CEO
Stabilis Solutions

​Director, Talent Planning
DCP Midstream

​​Everything we do each day has an impact on our environment – from driving cars, growing, and consuming food, building, or remodeling our homes and providing the power to make it all happen. The oil and natural gas industry in Colorado is taking bold, proactive steps toward sustainability and cleaning our air to ensure we have a long and thriving future. We are not alone in this endeavor, with many other like-minded industries in the state showing their leadership and making major changes to lower their emissions and shrink their footprints.  This panel will feature our partners in progress, focusing on our collective efforts to combat climate change and integrate strategies within current regulatory efforts.

VP - Legal/Regulatory
Colorado Auto Dealers Association

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

​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

​With air quality, water, and climate change continuing to dominate the political and public debate, investors have also taken notice and have expected that oil and gas operations respond to climate change and other environmental concerns. As technology evolves, new opportunities for efficiency and clean energy use have become more feasible.  What are the latest breakthroughs in clean energy technology, and who is using them?  As more companies adopt these technologies in the field, what are we learning about their successful use – and their limitations? This session will explore emerging trends, current applications, and how success is measured and communicated to investors and the public.