opportunities to scale my impact — leading broader initiatives that strengthen community agency, uplift Native voices, and build future-ready infrastructure for the next generations.

In my day job I am a Cultural Technologist with 15+ years of experience bridging journalism, technology, and Indigenous community leadership. My work lives where cultural preservation meets innovation: building pathways for Indigenous self-determination through education, storytelling, and digital solutions.

I'm Miwok, with ancestral homelands surrounding Sacramento, California. Our stories and sovereignty are not relics of the past — they are the foundation for powerful futures. I believe technology should serve Native communities, not define us. My wor... Show more

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