As a petroleum engineer graduated from the industrial engineering school "Arts et Métiers" and the French Petroleum Institute (Economy), Gildas has for more than 25 years' experience with very diverse types of operating companies on 4 continents, the major TOTAL after his studies, PERENCO the French-British independent company for the majority of his career, PIERIDAE, a Canadian junior company, recently the national NORTH OIL COMPANY as Development Manager in Doha-Qatar, but also for consultancy companies such as BEICIP-FRANLAB. During his assignments, he held operational and engineering positions in the fields of production / well / petroleum engineering, offshore and onshore, with both technical and managerial responsibilities.

Holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Toulouse (1990) and a Master's degree in Computer Sciences from the Institute National Polytechnique of Toulouse (1993). More than 30 years of worldwide experience in Oil & Gas with a special focus on Africa, North and South America, Middle and Far East and East Europe. He has in-depth knowledge of tectonics and deformation and the application of structural geology for added value at basin- to reservoir-scale. He leads and provides advice fully integrated with the essential processes of petroleum system analysis, play fairway definition and prospect risk and resource estimations in line with Play-Based Exploration (PBE) and with Exploration Management System (EMS). At the forefront of new technology developments to innovate in the analysis and interpretation of big data for Geosciences, he is accountable as well for applied teaching, learning and assessment methods for transferring know-how in the realm of the tectonics and structural geology.

Marc has more than 40 years of experience in Geophysics (PhD). Since 1987, he occupied several positions within the Strasbourg University: full professor, head of research team (Rifts and Ridges), director than vice-president of bachelor studies in Earth Sciences. He very early, specialized himself in potential field methods (magnetic, gravity). He acted as a supervisor of many PhD thesis. He was also contracted as an expert for the World Bank in Africa. He published various papers dealing with potential field theory using complex algebra, and had the opportunity to patent some of his ideas.

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As a Petroleum Geologist graduated from IFP-School, Jean-Pierre has 38 years of experience. He started his career with Geoservices, then BP, being involved in geological operations, then basin synthesis studies. Hired by the French Petroleum Institute in 1991, he occupied various positions within IFP-School Petroleum Geosciences master's education programs. From 2006 to 2013, he was appointed Director of the E&P Department. During this period, he also involved himself as team leader of regional studies (South America, Austral Basin) for BEICIP & TOTAL. Lately employed by TOTAL he was posted successively as Geosciences Advisor in Nigeria, then Head of the Strategy Competition & Benchmark team in the Exploration Division in Paris headquarters.

Ludovic Peignard began his career as an exploration geophysicist, involved in many Oil & Gas projects, covering various domains of geosciences. While getting experienced in geosciences, feeling a lack of flexible and swift software solution in the Oil & Gas Industry, Ludovic has developed EarthQuick, a software to act as a companion for Geoscientists. The solution evolved rapidly and let now geoscientists performed usual tasks which are part of their redundant duties, covering a wide range of facilities, from geosciences data loading and interpretation to volumes assessment, passing by mCSEM feasibility studies. From 2016, EarthQuick has also turned to Near Surface issues, keeping the same motto: letting user get straight to the point through simple and intuitive workflows. From 2013, Ludovic has become a geophysicist consultant, a technical software expert and an associate professor in Geophysics at different reference institutions (IFP School, IFP Training, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Polytech Sorbonne (UPMC) and École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). Ludovic graduated M.Sc.'s from the EOST (France) in 2006 and from the IFP School in 2007, major Geophysics.