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API Summit - Thoughts from the Show Floor (featuring Andri Orphanides) · Upon Further Inspection

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  Branden: welcome to a really special episode that we have here.
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  Branden: Uh, Greg, great seeing you.
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  Greg: Good seeing you,
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  Branden: We have Andrea Orfanides with us here today.
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  Branden: Live.
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  Greg: From-
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  Andri: Live and in person.
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  Branden: Live and in person.
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  Branden: In per- uh, this is the first time From San Antonio.
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  Branden: This is the first time
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  Andri: This is the first
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  Branden: we've had an in-person one.
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  Branden: Yeah.
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  Branden: So everything...
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  Branden: Normally we, uh, we're all virtual, but, uh, we're here at the 2026 Inspection and Mechanical Integrity Summit.
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  Branden: Um, and I'll tell you what, day one here has been pretty awesome.
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  Branden: Um- I heard that word I know, Andrea, you had a lot to do with this.
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  Branden: How was, how was the whole setup and lead up to this?
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  Andri: Oh my God.
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  Andri: Uh, we've been working for probably two years.
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  Andri: I feel like as soon as the last summit in'24 ended, um, we started work on the'26.
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  Greg: 26.
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  Greg: And
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  Andri: I asked
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  Greg: the plan-
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  Andri: wonderful planning group that you guys saw up on stage
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  Greg: morning- Yeah um,
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  Andri: people like Brent, uh, Ray, and Mason Thomas, and Travis Harrington, and Mark Carton.
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  Andri: I know I'm gonna forget somebody.
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  Andri: Rafael and Agata and, uh, and Blaze, and somebody correct me if...
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  Andri: Somebody tell me what the other if I forgot somebody.
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  Andri: Um, but we had a really great, uh, planning committee team, and then what I asked on 2024, and I said,"You know what?
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  Andri: Because
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  Greg: the next
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  Andri: one is our 10th, none of you can go
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  Branden: anywhere.
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  Greg: Like, you have to stay,
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  Andri: and you have to help plan the'26 one because I want cohesion.
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  Andri: I don't want- I want people who kind of are already in the flow with what we've done and how we're doing
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Andri: so that the number 10, we can just concentrate on making it bigger and better and adding more value to these." And so that's what we did, and they promised me they would come back.
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  Andri: Um, we lost one person.
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  Andri: I think it was Matt Cassidy who was with us on'24, who, um, just his job got busy, and so we brought in John Harville, and he was great, uh, helping to balance out the downstream and-
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  Greg: the
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  Andri: Yeah.
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  Andri: So, but other than that, we had a really great crew who came back,
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  Branden: back It, I mean, it seems like it's worked out well.
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  Branden: I mean, it's been, it's, it's...
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  Branden: as you said, it's bigger and, I mean, there's so many more people here.
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  Greg: more people here.
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  Greg: So how many are at this one?
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  Greg: How many registrants?
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  Andri: Oh, last I checked, it was just
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  Greg: 2,063.
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  Greg: You
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  Branden: 2,063.
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  Branden: Oh, only.
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  Branden: Ab- about.
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  Branden: About About.
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  Branden: Give or take.
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  Branden: Give or take.
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  Greg: or take.
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  Greg: So yeah, we broke 2,000 yesterday.
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  Greg: Okay.
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  Andri: Okay um, which was exciting'cause typically we
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  Greg: get a lot of o- on-site registrations like
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  Andri: that many.
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  Andri: And so to have broken 2,000 for this- Yeah um, that's, I feel like that's already, we're already ahead
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  Greg: Wait- Never
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  Andri: that we added an energy exchange.
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  Andri: Never mind that we added the Petrochem track.
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  Andri: Never mind that we had all these technology showcase things going on.
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  Andri: Like, it, it's just been, it's
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  Greg: amazing And all the panel discussions.
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  Greg: And all
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  Andri: the, and 23 panel
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  Branden: It's
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: And all the training.
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  Greg: And
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  Andri: all the tra- 21...
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  Andri: Thank you.
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  Andri: Thank you, Greg.
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  Andri: You wanna
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  Greg: just take over?
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  Greg: No, you go.
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  Greg: You're the big kahuna for this, Andrea.
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  Greg: This, this is your show, girl.
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  Andri: 20, 21, uh, trainings that we started out with yesterday.
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  Andri: Uh, Sunday we started out with an incredible golf, uh, tournament- Yeah that we hosted for Hope For The Warriors.
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  Andri: Uh, we helped raised over
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  Greg: for our veterans.
