Innovation Agora Partners

Agora Foundational Partners

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  ABB

  ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. As title partner in ABB Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of emobility to contribute to a sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. www.abb.com

  http://new.abb.com/
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  Amazon Web Services

  For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 60 Availability Zones (AZs) within 20 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

  https://aws.amazon.com/
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  Emerson

  Emerson is a global automation engineering, technology and digital transformation leader, propelling the world’s premier industrial companies into benchmark setting performance throughout the lifecycle of their investments. At Emerson, we call it Top Quartile. For decades, leaders in oil & gas, refining, power, chemical, mining and other industries have turned to Emerson’s expertise and innovations to deliver predictable project success. Emerson has been called upon to provide services and technologies to the world’s largest and most complex projects, helping customers eliminate unnecessary capital construction costs, reduce project complexity and restore schedule certainty. Once an asset is up and running, our clients leverage Emerson’s unparalleled automation technology portfolio to achieve Top Quartile operational performance through maximum production availability and throughput, lower energy costs and reduced safety risk. Emerson’s leadership extends from pervasive sensing technologies and the most reliable control elements to the industry’s most advanced software platforms for operations management and asset health. Emerson’s employees around the world wake up each day ready to take on our customers’ toughest challenges, turning “never been done before” into “consider it solved”

  http://www.emerson.com
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  Microsoft Azure

  Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is a Cloud first, Mobile first company delivering technologies that help businesses worldwide take advantage of mobile, enterprise social, and cloud computing trends to drive growth. Microsoft helps you to move to the cloud on your terms; getting the most value from your existing IT investments while giving you the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. www.microsoft.com
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  Saudi Aramco

  Saudi Aramco is the leading global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. Further information can be found at www.saudiaramco.com.

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  Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co

  Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. is an integrated investment and merchant bank providing high quality advice and services to the energy industry. The company offers sales and trading, and research coverage on approximately 140 issuers worldwide. The firm’s investment management complex has more than $1.9 billion AUM dedicated to the energy space. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, TPH also has offices in Calgary, Denver, London and New York.

  https://www.tphco.com/
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  Uptake

  Uptake is a leading independent advanced analytics software company creating a world that works. We challenge what’s possible with the energy that powers our world and chemicals that create modern-day life.

  Industry giants like Berkshire Hathaway Energy, multinational petrochemical companies, and others across the globe use Uptake’s software to identify problems before they occur. Together, we are setting new standards for productive, secure, safe and reliable operations.

  https://www.uptake.com/

Agora Partners

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  Accenture

  Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com
  

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  Centrica

  Centrica is a customer facing, international energy and services company. Our business is founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We supply energy and services to over 25 million customer accounts mainly in the UK, Ireland and North America through brands such as British Gas, Bord Gáis and Direct Energy, supported by around 15,000 engineers and technicians. Everything we do is focused on satisfying the changing needs of our customers, as we help to reduce their carbon footprint through advances in technology.

  Globally, the energy system is becoming more decentralised, customers have more choice, and technology is accelerating the pace of change. Our strategy is aligned to these trends by giving customers more choice and control, enabling them to be increasingly efficient in their use of energy.

  We are focusing investment on our customer-facing businesses and see growth potential in five key areas:

  • Energy Supply

  • Energy Services

  • Connected Home

  • Distributed Energy and Power

  • Energy Marketing and Trading

  We have three divisions: Centrica Consumer, Centrica Business and Exploration & Production.

  The anchor of our Centrica Consumer business has always been energy supply and in-home installation and servicing. This remains the core of this division.

  Centrica Business is structured to deliver the full range of energy solutions – from on-site power generation to data-driven insight – which today’s businesses and public sector bodies demand.

  Our Exploration & Production business, Spirit Energy, is a joint venture with Bayerngas Norge AS. Its role is to provide the cash flow diversity and balance sheet strength needed to manage our exposure to volatile energy commodity markets.

  https://www.centrica.com/
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  Equinor

  We’re Equinor, an international energy company with a proud history. Formerly Statoil, we are 20,000 committed colleagues developing oil, gas, wind and solar energy in more than 30 countries worldwide. We’re the largest operator in Norway, among the world’s largest offshore operators, and a growing force in renewables. Driven by our Nordic urge to explore beyond the horizon, and our dedication to safety, equality and sustainability, we’re building a global business on our values and the energy needs of the future.

  https://www.equinor.com
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  GE Power

  GE Power is a world energy leader providing equipment, solutions and services across the energy value chain from generation to consumption. Operating in more than 180 countries, our technology produces a third of the world’s electricity, equips 90 percent of power transmission utilities worldwide, and our software manages more than forty percent of the world’s energy. Through relentless innovation and continuous partnership with our customers, we are developing the energy technologies of the future and improving the power networks we depend on today. For more information please visit www.ge.com/power, and follow GE Power on Twitter and on LinkedIn

  https://www.ge.com/power
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  Google Cloud

  Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent, and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Our technology is built on Google’s private network and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence, and open source software. We offer a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring people, insights, and ideas together. Customers across more than 150 countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment for today’s digital world.

  https://cloud.google.com/
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  Hunt Consolidated Energy, LLC

  Hunt Consolidated, Inc. is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. The areas of activity of the different Hunt companies include oil and gas exploration and production, refining, LNG, power, real estate, investments, ranching and infrastructure. Hunt seeks to be a growth-oriented industry leader respected throughout the world for the quality and competency of its people, the efficiency and scope of its operations, and its rich heritage of honesty and integrity.

