Western Standard - Gear up for the Global Energy Show Canada!

00:00:00.000 G'day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:27.500 Today, I'm joined by Nick Semain. He is the Senior Vice President of DMG Events, and for those who pay attention, that is the organization that puts on the Global Energy Show right here in Calgary every year.

00:00:43.720 It is one of the must-attend events for anybody in the industry with any kind of decision-making power.

00:00:52.560 Politicians, organizations tangentially surrounding the energy industry have to be there.

00:01:01.160 Everyone's paying homage, coming on the Great Oil Hodge to Calgary next week, Tuesday to Thursday, I think, June 10th to 12th.

00:01:13.280 I'm joined by Nick Semaine, Senior Vice President of BMG Events.

00:01:17.100 Thanks for joining us today.

00:01:18.080 Derek, great to be here at the Western Standard.

00:01:20.280 Thanks for inviting me.

00:01:21.760 It's a pleasure.

00:01:22.980 We've known each other for a little bit.

00:01:24.260 Actually, we met at a football game once, actually.

00:01:27.560 We did.

00:01:28.840 We saw the Blue Bombers.

00:01:31.000 That's right.

00:01:32.000 You remember we were playing the Bombers?

00:01:33.180 I do remember that.

00:01:34.640 And I remember we ran into each other at that game, and it was a heck of a game.

00:01:38.820 A little chilly, but hey, it's CFL.

00:01:41.240 and uh and yeah ever since then i think we've been running into each other i i did not remember

00:01:47.040 it was the blue bombers but i remember i was still a smoker at the time so i was i was there

00:01:52.220 is no designated smoking here so i was i was like finding an area behind the garbage cans

00:01:56.020 or something and uh and uh yeah that's that's where we met um uh last year uh we were uh at

00:02:03.020 the global energy show was our first year for the for the standard being there and it was quite an

00:02:07.040 experience. It is huge. People don't, I think, really have, and I have a hard time conceiving

00:02:15.200 of how big, I think it's fair to call it a trade show. It's a trade show. That's right. A trade

00:02:20.880 show and a conference, which is really the types of events that DMG is really focused on, as you

00:02:25.560 mentioned, here in Calgary with the Global Energy Show, but several other major events of that same

00:02:31.240 format, whether that's places like India Energy Week, which is the largest energy exhibition

00:02:36.900 in India, or ADIPEC or GASTECH, and several other large exhibitions in energy that follow

00:02:43.400 that same format.

00:02:43.980 It's big, and with the new and exceptional venue that we're honored to be in, which is

00:02:50.160 the new BMO Center, we're occupying five exhibition halls, plus a large outdoor exhibition area

00:02:58.700 as well.

00:02:59.140 So it's been growing every year since we returned back from the pandemic that shut down the show for a couple of additions.

00:03:10.940 But a big jump this year in size and more notably in registrations.

00:03:16.780 Five exhibitionals this year. How many was it last year?

00:03:18.960 We were about four and a half.

00:03:21.760 You know, we had some bigger lounges and things like that that we do.

00:03:25.200 uh but this year we really filled in the edges and brought back some yeah this is on an exhaustion

00:03:32.200 from trying just to walk the perimeter of it little on every exhibitor yeah um but there's

00:03:37.100 some big exhibitors that are that are at the event um you know some of the you know some of the big

00:03:41.280 producers like a shell uh has a big stand in the show floor but also um this year a lot of the

00:03:46.620 growth has come internationally um you know a lot of people um of course remember the oil show and

00:03:51.780 It's always been international business, but this year, you know, we've got big pavilions, not just from countries like, you know, Korea, Czech Republic, Norway, Colombia, and many others.

00:04:05.360 China is there as well. USA is a big pavilion, but also diversity.

00:04:10.180 For example, the Korean Nuclear Association has a very large stand at the show.

00:04:16.180 So there's a lot of oil and gas there, but also you'll find nuclear, geothermal, and several other sectors within energy on the show floor.

00:04:27.000 Well, it used to be the Global Petroleum Show, right?

