​Marshall Zelinger will explore the art of public messaging on this panel, addressing important questions and challenges. Where has industry lost its way in winning the hearts and minds of the public? What can it do to improve? Who are the pragmatic stakeholders on the other side of the issue and what do they think about our message? What can we learn from their examples? And perhaps most importantly, going forward, how can we effectively convey our message to a general public that may be pre-disposed against the oil and gas industry? 

Reporter
​9News

​Dan Grossman will explore the art of public messaging on this panel, addressing important questions and challenges. Where has industry lost its way in winning the hearts and minds of the public? What can it do to improve? Who are the pragmatic stakeholders on the other side of the issue and what do they think about our message? What can we learn from their examples? And perhaps most importantly, going forward, how can we effectively convey our message to a general public that may be pre-disposed against the oil and gas industry? 

Rocky Mountain Regional Director
Environmental Defense Fund

This session will cover everything you want to know: the who, what, where and why of the critical races and how it will impact Colorado  This session will set a broader context of what is happening on a national stage, what the impacts of COVID-19 and the economy will have on voters and how the national conversation will influence Colorado’s electoral outcomes.

President
Shamrock Strategies, LLC

​With the failure of OPEC+ members to make a substantial cut to crude oil production, the forecast for crude oil prices remains grim as demand dries up across the world.  The crude oil and natural gas markets in North America are now faced with a series of unique and difficult challenges not seen in decades, if ever.  At the same time as crude oil and associated gas production is falling victim to a reduction in the price of crude oil, the spread of COVID-19 has disrupted both domestic and export demand of natural gas in North America and across the globe.  This session will provide a forecast of how long low price pain will endure, characteristics of operators who are most likely to survive and testimonial from individual operators who are navigating the choppy waters ahead. 

Partner
Davis Graham & Stubbs

​The regulatory environment in Colorado has shifted dramatically in recent years, placing Colorado on the leading edge of a regulatory space where public policy, technology and goal setting have increasingly co-mingling in the regulatory process.  Case-in-point, Colorado’s emission control efforts have shifted where the availability of technologies have influenced rulemaking decisions and has diverted focus away from the ultimate goal of emission reduction.  Such approach – prescribing specific technologies – prevents operators from innovating and seeking alternative best practices and emerging technology to achieve reduction goals.  While technology and feasibility will always play a role, how does industry maintain steady focus on goals amid political pressures and competing agendas, and successfully defend their ability to be nimble and innovate their practices?  What are the lessons learned that may apply to future regulatory efforts?  

​Director, Methane Emissions Program
Energy Institute
Colorado State University

​Multiple rulemakings, a new professional COGCC, and local government regulatory authority.  What has happened since SB19-181 passed?  What have been our successes, what have been our greatest challenges and what does the path forward look like?

Partner
Davis Graham & Stubbs

​The oil and natural gas industry in Colorado is no stranger to contending with issues on the Colorado ballot. In a state where the ballot process is accessible to special interests, citizen groups and activists, the industry certainly isn’t the only one subjected to these ballot battles.  Transportation, growth, housing and health care are frequent issues that require the leadership and engagement of the business and civic community.  What lessons can we learn from each other?  This session will dive into the who, what and why that drives these ballot issues, and identify the opportunities for us to support each other going forward.

Reporter
Channel 4

​Recent economic shifts have had a dramatic impact on the employment market, with compounding an already evolving employment market with the oil and gas industry.  With fewer larger companies and increase in smaller start-ups, job-seekers will need to adapt, develop new skills and take an entrepreneurial approach to employment.  What do the current trends mean for the oil and gas workforce in the state, and how can these emerging shifts provide expanded – if unconventional – opportunities for both employees and employers?

Senior Director of Finance & Marketing,
​HighPoint Resources

Chairman
Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC)

​Recent economic shifts have had a dramatic impact on the employment market, with compounding an already evolving employment market with the oil and gas industry.  With fewer larger companies and increase in smaller start-ups, job-seekers will need to adapt, develop new skills and take an entrepreneurial approach to employment.  What do the current trends mean for the oil and gas workforce in the state, and how can these emerging shifts provide expanded – if unconventional – opportunities for both employees and employers?

​The oil and natural gas industry in Colorado is no stranger to contending with issues on the Colorado ballot. In a state where the ballot process is accessible to special interests, citizen groups and activists, the industry certainly isn’t the only one subjected to these ballot battles.  Transportation, growth, housing and health care are frequent issues that require the leadership and engagement of the business and civic community.  What lessons can we learn from each other?  This session will dive into the who, what and why that drives these ballot issues, and identify the opportunities for us to support each other going forward.

​​​​Studies have reached contradictory conclusions about whether climate change is harming human health. How should oil and gas leaders interpret these findings and mitigate the resulting policy and social risk to their companies? This panel will look at the potential public health impacts, how they are determined, and how they can be dealt with. Panelists will address why oil and gas leaders should pay attention and contribute to solutions with knowledge, wisdom and data.

