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Energy addition, security and sovereignty in geopolitically uncertain times
The global energy economy is being reshaped by rising demand, geopolitical disruption and a renewed focus on resilience. As supply chains shift and alliances evolve, scaling energy supply has become critical. Gastech convenes global leaders to explore how diversified supply, resilient infrastructure and pragmatic policy frameworks can strengthen system stability, while markets, trade flows and partnerships adapt to meet demand and ensure energy remains accessible and affordable.
Monday, 14 September | 10:00 - 11:00Strategic Leadership
The energy reset: Who controls power in the new global order?
Power demand is surging while supply chains fracture and infrastructure become strategic. Governments are rethinking how energy is built, secured and financed as geopolitical shocks expose fragile markets. Hard choices loom between sovereignty, cost and decarbonisation: coal, renewables, or flexible LNG. As electrification, industry and urban growth accelerate, natural gas and LNG remain essential, delivering reliable baseload power and anchoring a resilient, diversified energy system.Audience i... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 11:30 - 12:15Hydrogen Strategic
Unlocking the unrealised potential for hydrogen in a diverse energy mix
The hydrogen sector is recalibrating as early optimism gives way to natural attrition and a pragmatic reassessment of market realities. Yet the sector’s underlying momentum remains significant, with US $110bn in committed investment worldwide, and investment growing by more than 50% each year during the past five years.With natural gas and LNG still essential to the energy mix, hydrogen’s credibility will hinge on proven use cases and clear commercial viability. Progressing projects from ambitio... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:00 - 12:20Strategic Leadership
Hardening the grid: Protecting critical energy infrastructure in a contested world
As geopolitical tensions and hybrid threats intensify, energy infrastructure is increasingly exposed to physical attack, cyber intrusion and strategic sabotage. From pipelines and LNG terminals to grids and control systems, resilience is now a matter of national and economic security. Military, government and energy leaders are aligning to anticipate, deter and respond to multi-domain threats while maintaining continuity of supply. This includes infrastructure hardening, real-time monitorin... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:00 - 12:45Low Carbon Solutions Strategic
On track or off course? Navigating the path towards lower carbon energy systems
Energy transformation is entering a decisive phase. Global demand is surging and clean energy investment is approaching US $2tn annually, yet fossil fuels still supply over 80% of primary energy [IEA] and emissions reductions remain off track. Geopolitical pressures are shifting the focus from speed to durability and security, with pace and pathways diverging across regions. Lower carbon capacity is expanding, but system integration is lagging. Grid bottlenecks, gaps in firm capacity and outdate... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:15 - 01:00Supply Chain & Procurement
Resilience as strategy: Redesigning global supply chains for a fragmented world
Global energy supply chains, long optimised for efficiency and cost, are being reshaped by geopolitical fragmentation, from expanded sanctions and export controls to tariff escalation. Disruption is now structural, not episodic, demanding long-term adaptation over short-term mitigation. Resilience is emerging as a core design principle, with supply chain leadership increasingly positioned as a strategic function. Companies are reassessing geographic concentration, supplier dependencies and sourc... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:00 - 12:45Strategic Leadership
Demand surge, system strain: Asia’s energy stress test
Emerging Asia is at the centre of surging energy demand, with growth driven by industrialisation, digitalisation and rising populations. Power systems are under strain from infrastructure gaps and fuel risks. The priority is securing reliable, affordable electricity. Gas and LNG are critical for grid stability, supply diversification and industrial growth, especially where alternatives fall short. Progress hinges on market reform, transparent pricing, stronger utility finances and deeper region... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:15 - 01:00Hydrogen Strategic
Policy for progress: The role of regulation in increasing hydrogen use
Regulatory uncertainty and a lack of secure investment and offtake remain critical barriers to hydrogen market development. Project developers often face a circular challenge: financiers hesitate to invest without clear demand signals, whilst potential buyers are reluctant to commit before seeing demonstrable project success.Targeted policy intervention can break this cycle. Across the EU, USA, Japan, and South Korea, coordinated action could unlock up to 8mtpa of clean hydrogen demand by 2030 [... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:40 - 01:00Strategic Leadership
