Live Online: North America: May 30, 2012 
Europe/Middle East/Asia:  May 31, 2012
Archive/On-demand: May 31 onwards

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Digital Oilfield Virtual Summits
"Connectivity & Infrastructure Security"
AGENDA

Live Keynotes       
Introduction and Welcome                
Brion D. Palmer                    
President/COO                     
ATCOM, Publishers, OilOnline                           
 
Secure and Efficient 3D Visualization via the Cloud
Marcus L. Simms  
Global Practice Manager    
Halliburton | Landmark Software & Services                 

In the exploration and production sector, cloud technology problems persist around data volumes, 3D visualization, security, and more. Learn which companies are attempting to solve these issues, the products they offer, and where they succeed or fail in addressing challenges associated with license accessibility, huge amounts of data on the desktop, and the latency and constrained network conditions that inhibit successful 3D visualization. Viable solutions exist for E&P.

Networking: Ubiquitous? Or Indiscriminate?
Andrew Ginter                  
Director of Industrial Security                           
Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd.                       

Today's headlines include "The Network Is The Computer" and "Smart Sensors Everywhere" and "Relax And Leave The Driving To Your Car." Computers are everywhere, and networks are all inter-connected. Oilfields, pipelines and refineries are no exception - you can see your latest production figures on your cell phone after all. 

But - is it safe? As a rule, all connections which allow data movement also introduce safety risks. Don't ask a corporate security guru, or a consumer guru how to fix this - they'll just tell you to put in a bigger firewall. Corporate and consumer networks driving the interconnectedness trend do not control large, dangerous physical systems.

Many security experts are on record as saying "network isolation is dead." They are right and they are wrong. They are right that data has to move -- silos cost too much. They are wrong though, because data movement must not put safety-oriented networks at risk. Experts, executives and engineers alike need to become aware of both risks and solutions. This high-level discussion outlines both risks to safety-critical software, and high-level concepts which must be incorporated into solutions, in order to protect safety-critical systems and networks.
 
Digital Oilfield: Harnessing the Power of Technology to
Deliver Enhanced Performance and Optimize Earnings
Gregory Phillips    
Global Solutions Director   
Verizon Business  
                 
To remain competitive in the race to develop new sources for oil, you need an agile organization empowered with the best information technology.  The key is to create a scalable service delivery platform that promotes asset sharing and seamless integration across the businesses.                                

Live Track Sessions                              
Stuxnet and Security: Dos & Don’ts
Shawn Gold                           
Global Marketing Manager 
Honeywell Industrial IT Solutions                      

In all of the panic and anxiety caused by Stuxnet, there’s been lots of highly-technical discussions about how the latest technology (e.g. application whitelisting, data diodes, etc.) might have been able to contain it. But all of this focus on what could have been done potentially distracts us from what is really at issue. There is no silver bullet. Your product may block what we see today, but what is on the horizon?  What gets lost in all of this distraction is the importance of security fundamentals and of having proper expectations of your security program, which is to provide a program or tools that minimize your exposure and maximize your ability to contain and recover.

Using a Cloud Ecosystem to Protect Your Digital Oilfield
Marcus L. Simms                 
Global Practice Manager                    
Halliburton | Landmark Software & Services     
   
Implementing a cloud solution in conjunction with your digital oilfield program provides an integrated ecosystem that allows for centralized management of your data and IT resources, without compromising security and seamless accessibility. This is critical to enabling collaboration for teams working with 2D and 3D applications and data remotely. Learn how the use of cloud services can help your company achieve production objectives faster.       

Remote Access: Does "Manage Everything Centrally" =
"Hack Everything  Centrally?"
Andrew Ginter                    
Director of Industrial Security                          
Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd                        

Remote access is a central tenet of modern IT management. "We don't have operations personnel in our plants anymore, we manage all the control systems centrally." Centralized IT and centralized operations saves a lot of money, and yes, remote access is essential to dealing with unanticipated problems - key people must be able to log into critical systems, even from their hotel rooms in the dead of night if necessary. 

But - these mechanisms introduce risks as well. How many "guys with guns" do you have protecting the control room for your largest refinery? How many "guys with guns" are protecting your top IT trouble-shooters' basements? Or hotel rooms? Why is it considered safe to control a refinery from an un-guarded hotel room, from across the world? Worse, what about everyone from boasting-rights hackers to organized crime who sees a central support / central management infrastructure as their target of choice when attacking your networks. Is central management and remote access giving a free ride to your adversaries?

