IADC HSE & Sustainability Europe 2025 Conference & Exhibition

The conference program committee for the 2025 IADC HSE and Sustainability Europe Conference & Exhibition would like to continue with the Call for Challenges approach to securing topics and speakers for the upcoming conference.

Instead of the traditional Call for Abstracts, the conference program committee asks our members to identify a problem or challenge you are facing related to HSE, security or sustainability within your companies that need a solution. The committee members will then seek to find relevant speakers or panelists who may have creative solutions to these challenges.

Members of the conference program committee will select issues to be vetted during the two-day conference, providing maximum take-home value for attendees. Once the problems/challenges have been collected, the committee members will meet to select the problems that will be put forward for the conference agenda. The deadline for submissions is 17 March 2025.

Please observe that acceptance of a challenge by the program committee does not necessarily equate to a speaking slot. You may of course propose speakers or panelists – maybe from within your own organization – that the program committee also find appealing, and who therefore will be invited for a session.

 

What are the Sustainability or HSE challenges you sit with in your organization that you cannot find solutions to?

 While you are free to come forward with any challenge that you consider important, a number of categories have been suggested as listed below. However, please note that these categories are merely suggestions. With the submissions in hand, we may see themes that we had not thought of beforehand.

Suggested possible categories for challenges could be:

Technology

• AI,
• Learning from Other Industries,
• New Tools and Developments,
• What technology application is making a difference in incidents,

Safety

• Development of Relevant Leading Indicators,
• Safety Campaigns / Focus Areas,
• Incidents and New Safeguards,
• Emergency Response,
• Safety leadership,
• How to tackle incidents we never really managed to get rid of (dropped objects, hand injuries, …),

Security

• Physical Security, Operational Security,
• Cyber Security, Information Security,

People

• Attracting the Younger Generation,
• Human Factors and Human Performance,
• The impact on safety of the increased number of new employees / high turnover,

Health

• Mental Health,
• Heat Stress,

Sustainability

• The impact of the energy transition on what we do,
• Sustainability Reporting; the Evolving Regulatory Environment,
• Environmental Challenges,
• Emerging Sustainability Trends,
• Cost of Carbon,
• Where to start to implement a sustainable culture for our drilling operations (quick wins, crew engagement, ..)

And very likely several others that you may identify.

Please formulate your challenge and share it with us. We will organize the next IADC HSE & Sustainability Europe Conference & Exhibition around those challenges. As you formulate the challenge, please identify the Problem or Challenge, any Complications and a suggestion for a speaker.

 

 An example of a challenge (in the first category above) could be the following (offered by Valaris):

Problem/Challenge

Despite great efforts over many years, we are seeing that the number of fatalities in the industry is going up post Covid. This is apparently a trend across the industry. There have been several suggestions as to why this may be so, including the fact that many accidents and incidents involve new and inexperienced crew. How do we as an industry address this, and how do we develop new talent to be safe and competent as quickly as possible?

 Complication

The general reduction in skills and experience within the industry may reflect:

1. Recruitment is becoming much more challenging, either due to people having left the industry that do not want to return, or younger generations that do not see it as an ethical career choice, or one with longevity.
2. We are now routinely dealing with more short-service employees, clearly impacting team competency and stretching our supervisors.

 

 Suggested Speaker(s)

Please suggest speakers that you believe could help address the proposed challenge. The speakers may come from within your own organization or be external.

 

We will engage with experts and various companies and organizations that could provide a solution or an idea about a possible solution. Please note that we cannot accommodate all challenges and allow us the discretion to select the challenges we find most relevant. We look forward to your participation as we take this novel approach to setting a relevant and timely conference agenda.

Please submit your challenge by 17 March 2025 using the form through the link below.