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  Indian Oil Corporation

  Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IndianOil) is India's flagship national oil company with business interests straddling the entire hydrocarbon value chain – from refining, pipeline transportation and marketing of petroleum products to exploration & production of crude oil & gas, petrochemicals and natural gas and globalisation of downstream operations.

  With a turnover of US$ 78.56 billion for the year 2017-18, IndianOil is India's largest commercial enterprise and the leading Indian corporate in Fortune's 'Global 500' listing, currently ranked at the 137th position.

  The IndianOil Group of companies owns and operates 11 of India's 23 refineries with a combined capacity of 80.70 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA), i.e., approximately 1.60 million barrels per day. Its cross-country pipelines network spans over 14,100 km and its 47,800 customer touch-points cater to the energy needs of a billion people.

  With a 33,000-plus work-force, extensive refining, distribution & marketing infrastructure and advanced R&D facilities, lndianOil plays a significant role in fuelling the socio-economic development of the country. With a mandate to ensure India's energy security and self-sufficiency in refining & marketing of petroleum products, lndianOil has in the past six decades provided energy access to millions of people across the length and breadth of the country.

  With India being the fastest growing large economy in the world today, IndianOil is investing big in refining, petrochemicals and natural gas segments. IndianOil continues to expand its business operations abroad through its overseas establishments in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, the UAE, Singapore and USA. During the year 2017-18, the Company has set up offices in Myanmar and Bangladesh too.

  With a Vision to be The Energy of India, IndianOil is on the path of becoming A Globally Admired Company.

  More information about IndianOil can be found at www.iocl.com

  https://www.iocl.com/
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  Maana

  Maana organizes the world's industrial data and human expertise into digital knowledge to enable millions of experts to make better decisions affecting global economy and human civilization. Using our Knowledge Platform and its proprietary Computational Knowledge Graph , Fortune Global 500 industrial companies drive answers to operational questions that direct the future. Operating internationally, Maana is a privately-held company with offices in Menlo Park, California; Bellevue, Washington; Houston, Texas; London, UK; and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. To learn more about Maana and our Knowledge Platform , visit www.maana.io.

  Letter from the CEO:

  Dear CERAWeek Friends, I am energized by the intensity of the changing variables in the industry. More than ever, we are tasked with the fantastic challenge to make our world turn for generations to come. We collectively face an unprecedented opportunity to leap humanity forward economically, societally, environmentally and intellectually. And I am very passionate about the role of digitization in this pursuit. Recognized by the World Economic Forum and CERAWeek as a Fourth Industrial Revolution and Energy Technology Pioneer, my company, Maana is on a mission to help you organize your companies’ data and human expertise into a new digital knowledge to drive answers to questions that direct the future. I very much look forward to learning from you about your companies’ individual journey into digitization. Best wishes, Babur Ozden Founder and CEO

  https://www.maana.io
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  Moblize

  Moblize is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the Oil & Gas unconventional market that supports challenging operations for the life of the well, and ultimately across the entire E&P industry. We are dedicated to creating Zero Decision Latency enterprises, by amplifying insights and empowering your teams to make quicker and more informed decisions, significantly increasing cost efficiency and profitability.

  Our innovative software platform integrates third party equipment, services, and a wide range of software products with E&P clients in one central hub, greatly simplifying workflows. It currently serves as a single source of truth for your Drilling & Completion Planning-Execution-Analysis-Reporting needs, with the entire oil & gas market and regions on the horizon.

  We proudly support 50 plus E&P companies across 18 major Shale Plays and over 20% of the US O&G market. Moblize was established in 2005, and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

  www.moblize.com
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  OGCI Climate Investments

  Climate Investments is a $1+ billion fund investing in technologies and business models that lower the carbon footprint of the energy and industrial sectors and their value chains. The fund was created by the CEOs of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative to take practical action on climate change. We invest in innovative companies that are ready to be commercialized and we collaborate with global co-investors and industrials to achieve speed and scale.

  This year we’re excited to partner with CERAWeek to host our first Venture Day of 2019, part of our ongoing venture series aimed at attracting leading technology that can materially reduce CO2. On March 11, we will be offering up to $50M to promising technologies or business models that reduce CO2 via increased energy efficiency in the Energy and Industrial value chain.

  To learn more about OGCI Climate Investments, please visit www.oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/climate-investments/.

