Welcome to our series of webinars: IFP School Voices!
IFP School Voices is a service offered by IFP School and dedicated to its graduates.
It is an opportunity for you as an alumnus to pursue your professional development:
- by udpating your skills/knowledge with experts in your field or by exploring new areas;
- by sharing and interacting with the IFP School Alumni network on your passions and interests.
What is IFP School Voices?
- A monthly meeting with the School and IFP School alumni ;
- 45-minute conferences given in English via Zoom by:
- graduates from different professional backgrounds, who share their expertise and strategies;
- IFP School faculty;
- IFPEN researchers;
- Free webinars (live and recorded) accessible exclusively for IFP School graduates and students;
- Current topics in the energy and powertrain sectors.
The 2024 IFP School Voices program
| Month | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| January | 18 | 6 pm |
Bruno Lestrade, Business Developer CCUS & Power-to-Methane, and Alice Rodrigues, Chargée de projets, GRTgaz |
Presentation of the GRTgaz/RTE study on the needs and joint planning of hydrogen and electricity infrastructures |
The 2023 IFP School Voices program
| Month | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| December | 7 | 6 pm | Colonel Sylvie and Captain Amandine, Service de l'énergie opérationnelle (SEO) | SEO and its Technical Expertise Center |
| November | 23 | 6 pm | Damien Eyriès, Vice-President Green Hydrogen Value Chain & Rely CEO Elect, Technip Energies | 2023 - Hydrogen projects scale up |
| October | 5 | 6 pm | Bertrand Charmaison, Director of the I-Tésé Institute, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives | Energy sufficiency and nuclear energy: friends or foes? |
| September | 14 | 6 pm | Sandrine Vidal-Gilbert, Head of Geomechanics, TotalEnergies | Geomechanics Assessment for CO2 storage containment |
| June | 8 | 6 pm | Olivier Ferlin, Vice President Vehicle Engineering Lyon, Volvo Group Truck Technology | Engineering challenges for Heavy Duty vehicles decarbonation |
| May | 11 | 6 pm | Alberto Lozano, Senior Techno Economic Analyst, Saudi Aramco Technology Strategy & Planning Department |
Energy transitions, different strategic approaches to reach the goal of decarbonization. IOCs vs Middle East NOCs |
| April | 13 | 6 pm | Olivier Beaufils, Market Lead - ERCOT, Aurora Energy Research | Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): a game changer for energy transition in the United States? |
| March | Thursday 9 | 5 pm | Amir Soltani, Head of Production Optimization Business Unit, Beicip-Franlab, and Baptiste Auffray, PhD, Reservoir Engineer, Beicip-Franlab | How Machine Learning can boost reservoir engineering studies |
| February | Thursday 2 | 6 pm | Jérôme Mortal, CEO, ULTIMA Mobility | From automotive to electric light mobility |
| January 2023 | Thursday 19 | 6 pm | Laurent Bournay, General Director at Bionext, Jean-Philippe Heraud, Advanced Biofuels Project Manager at IFPEN and Thomas Plennevaux, Advanced Biofuels & Biochemicals Technologist at Axens |
2023: A Promising Step for the Development of 2G SAF Focus on BioTfueL® |
The 2022 IFP School Voices program
| Month | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| December 2022 | Thursday 15 | 6 pm | Jacob MESSING, Oil Market Analyst, International Energy Agency | Oil Markets: recent updates and long-term outlook |
| November 2022 | Thursday 24 | 6 pm | François-Michel COLOMAR, Sales Director, Adionics | Lithium: a fast growing industry from exploration to refined products |
| October 2022 | Tuesday 25 | 6 pm | Kristell GUIZOUARN, Group Regulatory Affairs Director, AVRIL | The role of biofuels in the decarbonization of transport |
| September 2022 | Thursday 15 | 6 pm | Gloria VENDRELL, Deputy VP Hydrogen Business Unit, TotalEnergies | Competitiveness of green hydrogen, The Masshylia Project |