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  Andri: Awesome.
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  Andri: So that's amazing.
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  Greg: You know,
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  Andri: we, uh, there was a little bit of time there, uh, leading up to the golf thing where I was like,"Are we gonna be able to pull this off?"
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  Greg: And then, you know, the sponsors came in and, um,
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  Andri: uh, golfers came in, and I think everybody was just kinda like, you know, are, is API gonna pull off this?
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  Andri: But we had
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  Greg: a really, again, we
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  Andri: a really great group behind us.
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  Andri: We had Jeff Major who was leading us in the golf.
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  Andri: We had, uh, Brent again who was helping there, Mark Hart who was helping there, uh, and just a bu- whole bunch of really great companies coming out to help sponsor.
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  Andri: And Hope, Hope is really great, so if you don't, haven't had a
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  Greg: to, uh,
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  Andri: check out what Hope does, uh, they're really great and they do great things for the veterans.
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  Andri: And they're national, they're not just like a local, you know, charity.
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  Branden: How, how did you guys get hooked up with Hope?
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  Andri: Uh, honestly, I did a search.
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  Andri: Uh, people were like,"Let's do a charity," and I was like,"Okay." And they were like,"Let's do, make it veteran," and I was like,"Okay." Yeah.
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  Andri: And I just
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  Greg: like, Let me pick
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  Andri: the best
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  Branden: the best veteran
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  Andri: organization that I can find," and, you know, people started throwing out name, people started throwing out names at me.
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  Andri: You know,"Do this one, do that one."
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  Greg: that
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  Andri: And I was like,"Yeah, that sounds great." Yeah.
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  Andri: And I just kinda made a list and then I did a search myself, and I was like,"I don't know, this Hope one really looks good." Like, you know, and I did my due diligence.
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  Andri: I checked out, them out on like, uh, what is that?
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  Andri: Uh, charity one where you can rate the cha- Yeah.
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  Andri: Yep where they rate charities.
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  Andri: Yep, yep.
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  Andri: And they had a really high rating.
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  Greg: That's awesome.
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  Greg: And so
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  Andri: I fin- I to- I had to do my due diligence, take it through API legal too- Yeah'cause, you know,
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  Greg: I can't just
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  Andri: decide like where API is gonna- Right work, partner with a charity.
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  Andri: But, um, yeah, no, and they came back and they gave me the thumbs up, and I was like,"All right, let's
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  Greg: go." That's awesome.
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  Greg: I love those rating things too because they, they tell you how much of the money actually goes to the- Yeah to the recipients versus administrative people pocketing the money.
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  Greg: Right,
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  Andri: And you wanna, and you really wanna
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  Greg: look for that-
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  Andri: When you're l- working with a charity and when you're wanting to, um, partner or donate or anything, you wanna see how much is actually going to administrative costs and how much is actually going.
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  Andri: And they had a re- I mean, like, I think it had like a 94 rating, so it-
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  Greg: After
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  Andri: that, I was like,"Okay, as long as the legal approves this, let's
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  Branden: go." You were in.
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  Branden: Yeah.
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  Branden: So
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: So Andrew, for the benefit of the listeners to understand what the summit is, uh, that may not be familiar with it, how many different tracks are there?
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  Greg: And do you remember the names of the tracks?
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  Branden: Ooh, that's mean.
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  Branden: You're,
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  Greg: just trying to quiz me.
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  Greg: So,
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  Andri: uh, first of all, if you don't know what the summit
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  Greg: is, I mean,
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  Andri: it's an incredible opportunity.
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  Andri: It's probably b- probably the premier, um, industry event for oil and gas, um, and mechanical integrity, uh, that exists, and you should be here.
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  Andri: So if you don't know about it,
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  Greg: should get to know about it.
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  Greg: Agree 100%.
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  Andri: Um, it's been...
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  Andri: This, again, this is our 10th, so
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  Greg: we've been...
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  Greg: this has been going on for 20 years.
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  Andri: Um, and yes, we do have, uh, things,
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  Greg: divided into sort of, like, the divisions or segments from downstream,
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  Andri: midstream, upstream.
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  Andri: We have a multi-sector track that's kind
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  Greg: like
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  Andri: that catchall, if you will.
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  Andri: Um, and
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  Greg: year we added
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  Andri: the petrochem.
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  Andri: And then
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  Branden: As
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  Greg: we divide each of those
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  Andri: into further subcategories, the ones that we have tracks that
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  Greg: cover, like, NDE.
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  Andri: NDE,
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  Greg: we have tracks that
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  Andri: cover, um, corrosion and metallurgy.
