James Brady

Chief Digital Officer, Oilfield Equipment & Services

Baker Hughes

As Chief Digital Officer of Baker Hughes’s Oilfield Services and Equipment (OFSE) business segment, Jim Brady directs the development and execution of the organization’s digital strategy leveraging 35 years of oil and gas industry experience. An electrical engineer by trade, Jim started and spent 32 years of his career at Schlumberger, working his way up from a wireline systems engineering to the vice president of digital operations. Jim also held executive roles in hardware, software and IT, while in WesternGeco, SIS, WesternGeco, and global IT. Prior to joining Baker Hughes, Jim was CTO - Energy at EPAM, where he directed technology and solution strategy for the Energy Software and Services division, working with companies on their own digital transformation. Prior to EPAM, he was CIO at Katerra, a Silicon Valley construction technology startup. Jim earned a bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and economics at the University of California and holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas with a research specialty in Computer Architecture and Computer Vision.

Session Overview

Wednesday, 6 November

13:30

Digitalisation & Technology Conference Digitalisation & Technology Theatre 13:30 - 14:30

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Enabling AI in the energy systems of tomorrow

AI has and will continue to revolutionise the energy sector, driving digitalisation and predictive capabilities. To maximise the increased efficiency and productivity AI and machine learning can deliver, open technology standards that foster greater data interoperability will be essential to overcome many of the cybersecurity and data management concerns. Organisations like the Trusted Energy Interoperability Alliance (TEIA) - which aims to create standards and agreed-upon formats and protocols for secure and interoperable data communications within the energy system—and the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI) - an open ecosystem of AI-based solutions for the energy and process industries - are working toward this. To mitigate risks, businesses must standardise security formats, and compliance requirements for energy hardware and software, and develop internal AI specialists to deliver transformation at scale.

Attendee insights:

In this Action session, gain exclusive insights into the standards being developed by the TEIA and OAI and how they can be implemented by businesses to achieve an interoperable and trusted energy ecosystem.