Welcome to our series of webinars: IFP School Voices!
IFP School Voices is an IFP School offer created in 2020, at first dedicated to its graduates, but now open to all.
It is an opportunity for participants to discover or deepen their understanding of a theme related to the subjects covered at IFP School:
- 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 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);
- Current topics in the energy and powertrain sectors.
The 2025 IFP School Voices program
| Month | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| January | 23 | 1 pm | Francisco Carranza, CEO of Basquevolt | (pending) |
The 2024 IFP School Voices program
| Month | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| October | 4 | 1 pm | Prateek Agarwal, Business Design Lead - Production Planning, SSAB | Supply Chain for Circular Economy: Fuels and Polymers |
| June | 13 | 1 pm | Florian Mercier, Principal Drilling Engineer Advisor, Helmerich & Payne | Geothermal Energy and Machine Learning: New Challenges and Opportunities for the Drilling Industry |
| 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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