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  Andri: We have tr- uh, a track that covers, uh, asset integrity.
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  Greg: Um, and then
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  Andri: sometimes
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  Greg: when, when...
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  Greg: depending
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  Andri: what's going on, there's special tracks too.
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  Andri: So this year we added, um, the digital transformation to multi-sector.
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  Andri: So that
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  Greg: seemed to be, like, the
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  Andri: right
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  Greg: on-point thing to do at this point in time.
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  Greg: Um,
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  Andri: Um, we have syngas, uh, in the petrochem track.
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  Andri: Um, we have unmanned aerial systems in the downstream'cause that seems to be, you know, the, the new- Yeah the new thing to look at- Yeah, yeah and pay attention to.
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  Andri: So yeah, I mean there's like,
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  Greg: 19
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  Andri: different tracks to follow if you're here, so there's something for everybody.
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  Greg: Um, and
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  Andri: this year we also made sure that we were looking at, uh,
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  Greg: uh,
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  Andri: uh, whether th- that
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  Greg: somebody who
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  Andri: was a beginner,
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  Greg: so you could, you could choose
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  Andri: your track a- and choose your level that you
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  Greg: to go to.
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  Branden: So
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  Andri: if you're a newbie in the industry, you could go to all the beginner stuff if that's what you wanted to do.
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  Andri: You could go to the intermediate stuff if that's what you wanted to do.
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  Andri: You could go to the advanced stuff if you felt like you were, you know, 20-plus years in the industry and you, you know, wanted to make sure you got the most out of this.
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  Andri: So we really, we, I'm telling you, man, we really, we put everything, we put everything behind this.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: It
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  Andri: shows.
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  Branden: really does.
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  Branden: It's been, it's been really great this first day here.
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  Branden: So, and, and the app, the app has been fantastic.
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  Branden: yeah.
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  Branden: Um, the-
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  Greg: It's a good app Well,
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  Andri: been, the app's been around.
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  Andri: It has.
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  Greg: been around It has It
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  Andri: has been.
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  Andri: And-
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  Branden: But, uh, I don't know, I don't know if you changed something, but it feels like, uh, it feels easier to use this year.
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  Branden: I agree.
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  Branden: So I appreciate it.
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  Branden: Yeah.
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  Greg: Awesome.
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  Andri: agree.
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  Andri: That's awesome.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: How many, how many different presentations or talks are there?
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  Greg: Do you know offhand?
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  Andri: Oh, did I...
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  Andri: Oh, 300, This time 343 this year.
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  Andri: Wow.
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  Andri: We received, uh, an incredible response to the abstract submission.
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  Andri: Like, we had over
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  Greg: 500 presentations.
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  Greg: So
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  Andri: when you saw how many volunteers were there to review, to
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  Greg: put,
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  Andri: help put this all together, they had over 500 abstracts.
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  Andri: Wow.
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  Andri: To, to, to whittle down to the 343 that have made it here today.
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  Andri: Yeah.
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  Branden: Yeah.
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  Greg: So speaking of volunteers, how many, uh, API staffers, which obviously they're not volunteers, but the vol- No, I, I put them- How, how many people does it take?
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  Greg: I put
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  Andri: all
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  Greg: to work.
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  Greg: I put- Yeah.
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  Greg: How many people does it take to- Oh pull off something like
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  Andri: my God, pull off
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  Greg: a lot.
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  Andri: A lot.
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  Andri: I mean, a lot.
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  Andri: I mean, you saw, did
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  Greg: you...
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  Greg: You saw this morning at the keynote session, we had slide after slide.
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  Greg: We
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  Andri: moderators, we have day managers.
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  Andri: O- obviously, I,
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  Greg: I
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  Andri: all my staff, um,
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  Greg: uh,
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  Andri: what, four of my staff members,
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  Greg: and then we've
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  Andri: got the meetings team.
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  Andri: We've got a whole slew of meetings, uh, folks who are helping us, uh, execute this and, and plan this, and set up for all...
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  Andri: Like, all of everything you see around you right now.
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  Andri: It really,
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  Greg: It really, it, it's a community.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: It, it's a really tight-knit community.
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  Greg: Sometimes I f- forget about how there aren't many degrees of separation between the people here, are there?
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  Greg: No.
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  Greg: No.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: No.
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  Greg: For
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  Branden: sure.
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  Branden: Yeah, you can't walk through...
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  Branden: I was just telling somebody, you can't walk through, uh, you know, from one place to the next without running into four or five people that you've, that you've seen before- Yeah and, and talk with them.
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  Branden: And yeah, it's, it's busy.
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  Branden: I mean, I know
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  Greg: And
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  Andri: that you haven't seen in a while,
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  Branden: And you remember meeting them at
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  Andri: you, you remember meeting them at the last summit.
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  Branden: I just had that.
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  Branden: I literally just had that.
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  Branden: Guy came by the booth, and I was like,"What's up?
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  Branden: I just, I saw you at the last one." Yeah.
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  Branden: It's just kinda like that thing.
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  Branden: You see everybody, you catch up and, you know, go hang out and talk about what's going on.
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  Greg: and talk about what's going on.
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  Greg: Uh, did
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  Andri: you all catch the keynote speaker?
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  Andri: He was phenomenal.
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  Branden: Yeah, so talk about that
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  Greg: Sean was
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  Andri: was amazing this morning.
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  Andri: He talked about, uh, disruptive, uh, generative AI, so that was
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  Greg: a new phrase that
• 10:21
  Andri: everybody learned this morning.
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  Andri: And if you weren't there, he was phenomenal.
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  Andri: Yeah.
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  Andri: Like, I'm gonna go and disrupt all my work on Monday and see how that works with my boss-
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  Branden: I'll call Sean if I am mistaken, John.
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  Branden: Be careful out there.
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  Branden: Yeah, it was, it was, really good.
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  Branden: There was a lot of, a lot of really, really good pieces that he had in there.
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  Branden: So, uh, h- how'd you, how'd you get hooked up with him?
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  Branden: Was he another one where you just kind of were researching, or?
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  Andri: call Sean if I
• 10:33
  Greg: still have a job.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: Be careful with that.
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  Greg: Yeah, so it was, it was really
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  Andri: Yeah, it was, it was really good.
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  Andri: There was a lot of, a lot of
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  Greg: a lot of great, really
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  Andri: good pieces.
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  Andri: that he had in there.
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  Andri: So, h- how did you, how did you get hooked up with him?
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  Andri: Was he another one where you just kind of were researching or- So I actually had the privilege of being at a, a, a credentialing industry conference where he was a, a keynote
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  Greg: speaker.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Andri: And this was just before his book, The Bold Ones, came out, and he talked about, uh, being bold and being disruptive and go disrupt
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  Greg: the workplace
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  Andri: kind of thing.
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  Andri: He's changed, he's changed his, you know, meaning and, and what he's putting out there just a little bit from that talk, but that I met three...
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  Andri: Where I met him three years ago.
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  Andri: Um, but I was just like,"Oh my God.
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  Andri: We have to have this guy come to the Inspection Summit." I mean, the way the, our industry is changing, the way, uh, you know, technology's coming in.
• 11:26
  Greg: Yeah.
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  Andri: I actual- I wanted him for'24, um, but we didn't, we didn't get a chance to kind of really vet him out and look at, and look at what he was doing
• 11:34
  Greg: a look at what he was doing
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  Andri: and, and have everybody kind of be okay with him coming in'24.
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  Andri: So I said,"You know what?
• 11:40
  Andri: He's probably gonna be perfect for'26.
• 11:42
  Andri: You know, it's our tenth edition.
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  Andri: He's gonna be amazing." And
• 11:45
  Greg: think, I
• 11:46
  Andri: think, I think we knocked it out of the park- Yeah
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  Branden: Topic was so relevant.
• 11:49
  Greg: The topic was so relevant.
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  Greg: There were a lot of people that were happy with it, man.
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  Greg: They were really glad they came to the...
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  Greg: And then, and, you know, that's another thing about this, the content, uh, I mean, I saw a lot of references to AI and statistics on the pres- in the presentations.
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  Greg: Did anyone count how many times we said AI-
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  Andri: in, like, how many
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  Greg: sessions I can't count that far.
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  Greg: And...even just in the...
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  Greg: And even just as you're walking around, I don't...
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  Greg: I think, I mean, it
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  Andri: could probably have been a thousand, one billion
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  Greg: times.
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  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: But the other thing that's really cool about it is how well it's balanced with- That's a real number.
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  Greg: Is, is how well it's balanced with the foundational stuff, too.
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  Greg: You know, the corrosion engineers, the inspectors, the integrity operating windows, the RBI, the,
• 12:29
  Branden: eye,
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  Andri: the,
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  Greg: you know, da, la, da, da, you know, on and on.
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  Greg: So I think it's a really good mix of first principles engineering presentations along with the AI and the statistical stuff, the, you know, pushing the borders of the frontier in technology and innovation.
