Maintenance & Asset Integrity: Predictive Analytics, Drones and Robotics for Fields, Pipelines and Facilities. Predictive maintenance and remote inspection are among the clearest practical uses of digitalization. This session explores how AI, drones, robotics, visual analytics and sensor data can reduce downtime, detect anomalies ...
LIDER DE DIGITALIZACION, PECOM
Executive with more than 25 years of experience leading strategies in Industrial Digital Transformation, Automation, Control, and OT/IT Integration for upstream oil and gas operations. Track record of developing corporate programs at YPF, Pan American Energy, and PECOM, with a focus on asset digitization, control rooms, Industrial IoT, the PI System, SCADA, data quality, operational efficiency, and technological innovation.
Vaca Muerta’s growth depends on repeatable, lower-cost shale execution. This session explores how AI, drilling analytics, telemetry, real-time monitoring and digital completions workflows can improve well design, frack optimization and execution quality.
Gerente de Ingeniería de Producción y Servicios al Pozo, PECOM Energía
UDC-DRILLING NQN - LEADER, PAN AMERICAN ENERGY
Dimas Reyes is a Petroleum Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Business and Technology, with more than 23 years of experience in the oil and gas industry across Latin America. He currently serves as Production Engineering and Well Services Manager at PECOM Energy, where he leads initiatives focused on production optimization, artificial lift systems, well intervention strategies, data analytics, and the application of artificial intelligence to mature field operations.
Throughout his career, Dimas has worked in Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, and Venezuela, contributing to projects involving sucker rod pumps (SRP), electric submersible pumps (ESP), progressive cavity pumps (PCP), nodal analysis, production optimization, and digital transformation. He has also served as an international instructor, delivering technical training on artificial lift and production engineering in several countries across the region.
His current professional focus is on integrating production engineering, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve operational decision-making, enhance well performance, and accelerate the digital transformation of upstream operations.
As oil and gas assets become more connected, cybersecurity becomes an operational reliability issue. This session examines practical risks around SCADA, communications, vendor access, legacy systems, remote assets and incident recovery...
IT/OT Architect, Pluspetrol
Ezequiel Alejandro Saponaro is an Electronic Engineer and IT/OT Architect at Pluspetrol, specializing in industrial networks, SCADA, automation and control systems, and OT cybersecurity. He has experience designing and integrating IT/OT architectures for Oil & Gas operations, including PCS, PMS and safety systems, industrial communication protocols, virtualization, and resilient infrastructure. His work covers greenfield and brownfield projects, FAT/SAT activities, network segmentation, and cybersecurity architectures aligned with ISA/IEC 62443 principles, with a focus on the secure integration of increasingly connected industrial environments.
This session explores training, resistance, role redesign and the move from manual firefighting to data-driven operations...
Gerente de productos digitales Upstream, YPF
Franco leads digital transformation, data, and AI initiatives focused on turning technological capabilities into tangible business results. His work centers on designing and scaling strategies that strengthen decision-making, drive operational efficiency, accelerate cultural evolution, and improve the experience for both users and teams. Throughout his career, Franco has integrated business, technology, data, and innovation to transform complex challenges into organizational capabilities, digital products, and sustainable operating models. He combines strategic vision with execution, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and product management, while treating data as a fundamental asset for generating insights, alignment, and business value. His experience in leadership roles in both business and IT enables him to effectively align digital, data, and AI strategies with the organization’s priorities. Franco is the author of a technical book based on his graduate thesis and is deeply committed to continuous learning, innovation, and large-scale organizational transformation.
Scaling Vaca Muerta depends on moving sand, water, chemicals, equipment, crews and spares at the right time and cost. This session examines how AI and digital supply-chain platforms can reduce bottlenecks and improve field readiness.
Director de Mercado Internacional , de TOTVS
Consultor de soluciones de IA - Upstream, YPF
Gabriel holds a PhD in Geophysics from the National University of La Plata and specializes in the application of Artificial Intelligence in the energy sector. He currently works as an AI Solution Consultant at YPF, where he leads the strategy and development of assistants based on intelligent agents, advanced analytics, and RAG to optimize processes in Upstream operations. He has extensive experience in technology consulting for the industry and is the author of several international publications on applied geophysics.
