The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation
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Day 1 – Tuesday, January 19
| Time | Session |
| 8:00 – 8:15 a.m. EST / 5:00 – 5:15 p.m. GST | A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. DR. SULTAN AL JABER Opening remarks by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council A conversation with H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy for Climate Change, United Arab Emirates Moderated by Amos Hochstein, National Security and Energy Expert; Former Obama-Biden Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs, US Department of State |
| 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. EST / 5:15 – 5:30 p.m. GST | A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. SUHAIL AL MAZROUEI A conversation with H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates Moderated by John Defterios, Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor, CNN Business |
| 8:30 – 8:50 a.m. EST / 5:30 – 5:50 p.m. GST | UAE DIVERSIFICATION POST-COVID-19: A CONVERSATION WITH MUSABBEH AL KAABI A conversation with Musabbeh Al-Kaabi, Chief Executive Officer, UAE Investments, Mubadala Investment Company Moderated by John Defterios, Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor, CNN Business |
| 8:50 – 9:00 a.m. EST/ 5:50 – 6:00 p.m. GST | FATIH BIROL ON THE POST-COVID ENERGY SYSTEM Presentation by Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. EST / 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. GST | THE 2021 GLOBAL ENERGY AGENDA A conversation with H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Mary Nichols, Former Chair, California Air Resources Board H.E. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Steel, Republic of India Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit; Member, Atlantic Council Energy Advisory Group Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 10:05 – 10:25 a.m. EST / 7:05 – 7:25 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) INVESTING A conversation with H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Mubadala Investment Company Laurence Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, Inc. Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 10:25 – 10:35 a.m. EST / 7:25 – 7:35 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: ESG IN THE BOARDROOM A conversation with Christian Bruch, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Energy AG Moderated by Eithne Treanor, Managing Director, E. Treanor Media |
| 10:45 – 10:55 a.m. EST / 7:45 – 7:55 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: NET-ZERO IN FINANCE A conversation with Noel Quinn, Group Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Holdings plc Moderated by Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief, The National UAE |
| 10:55 – 11:25 a.m. EST / 7:55 – 8:25 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: NEW IMPERATIVE, RENEWED FOCUS: NET-ZERO Keynote remarks by Bruno Bensasson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EDF Renewables; Senior Executive Vice President, Renewable Energies, EDF Group A conversation with Brad Bao, Co-Founder and Chairman, Lime Anne Chassagnette, Chief Sustainability Officer, ENGIE Group; Chief Executive Officer, Rassembleurs d’Energie Impact Fund Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer, Microsoft Moderated by Andrew Sollinger, Publisher, Foreign Policy |
| 11:25 – 11:55 a.m. EST / 8:25 – 8:55 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: DEMONSTRATING THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER EQUITY IN COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE A conversation with Danielle Baron, Global Head of Power and Utilities, Crédit Agricole David Kenny, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Diversity Officer, Nielsen Gayle Schueller, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, 3M Moderated by Mercedes Vela Monserrate, Associate Director, International Affairs, Abu Dhabi Global Market |
| 11:55 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. EST / 8:55 – 9:25 p.m. GST | ADSW SUMMIT PROGRAMMING: THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND THE END OF UNCHECKED CONSUMPTION A conversation with Ron Gonen, Chief Executive Officer, Closed Loop Partners Luis Sierra, Chief Executive Officer, Novachem H.E. Stientje van Veldhoven-van der Meer, State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Government of the Netherlands |
| 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. EST / 9:30 – 10:00 p.m. GST | THE ENERGY IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS: A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. SUHAIL AL MAZROUEI A conversation with H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. EST / 10:00 – 10:30 p.m. GST | CHINA, ENERGY SECURITY, AND “THE NEW MAP:” A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL YERGIN A conversation with Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit: Member, Atlantic Council Energy Advisory Group Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EST / 10:30 – 11:30 p.m. GST | THE CHANGING POLITICS OF CLIMATE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES A conversation with The Hon. Kathy Castor (D-FL-14), Chair, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, US House of Representatives The Hon. David McKinley (R-WV-1), Member, Climate Solutions Caucus, US House of Representatives Moderated by Julia Pyper, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. EST / 11:30 – 11:45 p.m. GST | ENERGYSOURCE INNOVATION STREAM WITH TOKAMAK ENERGY Featuring Jonathan Carling, Chief Executive Officer, Tokamak Energy, Ltd. Moderated by Olga Khakova, Associate Director for European Energy Security, Atlantic Council |
| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. EST / 11:45 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. GST | ENERGYSOURCE INNOVATION STREAM WITH SVANTE Featuring Claude Letourneau, President and Chief Executive Officer, Svante Inc. Moderated by Olga Khakova, Associate Director for European Energy Security, Atlantic Council |