00:04:31.220 It was.

00:04:32.300 And when was that changed?

00:04:33.940 So that was changed right around 2020.

00:04:36.560 That was the best intentions for a couple of reasons.

00:04:39.340 One, to open the door for us to grow the events.

00:04:42.280 In particular, many of those sectors that are adjacent to the oil and gas sector, but also the name petroleum in itself was pretty singular within the oil and gas sector as well.

00:04:51.840 We really wanted to welcome in LNG and gas and others there as well.

00:04:57.080 And it's not the first time it's changed names.

00:04:59.820 It's had others throughout its more than 50-year history.

00:05:04.320 I want to talk a little bit about the history of this.

00:05:06.940 So, yeah, it's been around for a long time.

00:05:10.760 I guess its beginnings were a bit more modest

00:05:13.100 at an event than it is now.

00:05:16.660 How did it start?

00:05:19.400 What did it look like?

00:05:20.160 What was it trying to do?

00:05:21.020 And how has it kind of evolved over the years?

00:05:23.020 Well, when I took over the show in around 2016, 2017,

00:05:27.920 one of the first things we did was go down

00:05:29.480 and see Jim Gray, a legend here,

00:05:31.640 a legend and certainly a legend here in Calgary as well,

00:05:34.400 who was instrumental in starting that show in the late 60s.

00:05:37.420 And it was really an add on to the Calgary Stampede, because at that time, there was a lot of the vision was there was a lot of people here in Alberta, but also in Canada.

00:05:48.900 And they just didn't understand things like the oil sands, what exactly that was, but what the oil and gas sector was all about, what the men and women were doing in the oil sector and what opportunities would look like for for investments and generating new markets.

00:06:05.800 It's strange, strangely, you know, we again, we fast forward 50 odd years.

00:06:10.620 We've really come full circle, Derek, with a lot of those similar themes this year, such as finding more customers for for Canadian energy, for communicating what the oil and gas in the energy sector does to average Canadians that are that may, as we all do from time to time, whether it's things like grocery store, where's food come from?

00:06:32.320 Where does wealth come from?

00:06:33.460 Where does jobs come from?

00:06:34.820 It tells a lot of those stories throughout the exhibition and conferences as well,

00:06:39.400 which is personally for me is a really important mission in and around the event.

00:06:48.040 So I know I get why an oil and gas CEO might go, and there's a lot of international attendees,

00:06:55.840 But, you know, why would, you know, a more average person in, say, Calgary or Calgary area go?

00:07:03.080 Yeah, I think I think for some of those reasons, there is a lot.

00:07:06.680 I would have shocked by how many people are there and they can't all be oil cheeks. 0.99

00:07:10.840 No, they certainly can't.

00:07:12.920 So, you know, if I kind of start at one way to look as demographically.

00:07:17.520 So we do work with institutions like University of Calgary, state, local high schools, advanced education and others.

00:07:25.840 we want to bring a lot of students it's really important we you know many of us in the sector

00:07:29.840 are aware that there is a a big skill not just a skills gap but also a demographic gap with a lot

00:07:34.880 of people retiring we need people to be able to come into the to the energy sector it's all fine

00:07:40.240 and danny for us to talk about as we hear in the news you know are we going to build pipelines are

00:07:45.280 we going to build new energy infrastructure but who's going to build them and more importantly

00:07:50.640 what are we doing to interest people that's another thing to make sure they're educated and

00:07:56.960 and get those skills needed to be able to enter the workforce so we allow young people we've

00:08:01.680 actually launched a brand new conference called energy influencers which is for young people but

00:08:07.600 for people throughout the um throughout the energy sector that's that's really a different take on

00:08:13.680 your standard sit in the classroom and and you know look at a screen i saw the mock-up of the

00:08:18.720 a theater for that i was like that is not what i expected yeah so um yeah you've got you got a

00:08:23.920 theater there and um you know so so you you've got that there so why why are they coming and and it's

00:08:29.420 really um you know there's so many great mediums today you can meet on to meet on social you can

