2022 Speakers

Jogchum Bruinsma
Chief Commercial Officer | Nedstack

Alexander Olowinsky
Head of Department | Fraunhofer ILT

Marc Gomperts
Director Business Development | FEV Group

Florian Michl
Senior Expert Power Systems & Plant Performance | TÜV SÜD

Thomas Kurt Schaefer
Business Development, Sales & Marketing | The Linde Group

Hans Ladum-Poulsen
Senior Director, ClimateBright Technologies | Senior Director, ClimateBright Technologies

Pascal Louvet
Country Manager Sales Germany | Lhyfe GmbH

Manuel Simm
Regional Sales Manager | Mannesmann Line Pipe GmbH

Jakob Petutschnig
Policy Manager for Zero-Carbon Fuels | Clean Air Task Force

Andrea Calderaro
CCUS Platform Leader | Baker Hughes

Eng. Anas Aljaidi
CEO | MMEC Mannesmann LLC and ADHEP Representative

Dr Olaf Conrad
CTO Manufacturing and Engineering | Pajarito Powder

Dr. Marcin Karas
Vice President Global Sales & Solutions Hydrogen | Kelvion Thermal Solutions

Roy Niekerk
Director Global Sales & Solutions Hydrogen | Kelvion Thermal Solutions

Sebastian Böse
Process Industry Management | Beckhoff Automation

Christian Maaß
Head of Department II - Heating, Hydrogen and Efficiency | Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Torbjørg Klara Fossum
VP Global CCS, Low Carbon Solutions | Equinor

Cecilia Teruggi
Director of Decarbonisation Policies in Europe | GE Gas Power

Andreas Möller
Commercial Manager for BlueHyNow & CO2nnectNow Projects | Wintershall Dea

Eric Snelling
Principal Environmental Planner | Stantec

Anton Waechter
Development Engineer | Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center

Gianluca Di Federico
CCUS Demand Generation Leader | Baker Hughes

Dr Karl-Peter Thelen
Head of Public Affairs and Communications | ENERGY HUB Port of Wilhelmshaven

Max Schaller
Senior Manager, Business Development | Sunfire

Till Mansmann
Innovation Commissioner for Green Hydrogen | German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Kathryn Boyd
Country Director & Deputy Trade Commissioner | Department for International Trade (DIT), UK

Roel van de Pas
Vice President Strategy & Industrialization | Nedstack

Bernd Friedrichs
Engineer- Test and Automation | Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center

Umesh Mandlekar
Director, CCUS | Siemens AG, Large Drive Applications

Dr. Hakan Koç
Vice President | Siemens AG, Large Drive Applications

Jan Rispens
Managing Director | Energy Hamburg Cluster (EEHH - Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg Clusteragentur GmbH

Dr. -Ing. Sabrina Zellmer
Head of Department | Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST

Laura Droste
Expert for Hydrogen and Synthetic Energy Carriers | German Energy Agency

Pieter de Jong
Program Manager Offshore Hydrogen RWE Renewables | RWE Renewables

Dr. Geert Tjarks
Head of Stakeholder Management, Business Unit Hydrogen | EWE AG

Guido Schwartz
Senior Strategy & Business Development Lead #EcoMaT | Airbus Group

Anna Jabloniec-Grüger
Head of Business Development and Sales | Tractebel Engie

Matthias Kötter
Head of Sales at Wystrach | Hexagon Purus

Christian Altenhofen
European Application Lead for Fuel Cell Applications | Gamma Technologies

Pieter Verberne
Chief Technology Officer | Carbonoro

Christina Martavaltzi
Advisory Services Lead | Technology Centre Mongstad

Paolo Novelli
Energy Transition OCTG Projects Director | Tenaris

Dr. Lisa Belkhichane
A&D Industry Sustainability Value Expert | Dassault Systèmes

Marcus Scholz
Director, Advanced Combined Cycles | General Electric International Inc.

