Past event: Operational Excellence & Risk Management Summit 2017

Driving world class safety, reliability and environmental performance in hazardous industries

Learn how to embed the culture, systems and processes of the world's Highest Reliability Organizations.

If you're in a hazardous industry, you're facing more volatility, complexity and risk than ever before. With markets shifting, regulations changing and pressure to increase efficiency in your operations - how can you deliver consistent operational excellence?

Join over 100 business leaders and learn world class strategies for keeping your people safe, your operations productive and your products sustainable at North America's leading forum on Operational Excellence & Risk Management.  This year's event has tracks on Management of Change, Procedure Management, Operational Risk Management, Human Factors, Safety Culture, Asset Risk Management, Process Safety, Environmental Excellence, Digital Transformation and more


Over 30 industry-leading speakers will share how to:

  • Assess - and improve - your company's safety culture
  • Manage change - without compromising business performance
  • Lay the foundation for OE by establishing principles that begin with safety - and then applying them to other areas of the business
  • Proactively identify and mitigate low probability yet high consequence events
  • Improve your Operations Management System to better identify - and eliminate - sources of risk and value loss in your operations
  • Implement changes in leadership thinking and behaviors to drive transformation
  • Increase risk visibility by optimizing data and information management - and minimize unplanned events
  • Establish a unified operational risk strategy - to ultimately improve business performance
  • Strengthen your core operating processes to drive enterprise transformation
  • Detect whether your work environments, culture and processes are increasing the likelihood of a risk occurring
  • Reduce complexity and variability with clearly defined standards and accountabilities
  • Benchmark your company against the characteristics of High Reliability Organizations (HROs)


Key Themes In 2017 Include:

  • Environmental Excellence
  • Personal and Process Safety
  • Digital Operations
  • Leadership and Culture
  • Business Transformation
  • Operations Management Systems
  • Operational Risk Management
  • Asset Integrity Management
  • High Reliability Organizations



"I truly enjoyed attending the Operation Excellence conference. You hosted both an informing and fun event. My take away was not only the benchmarking information but networking and being able to continue to share best practices going forth."
Change Management Leader, Duke Energy Shell Oil Products

"Very valuable!"
Vice President, Operations Equate Petrochemicals

"Very valuable. I am certainly going to encourage future attendance. "
Director, Continuous Improvement Marathon Petroleum

2017 Speakers

  • Bonnie Schwartz, Vice President, Environmental, Health & Safety, Calpine
  • Captain Hung Nguyen, Former U.S. Coast Guard Captain, Co-chair, Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team
  • Darylene Harris, General Manager - Production Excellence, Downstream, Shell
  • Hugo Ashkar, Global Risk Manager, BP
  • Wendy Schram, CAPA & Continuous Improvement Specialist, Dow Chemical
  • Lynne Buchanan, Americas Region Manufacturing Excellence Lead, Shell Oil
  • David Loyd, Chief, Safety & Test Operations Division, NASA
  • Ernie Spence, former Commander, US Navy
  • Mark Little, Vice President, Health & Safety, Cenovus Energy
  • Chris Seifert, Partner, Wilson, Perumal & Company
  • Matt DiGeronimo, Vice President, Operations, Veolia
  • Tim Thornton, Manager, Global Technical Assurance, FMC Technologies
  • Faisal Khalaf, Manager, Center of Excellence, BASF Corporation
  • Donald Thompson, Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Maana

Please fill in your name and email to receive the conference agenda of this event.


Pre-Conference Workshops - Tuesday, February 7, 2017
  • WORKSHOP A: Creating a High-Reliability Culture
  • WORKSHOP B: Risk mitigation: Building an asset management framework
  • Workshop C: Rightsizing Operational Excellence: Reducing risk, complexity and variability with clearly defined standards and accountabilities
  • Workshop D: Human Factors and Procedure Management: Increasing reliability with next generation procedures
  • Workshop E: Systematic improvement: Leveraging your Operations Management System to drive high performance
  • Workshop F: Digital Transformation: Achieving Operational Excellence through effective, reliable data and information management
  • Workshop G: Probabilistic risk assessment: The basis for recognizing emerging operational risks
  • Workshop H: Building the OE& Risk Management competencies of the future: What skills? What roles?
Main Conference Day One - Wednesday, February 8, 2017
  • Including: Morning Networking Break, Networking Luncheon
Main Conference Day Two - Thursday, February 9th, 2017
  • Including: Morning Networking Break, Networking Lunch

The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.

Venue

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Venue

JW Marriott Houston
5150 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas
77056, United States
Website:  http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/houjw-jw-marriott-houston/
Phone: 800-228-9290

Accommodation
Travel and accommodation are not included in the conference fee; however we have put together a HotelMap that displays discounted accommodation for hotels in the area near to Operational Excellence & Risk Management. The map displays live availability and allows you to book directly with each hotel: https://www.HotelMap.com/pro/M6YCT

Please note: We will never recommend, approve or appoint any third party rooming service to act on our behalf. Please be extremely wary if you are approached by any such companies. We will always endeavour to negotiate the best available rates for you so please use the Hotel's website link provided.
Event details
Organizer : IQEU
Event type : Conference
Reference : ASDE-15654