The EU Energy Challenge: Can innovation fill the gap? Agenda 08:30 Doors open -welcome coffee 09:30 Welcome and opening of plenary Richard L. Hudson, CEO, Science|Business supported by 14 November Square Brussels Meeting Centre 2, Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels 08:30-18:00 The view from Brussels Dominique Ristori, Director-General, DG Energy, European Commission The view from Washington Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) 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, Science|Business Iain Conn, Group Managing Director, BP Cheryl Martin, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Jeppe Kofod, Member of the European Parliament 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: Angela Karp, Scientific Director of the Cropping Carbon Institute Programme and Head of AgroEcology Department at Rothamsted Research 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, European Commission 2. 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 Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Adviser to the Director General - DG Energy, European Commission Andy Boston, Head of Analysis Team, Energy Research Partnership, UK 3. Carbon capture and sequestration Moderator: Charles Soothill, Senior Vice President of Technology, Alstom 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 Action, European Commission Luke Warren, Chief Executive , Carbon Capture and Storage Association 12:10 4. Low carbon cars Moderator: Simon Edwards, Global Director, Technology, Ricardo Germany 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, Head of Alternative Fuels, Volkswagen AG 5. Innovation in resource efficiency 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, European Institute of Innovation & Technology Sarah J. Darby, Senior Researcher and Deputy Leader, Lower Carbon Futures group, Oxford University Neil Hewitt, Professor of Energy; Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies Built Environment Research Institute, Ulster University 6. Unconventional gas Moderator: Giovanni De Santi, Director of the Institute for Energy and Transport, DG JRC, European Commission Robert Socolow, Professor and Co-Director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Andreea Străchinescu, 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, Professor of Structural Engineering, Manchester University Carlos Haertel, Head, GE Global Research Europe Giovanni De Santi, Director of the Institute for Energy and Transport, DG JRC, 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 Reform 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 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 Bo Normark, Chair, Euro Case Energy Platform, Sweden Bertrand van Ee, CEO, Climate- KIC, European Institute of Innovation & Technology 16:30 Summary Debate: What are the top priorities for the new Commission? Two speakers present three key priorities, followed by moderated discussion and audience engagement 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, Energy and Resource Economics, University of Münster, Head of the German Government’s Commission to Monitor the Energy Reform 17:15 Closing remarks: David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP 17:30 Reception