Policy and Investment: Fostering Collaboration to Accelerate Deployment of ClimateTech

• What do global policymakers need to do to support investment in clean technologies to drive decarbonisation?
• How does the investment landscape need to change for climate technologies to flourish?
• How could a common platform for funding help stimulate collaboration between the private and public sectors?

SPEAKERS

Ken Freeman

Vice President, Policy and Regulatory Development, Asia Pacific

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solution

Mohammed Al-Taani

Secretary General

Arab Renewable Energy Commission AREC

Closing Remarks & Close of Day One

Realising Emissions-Free Fusion: Taking Nuclear Fusion from the Lab to the Market

• What are the latest advances in Fusion technology, both domestically and internationally, and what impact will they have on the pathway to Net Zero? 
• What technological challenges must be overcome before this industry can achieve commercial power production? 
• What role will public-private partnerships play in the future of fusion energy, and how can this form part of Japan’s future energy strategy? 

MODERATOR

Frank Hiroshi Ling

Chief Scientist

Anthropocene Institute

SPEAKERS

Hideki Yoshino

Founder and CEO

Clean Planet Inc.

Takaya Taguchi

CEO

Helical Fusion Co., Ltd.

Defossilisation: Leveraging New Technology to Expand the Bioeconomy

• Offsetting coal and coke with biomass 
• Tackling hard to abate sectors 
• Decarbonisation vs defossilisation 

SPEAKERS

Juliet Hull

CEO and Co-Founder

Sleaktek LTD

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Welcome & Introduction

ClimateTech Challenge – Students & Young Professionals

Designed for students and new entrants to the energy industry, this ClimateTech Challenge will invite participants to try and solve 5 key challenges impacting this industry, capturing the very latest blue-sky thinking, concepts, and ideas, to disrupt the industry, and help generate brand new solutions to real world challenges.

This session will feature a shortlist of the most promising 500-word submissions, with each invited to deliver a 5-minute pitch to the audience and our panel of judges, who will vote and award one of the entrants with a prize.

ClimateTech Challenge – Start-Ups & Entrepreneurs

Designed for established start-ups and entrepreneurs, this ClimateTech Challenge will invite participants to try and solve 5 key challenges impacting this industry, capturing fresh thinking, technologies, and commercial acumen to help generate brand new solutions to real world challenges.

This session will feature a shortlist of the most promising 500-word submissions, with each invited to deliver a 10-minute pitch/business case to the audience and our panel of judges, who will vote and award one of the entrants with a prize.