Ghislain Taschini is a Partner at Bourton Group, specializing in business performance improvement across asset-intensive industries.

With over 20 years' experience, he supports organizations in strengthening operational performance and moving beyond compliance-driven approaches towards performance-led systems.

He works closely with senior leaders to improve operational control, enhance workforce capability, and embed safety, reliability, and sustainability into day-to-day operations.

Ghislain is the creator of the O3Rs operating system (Operational Excellence, Risk, Readiness and Resilience), which connects performance, protection, preparedness, and adaptability into one coherent model.

By aligning operations, risk, and leadership decision-making, he enables organizations to strengthen asset and process reliability and build resilience, supporting sustainable performance in a volatile and evolving landscape.

Bradleigh is a trained and experienced, non-executive director, chair, and special adviser.

He is currently Head of HSE for UK & Central Europe for RWE. Bradleigh also acts as vice chair for the European focus group of G+

He has worked across multiple high risk sectors across a broad portfolio and operating at a global level in both listed and private equity-backed businesses.

Bradleigh's expertise includes driving sustainable and ethical change within corporate health, safety, wellbeing, environment.

He has significantly improved performance, reducing incidents, exposure, and loss and has embedded a continuous improvement culture across the organizations he has worked in.

Key skills include developing and implementing compliance strategies, risk management frameworks, multi-disciplinary management systems, and the organizational design to deliver these.

A thought leader, and coach/mentor, Bradleigh enjoys supporting those in the profession and those looking to develop further.

Anna Gruffman is Vice President Health & Safety at Vattenfall Group, where they lead the strategic direction and functional governance of health and safety across an international energy business operating in multiple countries, with over 20,000 employees and a similar number of contractors.

With more than 20 years of experience in environment, health and safety (EHS), Anna has held senior leadership roles across the energy, construction, and mining industries.

Prior to joining Vattenfall, Anna served as Head of Health & Safety at Bonava Group and held multiple leadership positions within Sandvik, including EHS Manager Europe.

Anna is a recognized expert in safety leadership and management systems, having contributed to international standards development—including ISO 45001—and serving in expert and chair roles within the Swedish Institute for Standards.

Their passion is to drive safety as a business priority, focusing on leadership, culture, and integrating health and safety into core operations to enable sustainable performance and real risk reduction

Nuno Garrido is a senior executive in Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Quality (HSSEQ) at GALP Energia, where he currently leads enterprise‑wide HSES strategy, governance, and performance across complex industrial operations.

With a background spanning operations, economic optimization, and risk management, Nuno brings a pragmatic perspective on integrating HSES into core business decision-making.

His work focuses on strengthening leadership accountability, evolving governance models, and simplifying management systems to enable effective execution at scale while enhancing organizational resilience.

Roland Flaig is Managing Director at Aneo Sweden. He has more than 20 years of international leadership experience across renewable energy operations, engineering, HR and organisational transformation.

Roland has led multicultural teams across Europe and Australia, including organisations of 500+ employees and 250 operational sites.

He has a strong track record in building high-performing operational organisations, integrating acquisitions and creating sustainable performance cultures.

With an academic background in psychology and business administration, Roland brings a people-centred perspective on leadership, safety ownership and organisational culture.

Bridget Todd is the Enterprise Vice President of Environmental, Health, and Safety, responsible for companywide HSE governance, strategy, and performance.

She brings more than 20 years of experience across the energy and industrial sectors, with a diverse background spanning business development, product stewardship, and HSE leadership.

Prior to her current role, Bridget served as the HSE Performance Excellence Leader, where she drove the development of an integrated approach to performance management.

Her work aligned organizational learning, human performance principles, management systems, auditing, and conformity with industry standards to strengthen enterprise-level HSE outcomes.

Bridget joined Baker Hughes in 2012, supporting compliance, product stewardship, and stakeholder engagement related to hydraulic fracturing.

