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

Endless Opportunities

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 sponsored by:
CWP Global

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

 

Session sponsored by: Shearman & Sterling

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:  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

Principal Researcher,
Korea Institute of Energy Research Production and utilization of green ammonia: KIER’s current status and future plans

Session sponsored by:
Ardent Underground

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

 

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

 

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 sponsored by: thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions

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

Session sponsored by:
Yara

Industry Round table: Ardent Underground
(12:30PM AEST, Fri 27 Aug)

presented by the team at Ardent Underground

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 sponsored by: InterContinental Energy

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

Manager of Corporate
Strategy Headquarters,
IHI Corporation

Rupert Maloney

Head of Hydrogen,
Clean Energy Finance Corporation

 

James Hetherington

Director – Hydrogen Strategy,
Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources