Title: Technology and Innovation
Duration: 2:01 minutes
Description:
Shell Chief Technology Officer discusses technology and innovation
Technology and Innovation Transcript
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Technology and Innovation. Innovating towards a sustainable energy future
Interview with Yuri Sebregts
Yuri Sebregts
Chief Technology Officer, Royal Dutch Shell
[Yuri]
My name is Yuri Sebregts, and I'm the Chief Technology Officer of Shell. If you look at some of the
statistics, the world population grows by the size of the city of Paris every 11 days. If you combine that
with growing wealth in the world that means that world energy consumption doubles by 2050. That in
turn leads to great challenges for resources, because the water, food and energy systems in the world
are tightly linked. For instance, you need water to extract energy, but you also need energy to
transport water, and you need water and energy to grow food.
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[Yuri]
If we look into the future, the challenge is clear: how can we boost economic development and at the
same time have a sustainable water and waste footprint. Energy companies have to make a
contribution, but they cannot do this alone. We need the best technologies that are available to be
deployed, and also innovation to create new solutions.
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[Yuri]
Innovation is not only about inventing new products and processes, it’s also about new ways of
thinking to create value. We have to tap into the best, brightest minds and ideas to meet the world’s
challenges, and working across the boundaries of industries, with global organisations, gives us much
better outcomes, and that is why Shell operates an open innovation strategy.
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[Yuri]
In open innovation we try to jointly define the best ways to create value, and meet business and
customer needs. Increasingly we are also collaborating more to speed up the deployment of
innovations to meet the challenges of energy.
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