The fifth annual Global Energy Forum focuses on four key themes—the post-pandemic energy system, emerging net-zero carbon goals, the role of the Middle East in the energy transition, and the US’s energy and foreign policy priorities in the Biden administration—and concludes with a special bipartisan climate summit featuring senior energy leaders and commentators.
Airing live from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. GST on Friday, January 22.
Please note the timing of our panels, as programming for January 20 and 21 begins at 12:00 a.m. EST to accommodate a global audience.
Agenda
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 Keynote remarks by H.E. Shaker El-Markabi, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Arab Republic of Egypt 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 |
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