00:08:34.280 meet there's dupe but face to face and those collisions that you create on the show floor

00:08:38.300 over three days when you get that many people there there's no question that's the attractiveness

00:08:42.320 coming guys you're going to run into somebody you're going to meet somebody you're going to

00:08:45.180 know somebody that knows somebody. So that demographic's really important. The buying

00:08:50.380 companies on the show floor, if you are in almost any facet of oil and gas production or within,

00:08:58.000 let's say, that manufacturing supply chain, say it's on the regulatory side, government,

00:09:01.880 or even the academic side as well, that's a big part of that trade show floor. They're walking,

00:09:07.640 looking for it to meet the companies exhibiting, whether that's new technology, whether that's

00:09:12.260 services, whether they're maybe thinking of a project and they're looking out to be able to

00:09:16.160 secure, to be able to fulfill bids that they've got. There's a lot of deal making that happens

00:09:22.900 on that show floor as well. And then, of course, yes, you've got a lot of that C-level that's

00:09:30.080 attending as well. And we've developed programming a second conference that runs, which is the

00:09:34.600 executive conference, to discuss a lot of things like high-level policies, politics, investment,

00:09:39.640 and such well let's talk a bit about that on the conference side uh you know i saw a good number of

00:09:45.860 the speakers that were there last year you've got people you expect to be there like the alberta

00:09:50.280 premier smith uh energy minister uh brian gene i think it's fair to say traditionally uh it's been

00:09:59.120 more alberta government focused less federal government focused um you've got but one you

00:10:06.540 told me about before the show kind of smacked my head uh disbelief uh chairman of olpac yeah is

00:10:14.440 going to be there like that's that's not on the regular roster right it it certainly isn't i mean

00:10:19.700 we're thrilled to welcome um secretary general's excellency ita malgeist to the to the event this

00:10:26.180 year he's going to be providing a keynote on our opening morning as part of the executive

00:10:31.160 conference this year it's titled the uh the conversation and um that's that's part of being

00:10:36.840 hosted by peter mansbridge where peter's going to work through a variety of speakers but yes

00:10:41.480 kicking that off uh we're thrilled to welcome his excellency it really is a um uh i think it speaks

00:10:49.000 to the caliber of the event um in previous years um it i i think it's no secret that a lot of the

00:10:55.740 speakers we got were were very uh or more locally focused um this year that's been a big market

00:11:01.840 change of that what that means and uh how that can potentially help um that international

00:11:08.920 perception of canada um as um a a big player we know we're a big player that's part of what we've

00:11:15.520 been talking about with the show is is uh you know alberta and calgary it's not a second class

00:11:20.060 energy city or destination. We've got some impressive stats, fourth largest oil producer,

00:11:26.840 fifth largest LNG, and so on. I'm not going to rattle all those off that are familiar likely

00:11:32.720 to many of the viewers, but we're a big global player. And I think for a few years, and as an

00:11:38.740 organizer, we organize conferences around the world. I don't know if we as a country have really

00:11:44.380 been touting with our chins up and what we bring to the table. So maybe that's just me reading a

00:11:52.980 little bit in, but to be able to have Secretary General, His Excellency come, I think really does

00:11:59.460 maybe send a signal. This event does bring a lot of global attention and the global audience coming

00:12:05.800 is tremendous. And these are people, many of them with money in their pockets that are looking for

00:12:11.320 opportunities that are seeing what type of investment climate could there be here in Canada?

00:12:16.340 If there's talk of new projects, what is the openings for a supply chain, which, you know,

00:12:22.660 we're going to need, we're going to, we are part of a global supply chain, the energy sector

00:12:26.200 and that involvement. And that's really a positive signal.

00:12:30.240 Honestly, I thought the name Global Energy Show was perhaps a little pretentious. And then I

00:12:35.420 I attended it last year, and there were guys from Korean National Oil, Middle Eastern players, obviously tons of Americans, Norwegians.

00:12:47.240 Everyone was there, and I was quickly disabused of that.

