Shutdowns Turnarounds Superconference

December 8, 2020 (Mountain Standard Time)

Agenda (Mountain Standard Time)

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 8, 2020

8:30	Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair
8:45	STRATEGIC THINK TANK Weighing the Pros and Cons of Deferring a Shutdown: Regulatory Requirements, Financial and Strategic Consideration
9:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Economic Outlook for Alberta’s Energy Sector
10:05	Sponsor Led Demos
10:35	BENCHMARKING How Are Companies Upgrading their Safety Policies Post COVID-19
11:00	COMMUNICATION GURU The Art of Effective Communication with Your Team
11:45	Sponsor Led Demos
12:15	Lunch Break
12:45	INTERACTIVE SCENARIOS How to Identify the Right Scope and Audience Participation: Practical Analysis with Three Complex Scope Scenarios and How to Manage Them
1:15	Revisiting the Supply Chain Post-COVID-19 How to Balance Global vs Local Procurement
2:30	1:1 Networking
2:40	Break
2:45	The Fight for Talent – How to Attract and Retain a Skilled Workforce Amid Changes to Alberta’s Workplaces Act
3:00	PANEL How to Conduct an Effective Risk Assessment Pre-Shutdown or Turnaround and Develop a Crisis Management Plan
3:45	CLOSING PANEL How to Leverage Post-Mortem Discoveries to Improve Next Year’s Shutdown
4:30	Closing Remarks from the Chair and Conference Adjourns

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 8, 2020

8:30	Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair Frank Engli Senior Advisor, Maintenance & Turnaround Becht Katie Dempster Vice President, Business Development Energy Operations & Maintenance
8:45	STRATEGIC THINK TANK Weighing the Pros and Cons of Deferring a Shutdown: Regulatory Requirements, Financial and Strategic Consideration Sean Granville Senior Vice President, Refurbishment Ontario Power Generation Heather Kleb Director, Next Generation Nuclear Technology Bruce Power Uwe Velten Director, Expert Turnaround Management, Global Technology Petrochemicals BASF
9:45	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Economic Outlook for Alberta’s Energy Sector Bob Collins Senior Economist BuildForce Canada
10:05	Sponsor Led Demos
10:35	BENCHMARKING How Are Companies Upgrading their Safety Policies Post COVID-19 Jessica DiSabatino Vice President My Safe Work Identify weaknesses in traditional safety procedures and evaluating how a health crisis made the industry stronger. Discuss policies and procedures put into effect during the COVID-19 Pandemic response, to prevent the spread of the virus through social distancing measures. What pandemic policies should be integrated into everyday work? What strategic planning can take place in the event of a similar crisis How to manage safety with a downsized crew? How to manage safety with an offsite maintenance supervisor?
11:00	COMMUNICATION GURU The Art of Effective Communication with Your Team Paul Fisher Turnaround and Maintenance Specialist Goodridge Turnaround and Maintenance Services Brent Seewalt Maintenance Manager Inter Pipeline Engaging your team and getting results Getting the message up and down the chain of command Breaking down silos and working more effectively across department
11:45	Sponsor Led Demos
12:15	Lunch Break
12:45	INTERACTIVE SCENARIOS How to Identify the Right Scope and Audience Participation: Practical Analysis with Three Complex Scope Scenarios and How to Manage Them Colin Xander Corporate Turnaround Manager Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Required inspections, duration, and when they are due Routine inspections, what is sacred, make a list, make a job plan, make a cost plan. This is the minimum outage Capital projects, improvement projects. Critical path and duration. Defect, what is breaking, that can only be fixed during a shutdown. Can we wait to do this repair? Single-point vulnerability. What is going to break? Engineering improvements. Devoting the engineering time to finding solutions. Join this new session for 2020, where delegates will be taken through difference case study scenarios and will participate in live audience polling. One: The big shutdown Two: The surgical scope Three: Single-point vulnerability
1:15	Revisiting the Supply Chain Post-COVID-19 How to Balance Global vs Local Procurement James Wright Senior Manager, Capital Procurement Nutrien Delineating how a local company and support the industry versus a global company Identifying barriers and bottlenecks when securing global products Creating a work around when supply is disrupted
2:30	1:1 Networking
2:40	Break
2:45	The Fight for Talent – How to Attract and Retain a Skilled Workforce Amid Changes to Alberta’s Workplaces Act A look at Bill 32: Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act (2020), and how it will affect owners and operators. Anticipating greater competition when negotiating collective agreements under Bill 32, Division 7.1 Managing the challenges of labour availability and geographic restrictions Attracting under-represented people to the skilled workforce – What works?
3:00	PANEL How to Conduct an Effective Risk Assessment Pre-Shutdown or Turnaround and Develop a Crisis Management Plan Frank Engli Senior Advisor, Maintenance & Turnaround Becht Identifying your weaknesses and mitigating your risk potential What to do in the first 24 hours of a crisis and the first 2 weeks What makes you agile? Maximizing your resources
3:45	CLOSING PANEL How to Leverage Post-Mortem Discoveries to Improve Next Year’s Shutdown Implementing a 360 Degree postmortem to seeing the outage from all department perspectives Capturing lessons learned and employee grievances in the moment for immediate improvements Reviewing lesson learned forms on a 48-hour rotation during an outage Discovering cost overruns before it is too late
4:30	Closing Remarks from the Chair and Conference Adjourns

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