WORKSHOP AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS AGENDA

10:50am – 11:10am
Rethinking solar technology deployment 
Dr Nicole Kuepper-Russell, Deputy CEO, 5B

11:15am – 12:25pm
Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies and Development
Chair: Nishad Mendis, Manager, Energy Transition, Bureau Veritas Australia

• Energy Storage Will Drive the Global Energy Transition
  Bill Sproull, VP Business Development, ESS Inc
• World's largest next-generation long-duration energy storage project in operation
  Kira Rundel, Commercial and Strategy, RayGen
• Maturing energy storage market
  Tim Harris, CEO and Managing Director, Redflow
• Accelerating the Global Renewable Energy Transition
  Lucas Sadler, Vice President Sales & Business Development APAC, Energy Vault
• Accelerating renewables using gravity
  Mark Swinnerton, CEO, Green Gravity

12:30pm – 1:15pm
PANEL: Insights on how NSW Industry is leading the Clean Economy Revolution
Chair: Alice Cahill, Director - Clean Economy, Investment NSW 

Panellists:
Doug Smith, CEO, Coolsheet Australia
Clare Sykes, Co-Lead, NewH2 (Hunter Hydrogen Technology Cluster) & Founder, LarkinSykes Advisory
Grant McDowell, Founder, Spark Club & Co-Founder, Enosi Australia
Jacob Chretien, General Manager - Technical & Strategic Projects, Opal ANZ
Christiaan Jordaan, Founder & CEO, Sicona Battery Technologies

1:25pm – 1:45pm
Renewable Energy Target Update
Matthew Power, General Manager, RET Branch, Clean Energy Regulator

1:50pm – 2:10pm
Predictive Asset Management and Digital Transformation for the Renewable industry
Darren Read, General Manager of Digital Services, Schneider Electric

2:15pm – 2:30pm
Model T to Tesla: The Consumer Journey to Electric in 2023 and Beyond
Amelia McVeigh, Account Director, Fifth Quadrant

2:35pm – 3:20pm
PANEL: EV Charging Infrastructure: Where we are and what’s to come
Chair: Ross De Rango, Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Council

Panellists:
David Malicki, Manager of Program and Market Development – Net Zero Transport, NSW Government
Jason Venning, Country Manager - Australia & New Zealand, FIMER
Rosemary Tan, Managing Director, I-Charge Solutions
Tim Pratt, General Manager - New Energy Landscape, Schneider Electric

3:20pm – 3:35pm
An Emerging Energy Democracy for EV owners with Home solar 
Gregory McGarvie, Managing Director, ACE Electric Vehicles Group

3:40pm – 4:25pm
PANEL: Energy startups decarbonising the Australian economy
Chair: Megan Fisher, CEO, EnergyLab

Panellists:
Dr Fraser Hughson, CTO & Co-Founder, Allegro Energy
Mike Wishart, Founder and CEO, EcoJoule
Marija Petkovic, Founder and Managing Director, Energy Synapse
Carola Jonas, CEO and Co-Founder, Everty

9:30am – 9:50am 
Smarter Storage needed to achieve future targets
Rod Scott, CEO, Selectronic Australia

9:55am – 10:15am
The future direction of lithium-ion battery chemistry
Manuel Wieser, Head of Clean Energy Technologies Business, AnteoTech

10:20am – 10:50am 
Energy Storage - An Explosive Opportunity?
Simon Bull, Principal Engineer - Ideation, Emergent Group

10:55am – 11:15am
The Air Battery: A technological breakthrough in Compressed Air Energy Storage
Tim Hill, Director, Essential Water and Energy Services

11:20am – 11:35am
N Type: Leading the Product Evolution for Better Solar Project Performance
Marcos Young, Technical Marketing Manager, TW Solar

11:40am – 12:00pm 
Advanced inverter capabilities and their role in grid stability
Andros Cadavid, Strategic Development Manager, SMA Australia

12:05pm – 12:25pm
The role of the virtual power plant in unlocking the value in a net zero transition
Brett Milne, Managing Director and Founder, Karit

12:30pm – 1:05pm
VPP Innovation for grid providers and customers
Alex Georgiou, CMO, Powow

1:10pm – 1:30pm
A real-time marketplace for energy data: How do we strike a workable balance between open, proprietary, industry, customer, private and secure?
Grace Young, Chief Innovation Officer, Wattwatchers Digital Energy

1:35pm – 1:55pm
Large Scale Hydrogen Production for Domestic Consumption and Export
Peter Sallans, Technical Director, Zetta New Energy

2:00pm – 2:20pm
Delivering low-cost clean hydrogen and ammonia through integrated development of CCS, renewable energy generation
Bradley Lingo, Chairman, Pilot Energy

2:25pm – 2:45pm
Superhybrids Role in Australia as a Green Superpower
Michael Sidney Myer, Executive Chairman, Sunshine Hydro

2:50pm – 3:10pm
Decarbonisation through the use of Microgrids
Jey Shivakumar, Principal Engineer - Energy Transformation Services, Cossill & Webley

3:15pm – 3:30pm
Fringe-of-Grid Futures Eyre Peninsula Microgrid Feasibility Studies and Screening
Dr José Zapata, Principal, Modelling and Analytics, ITP Renewables

Disclaimer: Session titles and speakers may change without prior notice as the programme develops.