Opening Ceremony

Session Location: ICC Hall

Launching UNEP's Report - An Eye on Methane: UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) 2022 report

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and the second biggest driver of global warming, have soared faster than at any time since the 1980s. The second edition of UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) report, An Eye on Methane, delves into the progress made to achieve a deep reduction of methane emissions, starting with the fossil fuel sector. An Eye on Methane provides decision makers and industry leaders with a framework of action to track and monitor methane emissions, and plan targeted and ambitious action for their mitigation.

Hydrogen: reality, promise and prospect

Session Location: Conference Hall A

According to data from the Hydrogen Council, global hydrogen demand will grow from 90 million metric tons (MT) to 140 by 2030, and then 660 MT in 2050 in the pursuit of net-zero ambitions. Hydrogen’s role in meeting future energy demands will depend on accelerated investment, infrastructure developments, international certification systems and technology advancements. Producers must now continue to invest in scaling up their projects and develop new forms of transportation to facilitate importers’ needs and accommodate demand.

The consequences of the economic disruption for the global economy

Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

In the long-term, global economic effects will now follow geopolitics. The impacts of the global pandemic crippled global markets, driven by slow economic growth, a rise in inflation and an increasing debt, highlighting inequalities worldwide. Coupled with a growing surge in oil and gas prices and an uncertain energy security landscape, global economic growth is at risk. How will these events impact growth projections and the revival of global economic markets?

The new business and energy portfolio model: managing geopolitical uncertainty and the energy transition

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

At a time when fossil fuels are required to meet growing demand and ensure market stability, innovative approaches will be necessary to future proof operations, meet rising investor pressure for returns, and the growing expectation from society to reach commitments to a net-zero world. International oil companies (IOCs) and integrated energy companies (IECs) are shifting their strategies to become more sustainable and proactively use every molecule produced. The urgent task to balance portfolios in the energy transition will determine future strategies and create new business models.

Beyond the energy shock: the new map of energy, climate, and the clash of nations

Leadership Interview

Session Location: Conference Hall B

World energy markets are in upheaval. The global oil and natural gas markets are fractured.  What comes next?   A global energy crisis has combined with a geopolitical crisis to overturn the maps -- of the flows of oil and gas, the relationships that define the industry, and indeed the mental maps of how we think about the future.  The amnesia about energy security has ended, forcing a painful reassessment of investment priorities and the dynamics of the energy transition.

The emerging new North-South Divide is forcing a debate about the balance between poverty alleviation and economic growth, on one side, and climate objectives on the other.  A new alarm is arising about the adequacy of copper and the other minerals that constitute the new supply chains for net zero emissions.   Will new geopolitical clashes erupt that complicate the geopolitical struggles that are currently disrupting world energy and threatening global stability?

The practical challenge of developing hydrogen in times of economic uncertainty

Session Location: Conference Hall A

The European Commission plans to use 20mn tonnes of hydrogen by 2030 under the RepowerEU initiative. While there are many large hydrogen projects planned in Europe, final investment decisions have been taken by only a few. Other countries including the US, Japan and Korea have developed their hydrogen roadmap strategies, but will need to navigate challenges to succeed in the long-term. Developers are reluctant to start projects unless they have buyers, who in turn are reluctant to sign binding purchase agreements until ground has been broken. The challenge is in identifying which incentives need to be put in place to accelerate both hydrogen supply and demand, as well as clarifying standards associated with the different types of hydrogen. 

The Middle East and the energy transition

In focus Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The Middle East includes many of the world’s major oil and gas producing nations, which could provide challenges in terms of the sector’s clean energy transformation. But it can also bring great opportunities. With new technology, innovation, partnerships and favourable conditions to invest in and develop alternative fuel and energy sources, the Middle East is well positioned to thrive during the transition to low carbon or no carbon energy, whilst contributing to the world’s energy needs.

Transitioning to new energy supply and demand needs: a look into the future

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Since 2020, organisations have worked to clarify the appropriate energy mix and how to position/compete in a distributed energy system. As oil and gas companies rebalance portfolios to meet today’s energy needs, they are encountering new challenges that will impact how they produce, transport and distribute energy. Focusing on recalibrating investments into renewables and other cleaner energy sources is no longer the only solution, as supply needs are increasing.

