Strategic Conference

The Strategic Conference will offer valuable insights into practical strategies and business models aimed at addressing rising global energy demands. It will focus on delivering low carbon energy solutions and building a sustainable, affordable, and reliable global energy system.

The conference will explore the critical role of natural gas and LNG in ensuring energy security and flexibility, the transformative power of climate technologies and AI, and the potential of hydrogen as a low carbon fuel. By balancing ambitious climate goals with real-world strategies, it aims to address the pressing need for energy security amidst rising global energy demand.

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Unparalleled thought leadership

The Strategic Conference, consisting of four unique programmes; Strategic Leadership, AI::Energy, Climatetech, and Hydrogen, will shape the future of global energy. Featuring 1,000 high-profile speakers from government ministers and C-suite executives to policymakers, and innovators. Delegates will gain firsthand insight from the influential voices shaping the future of global energy policy, innovation, and business strategy.

Strategic Agenda

The global energy industry is undergoing a radical transformation as it strives to meet the dual pressures of energy security and decarbonisation goals. Natural gas and LNG remain indispensable to this transformation, providing the flexibility and stability needed to integrate renewable energy sources and meet growing demand. At the same time, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels are emerging as key solutions for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, complementing the role of natural gas in advancing a sustainable energy future.

Meanwhile, generative artificial intelligence technologies are set to reshape the industry. They will bring efficiencies, new ways of working and change business models. The growing power demand from data centres will drive sector growth. This will require accelerated power infrastructure upgrades. In addition, climate technologies, like CCUS, DAC, energy storage, and methane abatement,

offer new opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce emissions along the value chain. Achieving meaningful progress on energy security and resilience needs coordinated action to overcome challenges related to infrastructure, regulation, and the need to drive economic progress through equitable access to energy across the globe.

The conference will bring together the world’s energy leaders, visionary policymakers, pioneering innovators, and strategic investors, to build the alliances necessary to chart a united path towards a resilient, low-carbon energy future. As the industry navigates an era of unprecedented transformation, enabling energy industry stakeholders to address the pressing challenges and seize the exciting opportunities of the new energy landscape.

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Strategic Conference Programmes

Strategic Leadership

AI::Energy

Hydrogen

Climatetech

Gastech In Houston Stategic Leadership Panel

Strategic Leadership

The Strategic Leadership Programme will play a pivotal role in shaping the global energy agenda by driving secure, affordable, and low carbon energy solutions. It will focus on unlocking new markets for natural gas and LNG, expanding energy access to empower communities, and fostering economic development worldwide.

Through high-level discussions, the programme will bring together policymakers, energy industry CEOs, major consumers, financiers, technologists, and NGO leaders to chart a path toward a more secure, sustainable, and stable energy future.

AI::Energy

The rise in generative artificial intelligence technology is transforming all areas of society. It is reshaping traditional energy business models and increasing power demand rapidly.

New cost models promise to make AI more accessible and encourage progress towards transition goals. Gastech will bring together the leading stakeholders at the forefront of AI to explore its impact on the global energy sector and wider society.

Hydrogen

The Strategic Hydrogen programme will bring together leading energy industry players to discuss the challenges and opportunities of hydrogen systems.

The programme will explore how stakeholders across the value chain can collaborate to overcome safety and infrastructure issues, and develop consistent regional and national policies that support hydrogen market development, and achieve commercial viability by securing investments and off-taker agreements.

Climatetech

The Strategic Climatetech programme will bring together energy leaders, policy experts, investors, and innovators to explore cutting-edge strategies and technologies for reducing, measuring, and mitigating emissions. The programme will offer key insights into unlocking commercial potential in the evolving climate technology landscape, covering topics from CCUS and DAC to breakthrough investments and scaling solutions.

Gastech Strategic Themes

To power a sustainable energy future, the Strategic Conference will address the following themes:

Natural Gas & LNG: Amplifying the role of natural gas in delivering reliable, sustainable lower carbon energy

Natural gas and LNG offer a robust, lower-carbon and flexible source of energy that complements the intermittencies of renewables, supports a swift switch away from coal-fired power markets and acts as a stabilising force to mitigate the risks associated with a disorderly energy transition. Gastech will champion the ascendency of gas as a vital enabler of decarbonisation, bringing industry leaders together to advance the industry’s growth through new projects and markets.

Global Energy Economy: Capitalising on growth opportunities created by a transitioning global energy economy

Geopolitical changes show the need to balance short-term energy security with long-term decarbonisation. They also highlight the opportunity to improve energy access for the 18% of the world’s population still lacking it. This shift offers great potential for project development in the Global South. Gastech will gather global leaders to explore and promote growth in this time of change.

Artificial Intelligence: Optimising energy transformation through innovation

The rise in generative artificial intelligence technology is transforming all areas of society. It is reshaping traditional energy business models and increasing power demand rapidly. New cost models promise to make AI more accessible and encourage progress towards transition goals. Gastech will bring together the leading stakeholders at the forefront of AI to explore its impact on the global energy sector and wider society.

