Presentations


What follows are a list of key presentations both recorded and live, as well as training materials and dinner speaking that John has given.

John is available for conference speaking engagements on a wide range of topics including engineering design, failure analysis, human factors, automation, cyber-security, user interface development and draws on nearly three decades of global experience and research into incidents and disasters to deliver something that is both relevant, relatable and memorable.

Please get in touch and if you’ve enjoyed any of the presentations, please leave a testimonial.



Testimonials

Last week I had the pleasure of partaking in the ACRNA Annual Conference. During which time I was fortunate enough to witness two spectacular presentations by my esteemed colleague and friend, John Chidgey.

His conference presentation flexed his technical abilities and knowledge on AI, machine learning and all things automation. However, his dinner presentation was an unexpected insight into John’s background, his challenges and his conquests as a visionary automation engineer in a reactive world; as well as some deeply personal insight into his health and how he identified and resolved a chronic fatigue issue. John was both candid and humble in sharing his struggle with sleep apnoea, encouraging many others at the conference to share their experiences and educate others on symptoms and remedies.

It is always refreshing to see someone share vulnerabilities with humour, grace and most importantly a message for people to take home and to learn from.

Lacey Waller: Operations Lead

ACRNA Conference 2023

ACRNA Conference 2023

25 October, 2023

Automation Improvements Case Study Presentation

Invited to present on the “Automation Improvements Case Study: Roll-out of NMC Well Automation” as part of my work role bringing SCADA and Business systems together securely and at a very large scale. A follow-on from the 2022 presentation where we took the next step and used ML Data for large scale Automated decision making in the control system.

Dinner Speaker

Also invited to be the dinner speaker for the conference. It was a thrill to speak to such a great audience about my career in Engineering, Automation and about how I started podcasting, then touching on how fatigue has affected me personally and professionally as well as taking lessons learned from episodes of Causality where control rooms and operators could have prevented those incidents from occurring.

Conference Agenda (PDF) and LinkedIn post.

No Video Available
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ACRNA Conference 2022

ACRNA Conference 2022

6 September, 2022

Invited to present on the “Integration of AI and Analytics into Control Room Decision Making and Controls” as part of my work role bringing SCADA and Business systems together securely and at a very large scale.

Conference Agenda (PDF) and speakers List

No Video Available
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Yokogawa YNow Conference 2021

Yokogawa YNow Conference 2021

3 November, 2021

Invited to present on designing, extending and maintaining SCADA systems at very large scales including looking to digital integrations to drive optimisation. Includes a Q&A session at the end.

Forum Agenda (PDF) and speakers List

No Video Available
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Engineering Practices Test

Engineering Practices Test

9 October, 2020

Testing designs for correct functionality is a key component of the engineering process. We look at the different layers and kinds of test and why end-to-end test is so important.


Alarm Management

Alarm Management

16 January, 2020

A walk-through of what alarms are, how they are used, why we have them and which metrics you can use and methods to reduce your process safety risk from excessive alarming in process control industries.


Yokogawa Co-innovation Forum 2019

Yokogawa Co-innovation Forum 2019

24 October, 2019

Invited to discuss digital transformation technologies and software to determine if they improve performance or make maintaining businesses and processes easier.

Forum Agenda

No Video Available
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Yokogawa Co-innovation Forum 2018

Yokogawa Co-innovation Forum 2018

16 October, 2018

Invited to discuss topical Cyber-security concerns and approaches for Industrial Internet of Things technologies in this rapidly emerging space.

Forum Agenda

No Video Available
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