Renewable Fuels 11:00 – 12:30h

Moderator: Barbara Fricke, Renewable Energy Advisor, DVGW

• Mårten Görnerup, Managing Director, HYBRIT • Badr Ikken, Director General, IRESEN Morocco • Thierry Lepercq, Executive Vice President, engie • Inga Posch, CEO, FNB-Gas • Prof Dr Michael Sterner, Head of Energy Storage Institute,

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Opening Ceremony 9:00 – 10:30h

• Heiko Maas, Federal Foreign Minister, Germany• Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and

Energy, Germany

Keynote Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala, Founder & CEO, Bakulu Power Maroš Šefčovič, Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union, European Commission

Perspectives for the Energy Transition by IEA and IRENA • Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General, International Renewable

Energy Agency (IRENA) • Dr Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency

(IEA)

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Livestream conference hall 'World'

9:00 – 10:30h

Energy Markets in Times of Transition 11:00 – 12:30h

Moderator: Dr Melinda Crane

• Dr Saleh A. Al-Kharabsheh, Minister of Energy and MineralResources, Jordan

• Baohua Liu , Vice Minister, National Energy Administration(NEA), China

• Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development,Uganda

• Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens• Terje Søviknes, Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Norway • Francesco Starace, CEO and General Manager, Enel S.p.A.

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Off-grid Systems 11:00 – 12:30h

Moderator: Dr Jeremy Gaines, Coordinator, Nigerian German Energy Partnership

• Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy,ICT & Tourism, African Union Commission

• Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Minister of Water, Irrigation andElectricity, Ethiopia

• Thomas Duveau, Head of Business Development, Mobisol• Mamisoa Rakotoarimanana, Executive Secretary, Agence de

Développement de l’Électrification Rurale (ADER), Madagascar • Molly Webb, Founder and CEO, Energy Unlocked • Eckhard Wolf, Sales Manager Microgrids & Distributed

Generation, ABB

Carbon Pricing 14:00 – 15:45h

Moderator: Dr Melinda Crane

• Keynote: Prof Dr Ottmar Edenhofer, Director, MercatorResearch Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change(MCC), Designated Director and Chief Economist of thePotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

• Anton Anton, Energy Minister, Romania • Nicolette Bartlett, Director Climate Change, CDP• Manuel González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costa Rica• Leif Jakobsson, State Secretary to the Minister for Finance,

Sweden • Michal Kurtyka, Deputy Minister of Energy, Poland • Brune Poirson, State Secretary to the Minister for the

Ecological and Inclusive Transition, France

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security 14:00 – 15:45h Moderator: Dr Patrick Graichen, Director, Agora Energiewende • Keynote: Berat Albayrak, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources,

Turkey • Dr Kocho Angjushev, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economic

Affairs, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia • Mohammad H A H Boshehri, Undersecretary, Ministry of Electricity

and Water, Kuwait • Giorgi Chikovani, Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable

Development, Georgia • Abderrahim El Hafidi, Secretary General, Ministry of Energy, Mines,

Water and the Environment, Morocco • Said Hidam, Assistant Foreign Minister for Multilateral Economic

Affairs, Egypt • Tilak Marapana, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka • Lejeune Mbella Mbella, Foreign Minister, Cameroon (tbc)• U Win Khaing, Union Minister, Ministry of Electricity and Energy,

Myanmar

Conference hall ‘Library'

Blockchain for Energy Systems 14:00 – 15:45h

Moderator: Prof Dr Jens Strüker, Hochschule Fresenius – University of Applied Sciences

• Keynote: Sebnem Rusitschka, Head of Energy Committee,German Blockchain Association

• Sebastian Groh, SOLshare • Nasrul Hamid, State Minister of the Ministry of Power, Energy

and Mineral Resources, Bangladesh • Paul Massara, Director, electron • Dr Carmen Schneider, Partner/Head of Energy Group, DWF

Germany Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH • Dr Ana S. Trbovich, Co-Founder & COO, GridSingularity • Dr Tanja Utescher-Dabitz, Head of Digitization, Bundesverband

der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V.

Reality Check of Grid Infrastructure 16:15 – 18:00h

Moderator: Antonella Battaglini, CEO, Renewables Grid Initiative

• Dr. Robert Denda, Head of Network Technology andInnovation, Enel Global Infrastructure and Networks

• Bente Monica Haaland, Executive Vice President, CorporateStrategy and Communication, Statnett SF

• Katherine Hamilton, Co-Chair , Global Future Council on theFuture of Energy, World Economic Forum

• Boris Schucht, CEO, 50Hertz• Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, Minister of Energy, Lithuania • Zhengyun Sun , Chief Information Officer (CIO), State Grid

Corporation of China

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Structural Change 16:15 – 18:00h

Moderator: Prof Dr Ortwin Renn, Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainablility Studies e.V. (IASS)

• Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Industry, United Arab Emirates

• Dr Hans Rüdiger Lange, Managing Director, Innovationsregion Lausitz

• Daniel Navia Simón, Secretary of State for Energy, Ministry ofEnergy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, Spain

• Dr Simone Peter, President, German Renewable EnergyFederation (BEE)

• Efraín Villanueva Arcos, Director General of Clean Energies,Ministry of Energy, Mexico

• Peter Wooders, Director Energy Programme, InternationalInstitute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Conference hall ‘Library'

