How energy firms can keep up with the pace of digital change
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The panel
- Neil Palmer, Director, Beacon Platform
- Doug Wendler, Chief Executive Officer, Machina Automation
- Matthew Sekol, Industry Executive, Microsoft US Capital Markets
- Glen Mackey, Chief Risk Officer, NRG Energy
- Cetin Karakus, Global Head, Quantitative and Analytical Solutions, BP
- Adam Atkinson-Lewis, Director of Commercialisation, Energy Platform, Shell New Energies
The path to digitalisation requires agility, speed, scalability, transparency and governance.
Organisations across energy markets are in the process of refining their digitalisation strategies. The needs and capabilities of individual firms vary, and they are reaching their goals at different levels of speed and agility.
In this webinar, a panel discusses what organisations should keep in mind as they embark on their digitalisation journey, the challenges of which they need to be aware to be aware and what is next on the horizon.
Key topics discussed:
- Automating and monitoring operations
- Preparing infrastructure for the next-generation of technologies
- The importance of the coding language in building agile financial engineering and programming skills
- Unlocking the full potential of machine learning tools
- Managing complex workflows
- Case studies, key challenges and an outlook for the future.
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