Content That Reflects Your Priorities
The agenda for the Digital Oil & Gas Summit – USA is shaped by insight, not sponsorship. It’s built around four headline themes that reflect the sector’s most urgent challenges—identified in collaboration with our Advisory Committee of senior digital, operational, and technology leaders.
But it doesn’t stop there.
When delegates register, we ask about their current projects, strategic priorities, and investment timelines. That input, combined with data from our Intrinsic Intelligence Report, informs the structure and content of every session—from team challenges to workshops and private roundtables.
The result?
Every session is curated to address what matters most to the people in the room—ensuring discussions are timely, practical, and aligned to real business outcomes.
2026 Headline Themes
Making Digital Deliver: From Pilot to Performance at Scale
The oil and gas industry is navigating rising geopolitical risks, market volatility, and evolving investment priorities. In this dynamic landscape, digital technologies are vital to boost agility, enhance data-driven decision-making, and optimize operations. To succeed, operators across upstream, midstream, and downstream must move beyond pilots and scale digital solutions that deliver measurable impact, resilience, and efficiency throughout the value chain.This summit will tackle key challenges including legacy system integration, data unification for real-time insights, cyber resilience, and supply chain robustness. It will also cover sustainability and workforce transformation, offering a practical roadmap for driving operational excellence and lasting impact in oil and gas.
Think we’ve missed something? This summit is built around the challenges that matter most to the people in the room.
Driving Operational excellence
From integration to advanced technologies
This theme explores the core challenge operators face in transforming fragmented infrastructure and disparate data environments into connected, scalable digital platforms. It addresses the critical need for seamless integration of legacy operational technologies (OT) with enterprise information technology (IT), and deploying advanced solutions to unlock new levels of efficiency and resource optimization.
Key Topics & Technologies:
- Integrating legacy OT systems with enterprise IT.
- Building scalable cloud and edge computing platforms.
- Implementing Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions for enhanced data capture.
- Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation for operational efficiency.
- Optimizing resource recovery with advanced drilling technologies.
- Overcoming vendor lock-in and achieving system interoperability.
Making Data Work
From silos to real-time insight
This theme examines the operator’s challenge of leveraging vast data to improve asset performance, safety, and decision-making. It explores how unifying fragmented data, applying AI, and deploying automation drives predictive maintenance, while also addressing human and organizational elements for a data-driven culture and tangible business value.
Key Topics & Technologies:
- Strengthening data management and governance for enterprise insights.
- Applying AI and advanced analytics for asset optimization.
- Scaling predictive maintenance and autonomous systems.
- Deploying digital twin technology for asset monitoring and simulation.
- Cultivating digital leadership and overcoming cultural resistance.
- Defining, measuring, and demonstrating return of investment (ROI) from data-driven operations.
Built for Risk
Secure networks for operational continuity
As operations become increasingly connected, this theme focuses on the critical challenge operators face in strengthening digital defenses across IT, OT, and cloud environments. It addresses safeguarding proprietary data, preventing operational downtime, and building comprehensive cyber resilience to ensure continuous, safe operations against evolving threats.
Key Topics & Technologies:
- Securing IT/OT systems against advanced cyber threats.
- Implementing Zero Trust principles for distributed operational environments.
- Enhancing threat detection, incident response, and Identity Access Management (IAM).
- Improving resilience planning for operational continuity.
- Ensuring compliance with critical infrastructure regulations.
- Mitigating third-party and supply chain cyber risks.
Lead with Digital
Build smarter, greener, stronger operations
This theme explores how operators strategically leverage digital transformation to build sustainable, resilient, and intelligent operations. It addresses embedding environmental goals and workforce adaptability, navigating market volatility for strategic investment, and fortifying supply chains for long-term, greener, and stronger operational performance.
Key Topics & Technologies:
- Digital pathways to decarbonization and emissions monitoring/reduction technologies (e.g., methane, CCUS).
- Strategic investment and ROI measurement tools for digital and sustainable initiatives.
- Building resilient and optimized supply chains with AI/ML for forecasting and IoT for tracking.
- Workforce transformation, digital leadership, and talent development.
- Utilizing digital twins for sustainability impact assessment.
- Navigating market volatility and funding constraints.