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Leadership Conference for Women in Oil & Gas

Tuesday, July 27, 2027 Austin, TX American Innovations

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“The EUCI Women in Leadership conference is a valuable opportunity to stop the hustle and bustle of our day-to-day lives and invest time to develop ourselves both personally and professionally. There is no replicating having the opportunity to engage with other women in the industry, learning about their challenges, successes and career journeys.”

Accounts Manager, ONEOK

“Experienced so many good speakers and experience sharing. 10/10. Would attend again and implore any who are able to do the same.”

Operations Admin. Assistant, HF Sinclair

“I would highly recommend the Leadership Conference for Women in Oil and Gas for any up and coming women leaders, or any that aspire to be a leader. It is so empowering to be surrounded by women empowering other women. EUCI did such a great job hand selecting amazing women speakers to lead and participate in this event. I would highly recommend attending.”

Financial Accounting Manager, CountryMark
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“Listening to the women's stories was truly inspiring, I cannot wait for next year's conference!”

Senior Environmental Specialist, Continental Resources, Inc.

“EUCI has developed an educational offering that benefits women in many sectors at all levels to come together, network & collaborate in a positive way and in a safe environment to share.”

Executive Leadership Coach, Darwill Consulting, Inc.

“The energy received from fellow attendees rejuvenizes me to continue to challenge myself and it encourages me to embrace my uniqueness.”

NAM Business Development Manager, TE Connectivity

“This was an excellent opportunity to spend time with women of common professional experiences and to share stories of struggle and opportunity.”

Regulatory & Compliance Specialist Sr., Williams

“The openness of all participants was integral to creating a great conference. Everyone, including the speakers were exceptionally honest about their experiences and solutions oriented. Very well done. I left the conference feeling motivated and supported having mad great connections at this conference.”

Strategic Planning Manager, C&L Inspection

“This conference left me feeling motivated, empowered, and with new connections.”

Strategic Sourcing Specialist, HF Sinclair

“Extremely impactful conference. Leaving feeling empowered, inspired, and excited to apply all of the knowledge gained into my own personal career.”

Maintenance Planner, HF Sinclair Midstream

The oil and gas industry is changing quickly. New energy policies, growing natural gas demand, LNG expansion, data center development, technology, market uncertainty and continued pressure on costs are creating new challenges and opportunities for industry leaders.

For women working in oil and gas, advancing into leadership requires more than technical expertise. It requires the ability to influence others, communicate effectively with senior leaders, understand the broader business and build relationships across the industry.

The Leadership Conference for Women in Oil and Gas brings together women from across the industry for two days of practical leadership development, industry discussion and networking. Sessions focus on the challenges women encounter as they move into greater levels of responsibility, from establishing credibility and gaining visibility to managing teams, influencing across departments and making difficult decisions.

The conference also creates time for women to connect with one another. Through mentoring, small group discussions and networking opportunities, attendees can meet other women in the industry, exchange experiences and build relationships with leaders and peers who understand the opportunities and challenges of working in oil and gas.

Topics will include the forces shaping the oil and gas industry, leading through uncertainty, AI and automation, executive communication, business and financial decision making, building high performing teams and navigating difficult conversations.

You will:

  • Meet women working across oil and gas and develop relationships with peers, experienced leaders and potential mentors.
  • Discuss career challenges, leadership opportunities and lessons learned from others in the industry.
  • Learn practical approaches to influencing without authority, communicating with executives, handling difficult conversations, leading teams and making decisions under pressure.
  • Explore what it takes to move from technical or functional expertise into broader leadership responsibility.
  • Learn how to increase visibility, build relationships with executives, find sponsors and prepare for the transition to director and executive roles.
  • Gain a broader view of oil and gas economics, capital allocation, project economics, commercial decisions and the market forces affecting companies across the industry.
  • Hear candid perspectives from women who have built careers in oil and gas and navigated the challenges that come with taking on greater responsibility.
  • Discuss how changing energy demand, LNG, data centers, AI, automation, policy and market conditions are affecting the industry and the leaders responsible for navigating those changes.

Learning Outcomes

  • Evaluate how sponsorship, visibility, and access to leadership opportunities can expand women's influence and impact within the energy industry.
  • Analyze how identity, perception, and organizational culture influence leadership credibility, authenticity, and executive presence.
  • Evaluate competing priorities, risks, and stakeholder considerations to make and defend effective decisions when no option is ideal.
  • Apply strategies for building trust and influencing outcomes across organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority.
  • Develop sustainable leadership practices that balance performance, resilience, personal boundaries, and long-term effectiveness.
  • Adapt leadership communication for different audiences and contexts using AI while maintaining clarity, credibility, and authenticity.
  • Develop strategies for strengthening team performance, developing talent, and building leadership pipelines for long-term organizational success.
  • Develop an actionable strategy for leveraging career transitions, relationships, and leadership opportunities to advance toward the next stage of their careers.
  • Apply cross-functional leadership strategies to break down organizational silos and align teams around shared customer outcomes.
  • Evaluate emerging risks and prioritize leadership actions for strengthening organizational resilience and navigating uncertainty.
  • Apply inclusive leadership practices that strengthen trust, accountability, collaboration, and performance across diverse teams.
  • Assess current career barriers and prioritize one leadership action that advances their next professional goal.
  • Formulate strategies for building sponsorship, increasing executive visibility, and positioning themselves for career advancement.

