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Digital Doers

Real stories about the industry leaders who are getting digital done.
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Wezom’s Journey w/Guest Serge Guzenko

In this conversation, Mark LaCour interviews Serge Guzenko, the CEO of WeZOM, a technology company that helps companies solve business problems. Serge shares the story of how he started the company 25 years ago and how they have grown to work with various industries including oil and gas, and more. They discuss the importance of providing quality solutions and the value of customer satisfaction. Serge also talks about the future of WeZOM and their commitment to continuous improvement. Episode Li...

Sep 19, 202424 min

Mark is live from IMAGE and is joined by Guest John Brittan w/the new TGS | Ep 94

John VP of Imaging and Technology at TGS joins Mark at the IMAGE conference and they discuss imaging technology in general, latest trends, challenges, opportunities and share a laugh or two. https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-brittan-7b8a9842 https://www.tgs.com Brought to you on OGGN , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. Sign up for OGGN newsletters here . Visit the OGGN Merch store here . Curious about podcast advertising? Learn more here . More from...

Sep 11, 202433 min

Cybersecurity and Business w/guest Curtis Forsyth | Ep 93

Curtis with EAG joins Mark to discuss the business impacts of cyber security to the oil and gas industry, remote work, zero trust, AI and ensuring that you are secure, even though you have a limited budget. Plus, for once Mark doesn’t make fun of the Army! https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-4syth https://eaginc.com Brought to you on OGGN , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. Sign up for OGGN newsletters here . Visit the OGGN Merch store here . Curiou...

Aug 15, 202438 min

Transforming Data into Decisions with guest Stuart Clare w/WEZOM | Ep 92

Learn how WEZOM is committed to customer excellence, with domain expertise in the oil and gas industry. Offering an alternative to the large, cumbersome, tech giants, WEZOM not only has its own ERP system, but can also help with application development, custom software, cyber security and AI. Plus, they can decrease DSO and they can help you get rid of paper. And they will never try to make you buy something you don’t need https://wezom.com/industries/oil-gas Brought to you on OGGN , the largest...

Aug 07, 202427 min

Ambyint CTO Ferdinand Hinger l EP91

Ferdinand Hingerl, CTO of Ambyint, details how their platform uses AI for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and closed-loop autonomous set point management in oil and gas wells. The conversation highlights significant business outcomes, including increased uptime and production, enhanced safety by reducing emergency field trips, and a decreased environmental footprint through proactive issue prevention. Ambyint's technology addresses connectivity challenges in remote locations and ensures robust cybersecurity, while also leveraging years of collected data for future industry insights.

Jul 31, 202426 min

ECO Co-Founder Khaydar Valiullin | Ep 90

While setting up at Blackhorse Golf Club Mark LaCour bumps into Khaydar Valiullin , co-founder of ECO , a digital platform for well design and construction. Brought to you on OGGN , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. Sign up for OGGN newsletters here . Visit the OGGN Merch store here . Curious about podcast advertising? Learn more here . More from OGGN … Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events...

Mar 06, 202414 min

Matt Mayer and Asal Rahimi Zeynal of TGS | Ep 89

Record live at NAPE 2024. Mark LaCour talks with Matt Mayer & Asal Rahimi Zeynal from TGS product management team. Brought to you on OGGN , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. Sign up for OGGN newsletters here . Visit the OGGN Merch store here . Curious about podcast advertising? Learn more here . More from OGGN … Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events...

Mar 06, 202418 min

Laura Sanchez of TGS | Ep 88

Recorded live at NAPE 2024. Mark LaCour talks with Laura Sanchez , Financial Data Product Manager at TGS . Brought to you on OGGN , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. Sign up for OGGN newsletters here . Visit the OGGN Merch store here . Curious about podcast advertising? Learn more here . More from OGGN … Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events...

Mar 06, 202421 min

Improving Processes for Greater Profitability from Oilfield Equipment Rental and Services – Ep 87

Our guest, Nikolai Korniyuk, Chief Business Development Officer, knows client success doesn’t depend on the newest software or platform, but if new digital capabilities enable excellent process execution, that’s a recipe for success. Nikolai shares how RigER prioritizes understanding a customer’s core processes before deciding how to best use their oilfield equipment rental and servicing software solutions to help them meet their improvement objectives. Both field operations folks and back-offic...

Apr 04, 2023

Accelerate Time to Value with EAG Foundations: Smart, Intuitive Report Packs, and A Unified Cloud-Based Platform – Ep 86

In this episode, Oil and Gas Global Network (OGGN) host JoAnn Meyers talks with Ryan Tart, Senior Manager of Business Development at EAG, and Michael Foderetti, Senior Director at Quorum Software about EAG’s product solution: EAG Foundations. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryantart/ https://www.eaginc.com/ https://www.eaginc.com/foundations/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmadd5Og2c https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-foderetti-09873039/ https://www.quorumsoftware.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAl9efBhAkEiwA4...