Before joining Baker Hughes, she worked as a consultant to the energy and automotive industries, specializing in liabilities management with a focus on environmental compliance, toxicology, and regulatory risk.

She is an active member of the American Petroleum Institute (API), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP).

Bridget also serves on the SPE Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Executive Advisory Committee. Bridget holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Sam Houston State University and is based in Houston, Texas, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Driven by a deep commitment to protecting the planet and its people, Andrea views sustainability as the true North of modern business.

Encompassing health & safety, environmental stewardship, human rights, and social responsibility, sustainability has been the guiding thread of his entire career.

Over the past 15+ years, Andrea has had the privilege of working and learning alongside major players in the global energy sector, including Hitachi Energy, Hitachi-ABB Power Grids, General Electric, Alstom, and Siemens.

As he grew as a leader, he took on progressively greater responsibilities in the sustainability domain, from managing large-scale construction projects in developing countries to leading sustainability functions in global organizations.

After years of professional experience spent across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Andrea relocated to Switzerland in 2013.

He currently serves as the Global Head of Sustainability and HSE at Hitachi Energy - Grid Integration.

Rebecca Maskrey is an Associate Sustainability Consultant at AECOM with over a decade of experience spanning waste management, circular economy, sustainability advisory and infrastructure led energy transition.

Her work focuses on integrating circularity, resource efficiency and environmental risk considerations into decision making for major public and private sector organizations. Rebecca provides strategic sustainability advice across circular economy, waste and materials management, greenhouse gas inventories, climate and nature related risk, and disclosure.

She has supported infrastructure owners and operators to respond to regulatory change and deliver net zero and nature positive outcomes. She currently chairs AECOM's Forum for Circular Infrastructure, promoting the practical application of circular economy principles in large-scale assets. Earlier in her career, Rebecca worked extensively in the waste sector, managing complex client portfolios, leading waste audits, developing recycling strategies, and supporting operational compliance and performance improvement.

She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and a past recipient of the International Solid Waste Association Young Professionals Writing Competition award.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Liverpool and has professional training in sustainable finance and climate-related financial risk.

Her interests center on accelerating circular economy delivery across infrastructure, aligning waste and resource strategies with the energy transition, and embedding sustainability in a safe, fair and commercially robust way.

Roland has been the key driver and architect in digitalizing HSE systems at Norsk Hydro since 2005.

He has also held different leadership positions starting form site management up to regional HSE lead position in Europe and North America.

He works currently as Head of HSE Management Systems in corporate team and concentrating to modernize HSE including use of AI tools in the daily process.

Health, Safety & Environment leader with 10+ years in HSE management, risk control and safety leadership.

Experienced in implementing robust HSE systems and fostering safety culture across multinational operations in the energy/utilities sector, including Global HSE director roles at Fortum (Finland) and recently in KK Group (Denmark).

Proven track record in driving safety performance improvement for safer workplaces.

Daryl Wake is a seasoned safety leader and former noncommissioned officer in the Royal Australian Navy, with over 30 years of experience in health, safety, environmental, and quality management across more than 50 countries.

He has a proven track record in frontline safety management, specialising in behavioural safety, leadership development and organisational culture enhancement.

As the Director of Business Development at DEKRA Organisational and Process Safety, Daryl partners with blue-chip clients in industries such as petroleum, mining, minerals processing, exploration, and manufacturing.

He delivers practical, no-nonsense solutions that elevate safety performance to worldclass standards.

Daryl's notable experience includes years of service with BHP, where he coordinated and led safety programs and risk mitigation measures at various sites in Africa and Australia.

His efforts contributed to a 47% reduction in injury rates across projects and the implementation of rigorous training, inspection, and corrective action regimes to improve safety performance.

A sought-after consultant, speaker, and author, Daryl is recognised for his expertise in frontline safety management and organisational culture transformation.

He regularly presents at high-profile international HSE conferences and events, sharing insights on Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) prevention, leadership behaviours and cultural change.

