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Registration & Coffee
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| 9.00 | |
Chairman's Opening RemarksDuncan Sedgwick, Associate, Engage Consulting (former Customer Services Director of E.ON UK and former CEO of the Energy Retailers Association) |
| 9.10 |  |
STORAGE NEEDS OF THE ENERGY INDUSTRY, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREUgur Algan, Director, Volantice
- How the storage needs and technology have evolved over the past forty years
- Storage in context: The workflows and processes that contribute to storage demand (seismic, well data, production data)
- Anticipated future drivers and needs
- Search requirements - what users want: We can store information, but can we find it back?
- Storage maintenance: refreshing stored data
- Evolving business models for provision of digital storage
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| 9.50 | |
ISSUES SURROUNDING ENERGY DATA DOCUMENTATION, STANDARDS, AND STORAGENeil Brown, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
- Data storage issues surrounding energy data
- Topical issues surrounding data documentation
- The need for standards in energy data
- The benefits of using 'lossy compression' for historical energy data over downsampling
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| 10.30 | |
Morning Coffee
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| 11.00 | |
DELIVERING SIMPLICITY AND SCALEAndy McDonald, UK Regional Territory Manager, Isilon Systems
- Large scale performance and capacity for exploration data and seismic processing
- Eliminates the complexity and cost of operation of large scale storage environments
- Enables knowledge workers to collaborate across international boundaries
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| 11.40 | |
MAKING YOUR UPSTREAM STORAGE MANAGEMENT SMART!Sajjad Hussain Khazipura, Chief Architect and GM, Platform Engineering, Wipro
- The storage maze in the Petro Landscape – Challenges in Upstream Storage
- Relevance of Secured Cloud Storage for Upstream data
- Addressing the Upstream storage challenge with an innovative Business Centric Approach
- Intelligent custom-built engineering blocks essential for optimal utilization of Upstream Storage
- Delivering “Upstream storage as a Service” which overlies existing storage investments
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| 12.20 | |
Networking Lunch
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| 13.50 | |
HUGE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE GAIN BY ACCELERATING DATA ACQUISITION IN SEISMIC APPLICATIONSJohn Bell, Director Oil & Gas Vertical Market (EMEA), EMC Europe
- Multi path file sharing
- Seismic data collaboration made easy
- De-dupe, back up & disaster recovery in an upstream environment
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| 14.30 | |
DATA PROTECTION - THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL DATA STORAGERosanna Cooper, Global Head, RT Coopers
- Lawful processing of data
- Compliance with the eight data protection principles
- Responsibility of data controller
- Responsibility of data processor
- Data protection audits and due diligence
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| 15.40 | |
DATA MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE IN SMART METERING AND SMART GRIDSAlastair Manson, Senior Consultant, Engage Consulting
- Who wants, or needs, to manage smart metering data?
- Will it be a trickle, a stream or a raging river of data?
- What might the smart grid add?
- The presentation will consider some key data management and storage assumptions, and illustrate how changing Supplier or Network requirements can have a significant impact
- It will consider the options for central services or distributed databases
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| 17.00 | |
Chairman’s Closing Remarks
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| 17.10 | |
Close of Day One
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