• 12:44
  Greg: Yeah.
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  Greg: I mean, we had- So you've done a great job, you and your team.
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  Andri: We had Mark Fronek, who was working on our, uh, digital
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  Greg: transformation
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  Andri: with Mason.
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  Andri: I mean, the guy just...
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  Andri: He
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  Greg: w- he did, uh,
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  Andri: made sure that
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  Greg: we
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  Andri: got really good at...
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  Andri: He m- he went through con- his network, like most of the,
• 13:01
  Greg: you know, track leads and everybody does.
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  Andri: Um, and he just was, went to
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  Greg: task with making sure we had
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  Andri: really good sessions
• 13:07
  Greg: for that part, too.
• 13:08
  Greg: Not
• 13:09
  Andri: that anyone else wasn't, uh, just as great
• 13:11
  Greg: in,
• 13:11
  Andri: in any of their tracks.
• 13:13
  Andri: Um, and I would say Jeremy, um, I think
• 13:17
  Greg: he was new.
• 13:18
  Greg: He's never been
• 13:19
  Andri: a, a lead before, so he kind of approached it, um, probably
• 13:23
  Branden: more of
• 13:24
  Andri: an engineer would.
• 13:25
  Andri: I don't know.
• 13:25
  Andri: Um,
• 13:26
  Greg: he, he thought about what he,
• 13:29
  Andri: what kind of things he wanted the Petrochem
• 13:31
  Greg: track to cover.
• 13:32
  Greg: Mm-hmm.
• 13:32
  Andri: cover, and then he thought about who in his network and with his, with his group that he put together,
• 13:38
  Greg: um, would be able to deliver on that.
• 13:40
  Greg: Yeah.
• 13:40
  Andri: then he just
• 13:41
  Greg: just started
• 13:42
  Andri: telling them,"You have,
• 13:43
  Greg: you have to submit an abstract." Like,"You have to submit an abstract." Yeah.
• 13:46
  Greg: Yeah.
• 13:46
  Greg: "And you
• 13:47
  Andri: to submit it."
• 13:47
  Branden: He just pastored them and got them to do
• 13:49
  Greg: So
• 13:49
  Andri: just was like,"You're gonna talk on this.
• 13:51
  Andri: This is what...
• 13:52
  Andri: I, I, I,
• 13:53
  Greg: Put, pick
• 13:53
  Andri: this topic and you're the one who's gonna talk
• 13:55
  Greg: about it."
• 13:56
  Branden: that's gonna talk about it." W- what, what was the, what was the driver for starting up the Petrochem?
• 13:59
  Branden: Was it feedback that you guys had gotten?
• 14:01
  Branden: Was it something that the group, the, the coordinating
• 14:03
  Andri: For su- for sure feedback.
• 14:05
  Andri: I mean, it was, it was sort of a little bit peppered into the tracks before.
• 14:09
  Andri: And so I think with the 2020...
• 14:12
  Andri: after 2024, um, you know, the group just came out and said,"You know, we probably need
• 14:17
  Greg: need our
• 14:17
  Andri: it's
• 14:17
  Greg: own...
• 14:17
  Andri: Petro- Petrochem to be, just be its own track."
• 14:20
  Greg: just be its own track." I-- Yeah, that's awesome.
• 14:21
  Greg: Oh, glad you're...
• 14:22
  Greg: Hmm
• 14:22
  Andri: Yeah.
• 14:22
  Andri: That's awesome.
• 14:22
  Andri: That's very cool.
• 14:25
  Andri: So we, you know, I'm already looking at'28,
• 14:28
  Branden: I, I was literally just about to say, so what's gonna happen
• 14:30
  Greg: after this?
• 14:30
  Greg: Start planning already.
• 14:30
  Greg: I don't know.
• 14:30
  Greg: Um- Is there a vacation planned?
• 14:31
  Greg: Is there some time off?
• 14:31
  Greg: So-
• 14:31
  Branden: is there a vacation planned?
• 14:32
  Branden: I know, um- Is there some time off?
• 14:33
  Branden: So- Or is it straight
• 14:34
  Greg: in?
• 14:34
  Andri: I mean, again, uh, day one has been amazing, so, um, day two, I mean, hopefully is gonna be just as amazing.
• 14:42
  Andri: We've got just as many technical sessions going on.
• 14:45
  Andri: I really am trying to get through this week.
• 14:47
  Andri: Um, we have a new chair coming on.