The everlasting challenge of the hard-to-abate sectors: what’s next to decarbonise these industries?

Expert Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Heavy industry is responsible for nearly one-third of global CO₂ emissions. Considering the importance of decarbonising all industries in achieving net-zero commitments, these sectors play a vital role in meeting the Paris Agreement targets. This highlights the need to accelerate emerging strategies and the technologies to decarbonise steel, cement, aluminum, shipping, trucking and aviation.

LNG market dynamics: what does the future hold?

Leadership Interview

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The liquified natural gas (LNG) sector has experienced major volatility over the past few years. What is the supply and demand outlook for the LNG industry? With rising demand for LNG exports straining the US supply, will projected margins be sufficient to provide an incentive for new FIDs? Even if the economics look good, most new LNG developments will still require the backing of long-term contracts. Will the renewed interest in long-term contracts from both Asian and European buyers hold?

How consumer trends and behaviours are accelerating the need to decarbonise the energy value chain

Expert Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Today’s consumers are well informed with clearly articulated agendas, strategically deciding how they consume energy. Energy markets are constantly evolving due to extraordinary technology innovation, fast-paced energy transition, the increased usage of electric vehicles, and a series of global crises that impact energy prices and consumer trends. In addition, business models for energy companies will need to adapt to new consumer trends. Companies will need to effectively communicate emerging value propositions with the new generation of consumers who may be skeptical of sustainability and environmental claims.

The role of policy in accelerating the energy transition through technology innovation and low carbon solutions

Ministerial Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Governments will play a critical role in spurring innovation through policy adjustments, regulatory change and financial support for emerging technologies that have the potential to decarbonise value chains. Their decisions will also shape the environment for private sector investment and participation, and the uptake of new technologies. The speed of policy development and whether it is right for governments to favour both investment and regulatory support for particular energy sources is now in question.  

Will geopolitical events in Europe accelerate the net-zero agenda or reverse its course?

Perspectives on geopolitics

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The EU wants to diversify its energy mix before the end of 2022. To ensure security of supply, some EU countries are considering increasing capacity at their coal-fired plants, which could delay decarbonisation and net-zero agendas for some time to come. How can policy makers ensure that decarbonisation strategies don’t stagnate? How can these geopolitical challenges be turned into opportunities in line with the energy transition? Can further investments in technologies fast track the development and deployment of renewables and other clean energy sources?

The new realities of an ever-changing energy landscape

Session Location: ICC Hall

Since February 2022, many politicians have shifted to a call for existing oil and gas producers—from US shale through the North Sea as well as OPEC members—to do what they can to increase production in an effort to limit the damage of global energy supply disruption. This divided landscape will create new energy trading routes and market commodity cycles for the future ahead. As dramatic and surprising as these energy policy about-turns have been, the agenda for a clear pathway to carbon neutrality and investment in the most strategic clean technologies has not abated. But with the focus on Europe securing new supply sources, questions will need to be addressed as to how traditional markets in Asia for LNG cargoes will respond. Will new levels of competition to secure supplies drive up prices and dampen the momentum behind the energy transition? Record prices and supply disruptions could potentially damage the reputation of natural gas as a reliable and affordable energy source, which places greater emphasis on investing in energy efficiency pathways and bringing forward plans for renewable energy sources.

Jeff Currie, an economist and the Global Head of Commodities Research in the Global Investment Research Division at Goldman Sachs, joins us to share his insights and perspective. Jeff rose to prominence during the 2000s by forecasting the commodity super-cycle and oil spiking above $100 a barrel. He is a regular commentator on commodity markets and cryptocurrency, featuring on Sky News, Bloomberg and CNBC.

COP27: key policy considerations to deliver net-zero ambitions in an uncertain time

Ministerial Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Ahead of COP27, global ministers will convene to discuss how governments and private sectors must respond and recalibrate their reduced carbon and net-zero strategies. Specifically, on November 8, global leaders will gather in Egypt to examine progress since COP26. The Global Methane Pledge will be at the top of the agenda with more than 100 countries committed to reduce their overall emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.