| 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST / 12:00 – 1:00 a.m. GST | DECARBONIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF US AVIATION A conversation with Jeremy Baines, President, Neste US, Inc. Marc Hamy, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Sustainability, and Environment, Airbus Jennifer Holmgren, Chief Executive Officer, LanzaTech Scott Kirby, Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines Moderated by Thomas Hicks, Founding Principal and Managing Director, Mabus Group |
| 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. EST / 1:00 – 5:00 a.m. GST | BREAK IN PROGRAMMING |
| 8:00 – 8:15 p.m. EST / 5:00 – 5:15 a.m. GST | REPLAY: A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. DR. SULTAN AL JABER Opening remarks by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council A conversation with H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy for Climate Change, United Arab Emirates Moderated by Amos Hochstein, National Security and Energy Expert; Former Obama-Biden Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs, US Department of State |
| 8:15 – 9:00 p.m. EST / 5:15 – 6:00 a.m. GST | REPLAY: THE GLOBAL ENERGY AGENDA A conversation with H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Mary Nichols, Former Chair, California Air Resources Board H.E. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Steel, Republic of India Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit; Member, Atlantic Council Energy Advisory Group Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 9:00 – 9:30 p.m. EST / 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. GST | REPLAY: THE ENERGY IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS: A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. SUHAIL AL MAZROUEI A conversation with H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 9:30 – 10:00 p.m. EST / 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. GST | REPLAY: CHINA, ENERGY SECURITY, AND “THE NEW MAP:” A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL YERGIN A conversation with Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit: Member, Atlantic Council Energy Advisory Group Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 10:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. GST | THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S ENERGY AND FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA IN ASIA A conversation with Anatol Feygin, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Cheniere Energy Nopadej Karnasuta, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, B. Grimm Power PLC Benjamin Self, Vice President, Mansfield Foundation Han Wenke, Senior Adviser and Research Fellow, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission Moderated by Eunice Yoon, Beijing Bureau Chief, CNBC |
| 11:00 – 11:59 p.m. EST / 8:00 – 8:59 a.m. GST | CHINA’S NET-ZERO GOAL: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS Keynote remarks by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Asia Society; Former Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia A conversation with Pan Jiahua, Director, Institute of Eco-civilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology; Member of the Academic Board, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Member, National Expert Panel on Climate Change, People’s Republic of China Amy Jaffe, Research Professor and Managing Director, Climate Policy Lab, Tufts University Todd Stern, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former US Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of State Zhang Xiliang, Professor and Director, Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, Tsinghua University Moderated by Margaret Jackson, Deputy Director for Climate and Advanced Energy, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
Day 2 – Wednesday, January 20
| Time | Session |
| 12:00 – 1:00 a.m. EST / 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. GST | INNOVATING THE FUTURE: GREENTECH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS A conversation with Barbara Burger, Vice President of Innovation and President of Technology Ventures, Chevron Corporation Peter Engelke, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council Ilan Gur, Chief Executive Officer, Activate Emily Reichert, Chief Executive Officer, Greentown Labs Moderated by Akshat Rathi, Reporter, Bloomberg News; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 1:00 – 2:00 a.m. EST / 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. GST | NUCLEAR BEYOND POWER: HYDROGEN, HEAT, AND DESALINATION A conversation with H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation Kirsty Gogan, Managing Partner, LucidCatalyst Seth Grae, President and CEO, Lightbridge Corporation Simon Irish, Chief Executive Officer, Terrestrial Energy Moderated by Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Lead, Integrated Energy Systems, Idaho National Laboratory |
| 4:00 – 5:00 a.m. EST / 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. GST | ASIA’S ROLE IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION (CO-HOSTED WITH SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY WEEK) Keynote remarks by Rida Mulyana, Director General of Electricity, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Republic of Indonesia A conversation with Allard M Nooy, Chief Executive Officer, Infraco Asia Development Pte Ltd Beni Suryadi, Manager of Power, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, and Storage, ASEAN Centre for Energy Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan Zhai Yongping, Chief, Energy Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank Moderated by Margaret Jackson, Deputy Director for Climate and Advanced Energy, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 5:00 – 6:00 a.m. EST / 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. GST | NET-ZERO PLEDGES: FROM VISION TO REALITY A conversation with Luis Cabra, Executive Managing Director of Energy Transition, Sustainability, and Technology; Deputy CEO, Repsol Tim Holt, Member of the Executive Board and Labor Director, Siemens Energy Shinichi Kihara, Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan John Pearson, Chief Operating Officer, Petrofac Andreas Schierenbeck, Chief Executive Officer, Uniper Moderated by Eithne Treanor, Managing Director, E. Treanor Media |
