Laura Gardner
Former Head of Data and Digital Solutions, Anglo American
Laura was most recently Head of Data and Digital Services for Anglo American’s Data Analytics group. She was part of Anglo American for four years. In this role, Laura was responsible for delivering data and digital services to the global Anglo American organization including Data Strategy, Digital literacy, Digital consulting, Data Science Projects, and Technical Cloud Operations support for the internal VOXEL platform.
Laura’s previous roles were in the Oil & Gas industry working for Schlumberger. Holding many roles while working at Schlumberger, her last role was leading the software services business as the location manager in Doha, Qatar. Before that Laura was based in London, UK as the Digital Marketing Manager responsible for communicating the value of products and services by defining and executing a digital marketing strategy. In both roles, Laura implemented a modern approach to sales and marketing by leveraging marketing processes and tools to convey Schlumberger’s software value to clients. She has experience in the full range of extraction workflows and spent time working in areas such as project management, strategy, products, product, new product development and services.
Nathaniel Hartwig
Founder and CEO, BiaTech Corporation
Nathan is a global strategic and operational leader with experience creating products and growing businesses sustainability while developing future leaders. He began his journey as a field lubrication engineer with ExxonMobil (certified tribologist STLE and maintenance expert SMRP) and developed heavy industrial, manufacturing, and power domain experience. Post MBA, at McKinsey & Co, he managed teams serving the Fortune 500 to solve strategic and operational challenges in countries like the UK, Germany, France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada, Mexico, and the US. At Schlumberger, Nathan led North America New Energy businesses (Geothermal, CCS, Energy storage, Hydrogen, and critical minerals) focusing on growth, partnerships, and government relations to accelerate Schlumberger technologies. His prior role was leading 3 business lines exceeding $1 billion annual revenue to pivot toward higher performance sustainable equipment and service solutions.
Nathan founded BiaTech Corporation as a B2B AI enabled technology company whose mission is to partner with leading companies to develop and scale technology solutions quickly for today’s industrial decarbonization challenges. BiaTech is focused on geothermal power digital innovation and seeking operators open to exploring new ways to improve operational performance and extend asset life. BiaTech is seeking input to inform their product development roadmap and operators open to pilot technology.
Bryant Jones
Executive Director, Geothermal Rising
Dr. Bryant Jones is the Executive Director of Geothermal Rising. Geothermal Rising (GR) serves to build community and empower the geothermal industry by aligning all geothermal technologies and applications. GR is a nonprofit community organizer, research organization, and educational association. Bryant has 20 years of experience working on public policy at federal, state, and local levels. His career has taken him to Capitol Hill, the White House, and the U.S. Department of State. Bryant spent seven years in academia as a policy and energy scholar researching at the nexus of policy studies, science and technology studies, and energy transition studies. His academic research explores social, policy, organizational structure, and collective action reasons why energy technologies remain stagnant and how these hurdles—that prevent technological adoption—can be reduced and eliminated. He lives in the State of Idaho in the United States with his family.