Upstream challenges and opportunities in a future of growing demand and lower carbon

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Geopolitical events and strengthened demand have showed that hydrocarbons will continue to play an important role in the energy transition and in ensuring energy security.

What actions or policies are needed to continue producing the energy the world requires? What investments, partnerships or technologies are necessary to ensure the decarbonisation of upstream oil and gas industry? Should upstream diversify its portfolio? 

Decarbonising the downstream and petrochemical sectors: an ecosystem of change for downstream players

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Energy demand growth, evolving energy policies, changing consumer behaviours and market disruption are changing the business and operating models—defining a new future for downstream and petrochemical players. As encouraging as many of the advances are in the move to low carbon solutions, not enough progress has been made. More focus in terms of R&D and investment will be needed to progress the relevance of both the low carbon fuels (LCFs) and the need for a more pervasive circular economy response in petrochemicals.

Investing to ensure energy security and accelerate the energy transition

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

A new energy investment landscape is needed to achieve the required rotation on both new and existing hydrocarbon production as well as to bring forward next generation energy solutions in a global energy system that will continue to grow. The concerns around energy security have put pressure on the investment community, shareholders and national oil companies’ stakeholders to reverse the recent trend in restricting investment in new exploration and production. Investments are needed in both fossil fuel and clean energy assets, creating a dual challenge as the industry tries to secure the necessary funds for project development, whilst adhering to ESG standards and managing portfolios growth.

The important role circular economy will play in the drive to decarbonise the economy

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Investors, customers, and regulators have raised their expectations for companies to get the most out of their resources, thus ensuring sustainable supply as well as the use and reuse of raw materials. The move to a circular economy on many of the energy industry’s end products will need policy support, investment in new production processes, and partnerships with customers and consumers alike. Industry-wide change will be needed to support a circular economy and promote a more sustainable use of energy supply chains.

Gas and LNG: bridging to the future

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Natural gas plays an important role as the bridging fuel to a net-zero energy system, with a particular focus and recognition of the importance of liquified natural gas (LNG) in balancing and securing our global energy mix. But challenges remain in accelerating new supply projects both in terms of regulatory approval and the move to final investment decision (FID). In addition, new infrastructure will be needed, particularly in Europe, to enable new sources of gas to be used in the immediate future.

The low carbon fuel opportunity: identifying growth for an untapped market

Perspectives on Sustainability

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Low carbon fuels offer a significant opportunity to curb emissions. These new energy sources will create opportunities for economic, investment and infrastructure development while also increasing job opportunities. But choices will need to be made by the industry in terms of what markets to enter, technologies to develop and importantly how to create a business model with an adequate return for investors.

Standing up to the methane challenge: the role of innovation in increasing the industry's ability to abate emissions

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Companies have shifted their strategies to produce in a more sustainable manner, investing in technologies that can help reduce methane and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2021 Methane Tracker report, oil production is responsible for around 40% of methane emissions today. Portfolios will need to continue to evolve to embrace new energy solutions as well as position themselves directly with end users as providers of green energy and climate-friendly goods and services.

Reconciling upstream oil and gas investment and the energy transition to meet global energy demand growth

Perspectives on Energy Demand

Session Location: Conference Hall B

As energy companies around the world proactively seek ways to decarbonise their operations, they do so in the context of incremental increases in global energy demand in this decade and beyond.

 With forecasts continuing to show oil and gas playing a major role in meeting global energy demand, how are companies reconciling their commitment to decarbonisation and the energy transition while still ensuring growth and investment in upstream to guarantee that our lights remain on, and the worldwide economy has the fuel it needs to continue to grow?

Energy transition: will a global recession squeeze global climate finance?

Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The global economy is facing rising headwinds from inflation, interest rates and repercussions from geo-political tensions that are likely to tip the US and Europe into recession and hamper growth in China. Against this backdrop, the challenges associated with financing and incentivising an energy transition mount. In order to limit the rise in global temperatures, action needs to be immediate and delays to the energy transition risk increasing its economic cost, as well as limiting potential economic benefits.