Principal
​Adamantine Energy

This session will cover everything you want to know: the who, what, where and why of the critical races and how it will impact Colorado  This session will set a broader context of what is happening on a national stage, what the impacts of COVID-19 and the economy will have on voters and how the national conversation will influence Colorado’s electoral outcomes.

Principal & CEO
​Tripma Group

​​​​Studies have reached contradictory conclusions about whether climate change is harming human health. How should oil and gas leaders interpret these findings and mitigate the resulting policy and social risk to their companies? This panel will look at the potential public health impacts, how they are determined, and how they can be dealt with. Panelists will address why oil and gas leaders should pay attention and contribute to solutions with knowledge, wisdom and data.

Research Associate
​Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines

The regulatory environment in Colorado has shifted dramatically in recent years, placing Colorado on the leading edge of a regulatory space where public policy, technology and goal-setting have increasingly co-mingling in the regulatory process.  Case-in-point, Colorado’s emission control efforts have shifted where the availability of technologies have influenced rule-making decisions, and has diverted focus away from the ultimate goal of emission reduction.  Such approach – prescribing specific technologies – prevents operators from innovating and seeking alternative best practices and emerging technology to achieve reduction goals.  While technology and feasibility will always play a role, how does industry maintain steady focus on goals amid political pressures and competing agendas, and successfully defend their ability to be nimble and innovate their practices?  What are the lessons learned that may apply to future regulatory efforts?  ​

Facility Engineering Consultant
Lansera, LLC

​Over the past several years, many industries have seen the evolution to a “gig economy” – a trend defined by flexible contract-based employment where employees are freelancers and employers are adapting the needs of the moment.  With recent shifts in the Colorado employment market, the gig economic has arrived to oil and gas, with fewer larger companies, an increase in smaller start-ups and the need for an entrepreneurial approach to employment.  What does this mean for the oil and gas workforce in the state and how can these emerging trends provide expanded – if unconventional – opportunities for both employees and employers?

CEO
Black Canyon Midstream

​With the failure of OPEC+ members to make a substantial cut to crude oil production, the forecast for crude oil prices remains grim as demand dries up across the world.  The crude oil and natural gas markets in North America are now faced with a series of unique and difficult challenges not seen in decades, if ever.  At the same time as crude oil and associated gas production is falling victim to a reduction in the price of crude oil, the spread of COVID-19 has disrupted both domestic and export demand of natural gas in North America and across the globe.  This session will provide a forecast of how long low price pain will endure, characteristics of operators who are most likely to survive and testimonial from individual operators who are navigating the choppy waters ahead. 

Co-Founder and President
BTU Analytics

The regulatory environment in Colorado has shifted dramatically in recent years, placing Colorado on the leading edge of a regulatory space where public policy, technology and goal setting have increasingly co-mingling in the regulatory process.  Case-in-point, Colorado’s emission control efforts have shifted where the availability of technologies have influenced rulemaking decisions and has diverted focus away from the ultimate goal of emission reduction.  Such approach – prescribing specific technologies – prevents operators from innovating and seeking alternative best practices and emerging technology to achieve reduction goals.  While technology and feasibility will always play a role, how does industry maintain steady focus on goals amid political pressures and competing agendas, and successfully defend their ability to be nimble and innovate their practices?  What are the lessons learned that may apply to future regulatory efforts?  ​ 

Air Quality Manager
Extraction Oil & Gas

Mayor
City of Thornton

​The oil and natural gas industry in Colorado is no stranger to contending with issues on the Colorado ballot. In a state where the ballot process is accessible to special interests, citizen groups and activists, the industry certainly isn’t the only one subjected to these ballot battles.  Transportation, growth, housing and health care are frequent issues that require the leadership and engagement of the business and civic community.  What lessons can we learn from each other?  This session will dive into the who, what and why that drives these ballot issues, and identify the opportunities for us to support each other going forward.

​VP, Community & Government Partnerships
​​Habitat for Humanity

President & CEO
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

This session will cover everything you want to know: the who, what, where and why of the critical races and how it will impact Colorado  This session will set a broader context of what is happening on a national stage, what the impacts of COVID-19 and the economy will have on voters and how the national conversation will influence Colorado’s electoral outcomes.

President & CEO
Capitol Solutions

​Multiple rulemakings, a new professional COGCC, and local government regulatory authority.  What has happened since SB19-181 passed?  What have been our successes, what have been our greatest challenges and what does the path forward look like?

Managing Member
Boigon Law

​Multiple rulemakings, a new professional COGCC, and local government regulatory authority.  What has happened since SB19-181 passed?  What have been our successes, what have been our greatest challenges and what does the path forward look like?

​Attorney
Delone Law