| 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. EST / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. GST | THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S ENERGY AND FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST A conversation with Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President, Emirates Policy Center Amb. Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President for Global Energy, IHS Markit; Distinguished Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council; Former Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, US Department of State Brenda Shaffer, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council William Wechsler, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council Amos Yadlin, Executive Director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University Moderated by Kirsten Fontenrose, Director, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Atlantic Council |
| 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. EST / 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. GST | THE ROLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION A conversation with Yousif Al Ali, Executive Director, Masdar Clean Energy Ahmad Al Khowaiter, Chief Technical Officer, Saudi Aramco H.E. Hala Adel Al-Zawati, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Caspar Herzberg, President, Middle East and North Africa, Schneider Electric Jean-François Seznec, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council Moderated by Jennifer Gnana, Energy Correspondent, The National |
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. EST / 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. GST | REIMAGINING THE TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY AND CLIMATE RELATIONSHIP A conversation with Amb. Richard Morningstar, Founding Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council H.E. Michał Kurtyka, Minister of Climate and Environment, Republic of Poland H.E. Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General for Energy, European Commission Moderated by John Defterios, Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor, CNN Business |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. EST / 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. GST | DELIVERING ENERGY ACCESS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Keynote remarks by H.E. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Energy Advisor to the Prime Minister, People’s Republic of Bangladesh A conversation with Kerry Adler, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, SkyPower Global Sama Bilbao y León, Director General, World Nuclear Association Alain Ebobissé, Chief Executive Officer, Africa50 Melanie Kenderdine, Principal, Energy Futures Initiative Steven Kobos, President and CEO, Excelerate Energy L.P. Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Moderated by Terzah Tippin Poe, Lecturer, Harvard University |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EST / 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. GST | AMERICA AND THE WORLD: ENERGY AND SECURITY A conversation with Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director, Geopolitics of Energy Project, The Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former Deputy National Security Adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan, United States of America Gen. David Petraeus (USA, Ret.), Partner, KKR; Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Moderated by Andrew Sollinger, Publisher, Foreign Policy |
| 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST / 8:00 – 10:30 p.m. GST | US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION LIVESTREAM Commentary by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Capricia Penavic Marshall, Ambassador-in-Residence; Senior Advisor, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Advisory Council, Atlantic Council |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EST / 10:30 – 11:30 p.m. GST | FAST THINKING: VIEWS OF THE INAUGURATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD A conversation with Prime Minister Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister, Kingdom of Sweden Stephen Hadley, Executive Vice Chair, Atlantic Council; Former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States Secretary Ernest Moniz, President and CEO, Energy Futures Initiative; Former US Secretary of Energy Minister Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Spain The Rt. Hon. Lord George Robertson, Member, International Advisory Board, Atlantic Council; Former Secretary General, NATO Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. EST / 12:00 a.m. GST | THE ENERGY IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS: A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. YUVAL STEINITZ A conversation with H.E. Yuval Steinitz, Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water, State of Israel Moderated by Hadley Gamble, Reporter and Anchor, CNBC |