Jörg Engelmann
CEO and Chairman | CAC Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH

Bernd Reiter
Lead Engineer SOFC System Architecture | AVL

Gert Hartmans
Operations Research Consultant | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,

Priyan Mistry
Business Development Manager, Hydrogen Technologies | Johnson Matthey

Matt Nasehi
Manager of Operations | Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Canada

Arne Müller
Project Manager CCS Forum | Bellona Deutschland gGmbH

Hans Wassenaar
Senior Project Manager | AVR Afvalverwerking B.V

Brigitte Jacobs
Business Development Manager Energy Transition | TNO

Steven Oji
Managing Director & Co-Founder | Hyfindr GmbH

D. Ryan Williams
Manager – SI Engine R&D | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Dr. Jessica Lück
Head of AIP-Development | thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH

Daniella Carneiro
Business Specialist for Hydrogen and CCUS | Department for International Trade (DIT), UK

Charles Cooke
Sustainable Energy Technology Lead | TTP plc

Dr. David Hodgson
Managing Director | TFP Hydrogen Products Ltd

Dr. Mardit Matian
Founder | EH Group Engineering AG

Viktor Lenz
Team Lead Power System Studies | ABB AS

Richard Surprenant
Carbon Capture Solutions Business Development Manager | Saipem

Denis Thomas
Global Business Development Leader - Electrolyzers | Cummins Inc

Yvonne Lam
Vice President & Head of CCUS Research | Rystad Energy

Achim Heiming
Sales Manager Energy Division | Alfa Laval

Osama Zaalouk
Business Development Manager, CCUS | Alfa Laval

Jan Theulen
Group Lead CCUS Head Technologies & Partnerships | HeidelbergCement AG

Endre Stavseng
Head of Commercial Execution | Aker Carbon Capture

Prof. Graham Weale
Professor for Energy Economics and Policy | Ruhr University Bochum

Timothy Byrne
Vice President ClimateBright Technologies | Babcock & Wilcox

Thorsten Herbert
Director Market Development and Public Affairs | Nel ASA

Peter Basche
Task Force Lead CCU/S | E.ON Energy Projects

John Meier
Director | ClimateBright Technologies, Babcock & Wilcox

Misha Valk
Head of Capacity Development Europe | SkyNRG

Ron van Manen
Head Of Strategic Development | Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking

Anil Kalyanpur
Hydrogen Business Developer | Storengy - Engie

Dr. Korneel De Rudder
Senior Principal Innovator | Donaldson

Dr. Andreas Bodén
Senior Vice President, Strategic Sales | Powercell Sweden AB

Dr. Michael Overs
Key Account Manager Oil, Gas & Chemical Processing | AkzoNobel

Alexander Kotschi
Country Market Director Germany - Energy | Ramboll

Matteo Micheli
Senior Expert - Hydrogen and Power-to-X | German Energy Agency - dena

Michael Wuennemann
General Manager Business Line technology | Tractebel Engie

Dr. Alexander Bedrunka
Hydrogen Expert | Climate Protection and Energy Agency Niedersachsen GmbH

Alar Saluste
Member of the Management Board | Ragnsells - OSA Service

Dr. Alexander Dyck
Head of Department - Urban and Building Technologies | DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems

Nour Koronful
Geoscience & Exploration Senior Geoscientist Digital & Integration DSS – Geosolutions | Schlumberger GmbH

David Thackray
Marketing Director | Tevva Electric & Hydrogen Trucks
David Thackray has a deep knowledge of, and network within the logistics fleet sector in UK and overseas from more than 30 years operational and consulting experience. He is an internationally recognised speaker on fleet electrification and transport decarbonisation. David is an active member of the Transport Decarbonisation Alliance.
Tevva is a British electric and hydrogen truck pioneer. Tevva designs and manufactures zero-emission medium to heavy duty trucks with a revolutionary combination of battery electric and hydrogen fuel-cell range extender technology. Tevva trucks are built to revitalize urban freight and logistics, optimising range, cost, driver experience, and environmental impact. Tevva trucks are already on the road and have accrued hundreds of thousands of miles in customer hands.
As a purpose-led technology company, we do technology because it matters and makes a difference to humanity. Our third-generation truck was unveiled in September 2021 to enable freight operators to immediately decarbonize their fleets.

Devin Shaw
Commercial Director, CO2 Capture & CCS Biofuels | Shell Catalysts & Technologies

Julie Cranga
VP Business Development CO2 Management | Technip Energies

Stephan Laistner
Senior Business Development Manager | SFC Energy AG

John Harley
Senior Process Technology Director | Fluor
John Harley, Senior Director‐ process technology, a thought leader, who has been instrumental in assisting many companies around all geographic regions, in formulating sound strategy at a conceptual stage.

