Gregor Deans Presenter

Gregor Deans is a Customer Success Manager at FutureOn, and a subsea controls and technical authority. Gregor has been involved in the design, development, testing, installation and operation of subsea control and monitoring systems for over 25 years. Recently he has been involved in the definition and development of digital design and analytics tools.

Hemant Priyadarshi Presenter

Director, Subsea StudioTM Program
TechnipFMC

Hemant has been working with TechnipFMC for 15yrs. He started his career as a field engineer and worked aboard a versatile fleet of vessels and a variety of offshore and subsea projects across different regions. His field experience stretches across S-lay, reel-lay, platform installation/heavy lifts, diving, IMR and hyperbaric repair projects.
Hemant also worked in various project leadership positions – such as installation lead, package lead, project lead / Deputy PM with increasing responsibilities over time.
Hemant transitioned from execution to Front end and field development in 2015. He held multiple roles such as SURF department manager, technical manager and portfolio manager. With his execution background he could develop sound strategies for iEPCI projects at the very early stages of a project. He held regional technical ownership of key customer accounts before moving into digital transformation.
As a director of Subsea Studio-FD program, Hemant represents front end and systems engineering and is the business owner for this amazing digital platform. He is responsible for delivery of the tool as per business needs/expectations while ensuring value creation.
Hemant is also a member of TechnipFMC’s theater team and has presented at various industry forums in the past. He holds an undergrad in mechanical engineering and has an MBA.

Matt Straw Presenter

Predictive engineering and its value to the operating digital twin
Norton Straw - engineering & technology

Matt Straw is Managing Director of Norton Straw, who provide engineering and technology consultancy services across the energy, transportation and processing industries, with focus on digital services from strategy development to design and operations.

Matt has Batchelor and Masters environmental engineering degrees and a PhD in environmental fluid mechanics all from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

He has over 20 years' experience in the development and application of simulation and predictive analytics to a wide range of engineering systems across the energy, transportation and process industries.