Energy Business Conference
NAPE Energy Business Conference attendees are invited to attend a special luncheon, featuring a keynote address and honoring the new NAPE Hall of Fame class, which recognizes individuals and companies who have played pivotal roles in making deals happen. NAPE Experience Plus Pass Required.
Luncheon Panel: AI & Technology in Energy
Multi-vendor AI panel with an E&P operator moderator, focused on the next horizon in AI — how to “level up” in the AI game, a framework for approaching and scaling AI, encouraging innovation while balancing intention and governance, and striking a balance between practical and visionary thinking.
The Luncheon Panel has been approved for 1 AAPL CEU.
Tracy Hewitt is vice president of AI strategy and enterprise innovation at bpx energy, based in Denver, Colorado. Hewitt joined BP in 2026, bringing experience in artificial intelligence strategy, enterprise data and analytics from EchoStar Corp., Red Hat and Irwin Hewitt Consulting.
Hewitt previously served as vice president of artificial intelligence data products and monetization at EchoStar and, before that, as vice president of global enterprise data and analytics at Red Hat.
Hewitt holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in applied economics, both from Michigan State University.
Boaz Nur leads the Oil and Gas vertical at Anthropic, helping operators and service companies turn AI into faster decisions, lower operating costs and safer operations. He co-founded Ingrain Inc., a digital rock physics lab acquired by Halliburton, and has spent more than 12 years in enterprise software, focusing on data governance, integration and automation/orchestration, now applied to scaling AI in the enterprise.
Kim Padeletti is a global energy and technology executive with more than 20 years of experience spanning P&L leadership, large-scale capital projects and advanced AI and cloud transformation. She brings a rare combination of operator experience in upstream oil and gas and executive leadership in enterprise technology, enabling her to bridge strategy, risk and execution in complex environments.
At AWS, she leads global energy data and AI initiatives, advising Fortune 100 companies on how to scale generative AI and modernize data foundations to drive measurable business outcomes. Earlier in her career at BHP and Occidental, she held leadership roles across multi-billion-dollar portfolios, overseeing capital allocation, operational risk and global project execution.