00:12:52.380 Perhaps we do think a little small in Canada or Alberta sometimes, but this was a real hub of it.

00:12:58.680 I think there's a few of the big energy shows around the world now.

00:13:03.560 all of them might be DMG right

00:13:06.260 pretty much all DMG right

00:13:07.760 I won't say that

00:13:08.900 but many of them are

00:13:11.500 the largest in the world

00:13:12.640 at the Atepec conference

00:13:13.780 we're probably very famous for

00:13:15.400 that's the largest energy event in the world

00:13:17.760 but several others

00:13:19.680 is Atepec or GasTech

00:13:21.940 which is recently in Houston

00:13:23.080 where we hosted many Canadians

00:13:25.120 and internationals

00:13:26.040 but yeah the Global Energy Show

00:13:27.620 really does rank

00:13:28.720 as one of those global events

00:13:31.920 and I think

00:13:33.560 um uh you know both both are domestically dear but also internationally i think there's a bit

00:13:39.160 of a wake up to say is there looking like here in 2025 and and that's part of the that conversation

00:13:46.120 and the conference is really focused on that is that um is that what what's maybe that next the

00:13:52.140 next five years and beyond that going to look like as we know many you know big projects or

00:13:57.220 things like pipelines or elegy they take time to build and and if we really want to instill

00:14:03.760 they take longer to approve uh they certainly have been up until this point um but uh if there's

00:14:10.420 going to be some some changes there i think the world's really paying attention to that and that

00:14:14.520 does speak to our yeah a record number of international pavilions in the show floor

00:14:18.380 but also delegations coming from all around the world and they are here they want to meet with

00:14:24.500 Canadians. They want to meet with Canadian energy companies and suppliers and understand the market

00:14:29.480 and find new opportunities. They're going to be roaming the city. I don't know if you've had

00:14:34.440 tried to look for a hotel room next week. It's either it's getting more and more difficult.

00:14:41.960 We've recently been reaching out to through our social and otherwise encouraging people to book

00:14:45.680 their hotels. The city is going to be jammed and there's going to be people here wanting to get

00:14:50.420 Followed right by G7.

00:14:52.060 And then you followed right by G7, which is...

00:14:55.100 I'm aware of what the hotel situation is there with security delegations and everything coming in.

00:15:00.020 It's wild.

00:15:00.520 Yes, indeed.

00:15:01.200 And so it's really actually mentioned that because we have had some good tailwinds being butted up right against the G7.

00:15:09.420 We're really a platform to really air a lot of the discussion and debate and to be able to come out of the event,

00:15:17.420 which we will as we close on Thursday, right prior to the G7.

00:15:22.840 We are also this year going to be producing a full white paper

00:15:26.800 on all of the findings from the executive conference.

00:15:30.580 In addition to the public conferences happening,

00:15:33.240 there is 12 curated closed door roundtables,

00:15:37.880 which are not in front of an audience with industry CEOs

00:15:41.660 and elected officials talking about specific issues.

00:15:46.700 So we're going to be collecting all of that and producing a report that will release post events, which we hope some of those findings will land on the desks of those decision makers.

00:16:00.860 And in a way, we've we've just we've done our part, our humble part as an event to really supercharge that attention on the energy sector, which it deserves.

00:16:09.560 So we talked about Chairman of Olpec coming. What are some of the other guests or speakers coming that you're most excited about?

00:16:19.200 Well, you know, from the C-suite, you really, many that will be familiar of is you've got CEOs coming from companies like Petronas, from like Synovus is going to be there.

00:16:31.540 You've got Shell Canada, head of Shell Canada, that's going to be speaking, head of TransCanada Pipeline.

00:16:38.000 And so there's, I get in trouble when, if I keep going, I don't mention anybody.

