Programme

Registration, Breakfast and Coffee

Welcoming Remarks

• Ambassador Igli Hasani, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
• Dr. Michael Strugl, Chairman of the Board, VERBUND AG, and President, World Energy Council Austria

Setting the Scene - Keynotes

• Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO, World Energy Council
• Mr. Georg Knill, President, Federation of Austrian Industries
• Dr. Ayed Al-Qahtani, Director Research Division, OPEC

Panel I: THE FUTURE OF OIL AND GAS

Topics:

• Security of supply in the context of the global conflicts, including the war in Ukraine
• Future price scenario
• The role of oil & gas in the way to net-zero

Speakers:

• Ms. Judith Neyer, Head of Strategic Energy Politics, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action
• Dr. Yousef Alshammari, CEO and Head of Oil Research, CMarkits
• Prof. Karl Rose, Chief Strategist, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
• Mr. Mike Fulwood, Senior Research Fellow, The Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
• Mr Ádám Balogh,  Lead for Ukraine Support Task Force and Senior Energy Infrastructure Expert, Energy Community
• Ms. Courtney Austrian, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Mission to the OSCE

Moderation: Prof. Stefan Ulreich, Professor of Energy Economics, Hochschule Biberach

Lunch break

Panel II: THE GREEN ENERGY REVOLUTION

Topics:

• Opportunities & challenges of green energy technologies
• Ensuring energy security in the transition to net-zero
• Geo-political dependencies in the green future

Speakers:

• Mr. Sigurdur Atli Jonsson, CEO, Arctic Green Energy
• Mr. Andrei Covatariu, Member of the Task Force on Digitalization in Energy, UNECE
• Dr. Rauan Meirbekova, Senior Research Scientist, ICETEC
• DI Theresia Vogel, Managing Director, Klima- und Energiefonds

Moderation: Mr. Daniel Kroos, Senior Programme Officer, Energy Security, OSCE

Coffee break

Panel III: HUMANISING THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Topics:

• Ensuring an affordable and equitable energy transition
• The role of inclusion and diversity in the road to net-zero
• Placing individuals at the core of the energy transition

Speakers:

• Dr. Stephan Sharma, CEO, Burgenland Energie AG
• Dr. Irene Giner-Reichl, Co-Founder, GWNET; President, GFSE
• Ms. Stavroula Pappa, Project Manager, REScoop.eu
• Dr. Catherina Cader, Project manager and head of the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems, Reiner Lemoine Institut
• Ms. Ana Belén Padilla Moreno, Secretary General, World Energy Council Spain

Moderation: Mr. Ivo Wakounig, Senior Advisor, World Energy Council Austria

Concluding remarks

• Dr. Robert Kobau, Secretary General, World Energy Council Austria

Aperitif