Delivering the energy needs of today while investing in the energy systems of tomorrow

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Recent events have changed the narrative surrounding energy transition. Tight supply and a challenging investment environment highlight how fragile our global energy system is. If the transition is to be successful, then it is critical to enable optionality in energy sources. What challenges and opportunities does the energy transition present for the oil and gas sectors in today’s shifting energy markets? What is required to produce the energy the world requires while reducing emissions? What capabilities will achieve these ambitions? What partnership models will succeed in the energy transition?

Cross-sector partnerships for a clean energy transition

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The energy transition is moving at an unprecedented pace and requires bold moves, strategic partnerships and crucial operational transformations. Through collaboration, the right technologies, skills and tools can successfully deliver the commitments for a net-zero world. This puts focus on how cross-sector partnerships are being formed, its benefits and emerging best practices.

Asia-Pacific’s journey towards net-zero

In focus Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

With Asia-Pacific accounting for 52% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 and a likely driving force behind future global energy demand growth, energy transition will not be without its challenges. With coal as the primary energy source for power generation in many markets, the path to diversify its energy mix will likely need major government incentivisation programmes and substantial investment.

Africa focus: creating a just, equitable and sustainable future

Ministerial Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

As the world gains momentum in its pivot to clean energy sources, Africa is being challenged to replace coal and phase out the use of fossil fuels. The pace and progress of its energy transition in comparison with other regions differs due to various challenges and needs. Decarbonisation requires investment, resources and technology, which can offer opportunities but require strategic policies and partnerships to achieve success.

Leading in the transition: the evolving role of CEOs

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

New leadership is required to navigate the evolving global energy landscape, current market volatility, the need for operational agility, supply chain stability, and the drive towards lowered carbon energy. With these changes come new demands for the talent pool of the future. This will challenge energy leaders on how they are adapting, what the key priorities are, and what strategies are likely to best position companies and their people for future success.

Reinforcing collaboration to ensure market stability: the future ahead

Ministerial Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

As the world navigates the challenges of energy security, affordability and sustainability, collaboration and policy play an important role in ensuring markets deliver the energy needs of today. There is no template for balancing energy demand against varying regional resources, policies, investment and future strategy. It is critical to understand the requirements for partnership development and collaboration in a changing energy landscape.

Reimagining the future workforce: a new organisational agenda

Perspectives on Management

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The nature of work in the industry is changing, along with how work is organised, structured and done. Millennials, our future leaders, say a sense of purpose in their work is essential followed closely by technology and innovation. Today’s energy leaders must take these insights into account in their talent agendas or risk losing the best and brightest to industries evolving to meet these changing needs. Agendas are emerging on how to reshape the workforce, what the key successes are and more. 

Navigating geopolitics in the current energy climate: technology, leadership and what lies ahead

Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The geopolitical ramifications of a tumultuous 2022 will be felt for many a year. Indeed, they have changed the course of history on all fronts. Both financial and energy market volatility will be a norm to be managed for the foreseeable future, coupled with managing economic recession in both developed and developing markets. The short-term priority and maxim for energy policy in much of the developed world has evolved toward policy measures that drive energy security.

Dr. Pippa Malmgren, former Special Assistant to the George W. Bush and author of Geopolitics for Investors, Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy will share her perspectives to the complexities of today’s world economy and geopolitics—and what that may mean for the energy industry as it addresses today’s challenges while navigating energy transformation to achieve net-zero ambitions and the role of technology and leadership in this new world order.

Globalisation under threat: managing supply chains in an age of disruption

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Supply chains disruptions first created and imposed by two years of a pandemic have now been exacerbated by the latest industry events. The consequences for many companies and oil service providers with operations globally will be consequential. New strategic supply chain options will need to be reengineered. How can the industry make supply chains more robust? What does today’s market disruptions mean for the future of fossil fuels during the energy transition? What potential risks lie in the path of markets over the short to mid-term?

The net-zero goals: building momentum in low carbon technologies

Expert Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

With an eye on a challenging future created by the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, many stakeholders are calling for the accelerated focus on and investment in all energy sources across the spectrum of hydrocarbons, nuclear, renewables, energy efficiency and carbon abatement solutions like Direct Air Capture (DAC).  With both technology and business model pathways remaining uncertain, questions remain as to how business models in a highly decarbonised system will evolve.