There are alternatives to conventional remote access. This presentation highlights security problems with commonly-used network designs, and outlines secure alternatives.

Case Studies                         
Protecting off-shore Facilities
Andrew Ginter                    
Director of Industrial Security                           
Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd  

Offshore production platforms are difficult operating environments with stringent safety standards. Control systems used to operate these platforms must be safe, reliable and secure. This case study describes how Waterfall's Unidirectional Security Gateways were deployed to provide stronger-than-firewall security for the platforms, while still preserving online access to the business-critical data generated by control system components.                      
 
An Effective Automation Framework for Integrated Production Operations
César Bravo
Senior Consultant
Halliburton | Landmark Software & Services

Given the complexity and diversity of oil and gas production  processes, the industrial automation platform has become a key element of  companies' technological architecture. This case study outlines an automation  master plan (AMP) framework that Landmark Services developed. The AMP provided the strategies, architecture guidelines, and technologies required to help the client reach production goals with maximum profitability and using safe and environmentally-responsible processes.
                 
On-Demand Keynotes                       
Microsoft and the Digital Oilfield
Dr. Ali Ferling        
Managing Director, Worldwide Oil & Gas and Mining Industry                   
Microsoft               
                 
Dr. Ali Ferling, Managing Director of Microsoft’s worldwide oil & gas and mining business, will discuss how Microsoft is working very closely with our industry partners to enable oil and Gas professionals to be more productive. One key example is MURA, the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture initiative. This initiative has the goal to drive more interoperability into Oil & Gas Upstream.

The Value of Smarter Oil & Gas Fields: Unlocking the full value of your assets
Lew Edison            
Chemicals and Petroleum Industry Leader                     
IBM Center for Applied Insights        

Oil & Gas producers continue to deploy a more integrated approach to managing their upstream business.  However, for leading companies it is clear that investments in digital capabilities isn’t just about satisfying demand but rather they have a more broad based view of driving operational, strategic, societal and brand value.

IBM set out to quantify the value of smarter oil and gas fields, interviewing industry participants and reviewing 100+ papers and studies from business and trade journals, industry and professional publications and consulting white papers.  The result is a comprehensive report that outlines an outcome based vision for the smarter oil and gas field, a benefits estimator associated with implementing smarter capabilities and a detailed ROI modeling tool that  companies can use to make strategic investment decisions based on key priorities, gaps and funds.

Join Lewis Edison, Chemicals & Petroleum Leader, IBM Center for Applied Insights, at the Virtual Digital Oilfield Summit where he will share insights from this work and how companies can use this to make strategic decisions on capabilities required for their own digital oil and gas fields.

Global Collaboration for Open Standards
Jerry Hubbard      
Chief Operating Officer      
Energistics             
                 
Energistics is a global, not-for-profit consortium uniquely designed to unite upstream oil and natural gas industry professionals in a neutral and collaborative facilitation environment to develop and deploy open data exchange standards.  This collaboration allows the diverse Energistics membership of integrated, independent and national oil companies, oilfield service companies, software vendors, system integrators, and regulatory agencies to jointly develop best practices for data exchange in the oilfield.  This presentation will focus on how collaboration widely benefits the  industry.

Rethinking ICT Strategy for Digital Oilfields
Balakrishna DR      
AVP & Global Delivery Head, Energy (Oil & Gas) Practice            
Infosys Limited     
                 
There many definitions for what constitutes Digital Oilfield (DOF), but the fundamental principles of DOF are Faster Decision Making, Improved Oil Recovery, Enhanced operational efficiency and Compliance for statutory regulatory requirements.  Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) plays a key enabling role for taking DOF initiatives to fruition, viz., real time visualization, monitoring & collaboration, standards based integration and user empowerment through secure information management. However, many implementations happen to be tactical solutions that are limited to a few facets of the digital oilfield. Infosys believes that there is a need to look at the IT strategy for the digital oilfield from a more strategic, broad-based and long term perspective. For instance, it should cover from where the data originates in the field instrumentation and control systems, traversing multiple layers all the way to where it is consumed, viz., systems to characterize and monitor the asset, optimize and predict the performance.

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Live Speakers

Brion D. Palmer
President/COO
Atlantic Communications


 

Brion Palmer is president and CEO OF Atlantic Communications and former vice  president of publishing at Hart Energy.  Since 1975, ATCOM has been a recognized authority in energy news, technology and analysis for the global oil and gas industry. Based in Houston, ATCOM publishes OE (Offshore Engineer), AOG (Asian Oil & Gas),Gulf Coast Oil Directory, Houston/Texas Oil Directory and the online energy portal OilOnline. ATCOM also produces specialized technical forums such as Deepwater Intervention Forum, Drilling & Completing Trouble Zones, Emerging FPSO Forum, and Petroleum Exhibition & Conference of Mexico.