Amer Gaffar
Director | Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre

Dr. Guillaume Petitpas PhD
Senior R&D Engineer - LH2 specialist | Air Liquide

Dr. Joachim Hoffmann
Senior Product Manager | Siemens Energy

Onur Serin
Market Manager Emerging Markets – CCUS/Hydrogen | Atlas Copco Gas and Process

Andrew Patton
Principal Process Engineer | Fluor
Andrew Patton is a Principal Process Engineer at Fluor with 18 years’ experience covering all project phases from conceptual studies through to commissioning, predominantly in the field of gas processing and treatment. He currently works in Fluor’s Econamine FG PlusSM technology group, developing solutions to help clients achieve their net-zero goals through the implementation of post-combustion CO2 capture. He is also recognised as a Fluor SME in gas dehydration

Michael Baerends
Process Director | Fluor
Michiel Baerends is a Process Director at Fluor’s Amsterdam office in the Netherlands and a Senior Fellow at Fluor. Mr. Baerends has been active in refinery and gas processing projects from concept studies to start-up support, with an emphasis on front-end study and basic engineering work. His experience covers the great majority of refining processes, as well as sulfur recovery and gas treating. The latter also covers his involvement with Fluor’s Econamine FG+SM technology for post-combustion, and Fluor SolventSM technology for pre-combustion carbon capture. Although based in the Netherlands. Mr. Baerends has worked out of several Fluor offices around the world, including California, South Africa, UK and Abu Dhabi. His hobbies include military history (from the 1470s onwards) and collecting ship models.

Tim Byrne
Vice President, ClimateBright | Babcock & Wilcox

Peter Adam
Head of Sustainable and Hydrogen Business Development | Siemens Energy

Anders Nimgaard Schultz
Director, Power-to-X & Gas infrastructure | Ramboll

Dr. Markus Oles
Head of Carbon2Chem | thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG

Johannes Daum
Head of Division Hydrogen, Alternative Fuels and Fuel Cells | NOW GmbH
Johannes Daum has been working for the NOW National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology GmbH in Berlin since January 2016, in different positions. Since November of 2021 he is Head of Division Hydrogen, Alternative Fuels and Fuel Cells.
Prior to that, Mr. Daum worked from 2008 until the end of 2015 as a Policy Adviser for the Association of the German Biofuel Industry in Berlin. Previous activities for the German Renewable Energy Association and the ifeu Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology have laid the foundation for his involvement in the field of renewable energies. During his studies of chemical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, which ended in 2007 with a degree in engineering Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Mr. Daum specialized in environmental technologies and renewable energies.

Tim Ballai
Senior Offering Manager, Blue Hydrogen | Honeywell UOP
Tim received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and his Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has worked for Honeywell for over 10 years in various roles in catalyst manufacturing, project management, process engineering, and product management. He currently works at the Honeywell UOP headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois in the United States as the Senior Product Manager for Carbon Capture and Hydrogen technologies, and he lives nearby in the city of Chicago.

Grete Tveit
Senior Vice President Low Carbon Solutions | Equinor
Grete Tveit has more than 30 years’ experience from the oil and gas industry. After graduating from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, she started working for Hydro and then later Statoil/Equinor. She has held several management positions within the company, incl. SVP for Global Strategy Business Development – Finance & Control, and Head of Staff in London before going into Business Development. From 2014 she was head of the valuation team within Global Strategy Business Development, and later head of the Project Support and Execution Team. From autumn 2016 to autumn 2017 Grete was acting SVP of Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments in Global Strategy Business Development, and then she went back to her position as SVP in Project Support and Execution from autumn 2017 to end March 2020. From April 1st she was appointed as SVP for Marketing, Midstream and Processing – Low Carbon Solutions.

Lorenz Beck
Research Associate | Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES)
Lorenz is a research associate at Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems since 2022. He received a Master Degree in Production Engineering at the University of Bremen. With his experiences in the offshore wind industry and electrolysis at system scale he investigates on the optimization of green hydrogen production.