Argentina is investing in real-time intelligence centers and unified operations rooms, but the key question is whether they change field execution. This session examines what separates supervisory dashboards from true operational control.
Supervisor de Sala de Control, PECOM
UDC-DRILLING NQN - LEADER, PAN AMERICAN ENERGY
I worked in several areas within the Oil & Gas industry, starting in secondary recovery, followed by production, where I worked as a supervisor. I then moved into management control, where I was responsible for daily and monthly production reporting and presented reports at both the local and national levels. Finally, I joined the control room, where we monitor dehydration plants, wells, and facilities.
A flagship operator discussion on what has genuinely moved from pilot to repeatable operational value in Argentina, and what still stalls because of data, cost, automation or field-adoption constraints...
GESTOR DE PROCESOS Y HERRAMIENTAS VICEPRESIDENCIA DE INFRAESTRUCTURA, YPF
Scaling Vaca Muerta depends on moving sand, water, chemicals, equipment, crews and spares at the right time and cost. This session examines how AI and digital supply-chain platforms can reduce bottlenecks and improve field readiness.
Director de Mercado Internacional , de TOTVS
Consultor de soluciones de IA - Upstream, YPF
Javier Marbec is the International Market Director at TOTVS, a leading Latin American technology company. He has extensive experience within the company, where he previously served as Commercial Manager and, before that, as Services Manager for the Southern Region.
He joined TOTVS in March 2009 as a Project Coordinator (Project Manager for the market), holding the position for three years and being responsible for the implementation of major accounts, while actively contributing to the development of implementation methods and processes within the Services area.
Marbec holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
Previously, he served as Professional Services Manager, as Project Leader for Neuralsoft Technologies, and earlier as a Senior Consultant within the same organization. He also worked as an Analyst in Systems Analysis and Earnings at the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), and as Head of the Cost Department at Coordinación Ecológica Área Metropolitana Sociedad del Estado (CEAMSE).
After his graduation 1986 he joined Bridas SAPIC, as junior geologist in the Exploration Department.
Between 1987 and 1992 he worked as development geologist at the same company, participating in the development of several fields within the Golfo San Jorge & Neuquina Basin.
Between 1992 and 1995 he lived in Turkmenistan, where he served as Geological Manager of the Joint Venture Keimir and Yashlar, the first being a development project by the Caspian Sea, while in the latter Bridas made a discovery of a giant field of more than 50 TCF of gas reserves.
From 1995 to 1998 he worked in Bridas Energy Services UK, based in London, as New Ventures Manager for Central Asia region.
In 1998 he returned to Argentina and joined Pan American Energy, performing duties as Partner Relations and New Ventures Manager.
From 2010 to 2020 he was appointed Joint Ventures Executive Manager of Pan American Energy till his retirement. Currently he works as a consultant.
Vaca Muerta’s growth depends on repeatable, lower-cost shale execution. This session explores how AI, drilling analytics, telemetry, real-time monitoring and digital completions workflows can improve well design, frack optimization and execution quality.
Gerente de Ingeniería de Producción y Servicios al Pozo, PECOM Energía
UDC-DRILLING NQN - LEADER, PAN AMERICAN ENERGY
Argentina is investing in real-time intelligence centers and unified operations rooms, but the key question is whether they change field execution. This session examines what separates supervisory dashboards from true operational control.
Supervisor de Sala de Control, PECOM
UDC-DRILLING NQN - LEADER, PAN AMERICAN ENERGY
Mechanical Engineer with more than 15 years of solid experience in the design, planning, and operational supervision of large-scale drilling campaigns in conventional and non- conventional fields (Vaca Muerta and the San Jorge Gulf Basin). Specialist in the strategic management of complex onshore operations, leading multidisciplinary teams with a focus on optimizing technical processes, reducing operating costs, and mitigating critical risks in real time. Proven experience in the implementation of high-efficiency well reengineering and the adoption of new technologies under rigorous safety and operational continuity standards.
AI is increasingly being used in industrial operations, creating new cybersecurity risks that must be governed and managed across operations, IT, and third parties.