Nudging Sustainable Behaviour in the Age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence 16:15 – 18:00h

Moderator: Fabian Reetz, Project leader “digital energy transition”, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

• Prof Dr Dirk Helbing, Professorship of Computational SocialScience, ETH Zürich

• Juliane Schulze, Director Business Development BA Wind,Vattenfall

• Shermin Voshmgir, Director, Research Institute for Crypto Economics, Vienna University of Economics

• Jennifer Zhu Scott, Founding principle of Radian Partners/Co-founder of Radian Blockchain Ventures

Conference hall ‘Library'

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Opening Day 2 9:00 – 10:45 Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Policies and Investments for Energy Access Moderator: Dr Melinda Crane • Dr Linda Davis, Director of Strategic Partnerships, wPower • Khaled Kaddour, Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable

Energy, Tunisia • Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of Environment, Energy and

Housing, Finland

Official Launch of joint REN21-IRENA-IEA-Study "Renewable Energy Policies in a Time of Transition“ • Rana Adib, Executive Secretary, REN21 • Diala Hawila, Associate Programme Officer, IRENA• Paolo Frankl, Head, Renewable Energy Division, IEA

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Livestream conference hall 'World'

9:00 – 10:45h

Investors Forum 11:00 – 12:45h

Moderator: Jules Kortenhorst, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

• Keynote: Kingsmill Bond, New Energy Strategist, Carbon Tracker

• Sverker Åkerblom, Director Renewable Power, BlackRock • Zoë Knight, Managing Director, HSBC• Paddy Padmanathan, President & CEO, ACWA Power • Diego Pignatelli, Partner, Greentech Capital• Jochen Wermuth, Wermuth Asset Management

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Efficiency First in Industry 11:00 – 12:30h Moderator: Dr Brian Motherway, Head of Energy Efficiency Division, IEA • Kok Kiat Ang , Director Energy Efficiency & Conservation

Department, National Environment Agency (NEA), Singapore • Fiona Hall, Senior Policy Advisor, Consultant to the

ROCKWOOL Group • Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, Energy and Resources

Institute, Member of the Prime Minister's Council on ClimateChange, India

• Claire Range, Manager Energy Efficiency in Industry, GermanBusiness Initiative for Energy Efficiency

• Mihalis Veriopoulos, Secretary General of Energy & MineralResources, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Greece

• Dr Xianli Zhu, Senior Economist, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, UNEP DTU Partnership

Conference hall ‘Library'

Leveraging Public Finance in Future Energy Markets 14:00 – 15:30h

Moderator: Karsten Löffler, Co-Head, Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

• William Owuraku Aidoo, Deputy Minister for Energy, Ghana • Karsten Fülster, Country Manager for Germany, IFC • Noara Kebir, Co-Founder & Managing Director, MicroEnergy

International • Dr Sei-Joong Kwon, Director-General for Climate Change,

Energy & Environmental Affairs Bureau, Korea• Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council

(GWEC) • Dr Jirapongphan Siri , Minister for Energy, Thailand • Ali Zerouali, Director of International Co-operation and

Partnership, MASEN Morocco

Conference hall 'World'

Conference hall ‘Europe'

Future Mobility for Liveable Cities 14:00 – 15:30h

Moderator: Christian Hochfeld, Director, Agora Verkehrswende

• Holger Dalkmann, Co-Chair Board of Directors, SustainableLow Carbon Transport Partnership (SLoCaT)

• David Kolitagane, Permanent Secretary for Infrastructure &Transport, Fiji Government (tbc)

• Wenzhi Liu, Senior Director Governmental Affairs, Didi Chuxing • Manoella Wilbaut, Head of Global Commercial Developments &

Sustainability, DP-DHL • Ana Cristina Wollmann Zornig Jayme, Secretary for Planning,

Finance and the Municipal Budget, City of Curitiba, Brazil

Conference hall ‘Library'

Heating and Cooling Solutions for Metropolitan Areas 14:00 – 15:30h

Moderator: Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, Smart Energy Cities, District Concepts and Heat Grids, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

• Dr Dörte Fouquet, Director, European Renewable EnergiesFederation (EREF)

• Tomas Häyry, Mayor, City of Vaasa • Ursula Hartenberger, Global Head of Sustainability, Royal

Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) (tbc) • Takashi Omote, Executive Director, New Energy and Industrial

Technology Development Organization • Max Viessmann, CEO, Viessmann • Paul Voss, Managing Director, Euroheat & Power

Integrated Energy Transition

16:00 – 17:30h

Moderator: Dr Melinda Crane

• Keynote: Walter J. Lindner, State Secretary, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

• Connie Hedegaard, Chair of the Board, KR Foundation • Thorsten Herdan, Director General, Federal Ministry for

Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany• Kristian Ruby, CEO, Eurelectric • David G. Victor, Director, Laboratory on International Law and

Regulation (ILAR), UC San Diego• Heiko von Tschischwitz, CEO, enyway • Wang Zhongying, Acting Director General, Energy Research

Institute of NDRC, China

Conference hall 'World'

Start Up Energy Transition Award Winners 11:00 – 12:30

Moderator: Dr Melinda Crane

• Six winners of the Start Up Energy Transition Award• Antje Danielson, Director Education, MIT Energy Initiative,

Founder of Zipcar • Angela Wilkinson, Senior Director Scenarios & Business

Insights, World Energy Council

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