Roel van Benthem
Lead R&D Engineer Hydrogen Systems | Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre

Dr. Clemens Patzschke
Project Manager R&D | EnBW AG
After working in natural gas production for ExxonMobil, Clemens joint the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London for a doctorate and post-doctorate programme, where he underwent research on CO2-capture, power-to-gas, and molten salt methane pyrolysis for CO2-free H2-production. In 2020, he joint EnBW’s R&D department where he leads projects on ammonia-to-power and ammonia-to-H2. Furthermore, he is a managing director of the Bruchsal Kalina cycle power plant, which utilises ammonia as the power fluid.

Christian Herwerth
Technology Expert & Computational Mechanical Engineer | Linde

Leigh Deissenroth
Senior Engineer | Powertrain System Development | FIE & Fuels | Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center

Lis Blume
Communications | Hydrogen Network of Lower Saxony

Rohit Prasad
Senior Sales Manager Hydrogen Solutions | Rolls-Royce Solutions

Dr Nurettin Tekin
Hydrogen Product Manager | Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe

Mohamed A.Elreheem
Engineering & Technology Manager | Aramco Overseas Company B.V

Richard Dubettier
Cryogenic Technology Director | Air Liquide Engineering & Construction

Ling Dou
Green Hydrogen Sub-segment Leader | Schneider Electric

Adamo Screnci
Deputy CEO | Hydrogen Refueling Solutions

Patrick Reich
Head of Industry Management | Zeltwanger

Klaus Payrhuber
Strategic Product Development Manager | Innio Jenbacher

Dr. Reihaneh Zohourian
Project Manager R&D | H2 | EnBW AG
Dr Reihaneh Zohourian leads the hydrogen research activities of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg, primarily with a focus on hydrogen generation. Together with her team, she tracks down new hydrogen technologies and tests their feasibility in form of pilot and demonstration projects. Examples are the projects Living lab “H2-Wyhlen” (Hydrogen production with electrolysis) and “H2MARE” (Offshore hydrogen production). She studied electrical engineering and specialized in hydrogen technologies, especially fuel cells and electrolysers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart with a PhD and work at EnBW since 2019.

Alan Haigh
Senior Expert, Research and Innovation - Horizon Europe | European Commission

Hans-Christian Früh
Head of Business Unit | VOSS Fluid

Dr Hermann Uchtmann
New Business Development E-Mobility | Schuler Group

Luc Graré
Head of International Business | Lhyfe GmbH

Gerardo Muñoz
Product Marketing Manager | AspenTech
Gerardo Muñoz is Product Marketing Manager at AspenTech. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico and a master’s degree in sustainable chemical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He joined AspenTech in 2010 and is currently responsible for marketing AspenTech’s engineering products for the Chemicals Industry and driving the go-to-market strategy for AspenTech solutions on sustainability. He is also leading the strategy on AspenTech’s digital solutions for CCUS. He has experience in different process industries including oil & gas, chemicals, pulp & paper and cement.

Rüdiger Schweiss
Head of Research and Development Fuel Cell Components | SGL Carbon
Rüdiger Schweiss is head of research and development Fuel Cell Components at SGL Carbon. He has more than 20 years of experience in electrochemical material science and engineering ranging from electrochemical sensors, redox flow batteries to PEM fuel cells and related applications. He is a member of the German Chemical Society (Applied Electrochemistry Division), the ECS and the editorial board of C (Journal of Carbon Research). He holds a chemistry degree from the University of Regensburg (1997) and a Ph.D. from TU Dresden (2003).

Sam Bartlett
Higher Research Scientist | National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Prof Andreas K. Friedrich
Head of Department Electrochemical Energy Technology | DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics

Jens Conrad
Business Development Manager Deutschland | Everfuel

Daniel Mercer
Head of Business Development | Storengy - ENGIE

Ulf Joergensen
Chief Executive Officer | H2 Core Systems GmbH

Dirk Bauerkämper
Head of Market Management New Energy | Weidmüller Interface

Inbal Kan-Tor
Head of CCUS Business | Airovation Technologies

Dr. Gunther Kolb
Head of Division Energy | Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems

Prof. Dr. Christian Mohrdieck
Chief Commercial Officer | cellcentric

Sean Crespin
Head of Strategy and Marketing for Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Business | HORIBA

