{"id":4084,"date":"2026-07-31T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:17:12","slug":"richard-mcgowan-confirmed-for-the-technologies-for-sustainability-international-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/richard-mcgowan-confirmed-for-the-technologies-for-sustainability-international-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHARD MCGOWAN CONFIRMED FOR THE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4084\" class=\"elementor elementor-4084\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-31f869ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"31f869ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b224b49\" data-id=\"1b224b49\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37526367 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37526367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce that Richard McGowan, Managing Director and Co-Founder of <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomgroup.com\/\"><strong>Fathom Group<\/strong><\/a>, will join the <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/\"><strong>Technologies for Sustainability \u2013 International Roundtable<\/strong><\/a> as a panel speaker in Aberdeen on the 21st October 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Richard brings more than 20 years of experience across the offshore energy sector, spanning design, installation and commissioning. Today, his work combines that practical engineering background with the development and deployment of digital engineering solutions for energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">As Managing Director and Co-Founder of Fathom Group, Richard leads a UK-based offshore engineering and software company specialising in lean, high-fidelity digital engineering. Its work supports asset integrity decisions and planning across offshore renewables and subsea infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">His experience raises an important question for this year&#8217;s Roundtable: How do we use technology to make better decisions about the infrastructure we already have and the infrastructure we are about to build?<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Digitalisation is often discussed as an objective in itself. But its value ultimately depends on what it enables people to do differently. For complex offshore assets, that means turning engineering information into better decisions: understanding asset condition, identifying where intervention is required, planning more effectively and using engineering resources where they create the greatest value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Richard also brings the perspective of an entrepreneur who has built a business around solving those problems. Alongside his engineering career, he has undertaken entrepreneurial development through programmes including <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/mitsloan.mit.edu\/programs\/executive-education\/entrepreneurship-development-program\"><strong>MIT&#8217;s Entrepreneurship Development Programme<\/strong><\/a> and Scottish leadership initiatives, and remains actively involved in innovation networks across the North East of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">That combination of engineering, technology and entrepreneurship makes his perspective particularly relevant to a Roundtable concerned not simply with developing sustainable technologies, but with how those technologies become useful, deployable solutions to real industrial challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">The fourth edition of the Technologies for Sustainability \u2013 International Roundtable will be the first held outside London. It is being organised by <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/mby-consultants-ltd\/\"><strong>MBY Consultants<\/strong><\/a> and <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/futured.university\/\"><strong>The FuturED Institute<\/strong><\/a> in partnership with the <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/greentradeandcommerce.org\/\"><strong>International Green Trade &amp; Commerce Association<\/strong><\/a>, with institutional support from <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/oeuk.org.uk\/\"><strong>OEUK<\/strong><\/a> and the <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.niauk.org\/\"><strong>Nuclear Industry Association<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">We look forward to welcoming Richard and hearing his perspective on how engineering expertise, digital technology and entrepreneurship can come together to solve the practical challenges facing the future offshore energy system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">21st October 2026 | Aberdeen<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Find out more about the Technologies for Sustainability International Roundtable: <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechroundtable.org\"><strong>www.greentechroundtable.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Richard McGowan, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Fathom Group, will join the Technologies for Sustainability \u2013 International Roundtable as a panel speaker in Aberdeen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}