Speakers

OPENING CEREMONY

H.E. Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa

Minister of Oil
KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Hisham Zubari

General Chair
GEO

Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani

Senior Vice President – Downstream
SAUDI ARAMCO

Farouk El Baz

Director Emeritus, Center for Remote Sensing
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Plenary session 1

GEOSCIENCES IN AN ERA OF TRANSFORMATION: A NEW LANDSCAPE

Maria Borras

Executive Vice President, Oilfield Services
Baker Hughes

Misfir AzZahrani

Executive Director of Exploration
SAUDI ARAMCO

Hinda Gharbi

EVP, Reservoir and Infrastructure
SCHLUMBERGER

Plenary session 2

BREAKTHROUGHS IN TECHNOLOGY

Hans-Christian Freitag

Vice President, Intelligent Software Solutions
BakerHughesC3.ai.

Ali Dogru

Saudi Aramco Fellow
SAUDI ARAMCO

Jan Smits

VP, Technology Development
SCHLUMBERGER

Plenary session 3

GROWING TALENT

Bader Al Munaifi

Deputy CEO - South and East Kuwait
KUWAIT OIL COMPANY

Nabil Al Dabal

Executive Director, Human Resources
SAUDI ARAMCO

Special session 1

INTELLIGENT PROSPECTING: UNLOCKING HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL UTILIZING AI AND BIG DATA ANALYTICS

Malleswar Yenugu

Director, Data Analytics
IHS MARKIT

Ghassan AlRegib

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Gabriel Guerra

VP Exploration Transformation
SHELL

Special session 2

MINERALS EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES

Michael Burns

CEO
GLOBAL UAV TECHNOLOGIES

Abdulrahman Belushi

Head of Mining Strategy
MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND MINERAL RESOURCES

Special session 3

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: A VALUABLE ASSET TO THE MIDDLE EAST REGION

Waleed Khalil Zubari

Professor Water Resources Management Program
ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY

Jerome Perrin

Area Manager, Middle East and North Africa
BRGM

Mohammad Makawi Ashri

Associate Professor of Hydrogeology
KFUPM