Recalibrating cross-border LNG investments to anchor regional stability
As Middle East conflict reshapes energy markets, gas flows are fragmenting and risk is being repriced. LNG investment is shifting from volume growth to regional resilience and stability. Cross-border projects are being redesigned to share infrastructure, align regulation and distribute risk. Floating assets, modular terminals, and integrated pipelines, storage and shipping networks are enabling systems that can flex as trade routes shift. Governments, NOCs and private capit... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:15 - 02:45Strategic Leadership
The grid under siege: Defending power in an age of conflict
As geopolitical tensions and hybrid threats intensify, energy infrastructure is increasingly exposed to physical attack, cyber intrusion and strategic sabotage. From pipelines and LNG terminals to grids and control systems, resilience is now a matter of national and economic security. Military, government and energy leaders are aligning to anticipate, deter and respond to multi-domain threats while maintaining continuity of supply. This includes infrastructure hardening, real-time monitori... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:00 - 02:20Strategic Leadership
Building the next industrial age: Energy, geopolitics and national ambition
Energy systems are increasingly linked to industrial policy and geopolitical positioning. Governments are integrating energy considerations into strategies aimed at supply chain resilience, domestic production and economic development. These approaches vary across regions, reflecting different resource endowments, policy priorities and geopolitical contexts. Energy choices influence industrial competitiveness, trade relationships and exposure to external risk. At the same time, governments face ... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:20 - 02:40Strategic Leadership
From volatility to vision: Building markets that reward stability and innovation
With geopolitical conflict amplifying disruption, energy markets are moving beyond cycles of volatility into a more structurally fragmented phase. Price signals are increasingly shaped by security concerns, supply realignment and shifting trade routes, challenging traditional investment models. For producers, consumers and investors, stability now depends on clearer long-term signals, coordinated policy frameworks and stronger producer–consumer alignment. Market structures are under pressur... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:40 - 03:00Strategic Leadership
The great inventory: Minerals, molecules and the race to secure the building blocks of the future
The transformation of the global energy system is reshaping demand for critical minerals, hydrocarbons and emerging fuels. Resource access is increasingly being treated as a strategic asset, influencing foreign policy, trade relationships and industrial policy. Governments and companies are reassessing supply chains in response to geopolitical risk, technology pathways and strategic competition. Resource concentration, processing capacity, infrastructure bottlenecks and trade dependencies are sh... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:45 - 03:30Strategic Leadership
Keeping gas competitive: Navigating fragility at the heart of global gas markets
Natural gas is entering a more complex era. Hopes of prolonged LNG oversupply have faded, replaced by tighter markets, price volatility and fierce competition for cargoes, especially in Asia. High prices are slowing demand in sensitive economies, raising risks of fuel switching and long-term demand loss as power, industry and data centres seek alternatives. Keeping gas competitive will require flexible supply, strategic storage and coordinated approaches, echoing oil stockpiling, to manage volat... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 03:00 - 04:00Supply Chain & Procurement
The execution gap: Securing contractors, capacity and critical minerals in a constrained global market
Investment momentum across LNG, gas and wider energy infrastructure is colliding with finite execution capacity. Constrained EPC bandwidth, skilled labour shortages and extended equipment lead times are dictating project sequencing, with access to delivery slots now as competitive as access to capital. These pressures are structural, driven by simultaneous demand across sectors, an ageing workforce and manufacturing concentration that cannot scale at the pace investment requires. Tightening expo... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 03:40 - 04:00Strategic Leadership
The new regulators: Designing energy frameworks for speed, security and transformation
As geopolitical shocks expose system vulnerabilities, regulators are becoming architects of resilience. Frameworks are now judged on their ability to withstand disruption and maintain continuity under stress, not just efficiency or decarbonisation. Permitting, market rules and network regulation are being redesigned to mandate flexibility. Requirements for storage, spare capacity, fuel diversity, demand response and interoperability are helping systems adapt as conditions shift. ... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 04:00 - 04:20Strategic Leadership
Energy policy as economic power: Turning strategy into strength
Energy policy is increasingly being used as an instrument of economic strategy, shaping industrial competitiveness, trade flows and geopolitical influence. Governments are deploying subsidies, fiscal measures, infrastructure planning and trade policy to steer investment and secure strategic advantage. These interventions affect capital allocation, supply chain resilience and long-term market structure across fuels, power and emerging energy technologies. This talk examines how energy policy choi... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 04:40 - 05:00Strategic Leadership
The rising poles: How emerging economies are redrawing global energy gravity
Emerging economies are playing an increasingly influential role in shaping global energy markets. Today, they account for over 60% of global energy demand growth and are expected to drive the majority of new power generation, infrastructure investment and industrial energy use over the coming decades. This shift is altering patterns of trade, capital flows and supply-chain development across fuels, technologies and regions. Trade measures, industrial policy and the increasing use of tariffs are ... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 11:30 - 12:15Low Carbon Solutions Strategic
Democratising high-impact low carbon solutions in emerging markets
Emerging and high-growth economies are expected to account for around 80% of the rise in global electricity demand by 2030 [IEA], driven by energy security needs and industrial expansion. High-impact climate technologies can deliver reliable, affordable power while strengthening long-term economic resilience, yet deployment remains constrained by cost gaps, infrastructure readiness and limited access to concessional capital and risk-sharing mechanisms. The markets with the fastest demand growth ... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 11:30 - 12:15Japan Energy Strategic
Harnessing Japanese energy diplomacy at a global inflection point: Strengthening supply resilience, diversification, and strategic partnerships
As Asia navigates an increasingly complex geopolitical and economic landscape, Japan is redefining the role of energy diplomacy in support of both national energy security and wider regional resilience. Building on the priorities of the 7th Strategic Energy Plan, policymakers are adopting a more integrated approach to supply diversification, economic security, infrastructure development, and cross-border cooperation. As governments and industry confront growing uncertainty across trade routes, s... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 12:15 - 01:00Japan Energy Strategic
Transforming Japan’s energy mix: Diversifying and stabilising a future-ready energy system
Japan’s energy system is undergoing a period of far-reaching structural recalibration. As a major importer and industrial energy consumer, external market shocks in 2026 and longer-term demand growth projections have urgently accelerated the need to redefine Japan’s energy mix – optimising the balance between hydrocarbons, nuclear power, renewables and alternative fuels. A national strategic focus already prioritising supply chain stability is also pivoting sharply towards system-level resi... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 04:15 - 05:00Japan Energy Strategic
Powering Japan’s next industrial boom: Meeting energy demand from data centres, semiconductors and advanced technology manufacturing
Japan is experiencing a major boost in energy-intensive industries, with semiconductor fabrication plants, AI supercomputing centres, EV manufacturing hubs, and precision-materials facilities growing rapidly. Japan’s trajectory as a world-leading high-value manufacturing powerhouse is transforming energy demand patterns and accelerating the need for high-volume, cost-efficient clean power. This industrial expansion is impacting LNG procurement, power purchase agreements, grid planning and corpor... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 03:20 - 03:40Strategic Leadership
The supply chain awakens: Building resilient energy architecture for a volatile era
Energy supply chains are moving from the background to the foreground of strategic decision-making. Recent disruptions have revealed how deeply energy security, affordability and delivery depend on resilient supply architectures. Today, more than 70% of global clean energy manufacturing capacity is concentrated in a small number of countries, while critical minerals supply chains face similar concentration risks. At the same time, global energy trade accounts for roughly one-quarter of total ene... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 03:30 - 04:00Strategic Leadership
The new energy powers: Who will shape the next era of gas supply?
