Agenda - Summit Day

Summit DayTuesday, 13 May 2025

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Global LNG Summit

Energy Trader Summit

Energy Decarbonisation Summit

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:10

Chair's welcome and opening remarks

David Callanan - Founder, Global LNG Hub

09:10 - 09:30

Solo: With limited upside for global LNG demand in 2024-25, will LNG continue to play the pivotal role for energy security?

Dr Ning Lin - Chief Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas

09:30 - 09:50

Solo: With rising uncertainties on US LNG projects and exports, what can be its expected impact on global supply-demand balance and strategies for securing current supplies?

Jason Feer - Head of Business Intelligence , Poten & Partners

09:50 - 10:30

Panel: Significance of LNG in the security of supply - Are importers struggling to secure sufficient LNG supplies, if not, will gas be available at competitive price?

Dr Ning Lin - Chief Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
Vivek Chandra - CEO and Founder, Gulftream LNG
Anne-Sophie Corbeau - Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Akhil Mehrotra - Managing Director, Pipeline Infrastructure Limited, India

10:30 - 11:00

Solo: Will the US continue to build on its LNG legacy?

Andrew Walker - VP - LNG Strategy and Communication, Cheniere

11:00 - 11:30

Morning coffee & networking

11:30 - 12:00

Case Study: Germany’s security of supply & energy transition - Spotlight on future ready import terminals

Laura Page - Head of LNG and Natural Gas Research, Kpler
Dr Peter Röttgen - Managing Director, Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH

12:00 - 12:40

Panel: European regasification expansion plans, capacity and utilisation - If there will be no demand recovery, why are we building more?

Roxana Caliminte - Strategic Advisor, Speaker on Energy and Transport
Arturo Gallego - Executive Vice President and Global Head of LNG, Centrica
Teodora Georgieva - Executive Officer and Board Member, ICGB AD, Interconnector Greece Bulgaria
Nelly Nicoli - CEO, Elengy
Marcel Tijhuis - Senior Project Manager Business Development LNG, German LNG Terminal

12:40 - 13:00

Solo: LNG for Europe – bearish or bullish?

Matthew Drinkwater - Principal – Gas & Power, Argus Media

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & networking

14:00 - 14:20

Solo: Does Europe (and the world) need more regasification capacity - What are market drivers & commercial considerations for this new wave of regas capacity?

14:20 - 15:00

Panel: Driving flexibility - How will the LNG market balance between developing long term strategies for energy transition and underpinning their LNG supply?

Sara Piskor - Director of Strategy, Policy and Communications, ENTSOG
Svetlana Bochkova - Senior Policy Advisor, Eurogas
Laurent David - General Delegate, GIIGNL
Jurgita Šilinskaitė-Venslovienė - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, KN Energies
Luis Ignacio Parada - EU Energy Policy & Regulation Director, Enagás

15:00 - 15:20

Solo: Small-scale LNG liquefaction process - State of art, technology, comparisons and case study

Gennaro Formisano - LNG Business Development Manager, SIAD Macchine Impianti

15:20 - 16:00

Fireside Chat: Growth versus returns - How are the financiers evaluating LNG projects beyond 2030?

David Callanan - Founder, Global LNG Hub
Patrick Barouki - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Kashif Khan - Director, Private Infrastructure & Project Finance, MetLife Investments Management Limited
Jennifer Pomerantz - Chairperson, Ellipsis Holdings
Art Robinson - Managing Director, Longbow Capital

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea and networking break

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:10

Chair's welcome and opening remarks

Doug Wood - Chair of Gas Committee, Energy Traders Europe

09:10 - 09:30

Solo: Analysis on the global supply and demand status

Anton van Heesewijk - Head of Trading Strategy, JERA Global Markets

09:30 - 10:00

Fireside chat: Will Asian LNG demand continue to grow or will plateau?

Mike Fulwood - Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Daisuke Harada - Project Director, Economist, Energy Business Unit, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)
Cara MacDonald - Head of LNG & Clean Fuels Supply and Origination, RWE Supply & Trading
Dr Aydar Shakirov - Head of Gas Market Analysis Department, Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)

10:00 - 10:20

Spotlight on: Counting on coal or is it in structural decline?

