IADC HSE & Sustainability Europe 2026 Conference & Exhibition

15.00-17.00 Workshop: Practical Management of Major Hazard Risks
Facilitators: Graham Skinner, Health & Safety Manager Offshore Energies UK & Bruce Webb, Co-Chair Process Safety Leadership, Step Change in Safety
This highly participatory workshop is designed for safety professionals and leaders who want a clear, practical understanding of their organisation’s maturity in managing major hazard risks. Through structured discussion, self-assessment and real-world examples, participants will individually evaluate leadership capability, safety culture and critical controls. Attendees will benchmark their current position, identify strengths and gaps, and leave with clear, prioritised actions they can take back to their organisations to strengthen major hazard management and reduce the risk of barrier failure.

Participation is free of charge, but spaces are limited. To participate in this pre-conference workshop, please complete the registration form and return it to europe@iadc.org

07:30 Conference Registration, Coffee Service & Open Exhibition – Sponsored by H&P

08:30 Welcome, Introduction & Safety Briefing: Lars Nydahl Jorgensen, Regional Director Europe, IADC

08:40 Keynote Presentation: Malcolm Jones, Vice President Wells and Geoscience Operations East, Shell

09.00 Opening Presentation: TBN

09.30 Market Outlook: Oddmund Føre, Partner – Head of Shipping and Offshore Markets, Rystad Energy

10.00 Featured Presentation: SIF Trends in the Drilling Industry: Implications for Change: Marcelino Garza, DEKRA EMEA, Atif Ashraf, Texas A&M University, Warren Hubler, DEKRA NA

10:30 Networking Break & Open Exhibition– Sponsored by H&P

11.00 AI Adoption: Do the Opportunities Outweigh the Obstacles?
Moderators: Jennifer Medcalf, President, The REACH Group & Caroline Kannwischer, Auditor, Boskalis
The real debate isn’t whether obstacles exist—they do. The question is which AI opportunities are significant enough to justify the investment or do we do business as usual.

• Dustin Stringer, Global HSE Director, Noble Corporation
• Garrett Reinert, Director – QHSE, Valaris
• Lorenzo Corallo, HSE R&D Manager, Saipem

12.00 Exhibitor Showcase – Exhibitors will present their products/services in a 60-second presentation.

12.15 Luncheon & Open Exhibition

13:45 We Measure What Has Already Gone Wrong. How Do We Start Seeing What We Are Currently Missing?: Mark Rushton, Chief Executive Officer, COMET
QHSE Data and information in today’s energy industries is more accessible than ever, and that in turn is quite rightly driving higher analytical expectations from intelligence hungry leaders.  Measuring performance and committing to budgets and strategies based on numbers (and often lagging numbers) alone limits our ability to drive and sustain those harder to get incremental performance gains.  This presentation will explore what’s possible, why it’s important, and how real QHSE data value can be unlocked and exploited.

14.05 Beyond KPIs: Strengthening Barriers, Learning from Events, and Engaging People
Moderators: Neil Forrest, Vice President HSE & Sustainability, Seadrill & Wim Hinoul, General Manager Global Safety, Shell
This session brings together industry perspectives on how to strengthen resilience by connecting barrier management, standardization, leading indicators, and workforce engagement. Speakers will explore the difference between reported barrier status and operational reality, share approaches to improving pre-site planning and tool use, and show how lagging events can be translated into practical leading indicators. The session will close by focusing on the human element—recognizing that, even with solid processes in place, safe and effective operations still depend on people having the context, confidence, and commitment to make the right decisions.

• Garrett Reinert, Director – QHSE, Valaris
• Peter Smith, Head of Environment & Sustainability Reporting, Seadrill
• Navin Isaiah, Chief Technology Officer, Presight Solutions
• Nicole Huong, Senior Wells Engineer Risk and Assurance, Shell
• Eman Ashraf Fotouh, Senior Process Safety & Sustainability Engineer, Egyptian Drilling Company

15.20 Networking Break & Open Exhibition – Sponsored by H&P

15:50 Mental Health and Wellbeing
Moderators: Erik Alfred Mokal Henriksen, Vice President, DNV & Ansgar Schwietering, HSSEQT Assurance Manager, H&P
Across industries and institutions, mental health challenges are no longer hidden, they are shaping productivity, safety, and quality of work. From the unique pressures of remote rotations to the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, this panel brings together insights from real-world experience and research. With a focus on reducing stigma, improving early intervention, and expanding access to care, speakers will share lessons learned from five years of program implementation and discuss how organizations can better support their people, before challenges escalate into long-term absence or burnout.

