October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
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Faster decisions, stronger resilience, and greater capital discipline are redefining performance across natural resources. Unleashed brings operators, customers, experts, and innovators together for three days of practical insight, customer stories, hands-on demo experiences and valuable peer connections. See how leading organizations are using Industrial AI to respond faster to volatility, safeguard margins and improve asset availability in a rapidly changing market.
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Join your Peers
Three days. One stage. Every industry the world relies on. Here’s what the room looks like when you arrive in Orlando.
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What's on for Resources
REFINED. The Industry That Never Stops. Gets Sharper Under Pressure. Unleashed brings together oil and gas operators, partners, and industry leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry through sessions on Industrial AI, upstream asset performance, and field-to-financials execution.
Volatility Exposed It. Velocity Is How You Respond. Rethinking the O&G Operating Model
Energy markets are moving faster than systems can keep up. Value now depends on real-time asset truth, rapid capital decisions, and AI-led execution.
Volatility Exposed It. Velocity Is How You Respond. Rethinking the O&G Operating Model
Energy markets are moving faster than systems can keep up. Value now depends on real-time asset truth, rapid capital decisions, and AI-led execution. Senior O&G leaders explore what recent volatility exposed, the three shifts shaping the next decade of operators and what the next-generation O&G operating model looks like when it's already running.
Speakers:
- Mike Scheller, PwC
- Herman Nieuwoudt, IFS
What Oil & Gas Leaders Are Asking For Next and How IFS Is Answering
From connected EAM, FSM, and production accounting in market today to a fully integrated field-to-financials platform in 2026.
What Oil & Gas Leaders Are Asking For Next and How IFS Is Answering
From connected EAM, FSM, and production accounting in the market today to a fully integrated field-to-financials platform in 2026. See where IFS is investing next across the O&G value chain - agentic production monitoring, AI-driven capital prioritization, predictive upstream asset health and shape the roadmap with your operational priorities.
Speakers:
- Brandon Elam, IFS
Barrel to Bottom Line: A Field to Financials Approach for E&R Operations
In your operation, data flows once: connecting production, asset health, field work, and financial close or it doesn't flow at all.
Barrel to Bottom Line: A Field to Financials Approach for E&R Operations
In your operation, data flows once: connecting production, asset health, field work, and financial close or it doesn't flow at all. See how every role: operator, accountant, and executive works from the same real-time view, with AI supporting decisions in every workflow, automation handling the routine, and a unified intelligence layer connecting output, cost, risk, and control.
Speakers:
- Continental
- Brandon Elam, IFS
- Clara Fuge, IFS
- Billy Lowry, IFS
- Grant Eggleton, IFS
Offshore Doesn't Forgive Gaps. See How Industrial AI Closes Them. Live.
A live demonstration of how offshore energy leaders are using an integrated, AI-driven platform to connect asset performance, maintenance, logistics, and financial control.
Offshore Doesn't Forgive Gaps. See How Industrial AI Closes Them. Live.
A live demonstration of how offshore energy leaders are using an integrated, AI-driven platform to connect asset performance, maintenance, logistics, and financial control. See how leading operators are reducing downtime, strengthening compliance, and improving cost visibility across complex offshore and renewable operations.
Speakers:
- Herman Nieuwoudt, IFS
Scaling Industrial AI from Pilot to Operating Impact
Discover What Running AI at Field Scale Actually Looks Like. In this expert panel, customers share what's working, what stalled at pilot, and why.
Scaling Industrial AI from Pilot to Operating Impact
Discover What Running AI at Field Scale Actually Looks Like. In this expert panel, customers share what's working, what stalled at pilot, and why. Hear where embedded AI, agentic automation, and Industrial AI are actually delivering returns and the leadership habits that turn experiments into repeatable value across field, planning, and capital allocation.
Speakers:
- Pedro Buhigas, Kodiak
- Toby Summers, Deloitte
- Herman Nieuwoudt, IFS
- Nick Vandivere, IFS
Merrick Community Roundtable: Roadmap, Peer Experience, What Comes Next
An invite-only discussion for Merrick operators focused on deployment lessons, roadmap priorities, and the future of production accounting within IFS Cloud.
Merrick Community Roundtable: Roadmap, Peer Experience, What Comes Next
An invite-only community discussion for current Merrick operators. Shared deployment experience, direct roadmap input, and peer perspective on production accounting at scale, asset-based pricing, and the path forward as Merrick connects more tightly with the broader IFS Cloud platform. The community shapes what gets built next.
Speakers:
- Clara Fuge, IFS
- Kim Gartrell, IFS
Industrial AI Applied: Building Operational Brilliance on Live Oilfield Data
Operators are under pressure to deliver safer, more reliable production from ageing assets while experienced talent shrinks.
Industrial AI Applied: Building Operational Brilliance on Live Oilfield Data
Operators are under pressure to deliver safer, more reliable production from ageing assets while experienced talent shrinks. A live demonstration of a scalable Industrial AI solution; running on live oilfield data, integrated with Merrick and IFS Cloud EAM; that drives reliability, stabilizes production, lifts workforce productivity, and protects long-term asset value.
Speakers:
- Josh Ranson, IFS
- Matt Ely, IFS
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
In oil & gas, the gap between who responds in hours and who takes weeks is where margin is won and lost. The operators pulling ahead already know which decisions protect them when the market moves. This is where you find out what separates them.
Insight Refined at Operational Scale
Understand the benchmarks separating operators who reallocate assets in hours from those who take weeks, and what decisions are safeguarding margins, availability, and performance right now.
AI in Action Across Your Operations
Live demonstrations covering well lifecycle management, production accounting, asset integrity, and field service optimization, built around the decisions your commercial leaders need to make.
Keynotes That Shape What's Next
Hear from oil and gas leaders who have stopped waiting for volatility to ease, and started building the resilience to operate profitably through it.
AI Startup Hall
Discover Industrial AI companies solving oil and gas problems with no viable solution until now, from production optimization to intelligent asset integrity and field workforce management.
Oil and Gas Breakouts
Build your agenda around the performance decisions that protect your bottom line. Sessions cover production accounting, asset management, field service, HSE compliance and the operational priorities that separate leaders from the rest.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS capabilities for oil and gas. Leave with practical tools, a clearer implementation path and the confidence to operate profitably through whatever the market brings. Training registration is open.
Insight Refined at Operational Scale
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What you'll leave with
A direct look at how global operators connect field performance to financial control
Hear from a supermajor running IFS across 13,500 users: why the shift was made, what is working, and what it takes to deliver speed, reliability, and cost control across upstream, downstream, and renewables at scale.
A sequenced roadmap from production accounting and EAM today to a fully integrated field-to-financials platform
See where IFS is investing next across the O&G value chain and bring your operational priorities into the conversation. Leave with a clear view of where the platform is going and what to tackle first.
Industrial AI running on live oilfield data, right now
Applied AI across production reliability, predictive asset health, and agentic production monitoring. See what the technology looks like operating in a real O&G environment, not a demo lab.
A peer network sharpened by shared field experience
O&G operations leaders, asset managers, and E&R technology decision-makers are navigating the same volatility. Peer relationships that hold long after Orlando, especially when the market moves.
Be Part of the Era of Limitless Industry
From first-time attendees to returning champions, Unleashed 2026 brings your transformation into focus and turns vision into action.
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Where industry leaders set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
Steve Mould
Modulaire Group
Curtis Taylor
Sims Crane
Lidia Ribarovska
Quanta Services