Shell’s a company with decades
of expertise and innovating and
delivering energy solutions. Huibert,
last year we announced a strategic
alliance between our two companies.
We’re thankful that Shell
is providing to Microsoft,
a low carbon energy range of
products and services from renewable
supply to high quality offsets
for carbon emissions and immersion
cooling fluids for data centers.
Huibert, share with our audience here,
a little bit more about what this
alliance means for both of our
companies and for our joint customers.
Yeah, I think Judson, Microsoft
and Shell make a great team. Over
the last months our teams have
been working together to develop
a digital platform that allows
companies to track emissions,
show baselines,
set ambitions and develop plans
for achieving these targets.
This platform provides a very detailed
and accurate sense of what the
different business needs are and what
they need to do to reduce their emissions.
You know,
actually Johnson right now,
there are over 50 companies
piloting this platform,
including Microsoft itself,
and the platform is built on
Microsoft Technologies and makes
the most of our joint expertise.
That's great, Huibert.
Maybe you could talk a little bit more
about how you're leveraging artificial
intelligence across the business and
how the technology itself will actually
help in our our carbon offset goals.
In Shell, we have built a data and
analytics platform called Shell.AI
and that provides machine learning
and software engineering capabilities.
This is part of our plan to embed
artificial intelligence across
the whole of Shell last year.
In fact, we had 65 AI applications
which were developed and deployed
across Shell’s organizations.
So one example is our digital project with
Equinor. With your support of Microsoft,
Shell is now working with Equinor
to develop the next generation of what
we call the Shell Inventory Optimizer.
An AI application that helps to
improve the inventory planning
for spare parts and reduces waste.
This has been used across Shell’s
assets, and has generated more
than $25 million in cost savings,
through optimized stock levels.
But we're also increasingly using
AI solutions to lower greenhouse
gas emissions at our assets,
make them safer and more efficient.
And we want to increase operational
efficiency across the industry
and so we're working with others to
significantly accelerate the adoption of AI.
Let me give you an example,
we launched the Open AI Energy
Initiative together with you,
Microsoft, with C3 AI and Baker Hughes.
The initiative provides an.
Open framework for building
interoperable AI solutions.
So we talked a lot about the
technology aspects and it's super
impressive to see how you're putting
AI to work across everything from
inventory management, to safety,
Supply, and production,
but also what what underpins a lot of
this change thinking - is frankly culture.
And we talk about the word
transformation a lot.
Certainly, in Microsoft's transformation,
culture has been super important to us.
I think would be great if you could
share how Shell’s culture is evolving.
There's always some part of Shell which
is innovating, learning and adapting.
But right now, there's a big digital
transformation happening throughout Shell.
We want to empower our teams to understand,
develop and use technologies,
making our businesses more effective
and efficient.
For instance,
we're running a do-it-yourself
program for that citizen data
scientists or citizen developers who
are already writing their own code
and have been doing so for years.
Well,
we are now training them to be able
to develop solutions for very specific
process and workflows using tools such
as Microsoft Power Apps and Power BI,
and there's a great value in this.
In the downstream manufacturing
business alone, within a year,
we trained more than 800 do-it-yourself
developers and have more than 75
Do-it-yourself
applications that have already realized
more than $35 million in cost reductions,
improve reliability and efficiency.
You know,
and there are at least 200 more
do-it-yourself applications in the pipeline.
It's really great to hear, Huibert.
The impressive way in which you're
taking advantage of the fact that
innovation can really happen
at all levels of the company.
And this idea of citizen data
Scientist, citizen developers,
really democratize is the whole
Digital transformation wave. Huibert, look,
we're grateful for that partnership
here at Microsoft,
and the progress that we're making together.
I feel like it's really the true,
true mark of what an alliance in
partnership can mean for everyone.
And thank you so much Huibert for
everything we're doing together.