Africa’s transition: untapped strategy or rushed reality?

In focus Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The African continent has vast natural resources, and it is heavily dependent on hydrocarbons for the development of its economies. COP26 highlighted that Africa’s transition will be at a different pace and scale from the rest of the world as it diversifies its energy mix towards more sustainable approaches and decarbonisation efforts. Both a pragmatic approach to support Africa’s energy transition and the need for step change in investment from both government agencies and financial institutions alike will be needed.

Investment and strategies required to reinforce climate action

Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The climate and ecological crises are on an accelerated trajectory. The United Nation’s (UN’s) sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in April, showed the world is on track for a 3.2C of warming by the end of the century. Across all industries and of particular importance for the energy industry, it is critical to cut greenhouse gas emissions and actively begin repair on the ecosystems already damaged. Bold moves are needed to rapidly shift the existing energy system. With an eye on this challenging future, many stakeholders are calling for the accelerated focus on and investment in sweeping energy efficiency measures and an unprecedented build-up of low carbon next generation energy solutions covering new energy sources and acceleration of carbon abatement solutions like Direct Air Capture (DAC).

Join Tom Rivett-Carnac, a founding Partner of Global Optimism and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis, as he discusses stubborn optimism as a deliberate mindset and our collective ability to address any challenge—including the climate crisis.

Accelerating progress in carbon capture, utilisation and storage: scaling up the opportunity

Strategic Panel

Session Location: ICC Hall

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies have proven their efficacy in contributing to emissions reduction across sectors and enabling oil and gas producers to use CO₂ for enhanced oil recovery. In recent years, major investments have been made for the development of these technologies as a key component in net-zero strategies. To ensure this technology becomes material to the energy system, governments will need to evolve to accommodate the accelerated development of this new technology and underpin the required infrastructure build-out.

The mobility challenge: charting the electrification of the energy industry

Perspectives on Innovation

Session Location: Conference Hall B

As encouraging as some of the developments around the electrification of the transportation have been, challenges remain; changes will be needed to accelerate policy mandates to support electrification and to put in place supporting charging infrastructure to keep pace with consumers and governments’ aspirations. Like other industries, supply chain and price volatility challenges witnessed in recent years will require industry players to evolve both their business and operating models to flex operations in an agile manner. What needs to change to encourage a collaborative approach between policy makers and the energy industry? What are the opportunities for electric vehicle growth? Will the shortage of materials such as nickel influence market development?

Transforming business operations through the power of business intelligence

Strategic Panel

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The urgent need to transform both business and operating models will undoubtedly benefit from placing digital technologies and capabilities at the core of business operations, allowing for companies to connect people, organisations and resources in an interactive ecosystem through digital technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables informed predictive and smart operations, contributes to efficiency, cost optimisation and promotes innovation across the energy value chain. To take full advantage of and accelerate advances in AI, energy companies will need to both collaborate with technology companies and evolve business models.

Digital technologies and the transition to clean power systems

Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

To address the structural shifts, challenges and disruptions agitating the industry, companies will have to reinvent and embrace an innovation agenda capable of delivering technology breakthroughs. These new technologies are being rapidly deployed to accelerate the change needed to address the challenges of creating a new energy system where power consumption is expected to triple by 2050 as electrification and living standards grow. Renewables are expected to become the new baseload, accounting for 50% of the power mix by 2030 and 85% by 2050. Flexible assets like gas plants, batteries and hydrogen electrolyzers are key for grid stability and decarbonisation, as are technologies like CCUS. Technology innovation will also be key to evolving the core of the business operational agenda, to optimising the value chain with extreme supply chain challenges, and to connecting and integrating operations across a new industry ecosystem. Importantly, they will be the drivers behind reinventing the customer experience and transforming the organisation’s cost structure. To achieve a true energy industry transformation will require the right combination of leader-led technology, policy, investment, talent and collaboration.

Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl, CTO for the Energy industry at Microsoft joins us to share his perspectives. He leads Microsoft’s efforts in bringing the latest technical innovations in Cloud Computing and AI to the energy industry. With a passion for technology and innovation, he is positioning Microsoft to work with customers, partners, and governments as they accelerate their adoption of cloud technology while focusing equally hard on the transition to clean power and emissions management.

