Lead sponsorship

• Prominent branding and logo promotion (event microsite, banners, e-brochures, social media)
• Standalone presentation including Q&A (20-minutes)
• Opportunity to join a relevant panel discussion (10-minutes)
• Company logo will be displayed on the event website and the registration page
• Company logo will be displayed in the opening and closing slide
• Sponsor company mentioned in each promotional mailer
• Mention in social media posts including a post on the speaker from your company
• 10-20 complimentary logins
• Acknowledgement of sponsor in the virtual event opening and closing remarks
• Email/EDM featuring sponsor information to attendees and database of key contacts
• Sharing leads generated and participant list
• Logo to be branded on the post-event recording of the virtual event
• Sponsor session to be uploaded for one month for views
• Opportunity to interact virtually with the top officials in the industry

Co-sponsorship

• Branding and logo promotion (event microsite, banners, e-brochures, social media)
• Standalone presentation including Q&A (20-minutes) OR opportunity to join a relevant panel discussion
• 8-10 complimentary logins
• Email/EDM featuring sponsor logo to attendees and database of key contacts
• Sharing leads generated and participant list
• Logo to be branded on the post-event recording of the virtual event
• Sponsor session to be uploaded for one month for views

For sponsorship opportunities contact:
Monish Grover
Email: monish.grover@indiainfrastructure.com
Tel: +91-9999401099

Organiser:    

For registration and sponsorship opportunities contact:
Monish Grover
Email: monish.grover@indiainfrastructure.com
Tel: +91-9999401099

• The oil and gas sector is undergoing rapid digital transformation. The operators across all segments of the value chain are increasingly embracing IT and OT solutions for increased productivity, safer operations, and cost savings.
• Advanced analytics offer significant revenue potential across the upstream and downstream operations. With the real-time interpretation of changing markets and environment conditions, oil and gas companies are reaping the benefit of greater margins and end-to-end cost reduction.
• In the exploration and production (E&P) space, there is a growing uptake of tailor-made data analytic and management solutions to meet the desired requirements. On the other hand, smart metering, real-time asset monitoring, and customer relationship management solutions are gaining traction among the distribution utilities.
• The oil and gas companies are also increasingly adopting digital solutions to gain complete visibility of the assets, and monitor business KPIs on a real-time basis. With this, the operators are overhauling their maintenance strategies and transitioning to preventive and prescriptive maintenance schedules to minimises the cost of maintenance and anomaly detection.
• The city gas distribution infrastructure is rapidly expanding to new geographical areas and the utilities are adopting digital technologies in a big way. SCADA, GIS and the use of dashboards, smart metering, analytical tools and innovative software are enabling CGD companies to monitor their assets in real time.
• An emerging trend in the segment is the growing uptake of digital solutions to reduce energy consumption and emissions in upstream and downstream operations. The oil and gas companies are deploying IT and OT solutions to optimise and decarbonise operations and move towards net-zero emission. Apart from this, the industry is also increasingly adopting new age tools such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning for digital transformation of their operations.
• That said, with the growing deployment of IT and OT solutions and interconnectedness of assets, operations of oil and gas companies have become more vulnerable to cyberattacks, and the industry faces greater threats of sabotage of crucial infrastructure and data breach, among other things. Another challenge facing the segment pertains to the lack of integration and interoperability among the technologies and applications, and majority of the technologies in the industry are operating in silos. Going forward, to realise full benefits of digital transformation, an integrated approach and convergence of OT and IT systems is paramount.
• The mission of this conference is to assess the current deployment of IT and OT solutions by oil and gas companies, deliberate upon new and emerging requirements, and discuss the experience and challenges in technology adoption. The conference will also showcase the best practices, and emerging technologies and solutions.

KEY TRENDS AND OUTLOOK

• What have been the key IT and OT-related trends in the oil and gas segment?
• What are the new and emerging utility requirements?
• What are the issues and challenges?

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

• What has been the experience of oil and gas companies in the adoption of IT and OT solutions?
• What are the new and emerging requirements?
• What are the key focus areas? What are the future plans?
• What are the IT-OT related issues and concerns?

DIGITALISATION OF HYDROCARBON MANAGEMENT

• What are the digitalisation needs and requirements of E&P companies?
• What are the key technologies and solutions deployed and the implementation experience?
• What are the specific issues and concerns, and mitigation strategies?
• What are the key advancements and innovations in the segment?

RETAIL FORECOURT AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS

• What are the key technologies and solutions available for retail outlet automation?
• How has been the uptake of such solutions so far?
• What are the new advancements and innovations in this segment?

FOCUS ON REFINERIES

• What are the digitalisation needs and requirements of refineries?
• What are the key technologies and solutions deployed and the implementation experience?
• What are the specific issues and concerns, and mitigation strategies?
• What are the key advancements and innovations in the segment?

FOCUS ON CGD SEGMENT

• What is the role of IT and automation systems in the CGD segment?
• What has been the implementation experience and learnings?
• What are the implementation issues and challenges? What is the way forward?

