supported by The EU Energy Challenge: Can innovation fill the gap? Agenda 14 November Square Brussels Meeting Centre Rue Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels, Coudenberg Entrance 09:00-17:30 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, Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, BP Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO, Science|Business Iain Conn, Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, 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: Phil New, CEO, BP Alternative Energy 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 (TBC) 2. 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) 3. 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 Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen, Chairman, Danish Energy Regulatory Authority (DERA) Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Advisor, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission 12:15 4. Carbon capture and sequestration Moderator: Jens Hetland, Senior Scientist, SINTEF 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) 5. Innovation resource efficiency Moderator: Sarah J. Darby, Senior Researcher and Deputy Leader, Lower Carbon Futures group, Oxford University David G. Victor, Professor of International Relations; Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, University of California, San Diego 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, European Commission Jeppe Kofod, Member of the European Parliament 13:00 Lunch speaker: Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Head of TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi Introduction: Iain Conn, Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, BP 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 Energy Roadmap 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