The Adam Smith Society’s Houston Professional chapter invites you to join a private salon dinner and discussion on Thursday, November 18th at Vic & Anthony’s steakhouse.

Our special guest for the evening will be energy expert Mark Mills, who will be joining us to discuss his recent report, SHALE 2.0: Technology and the Coming Big-Data Revolution in America’s Shale Oil Fields.

In his report, Mark argues that, despite the warnings of many experts that we have reached the end of America’s shale boom, continued technological progress—particularly in big-data analytics—has the U.S. shale industry poised for another, longer boom, or a “Shale 2.0.”

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a lively and insightful discussion about the future of this important sector.

This invitation is non-transferrable and does not include a plus one. Please RSVP by Friday, November 13. Space is limited and seats will be allotted first come, first-served.

About Mark:

Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, CEO of the Digital Power Group (a tech-centric capital advisory group), faculty fellow at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an advisory board member of Notre Dame University’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Previously, he cofounded and was chief tech strategist of Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mills is a contributor to Forbes.com and coauthor of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005; Number One on Amazon’s science and math rankings). His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times Magazine. Mills is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox, NBC, and PBS, and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.