Mar 14, 2023

Protecting Critical Infrastructure for Companies and Countries – Ep 85

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Jim Gilsinn, a Technical Leader with Dragos with decades of experience with Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and OT. He shares the challenges that exist as IT and OT become ever more integrated. With the increasing complexity associated with each side of a company’s technological landscape, having the depth of knowledge and experience to understand the risks, detect threats and plan and execute a response on both sides is almost impossible without...

Feb 21, 2023

Inteligent Visual Monitoring – Don’t Watch Hours of Camera Footage; Get Just-in-Time at Just-Where-You-Need-It Instant Replays – Ep 84

Imagine if your worksite told you when someone was there when they shouldn’t be and then let you see for yourself? How valuable would it be if you could inspect the equipment and surroundings immediately after a SCADA system alert, without getting in the lease truck? Paul Ritchie, COO at Osperity, describes to our host, JoAnn Meyer, how clients are creating safer worksites, lowering operating costs and reducing their carbon footprint by using Osperity’s combination of IP video cameras and comput...

Feb 07, 2023

Escape the Tyranny of Edge Volume and Processing Limitations and the Fear of Ransomware – Ep 83

The size of data sets is exploding. Employees need to access and process data from centralized and remote locations all over the world. And managing cyber-security risks is consuming more and more resources in IT departments and the C-Suite. John Capello, Field CTO, shares how Nasuni helps clients ensure that technology doesn’t limit how they run their business. Nasuni’s elastic edge appliance is easily scalable and their detecting, protecting and restoring processes effectively inoculate client...

Jan 24, 2023

Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, – Tempting Students with Technology to Get Much More – Ep 82

Talk about a win-win, in this episode Susan Thompson, Program Director for Engineering & STEM Initiatives at Houston Community College (HCC) shares with our host, JoAnn Meyer, how partnering with other institutions of higher learning benefits students AND the companies that hire them. HCC partners with Texas A&M, University of Texas – Tyler and University of Houston to provide more flexible and affordable pathways for their very diverse student body to earn an engineering degree. Susan s...

Jan 17, 2023

Private Cellular Networks: Improved Connectivity to Help Workers and Move Data – Ep 81

The term remote work has come to represent safety and convenience in the time of covid-19, but in the oil and gas industry, working remotely has long meant compromised communication capabilities and limited access to digital tools needed to do your job. In this episode our host. In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Ammar Sabbagh, Global Head Industry & Partnership-Cellular Private Network and Viren Parikh, Director of Business Development-Energy North America about how Ericsson h...

Jan 03, 2023

Understanding Our Oceans – AKA “Earth’s Heart and Lungs” Ep080

In this episode Ken Childress , Chief Strategy Officer, tells our host, JoAnn Meyer how TerraDepth is supporting the fast growing ~ $2 Trillion annual Blue Economy. Their autonomous underwater vehicles are mapping the ocean floor and their browser-accessible ocean data management platform is enabling 3-D visualization of the last unexplored area on our planet. Ken talks about how they support the energy sector – both oil and gas and renewables. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-childress-ba8b4a5/ ...

Dec 28, 2022

Preventing “Bad Days” on Miniature Floating Cities, Ep079

Sarah Whiteford, Director, Operations and Projects, talks with our host, JoAnn Meyer about how OneStep Power gives clients confidence that power systems on offshore platforms, ships and even wind turbines are robust and safe. In the last year, OneStep has helped clients on every continent, except Antarctica, by replicating their power systems and then observing how they react to complex power interruptions. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjwhiteford/ https://www.onesteppower.com/ This episode is ma...

Dec 20, 2022

Enabling Citizen Data Analysts with Self Service “Reporting” Ep078

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Dave Supp, Chief Digital Officer and VP of Digital Services, and he describes how EAG provides their oil and gas clients with a more modern set of tools enabling “citizen data analysts” to easily summarize data, drill down to details and pivot and filter data. Dave talks about the changing role of CIOs and IT departments and how the youngest generations of technical professionals have expectations that they will have easy access to modern tools an...

Dec 13, 2022

Digital Transformations: Always and in All Ways, Ep077

Whether adopting a revolutionary or evolutionary approach, digital transformation is not the same for every company. In this episode, Jason Lasseigne, President of Sparkhound, talks with our host JoAnn Meyer describing how they help clients meet strategic and tactical objectives. From robotic process automation ( RPA ) to migrating to the cloud to “error-proofing” data capture in the field or standing up Contact Centers ( not call centers anymore ), Sparkhound has done it all. Don’t miss the las...

Dec 06, 2022

Knowledge Management: Creating a Digital Twin of a Subject Matter Expert. Ep076

Imagine you could capture expert knowledge within your organization and use it to create a subject matter digital twin, as an avatar. This is knowledge always available – never takes vacation, sick days, resigns or retires. Meet Nesh. Sidd Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Nesh talks with our host, JoAnn Meyer about how technology is being used to capture knowledge, and the value that may be hidden in your company’s filing cabinets and shared drives. https://www.linkedin.com/in/guptasidd/ https://hel...

