MESA Middle East Technical Exchange Meeting held their June 2020 meeting virtually.
Knowledge Technology Enabling Artificial Intelligence
in the Oil and Gas Industry
Abstract:
Digital
Knowledge Layer is a critical layer – within the enterprise digital stack – for
the development of Artificial Intelligence capabilities to augment human
decision making across the enterprise. Digital Knowledge Layer learns and
observes a business domain, enables auto-reasoning over this domain, provides
machine generated recommendations or predictions, and it makes possible
auto-learning from the outcomes of the actions to continuously improve. The
session will discuss main aspects of knowledge technology and demonstrate some
of its application in the oil and gas industry.
Speaker:
Donald
Thompson;
As founder, President and Chief
Technology Officer, Donald Thompson leads Maana’s productvision, oversees
technology and product management, and is responsible forbuilding and
delivering cutting-edge solutions to Maana’s customers, some ofthe world’s
largest corporations. With over 25 years of experience deliveringhigh-profile,
large-scale software and services, Donald has worked closely withtop executives
at Fortune 30 companies todevelop
and implement computingstrategy across an array of industries, including oil
and gas, health care,finance, retail, and travel.
Prior to Maana, Donald spent 15
years at Microsoft as director of engineering, architect, and development
manager within multiple divisions. He founded Bing’s Knowledge and Reasoning
Team (project Satori); was co-founder of project Arena, which shipped as the
SQL Server 2012 Semantic Engine; created Microsoft’s first contextual ad
delivery system, spanning multiple international data centers to deliver over
14 billion targeted ads daily and generating $700MM annual revenue. Donald also
oversaw numerous incubations in Microsoft Research and Windows.
Prior to Microsoft, Donald was
architect for a financial services startup, lead developer on a cellular
billing system, and an independent consultant working on 3D graphics and
physics engines for computer games.
Donald earned a Master of
Science in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He has authored
several technical publications and holds an array of patents covering data,
wireless, search, and other technologies