Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that Antonio Pietri, President and CEO, AspenTech, has been selected as a keynote speaker at EMET 2016, the preeminent event for ethylene industry leaders who use innovative technology to achieve operational efficiency, sustainability and excellence.

EMET 2016 will focus on “Sustaining Ethylene Competitiveness through Solution Sharing” and will take place at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center, Manama in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 17 – 18 October 2016. Mr. Pietri will be a keynote presenter in the Monday 17 October session, “The Changing Competitive Landscape for Ethylene Production in the GCC”. He will discuss how companies in the region can achieve market leadership by being operationally efficient through the full lifecycle of plant design, operations and maintenance, and how adopting a model-based business culture, improving processes and empowering the workforce with advanced technology will differentiate regional businesses as global production centres of excellence.

As a Gold Sponsor of the conference and Member of the EMET 2016 Technical and Steering Committees, AspenTech will showcase its industry-leading aspenONE^® software, including the latest innovations in Engineering, Advanced Process Control, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Petroleum Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management in the Gulf Hotel Bahrain Exhibition Hall – Stand # 109.

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Antonio Pietri, President and CEO, AspenTech
“I am pleased to speak at EMET 2016 as the event offers a powerful opportunity to highlight AspenTech’s continued commitment to Middle East oil, gas & petrochemicals firms as they enter a new competitive era in the petrochemicals industry. I look forward to discussing how our holistic approach to asset optimization and the automation of knowledge work helps customers improve and sustain operational performance throughout the asset lifecycle.”

 Supporting Resources

·       aspenONE V9 Software

·       AspenTech at EMET 2016

·       EMET 2016

 
About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing – for energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process.  With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations.  As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs and become more energy efficient.  To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers rely on AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com

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