Innovation Agora Partners

Agora Partners

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  ABB

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  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. Our technology is enabling a safer, smarter and more sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. www.abb.com

  www.abb.com
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  Amazon Web Services

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  For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 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 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com

  https://aws.amazon.com/
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  AspenTech

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  Aspen Technology (AspenTech) is a global leader in asset optimization software. Its solutions address complex, industrial environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. AspenTech uniquely combines decades of process modeling expertise with artificial intelligence. Its purpose-built software platform automates knowledge work and builds sustainable competitive advantage by delivering high returns over the entire asset lifecycle. As a result, companies in capital-intensive industries can maximize uptime and push the limits of performance, running their assets safer, greener, longer and faster. Visit AspenTech.com to find out more.

  https://www.aspentech.com/
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  Baker Hughes

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  Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and with operations in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us at www.bakerhughes.com

  https://www.bhge.com/
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  Cognite

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  Cognite is a global industrial software provider enabling the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world. With Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), we supply contextualized data to drive industrial applications that increase safety and efficiency and drive revenue.
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  Microsoft

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  Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

  We empower people to be independent, removing barriers, enhancing their skills, and creating communities. We’re for every individual and organization—we’re inclusive and united. And we help people achieve goals— from everyday to exceptional.

  Microsoft enables the energy sector to drive business transformation and achieve growth and greater social responsibility through digital technology—enhancing exploration, production and distribution operations, and accelerating the innovation needed for the transition to clean energy.

  www.microsoft.com

  www.microsoft.com
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  Occidental

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  Occidental is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Middle East and Latin America. We are the leading producer and largest acreage holder in the Permian Basin. Occidental is advancing a lower-carbon future with our subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, which promotes innovative technologies that drive cost efficiencies and economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We also have a marketing and midstream business and WES Midstream, which includes Western Midstream Partners, LP. OxyChem, our chemical subsidiary, is among the top three U.S. producers for the principal products it manufactures and markets.

  https://www.oxy.com/Pages/default.aspx
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  OGCI Climate Investments

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  The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) is a consortium that takes practical action on Climate Change.

  OGCI Climate Investments is a $1B+ fund that invests in solutions to decarbonise “hard to abate” sectors like oil and gas, industrials and commercial transport. We look for outcomes that reduce methane and carbon dioxide emissions, and that can recycle or store carbon dioxide. Achieving significant impact requires global implementation and commercial frameworks; at OGCI Climate Investments, we collaborate with individuals, co-investors and governments to innovate, invest and implement impactful solutions.

  https://oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/climate-investments/
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  Rice University

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  Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential college system, which supports students intellectually, emotionally and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lectures series, courses and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities. As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contribution to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor.

  https://www.rice.edu/
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  The Carlyle Group

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  The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with $212 billion of assets under management across 339 investment vehicles. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 1,625 professionals operating in 31 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

  https://www.carlyle.com/
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  VMware

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  VMware is a leading innovator of enterprise software. Our cloud, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings provide an essential, ubiquitous digital foundation that powers the applications, services and experiences transforming the world.

  VMware’s vision and IT architecture deliver the freedom, flexibility, and choice to customers globally, aided by an extensive partner ecosystem. To accelerate the cloud journey, we give customers the ability to run, manage, connect, and protect any app—including cloud-native apps—on any cloud, so they can reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and innovate faster. We’re transforming networking and security by providing pervasive, intrinsic security with end-to-end connectivity for apps and data, wherever they reside. Our digital workspace solutions support end-to-end management and security for all applications, delivered to any device, empowering employees to work where and how they choose.

  Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from our breakthrough innovations to our global impact.

  Visit http://www.vmware.com.

  https://www.vmware.com/
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Agora Members

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  Bechtel

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  Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

  Bechtel serves the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com

  www.bechtel.com
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  World Energy Cities Partnership

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  Established in 1995, the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) aims to foster the world’s energy transition by facilitating international economic partnerships for its member cities. 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 2020 AGM will be held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (November 8-11). 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

  https://energycities.org/