| June 2022 | Thursday 9 | 6 pm | Arash FARNOOSH, Associate Professor and Program Supervisor of the Executive Master of Management in Energy, Holder of the Electricity and Digital Transition Chair at IFP School | New challenges for electrical systems |
| May 2022 | Thursday 5 | 6 pm | Nicolas PELISSIER, President of 45-8 Energy | 2020’s, the rise of a brand new type of E&P companies - Helium pure players |
| April 2022 | Thursday 14 | 6 pm |
Special round table discussion |
Hydrogen, a solution for the future of mobility? |
| March 2022 | Thursday 3 | 6 pm | Philippe THIABAUD, Head of Sales Process Industries, Corys | Digital twins for downstream industry |
| February 2022 | Thursday 3 | 6 pm | Amit RAO, Senior Consultant for the Oil Markets Midstream and Downstream practice, IHS Markit | Energy transition in Asia: a focus on China and India hurdles |
| January 2022 | Thursday 13 | 6 pm | Isabelle LE NIR, Interpretation Engineering Manager & Interpretation Metier Manager, Schlumberger | Subsurface measurements and energy transition: what the geoscientist can do for you with borehole images |
The 2021 IFP School Voices program
|
Month |
Day |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
| December 2021 | Thursday 9 | 6 pm | Nicolas JEULAND, Senior Group Expert "Future Fuels" Environment / low carbon fuels Prospective Manager, Safran | Aviation Carbon Neutrality Roadmap: a realistic ambition? |
| November 2021 | Thursday 4 | 6 pm | Mathieu SOULAS, Vice President Strategy & Supply of the Marketing & Services branch at TotalEnergies | TotalEnergies: Energy is reinventing itself, so are we! |
| October 2021 | Thursday 14 | 6 pm | Alice VIEILLEFOSSE, Deputy Director of Security of Supply and New Energy Products at the French Ministry of Ecological Transition | Challenges of the ecological transition on France's energy supply |
| July 2021 | Tuesday 6 | 6 pm | Rafael MORENO, Partner and Associate Director O&G Downstream, The Boston Consulting Group | Covid-19 crisis: brake or accelerator of the energy transition of O&G companies? |
| June 2021 | Wednesday 2nd | 6 pm | Jean-Baptiste DUBREUIL, Senior Natural Gas Analyst, International Energy Agency |
From Covid to Net-Zero: the role of gas in clean energy transitions |
| May 2021 | Tuesday 6 | 6 pm | Laurent ROSSI, Chief Executive Officer, Alpine | Alpine: sports cars in the era of "everything electric" |
| April 2021 | Tuesday 6 | 6 pm | Laurent ESCARÉ, Senior Geologist - Geosciences Leader, Storengy | The role of subsurface in the energy transition |
| March 2021 | Thursday 4 | 6 pm | Olivier LOBEY, Technical Lead, EV Powertrain Lab, Huawei Technologies | V2X, the EV powertrain at the heart of the power grid |
| February 2021 | Thursday 4 | 6 pm | James P. BOND, Senior Advisor Centennial Group | Financing the energy transition |
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January 2021 |
Thursday 7 |
6 pm | Xavier MILCENT, Global Marketing Excellence Manager at ExxonMobil Chemical | The plastics industry: a sector in need of (re)building? |
The 2020 IFP School Voices program
|
Month |
Day |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
| December 2020 | Tuesday 8 | 6 pm | Jean-Marie LAIGLE, CEO of Belmont Technology | Digital transformation in Upstream: how Artificial Intelligence enables unlimited, real-time, iterations on subsurface scenarios |
| November 2020 | Tuesday 3 | 6 pm | Vincent BARIL, Chairman Shell France & General Manager for Sustainable Chemicals | Shell Sky Scenario: Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement |
Access to these webinars is restricted to our alumni.
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Contact-us at alumni-ifpschool@ifpen.fr.
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