Rolf Schicke
Project Manager Hydrogen Systems | Eura AG

Callum Milne
Project Manager | Net Zero Technology Centre
Callum Milne is an Engineer, Mechanical but also cross disciplined. Over 36 years in the oil and gas industry – from apprentice Mechanical Fitter to Senior Project Manager – including 23 years overseas experience. Callum is an international Project Manager and has managed onshore and offshore greenfield and brownfield oil and gas facilities projects up to $100M. He has also held a range of positions in Mega projects up to $700M. Projects facilities include FPSO, Spars, topsides, pipelines, compression projects, in addition, specific expertise in installation, hook-up and commissioning. He has also been involved in engineering studies from concept, FEED through to detailed engineering, and on site construction engineering or hook-up support.
Callum’s experience with variety of facilities, compression and pipelines, along with project management, are well placed for the Hydrogen Backbone Link Project, to bring out the best technical options, as well as management of project specific requirements, targets and expectations.

Dr Hamish Nichol
Energy Sector Lead | Reaction Engines

Santiago Bresani
Mechanical Engineer | Nuvera Fuel Cells

Marc Gurau, Ph. D
Application Development Engineering Manager II, Hydrogen Economy Venture | The Chemours Company

Bruno Gerrits
Senior Client Engagement Lead Europe | Global CSS Institute

Chris Slootweg
Associate Professor at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences | University of Amsterdam

Dr. Florian Gehrig
CEO | Aalberts surface technologies

Klaus Skaalum Lassen
Head of Carbon Capture | Novozymes

Dennis Hayter
Vice President, Business Development | Intelligent Energy

Julien Hergott
Powertrain Engineer, Multiphysic System Expert | Faurecia

Franziska Rostan
Process Industry Manager | BECKHOFF Automation

Dr. Cedric Rouaud
Director of Fuel Cell Systems | Bramble Energy

Roberto Diesel
Vice President Energy System and Drivetrain | EDAG

Timo Eich
Business Development Manager | CSM Computer-Systeme-Messtechnik

Dr. Herbert Gabriel
Managing Director | PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik

Gloria Puliga
Researcher | Liuc University of Castellanza

Christoph Erdmann
Vice President On-site | Messer Group

Thomas Kuschel
Head of Sales Fuel Cell Assembly & Testing | thyssenkrupp

Kristina Vogt
Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Europe | Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Tom Phillips
Product Engineering Manager | PDC Machines

Thorsten Harder
Product Manager | Burckhardt Compression

Rupert Stevens
Power Assembly Product Group Manager | Dynex

Fabian Kapp
Managing Director | Graebener Bipolar Plate Technologies

Salah Mahdy
Global Director for the Hydrogen Market | Howden

Bart de Vries
Business Development & Sales Manager | VONK

Daniel Steitz
Founder & Chief Innovation Officer | novoMOF AG
Daniel is founder and Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of novoMOF AG. He holds a master degree in Chemical and Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and has been working in the group of Professor Jeroen A. van Bokhoven. Before incorporating novoMOF AG, Daniel worked at the Paul Scherrer Institute on metal-organic frameworks under the supervision of Dr. Marco Ranocchiari. Since February 2017, Daniel has been in charge of managing the PSI-spinoff.

Jim Gregory
European Alternative Fuel Business Development Manager, | Luxfer Gas Cylinders

Thimo Bielsky
Research Associate, Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering | Hamburg University of Technology

Hiroyuki Takai
Deputy Manager | JFE Steel Corporation Chita Works, Japan

Massimo Pardocchi
Global Development Director Projects & Key Account Management | Bilfinger

Gianluca Di Federico
CCUS Demand Generation Leader | Baker Hughes

Thorsten Karla
Sales Manager | Hauzer Techno Coating B.V.
Having a background in business and finance Thorsten Karla, born in Germany, has been active in international sales of technical products and services for more than 25 years.
His track record shows significant experience in training and supervising sales staff while planning and implementing sales strategies over multi-state territories.
For the last years, Thorsten Karla was responsible for the strategic co-operation with large OEM and 1st tier supplier on a Global or European scale. These multinationals were active in the field of autonomous driving / e-mobility, medical equipment, food process and packaging as well as defense.
Since March 1st 2022 he is managing the sales activities of Hauzer’s new business department.