IPTC YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP: “Energising the Industry”

As many Young Professionals are being placed with a higher level of responsibility in the industry, a greater emphasis is being put on young employees to step into challenging technical and managerial roles. Equally important, the Young Professionals have the responsibility to be proactively involved with the leadership development process to be creative and innovative in order to meet the challenge. To help address this issue, the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) has developed a Young Professional Workshop, which will bring together the next generation of leaders, those 35 years of age and under, to discuss their perspectives of a way forward to energise the industry.

Preliminary Programme (As of 12 June 2008)

Tuesday, 2 December

0800 - 0830 hours
Registration/Welcome Coffee and Tea                                   

0830 - 0840 hours
Welcome and Introduction/ Objectives of the Workshop  
                                                                                                       
0840 - 1000 hours
Keynote Addresses by Industry Executives
Senior industry executives will provide insight into the challenges they had to face as young engineers, as well the current challenges they face every day, and give the attendees advice on how to continue moving forward in their careers.

1000 - 1015 hours
Coffee Break

1015 -1215 hours
Team Building Challenge
The attendees of the workshop will be divided into mixed group teams and given a task to accomplish in a set amount of time. This activity will provide an opportunity to break the ice among the attendees and will also serve as an opportunity to test their creativity, engineering and team work skills.
                                   
1215 – 1315 hours
Luncheon/Networking Opportunity

1315 – 1445 hours
Panel:  Thrown into the Deep End: Filling the Knowledge Gap
Young Professionals, today more than ever, are being called upon earlier to fill the leadership gaps in organisations of all sizes. This is placing greater pressure on mentors to train competent and capable staff faster while still ensuring that productivity does not slow. The by-product of this is a greater strain on the human resources time and it is forcing both the companies and the individuals to find new ways to maintain the same level of motivation. This panel will attempt to provide comments on all these topics and more.

1445  - 1500 hours
Break

1500 - 1615 hours
Group Break-out
Attendees will divide into small groups and provided a variety of topics to discuss related to timely professionally related challenges and the presentations heard presented earlier. Each attendee will have an opportunity to visit 2 different topics during this period. Each discussion will last approximately 30-35 minutes.

1615 - 1700 hours
Wrap-up Discussion and Adjournment

IPTC YP Workshop sponsored by

For more information

For more information please contact Jean-Paul Valdes, IPTC Event Manager, at jvaldes@iptcnet.org.