As global energy demand continues to grow and energy security remains a strategic priority, a new generation of producers is emerging alongside established suppliers seeking to expand their role in international markets. From frontier developments and untapped resources to major expansion projects, countries are competing to attract investment, accelerate project delivery and secure their place in the future energy landscape.What separates nations that successfully convert resource potential int... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 10:00 - 11:00Inclusion & Diversity
Securing DEI as a core value for long‑term organisational impact
Diversity – spanning cultural backgrounds, lived experiences, and neurodivergence – strengthens organisational culture and drives the creative, resilient thinking the energy transition demands.As the industry transforms, robust DEI programmes and inclusive cultures are powerful tools for attracting and retaining an emerging generation of value-driven talent. Yet with support for inclusion initiatives waning in some regions, the business case must be actively championed: diverse teams deliver gre... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 11:00 - 12:00Inclusion & Diversity
Exploring real-world applications of policy to build an equitable, future-ready energy workforce
Policy sits at the heart of the energy industry: shaping permitting, market conditions, affordability, and access, with far-reaching consequences for both industry and society.For those seeking tangible impact, policy offers a compelling career pathway. From ministries and NOCs to NGOs, policymakers hold genuine power to shape the industry's future, by diversifying the energy landscape, incentivising inclusive leadership, and enabling broader participation across projects and boards.The essentia... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 11:00 - 11:30Strategic Leadership
Financing energy’s next era: Structuring bankable projects in volatile markets
Global energy investment exceeds $3tn annually, but capital is increasingly selective, favouring resilient, scalable projects with predictable returns. Rising demand and volatility are sharpening scrutiny on contracts, counterparties and regulation.Traditional project finance is under pressure, with cautious lenders, tighter credit and higher construction risk slowing deployment. Key questions remain over what will unlock capital.Financing is evolving, with flexible assets attracting investment ... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 12:00 - 01:00Inclusion & Diversity
Embedding safety and inclusion at the heart of organisational culture
In a high-pressure industry where physical safety is paramount, mental and emotional wellbeing is equally critical. Burnout threatens not only individuals, but operational delivery, safety, and organisational resilience.Supportive workplaces can mitigate these risks, and unlock the creativity and problem-solving the energy transformation demands. Open communication with leadership, strong team culture, and genuine employee safeguarding foster the collaboration and innovation needed to tackle tom... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 11:30 - 12:00Strategic Leadership
Energy in the age of techno-sovereignty
Energy and digital infrastructure are becoming central to national power, reshaping sovereignty and strategic risk. Governments are tightening control over grids, supply chains and systems, while focusing on cyber security and reducing external dependencies.This shift is influencing investment, regulation and international cooperation. Greater control can strengthen resilience, but risks fragmentation and inefficiency. The challenge is balancing national control with the benefits of interconnect... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 02:15 - 03:00Low Carbon Solutions Strategic
The great energy trade-off: Security vs decarbonisation vs growth
Southeast Asia is advancing energy transition strategies while managing rapid demand growth, industrialisation and the need for reliable, affordable supply. Countries are expanding renewables while continuing to depend on existing fuels to maintain system stability and support economic development. Balancing these priorities demands careful sequencing of investment, infrastructure and policy – shaped by grid capacity, financing constraints and exposure to global fuel markets. Pathways are diverg... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 12:45 - 01:15Strategic Leadership
Asia's energy century: Powering growth in a multi-fuel world
Asia sits at the centre of the global energy story. Home to the world's fastest-growing demand centres, the region must balance energy security, affordability and sustainability while navigating geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption and shifting trade flows. LNG remains critical, but power, renewables, hydrogen, carbon management and AI-driven demand are reshaping investment priorities. As Asia's leading energy companies expand their portfolios and influence, what choices will defin... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 04:30 - 05:00Strategic Leadership
Building supply chains that bend without breaking: Geopolitics, trade and the new rules of energy delivery
Global energy supply chains are under strain, with disruptions exposing fragile chokepoints and the speed of geopolitical shocks. Shipping has shifted from logistics to a strategic lever shaping cost, access and delivery.Rising LNG tanker capacity is redefining routing and commercial strategy, influencing flexibility, arbitrage and market liquidity. Meanwhile, trade tensions and industrial policy are reshaping sourcing, making diversification, flexible shipping and closer public-private coordina... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 01:30 - 02:00Strategic Leadership
The price of survival: How much is energy security worth?
