Interviews
Our mantra is creating partnerships with clients to refine our systems continually. With Amesphere and all the data aspects, this synergy will only grow stronger, assisting them in their production and safety strategies.
Claudio Salvador, along with Filippo Bonifacio, is one of the co-founders of AME, which was founded in 1999. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering with a specialization in microwave antennas and a PhD from the University of Florence. Claudio has been involved in the design of microwave RFID identification systems since his time at university and has multiple international patents to his name. He also taught the Antenna and Microwave Theory course at the University of Florence as an Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2005. Safety & Security at the workplace is of special interest and at AME he has been instrumental in developing the EGOpro Safety which allows, through RFID technology, to reduce the risk of accidents in any operating environment.
"Pioneering the future of Industry 4.0, Advanced Factories is not just an event; it's a transformative hub where cutting-edge technologies like AI and Big Data converge, fostering collaborations that propel manufacturing into a new era of innovation, efficiency, and sustainability."
Albert Planas Riera has work experience that spans over several years in various leadership roles. Albert started his career in 1996 as a Front Desk employee at Marriott International and then went on to work as a Catering Director at Grupo Aspro Ocio from 1997 to 2001. From 2001 to 2013, he worked as a Sales & Marketing Director at Fira Barcelona. In 2014, Albert became a Partner at Beat Chances for a year. Albert has held multiple CEO positions, including CEO of DES | Digital Enterprise Show, Advanced Factories, REBUILD, and NEBEXT Next Business Exhibitions. His roles at NEBEXT include being the CEO and Digital Enterprise Show Director, Advanced Factories Director, and Rebuild Expo & Congress Director.
Chris Hazlewood
Deputy General Manager, Factory Automation Overseas Planning and Administration
Mitsubishi Electric
"Our approach to Digital manufacturing is rather a practical-collaborative one, we call it e-F@ctory. It is a Kaizen based approach designed to create continuous improvement in small incremental steps, especially where ROI can quickly be established as the question of ROI is the one that holds most companies back from embracing Digital manufacturing."
As an accomplished international manager, Chris’ passion for automation is unwavering. His experience as a user, manufacturer, and sales/marketer of automation equipment means he has a solid 360 view that helps him to contextualize complex ideas in a relevant way for the target audience. Starting life as a mechanical engineer designing high torque gearboxes he then entered system integration before joining Mitsubishi Electric in a variety of roles from support to marketing from bases in the UK, Germany, and Japan where he now has global responsibility for marketing communication. Chris lives his company’s slogan of ‘Changes for the better’.
"Omnia is the cloud-based data platform where Equinor develop solutions for managing our data. Our main partner is Microsoft Azure. The data type that we consume the most is the sensor data and Omnia platform will allow us to get this data out of the IMS systems and manage it".
Ahmed Khamassi, Former VP of Data Science of Equinor with 12+ years’ experience in top global companies including J.P. Morgan, Wipro Digital, PayPal, and Google.
"We try to do a lot of energy heat recovery projects in our existing process units; we call it Energy Intensity Index, EII, that we're trying to lower and reducing this EII just by one point means so many million dollars per year".
TUPRAS’s Former Technical Services and R&D Director Ziya Gurun has 30 years of experience in management, operations, design, and construction of refineries and product terminals including STAR Project, terminals of Opet and TUPRAS refineries.
"We were applying the machine learning algorithm with our partner to process the geological information and it's still in a working mode".
Gazprom Neft CDO Andrey Belevtsev is a professional with 18 years’ experience in the IT industry. For the last 3 years, he has been responsible for developing and implementing Gazprom Neft digital strategy. In 2019, Gazprom Neft launched over 150 new digital initiatives and produced the first “digital oil” by applying the machine learning algorithm. By 2025, the company expects the digital transformation to reduce the time and cost of geological exploration by 30%.
"Demand for transportation fuels is relatively flat, but we do have an ever-increasing demand for petrochemicals".
Gary Godwin, Senior Director, KBR Technology Solutions, talks about competition in oil and gas licensing business, new oil processing technologies, catalysts, plastic recycling projects and why KBR is a space company now.
"Biofuels are very important for reducing the carbon footprint of transportation fuels supplied to our customers"
Entering China’s downstream market as a licensor, approaching potential clients at oil and gas events and switching to biofuels: Dan Gillis, Director, Technology at Chevron Lummus Global gave an interview on these and other topics in a new episode of BGS Talks show. The episode was filmed in frames of the Petrochemical and Refining Congress Europe, and hosted by Kristina Sabirova, Managing Partner of BGS Group.
