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Dear Colleagues,

Organized by Kuwait Oil Company, one of the prominent leaders in the Oil & Gas industry for over 84 years, we are pleased to invite you to attend and exhibit in the 2018 Project Management Best Practice Acquired Knowledge Conference & Exhibition for The Oil & Gas Industry.

This year we would like to have you participate effectively in the first annual of the most prestigious professional project management conference & exhibition. It stands for the values of the Kuwait Oil Company for creating change and empowering individuals and organizations.

In such dynamic and evolving industry, the Conference is a dedicated knowledge-sharing strategic hub designed to help you add professional development aspects in your respective industry, as well as with K-Companies. By sharing best practices to achieve similar objectives and overcome similar challenges, the event is an attractive venue for all leading project management industries including academics, Oil & Gas companies, corporations, government institutions, and international PMCs.

From small companies to big corporates, the Conference serves as a central meeting place for all participants throughout the Oil and Gas market for listening, learning and gaining access to multi-level networking and to the latest best practice knowledge sharing in the field.

Undeniably valuable, the event is the perfect place for all leading oil & gas companies, publishers and information providers from Kuwait and abroad displaying the latest developments in the industry and demonstrates technologies and products.

We invite you to take part in the one of the most big conferences & exhibition of its kind in Kuwait.

Yours sincerely,

Jamal Ja’afar
CEO, KOC & Conference Chair

Conference Leadership Message

As the complexity of K-Companies’ projects increases in alignment with the KPC’s 2040 Strategic Directions, as Conference Co-Chairs & Executive of Steering Committee, I am pleased to announce the upcoming thematic “2018 Project Management Best Practice Acquired Knowledge Conference and Exhibition“ on 27, 28 November 2018.

In striving for value creation, the Conference is bringing together project managers who strive towards understanding complex dynamical projects and technology applications for best maximum impacts and outcomes. The event shall provide participants the opportunity to access to multi-level networking, sharing their work experience, workshops, discussions, and learn actionable insights.

We believe the Conference shall play a vital and significant role for the Company to succeed in implementing the project management new agile attributes and techniques in alignment with the KPC’s 2040 Strategy.

Appreciating your immediate valued support and attention to this matter and looking forward to your presence and participation in this event.

Kind regards,

Abdul Wahab Al-Mithin
DCEO (CSD)
Conference Co-Chairs & Executive of Steering Committee

Arriving at the 2040

The increasingly integrated global economy Globalization has led to increased competition across the world forcing most of the project and process management in the Oil & Gas industries to undertake a major shift in the way their business is traditionally conducted.

As pressure intensifies, driven by Sense of Urgency & Time-to-Market, K-Companies have to be agile and innovative to manage restructuring themselves and operate successfully into an efficient cost optimization set of value-driven strategies and techniques.

With an ending of a 3-decade digital industrial revolution, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is the fourth major industrial era since the initial Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 3-D Printing, Big Data Analytics. All of these are part of 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). Consequently, the Oil & Gas industries including KPC are facing a range of new technologies that combine the physical and digital worlds. This has constantly challenges the traditional way of managing projects and take us to a value-based project management.

Focusing on strategy implementation to succeed, the conference theme of "2018 PM Best Practice Acquired Knowledge Conference and Exhibition for the Oil & Gas Industry" tries to answer some of the possible roles of these technologies on a project environment to help K-Companies to purse a value-based project management.

The event also shine a light on the intelligent tools that shall help augment intelligence and capabilities supporting value-driven project management approach in alignment with the KPC’s 2040 Strategic Directions.

At last, The Conference significantly intents to explore the role of managing projects in achieving the KPC 2040 Strategy.

Bassam Al-Otaibi
Conference Program Manager

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