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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

 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.