Conference Day 1 - Monday, March 20, 2017

AGENDA

Conference Day 2 - Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Time WELTSAAL EUROPASAAL LESEHOF

09:00– 11:00

REGISTRATION

11:00 Opening Ceremony

Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor and Federal Foreign Minister, Germany

Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

Livestream – Opening Ceremony

11:15

11:30 Keynote

Bertrand Piccard, Pilot, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation and Initiator of the World Alliance for Eficient Solutions

11:45

12:00 Presentation of Study „Perspectives for the Energy Transition – Investment Needs for a Low-Carbon Energy System“ by IEA and IRENA

Moderator: Melinda Crane Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA) Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

12:15

12:30

12:30–14:00

LUNCH

14:00 Making Markets Ready for the Energy Transition Moderator: Melinda Crane Sabah Khaled AI-Hamad AI-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait Nur Bekri, Director, National Energy Administration, China Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez, State Secretary, Ministry of Energy, Mexico Miguel Arias Cañete, Commissioner Climate Action and Energy, European Commission Abderrahim El Haidi, Secretary General, Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and the Environment, Morocco Ng Wai Choong, CE, Energy Market Authority, Singapore Lisa Davis, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG

Future Prospects Moderator: Christine Lins, REN21 Juan José Aranguren, Minister for Energy and Mining, Argentina Sileshi Bekele, Minister of Water, Irrigation and Electricity, Ethiopia (tbc) Hamid Chitchian, Minister of Energy, Iran Mohammad Younus Dagha, Federal Secretary, Ministry of Water and Power, Pakistan Norbert Razanakoto, Secretary General, Ministry of Energy and Hydrocarbons, Madagascar Georgios Stathakis, Minister of Environment and Energy, Greece Mario Šiljeg, State Secretary, Ministry of Environ-ment and Energy, Croatia

Prosumers Modator: Sonja van Renssen Dr. Michael Losch, Director General Energy and Mining, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, Austria Bruce Douglas, Global Solar Council Dr. Patrick Graichen, Agora Energiewende Tetsunari Iida, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies Stefan Kapferer, German Association of Energy and Water (BDEW) Craig Morris, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS Potsdam) Lawrence Orsini, LO3 Energy

14:15

14:30

14:45

15:00

15:15 Advanced Promotion Programs Moderator: Melinda Crane Héla Cheikhrouhou, Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy, Tunisia Claude Turmes, MEP, President, European Forum Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES)

15:30

15:45–16:15

COFFEE BREAK

Energy Transition in Latin America Moderator: Christine Lins, REN21 Germán Arce, Minister of Mines and Energy, Colombia (tbc) Manuel González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costa Rica (tbc) Alfredo López Valdés, Minister of Energy and Mining, Cuba Hugo Martínez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador Luis Sánchez, Minister for Hydrocarbons, Bolivia (tbc)

16:15 Carbon Pricing and Just Energy Transitions Moderator: Melinda Crane Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Dr. Kurt Bock, B20 Laurence Tubiana, European Climate Foundation (ECF)

Market Design Moderator: Sonja van Renssen Li Junfeng, Professor, National Center for Climate Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), China Stephen Berberich, California Independent System Operator (ISO) Jean-Francois Conil-Lacoste, EPEX SPOT Bente Hagem, ENTSO-E Steve Sawyer, Global Wind Energy Council Boris Schucht, 50 Hertz

16:30

16:45

17:00 Carbon Pricing – Leadership and Innovation Moderator: Melinda Crane Kim Chan-woo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, South Korea Thembisile Majola, Deputy Minister for Energy, South Africa Amar Bhattacharya, Brookings Institution Samantha Smith, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC Andrei Petrişor Maioreanu, State Secretary, Ministry of Energy, Romania

Michael Yulkin, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

The Contribution of the ICT Sector to the Energy Transition Moderator: Christoph Bornschein,Torben, Lucie und die gelbe Gefahr Kirsten Hasberg, StromDAO Dr. Eleni Pratsini, Cognitive IoT Solutions, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Jane Rygaard, Advanced Mobile Solutions, Nokia Thomas Speidel, ads-tec GmbH/Bundesverband Energiespeicher Francois Sterin, Google Felix Zhang, Envision Energy Limited

