• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Susan Kish

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)

Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Communications

Susan Kish is the Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Communications at OGCI, a CEO-led initiative which aims to drive the industry response to climate change. She leads the team for developing platforms for engagement with stakeholders and supporting communications across OGCI and OGCI Climate Investments. A seasoned entrepreneur, Susan has been successful in working across stakeholders to bring new ideas to life across industries. Prior to OGCI, Susan had her own firm and worked with IHS Markit, where she launched and built the Innovation Agora @ CERAWeek, and advised senior management at PBS, to develop their strategy across the public media system. At Bloomberg LP, Susan focussed on strategy and innovation across media, data and analytics and led market development at New Energy Finance, where she started the Bloomberg Future of Energy Summit. Susan began her career as a banker at UBS and Chase. Today, she is a trustee and independent director on several boards and a Connection Science Fellow at MIT.   

Sessions With Susan Kish

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 11:30am - 12:20pm (CST) / -

    Customer-Driven Innovation

    Innovation & Technology

    Innovation is a wonderful, inspiring goal—and a great way to sell a lot of books. In reality, it is a lot of hard work and never easy. However, when innovation comes out of deep customer needs then it can have real impact, and at scale. Today technology is moving so fast many customers may not know how to ask the right questions or be able to imagine what is possible—which can result in incremental action. What is needed to achieve truly breakthrough innovation? What is the role of the customer in shaping future disruptive technologies? What does it mean to “listen to the customer” in a world of growing complexity and connections? How do leading innovators engage customers in their innovation processes now and in the future?

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 02:30pm - 03:20pm (CST) / -

    Innovation Cities of the Future

    Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory Innovation & Technology

    Cities will drive the future as they become the critical component of the human landscape, with an estimated two-thirds of the world’s population living in cities by 2050. The challenges of infrastructure, services, and development—combined with escalating pressures from changes in climate, demographics and growth – impact all cities, and especially “energy cities,” those that have relied upon traditional oil and gas industries for much of their economic development. One of the most powerful solutions will be innovation—around all these challenges, and around their core economic structure. How do cities effectively support innovation? How do they attract, and retain, the resources—talent, investment, research, industry—that make innovation real?