The EU Energy Challenge: Can innovation fill the gap?

9:30 - Welcome and opening of plenary by Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

• The view from Brussels: Dominique Ristori, Director-General for Energy, European Commission
• The view from Washington: Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), US Department of Energy
• Addressing Europe’s energy challenge: the role of technology, Iain Conn, Group Managing Director, BP

10:25 - Panel discussion: The energy innovation challenge

Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

• Iain Conn, Group Managing Director, BP
• Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), US Department of Energy
• Jeppe Kofod, Member of the European Parliament

11:00 - Coffee
11:30 - Energy Leadership Forum: Accelerating innovation in low-carbon technologies

1. Biofuels/bioenergy (Hall 300)

• Moderator: Angela Karp, Scientific Director, Cropping Carbon Institute Programme; Head of AgroEcology Department, Rothamsted Research, UK
• 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 Research and Innovation, European Commission

2. Renewables (solar, wind) and the grid (The Arc)

• Moderator: Mark O’Malley, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD); Director, UCD Energy Institute and Electricity Research Centre
• Goran Strbac, Professor, Electrical Energy Systems, Imperial College London; Member, Steering Committee, SmartGrids European Technology Platform
• Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Adviser to the Director-General for Energy, European Commission
• Andy Boston, Head of Analysis Team, Energy Research Partnership, UK

3. Carbon capture and sequestration (Meeting Studio 311)

• Moderator: Charles Soothill, Senior Vice President of Technology and CTO, Alstom Power
• Stuart Haszeldine, Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, University of Edinburgh
• Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director, Mainstreaming Adaptation & Low Carbon Technology, DG Climate Action, European Commission
• Luke Warren, Chief Executive, Carbon Capture and Storage Association, UK

4. Low carbon cars (Hall 300)

• Moderator: Simon Edwards, Global Director of Technology, Ricardo
• 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, European Commission
• Stefan Schmerbeck, Global Government Affairs; Head of Future Technologies, Volkswagen Group

5. Innovation in resource efficiency (The Arc)

• Moderator: David G. Victor, Professor of International Relations; Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, University of California, San Diego
• Bertrand van Ee, CEO, Climate-KIC
• Sarah J. Darby, Senior Researcher and Deputy Leader, Lower Carbon Futures group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
• Neil Hewitt, Professor of Energy; Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Built Environment Research Institute, Ulster University

6. Unconventional gas (Meeting Studio 311)

• Moderator: Giovanni De Santi, Director, Institute for Energy and Transport, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
• Robert Socolow, Professor Emeritus; Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative; Director, Climate and Energy Challenge, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
• Andreea Strachinescu, Head of Unit, New Energy Technologies, DG Energy, European Commission
• Jeppe Kofod, Member of the European Parliament

12:50 - Networking lunch and technology showcase

14:00 - Disruptive Technologies: Two views on the future

• Moderator: Colin Bailey, Vice-President and Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Manchester
• Carlos Härtel, Managing Director, GE Global Research Center Europe
• Giovanni De Santi, Director, Institute for Energy and Transport, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

14:30 - 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 Transition
• US: Douglas Arent, Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• China: Zheng Li, Professor, Dean, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center

15:20  - Coffee

15:45 - EU Energy Policy: Analysing the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy

• Chair: Dame Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge
• Didier Houssin, Director, Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Bo Normark, Co-Chair, Euro Case Energy Platform, Sweden
• Bertrand van Ee, CEO, Climate-KIC

16:30 - Summary Debate: What are the top priorities for the new Commission?

• Chair: Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser; Head of the Government Office for Science, UK
• Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the World Energy Trilemma for the World Energy Council; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
• Andreas Löschel, Chair of Microeconomics, University of Münster; Head of the German Government’s Commission to Monitor the Energy Transition

17:15 - Closing remarks

• David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP

17:30 - Reception