Meet the speakers (Australia 2021)
Conference opening (1:30PM AEST, Wed 25 Aug)
Please note, our guests for the conference opening were unable to join us live. Their contributions were pre-recorded in the last week and will be screened as part of the opening session. All panel speakers will be appearing live.
Welcome to Country: Trevor Naley
Chairman & Mirning representative on the board of the Western Green Energy Hub
Mirning Traditional Lands Aboriginal Corporation
Opening address: Hon. Alannah MacTiernan MLC
(followed by a brief Q&A with Andrew Dickson, CWP Global)
Minister for Regional Development; Agriculture and Food; Hydrogen Industry
West Australian State Government
Session 1: Ammonia - its time has come (2PM AEST, Wed 25 Aug)
Moderator – Jenn Beach
Chief Operating Officer, Starfire Energy
Co-Chair, AEA Public Perception Committee
Hans Vrijenhoef
Chairman of Management Board, Proton Ventures
Ammonia…the Green Oil of the future?
Rob Stevens
VP Ammonia Operations,
SagaPure
President,
AEA
John Kwon
Senior Sales Manager,
Lotte Fine Chemical
Green Ammonia Bunkering/Transportation Consortium and the Korean Green Ammonia Alliance
The Promotion of Green/Blue Ammonia as a Carbon Neutral Energy in Korea
Shigeru Muraki
Executive Vice President,
Clean Fuel Ammonia Association
Implementation of Clean Fuel Ammonia Value Chain
Session 2: Clean ammonia export projects - a showcase (4PM AEST, Wed 25 Aug)
Moderator – Andrew Dickson
Development Manager, Asian Renewable Energy Hub (at CWP Global)
Alicia Eastman
President,
InterContinental Energy
InterContinental Energy’s Projects
Sarah Tincknell
Stakeholder and Regulatory Manager,
Origin Energy
Getting energy right for customers, communities and planet
Attilio Pigneri
CEO,
Hydrogen Utility (H2U)
Green Hydrogen and Ammonia: scaling up commercialisation and exports
Luke Blackbourn
Manager Government and External Relations,
Yara International
Renewable ammonia production – a foundation for scale-up
Dan Feldman
Partner,
Shearman & Sterling
Shearman H2 and NH3: Our Work On Hydrogen And Ammonia Export Megaprojects
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Session 3: Innovations in the Australian ammonia value chain, Part I (quickfire session) (12PM AEST, Thurs 26 Aug)
Moderator – Ken Baldwin
Director, ANU Grand Challenge:Â Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific,
Australian National University
Alexandr N. Simonov
ARC Future Fellow,
Monash University
High-productivity electrosynthesis of ammonia from dinitrogen
James Rosenfeldt
Country Manager (Australia),
Haldor Topsoe
Topsoe Dynamic ammonia synthesis and SOEC
Karan Bagga
Chief Process Engineer,
thyssenkrupp
Flexible ammonia synthesis and large scale ammonia cracking technology by Uhde
Matt Baumgurtel
Partner,
Hamilton Locke
Export market and project development pathways
David Harris
Chief Research Consultant, CSIRO Energy
Ammonia as an Energy Carrier: Leveraging technologies and infrastructure to decarbonise global energy systems
Hyung Chul Yoon
Korea Institute of Energy Research
Session 4: Innovations in the Australian ammonia value chain, Part II (quickfire session) (2PM AEST, Thurs 26 Aug)
Moderator – Jacinta Bakker
Senior Research Coordinator, Jupiter Ionics
Matthew Stocks
Associate Professor,
Australian National University
Ammonia co-firing in coal plants in Japan: emissions in Australia/Japan supply chain
Robert Ludecke
GM Hydrogen and Strategic Projects,
Iberdrola Australia
Green H2 Iberdrola and Delivering Green Ammonia
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Nick Bentley
Director,
Oceania Marine Energy
A strategic pathway to a sustainable shipping industry powered by Australian renewable energy
Nicholas Salmon
PhD Candidate,
Oxford University
Impact of scale on levelized cost of green ammonia for international energy transport
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Martin Hablutzel
Business Unit Manager Transmission Solutions and Hydrogen,
Siemens Energy
Close-coupling variable green hydrogen production with small scale ammonia production
Emma Aisbett
Associate Director (Research) ANU Grand Challenge – Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific,
Australian National University
Ammonia trade and embedded emissions pricing
Keith Lovegrove
Managing Director,
ITP Thermal Pty Ltd
A new hydrogen storage technology for buffering the input to green ammonia plants
Kjeld Aabo
Director – New Technologies,
MAN ES
Future fuels and emissions
Session 5: Certifying clean ammonia (4PM AEST, Thurs 26 Aug)
Moderator – Attilio Pigneri
CEO,
Hydrogen Utility (H2U)
Co-Chair,
AEA Certification Committee
AEA’s Low-Carbon Certification Scheme: consultation phase launch
Blake Adair
Manager Projects, Innovation and Product Development,
Nutrien
Co-Chair,
AEA Certification Committee
AEA’s Low-Carbon Certification Scheme: consultation phase launch
Jonathan Lewis
Attorney & Climate Specialist,
Clean Air Task Force
Co-Chair,
AEA Certification Committee
AEA’s Low-Carbon Certification Scheme: consultation phase launch
Fiona Simon
CEO,
Australian Hydrogen Council
Hydrogen Certification
Emma Aisbett
Associate Director (Research) ANU Grand Challenge: Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific,
Australian National University
Certifying ammonia for trade and environmental benefit
Raffaele Piria
Senior Adviser + Co-lead,
adelphi Consult
Highlights from the EU debate on H2 certification
Scott Hamilton
Senior Advisor,
Smart Energy Council & Hydrogen Australia
Certifying renewable ammonia
Industry Round table: Ardent Underground
(12:30PM AEST, Fri 27 Aug)
Acknowledgement of Country: Sheldon Moore (1:50PM AEST, Fri 27 Aug)
Senior Project Engineer – Future Fuels
Origin Energy
Session 6: Ammonia fuel bunkering & infrastructure in Singapore (2PM AEST, Fri 27 Aug)
Moderator – Emma Lovell
Lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering,
University of NSW
Rene Laursen
Sustainability Director – Fuels & Technology,
American Bureau of Shipping
Getting Ready for Clean-Produced, Carbon-Free Ammonia and Well-to-Wake Emissions
Liu Ming
Research Lead,
Nanyang Technological University
Ammonia bunkering – simulation of hypothetical release scenarios in Singapore
Hoe Wai Cheong
President – Gas, Fuels & Chemicals,
Black & Veatch
The Green and Blue Ammonia Value Chain
Jérôme Leprince-Ringuet
Vice President Marine Fuels,
TotalEnergies
Advancing Ammonia as a Marine Fuel
Captain Sameer Bhatnagar
Senior Decarbonisation Business Integration and Engagement Manager,
Maersk
Ammonia as a Fuel of the Future: A Ship Operator’s perspective
Session 7: Closing panel - where to from here? (4PM AEST, Fri 27 Aug)
Moderator – Darren Jarvis
Vice President, Strategic Project Development,
Incitec Pivot
Doug Macfarlane
Leader of the Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science Energy Program,
Monash University
Sarah Tincknell
Stakeholder and Regulatory Manager,
Origin Energy
Toshiyuki Suda
Strategy Headquarters,
IHI Corporation
Rupert Maloney
Clean Energy Finance Corporation
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James Hetherington
Director – Hydrogen Strategy,
Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
