Introducing Sphera’s
Workplace Safety Virtual Forum
The technology-driven safety culture: Your blueprint for a resilient safety program
Creating a technology-driven safety culture by establishing a resilient safety program
Over two days, this forum explores the full safety journey—from building a strong safety culture to implementing advanced, technology-driven programs. You will learn how AI, predictive analytics and real-time monitoring complement cultural initiatives to prevent incidents, optimize operations and strengthen safety performance.
Watch practical examples and get insights from industry leaders across sectors, showing how to engage both employees and management to mitigate risks, protect people, safeguard profits, and create sustainable workplaces. This will empower you to transform safety from a compliance obligation into a strategic driver of resilience and long-term business success.
Forum agenda
Day one – November 5, 2025
Speaker: Paul Marushka , CEO & President
Welcome keynote
Shaping the Future: Technology-driven safety programs for a safer, more sustainable world
Speaker: Chris Sayers, Senior Manager, Verdantix
Verdantix keynote
Technology-led resilience: Transforming safety culture and business performance
In this keynote, Verdantix Senior Manager Chris Sayers examines the interdependence of people, processes and technology in shaping safety excellence. Drawing on insights from the Verdantix Global Corporate Survey of 301 respondents and recent EHS and AI research; this talk will provide EHS leaders with a strategic roadmap for leveraging technology to strengthen safety culture and build proactive, resilient EHS programs. Attendees will also gain a clear understanding on emerging safety technologies and the future of AI-driven risk management
Speakers: David Klocek, VP Client Services, Sphera
Shayne Wiesemann, Manager, EHS Strategic Planning and Performance, Duke Energy Corporation
Customer success story
Create a culture of safety: Bridge cultural differences and connect teams across organizational lines
A truly resilient safety culture knows no borders or lines. Learn from Duke Energy how to build a safety culture that bridges cultural differences and unites employees across departments. Understand how technology can unify safety processes across organizational borders, support a culture of proactive reporting and adapt to local contexts without losing global standards.
Speakers: Irfan Mamoojee, Senior Director, Solution Engineering, Sphera
Michael Sturm, Head of Corporate HSE, KAEFER
Customer success story
Fostering a proactive safety culture in a decentralized context of a global industrial service provider
Building a safety culture grounded in leading indicators and safe behaviors is no small task—especially in a decentralized, global industrial service environment shaped by diverse client requirements. In this session, discover how KAEFER leveraged purpose-built technology, unified processes and successfully accomplished a shift toward leading indicators to engage teams worldwide and strengthen resilience.
Day two – November 6, 2025
Speakers: Naved Siddique, Chief Product Officer, Sphera
Scott Lehmann, VP of Product Management, Sphera
Welcome keynote
From reactive to proactive: How AI is redefining safety
This session explores how AI is transforming safety from reactive to proactive through a focus on fit-for-purpose applications that simplify, standardize and connect the dots. By standardizing risk studies, strengthening incident reporting and prediction, and simplifying critical work processes such as permits and task risk assessments, AI can reduce complexity, connect data, and enable smarter more joined up decisions—empowering organizations to prevent incidents and achieve higher safety performance.
Speakers: Samir Menon, Global Managing Partner, ERM
Priyanka Rajkumar, Consulting Director, ERM
Alastair McKenzie-Kerr, Associate Partner, ERM
Expert insights
Leveraging AI in workplace safety: From vision to practical impact
AI can transform workplace safety, but success depends on clearly defining purposeful use cases and ensuring operational alignment. Too often, projects are derailed by complex challenges, poor data quality or lack of stakeholder buy-in. In this session, you’ll first hear ERM’s strategy for leveraging AI in workplace safety, followed by an example of how this came to life with a joint ERM and Sphera client. Learn how to overcome initial barriers and translate AI’s potential into measurable safety and sustainability gains.
Speaker: Irfan Mamoojee, Senior Director, Solution Engineering, Sphera
Customer success story
Unlocking safety insights: Turning data into action with AI
This session demonstrates how AI transforms safety data from incidents, near-misses, and observations into actionable insights. Attendees will learn how AI-driven analytics uncover hidden trends and risk patterns, enabling smarter decision-making, stronger safety programs, and measurable improvements in workplace safety performance.
