George has over forty years of experience in all facets of petroleum and renewable energy technology, project management, needs assessments and training, having worked extensively in Middle East, Asia, South America, Africa and Canada. As head of the Petroleum Technology Department at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology for eight years, he successfully managed a program with 500 full and part-time students per year. During the last twenty-seven years he has conducted numerous workshops internationally and in Canada on all aspects of petroleum technology for participants from over 70 countries. He has designed petroleum engineering curriculums for schools in Ecuador, Qatar, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan and carried out Petroleum Engineering Needs Assessments for Universities and Governments in Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Nigeria and. He has provided many presentations for the Insurance Institutes in Alberta as well as many individual insurance companies in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Lindsay Mackay is a Senior Renewable Property & Casualty Underwriter at Aviva Canada, specializing in complex risk underwriting across renewable energy, power, construction, and emerging climate transition technologies. With nearly a decade of experience spanning underwriting, brokerage, and risk management, she brings a uniquely multidisciplinary lens to the evolving intersection of climate resilience, advanced risk modeling, and sustainable energy infrastructure. In her role at Aviva, Lindsay leads underwriting strategy for sustainable energy portfolios, applying probabilistic loss modeling, scenario analysis, and engineering based assessments to support accurate risk selection and capital deployment in collaboration with head office and Aviva Risk Management solutions. Her expertise includes evaluating natural catastrophe exposures, operational volatility, and business interruption risk across asset classes such as solar PV, onshore wind, battery energy storage, hydrogen, and carbon capture. She also contributes to the development of Aviva’s technical underwriting frameworks and climate transition playbooks, helping shape how insurers assess and support next generation energy systems