Ganesh Ramaswamy

Ganesh Ramaswamy is Executive Vice President of Industrial & Energy Technology at Baker Hughes. Ramaswamy previously served as President of Global Services for Johnson Controls, a worldwide provider of technologies and solutions for buildings. Prior to his career with Johnson Controls, Ramaswamy served in executive roles at Danaher Corporation, a diversified manufacturer of life sciences, diagnostics, and industrial products and services. His roles at Danaher included Senior Vice President of High Growth Markets at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics; President of Videojet Technologies; and Group Executive for Marking & Coding. Earlier in his career, Ramaswamy held executive roles at Hoya Corporation, including as President of Pentax Medical, a provider of endoscopic imaging devices and solutions. He began his career in product development and general management for GE Global Research and GE Healthcare. Ramaswamy currently serves on the Board of PACCAR, a global manufacturer of heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kerala.

Session Overview

Thursday, 6 November

13:20

Natural Gas & LNG ICC Hall A 13:20 - 14:00

Shaping the future of the global LNG market growth through rising global demand

As global energy dynamics continue to evolve, LNG is poised to play a pivotal role in meeting rising demand - particularly in fast-growing economies across Asia. Driven by rapid electrification, rising per capita incomes, and the urgent need to transition away from coal, the LNG market is entering a new phase of opportunity and complexity.

Sustaining long-term LNG demand growth requires a range of enablers, including supportive policies, strategic infrastructure investment and the rollout of effective carbon pricing mechanisms. These factors are critical to ensuring that governments can provide the right platforms for secure, scalable, and sustainable energy demand growth.

With affordability remaining a key concern in emerging markets, collaboration across the value chain is essential for demand to materialise at scale. Additionally, greater flexibility in LNG contracting structures plays a vital role - but are current models adaptive enough to support buyer commitments amid uncertainty around future consumption patterns? And how can the industry innovate on pricing, financing, and regulatory frameworks to unlock new markets and build long-term resilience?

Attendee insights:

Understand how ensuring diversified supply and demand portfolios, both geographically and structurally, will be key to enhancing global energy security and maintaining market resilience, creating further market demand.

Tuesday, 5 November

All Sessions

10:20

Strategic Conference Conference Room B 10:20 - 11:05

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Scalability: the technology path to energy transition

Many of the climate technologies needed to deliver decarbonisation targets already exist, but the path to scalability faces bottlenecks on multiple fronts including critical minerals supply, manufacturing capacity, skills and infrastructure. In addition to incentivising policy measures, like those included in the European Green Deal and the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, energy companies have opportunities to accelerate scalability and the commercial viability across renewables, nuclear, and storage to meet energy transition targets.

In this Action Session, we will examine the scalability of technologies needed to drive the energy transition. We will hear from industry experts on what the best innovative solutions are and what investment and capital is needed to scale them.