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 2024
22 November, 2024Location: Melbourne, Australia
BCCR: Experience Driving Evolution
Invited to present on the recent upgrade to our control room, entitled “BCCR Experience Driving Evolution.” Covering user ergonomics, lighting and acoustics, operator wellness surveys, parts selection and our exhaustive trial regimen to ensure the best possible result could be achieved for our remote operator co-hort.
Conference Agenda (PDF) and LinkedIn post.
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UCDS Conference 2024
18 October, 2024Location: Prescott, Arizona, United States of America
Treating HMI and Alarms as a Layer of Protection Presentation
Invited to present on the “Treating HMI and Alarms as a Layer of Protection” drawing on my decades of experience in the Automation and Control Systems space, Alarm Management and HMI Design. The presentation was described by UCDS President Dave Lee as: “…Summarising …(what was covered at the conference) and introduced a new spin to it (from the angle of) Independent Protection Layers and Safety Systems…”. Presented at 10:15am on the 19th of September, the final day of the conference though described as a Case Study in Alarm Management, a LOT more ground was covered than only that.
Conference Agenda (PDF) and LinkedIn post.
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ACRNA Conference 2023
25 October, 2023Location: Brisbane, Australia
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.
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ACRNA Conference 2022
6 September, 2022Location: Sydney, Australia
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
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Yokogawa YNow Conference 2021
3 November, 2021Location: Virtual, Asia-Pacific Region
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
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Engineering Practices Test
9 October, 2020Testing 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
16 January, 2020A 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
24 October, 2019Location: Brisbane, Australia
Invited to discuss digital transformation technologies and software to determine if they improve performance or make maintaining businesses and processes easier.
Forum Agenda
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Yokogawa Co-innovation Forum 2018
16 October, 2018Location: Brisbane, Australia
Invited to discuss topical Cyber-security concerns and approaches for Industrial Internet of Things technologies in this rapidly emerging space.
Forum Agenda
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