Future Downstream

Online | 11 December 2025

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Welcome Address and Opening Q&A

Shehzad Rehman, Global Head of IT & Technology, INEOS

PANEL 1: Accelerating AI for Sustainable Plant Operations and Asset Performance Management – An insight into Autonomous Operations

In Conversation With Shane McArdle, CEO, Kongsberg Digital

PRESENTATION: AI is not the Ketchup you need to put on Everything

Achilles Georgiu, Head of Data, AI & Innovation, MOL

PANEL 2: Managing the IT/OT Convergence – Unifying the Industrial Enterprise

PRESENTATION: Unlocking Reservoir & Refinery Optimisation Through Advanced SARA-HPLC Crude Characterisation

Dr. Ibrahim Atwah, Geology Technology Division, Saudi Aramco

Q & A Discussion with Ram Seetepalli, AI & Digital Enablement Director, Motiva Enterprises

Q & A Discussion with Kushal Desai, Digitalisation & Innovation Manager, Plant, Shell

PANEL 3: Change Management at Scale – Overcoming Cultural Resistance and Process Inflexibility