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 International Drilling Conference and Exhibition 2023  IADC/SPE International Drilling Conference and Exhibition
  17-19 March 2026 | Galveston, Texas, USA

Conference Chairperson

Lee Womble
Vice President & Global Accounts Director
SLB

Committee Members

Derek Adam
Drilling Engineering Supervisor
Occidental Petroleum 

Adrian Ambrus
Technical Director
Intellicess Inc

João Batista 
Foresea

Dillon Bellamy
District Engineer
Spinnaker Oil

John Bomidi
R&D Manager
Drill Bits, Technology

Crispin Chatar
Drilling Technology Advocate
Consultant

Colin Cockburn
Drilling Optimisation Advisor
bp

Piero D’Ambrosio
Drilling Optimization Specialist
bp America

Amrut Dixit
Integrated Remote Operations Hub Leader
Baker Hughes

Mohamed Dooply
Deepwater Cementing Technical Specialist
SLB

Blaine Dow
Domain Head - Drilling
SLB

Mahmoud ElGizawy
Global Survey Domain Manager
K&M Technology, SLB

Mahmoud Elhusseiny
Senior Drilling Engineer
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) 

Satya Gajapathi
Director of Innovation
Varel Energy Solutions

Richard Hewitt
Global Business Development Manager
Geolog

Matthew Isbell
Senior Drilling Engineering Advisor
Hess Corporation

Ross Lowdon
SLB Fellow
SLB

Amin Mehrabian
Associate Professor, Energy and Mineral Engineering Department
Pennsylvania State University

Rodica Mihai
Senior researcher
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

Andrei Muradov
Vice President - Engineering
NOV Grant Prideco

Naveen Nair
Regional Drilling Engineering Manager, North America Land,
Sperry Drilling

Gilles Pelfrene
Senior Researcher
NORCE

Isabel Poletzky
Mpd Project Engineer II
Premium Oilfield Technologies 

Rolv Rommetveit
Board of Directors; eDrilling & CEO RSR Holding
eDrilling

Serafima Schaefer
Project Manager
Exebenus

Kriti Singh
Sr. Research Data Scientist
Corva AI LLC

Adebowale Solarin
Director, Head of Drilling & Wells Support
Noble Drilling

Shashi Talya
Sr. Product Manager – Drilling and Subsurface Automation
Halliburton

Ruggero Trevisan
Vice President - Europe
Altus Well Experts

Ysabel Witt-Doerring
Team Lead - Downhole Data Analytics (Drill Bits and Services)
Halliburton

IADC/SPE International Drilling Conference and Exhibition
17-19 March 2026 | Galveston Island Convention Center | Galveston, Texas

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