Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly changing how industrial organizations identify, understand and manage process safety risk. GenAI’s ability to easily support advanced analytics, anomaly detection, information collection, and document review provides potential to improve the performance of process safety programs and operational decision making. But at the same time, AI introduces many new challenges such as data quality, transparency, new cybersecurity concerns, and concerns related to limited human oversight. This webinar will look into the good the bad and the ugly when it comes to considering AI in today’s process safety and provide practical guidance on a thoughtful adoption approach.
Patrick O’Brien is the Assistant Director of Engineering at exida, LLC, where he helps lead a team of engineers in delivering functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management services. He has led cybersecurity risk assessments, training courses, and other lifecycle activities for many different applications, including oil and gas, specialty chemical, critical infrastructure, machinery, and robotics. In addition to his cybersecurity role, he also provides consulting services in the areas of process safety, functional safety, and machine safety.
He is a coauthor of Implementing IEC 62443: A Pragmatic Approach to Cybersecurity and the principal author of the CCPS concept book Managing Cybersecurity in the Process Industries – A Risk-based Approach. Patrick represents exida on the International Society of Automation Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA). Mr. O’Brien graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in German Language and Culture.