The New daratechPLANT 15th Annual Plant Industries Conference
Meeting the Challenges: Technologies & Processes in the new plant world
The daratechPLANT 2009 conference represents a unique source for understanding the evolving strategies and technologies for the plant industries, including process, power, oil & gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and shipbuilding. The conference delivers three tracks for identifying and exploring the dynamics of our industry, and the questions you need answered:
Thought Leadership
- What are the major economic, regulatory, and globalization forces that are driving companies to significantly redefine their processes and competitive positioning? Where are the developing technologies being created, both within our technology suppliers, as well as innovative operating companies? For the first time, daratechPLANT will also be featuring the early and innovative research being conducted at some of North America’s top universities.
- Global economic forces and how it will affect the plant industries in the next five years.
- Emerging information standards and how they will affect our business
- Global collaboration through technology- what is the industry learning and what new possibilities does it open up?
- The changing face of regulatory requirements and what direction this open to the industry participants
- The impact of information integration. What does it mean to my corporate strategic IT plan priorities and actions?
- Technology strategies for the mega projects. . . Technology strategies for the best-in-class operating plants. What should an organization be focusing on?
Pulse of the Industry:
- The plant industries are seeing a remarkable upgrade in available technologies for the entire lifecycle of a plant, from planning, design, construction, to operations and maintenance. Who’s innovating and who’s falling behind? Where have technology vendors invested substantially in the past year to bring new functionality to their customers? How are new evolving information platforms and data exchange standards affecting the solutions? Who are the new suppliers, and how are they redefining the approach available for many plant applications?
- What’s new in the delivery of mega-applications from the industry leading suppliers?
- What does plant asset lifecycle management (PALM) mean to the technology vendors and how important is it to the users?
- How are industry standards being integrated within commercial applications? Has vendor interoperability taken a substantial step forward and what does this mean for the leading user companies?
- How are the large suppliers from design, ERP, simulation, and scheduling arenas working together? What is the impact for global projects?
- What applications are being used within the plant environment? Who is delivering tools for plant optimization, fast-track turn arounds, and management of change (MOC) processes?
- How have the data-centric and document-centric applications come together?
State of the Practice:
- The size, technical challenges, and globalization of projects have led users, on both the owner and EPC sides, to drive innovative uses of the technologies for realizing projects. What are the best-in-class EPC’s and owners doing to win in this demanding world market? Where are the wins that companies have achieved in the past year and why were they successful? What are the leaders doing?
- How is global project management being achieved?
- What are some project examples where we can say that technology was essential and why?
- Where has technology not met expectations and why?
- How are companies able to leverage technologies to succeed in a tight workforce market?
- What are the high value project work processes for automation and how are they being realized?
- How are companies leveraging data integration?
High Value Features:
- 2-minute briefing by each technology vendor. A great way to know who is featured at daratechPLANT.
- For the first time, a one-hour program on what the leading academic institutions are doing in advanced plant-related research. See what the industry will be doing five years from now.
- Guided tours, and brief presentations, at each of the technology vendor booths, so you can compare what they are offering. Scheduled ahead of time for each group, this will be the chance to see a well organized presentation on their offerings.
- Pulse of the Industry Roundtable for both owners and EPC’s
- Meet the Boss roundtable. What are the technology captains thinking and worrying about? Where is the industry going and how are they responding?
Advisory Board for daratechPLANT 2009
David Adam, Major Projects Lead, BP
Robin Benjamins, Corporate Integration Manager, Bechtel Corporation
Vanessa Brown, Marketing Programs Manager, Intergraph Corporation
Jehu Burton, Manager - Engr Strategic Systems Integration, DuPont
Marc-Henri Cerar, Project IT & Information Systems Manager, AMEC Paragon Engineering Svcs. Inc.
Michael DeLoach, Manager, Generation IT Planning, American Electric Power
Andrew Guard, Director IT/CAE, Shaw Power Group
David Hoerster, Corporate and Business Services, Bayer Technical Services
Joseph Krol, Sales and Marketing Manager, AVEVA Inc
Dr. Thore Langeland, OLF
Rebekkah Marshall, Editor-in-Chief, Chemical Engineering
Matthew McKinley, President & CEO, Innotec IT Plant Solutions Inc., Joseph Morray, Jr., President, Trinity Technologies Corporation
Shuji Nagano, Group CIO, Chiyoda Corporation
Amy Payne, Dassault Systèmes
Joe Sanders, Manager of Engineering, Mustang Engineering LP
Ashish Shah, CSI-IIE, Director, Automation, Process Technology - Energy & Chemicals Group, Fluor Corporation
Bruce Strupp, EPC Technology Director, CH2M Hill
Vornel Walker, Marketing Manager, COADE
John Ward, Director, Sales & Marketing, CEA Systems Inc.
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