Ahad Sarraf Shirazi, Chief Product Officer, Process Ecology – Emissions Management and Production Accounting – Bridging the Gap
Ahad is an experienced process and research engineer specializing in emissions mitigation technologies, process simulation, and optimization. As a Lead Engineer at Process Ecology Inc., he has led studies and developed web-based tools for sustainable development in the oil and gas industry. Ahad holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, and he is dedicated to finding innovative solutions for a sustainable future in the energy sector.
Amit Bhargava, Co-Founder & CEO, EnviroApps Inc – Managing Environmental, Regulatory and Safety Risks in your Supply Chain
Amit has more than 25 years of widely varied experience managing Environmental and Regulatory Compliance for the Industry. His passion to solve the pain he had to go through dealing with certain archaic processes, led him to form EnviroApps. Upon realizing the importance of EnviroApps’ digital solution from a public and Emergency Responder’s safety perspective, he has made it a mission to raise awareness and persuade the industry to do their part and provide reliable, complete, accurate and timely information to our Emergency Responders, who put their lives at risk to deal with an emergency while trying to protect public and the environment
In his personal life, Amit always makes a conscious effort to reduce the environmental footprint and takes on every opportunity to share his learnings and motivate others. Last year his family was featured in City of Calgary’s Action Against Climate Change Campaign.
Dean Pick, President, Kinitics Automation Limited – The KVA38: A spring-loaded electric valve actuator
Dean MacKenzie has been developing best practices, building training programs and practicing in the remediation and reclamation profession for over 20 years. He is the Vice President of the Environment Growth and Innovation Division at Vertex Resource Group Ltd. He oversees a diverse team with expertise in reclamation, biophysical assessment, construction monitoring, remediation, and remote sensing providing consulting services for a wide range of industries including: oil sands mining, coal mining, in-situ oil sands, peat harvesting, wind and solar farms, sand and gravel, pipelines and conventional oil and gas. Dean continues to be active in research and development with a focus on revegetation and reclamation of highly disturbed landscapes. He has authored several peer reviewed journals and best management practice documents related to land reclamation for government and industry within Alberta.
Khalid Lemzouji, Senior Statistical and Data Science Advisor, Analythium Solutions – Custom-built web-based data automations apps from A to Z
Khalid Lemzouji is a professional statistician and data scientist with 16 years of experience in statistics, data analytics and data visualization with the Alberta Oil and Gas and Environmental sector. His main experiences have been working with executives and decision makers to leverage their row data for defensible data-driven decision making through automating:
Khalid experience include data integration and automation for Suncor, Enbridge, Imperial, Stantec, Advisian, Matrix Solutions, TC energy, Husky, and Alberta, BC and North Territories Metis and First Nations. Area of automations, includes Ground Water and Surface Water monitoring, Air monitoring, Wildlife camera monitoring, Birds survey, Leak detections monitoring, Pipelines risk monitoring, Haul track reliability monitoring
Khalid has a double bachelor’s in Statistics and Chemical engineering, and a Master’s in Statistics/Mathematics from the University of Alberta. Khalid is a professional Statistician with the Canadian Society of Statistics and the American Statistical Society.