Maria Kuznietsova - Senior Market Analyst, Coal Department, Metal Expert

10:20 - 11:00

Panel: With stiff global competition, evolving regulations and geopolitical tensions impacting LNG pricing and indexation – How will LNG be purchased in 2025 and beyond?

Jason Feer - Head of Business Intelligence , Poten & Partners
Patrick Dugas - Vice President - LNG Trading, TotalEnergies
Nicola Duffin - Head of LNG, INEOS Energy Trading
Marco Saalfrank - Head of Continental Europe Merchant Trading, Axpo Solutions

11:00 - 11:30

Morning coffee & networking

11:30 - 12:10

Panel: How are European hubs rebalancing after the reshuffling of gas flows in the network? How has this changed tariff structures and increased spreads between European hubs?

Iryna Sereda - Head of European Gas, BloombergNEF
Axel Elmelid - Senior Manager Portfolio Management, Equinor
Dr Ning Lin - Chief Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
Sebastian Kemper - CEO, Trading Hub Europe

12:10 - 12:30

Solo: European demand growth outlook up to 2026

12:30 - 13:00

Fireside chat: With energy crisis leading to potential deindustrialisation in Europe -How much demand recovery can we see in 2025 and beyond? What are the stimulus required?

Marwa Rashad - Senior Energy Correspondent, Reuters
Iryna Sereda - Head of European Gas, BloombergNEF
Markus Krug - Deputy Head of Gas Department, E-Control
Gottfried Steiner - CEO, Central European Gas Hub
Geoffroy Hureau - Secretary General, CEDIGAZ

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & networking

14:00 - 14:20

Solo: Volatility drivers – where are we post the winter?

Ronald Pinto - Principal Insight Analyst, Kpler

14:20 - 15:00

Panel: Ukrainian storage and gas transit contracts – impact on pricing, volumes and risks/rewards

Marwa Rashad - Senior Energy Correspondent, Reuters
Andrii Prokofiev - Head of Cooperation with Clients Division, Gas TSO of Ukraine
Roman Maliutin - CEO, Ukrtransgaz
László FRITSCH - CEO, MVM CEEnergy Zrt

15:00 - 15:20

Solo: How are regulatory changes adding to volatility and affecting trading business and booking strategies?

Csilla Bartók - Head of Department, Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

15:20 - 16:00

Fireside chat: Machine learning, AI and energy: what advances have been made that can help traders?

Christian Baer - Secretary General, Europex
Jouni Liimatta - Head of Trading & Optimizing, Gasum
Michael Schach - Co-founder and CEO, Calypso Commodities
Gregor Pett - Executive Vice President Market Analytics, Uniper Energy

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea and networking break

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:10

Chair's welcome and opening remarks

Erik Rakhou - Managing Director and Founder, Rakhou Associates

09:10 - 09:50

Panel: Are European policies best suited to attract low carbon and renewables projects to reach 2040 targets and a suggested117bcm gas market? What business models really work?

Olivia Powis - CEO, Carbon Capture Storage Association
Piotr Kuś - General Director, ENTSOG
Andreas Guth - Secretary General, Eurogas
Nazim Khiari - Khiari, Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)

09:50 - 10:30

Panel: Enabling change - How are hard-to-abate industries evaluating different carbon management strategies and pathways? What are the effects of the global competition review and the Draghi report?

Rob van Straten - CEO, Skytree
Manuel Breva - Secretary General, ANFFECC
Lars Hummel - Head of EU Affairs, eFuel Alliance e.V.

10:30 - 11:00

Fireside chat: Sector coupling, system integration and system planning: with increased redispatching and balancing of power systems, what is being done to promote integration between electrons and molecules?

Erik Rakhou - Managing Director and Founder, Rakhou Associates
Rafael Muruais Garcia - Head of the Energy System Needs Department, ACER

11:00 - 11:30

Morning coffee and networking

11:30 - 12:15

Panel: Big picture: insights into building a long-term, sustainable CCS portfolio

Erik Rakhou - Managing Director and Founder, Rakhou Associates
Sven Goethals - Commercial Director, Hydrogen and Decarbonisation, Tractebel
Peter Basche - Director Carbon Value CCU/S, E.ON

12:15 - 12:35

Solo: Innovations in technology - Solutions for improving post combustion carbon capture efficiency

12:35 - 13:00

Interview: From Northern Lights and a CO2 highway to the development of large-scale, low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia projects: how do these align with a broader low-carbon strategy?