• 14:49
  Andri: Um, Travis Harrington will be taking over as, uh, chair of our'28,
• 14:53
  Greg: '28- Okay uh, Inspection
• 14:54
  Andri: Summit.
• 14:54
  Andri: Mason, uh, Thomas is gonna be taking over as vice chair.
• 14:57
  Branden: over as vice chair.
• 14:58
  Greg: So,
• 14:58
  Andri: you know, I thought I'd give him, like, a day or two- and then, you know, see if they wanted to start planning
• 15:03
  Branden: 28,
• 15:04
  Andri: you
• 15:04
  Greg: Yeah.
• 15:05
  Andri: right.
• 15:05
  Andri: Some,
• 15:05
  Branden: so Monday phone calls are going out.
• 15:07
  Greg: Yeah, Monday.
• 15:07
  Greg: I think Monday.
• 15:07
  Branden: I think Monday.
• 15:09
  Greg: You know, it's funny, it's parallel with, uh, turnarounds.
• 15:11
  Greg: They say you start planning a turnaround at the end of the current turnaround.
• 15:16
  Greg: Yeah.
• 15:16
  Greg: You start planning the next turnaround.
• 15:17
  Greg: It's like, it's like you're totally used to it, totally used to it.
• 15:18
  Greg: Hey,
• 15:19
  Andri: did you guys see the guy, like, girls with the pink shirts?
• 15:20
  Andri: That's from This One's for the Gals.
• 15:22
  Andri: I almost
• 15:22
  Greg: forgot about them.
• 15:23
  Greg: No.
• 15:23
  Greg: Oh, is that
• 15:23
  Andri: WIMI?
• 15:23
  Andri: So this year,
• 15:24
  Greg: this year- WEMI
• 15:25
  Andri: This One's for the
• 15:26
  Branden: She's got...
• 15:27
  Branden: Yeah.
• 15:27
  Greg: Uh,
• 15:28
  Andri: so they are a wonderful
• 15:30
  Greg: organization.
• 15:30
  Greg: Oh.
• 15:31
  Andri: I think, y- you know, if you can, if you have a chance to do, to check and see what they do,'cause, um, they work with all these high school, uh, uh, female students who are interested in STEM-related fields- Mm-hmm and they take them out to do things like this and other th- you know, other things.
• 15:47
  Andri: A lot...
• 15:47
  Andri: They do a whole curriculum on welding.
• 15:49
  Andri: They do a whole curriculum on, uh, you know, kind of all these other topics.
• 15:53
  Andri: I mean, if you wanted to support them, that's a really great organization.
• 15:56
  Andri: So we got about 15, uh, high school girls who came in to see what the summit was about today.
• 16:03
  Andri: Um, we also had, um, a group of students from the, um, mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas in San Antonio who came as well.
• 16:13
  Andri: We hosted them.
• 16:14
  Andri: Um, so yeah, we, you know, we, we...
• 16:17
  Andri: I think one thing for'28 is to see how we can engage with more students, more of the young group, and bring them in.
• 16:24
  Andri: What,
• 16:24
  Branden: what did you say the group was for the
• 16:25
  Andri: girls?
• 16:25
  Andri: This One's for the
• 16:26
  Branden: This One's for the Gals?
• 16:27
  Branden: Yeah,
• 16:27
  Andri: that's the name of the-
• 16:28
  Branden: and are they, are they just local here in San Antonio, or are they regional, or-
• 16:32
  Andri: they're based in Corpus Christi- Okay actually.
• 16:35
  Andri: So they drove down here.
• 16:37
  Branden: Okay.
• 16:37
  Branden: Awesome.
• 16:37
  Greg: Awesome.
• 16:39
  Greg: Actually- Spread
• 16:39
  Andri: the love I don't, I don't know if they...
• 16:40
  Andri: Is that down or up from...
• 16:41
  Andri: I don't know.
• 16:42
  Andri: Well...
• 16:43
  Greg: Is
• 16:43
  Branden: Oh.
• 16:43
  Branden: Is it
• 16:44
  Andri: it over?
• 16:45
  Greg: it over?
• 16:45
  Greg: My
• 16:45
  Branden: My Texas history is a little slow,
• 16:47
  Greg: so- I think it's down.
• 16:48
  Greg: Is it down?
• 16:49
  Greg: It's down.
• 16:49
  Greg: Okay.
• 16:49
  Andri: All right.
• 16:49
  Greg: So I was right.
• 16:50
  Greg: But, uh, anyway, uh, I think it's great.
