The Honourable Dale Last
Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development, Queensland Government
Brett Darley
Chief Operating Officer -
Australia and PNG Upstream
Oil and Gas
Santos
Steve Trench
Executive Vice President -
Operations & Technical Services
Santos

Jennifer Miskimins
2026 SPE President
Khoo Choo Beng
South Central Asset Manager
Shell QGC
Ajay Nalonnil
Managing Director ANP Geozone
Baker Hughes
Nathan Parker
General Manager Subsurface
Omega Oil & Gas

David Close
Co-head Australia Operations
Daly Waters Energy
Liu He
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Professor, RIPED, CNPC

Thomas Flottmann
Chief Geoscientist Integrated Gas
Origin Energy

Audrey Rasmussen
Head, Development
Unconventional Centre of Excellence
PETRONAS
Dzulkarnain Azaman
Senior General Manager
Upstream Technology, Digital & Innovation
PETRONAS

Swarup Joshi
Director, Energy & Resources, Asia
Microsoft
Shripad Biniwale
Global Innovation Manager
SLB

Matt Blunden
Operations Excellence Manager
Origin Energy
Nathan O’Brien
Information and Digital Technologies Manager
Shell QGC

Ying Luo
Chief Advisor and General Manager Strategy
Amplitude Energy
Katherine Witt
Director, UQ Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre
The University of Queensland

Tony Zhang
Head, Carbon Management and Energy Transition, APAC
GaffneyCline energy advisory

Mark Sanders
Geoscience and Exploration Manager
Senex Energy

Carolina Barros
Director of Growth – Global Wells & Drilling
Kongsberg Digital

Adam Harris
Asia Pacific O&G Vertical Market Leader
Honeywell

Christopher Karsten
Services Senior Specialist
Baker Hughes
Shahid Azizul Haq
Founder & Executive Advisor
Wellquest Consulting

Richard Pang
Chief Commercial Officer
Yunyfi

Wouter Pattynama
Executive Director – Production
NOPSEMA

Rahim Masoudi
Chief Technical Lead
EnQuest

Alireza Salmachi
Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering
Adelaide University