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & networking

14:00 - 14:30

Case study: Creating a long term, sustainable market for CO2 hubs – learnings from around the world

Brent Lakeman - Executive Director, Edmonton Region Hydrogen Hub

14:30 - 14:50

Solo: CCS transportation and sequestration: insights into a new industry with limited operational knowledge

14:50 - 15:30

Panel: Driving energy future infrastructure for a net zero world: how can LNG, gas, hydrogen and CO2 infrastructure connect? Where might synergies be?

Torben Brabo - Honorary President, GIE
Sergio Molisani - Chief International Assets Officer, Snam
Lucie Boost - Secretary General, GIE
Stefan Siegemund - Business Development Manager, VTG

15:30 - 16:00

Panel: Hydrogen and its commerciality: if the only two areas where a hydrogen market will fly for is power generation and mobility – can the rest of the market manage without it?

Andrew Hagan - Director, Chief Development Officer, Element 2
Camilla Montemurro - Policy Advisor, Eurogas
Taia Kronborg - Partner, Chief Business Officer, Lhyfe

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea and networking

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LNG Trading

Energy Decarbonisation Summit

16:30 - 17:00

Fireside chat: Methane emission regulation, compliance and reporting - How will this impact global trading markets?

Agnieszka Ason - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Dr Niko Bosnjak - Head of Policy & Communication, OGE
Dione Hernández Galvis - Regulatory Affairs Manager, RWE Supply & Trading
Alejandro Navarro Paustian - Senior Legal Counsel, Uniper

17:00 - 17:20

Solo: Bio methane and BioLNG: will this year mark the year that the trading market for biomethane takes off?

17:20 - 18:00

Panel: With the emergence of new cleaner fuels, how can a fully functioning gas and LNG trading system be established for renewable & low carbon gases without jeopardising Europe’s competitiveness?

Dr Jan Haizmann - Secretary General, Zero Emissions Traders Alliance
Honey Duan - Director of Commodity Origination, Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH
Felix Müller - Vice President Trading Regulatory Affairs, SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe GmbH)
Naiara Ortiz de Mendíbil - Secretary General, Sedigas (Spanish Gas Association)
Dr Thomas Schroder - Head of Environmental Products, EDF Trading

18:00 - 18:05

Chair's closing remarks

David Callanan - Founder, Global LNG Hub
Doug Wood - Chair of Gas Committee, Energy Traders Europe

16:30 - 16:50

Solo: Understanding how voluntary and compliance carbon markets are merging in Europe and what this means for EU companies

Andrew Howard - Chief Strategy and Policy Officer, VERRA
William Zimmern - Executive Director and Head of Products, MSCI

16:50 - 17:10

Case study: Strategies for switching from a fossil gas to a subsidy free biomethane, carbon neutral gas

17:10 - 17:50

Panel: The Big Bang - Is European gas a potential 117 bcma market or still 300bcm? Who will gas lose out to?

Erik Rakhou - Managing Director and Founder, Rakhou Associates
Dr Vladimír Čermák - Senior Manager, Energy Transition - Strategy, NET4GAS
Jacob Meins - Chief Commercial Officer (Origination), RWE Supply & Trading
Marcel Steinbach - Senior Vice President - Group Regulatory Affairs, SEFE (SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH)
Anna Venturini - Policy Manager, European Biogas Association

17:50 - 18:00

Chair's closing remarks

Erik Rakhou - Managing Director and Founder, Rakhou Associates

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Women in LNG

Networking Drinks Reception

18:05 - 19:05

Women in LNG: A cheese and wine evening with opportunities for female leaders to navigate their career challenges and pathways with senior industry mentors.

Laura Page - Head of LNG and Natural Gas Research, Kpler

18:05 - 19:05

Networking Drinks

Summit DayTuesday, 13 May 2025

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