17:15

17:30

17:45

18:00

18:15

18:30–19:00 SHUTTLE TO EVENING RECEPTION

19:00– 23:00

EVENING RECEPTION & START UP ENERGY TRANSITION AWARD AT KINO INTERNATIONAL

Time WELTSAAL EUROPASAAL LESEHOF

07:00– 09:00

REGISTRATION

09:00 Opening Day 2 Dr. Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Livestream – Opening Day 2

09:10 Policy attracts Investments Moderator: Melinda Crane

Impulse: Angus McCrone, Bloomberg New Energy Finance Suhail Al Mazroui, Minister of Energy, United Arab Emirates Dr. Magdy Rady, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Economic Relations and International Cooperation, Egypt Thomas Silberhorn, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Develop-ment, Germany Elsbeth Tronstad, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Dr. Kristian Parker, Oak Foundation Tom Steyer, NextGen Climate Closing Remarks: Lars Christian Lilleholt, Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate, Denmark

09:30

09:45

10:00

10:15

10:30 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 Investors Forum Moderator: Jules Kortenhorst, Rocky Mountain Institute Kate Hampton, Children‘s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Elvira Lefting, Finance in Motion Gerard Reid, Alexa Capital Nat Simons, Prelude Ventures Adair Turner, Energy Transitions Commission

Energy Eficiency in Industry Moderator: Benoit Lebot, International Partnership for Energy Eficiency (IPEEC) Mohamed Salah Bouzeriba, Director General, National Agency for the Promotion and Rational Use of Energy (APRUE), Algeria

Dr. Grifin M. Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of State, USA Kateri Callahan, Alliance to Save Energy Dr. Nicholas Howarth, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) Louise Vickery, International Energy Agency (IEA) Dr. Hans-Jörn Weddige, thyssenkrupp AG Dr. Ulrika Wising, Det Norske Veritas-Germanischer Lloyd (DNV GL)

Grid Infrastructure Moderator: Sonja van Renssen Qasim M.A. Al-Shihani, Minister of Electricity, Iraq (tbc) Antonella Battaglini, Renewables Grid Initiative Péter Csiba, MVM Group Hungary Miriam Maes, ELIA Group Jonathan Mirrlees-Black,Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Pty (CEPA Australia) Alberto Pototschnig, Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) Prof. Min Wang, China State Grid

11:15

11:30

11:45

12:00

12:15

12:30–13:30

LUNCH

13:30 Energy Eficient Buildings Moderator: Sonja van Renssen Mohammed Nabil Benabdallah, Minister of Housing and Urbanism, Morocco Paul Delduc, Director General Development, Housing and Nature MEEM-MLHD, France Florian Pronold, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany Thierno Alassane Sall, Minister for Energy and the Development of Renewable Energy, Senegal Mechthild Woersdoerfer, Director Energy Policy, DG ENER, EU Commission Patrick Labat, Veolia Executive Committee Brian Motherway, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Decarbonsing Transport Moderator: Christian Hochfeld, Agora Verkehrswende Dr. Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, Minister for Environment and Energy, Costa Rica Els de Wit, Programme Manager, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, The Netherlands Greg Archer, European Federation for Transport and Environment Holger Dalkmann, WRI Ross Center for Sustain-able Cities Cornie Huizenga, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) Dr. Jari Kauppila, International Transport Forum, OECD Fabian Schmitt, StreetScooter

Start Up Energy Transition Moderator: Melinda Crane Six Winners of the Start-Up Energy Transition Award

13:45

14:00

14:15

14:30

14:45

15:00–15:30

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 Integrated Energy Transition Moderator: Melinda Crane Rainer Baake, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany Gordon de Brouwer, Secretary, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australia Dr. Robert B. Weisenmiller, Chair to the California Energy Commission, USA Prof. Wang Zhongying, Director, China National Renewable Energy Centre (CNREC), China Connie Hedegaard, Former European Commissioner for Climate Action and Chair of the Board for Denmark’s green think tank CONCITO Rachel Kyte, Sustainable Energy for All Philipp Schröder, Sonnen GmbH

15:45

16:00

16:15

16:30

16:45 Closing Remarks Walter Lindner, State Secretary, Federal Foreign Ofice, Germany

17:00–17:30

END OF CONFERENCE 2017 AND SHUTTLE TO BETD-NETWORKING EVENT

18:00–22:00

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