Director, CISIAR
Julio Cesar Ardita is an expert cybersecurity consultant with over 30 years of practical experience in cybersecurity strategy and transformation, cybersecurity in industrial environments (OT), payment security, and cyber-incident investigation and response. He is currently the Director of CISIAR and provides cybersecurity advisory services.
Many AI projects fail because the underlying data, automation and workflows are not ready. This session examines how operators can strengthen instrumentation, SCADA, historians, data standards and legacy-field architecture before scaling AI.
Upstream Digital Transformation Manager en, Pan American Energy
AI Consultant, YPF
Matías Frydman is an AI Consultant at YPF and Head of AI at the University of Buenos Aires' Interinstitutional Center for Data Science (CID). At YPF, he leads agentic AI initiatives across Upstream, Downstream, Infrastructure and QEHS, from discovery and solution design to deployment within operational workflows. At UBA, he leads teams delivering end-to-end AI solutions for public and private sector organizations, including agentic systems in daily use in the legal and justice sectors.
Argentina’s operators must scale production and reduce lifting costs without simply adding headcount. This session examines how AI, SCADA analytics, remote monitoring and exception-based workflows can improve field production decisions.
Ingeniero de producción NOC Oil, YPF SA
SPECIALIST ENGINEER UPO-ASSET PROCESS & QUALITY UG-NQN, Pan American Energy S.L.
I hold a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, with more than 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, leading the full asset lifecycle: engineering, service readiness, commissioning, start-up, and operations. I have been with Pan American Energy since 2004. I currently serve as Operations Specialist Engineer – Process & Quality – Neuquén Business Unit. From 2020 to 2026, I served as Oil and Gas Operations Leader for the Neuquén Business Unit. During that period, I led the start-up of all oil and gas plants, along with the transportation and custody transfer systems; we formed and consolidated the operational teams at each facility and centralized operations from a single control room, within the framework of unconventional development. The result was a team with a strong focus on process safety and critical operations, featuring efficient management and robust operational performance standards. Previously, I was in charge of gas operations at the Golfo San Jorge Production Unit, where I established the Fitness-for-Service department and served as Senior Mechanical Project Engineer. I presented papers at the CCPS Latin American conferences (2011 and 2015) and received the Best Paper Award at the IAPG Technical Conference (2013).
Argentina’s operators must scale production and reduce lifting costs without simply adding headcount. This session examines how AI, SCADA analytics, remote monitoring and exception-based workflows can improve field production decisions.
Ingeniero de producción NOC Oil, YPF SA
SPECIALIST ENGINEER UPO-ASSET PROCESS & QUALITY UG-NQN, Pan American Energy S.L.
Petroleum Engineer with experience in Integrated Studies and strategic planning. Responsible and proactive, with the ability to contribute to the development and execution of projects. Committed to fostering a respectful work environment. Intermediate English proficiency.
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy is one of the highly sought out transformational leaders for his expertise in leveraging disruptive technologies, solutions, strategies and talent transformation, to grow the business, enterprise, and organization. Dr. Priyadarshy is recognized as the first Chief Data Scientist of the Oil and Gas Industry. His work or profile has appeared in many magazines including Chemical and Engineering News, The Scientist, Silicon India, Oil Review Middle East, Petroleum Review, World, Journal of Petroleum Technology, RigZone, Forbes among others. He has held many corporate leadership and academic research/faculty positions over the course of his career. Dr. Priyadarshy obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in (Quantum/Theoretical Chemistry) and MBA (Honors) from The Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tec
Many AI projects fail because the underlying data, automation and workflows are not ready. This session examines how operators can strengthen instrumentation, SCADA, historians, data standards and legacy-field architecture before scaling AI.
Upstream Digital Transformation Manager en, Pan American Energy
AI Consultant, YPF
Systems Engineer from UTN, with a specialization in Oil & Gas from ITBA. Upstream Digital Transformation Manager at Pan American Energy. I work at the intersection of technology, management, and people, driving digital solutions that facilitate decision-making and generate value for the industry. I believe digital transformation is a key capability for navigating the present and future, and in building teams capable of turning technology into tangible business impact.









