The EU Energy Challenge: Can innovation fill the gap? 14 November Agenda

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The EU Energy Challenge: Can innovation fill the gap? 14 November Agenda
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The EU Energy Challenge:
Can innovation fill the gap?
Agenda
14 November
Square Brussels Meeting Centre
2, Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels
09:00-19:00
09:00
Doors open -welcome coffee
09:30
Welcome and opening of plenary
Richard L. Hudson, CEO, Science|Business
09:35
The view from Brussels
09:55
The view from Washington
10:15
The long-term perspective on energy technologies and climate change
10:30
Panel discussion: The energy innovation challenge
Dominique Ristori, Director-General, DG Energy, European Commission (TBC)
Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Iain Conn, Group Managing Director, BP
Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO, Science|Business
Iain Conn, Group Managing Director, BP
Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Dominique Ristori, Director-General, DG Energy, European Commission (TBC)
11:00
Coffee
11:30
Energy Leadership Forum: Accelerating innovation in low-carbon technologies
Participants may attend two out of six parallel executive sessions on core energy
technology topics
1. Biofuels/bioenergy
Moderator: Ian Dobson, Technology Advisor – Biofuels, BP
Chris Somerville, Director, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Claus Crone Fuglsang, Vice President, BioEnergy R&D, Novozymes
Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit, Renewable Energy Sources, DG Energy, European Commission
2. Renewables (solar, wind) and the grid
Moderator: Mark O’Malley, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin
(UCD); Founder and Director, Electricity Research Centre; Director, UCD Energy Institute
Goran Strbac, Professor of Electrical Energy Systems, Imperial College London
Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Advisor, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
3. Carbon capture and sequestration
Moderator: Jens Hetland, Senior Scientist, SINTEF (TBC)
Stuart Haszeldine, Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, The University of
Edinburgh
Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director, Mainstreaming Adaptation & Low Carbon technology, DG
Climate Change, European Commission
Zigmantas Balčytis, Member of the European Parliament (TBC)
12:15
4. Low carbon cars
Moderator: Richard Hudson, CEO, Science|Business
Bertrand van Ee, CEO, Climate- KIC, European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Jean-Francois Gagné, Head, Energy Technology Policy Division, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Keir Fitch, Head of Unit, Research and Innovative Transport Systems, DG Mobility and Transport
(DG MOVE), European Commission (TBC)
5. Innovation resource efficiency
Moderator: David G. Victor, Professor of International Relations; Director, Laboratory on
International Law and Regulation, University of California, San Diego
Sarah J. Darby, Senior Researcher and Deputy Leader, Lower Carbon Futures group, Oxford
University
Julio Garcia Burgues, Director, Green Economy, DG Environment, European Commission (TBC)
6. Unconventional gas
Moderator: Vladimir Sucha, Director- General, Joint Research Centre, European
Commission
Robert Socolow, Professor and Co-Director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton
Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Andreea Strachinescu, Head of Unit, New Energy Technologies, DG Energy, European Commission
Jeppe Kofod, Member of the European Parliament
13:00
Networking lunch
14:30
Disruptive Technologies: 2 views on the future
Moderator: Colin Bailey, Vice-President and Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical
Sciences, Professor of Structural Engineering, Manchester University
Carlos Haertel, Head, GE Global Research Europe
Vladimir Sucha, Director-General, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
15:00
Towards a new world order for energy R&D
Chair: Angela Strank, Chief Scientist, BP
EU: András Siegler, Director, Energy, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Germany: Hans-Joachim Ziesing, Senior Research Associate, Free University Berlin; Managing
Director, AG Energiebilanzen; Member of the German Government’s Commission to Monitor the
Energy Reform
US: Douglas Arent, Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
China: Li Zheng, Professor, Dean, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University;
Director, Tsinghua BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center
16:00
Coffee
16:30
EU Energy Policy: Analysing the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy
Panel debate on five key areas (renewables and climate change, shale gas, energy prices,
strategy for international climate change negotiations; improving the ETS)
Chair: Dame Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Head of the Department
of Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge
Didier Houssin, Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, IEA
Dominique Ristori, Director General, DG Energy, European Commission (TBC)
Bo Normark, Chair, Euro Case Energy Platform, Sweden
Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the ITRE Committee (TBC)
17:15
Summary Debate: What are the top priorities for the new Commission
Two speakers argue two different perspectives, followed by moderated discussion and
audience engagement - interactive voting
Chair: Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the
Government Office for Science, United Kingdom
Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the World Energy Trilemma for the World Energy Council,
senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
Andreas Loeschel, Chair of Microeconomics, esp. Energy and Resource Economics, University of
Münster, Head of the German Government’s Commission to Monitor the Energy Reform
18:00
Conclusions: David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP
18:15
Reception

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