The Women’s Global Leadership Conference is the largest conference in the world for women in the energy industry, bringing together leading independent and national oil companies, equipment and service companies and other organizations serving the industry. It is also the only conference that brings together women across the entire upstream, midstream and downstream energy value chain to discuss both professional development and energy industry issues that affect them and their companies. This conference addresses issues on a global scale that are relevant to the women in the industry all over the world, with speakers, sponsors and attendees from all important regional energy hubs.

“This conference is unique in that it focuses on topics that cross all sectors and job roles within our industry,” said Maggie Seeliger, Vice President of Strategic Business Development for Gulf Publishing Company. “Together with our tremendous sponsors and advisory board, we have assembled an incredible group of global industry leaders to discuss solutions to the most important issues we face today.”

Keynote speakers will include:

• Sara Akbar, Chief Executive Officer, Kuwait Energy Company
• Martha Carnes, Conference Chair of Women’s Global Leadership Conference and US Energy Assurance Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Dr. Scott W. Tinker, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology & State Geologist of Texas Professor, Edwin Allday Chair of Subsurface Geology, President-Elect, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Other presenters will include female executives and senior professionals from an array of energy companies and related organizations – including BP, ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil, Schlumberger, Shell, Halliburton, Texas Petrochemical LP, University of Texas, Texas A&M University, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and others.

“The economic hard times facing today’s market, coupled with the geopolitical issues in the energy industry, makes it increasingly important to bring the top women in energy together to focus on leadership development,” said Martha Carnes, Conference Chair and US Energy Assurance Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers. “The Women’s Global Leadership Conference is the only one of its kind that allows women in energy to join forces and tackle these hard issues.”