00:16:42.120 that so i'm not putting the names uh but there's there's more than 20 major ceos speaking there

00:16:48.600 alongside um i love elected officials uh as you mentioned uh is uh premier smith who we're

00:16:55.400 thrilled uh to be able to welcome back to the events um also um energy ministers uh from

00:17:02.200 saskatchewan and new brunswick and other provinces that are traveling here uh to talk energy uh to

00:17:09.000 to talk trade, to talk about learning from how we do energy here in Alberta

00:17:15.480 and how we can not just export more molecules across Canada,

00:17:22.100 but also, really importantly, export knowledge, export know-how,

00:17:26.520 export our ability to continue to grow our competitiveness and sector

00:17:34.160 and all those good things that come with it.

00:17:36.000 In last year's conference, you know, obviously I could attend every speaker.

00:17:41.080 Well, there's multiple speakers at different times in different halls.

00:17:44.660 There's a lot going on.

00:17:45.980 But, I mean, it was held in the context of continued just total stonewall against building pipelines,

00:17:55.740 against, you know, denial of development for major new oil sands projects.

00:18:01.360 when it started to dawn on everyone that the Trudeau government was truly dead.

00:18:11.680 People are, I think, a bit more optimistic right now.

00:18:15.560 We're at least getting positive rhetoric out of the federal government around energy issues.

00:18:21.880 But it's still rhetoric at this point.

00:18:24.540 But it's at least not as explicitly hostile as we were saying during last year's show.

00:18:31.360 Um, so we're coming in on a, uh, perhaps a little bit of a different vibe.

00:18:37.240 People aren't sure how real it is yet, but it's a different vibe.

00:18:39.920 Uh, what do you think are the main issues and themes that are

00:18:44.500 going to be covered at this year's show?

00:18:46.000 Yeah.

00:18:46.580 Um, and I'm glad you asked that question because, um, I think that's,

00:18:52.360 we we're hearing that, um, from a lot of people coming is, you know,

00:18:55.920 whether someone asked me, why should I attend?

00:18:58.000 or I'm attending and hoping to find this out. It's exactly that, is that we know rhetoric,

00:19:05.840 as you said, or we're hearing different things. How can I really get a sense of what the heck's

00:19:10.040 going on? And so we've structured our program to directly address some of those things.

00:19:15.220 You know, first and foremost is if we're going to build big infrastructure, what should it be

00:19:21.160 And who should build it and where and how quickly can we overcome regulatory approvals? How quickly can we overcome attracting private investment? How can we ensure that we are engaging indigenous investment and buy-in on these projects and pull all that together?

00:19:44.420 So building infrastructure is a big part of that.

00:19:47.000 I guess if I say that, and there's a lot of others that topics that fall into that.

00:19:51.440 Then on the other side is how do we diversify our energy customer?

00:19:56.380 So and that doesn't necessarily mean how do we sell less?

00:20:01.200 So we sell less to the I don't think that the least of my that's not what I'm hearing.

00:20:05.360 It's more so that we have an abundance of energy.

00:20:07.940 we want to, and some say have a responsibility to further develop that, whether that's in oil

00:20:15.720 and gas or other opportunities in nuclear, in critical minerals or otherwise, and be able to

00:20:23.040 export those. Certainly LNG comes to mind as well. So that's what we've really programmed the event

00:20:31.720 around those two big themes and that's what a lot of talk is coming out and um you know getting back

00:20:37.840 to to to the our our host is really going to be zeroing in on that we want to try and press as

00:20:43.540 much as we can responsibly with our guests on stage is is to come up with yeah we should try

00:20:49.320 this or this might be a way to be able to approach this because you're right we've been through a lot

00:20:54.480 of this and i know that there is um and for those of us as you mentioned in previous years of the

00:21:00.260 shows there's there's a bit of a fatigue of uh is this really going to happen this year um we we

00:21:06.500 very much hope that the show where you get that many people together and that many power players

00:21:11.020 together that and in person you know just like we are right now uh we tend to find that that that

00:21:17.060 in-person medium um enables sometimes enables uh two people that that might have opposing views to

00:21:23.780 maybe maybe see the other person's perspective a little bit and say yeah okay we want to get to

00:21:29.300 the end goal so we hope a little bit that happens too you uh have unintentionally segued perfectly

00:21:35.060 to my next question uh it's not all just speakers up a lot of it is panels um i don't think

00:21:42.140 necessarily structured as debates with one guy one podium one guy another and a moderator but

00:21:46.320 you know panels where you might have people with pretty different views on things uh you know do

00:21:52.580 you have any where not debates but the panels where you expect to see some more vigorous debate

00:21:58.900 where it's not necessarily different versions of the same view on stage?

