WFES 2010 - Monday January 18th - Day 1

WFES 2010 - Summit Programme at a Glance
Monday January 18th - Day 1
09:00-10.30   Registration
Main Summit Theater
11:00-11:40
Plenary Welcome Session
11:00 Introduction from Chair: Richard Banks, CEO, R M Banks & Co

11:05 Welcome note from the host: Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Chief Executive Officer, Masdar

  • 11:10 H.E. President Karolos Papoulias, President of the Hellenic Republic
  • 11:15 H.E. Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Republic of Maldives
  • 11:20 H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey
  • 11:25 H.E. the Honourable Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister, Malaysia
  • 11:30 H.R.H. Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, Crown Prince of Spain
  • 11:35 H.R.H. Crown Prince Frederik André Henrik Christian, Denmark

11:40 End of Plenary Welcome Session

 
12:30-14.00   Lunch - sponsored by Terna Energy
14:00-16:00
Plenary Forum 1: World Future Energy Policy: Energy Ministers’ Round Table Discussion
14:00 Introduction from Chair: Stan Grant, United Arab Emirates correspondent, CNN

14:05 Welcome from Hélène Pelosse, Interim Director General, IRENA

14:15 Ministers’ Statements and Discussion

SESSION: ASIA, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

  • H.E. Abdulla Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy & Industry, Qatar
  • H.E. Mohamed Bin Dhaen Al- Hamli, Minister of Energy of UAE
  • H.E. Dr. Hasan Younes, Minister of Electricity and Energy, Egypt
  • H.E. Dr Farooq Abdullah, Minister of New and Renewable Energy, India
  • Hon. Hanny Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ghana
  • H.E. Ambassador Wang Xuexian, China
  • H.E. Tadahiro Matsushita, Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
  • H.E. Young Hak Kim, Vice Minister, Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea

Session: EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA

  • Rt. Hon Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
  • H.E. Maria van der Hoeven, Minister of Economic Affairs, Kingdom of The Netherlands
  • H.E. Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of Economic Affairs, Finland
  • H.E. Jürgen Becker, State Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Federal Republic of Germany
  • H.E. Walter Steinmann, State Secretary of Energy, Director of Swiss Federal Office of Energy, Switzerland
  • H.E. Ola Alterå, State Secretary, Ministry for Enterprise and Energy, Sweden
  • Hon. Ed Stelmach, Premier, Alberta, Canada

16:00 End of Plenary Forum 1

 
16:00-16:30   Refreshments – sponsored by ExxonMobil
16:30-18:00
Plenary Forum 2: World Future Energy Industry: Challenges and Solutions
16:35 Introduction from Chair: Richard Banks, CEO, R M Banks & Co

16:40 Achieving the unachievable: around the world in a solar plane Bertrand Piccard, President & Pilot, Solar Impulse

16:55-18:00 Panelists statements and discussion

  • Prof. Eicke Weber, Director Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
  • Katrina Landis, Group Vice President, BP Alternative Energy
  • Tom Curtis, Global Co-Head of DB Climate Change Advisors
  • Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of the Energy Sector and Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG
  • Peter Gutman, Global Head, Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
  • Frank Mastiaux, Chief Executive, E.ON Climate & Renewables
  • Duncan Hedditch, Chief Executive, EMAL
  • Mete Maltepe, Global Commercial Leader, Wind Energy, GE Energy
  • Tatsuhiko Yasukochi, General Manager Energy, Development Bank of Japan

18:00 End of Plenary Forum 2

 



 

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