| 3:30 – 4:00 P.M. EST / 12:30 -1:00 A.M. GST | REBUILDING LIBYA’S ENERGY SECTOR: A CONVERSATION WITH MUSTAFA SANALLA A conversation with Mustafa Sanalla, Chairman, National Oil Corporation, State of Libya Moderated by Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST / 1:00 – 2:00 a.m. GST | NUCLEAR INNOVATION: PROJECTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE A conversation with Caroline Cochran, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Oklo Chris Levesque, President and CEO, TerraPower Daniel Poneman, President and CEO, Centrus Energy Corporation Rumina Velshi, President and CEO, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Moderated by Jackie Kempfer, Senior Policy Advisor, Climate and Energy Program, Third Way; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 5:00 – 7:40 p.m. EST / 2:00 – 4:40 a.m. GST | BREAK IN PROGRAMMING |
| 7:40 – 9:00 p.m. EST / 4:40 – 6:00 a.m. GST | REPLAY: AMERICA AND THE WORLD: ENERGY AND SECURITY A conversation with Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director, Geopolitics of Energy Project, The Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former Deputy National Security Adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan, United States of America Gen. David Petraeus (USA, Ret.), Partner, KKR; Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Moderated by Andrew Sollinger, Publisher, Foreign Policy |
| 9:00 – 10:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. GST | REPLAY: FAST THINKING: VIEWS OF THE INAUGURATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD A conversation with Prime Minister Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister, Kingdom of Sweden Stephen Hadley, Executive Vice Chair, Atlantic Council; Former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States Secretary Ernest Moniz, President and CEO, Energy Futures Initiative; Former US Secretary of Energy Minister Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Spain The Rt. Hon. Lord George Robertson, Member, International Advisory Board, Atlantic Council; Former Secretary General, NATO Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 10:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. GST | REPLAY: REIMAGINING THE TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY AND CLIMATE RELATIONSHIP A conversation with Amb. Richard Morningstar, Founding Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council H.E. Michał Kurtyka, Minister of Climate and Environment, Republic of Poland H.E. Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General for Energy, European Commission Moderated by John Defterios, Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor, CNN Business |
| 11:00 – 11:59 p.m. EST / 8:00 – 8:59 a.m. GST | GLOBAL TRADE AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION A conversation with George Frampton, Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council Deborah Lehr, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, Paulson Institute David Livingston, Senior Analyst, Eurasia Group; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council Jean-François Tremblay, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Canada Moderated by Amb. Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs |
Day 3 – Thursday, January 21
| Time | Session |
| 12:00 – 1:00 a.m. EST / 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. GST | NEW GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NUCLEAR A conversation with Cosmin Ghita, Chief Executive Officer, Nuclearelectrica Collins Juma, Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Power and Energy Agency, Republic of Kenya Amb. Laura Holgate, Vice President, Materials Risk Management, Nuclear Threat Initiative Kalev Kallemets, Chief Executive Officer, Fermi Energia Marcelo Gomes da Silva, Business Development Manager, Eletronuclear John Hopkins, Chairman and CEO, NuScale Power Moderated by Jennifer Gordon, Managing Editor and Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 4:00 – 5:00 a.m. EST / 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. GST | 2021 OIL MARKET OUTLOOK: BOOM OR BUST? Keynote remarks by H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Republic of Equatorial Guinea A conversation with Toril Bosoni, Head, Oil Markets Division; Editor, Oil Market Report, International Energy Agency Dean Foreman, Chief Economist, American Petroleum Institute Chris Midgley, Global Head of Analytics, S&P Global Platts Carole Nakhle, Founder and CEO, Crystol Energy Alex Booth, Head of Research, Kpler Moderated by Robert Johnston, Managing Director, Energy, Climate, and Resources, Eurasia Group; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 5:00 – 5:45 a.m. EST / 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. GST | RESILIENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEMS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 A conversation with Mohamed Hilal Al Zaabi, Executive Director for Regulatory Affairs, Abu Dhabi Department of Energy Beatrix Natter, Executive Vice President, Transmission, Siemens Energy Michael Train, President, Emerson; Chairman, Emerson Automation Solutions Moderated by Phillip Cornell, Principal, The Economist Intelligence Unit; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 5:45 – 6:30 a.m. EST / 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. GST | THE CIRCULAR CARBON ECONOMY: IMPLEMENTING THE G20 COMMUNIQUE A conversation with Joseph Anis, President & CEO, Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, GE Gas Power Bill Brown, Chief Executive Officer, NET Power Regina Mayor, Global Head of Energy, KPMG Paddy Padmanathan, President and CEO, ACWA Power Rich Powell, Executive Director, ClearPath Moderated by Adam Sieminski, President, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center |