Energy security is being redefined by zero tolerance for disruption. Governments are investing in redundancy, reserves and flexibility to ensure continuity, as blackouts and supply shocks become unacceptable.This strengthens resilience but raises costs. Spare capacity, diversification and underused assets can reduce efficiency and strain prices and public finances.As resilience becomes core to system design, the challenge is how much cost economies can absorb, and where limits emerge.Audience in... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 10:45 - 11:30Electrification Strategic
How electrification is reshaping Asia's strategic position
The events of 2026 demonstrated that economies with strong domestic clean power were meaningfully better insulated from supply disruption than those dependent on fossil fuel imports. Drawing on China's strategic model, the IEA's crisis management frameworks, and the live experience of Asian LNG importers, electrification has become a defence policy as much as an energy policy. Across Asia, governments are recalibrating national energy strategies around sovereignty and strategic resilience. How c... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 11:30 - 12:15Global Energy Regulators Forum
By invitation: Regulatory leadership in the APAC century: Shared challenges, divergent paths
Asia accounts for the majority of global energy demand growth, the largest pipeline of new infrastructure investment and some of the most varied regulatory starting points of any region in the world. From the advanced market designs of Northeast Asia and Australia to the rapidly scaling systems of Southeast and South Asia, the region encompasses almost every stage of regulatory development simultaneously. The problems regulators face are broadly shared, but the institutional contexts, resource c... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 12:15 - 01:00Global Energy Regulators Forum
The regulator's new mandate: Independence, industrial policy and the limits of institutional credibility
Energy regulators were built for a specific purpose: fair markets, reliable systems, and protected consumers. That mandate has not disappeared. But it has been joined by something larger and more politically charged: decarbonisation targets, economic competitiveness, industrial strategy and the management of large-scale system transformation.In many jurisdictions, regulators are now operating at the intersection of market oversight and national energy strategy. By September 2026, the pressures b... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 02:00 - 02:45Global Energy Regulators Forum
Energy security after the crisis: Building regulatory frameworks that can absorb the next shock
Recent energy crises forced regulators into emergency mode, intervening to stabilise supply, protect consumers and hold systems together under conditions that existing frameworks were not designed to handle. Those interventions worked, after a fashion. But they also exposed structural gaps that short-term measures could not resolve.As the immediate crisis conditions of the early 2020s recede, there is now sufficient distance to assess what the regulatory response revealed. By autumn 2026, severa... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 02:45 - 03:30Global Energy Regulators Forum
Regulating the dual system: Managing hydrocarbons while building the energy transition
Many energy regulators are now overseeing two systems simultaneously. One must continue delivering affordable and reliable hydrocarbons that underpin industrial activity, power generation and energy security. The other requires rapid investment in new infrastructure, low-carbon technologies and emerging energy markets. The challenge is not choosing between them. It is governing both at the same time.The tension between short-term security and long-term decarbonisation is becoming more pronounced... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 11:00 - 11:45Global Energy Regulators Forum
The regulator's dilemma: Balancing affordability, reliability and long-term transition goals
For years, the assumption was that the hard work of the energy transition lay in developing clean technologies and bringing down their costs. That work is largely done. Today, the binding constraint in many markets is infrastructure, and the pace at which regulatory frameworks, permitting processes and financing models can support the grid expansion the transition demands.Transmission and distribution networks are under sustained pressure from new generation clusters, rising electrification dema... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 11:45 - 12:30Global Energy Regulators Forum
Reliability in the transition: Redesigning electricity markets for a high-renewables world
For decades, electricity markets were designed around the predictable output of thermal generation. Today, the rapid scaling of variable renewables is stress-testing capacity mechanisms, reserve arrangements and balancing frameworks that were never built for this level of system variability. Reliability risk is being redistributed and the rules for who bears it are increasingly unclear.Firm capacity, flexibility and system services such as inertia are emerging as critical attributes that markets... Read More
Wednesday, 16 September | 01:30 - 02:15Global Energy Regulators Forum
By Invitation: The regulatory horizon: Preparing institutions for the decade ahead
The regulatory horizon: Preparing institutions for the decade ahead The regulatory challenges of the 2030s are already taking shape. Fully electrified demand, deeply digitalised systems, hydrogen and low-carbon molecules moving through repurposed networks, and cross-border markets requiring coordination across very different institutional settings will place demands on regulatory institutions that current frameworks were not built to meet. The gap between what regulators are being asked to do an... Read More
Monday, 14 September | 02:15 - 02:45Strategic Leadership
The portfolio advantage: Creating value through complexity
As the global energy landscape becomes increasingly interconnected and unpredictable, energy companies must navigate a growing web of geopolitical tensions, evolving trade flows, technological disruption and shifting demand patterns. In this environment, competitive advantage is no longer defined solely by scale or resources, but by the ability to manage complexity, allocate capital effectively and create value across diverse markets, fuels and business models. How are the world's leading integr... Read More
Tuesday, 15 September | 03:15 - 04:00Strategic Leadership
The end of the energy market? Are we in the age of the strategic bloc?
The foundations of global energy interdependence are being tested. Supply chains are fragmenting, trade flows are shifting and trust is becoming more conditional. At the same time, no region is fully self-sufficient, and cooperation remains essential to maintaining stability, managing shocks and enabling growth. This boardroom brings together security, policy and market perspectives to examine whether the current system is evolving, fragmenting or being deliberately restructured. It considers ho... Read More
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