00:22:03.220 Well, you and I know each other pretty well, and I think that we would agree on this.

00:22:07.200 And I've heard this before, the worst conferences, and I put my conference hat on

00:22:11.280 because our responsibility ultimately is to the ticket holder.

00:22:15.060 That's somebody that's paid some good money there.

00:22:17.020 They're not paying for an echo chamber.

00:22:19.600 That's first and foremost, and I'm not picking on that,

00:22:23.100 but sometimes we all attend conferences that we want to hear what we want to hear.

00:22:27.740 that's what we're paying for and that's okay that's not what this is about so that's first

00:22:31.900 and foremost uh having all panelists yeah agree i agree with my fellow pet you won't hear any of

00:22:37.100 that this year uh we have curated um you know we got a big executive committee that is diverse on

00:22:42.540 this to help us go through and pick the right speakers um we want debate up on stage that's

00:22:47.920 what we're paying for what is that um uh of course respectful debate that's what that is it's not

00:22:54.180 about embarrassing anybody that's not what our show is about but it's about putting hard questions

00:22:58.580 out there giving people an opportunity that want to make a mark they want to be able to get opinion

00:23:04.680 out there the big difference with the global energy show as you hit through off the top is

00:23:09.560 is it scale is it scale there's there's close to 80 media registered right now it gets national

00:23:16.620 and international attention so with speakers on stage have a not just a big opportunity but

00:23:23.880 we feel a responsibility to be able to contribute to that conversation and when we wrap all of that

00:23:31.940 debate up what comes out of that that's what we want to share back with the community so

00:23:36.200 so yeah I won't go there to say we'll sell you the whole seat but you only need the edge

00:23:42.360 one of my favorite ones but but you know what I mean we owe that responsibility you can expect

00:23:47.300 panels that are that are tight that move quickly that get to the point you won't see any power

00:23:52.560 points especially upstairs you're not going to be able to sit through long drawn out speeches like

00:23:57.740 that it's sit down and let's get down to business and see if we can come up with um some some new

00:24:03.660 ideas or expand idea on ideas are out there and how we can make things practically happen so i

00:24:10.960 when i asked you where some of the big other main speakers you were very careful to not say many

00:24:17.220 because you don't want to get in trouble with those you don't mention but i'm going to try again

00:24:22.040 in a different form on, you know, what are some of the, what do you think are going to be some

00:24:26.700 of the most interesting and vigorous panels where people are going to be debating issues? Like,

00:24:31.080 what are they going to be talking about? Those, those topics that, you know, the ones you're

00:24:34.740 going to be a busy guy during the conference, but the ones you might slip into when you got a moment.

00:24:38.700 Yeah. I mean, there's no question that I'm certainly going to be there, as you mentioned,

00:24:44.120 to talk, to listen to what his excellency says when he's deliberately speaking right at the top

00:24:48.900 end of the conference to really give that global context. I'm going to be there most certainly to

00:24:55.560 listen to one of my favorite speakers, which is Premier Smith, to find out what she's going to be

00:25:01.580 able to say and bring to the table. She always brings that for our conferences and Minister

00:25:08.220 Jean as well. So those are three that are can't misses for me because they are very insightful

00:25:13.700 and fresh on what what's happening with those issues of the day and it gets everybody buzzing

00:25:19.100 and it really helps um it really helps every everyone else kind of put the rest of the event

00:25:24.800 into context um you know aside from that you've got um uh fireside chats um i'm really interested

00:25:34.560 to hear um uh country chair stazio west who's going to be sitting down with pier mansbridge

00:25:40.800 who is going to be talking about not just what's very exciting for the country,

00:25:48.500 the largest infrastructure project in Canada, the LNG,

00:25:51.520 that's starting its first exports to Asia of Canadian LNG.