Finance & Investment: Mobilising and restructuring finance models to fast-track a next-generation global energy system

The cost of achieving Net Zero Scenario by 2050 is estimated at US $5tn annually. Most of this investment is needed in the Global South to meet growing energy needs. However, today’s investment levels are far below this target. Gastech will connect key project leaders with financiers and investors to align on the innovative funding mechanisms that will effectively channel capital to drive economic development and decarbonisation goals.

Partnerships & Collaboration: Uniting cross-sector and cross-border partnerships to advance a new, integrated energy ecosystem.

Collaboration between governments, the private sector, and industry is crucial for energy security, affordability, and sustainability in the new energy ecosystem. Effective decarbonisation will depend on strong industry partnerships that leverage collective expertise and experience that help turn breakthrough innovations into commercially viable solutions and drive progress toward net-zero goals.

Climate Technologies: Decarbonising the energy value chain with advanced climate technologies

The global climate technology market is expected to reach US $149.2bn by 2032, driven by the growing need to develop and deploy the tools that reduce greenhouse gas emissions at scale across the energy value chain. Gastech will help stakeholders align on ways to accelerate market maturity in sectors such as CCUS, DAC, nuclear and energy efficiency technologies; all of which are crucial in tackling global emissions’ challenges.

Hydrogen & Low Carbon Fuels: Unleashing the transformative power of hydrogen and low carbon fuels

Hydrogen and low carbon fuels like biomethane, are emerging as vital enablers of industrial decarbonisation, driven by supportive funding and policy mechanisms that are increasing the number of new low carbon fuel projects reaching FID.

At Gastech key industry stakeholders will explore new routes to creating cost-competitive markets for adoption of hydrogen and low carbon fuels in the global energy system.

Session Formats

Ministerial Panels

Ministers and policymakers from the world’s leading economies will share their insights on geopolitics, economic priorities, energy security, and national roadmaps to net zero.

Executive Leadership Panels

CEOs and industry leaders across the energy value chain explore corporate strategies to harness the growth opportunity natural gas provides, along with the rapid deployment of climate technologies, to transform energy systems, advance the new industrial age and provide clean, affordable energy to all.

Onstage interview

Inspirational insights and practical strategies will be shared by keynote speakers who articulate their vision for achieving net zero goals.

Energy Talks

Convening leading minds and personalities from the global energy sector, policy, AI and adjacent industries in a series of short form interviews with noted broadcasters and industry analysts. The talks provide unique insights from the leaders at the vanguard of the global energy ecosystem transformation.

Strategic Dialogues

A dedicated series of discussions for senior industry practitioners in natural gas and LNG to exchange insights on operational challenges and strategic solutions.

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Unparalleled thought leadership

H.E. Adolfo Urso

Secretary Doug Burgum

Eng. Karim Badawi

H.E. Hayyan Abdul Ghani Al-Sawad

H.E. Mohamed Ould Khaled

H.E. Dr. Khalifa Rajab Abdulsadek

H.E. Péter Szijjártó

H.E. Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo

Hon. George Papanastasiou

H.E. Joseph Saddi

H.E. Dr. Fatih Birol

H.E. Jassim AlShirawi

H.E. Mohamed Hamel

H.E. Osama Mobarez

Commissioner Lindsay See

Guido Guidesi

Wael Sawan

Patrick Pouyanné

Claudio Descalzi

Horacio Marín

Jack Fusco

Egbert Laege

Dr. Kongkrapan Intarajang

Musabbeh Al Kaabi

Michael Lewis

Lorenzo Simonelli

Takayuki Ueda

Dr. Narin Phoawanich

Hamed Al Naamany

H.E. Tarek El Molla

Peter Clarke

Dr. Harald Link

Fatema Al Nuaimi

Joseph McMonigle

Guido Brusco

Dr. Philip Mshelbila

Freeman Shaheen

Russell Hardy

Richard Holtum

Olli Sipilä

Akshay Kumar Singh

Matt Schatzman

Leye Falade

Maria Rita Galli

Marco Alverà

Yumiko Yao

Andrew Barry

Adif Zulkifli

De La Rey Venter

Arnaud Pieton

Dr. Pratima Rangarajan

Alessandro Puliti

Cederic Cremers

Ryosuke Tsugaru

Carsten Poppinga

Hitoshi (Toshi) Nishizawa

Engr. Farouk Ahmed

Engr. Giorgio Graditi

Manuel Coxe

Brendan Duval

Christina Verchere

Ahmed El-Hoshy

Alessandro Bernini

Ahmed Hayat Lak

Michèle Azalbert

Jane Liao

Jonathan Westby

Cristian Signoretto

Harmen Dekker

Alessandra Pasini