• 16:53
  Greg: Uh, and it's good for people to become, especially young people, to become more familiar with the careers- They all wanna be welders the possibilities, uh- Like, we talked to half of them, uh- The opportunities
• 17:02
  Andri: I got a chance to talk to half of them earlier.
• 17:04
  Andri: They all, they're all going into welding.
• 17:05
  Andri: That's great.
• 17:05
  Andri: I was like,"That's
• 17:06
  Branden: awesome." That's great.
• 17:08
  Branden: My wife wanted to go into welding back in the day.
• 17:10
  Branden: Did she?
• 17:10
  Branden: Yeah.
• 17:11
  Branden: Did she do welding?
• 17:12
  Branden: She's a nurse.
• 17:12
  Andri: Oh, she- Close.
• 17:15
  Greg: Close.
• 17:15
  Andri: close.
• 17:16
  Andri: I don't know.
• 17:18
  Greg: Yeah, I guess.
• 17:19
  Branden: Oh, she's- close.
• 17:19
  Branden: Pretty close.
• 17:20
  Branden: Not close.
• 17:21
  Branden: It's
• 17:21
  Greg: It's a
• 17:22
  Branden: But yeah, no, Andrea, this has been fantastic.
• 17:24
  Branden: Really appreciate, um, all the effort, all the work that you guys have put in over the last two years.
• 17:29
  Branden: Um, we look forward to the next one.
• 17:31
  Branden: Look forward to tomorrow.
• 17:33
  Branden: Anything, uh, anything we gotta look out for for tomorrow?
• 17:35
  Greg: Three Gray Beards panel.
• 17:36
  Greg: Oh, yeah.
• 17:38
  Greg: Yeah, 8:00 to 10:00.
• 17:38
  Branden: Yes.
• 17:38
  Branden: There it is.
• 17:39
  Andri: forget?
• 17:39
  Andri: Greg's gonna be- You're gonna be
• 17:41
  Greg: in the room.
• 17:41
  Greg: You're gonna be, John Reynolds.
• 17:43
  Branden: yep.
• 17:43
  Branden: So
• 17:43
  Greg: you- John Reynolds, Ray Conett, and, uh, Clay.
• 17:47
  Andri: Problem is, you don't, you don't, you're the only one that doesn't have a gray beard.
• 17:50
  Branden: is
• 17:50
  Greg: in there.
• 17:51
  Greg: It's getting, there.
• 17:51
  Greg: it's peppery.
• 17:52
  Greg: It's a little
• 17:52
  Andri: little
• 17:53
  Branden: you don't, you're the only one that doesn't have gray beard there's still, there's, it's in there.
• 17:53
  Branden: It's getting.
• 17:53
  Branden: It's sprinkled.
• 17:53
  Branden: It's gray.
• 17:53
  Branden: It's gray, gray.
• 17:53
  Branden: It, it was, it was less gray before I started working with Greg.
• 17:53
  Greg: I think it was, it was less
• 17:54
  Andri: it was less gray before I started working with Greg.
• 17:59
  Greg: I'll take credit for that.
• 18:01
  Branden: So-
• 18:01
  Andri: But yeah, so start out in the...
• 18:03
  Andri: I mean, everything.
• 18:04
  Andri: I mean, from Three Gray Beards to any one of the panels- Yeah you'll
• 18:07
  Greg: the panels- Yeah probably good till tomorrow- Yeah
• 18:08
  Andri: any one of the technical
• 18:09
  Greg: sessions, Well, the cool thing about the Three Gray Beards is we are gonna do podcast format.
• 18:13
  Branden: beforehand.
• 18:14
  Greg: Yeah, but that won't record.
• 18:16
  Greg: That's gonna be interesting.
• 18:17
  Branden: that would- It's being recorded as
• 18:18
  Greg: Are we recording?
• 18:19
  Branden: not recording it.
• 18:19
  Branden: Oh, okay.
• 18:19
  Greg: Oh, man.
• 18:21
  Andri: No.
• 18:21
  Andri: Oh.
• 18:22
  Branden: Nope.
• 18:22
  Branden: But we, we will take, uh...
• 18:24
  Branden: We'll have people be able to ask questions and, um, be able to engage, so it'll be really good,
• 18:28
  Andri: So- And we've got another, uh, two really great, uh, energy exchange sessions going on in the theater there.
• 18:35
  Andri: We've got another, uh, set of,
• 18:38
  Greg: uh,
• 18:38
  Andri: emerging technology showcase at, during the lunchtime.
• 18:41
  Branden: I, I really like the emerging technology being, uh, right there in the middle.
• 18:45
  Branden: I think that's a great setup for people walking by.
