Opening remarks

• The Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Canada UK collaboration
Industry and government are working to advance the development of new energy technologies in efforts to meet our emissions targets. This includes hydrogen and supporting technologies and infrastructure projects, such as CCUS, clean electrification, SMRs and clean fuels that will be essential for decarbonizing industrial sectors. The scale of the transformation is unrecognizable to what was happening only a few years ago. Panelists will discuss the frameworks, technologies and financing that will facilitate the transition to a low carbon industrial economy, including initiatives to expand Canada UK cooperation and enhance energy security.

• Heather Chalmers, President & CEO, GE Canada & President, Growth Markets, GE Vernova
• Emma Pinchbeck, Chief Executive Officer, ENERGY UK

Chair: Peter Tertzakian, Deputy Director, ARC Energy Research Institute

Keynote address

• László Varró, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Shell Scenarios Team, Shell Global

Industrial decarbonization catalysts: Hydrogen, sustainable fuels and CCS 
Electrification – clean power – provides a near-term pathway for emissions reductions in many sectors including transport and the built environment. But decarbonizing through switching to low carbon fuels, including clean hydrogen, sustainable biofuels and carbon capture and storage is expected to play a critical role in ‘hard-to-decarbonize’ sectors such as heavy industry and medium- and heavy-duty freight. Even in scenarios with ambitious electrification, it is estimated that more than half of energy demand in 2050 may need to be met with clean fuels and carbon capture to meet a net-zero goal. The panel will examine how hydrogen, sustainable fuels and carbon capture projects co-exist and evolve at scale in industrial ecosystems in Canada and the UK and their nexus with the broader low-carbon fuel sector.

• Joe Seifert, CEO, EET Hydrogen (HyNet Cluster)
• Andy Cornell, CEO, Advanced Biofuel Solutions Limited (ABSL)
• Paparvi Devi, Head, Carbon Capture & H2, Hatch
• John Picken, Business Development Director, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA, Ltd

Chair: Adel Muna, Regional Director, Energy Europe, Hatch

Networking break

Advancing CCUS projects in the UK and Canada
Strengthened climate goals and new investment incentives are delivering unprecedented momentum for CCUS. Capture, storage and removal technologies will play an important role in meeting net zero targets, including as one of few solutions to tackle emissions from heavy industry and to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The use of lower carbon fuels such as natural gas in industrial processes, and expansion of low to zero carbon electrification, offer compelling avenues for the production of hydrogen and clean fuels. The panel will discuss how to advance these technologies and projects in Canada and the UK and explore the collaboration between the two territories.

• Ran Narayanasamy, CEO, Petroleum Technology Research Centre
• Jason Chadwick, Chief Commercial Officer, Entropy
• Andy Lane, Vice President, CCUS, BP plc
• Aniruddha Sharma, CEO, Carbon Clean

Chair: Jemima Bruin-Bland, Global Lead CCUS & UK Energy Transition Strategy, Arup

Fireside chat: Renewables, nuclear, hydrogen and the energy transition

• Rachael Glaving. Commercial Director, Generation, EDF Energy 

In conversation with: Troy Aharonian, Director, Net Zero Transition, Madano Partnership Ltd.

Fireside chat: The UK Canada energy partnership

• Lord Callanan, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

In conversation with: Jason Langrish, President, Canada Europe Roundtable for Business & The Energy Roundtable

Innovators session                                                                                                                                                                                Canadian entrepreneurs will discuss how their energy technology solutions are solving real world business problems. The panel will also review the ecosystem that exist in Canada for hydrogen and CCUS technology companies.

• Brandon Moffat, Co-Founder, StormFisher Hydrogen (Ontario)
• Prabhu K Rao, President & CEO, IVYS Absorption Inc. (Quebec)
• Heather Stephens, Chief Operating Officer, Emissions Reduction Alberta
• Mina Zarabian, Co-founder, CEO, Carbonova (Alberta)

Chair: Prof. Walter Merida, Associate Dean, Research and Industry Partnerships, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of British Columbia