Dr. Kristie S. McLin is the Director of Subsurface Technology Development at ConocoPhillips. Dr. McLin has served in numerous roles within ConocoPhillips, including Manager of Fluid Characterization, Senior Advisor Supply Chain Sustainability, Water Management Project Lead for the Mid-Continent Business Unit, and Senior Geologist in Reservoir Quality Prediction. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, Dr. McLin conducted geochemistry research related to exploration and production of geothermal systems at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah and consulted on these topics for industry. She has a BS in Geology and MS in Geochemistry from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a PhD in Geology from University of Utah.
Dr. Lalitha SUBRAMANIAN is a Science Fellow and Senior Director of Global Contract Research & Scientific Consulting Program. She leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers on strategic collaborations with industry customers to solve their business-critical challenges using 3D modeling & simulations and generative AI methods. For over 25 years, she has successfully delivered energy savings, helped remediate product and process failures and driven product innovation for her customers. She and her team have won innovation awards from her customers for the break-through scientific work that solved critical industry challenges and enabled better and more sustainable products and processes. Conventional and clean energy, battery and fuel cell chemistry, downstream and upstream catalyst optimization, CCUS, completion tool materials and their performance, etc., are few of the many topics she and her team have worked on recently.