• Dr Marelize Sirgel, Corporate Medical Director, Seadrill
• Louise Martin, Founder, Rigrun
• Kenny Adams, Head of QHSSET for Eastern Hemisphere Land, H&P

16:50-17.50 Networking Reception & Open Exhibition

07:30 Conference Registration, Coffee Service & Open Exhibition

08:30 Welcome, Introduction & Safety Briefing: Lars Nydahl Jorgensen, Regional Director Europe, IADC

08:40 Keynote Presentation: Joey Kawaja, Senior Vice President Operations & Kirk Atkinson, Senior Director Global HSE, Noble Corporation

09:00 Opening Presentation: TBN

09.30 Building a Sustainable Culture in Drilling Operations Context: Anton Rushakov, Sustainability Reporting Manager, Noble Corporation

09.50 A Message from Offshore
Moderator: Lamberto Nonno, Global HSE Director, Baker Hughes
While we talk about strategies, frameworks and leadership commitments to health and safety, others are out there living it. In this unique session, the conference room goes quiet as we make a live call to an offshore crew, connecting straight from the frontline into the conference. Not a case study, but real people managing real risk, right now. This is more than a conversation. It’s a moment of reconnection. A reminder of why we talk about safety, and for whom; and that safety is a daily reality for people who are moving our industry forward.

10.10 Networking Break & Open Exhibition

10.40 When Procedures Meet Reality: The Human Side of Operational Performance
Moderators: David Goyallon, Risks Manager – Drilling & Wells, TotalEnergies & Gøran Furland, Vice President QHSE, Odfjell Drilling
In high-risk drilling operations, procedures and systems are designed to create consistency and control. Yet, reality offshore is far more dynamic. This panel explores the gap between standardized processes and human performance in practice, where experience levels vary, situational awareness is critical, and unexpected conditions arise. From rethinking toolbox talks to embedding learning across fleets, the discussion will challenge how the industry prepares people, not just processes, to perform safely and effectively in an ever-changing operational environment.

• Andrew Dingee, Chief Executive Officer, System Safety
• Michael Fry, President, CoreKognition Global
• Sam Cowan, BD Manager, CAVU International

11.40 Complacency: One of the Most Frequently Cited Explanations After Incidents, Yet One of the Least Examined
Moderator: Lamberto Nonno, Global HSE Director, Baker Hughes
We often hear that people “became complacent” after things went wrong, particularly in operations that have been performed successfully – and safely – for a long time. But what do we really mean when we use that word? And why does it surface so reliably after the event? This panel invites a critical look at complacency as a concept. Is it a lapse in vigilance, a drift in behavior, a product of success, or something we can only see with the hindsight? How do familiarity, efficiency, experience, and production expectations quietly influence everyday decisions long before anything goes wrong? Wel will challenge assumptions and explore how organizations interpret, explain, and respond to normal work that usually goes right, until it doesn’t. And maybe it will leave us questioning not just complacency, but if we’ve understood failure at all.

• Jared Dempsey, Industrial Psychologist, Kognivate
• Norman Richie, Chief Executive Officer, vPSI Group, LLC

12:40 Luncheon, Open Exhibition & Poster Session

14.00 Avoiding the Snowball Effect by Aligning Leadership Intent with Frontline Reality
Moderators: Kimberley Armstrong, QSHE Manager, Valaris & Francesco Maffei, Head of HSE, Saipem
Despite mature HSE systems, many organizations observe a growing disconnect between leadership intent and frontline experience. This session explores how gaps in communication, culture, and workload pressures are eroding trust, weakening safety behaviors, and limiting the reporting of critical weak signals.  By sharing industry perspectives and case studies, the panel will examine how leaders can strengthen psychological safety, enable open communication, and reconnect with the workforce to improve both HSE and operational performance.

• David Hazell, Senior Vice President, CAVU International
• Davide Scotti, Head of HSEQ Culture & Human Performance, Saipem

15.00 Big Persons Offshore: Diccen Sargent, Principal Safety Engineer, Steve Brazier, Associate Principal Safety Engineer, CPOGS

15.20 Adjournment