SPOTLIGHT ON CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• What are some of the customer relationship management initiatives taken by gas utilities?
• What are the best practices and enabling technologies?
• What are the key issues and challenges?

ASSET MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE MONITORING

• What are the new and emerging asset management requirements?
• What are some of the advanced technologies and solutions in this regard?
• What has been the experience so far? What are the key issues and challenges?

SCADA AND AUTOMATION

• What are the solutions and technologies available for the automation of processes and operations? What has been the experience of oil and gas companies?
• What are the new and emerging trends in the deployment of SCADA systems?
• What are the future growth opportunities?

PIPELINE SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• What are the key requirements for ensuring pipeline integrity and safety?
• What are the various technologies and solutions available in this space?
• What are the specific issues and challenges?

NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES – CLOUD, AI, ML, ANALYTICS, IoT

• What are the use cases of new technologies for oil and gas companies?
• What has been experience so far in the deployment of these technologies?
• What are the required strategies and roadmap for technology adoption?

ROLE OF GIS

• What are the key applications of GIS in the O&G sector?
• What are the technology and other requirements?
• What has been the experience so far? What are the key issues and challenges?

NET ZERO EMISSIONS STRATEGIES

• What are the key initiatives/measures being taken by oil and gas companies to achieve net-zero emissions?
• What are the new and emerging technologies and digital solutions in this space?
• What is the future outlook for this segment?

SMART METERING: POTENTIAL AND PRACTICES

• What are the current metering solutions used by oil and gas companies?
• What has been the experience so far in the adoption of these solutions?
• What are the key issues and challenges?
• What is the future outlook for deployment?

 PROMISE OF BLOCKCHAIN

• What are the potential areas for blockchain applications by Indian utilities?
• What has been the international use cases?
• What are the requirements for implementing blockchain? What are the key issues?

DATA PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY

• What are the issues and concerns associated with data security and protection?
• What are the new and emerging solutions for managing cybersecurity risks?
• What has been the utility experience so far and lessons learnt?

Speaker list from previous edition (alphabetically sorted, surname wise)

• Sunil Agarwal, Head, Instrumentation and Control, TCE
• Sanjeev Agrawal, Chief General Manager, Retail Automation, BPCL
• Ravikant Arya, Chief General Manager, Indraprastha Gas
• Pratap Ayarekar, Deputy General Manager, Mahanagar Gas
• Kailash Kumar Chaudhary, Senior Manager, IT, Cairn Oil and Gas
• Mousami Deka, General Manager, IT, Oil India Limited 
• Sunny Desai, Senior Consultant, SAS
• Tariq Farooqui, GVP, Head- Global GTM, Digital Industry Product Management, Process Automation, ABB
• Ujjal Ghatak, Global CIO, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company
• Arun Goel, Principal Architect, Digital Smart Manufacturing, Cairn Oil and Gas
• Ramesh Kumar, Deputy General Manager, CSPA, GAILTEL
• Titiksha Mukherjee, Director & Sales Head – India, Oil & Gas Solutions, TietoEVRY
• Mangesh Nawarange, Digital Lead, Energy Industries, Process Automation, ABB
• Olav X Naerland, Director Midstream, Oil & Gas Solutions, TietoEVRY
• Buddhavarapu Paparaju, Head, Operational Technology, ONGC
• Manu Puri, Associate Director, Accenture
• Dharam Raj, Director, Cybersec Consulting Services and Former Executive Director, CIO, ONGC
• Naveen Sikka, Principal Industry Consultant, O&G, SAS
• Davinder Paul Singh, Additional Manager, Indraprastha Gas
• H.P. Singh, Executive Director and Chief Information Officer, ONGC
• Ronan O’Sullivan, VP, Digital Lead – Energy Industries Division, IMEA (India, Middle East and Africa), ABB

The event is expected to draw participation from executives, managers and decision-makers from:

• Upstream oil and gas
• Solution providers for data analytics
• Pipeline operators
• Flow meter manufacturers
• System integrators
• Oil refineries
• IT solution providers (SCADA, GIS, ERP, etc.)
• Technology providers
• City gas distributors
• Leak detection solution providers
• Other equipment manufacturers
• LNG and storage terminals
• Pumps, valves and compressors
• Engineering and design firms
• Regulatory agencies, etc.

Delegate benefits (Virtual Conference)

• Direct interaction with senior speakers (Q&A facility)
• Easy connectivity to geographically dispersed delegates (click of a mouse)
• Concise report offered as a backgrounder
• Cost effective (lower ticket price as compared to a physical conference)
• Offers flexibility and convenience
• Access to conference recording
• Recap of conference sessions
• Contributes to sustainability and lower carbon footprint

For registration process/payment to attend the conference, please contact:
Monish Grover
Email: monish.grover@indiainfrastructure.com
Tel: +91-9999401099

• 30 per cent “Early Bird” discount ends on May 4, 2022.
• GST @18 per cent is applicable on the registration fee.
• Registration will be confirmed on receipt of the payment.