Nov 29, 2022

Moving from Helplessness to Hope by Reducing your “Technical Debt”. Ep075

Do you know what percentage of your IT investment dollar goes to maintenance versus actually enabling innovation? Do you know how to reduce time needed to add new functionality to existing applications and onboard new developers? Moti Rafalin, CEO, Chairman and Founder from vFunction answers these questions and many more as he talks with our host, JoAnn Meyer . Moti describes how vFunction helps clients modernize their complex, “spaghetti bowl” of legacy applications by using machine learning to...

Nov 22, 2022

Realit-ies: At the Very Edge of the Digital Transformation. Ep074

Remember when there was just reality, just one? In this episode, Sean McCoy, CBT Solutions Manager – Worker Safety and Security, talks with our host, JoAnn Meyer about attending the recent Augmented Enterprise Summit and explains all the realities that exist today. Sean also shares his insights on the big change from two years ago, in the way many mid-size and smaller companies view the digital transformation. And he talks about how CBT helps companies answer the question “So now what?” https://...

Nov 15, 2022

Digital Transformation: From Toys to Trust. Ep073

In 2015, Hadley Doyle-Gonzalez, President and Co-Founder of SMG Delivering Data led her small team of “aviation geeks” to become one of the first 20 FAA legal commercial drone companies. The other 19 companies had well-known names like Google, Amazon and State Farm. In this episode, Hadley talks with our host, JoAnn Meyer about the connection between toys such as the Nintendo Wii controller and commercial drone technology, how SMG supported recovery operations after Hurricane Ian and recognizing...

Nov 08, 2022

Culture Will Fight Your Improvement Programs. Ep072

If the three most important characteristics of a piece of real estate are Location, Location, Location, my guests this week might say that the three most important determiners of excellent performance are Culture, Culture, Culture. David Bowman, CEO, and David Sowers, CFO, of KnowledgeVine share with our host, JoAnn Meyer , their experience at helping organizations improve, the only way possible – one person at a time. Listen as David and David describe Human Performance and how they’re using to...

Nov 01, 2022

Creating a Future with a Secure Supply of Safe and Clean Energy, Ep071

“Hydrogen will play a crucial role in our future energy systems, mainly because it is a versatile molecule.” JoAnn Meyer talks with Shadi Salahshoor, Ph.D., a member of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Underground Hydrogen Storage Task Force and Principal Engineer for GTI Energy’s Hydrogen Technology Center. Shadi also talks about Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) and how much oil and gas industry experience is relevant and transferrable to these energy transition technologies. htt...

Oct 25, 2022

Culture, Leadership & Maximizing Return on Technology Investments, Ep070

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer deconstructs a culture that is poised to realize value from technology investments and the role good questions play in that culture. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joann-meyer-previse/ https://www.hasc.com/lead/ https://lovethepodcast.com/ogdd This episode is made possible by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise . Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN … Podcasts ...

Oct 18, 2022

Uber for Technology: Crowd-Sourcing for Software Solutions and Data Analytics, Ep069

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Andrew Abbott, Global Sales Lead for Topcoder, and they discuss comet hunting, fighting lung cancer and seeing far below the Earth’s surface. Andrew shares how 1.7 million community members use this open innovation platform and digital marketplace to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients while growing their own skills. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaabbott/ https://www.topcoder.com/ This episode is made possible by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise . C...

Oct 11, 2022

SPE Distinguished Lecturers: Global Ambassadors for the Oil and Gas Industry, Ep068

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Marise Mikulis, CEO of EnergyInnova and 2022-2023 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). The Distinguished Lecturer Program is a flagship offering promoting SPE’s mission to collect, disseminate and exchange knowledge. As Marise explains, the process to be selected for this honor is rigorous as you are expected to speak to audiences around the world to “challenge the expert and inform the layman”. https://www.linkedin...

Sep 27, 2022

Exciting Technologies, Wise Guests and Recurring Themes: Celebrating JoAnn’s 20th Episode. Ep067

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer celebrates her 20th episode hosting OGGN’s Digital Doers Podcast. She remembers highlights from a few episodes and discusses hot topics and guest insights shared during the podcast over the last 5 months. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joann-meyer-previse/ This episode is made possible by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise . Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network , the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGG...

Sep 20, 2022

“Great Resignation” or Need for a “Jobs Transformation”? Ep066

In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Ayoade Lawrence, a learning and talent specialist, entrepreneur, certified “Digital Rockstar” and independent researcher, read all the headlines and decided to find out for himself why employees are leaving their jobs. “Ayo” shares what he discovered in conversations on four continents. Could the exodus be due, in part, to the fundamental difference in how Digital Immigrants versus Digital Natives find value in technology and electronic systems, d...

Sep 13, 2022
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