The blurred lines between oil, gas and utilities: partners or industry competitors?

Expert Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

The energy transition urged oil and gas companies to diversify and broaden their portfolios, assets and investments. With energy companies becoming more integrated and investing in cleaner energy sources, offering low carbon energy solutions directly to end-users, questions about whether they are now a partner or competitor with the utilities sector are prompted. How can companies partner to meet transition goals and deliver the consumer energy needs sustainably? What are the latest utility trends and market outlooks? What role does nuclear energy play?

The Future of Energy

Expert Session

Session Location: Conference Hall B

Energy markets globally are going through unprecedented volatility and turbulence. We are at an energy inflection point where new realities will shape the contours of our energy future. During this period of economic upheaval and geopolitical uncertainty, finding the right balance between energy security, affordability, and environmental sustainability is more urgent, and more challenging, than ever. Businesses and policymakers must take an active role to ensure that people everywhere have access to affordable energy while making the energy transition a reality.

Increasing hydrogen demand across multiple industry sectors

Session Location: Conference Hall B

While the road to increasing hydrogen supply is understood, there must also be sufficient certainty of demand to activate the market. It is important that producers and policymakers collaborate to create the right conditions for hydrogen adoption. Infrastructure development, finance and investment must advance accordingly, along with a regulated market that provides conditions for trade and supply. This includes hydrogen’s role in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors that require the production of ammonia and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels produced from hydrogen and the mobility sector. Regulatory challenges must also be considered to ensure production and demand needs are met, but what is the degree of government intervention needed? What structures should be followed to drive hydrogen production and to avoid the pitfalls of global energy prices volatility? How should hydrogen policy support work within the larger ecosystem of energy transition including renewables, CCUS, design of power markets, energy infrastructure, and more?

Hydrogen: reality, promise and prospect

Session Location: Conference Hall A

According to data from the Hydrogen Council, global hydrogen demand will grow from 90 million metric tons (MT) to 140 by 2030, and then 660 MT in 2050 in the pursuit of net-zero ambitions. Hydrogen’s role in meeting future energy demands will depend on accelerated investment, infrastructure developments, international certification systems and technology advancements. Producers must now continue to invest in scaling up their projects and develop new forms of transportation to facilitate importers’ needs and accommodate demand.

Increasing hydrogen demand across multiple industry sectors

Session Location: Conference Hall B

While the road to increasing hydrogen supply is understood, there must also be sufficient certainty of demand to activate the market. It is important that producers and policymakers collaborate to create the right conditions for hydrogen adoption. Infrastructure development, finance and investment must advance accordingly, along with a regulated market that provides conditions for trade and supply. This includes hydrogen’s role in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors that require the production of ammonia and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels produced from hydrogen and the mobility sector. Regulatory challenges must also be considered to ensure production and demand needs are met, but what is the degree of government intervention needed? What structures should be followed to drive hydrogen production and to avoid the pitfalls of global energy prices volatility? How should hydrogen policy support work within the larger ecosystem of energy transition including renewables, CCUS, design of power markets, energy infrastructure, and more?

Welcome remarks

Session Location: ICC Hall

Leader's Questions

Session Location: ICC Hall

• What was your first job and how did you end up in your position?
• If you were to choose your career path today, would you still choose the energy industry?
• What advice would you give to a recent graduate?
• What were the challenges at the start of your career and do you still face them?

The greatest leaders and innovators all started their journey somewhere. We don’t often hear about their starting points, lessons learned and challenges on their paths to success, but no one starts at the top and everyone learns along the way. Take this opportunity to ask your questions and gain insights from global energy industry leaders.

Future leader’s conversation: featuring Youth Councils

Session Location: ICC Hall

Youth Council representatives will take the stage to present their insights on the challenges and opportunities of working in the energy industry. Among the topics to be discussed is the inclusion of more technology classes in government-supported and privately funded school curriculums, and the path towards energy sustainability and continuing the energy transition journey.

