Random Tech Thoughts

I got a new, used server.

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Now that we're dealing with blocks if you want to put a background color on an image you have to go to your advanced, additional CSS classes section and reference a class that you have to create either in your theme files or in your special "additional CSS" area under the customizer.
I needed the background of an image to be black (and the caption text to be white) so I did:
.imgblack {
color: white;
background-color: black;
}

And then referenced that class name in the settings for that particular block.

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Speaker: Luther Birdzell, founder and CEO, OAG analytics

Machine learning is here, artificial intelligence is a big part of our lives already. But the oil and gas industry is "generally" slow to adopt new technology. There are those of us though pushing to make these technologies part of our everyday processes.

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Production monitoring & optimization
David milam, BBM, Amazon web services
Krista Novstrup, principal analytics engineer, SEEQ corporation

Hydrocarbon and logistics management
Per Christian Hauge, director of oil and gas, Tieto

Afternoon break - pretzels, popcorn, dried fruits

Pipeline optimization and asset integrity
Marc Falzone, vice president/principal, oil and gas sector, GHD digital
Ryan apps, director, digital experience, GHD digital
Removing geographical boundaries

Amazon for business
Steve Kann, Amazon web services

Innovation at NOV
Staale Jordan, product information technology, national oilwell varco

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There are three really cool startups that got to showcase their technology at this event, and participants were allowed to then discuss their products and business ventures with them.

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Bill Roth, the vice president of information technology at hillcorp energy company, gave a fantastic presentation about how they are leveraging Amazon cloud technologies to augment and automize their IT infrastructure and team.

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Ion geophysical: PR-FAQ transformation journey
Chris usher, President and CEO, ion geophysical

Morning break, third floor, wisteria ballroom

Open subsurface data universe
Kumar Lakshmipathi, principal Solutions architect, Amazon web services
Philip Jong, chairman of the open sub surface data universe forum, open group

Seismic data management
Allan Châtenay, president, explore

Limitless reservoir simulation
Jim Erdle, VP, CMG

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Don Bulmer kicked off the event and introduced Arno Can Den Haak who provides lots of great insights on technology adoption within the industry.

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Amazon Web Services hosts a lot of events, and today in Houston, is one specific to the Oil and Gas industry.

I am here on behalf of P&P Oil & Gas Solutions, https://ppogs.com.

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