Register

Please Note: Confirmed speakers do not need to register and are encouraged to participate in all sessions of the event. If you are a speaker and have any questions please contact our offices at 1.303.770.8800

REGISTER NOW FOR THIS EVENT:

Individual attendee(s)$ 1495.00 each(early bird rate)
(price after January 8, 2027 is $ 1,695.00)
Volume pricing also available

Individual attendee tickets can be mixed with ticket packs for complete flexibility

Pack of 5 attendees$ 6,350.00 (15% discount)(early bird rate)
(price after January 8, 2027 is $ 7,200.00)
Pack of 10 attendees$ 11,960.00 (20% discount)(early bird rate)
(price after January 8, 2027 is $ 13,560.00)
Pack of 20 attendees$ 22,425.00 (25% discount)(early bird rate)
(price after January 8, 2027 is $ 25,425.00)

Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before December 25, 2026 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $295.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800

EUCI retains the right to refuse registration by any individual or company.

Day one

Wednesday, January, 27, 2027

Day two

Thursday, January, 28, 2027

Agenda

Wednesday, January, 27, 2027

Austin, TX

Registration & Catered Breakfast

8:00

Group Luncheon

12:15 - 1:15 PM

Adjourn for the day

4:00 PM

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Registration & Catered Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Opening Keynote: Leading Oil & Gas Through a New Era of Energy Demand

Oil & gas leaders are operating in a dramatically different environment. U.S. energy policy is emphasizing domestic production and energy security, LNG is expanding, natural gas is increasingly connected to data-center and industrial demand, and companies are being asked to deliver growth while maintaining capital discipline and operational performance.

This opening keynote examines what these changes mean for the industry's next generation of leaders and the leadership capabilities required to navigate growth, uncertainty and competing priorities.

Key themes:

  • U.S. energy security and the changing role of oil & gas
  • LNG and global natural gas demand
  • Data centers, AI and the emerging power/gas connection
  • Production growth vs. capital discipline
  • Infrastructure and permitting
  • Geopolitical uncertainty
  • What senior leaders need to prepare for over the next decade
9:00 - 9:45 AM

Markets, Policy & the Forces Reshaping the Industry

Oil & gas executives are navigating a complicated combination of market volatility, changing federal policy, permitting reform, LNG expansion, infrastructure investment, geopolitical risk and shifting customer demand. The Trump administration has made energy expansion and permitting acceleration central priorities, while FERC is pursuing reforms intended to speed natural-gas infrastructure development.

Key themes:

  • U.S. production outlook
  • Commodity-price volatility
  • LNG exports and global gas markets
  • Midstream infrastructure and takeaway capacity
  • Permitting and regulatory developments
  • Federal and state energy policy
  • Interest rates, financing and cost of capital
  • M&A and consolidation
  • Capital allocation under uncertain price environments
  • What executives should watch over the next 12–24 months
9:45 - 10:15 AM

Networking Break

10:15 - 11:00 AM

Breaking the Unwritten Rules: Leading as a Woman in Oil & Gas

Oil & gas projects rarely operate within one department. Leaders must influence operations, engineering, commercial teams, HSE, finance, legal, regulatory, contractors, customers and executives   often without direct authority.

Key themes:

  • Establishing credibility in male-dominated technical and operational environments
  • Navigating informal power structures
  • Getting a seat at the table
  • Being taken seriously in the field and in executive settings
  • Building relationships across operations, engineering and corporate functions
  • Knowing when to speak up and how
  • Navigating traditional industry culture while leading change
  • Avoiding the "prove yourself twice" trap
  • Building a leadership reputation beyond your technical expertise
11:00 - 11:45 AM

Influence Without Authority: Getting Operations, Engineering & Commercial Teams Aligned

Key themes:

  • Operations wants to prioritize production; engineering wants maintenance.
  • Commercial wants to move quickly; legal/regulatory wants more review.
  • HSE recommends changes that affect project economics.
  • Field leadership disagrees with corporate direction.
  • A producer, midstream company and contractor have competing priorities.
  • You need cooperation from a team that does not report to you.
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Executive Communication Under Pressure: From Technical Expert to Trusted Advisor

Oil & gas leaders regularly have to communicate during operational disruptions, safety events, project delays, market changes, regulatory challenges and difficult business decisions.

