The International Roundtable on Technologies for Sustainability is pleased to announce that Richard McGowan, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Fathom Group, will join this year’s panel in Aberdeen on 21 October 2026.

There is no shortage of conversation about digital transformation in the energy sector. There is considerably less about what it actually takes to make it work, in real assets, with real engineering teams, under real commercial and operational constraints.

Richard McGowan has spent more than 20 years working at that gap. With a background spanning design, installation and commissioning across the offshore energy sector, he founded Fathom Group to develop digital engineering solutions that are lean, high-fidelity and directly useful to the people making decisions about offshore infrastructure.

The company’s work focuses on asset integrity decisions and planning across offshore renewables and subsea infrastructure, areas where the consequences of poor information are significant and where the value of getting it right is substantial. The question Fathom Group is built around is deceptively simple: how do you turn engineering data into better decisions?

Richard has pursued that question not only through his engineering practice but through structured entrepreneurial development, including MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme, and through sustained involvement in innovation networks across the North East of Scotland, a region where the combination of engineering depth and entrepreneurial energy is producing some of the most interesting work in the UK energy sector.

His participation at the Roundtable will contribute a perspective that is often missing from discussions about sustainable technology: the practical, implementation-level view of what it takes to move from capability to deployment.

The IV International Roundtable on Technologies for Sustainability is organised by MBY Consultants and The FuturED Institute, in partnership with the International Green Trade & Commerce Association, with institutional support from OEUK and the Nuclear Industry Association.

21 October 2026 | Maryculter House, Aberdeen

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