Gabriel is currently responsible for Penspen International Limited Asset Integrity Service Line, with the responsibility for leading and managing the team of Asset Integrity and Materials & Corrosion Engineers in Middle East & Africa Region. He specialises in materials and corrosion, asset integrity, Integrity Operating Windows, Corrosion Under Insulation and project management.

With over 20 successful years in the energy industry, he has worked on various greenfield and brownfield projects including key integrity projects for International and National Oil Companies

Before joining Penspen in 2021, Gabriel served as a Principal Engineer & Team Leader for Wood Group, where he led a team of Integrity & Materials Engineers. He also held positions Head of Materials & Corrosion at Shell & BP Refinery, South Africa, Downstream Materials & Corrosion at Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands, and Senior Corrosion Engineer at PetroSA.

Gabriel is a Chemical Engineering graduate and holds a Master of Science (MSc.) in Corrosion Control Engineering from University of Manchester, and an Executive MBA.

Dr. Hamad Karki is Faculty at the Department of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UA.E. Dr Karki is the CEO and Co-founder of the ADIIR startup company. His Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees are from Tokyo University of Technology and are in Mechatronics and System Electronic Engineering. As an Associate Professor faculty at the institute, he teaches and conducts research linked to robotics and smart systems that are related to the oil & gas and relevant industries. The startup that was founded, focuses on automating inspection process such as pipeline inspection using smart sensors on field robots.

Mr. Omar El Sinnary is a Manager, Engineering Services (Inspection & Corrosion) in ADNOC Gas. He has more than 30 years of experience in Oil & Gas industry (upstream and downstream) and has membership of NACE, SSPC and API. He holds a master degree in chemical engineering and diploma in corrosion and metallurgy science. Omar is SME in corrosion degradation mechanisms and mitigation, material selection, corrosion risk assessment and Risk Based Inspection (RBI). Certified AI and ML

Siji Sidharthan holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Cochin University with 15 years of experience in Non-destructive Examination. He specializes in NDT consulting, field services, procedure validations and commercialization of novel NDT techniques. His area of interest includes metallurgy and corrosion, nonlinear ultrasonics, signal processing for advanced imaging. He holds PCN Level 3 and ASNT NDT Level 3 in UT, PAUT, TOFD, RT, MT, PT, VT. He is also an Authorized Inspector as per API 510, 570, 580, 571.