Discussion topics:

  • Translating technical information into business implications
  • Giving executives a clear recommendation
  • Communicating when the data isn't complete
  • Delivering bad news
  • Challenging an executive decision
  • Communicating during operational disruptions
  • Speaking during safety incidents
  • Handling questions from senior leadership
  • Going from "Here is what happened" to "Here is what I recommend we do."
12:15 - 1:15 PM

Group Luncheon

1:15 - 2:15 PM

From Technical Expert to Business Leader: Getting to the Next Level

Women in oil & gas can become highly respected technical experts but still face a different challenge when moving into executive roles: demonstrating that they can think beyond their technical discipline and understand the business as a whole.

Key themes:

  • How upstream, midstream and downstream economics differ
  • Reading an oil & gas company's financial story
  • Production vs. reserves vs. cash flow
  • Understanding operating costs and margins
  • Capex vs. opex decisions
  • Commodity-price assumptions
  • Project economics
  • Understanding commercial contracts
  • M&A and asset acquisitions
  • Capital allocation
  • Moving from technical recommendations to business recommendations
  • Getting exposure to enterprise-level decisions
2:15 - 3:00 PM

Hard Conversations in High-Stakes Environments

Interactive scenarios:

  • A high-performing employee is creating safety or culture problems.
  • A project is behind schedule and the executive team wants an unrealistic recovery plan.
  • An operations leader disagrees with your recommendation.
  • A contractor is not meeting expectations.
  • You need to challenge a senior leader's decision.
  • Your team is burned out but the business cannot slow down.

Participants practice:

  • Giving difficult feedback
  • Challenging assumptions
  • Setting boundaries
  • Holding people accountable
  • Communicating under pressure
  • Maintaining relationships while making difficult decisions
3:00 - 4:00 PM

Mentoring in Motion: Building Relationships That Accelerate Your Oil & Gas Career

A successful career is built not only on performance but also on relationships. Through structured mentoring conversations, participants will connect with experienced industry leaders to discuss career growth, leadership challenges, navigating organizational culture, and creating opportunities.

Discussion topics:

  • How did you get your first major leadership opportunity?
  • How do you get selected for high-visibility projects?
  • How do you build relationships with executives?
  • How do you get operational/field experience?
  • How do you move from technical leadership into P&L responsibility?
  • How do you find a sponsor?
  • How do you navigate a career move between upstream, midstream and services?
  • How do you recover from a career setback?
  • What separates a director from a VP?
  • What do you wish you knew 10 years earlier?

Agenda

Thursday, January, 28, 2027

Austin, TX

Catered Breakfast

8:00

Adjourn for the day

11:30 AM

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Catered Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 AM

Building High-Performing Teams in a High-Pressure Industry

Oil & gas leaders are managing teams through labor shortages, changing skill requirements, project pressure, safety expectations and increasingly complex technology.

Key themes:

  • Field vs. corporate culture
  • Safety and accountability
  • Retaining skilled operators and technical talent
  • Succession planning
  • Developing supervisors into leaders
  • Cross-generational teams
  • Remote and rotational workforces
  • Contractor relationships
  • Psychological safety without compromising performance
  • Building trust between corporate and field organizations
  • Preparing the next generation of technical leaders
9:30 - 10:30 AM

Leading Through Technology: AI, Automation & the Future of Oil & Gas Work

AI is no longer just a generic "future of work" topic for oil & gas. Data-center growth is increasing electricity demand, natural gas is being positioned as an important source of firm power, and companies are simultaneously looking at AI for operational efficiency, maintenance, analytics and decision-making. EIA identifies data centers as a major driver of U.S. electricity demand growth, while PwC projects substantial additional gas demand associated with AI/data centers.

Key themes:

  • AI in drilling and production
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Digital twins
  • Automated inspection
  • Remote operations
  • Production optimization
  • Data-driven reservoir management
  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Workforce implications
  • Which jobs change vs. disappear
  • Upskilling operators and technical professionals
  • AI governance, cybersecurity and risk

Separating real operational value from AI hype

10:30 - 11:30 AM

Leading Through Uncertainty: Making Decisions When the Stakes Are High

Real oil & gas leadership decisions:

  • Commodity prices change
  • Regulations change
  • Projects are delayed
  • Costs increase
  • Customers change requirements
  • Permits are delayed
  • Supply chains become constrained
  • Geopolitical events affect markets

Location

American Innovations
12211 Technology Blvd.
Austin, TX 78727

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Continuing Education Credits

Who Should Attend

The conference is designed for women in oil and gas who are looking to strengthen their leadership skills, expand their professional network and prepare for their next career opportunity, including:

  • Directors, vice presidents and senior executives
  • Managers and emerging leaders
  • Engineers and technical professionals
  • Operations and field leaders
  • Commercial and business development professionals
  • Project and program managers
  • HSE and environmental leaders
  • Regulatory and government affairs professionals
  • Finance and investment professionals
  • Midstream and pipeline professionals
  • Upstream and production professionals
  • Oilfield services professionals

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