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Marcus L. Simms
Global Practice Manager
Halliburton | Landmark Software
& Services



 Marcus Simms, PMP, is the global practice manager for Cloud Services at Landmark Software & Services, a Halliburton product service line. His role entails all aspects of Landmark’s vSpace® cloud service delivery to oil and gas operating companies, especially as it relates to 3D visualization and user collaboration capabilities in the exploration and production sector. Since 2008,
he has held several key roles in multidisciplinary projects for consulting teams within Halliburton.  Marcus has over nine years of experience in business development, major account management, and P&L operations. He earned his Project Management Professional credentials in 2005 and has extensive program and project management experience in multimillion-dollar, enterprise-wide initiatives in both the federal and private sectors, including telecommunications, IT, and energy/ utilities.

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Andrew Ginter
Director of Industrial Security
Waterfall Security Solutions LTD.



Andrew Ginter is the Director of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  He spent the first part of his career developing control system products for a number of vendors, including Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.  At Industrial Defender, as product architect, CTO and CSO roles, he lead the development of the core industrial security product suite.  Andrew holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Calgary, as well as ISP, ITCP, and CISSP accreditations.

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Shawn Gold
Global Marketing Manager
Honeywell Industrial IT Solutions 
 



Shawn is responsible for the development and deployment of Honeywell’s Industrial IT Solutions globally. Shawn joined Honeywell Canada in 1986 as an HPS Service Specialist after leaving the Edmonton Suncor refinery, where he supported their Honeywell installed systems.  Shawn transitioned from service operations to service marketing in 2006, focusing on managing open systems. Shawn is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and holds a Six Sigma Black Belt in addition to technical and academic accreditations from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), University of Alberta, University of Waterloo and Athabasca University, where he completed his MBA.

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Gregory Phillips
Global Solutions Director
Verizon Business


 

Greg Phillips has over 12 years’ experience in the communications industry, seven of which have been with Verizon Business in the enterprise architecture and solutions team, managing and supporting large and complex opportunities for multinational clients.  In his current role, Phillips works with his team to formulate and drive solutions strategies for customers.  Phillips and his team assign appropriate design and architectural resources for translating the client's business requirements into
specific solutions while ensuring there is alignment to technology plans.  This includes third party vendor integration, and considerable expertise in the Energy and Utilities, Mining and Resource, and Manufacturing verticals.  Prior to his position at Verizon Business, Phillips was a principal technical solutions consultant at British Telecom, managing the Melbourne pre-sales
engineering teams for large and complex transformational opportunities.  Phillips has also held the role of pre-sales network engineer at NCR for just over two years and was responsible for systems integration works and pre-sales activities for many multi-national customers.  Phillips has a bachelor of engineering from the University of Queensland, a keen interest in Australian rules football and golf, is married, and is based in Houston, Texas.

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César Bravo, PhD
Senior Consultant, Intelligent Operation Solutions Team
Halliburton Landmark Software & Services


 
César Bravo is a senior consultant for the Intelligent Operation Solutions team at Landmark Software & Services, a Halliburton product service line. He advises oil production companies in the
implementation of workflow automation and collaborative work environment solutions. Since 2010, he has held several key roles in multidisciplinary projects developed by Halliburton for major NOCs and IOCs. Cesar has over 10 years' experience in industrial automation, integrated asset management, and project management. He earned his PhD in 2010 with specialization in the application of artificial intelligence to integrated asset management.

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Who Should Attend Virtually

• Presidents, CEOs, VPs, Directors, Managers • CSOs, CIOs • Information Assurance Experts • Information Technology Experts • Cyber Security Coordinators • Security Researchers • System Architecture and System Design • Heads of Security • Project and Program Management • Sales and Marketing • Business Development • IT Management • IT Security Professionals • System Administrators • Database Administrators •  Data Privacy Specialists • Application Support Personnel • Legal •Human Resources Professionals • IT Auditors •Compliance Officers • Corporate Security Professionals

Anyone interested in learning about state of the art security practices and their practical implementation as well as securing their enterprise and its core processes, within: • Oilfield Operators • Rig-Owners/Operators • Oilfield Services • E&P Companies • Shipping/Transportation • Support Vessels • Regulatory Bodies • Trade Bodies