00:25:56.800 I'll be looking to hear some insights on, and I know the rest of the country will,

00:26:01.180 is that something that we can continue to grow and build on in East and West?

00:26:08.200 I'll be looking out for conversations about pipelines.

00:26:12.180 I make no apology of that.

00:26:14.480 DMG Events here in Calgary also runs the International Pipeline Expo.

00:26:18.320 I'm a fan of pipelines.

00:26:19.580 I've heard that.

00:26:20.460 Yeah, so I'm very interested to hear, as I said, we've got not just Mark Mackey, but

00:26:29.260 other big speakers that represent pipelines at the event, big sponsor TC Energy.

00:26:37.700 I want to be able to hear those discussions on what that could look like.

00:26:41.240 And is it something that we can start to look forward to as a nation with some certainty that yet we're on board with that?

00:26:51.580 So I think that there is a tremendous amount of content.

00:26:55.320 You know, there is the show is just jam packed with there's there's dinners every night.

00:27:01.680 There's Young Women and Energy's hosting a dinner. 1.00

00:27:03.880 National Coalition of Chiefs are hosting a dinner as well.

00:27:07.280 food is good and uh we're chock full of speakers um you know we're opening the morning uh with a

00:27:15.000 with a pancake breakfast that's very open to the city of calvary it's open anybody not just the

00:27:18.820 city of calvary so we all these internationals in there anybody that's in the city that morning

00:27:21.940 um we've we've got an industry night at the cowboys casino if you really want to change

00:27:26.960 that up which is always great to see people rip off their ties and um and have a bit of fun over

00:27:31.900 there yeah uh we got we got uh all so much happening during that week um there's a a 10

00:27:39.340 year anniversary for our awards gala we've got some great nominees um it's it there's so much

00:27:45.660 on the website global energy show.com right on uh was there anything i left out you want to talk

00:27:50.660 about uh just that uh there's still time to register i mean look we're hitting we're sitting

00:27:55.180 here thursday uh we're having uh several hundred registrations come in i that's of today people

00:28:01.640 are welcome to register right up until uh monday um mostly we still have capacity we are starting

00:28:09.080 to hit capacity on on the conferences but there's tickets available so we welcome people to come

00:28:15.000 down you don't need to buy a conference pass to be able to attend the exhibition um there's plenty

00:28:20.600 to do and see uh throughout the three days and and we just we really want to welcome the energy

00:28:25.880 community uh we welcome uh anybody is welcome uh regardless of your your views or it provided you

00:28:32.680 provided you behave on site uh we we welcome diversity down the show we want people to come

00:28:37.400 down and see what energy is all about come and meet uh the men and women and that's that's what's

00:28:42.760 great on the show floor you heard it there uh nick saman the head of the global energy show here has

00:28:47.160 invited all the anti-pipeline protesters to come on down for the day yeah um come down uh well i i

00:28:53.240 i don't follow that far but if if you've got some questions about energy uh there's nothing especially

00:28:58.920 there's nothing that um i enjoy more sometimes than seeing um young people that have diverse

00:29:04.600 views that get together and realize that they also have stuff in common and um you know hey

00:29:10.120 here we are derrick i mean energy's energy's everywhere we know we need it i think that's

00:29:14.040 something anybody can agree on um you would you know um so it and that's what the show is all

00:29:20.120 about it's uh it's it's a really really it's got a real positive vibe to the show this year

00:29:25.800 and uh so yeah we we welcome people to come down uh come be amazed come cut you know the the the

00:29:31.560 show floor has uh so so much cool technology uh if you're an entrepreneur you want to be an

00:29:37.560 entrepreneur there's so much coming here out of alberta um you know startup companies new companies

00:29:43.560 uh there's there's an old pitch competition goodness gracious i could go on but if you take

00:29:48.040 Check out the website.

00:29:49.460 Yeah, I just want to welcome people to come down and check out the show.