• 18:47
  Andri: hap- Now, do you...
• 18:48
  Greg: Yeah, that is great...so that's our new theater- Yeah
• 18:50
  Andri: style, if you will.
• 18:51
  Andri: Yep.
• 18:51
  Andri: Um, it's gonna...
• 18:52
  Andri: It's a little bit more open.
• 18:53
  Andri: It's more kind of in the
• 18:55
  Branden: action.
• 18:55
  Branden: That's right.
• 18:56
  Branden: That's
• 18:56
  Andri: so that's new.
• 18:57
  Andri: That's, uh, you know, uh, Matthew Cunningham, who works, um, in the meetings- All right and does a lot of our exhibits and stuff.
• 19:03
  Andri: Right there.
• 19:04
  Andri: Yep.
• 19:04
  Andri: That, that really was, uh, the way he wanted to design it this year.
• 19:07
  Andri: I,
• 19:07
  Branden: I met him earlier.
• 19:08
  Branden: The cafe.
• 19:08
  Branden: He was great.
• 19:09
  Branden: The cafe,
• 19:09
  Andri: that's also his idea.
• 19:11
  Andri: Oh, yeah?
• 19:11
  Andri: That's new, too.
• 19:12
  Andri: Good.
• 19:12
  Andri: The, the cafe that's in there as well.
• 19:14
  Andri: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Branden: That's good.
• 19:15
  Branden: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Branden: It's pretty cool.
• 19:16
  Branden: And, and you mentioned the, the energy portion.
• 19:18
  Branden: What...
• 19:19
  Branden: Talk about that
• 19:19
  Greg: bit?
• 19:19
  Andri: energy exchange.
• 19:20
  Andri: So, um, this, uh, you know, uh, Brent, uh, who you should probably also talk to.
• 19:26
  Andri: Um, uh, so, uh, he was like,"You know, I want..." He's always wanted to do this,
• 19:32
  Greg: these TED Ta- Type
• 19:33
  Andri: of things.
• 19:34
  Andri: Uh, every year
• 19:35
  Greg: he kept coming
• 19:36
  Andri: back and saying,"You know, we should do this.
• 19:38
  Andri: We should do it.
• 19:38
  Greg: It should
• 19:39
  Andri: this way." Um, and I said,"You know what?
• 19:41
  Andri: You've been- Let's do it for the 10th.
• 19:43
  Andri: Like, you've been talking about this for probably two summits.
• 19:45
  Andri: Let's just
• 19:46
  Branden: just plan it
• 19:47
  Andri: plan it and
• 19:47
  Greg: do it." I love it.
• 19:48
  Greg: And,
• 19:49
  Andri: uh, so yeah,
• 19:50
  Greg: um, I think- You keep it fresh, Andrea.
• 19:52
  Greg: You keep it fresh, you know?
• 19:53
  Greg: You- I don't...
• 19:53
  Greg: You know, I just
• 19:54
  Andri: people's ideas, and I try to
• 19:55
  Greg: them come true.
• 19:56
  Greg: That's all.
• 19:56
  Greg: Yeah.
• 19:56
  Greg: That's
• 19:57
  Andri: all I'm doing really.
• 19:58
  Branden: a facilitator
• 19:59
  Andri: what I do.
• 19:59
  Andri: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Andri: I ma- I'm a solution.
• 20:01
  Andri: I, I p- offer solutions.
• 20:03
  Andri: Well, that's-
• 20:03
  Greg: She's an instigator.
• 20:05
  Greg: I could be, I could be that.
• 20:05
  Greg: Oh, facilitator.
• 20:06
  Greg: I could be that.
• 20:07
  Greg: Yeah.
• 20:07
  Greg: Facili- I prefer facilitator.
• 20:08
  Branden: Facilitator, yeah.
• 20:10
  Andri: Facilitator, yeah.
• 20:11
  Greg: Facilitator.
• 20:11
  Greg: Yeah.
• 20:11
  Greg: All right.
• 20:11
  Branden: Well, great Well, Angie, thanks so much for joining us.
• 20:14
  Branden: I know you're super slammed running around everywhere, um, but appreciate you taking a few minutes with us and- Yeah and talking about
• 20:19
  Andri: Anytime.
• 20:20
  Andri: Anytime.
• 20:21
  Branden: all right.
• 20:21
  Branden: Well, then- Thank you, Yep.
• 20:22
  Greg: Yeah.
• 20:23
  Greg: Take
• 20:23
  Andri: so much
• 20:24
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• 20:29
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• 20:33
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