2025 Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference
Safe and Sustainable Energy Transition: Making Safety Second Nature
In association with 
October 21-23, 2025
The Westin Memorial City, Houston, Texas
The 2024 Conference will host
- ⚬ 27th MKOPSC International Process Safety Symposium
- ⚬ 79th Instrumentation and Automation Symposium
- ⚬ 3rd Ocean Energy Safety Symposium
Hilton Hotel
Hilton College Station & Conference Center is located less than two miles from Texas A&M University, 10 minutes from Kyle Field and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, with free shuttle service around College Station. The hotel provides amazing accommodations including various amenities for a remarkable experience.
* Disclaimer: No Smoking Policy: A Breath of Fresh Air – The Hotel is a 100% free smoke-free environment including both indoor and outdoor areas. A $250 Recovery Fee per incident will be charged for smoking outside the designated smoking areas. *
2024 Plenary Speakers
Dr. Michael G. Hamblin
Head of Process Safety and Investigations, Woodside Energy
Bridget Todd
VP of Enterprise Health, Safety and Environment, BakerHughes
Mary Gerschefski
Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental Manager, Shell
Dr. Steve Horsch
Technical Leader, Dow’s Reactive Chemicals Group
2024 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Mohammad Modarres
Director, Center for Risk and Reliability
Mechanical Engineering, Maryland Innovation Institute
Dr. Paolo Gardoni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Trish Kerin
Director, Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre (ISC)
Ignacio León Íñigo
Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Dr. Ray Mentzer
Executive Director of the Purdue Process Safety & Assurance Center
Dr. Steven Wong
Senior Program Manager, Department of Energy
Cai Glynn Ferguson
Principal Marine Geoscientist, AtkinsRealis
About Texas A&M University
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With more than 133 undergraduate degree programs, 175 master’s degree programs, 93 doctoral degree programs and 5 first professional degrees as options for study, Texas A&M is full of possibilities.
