Agenda - Main Conference - Day Two

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Bright Sparks: CEO Breakfast

08:30 - 09:15

Bright Sparks: CEO breakfast

Pat van de Loosdrecht - ENERGY LEADER I BOARD ADVISOR & MEMBER I STRATEGIST I CREATOR I CONNECTOR I MENTOR & COACH, ENERGY LEADER I BOARD ADVISOR & MEMBER I STRATEGIST I CREATOR I CONNECTOR I MENTOR & COACH
Dr Thomas Huwener - Chief Executive Officer, Open Grid Europe

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Plenary Sessions

09:15 - 09:20

Chair's welcome and opening remarks

Jennifer Porto, Event Host

09:20 - 10:00

Guest Speaker: China and natural gas: The role of natural gas in China's energy mix and its global energy relations.

Jane Nakano - Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

10:00 - 10:30

Panel: Is blue hydrogen a leader or a follower for CCS? What other low carbon strategies and technologies may move forward to balance the challenges facing blue hydrogen?

Alex Barnes - Director, Alex Barnes & Associates
Grete Tveit - Marketing, Midstream and Processing - Low Carbon Solutions, Equinor
Brent Lakeman - Executive Director, Edmonton Region Hydrogen Hub
Caterina De Matteis - Senior Policy Manager, IOGP Europe

10:30 - 11:00

Panel: Germany by 2045, a long-term future that hinges on future unpredictable supply and demand - How is gas market responding to the current energy transition mandates and how can new energy projects be commercialised?

Ulrike Hinz - Senior Policy Advisor Climate and Energy, WWF Germany
Dr Timm Kehler - President, DIE GAS- UND WASSERSTOFFWIRTSCHAFT
Cornelia Müller-Pagel - Head of Green Gases, VNG
Dr Thomas Huwener - Chief Executive Officer, Open Grid Europe

11:00 - 11:30

Morning coffee & networking break

11:30 - 11:50

Keynote: IEA world energy outlook and forecast on gas market – Beyond 2030

Tim Gould - Chief Energy Economist, International Energy Agency (IEA)

11:50 - 12:30

Keynote: Where next for the EU’s climate and energy policies? the failure of the COPs, the coming of CBAMs and the EU’s competitiveness agenda

Sir Dieter Helm - Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford, Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford

12:30 - 13:10

Panel: The end users & infrastructure developments will play a critical role in creating hydrogen commodity market over time: Can H2 market meet the 2050 targets or will it supersede?

Boyana Achovski - Former Secretary General of GIE, Board Member of Women in Renewables Alliance, Energy Transition and Leadership Advocate
Nicole Vermeulen - Chief Industrial Officer, Hy24
Dr Carole Chapelotte - Head of EU Affairs, Storengy
Gideon Saunders - Senior Energy Policy Expert, ONTRAS Gastransport

13:10 - 14:10

Lunch & networking

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Stream A: Hydrogen & Storage

Stream B: Low Carbon Solutions

Executive Roundtables

14:10 - 14:15

Chair's opening remarks

Jennifer Porto, Event Host

14:15 - 14:35

Panel: How can public and private sectors collaborate more effectively to finance hydrogen valleys and offtakes?

Prof Catherine Banet - Chair of the Board, Norwegian Energy Law Association, Academic Co-Director, Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE)

14:35 - 14:55

Panel: Green Hydrogen, the missing link to energy security and transition to renewables

Lijs Groenendaal - Director Hydrogen NL, RWE Generation
Barbara Jinks - Director, Ready4H2
Dr Gokce Mete - Senior Partnership Manager, Vattenfall

14:55 - 15:15

Panel: Looking into a decentralised energy system for renewable energy storage

Anna Slavkovská - Senior Expert, NAFTA

15:15 - 15:20

Chair’s closing remarks

Jennifer Porto, Event Host

14:10 - 14:15

Chair's opening remarks

Alex Barnes - Director, Alex Barnes & Associates

14:15 - 14:35

Panel: CCS – Is it the ultimate solution for next 10-20 years?

Caterina De Matteis - Senior Policy Manager, IOGP Europe
Torgeir Stordal - Director General, Norwegian Offshore Directorate

14:35 - 14:55

Fireside chat: Biomethane & bioLNG, the low hanging fruit - How a harmonised biomethane market can benefit European buyers?

Reinhard Klimeck - Managing Director and Founder, EvoVerde Consulting
Jeppe Bjerg - President, ERGAR
Victor Bernabeu - Director, Eurogas

14:55 - 15:15

Fireside chat: Electrification as a pathway to decarbonise industries: How to enforce electrical grid and will the grid be able to manage the demand?

Jeppe Danø - Vice President, Energinet System Operator, Energinet

15:15 - 15:20

Chair’s closing remarks

Alex Barnes - Director, Alex Barnes & Associates

14:10 - 14:45

Roundtable C: With prolonged low prices and reduced profits, how will future energy projects be financed?

Do investors care about financing LNG projects?
Which clean molecule would they be focusing for investment?
What’s the criteria used to decide, interest rates, investment delays, does it matter who builds them?
Insight into investments into projects scheduled beyond 2050

14:45 - 15:15

Roundtable D: Methane emissions: How are companies meeting the standards in how you monitor, verify and report emissions?

How to implement methane emissions regulation in practise
How can companies demonstrate the gas we are getting meets all the methane regulations?
What is a “reasonable effort”?

15:20 - 16:20

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Main Conference - Day TwoThursday, 15 May 2025

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