  Letter from the CEO:

  Dear CERAWeek Participant,
  As CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, I am thrilled to partner with CERAWeek to host our first Venture Day of 2019, focused on Energy Efficiency to reduce CO2. This event is part of our ongoing venture series aimed at attracting leading technologies that can impact our carbon footprint.

  Our focus on Energy Efficiency is just one answer to a complex equation: how do we address the growing demand for access to reliable and affordable energy, while also helping to meet the critical challenges of climate change and air pollution?

  There is no simple solution, but it is our hope that we can collaborate with the best and the brightest and that together, we can help solve this equation.

  If you’re not familiar with OGCI Climate Investments, we are the $1+ billion fund set up by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative and we invest in technologies and business models that lower the carbon footprint of the energy and industrial sectors and their value chains. In addition to investments, we also support our investee companies in gaining access to customers and deployment. We’ve been operational since June 2017 and in this short time, we’ve made nine investments across our three focus areas: Reducing methane leakage; Reducing CO2; and Recycling CO2.

  e plan to significantly ramp up our investments this year and we’re always interested in meeting with co-investors, innovative companies, and industrials to discuss opportunities. CERAWeek brings together industry experts, global energy leaders and policymakers; it is an exceptional space to build connections and begin the conversations that may lead to the next game changing idea.

  Climate Investments will be present in several sessions and we look forward to connecting with many of you to discuss the important, innovative work that lies ahead.

  Sincerely,
  Dr. Pratima Rangarajan
  CEO, OGCI Climate Investments

  https://oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/climate-investments/
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  PrecisionHawk

  PrecisionHawk is a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise. PrecisionHawk’s client list includes Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in 150 countries, spanning a range of industries, including agriculture, energy, insurance, government and construction. To date, PrecisionHawk has raised more than $100 million from leading venture capital firms including Third Point Ventures and Millennium Technology Value Partners, with strategic investments from enterprise customers and partners including Comcast Ventures, DuPont, Intel Capital, NTT Docomo, and Yamaha Motor. The company, founded in 2010, is privately held and headquartered in Raleigh, NC. More information about PrecisionHawk can be found at www.precisionhawk.com or on Twitter @PrecisionHawk.

  www.precisionhawk.com
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  Rice University

  Located on a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is approximately 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life by the Princeton Review and for best value among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Rice is a comprehensive, leading research university that fosters diversity and an intellectual environment that produces the next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow's thinking.

  https://www.rice.edu/
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  Salesforce

  Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customer in a whole new way.

  The Salesforce Customer Success Platform includes industry-leading services spanning sales, service, marketing, commerce, and across every customer touchpoint. Salesforce will power more than 2 trillion B2B and B2C transactions this year for more than 150,000 companies and millions of Trailblazers--the individuals and their organizations who are using Salesforce to drive innovation, grow their careers and transform their businesses.

  Salesforce is committed to a set of core values—trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. The company is ranked #1 on Fortune’s World's Best Workplaces list, and Forbes has ranked the company one of the world's most innovative companies for eight years in a row.

  Salesforce is #285 out of the Fortune 500 (2018). Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco with 30,000 employees globally, and is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange as CRM (2004).

  www.salesforce.com
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  Schneider Electric

  Schneider Electric is leading the Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation in Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure and Industries.

  With global presence in over 100 countries, Schneider is the undisputable leader in Power Management – Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Secure Power, and in Automation Systems. We provide integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation and software.

  In our global Ecosystem, we collaborate with the largest Partner, Integrator and Developer Community on our Open Platform to deliver real-time control and operational efficiency.

  We believe that great people and partners make Schneider a great company and that our commitment to Innovation, Diversity and Sustainability ensures that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and at every moment.

  www.schneider-electric.com

  http://www.schneider-electric.com/ww/en/
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  Siemens

  Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for 170 years. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world's largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens generated revenue of €83.0 billion and net income of €6.2 billion. At the end of September 2017, the company had around 377,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

  https://www.siemens.com/us/en/home.html
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  WECP

  Established in 1995, the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) aims to strengthen social and economic development by promoting collaboration and partnerships in energy-related activities, with a particular focus on sustainability, education and innovation. Recognized as energy capitals, our member cities are uniquely positioned to address the issue of a sustainable, long-term energy future for all, and the WECP provides a forum in which to share experiences, lessons learned and innovations.

  Our activities center around two annual meetings. A yearly meeting is held in Houston during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and the Annual General Meeting is hosted by a different city on a rotating basis. Our 2019 AGM will be held in Aberdeen, in conjunction with the Offshore Europe Conference & Exhibition. Alongside these meetings, the WECP also facilitates trade missions so that local businesses can learn about development opportunities in other member cities.

  Learn more at www.energycities.org

  www.energycities.org
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  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

  The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s leading, independent, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing knowledge of the ocean and its connection with the Earth system through a sustained commitment to excellence in science, engineering, and education, and to the application of this knowledge to problems facing society.

  www.whoi.edu