ADIPEC Awards: Young Technical Professional of the Year

Session Location: ICC Hall

The Young Technical Professional of the Year Award finalists will share their stories and successes at this year’s inaugural edition of the Future Leaders’ Programme.

Networking coffee break

Session Location: ICC Hall

The consequences of the economic disruption for the global economy

Date: Monday 31 October
Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

In the long-term, global economic effects will now follow geopolitics. The impacts of the global pandemic crippled global markets, driven by slow economic growth, a rise in inflation and an increasing debt, highlighting inequalities worldwide. Coupled with a growing surge in oil and gas prices and an uncertain energy security landscape, global economic growth is at risk. How will these events impact growth projections and the revival of global economic markets?

Energy transition: will a global recession squeeze global climate finance?

Date: Tuesday 1 November
Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The global economy is facing rising headwinds from inflation, interest rates and repercussions from geo-political tensions that are likely to tip the US and Europe into recession and hamper growth in China. Against this backdrop, the challenges associated with financing and incentivising an energy transition mount. In order to limit the rise in global temperatures, action needs to be immediate and delays to the energy transition risk increasing its economic cost, as well as limiting potential economic benefits.

Digital technologies and the transition to clean power systems

DATE: TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER
Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

To address the structural shifts, challenges and disruptions agitating the industry, companies will have to reinvent and embrace an innovation agenda capable of delivering technology breakthroughs. These new technologies are being rapidly deployed to accelerate the change needed to address the challenges of creating a new energy system where power consumption is expected to triple by 2050 as electrification and living standards grow. Renewables are expected to become the new baseload, accounting for 50% of the power mix by 2030 and 85% by 2050. Flexible assets like gas plants, batteries and hydrogen electrolyzers are key for grid stability and decarbonisation, as are technologies like CCUS. Technology innovation will also be key to evolving the core of the business operational agenda, to optimising the value chain with extreme supply chain challenges, and to connecting and integrating operations across a new industry ecosystem. Importantly, they will be the drivers behind reinventing the customer experience and transforming the organisation’s cost structure. To achieve a true energy industry transformation will require the right combination of leader-led technology, policy, investment, talent and collaboration.

Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl, CTO for the Energy industry at Microsoft joins us to share his perspectives. He leads Microsoft’s efforts in bringing the latest technical innovations in Cloud Computing and AI to the energy industry. With a passion for technology and innovation, he is positioning Microsoft to work with customers, partners, and governments as they accelerate their adoption of cloud technology while focusing equally hard on the transition to clean power and emissions management.

Investment and strategies required to reinforce climate action

Date: Wednesday 2 November
Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The climate and ecological crises are on an accelerated trajectory. The United Nation’s (UN’s) sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in April, showed the world is on track for a 3.2C of warming by the end of the century. Across all industries and of particular importance for the energy industry, it is critical to cut greenhouse gas emissions and actively begin repair on the ecosystems already damaged. Bold moves are needed to rapidly shift the existing energy system. With an eye on this challenging future, many stakeholders are calling for the accelerated focus on and investment in sweeping energy efficiency measures and an unprecedented build-up of low carbon next generation energy solutions covering new energy sources and acceleration of carbon abatement solutions like Direct Air Capture (DAC).

Join Tom Rivett-Carnac, a founding Partner of Global Optimism and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis, as he discusses stubborn optimism as a deliberate mindset and our collective ability to address any challenge—including the climate crisis.

Navigating geopolitics in the current energy climate: technology, leadership and what lies ahead

Date: Wednesday 2 November
Live Session

Session Location: Live Theatre

The geopolitical ramifications of a tumultuous 2022 will be felt for many a year. Indeed, they have changed the course of history on all fronts. Both financial and energy market volatility will be a norm to be managed for the foreseeable future, coupled with managing economic recession in both developed and developing markets. The short-term priority and maxim for energy policy in much of the developed world has evolved toward policy measures that drive energy security.

Dr. Pippa Malmgren, former Special Assistant to the George W. Bush and author of Geopolitics for Investors, Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy will share her perspectives to the complexities of today’s world economy and geopolitics—and what that may mean for the energy industry as it addresses today’s challenges while navigating energy transformation to achieve net-zero ambitions and the role of technology and leadership in this new world order.