Daryl holds an International Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health from the British Safety Council and Six Sigma yellow- and green-belt certifications.

Originally from Australia, he has lived and worked in the Middle East since 2014 and now resides in Surrey, England.

Kashif Jameel is a Certified Safety Professional with 18 years of experience in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), Process Safety, and plant operations across the fertilizers and energy industries, including ammonia, urea, utilities, power plants, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), RNG (Renewable Natural Gas), petrochemical facilities, and the handling and storage of petroleum products.

Demonstrated expertise in training and competency development, auditing, operational excellence, behavior-based safety, and occupational safety.

Proven leader of multifunctional teams, with deep knowledge of DuPont Process Safety Management (PSM), Six Sigma methodologies, and a strong track record in driving sustainable process optimization initiatives.

Helen Bates is Co-Founder of Human Edge Consulting and a senior learning, leadership and transformation adviser with 25+ years of experience helping organisations in complex, high-risk environments turn strategy into sustained performance.

She works with senior leaders to strengthen leadership, organisational effectiveness, workforce capability and culture, with a particular focus on embedding the behaviours and ways of working that improve safety, performance and execution.

Helen is also an ICF-accredited executive coach and is known for practical, human-centred approaches that help organisations move beyond training and compliance to build leadership and workforce capability where it matters most.

Christian Hopper supports DEKRA’s clients across EMEA. He challenges a fundamental assumption in HSE: are organisations truly preventing serious harm—or just managing performance indicators? Working globally at senior levels across energy, utilities and industrials, he focuses on SIF prevention, human behaviour, and safety choice architecture—helping leaders move beyond compliance toward evidence-led safety confidence.

A NEBOSH Diploma-qualified multilingual OSH practitioner, Christian connects contractor assurance, leadership decision-making, and operational learning to deliver practical, scalable interventions that support safety

He is committed to advancing safety and reliability improvement strategies that not only reduce risk but also deliver measurable operational and business value, closing the gap between work as imagined and work as done.

Paul Brown is Head of QHSE at Geoquip Marine, leading safety, quality and environmental performance across global offshore and onshore operations in high-risk, highly regulated environments.

With a background in offshore Oil and Gas operations, he has progressed into senior QHSE leadership, bringing practical experience of the realities people face in demanding environments. His experience working within emergency response and incident command environments has shaped his approach to risk and decision-making under pressure.

Paul takes a people-first approach to HSE, focusing on how work is actually carried out and creating environments where individuals feel able to speak up. He is particularly interested in how organizations and governance influence behaviour, reporting and learning in practice.

Ece Hakyemez is the Global Continuous Improvement Manager at ABB Electrification, where she leads the strategic design and execution of Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, and Digital Transformation initiatives across global operations.

With 18+ years of international leadership experience across the Food, Automotive, Textile, and Electrification sectors, Ece has built a proven track record of aligning operational excellence programs with enterprise strategy and driving organizational performance at scale.

Her expertise spans process optimization, lean transformation, and building high-performing cross-functional teams in complex, multicultural environments.

Beyond her corporate leadership, Ece is a Professional Coach and active advocate for women's empowerment and professional development.

For over a decade, she has worked with international NGOs to create opportunities for women to lead and excel on global stages.

Her commitment to mentoring emerging talent and fostering inclusive leadership practices reflects her belief that sustainable organizational transformation begins with developing people.

Known for her strategic vision, collaborative approach, and ability to navigate change in demanding environments, Ece brings both corporate expertise and social impact perspective to her work.

Gerard has held senior positions in OPEX and HSSE in major international corporations such as Shell, Maersk and Johnson & Johnson and has lived and worked in 4 countries and travelled all around the globe.

His experience in OPEX includes sales, HSSE, supply chain, operations, R&D, manufacturing, sourcing and finance. Most recently he has coached executives and senior leaders in these fields including behavioral based safety. He is qualified as a MBB and lean & agile sensei.