| 6:30 – 7:00 a.m. EST / 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. GST | ENERGY ADDITION: DO RENEWABLES MEAN THE END OF OIL & GAS? A conversation with Hunter Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. EST / 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. GST | A CONVERSATION WITH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES AND GLOBAL CEOS A conversation with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Bernard Looney, Chief Executive Officer, BP Brian Moynihan, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Bank of America Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. EST / 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. GST | ACCELERATING THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY A conversation with Marco Alverà, Chief Executive Officer, Snam Robert Do, President and CEO, SGH2 Michele Fiorentino, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy & Investment Officer, Baker Hughes Michaela Kendall, Chief Executive Officer, Adelan; UK Champion, Mission Innovation Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan Moderated by Randolph Bell, Director, Global Energy Center, and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security, Atlantic Council |
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. EST / 6:00 – 6:15 p.m. GST | ENERGYSOURCE INNOVATION STREAM WITH LEO SIMONOVICH Featuring Leo Simonovich, Vice President and Global Head, Industrial Cyber and Digital Security, Siemens Moderated by Olga Khakova, Associate Director for European Energy Security, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council |
| 9:15 – 10:00 a.m. EST / 6:15 – 7:00 p.m. GST | CYBERSECURITY AND THE DIGITALIZATION OF THE OIL & GAS SECTOR Keynote remarks by Gen. Wesley Clark (USA, Ret.), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Wesley K. Clark & Associates A conversation with Reem Al-Shammari, Chief Information Security Officer, Team Leader, Information Security, Kuwait Oil Company Thorbjörn Fors, Executive Vice President, Industrial Applications Division, Siemens John Markus Lervik, Co-Founder and CEO, Cognite Dario Pagani, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Eni Moderated by Georges de Moura, Head of Industry Solutions, Platform for Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity and Digital Trust, World Economic Forum |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EST / 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. GST | ENSURING JUSTICE IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION A conversation with Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment Bonnie Norman, President, E3 International Jacqueline Patterson, Senior Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP Moderated by Robert Hayward, Chief Operating Officer, Chem-Energy; Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow, Atlantic Council Global Energy Center |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST / 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. GST | NET-ZERO AND THE FUTURE OF NATURAL GAS A conversation with Fatima Al Nuaimi, Chief Executive Officer, ADNOC LNG Shaikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, Chief Executive Officer, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) Majid Jafar, Chief Executive Officer, Crescent Petroleum Charif Souki, Executive Chairman of the Board, Tellurian, Inc. Scott Strazik, Chief Executive Officer, GE Gas Power Moderated by Eithne Treanor, Managing Director, E. Treanor Media |
| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. EST / 9:00 – 9:30 p.m. GST | TOWARD NET-ZERO: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCESCO LA CAMERA A conversation with Francesco La Camera, Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency Moderated by Dan Murphy, Correspondent, CNBC |
| 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. EST / 9:30 – 10:30 p.m. GST | THE ROAD TO GLASGOW: CRUCIAL OUTCOMES FOR COP26 Keynote conversation with The Rt. Hon. Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for SEforALL; Co-Chair, UN Energy A conversation with Nadeem Babar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Agustín Delgado, Chief Innovation and Sustainability Officer, Iberdrola Kate Hughes, Director, International Climate Change, Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Gonzalo Muñoz, High Level Climate Champion, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Glenn Pearce-Oroz, Director of International Relations and Special Projects, SEforALL Moderated by Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-At-Large, US, Financial Times |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EST / 10:30 – 11:30 p.m. GST | CHOOSING WISELY: HOW THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CAN BUILD A BETTER COALITION ON INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY IN A POST-COVID WORLD A conversation with Andrea Clabough, Associate, Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council Alain Ebobissé, Chief Executive Officer, Africa50 David Goldwyn, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center and Chairman, Energy Advisory Group, Atlantic Council; Former Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, US Department of State Michael Liebreich, Chairman and CEO, Liebreich Associates Moderated by Randolph Bell, Director, Global Energy Center, and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security, Atlantic Council |
| 2:30 – 2:40 p.m. EST / 11:30 – 11:40 p.m. GST | GLOBAL ENERGY FORUM CLOSING REMARKS Remarks by Randolph Bell, Director, Global Energy Center, and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security, Atlantic Council Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
Day 4 – Friday, January 22
| Time | Session |
| 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. EST / 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. GST | COMMON GROUND ON CLIMATE BIPARTISAN SUMMIT A conversation with The Hon. Chris Coons (D-DE), US Senator, United States Senate The Hon. John Curtis (R-UT-3), US Congressman, United States House of Representatives The Hon. Darin LaHood (R-IL-18), US Congressman, United States House of Representatives The Hon. Donald McEachin (D-VA-4), US Congressman, United States House of Representatives Moderated by Senator Kelly Ayotte, Former US Senator (R-NH); Senior Advisor, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Van Jones, Political Commentator, CNN; Founder, Dream Corps Green for All |
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