00:29:52.000 It's a treasured institution here.

00:29:55.020 We see ourselves as DMG as stewards of this event.

00:29:59.080 As you asked off the top, this is going back to the late 1960s.

00:30:02.760 And we got a big responsibility to do our part as the organizers for the event right now to ensure that it's got another wonderful 50 years ahead of it.

00:30:12.460 And that's our mission.

00:30:13.500 well uh i know i enjoyed myself tremendously last year uh we're gonna be uh we're gonna be on

00:30:21.820 the floor there as an exhibitor we're gonna be set up we've got a nice big spot so we'll be um

00:30:27.500 we're gonna be recording shows uh live we're gonna be interviewing uh leaders in the industry we're

00:30:32.080 gonna be uh we're gonna have live shows from the floor we're gonna do the pipeline from there we're

00:30:37.780 gonna do uh nigel henneford's show you can oh he's kind of oh you can see the white of his head right 0.79

00:30:43.500 there. You can see

00:30:45.580 back to Nigel's head there. Corey Morgan,

00:30:47.860 he's going to do his show live

00:30:49.440 from the floor of the Global Energy

00:30:51.660 Show, so we're going to be all over. So anyone

00:30:53.360 who is interested,

00:30:56.600 they should come on out.

00:30:57.780 People don't have to pay for a ticket

00:30:59.520 to go see the exhibition.

00:31:01.120 They do now, so we've

00:31:03.460 just passed that date because

00:31:05.100 people register later. It just

00:31:07.560 costs us a bit more to accommodate.

00:31:09.180 But they're all, I mean,

00:31:11.080 a secret to

00:31:12.320 there is

00:31:14.060 codes out there so if you know an exhibitor

00:31:16.980 if you know somebody scan through the exhibitor list

00:31:19.100 and exhibitors

00:31:20.940 we grant the tickets for the customer

00:31:22.860 you find a way if you are somebody

00:31:25.040 that can't afford to

00:31:26.280 attend the show legitimately for whatever

00:31:28.960 reason contact our office

00:31:30.820 the email is on the website and

00:31:32.920 ask for me Nick Semain

00:31:34.740 I'll be happy to take your call and we'll make sure you get a ticket

00:31:36.940 that's great yeah so we're going to be

00:31:39.000 there we're going to have a draw ourselves

00:31:40.960 We're going to have a draw for $20,000 of advertising, free advertising.

00:31:44.720 That's incredible.

00:31:45.800 Okay.

00:31:46.300 It's a big draw.

00:31:47.140 You know, so if, you know, if you're a business owner, uh, going to be in the Calgary area

00:31:51.400 that day, come on down to the B, uh, BMO center where, uh, you drop your business card

00:31:56.880 in and at the end we're going to, we're going to do a draw and the winner is going to get

00:31:59.900 $20,000 in free Western standard advertising.

00:32:03.500 And we'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday all day.

00:32:08.120 Well, Nick, really appreciate your time and what you're doing with the Global Energy Show.

00:32:12.620 I'm glad we can work together on it.

00:32:14.020 I'm excited for it next week.

00:32:15.580 Thanks so much for having me, Derek.

00:32:17.520 I'm so looking forward to next week and all the stuff that Western Standard has going on there that you mentioned.

00:32:23.280 It's going to be a great week.

00:32:24.580 Looking forward to it.

00:32:25.520 Absolutely.

00:32:26.420 Thank you very much.

00:32:28.360 That's Nick Semaine, Senior Vice President of DMG Events, talking with me about the Global Energy Show.

00:32:35.080 coming to town right here in Calgary next week.

00:32:39.520 What's the website?

00:32:40.460 Where can they register?

00:32:42.460 GlobalEnergyShow.com

00:32:43.440 GlobalEnergyShow.com

00:32:45.100 Check them out.

00:32:47.160 Trust me, it's really, really great.

00:32:49.240 You're going to want to be there.

00:32:50.360 Thank you very much for joining us today.

00:32:51.900 We'll see you next time.

00:33:05.080 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - June 06, 2025

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