The relationship between coachable behaviors, operational excellence and a perfect safety culture fascinates fim. He lives in Vlaardingen, Netherlands.

Tom is the Head of Safety & Quality for EDF EPR Engineering UK Ltd. He has responsibility for Nuclear Safety, Quality, Health & Safety and Training in this provider of engineering and design services for a new fleet of nuclear power stations in the UK.

Tom is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the Institute Mechanical Engineers.

His prior roles include Nuclear Safety Culture Lead and Site Inspector for the EDF Hinkley Point C project and Nuclear Safety Engineer for Horizon Nuclear Power.

Tom is passionate about learning from past events and has expertise in many fundamental industry case studies, which he uses to craft engaging and insightful presentations.

Francesco started his career in 2005 after his graduation in environmental science and a European course in HSEQ. He joined Saipem in 2008 working, mainly abroad, on projects until 2014.

Back in Europe in 2017 has been promoted Group Environmental manager moving in 2019 in Paris as offshore HSE Overseas.

In 2021 returned to Italy as Head of HSEQ offshore and in 2023 promoted HSEQ for offshore and drilling BL.

Recently has been the Head of Saipem HSEQ Core Operations and in 2025 promoted Saipem Head of HSE.

Bård Tobiassen is a senior HSE leader with extensive experience from large‑scale energy and infrastructure projects, spanning renewables, grid development, and deep insight of safety in the metallurgical sector oconstruction and operations of the total solar-panel production loop.

He has worked across complex, high‑risk environments where safety performance is often strong on paper, yet fragile in reality.

Bård’s work focuses on HSE excellence as a capability, not an outcome — emphasizing leadership behavior, speaking‑up culture, and the use of leading indicators to prevent serious incidents before they occur.

He is an active contributor to national HSE collaboration initiatives in Norway and works closely with executives, project leaders, and contractors to embed safety, trust, and learning into everyday operations.

His perspective combines ISO 45001/14001 principles, Norwegian HSE regulation, and practical project experience, with a strong belief that real HSE excellence is built by people, decisions, and care for one another — every single day.

Panagiotis Sotiriadis is a Human Factors Engineer with Aeronautical background, retired Colonel (Aircraft Engineer) of the Hellenic Air Force.

He has an MSc in Ergonomics and Safety at Work from Cranfield University, UK and an MBA with distinction from Athens University of Economics and Business, GR.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the HSE field in several high risk industries in all hierarchical levels. At present, he is Safety and Environment Director in a leading Energy Renewables company in South East Europe.

He has been the head of H&S in 'The Ellinikon' project, the biggest urban development project in the mentioned region, where he has designed and implemented an innovative H&S management system for the construction sector.

e has also been Head of Health and Safety of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence, as well as the Hellenic Air Force General Staff. His research focused disciplines are human error and human performance.

He is an experienced accident investigator and has been a member of Major Accident Investigation Committees. Panagiotis is a Lecturer on HSE subjects at the Hellenic Air Force Academy, the Hellenic Air Force NCO Academy and the National Center for Public Administration and has publications in international and national scientific journals and conferences, along with corporate safety training and consulting.

Marcelino Arias is a senior safety and business‑improvement consultant with global experience helping organizations strengthen leadership, culture, and Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention.

A former general manager and automotive industry leader, he brings deep expertise in translating safety strategy into operational discipline across complex, high‑risk industries.

Marcelino works extensively with executive teams to embed safety as a driver of organizational excellence and sustainable performance.

He holds an Executive MBA and Engineering Masters, currently serves as Senior Consultant at DEKRA.

Oussama Darouichi is Head of Global Sales, Power & Utilities at ANYbotics, where he leads commercial growth for autonomous robotic inspection solutions in the power and utilities sector. 

Based in Zurich, he brings a track record across global sales, go-to-market execution, and innovation-driven business development, with prior experience at Hilti Group. In parallel to industry leadership, Oussama is also a university lecturer in business and strategy, contributing to the development of future leaders and applied management practice.⁠