“It takes a Village”… to Build a World Class Event

Anyone who has ever been in charge of creating quality content for a conference, meeting or gathering knows the most important factor for success is the group you bring together to brainstorm key topics and exciting speakers.

Fortunately we have a tremendous amount of resources gained over the past 17 years to draw on for talent and ideas for the latest in plant asset lifecycle management case studies and best practices.  This year’s DIGITAL PLANT event is where “CAPEX Meets OPEX”.  We are fully involving not only the design/build technology community, but also the operations and maintenance IT side as well.  The full lifecycle of information management is part of this year’s conference and our advisory committee is made up of O/Os and EPCs, Co-Hosts that represent the thought leadership of the Capital & Operations Projects and PDS-Plant Design Software communities.

Announcing the 2011 DIGITAL PLANT Advisory Committee
The 2011 DIGITAL PLANT Advisory Committee is made up of leaders vital to the advancement of the PALM industry. They are each uniquely qualified and play a key role in the molding the program content to address the ever-changing needs of the industry.

David Adam, Digital Solutions Manager for Projects and Engineering, BP Energy Mario Batres, Chief Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, URS Robin Benjamins, CET Engineering Automation Manager, Bechtel Corp. Nicole TestaBoston, Deputy Director, FIATECH Andy Chatha, President & CEO, Arc Advisory Group Roberta Clay, Walker Ridge Project Document Control, Petrobras America, Inc. Jerry Gipson, Director Engineering Solutions Technology Center, Dow Chemical Company Ulysses Goree, Control Engineering System Department Manager, KBR (invited) Andrew Guard, Director, IT/CAE, The Shaw Group Raju Hingorani, Manager, Project Services, Upstream Operations, Jacobs

David Hoerster, Manager, Systems Technology Solutions, Bayer Business and Technology Services LLC Alan Johnston, President, MIMOSA Robert Lauderdale, Energy & Construction – Industrial Process, Mustang Ed Lewis, CEO, Industrial Info Resources Jason Makansi, President,Pearl Street Joseph P. Morray, Jr., President, Trinity Technologies Corporation (invited) Russell Novak, Research Director Enterprise, Arc Advisory Group Nils Sandsmark, General Manager, POSC Caesar Ashis Shah, CS-IIE, Project Director, Industrial & Infrastructure Group, Fluor Ray Topping, Director, FIATECH Jorge Vanegas, Dean of the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University(invited)

 

Already key technologies such as 3-D Virtualization, BIM, Tablet Computing, Geospatial and Apps are being discussed by the advisory committee in addition to Interoperability, 3-D Laser Scanning, Instrumentation and Automation, PDS and PDMS.

Let us know what you think are the hottest technologies, trends and ideas that you would like to see at DIGITAL PLANT 2011!  Email Cassie Davie, Conference Manager at cassied@tradefairgroup.com with your thoughts and you could possibly win a free conference pass.