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OUR CONTRIBUTORS WELCOME TO THE JUNE/JULY EDITION

JENNY LANG,
Innovation Manager for EDITOR’S LETTER
Digital Catapult North
East Tees Valley (NETV)
As Innovation Manager, I’M SURE BY this point you don’t need me to remind you
Jenny is responsible for delivering of how important the concept of digitalisation is to the
innovation projects across a range energy trilemma. And I’m confident that, by now, you’ve
of stakeholders and partners, all booked your places to the next instalment of our Road
providing support for many different to 2050 series: Digitalising the Energy Networks, which
sectors. Specialising in immersive comes to London on 2 July.
technologies, Jenny also leads activity However, just in case you happen to be saving a
within the NETV Immersive Lab, baby from a burning building that day and the traffic
a facility equipped with the latest is terrible and you lose your Oyster card while rushing
VR and AR hardware to support the to the venue and somehow manage to miss any of our
growth of immersive technologies. amazing conference programme, we have a few juicy digital snippets right here
to whet your appetite.
HANS KRISTIAN No matter what sector or industry you work in, innovation can seem like a big
DANIELSEN, Senior Vice task. However, there are organisations out there whose sole purpose is to drag
President and Marketing you kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Find out in this edition about the
& Sales Director, Digital Catapult and how it can aid your business.
DNV GL – Oil & Gas Industry 4.0 has revolutionised the energy industry. However, with the greater
Hans has been involved as integration of IT and OT, how can critical infrastructure protect itself from cyber
LNG expert in more than 20 threats? The people at Tenable explore the real-world challenges the gas industry faces.
regasification and liquefaction And James Woodall, CTO at Intoware, explains how wearable technology is
projects and more than 15 FLNG improving industrial operations around the world.
concept developments. Prior to We’ll also be meeting the finalists of this year’s Young Persons Paper
taking on the position as Marketing Competition and hearing from our CEO Neil Atkinson, who has some exciting news
& Sales Director in DNV GL – Oil about changes to IGEM’s governance structure.
& Gas, he was responsible for the We hope you enjoy the June/July edition,
mega project sales funnel and the
global key accounts in oil & gas.
JAMES WOODALL,
CTO & Co-Founder,
Intoware SHARON BAKER-HALLAM
Prior to Intoware, EDITOR
James founded his BA (HONS) AIGEM
own software consultancy, which INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS AND MANAGERS (IGEM)
delivered software products to
customers globally until it was
acquired by a US public company
in 2012. James started life as a YOUR LETTERS
software engineer, with expertise
across multiple software platforms,
architecting solutions for enterprise IS IT TIME TO BAN THE BOILER? some important recommendations
and consumer products alike. in 2000. One was a levy on the gas
I READ THE article on the Committee suppliers to pay for publicity about CO
EITAN GOLDSTEIN, on Climate Change’s recommendations and research, another was that the gas
Senior Director for Strategic for UK housing in the April 2019 edition emergency service should carry and use
Initiatives, Tenable of Gi with interest. equipment to test gas appliances for CO.
Eitan Goldstein is Senior CO-Gas Safety’s data shows that, per Sadly these excellent – and still
Director for Strategic user, the risks of dying from CO are relevant – recommendations have not
Initiatives at Tenable. He leads new higher from appliances powered by been implemented by government.
key initiatives at Tenable to help fuels other than gas (wood, coal, petrol, The cost of the known deaths and
customers better understand and diesel, etc.) Therefore, our view is that injuries from CO is estimated to be
manage their cyber exposure. Prior it would not be wise to ban the gas £178 million and this cost falls mainly
to Tenable, Eitan led strategy for boiler while people still use appliances on the taxpayer.
Siemens’ industrial cybersecurity powered by fuels other than gas. Surely the gas industry could at the
business. He has previously worked But what could the gas industry do very least voluntarily implement what
as a consultant at the Boston now to show it is modern, safe and still HSE recommended nearly 20 years ago
Consulting Group, and as a corporate relevant in an age dominated by climate after an exhaustive gas safety review?
attorney at General Electric. change protesters? Stephanie Trotter, President and
The Health & Safety Executive made Director of CO-Gas Safety

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