RDPETRO 2018 is the world’s largest gathering focused on research and technology development for the oil and gas industry.This event fosters closer collaboration across the oil and gas industry, technology innovators, start-ups and academia, to scout, source and award funding to innovative solutions that unlock and optimize oil and gas resources and create value.

Tariq Qureishy was the MC and Moderator for the Opening Ceremony and CTO Summit which looked into digitalisation, big data, visualization, mapping, sensor technology and beyond to examine how the latest technological advances will drive new value and solutions for Oil and Gas. The group panel included Øystein Haaland (CTO and Distinguished Engineer, WW Chemicals & Petroleum, IBM), Prof. Karl Rose (Chief Strategist, ADNOC), Manas Satapathy (MD, Accenture Strategy), Binu Mathew (SVP & Global Head of Digital Product, Baker Hughes), Philippe Herve (VP for solutions SparkCognition) and Vincent Saubestre (VP for Strategy and Intelligence, Total)