What does it actually take to deploy AI in hazardous, legacy-heavy industrial environments — where a bad decision doesn’t just cost money, it can cost lives? At the AI in Oil and Gas Conference in Houston, ZEDEDA CTO Padraig Stapleton sat down with Garud Sridhar, Head of Product for Intelligent Operations at SLB, to cut through the hype and get into the real challenges of bringing AI to the field. Topics covered:
- Why AI adoption is a staircase, not a cliff, and why skipping steps backfires
- How to put actionable intelligence in the hands of field workers, not just the ops center
- The inviolable safety layer that makes ambitious AI possible above it
- Why most industrial AI projects fail (hint: it’s alert fatigue, not bad models)
- The Management of Change governance gap that nobody in the industry is talking about
- Risk-tiered autonomy: where to start, how to build trust, and how to expand
The goal isn’t to remove people from operations. It’s to free field technicians from reactive firefighting so they can focus on the decisions that genuinely require human judgment. Learn more at https://zededa.com