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Renewable Energy, the Solution for Net-zero, sustainable Development, energy security and sovereignty – 2050 roadmaps start now!

    1A Rethinking our Energy Supply: Renewables, energy security and geopolitics

    2A Renewables for Industry

    4A Can Renewables Solve Energy Poverty?

    • Ewah Eleri Executive Director of the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development, Nigeria
    • Gurbuz Gonul Director of the IRENA’s Country Engagement and Partnerships
    • Rafael Solis Director of Public Affairs & Community Relations at EDP Renewables

    3A Local Value Creation: Building inclusive economies

    5A Beyond Technology: Using Social and Policy Innovation to Accelerate the Shift to Renewables

    1B Beyond Market Reform: Strengthening Supply Chains to Scale Up the Renewables Sector

    • Rana Ghoneim Chief of the Energy Systems and Industrial Decarbonization Unit at UNIDO
    • Rishabh Jain Senior Programme Lead, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

    2B Renewables for Agriculture

    3B The Renewables Transition: Turning Crises into Economic Opportunities

    4B Changing Energy Governance: Communities and cities shifting to renewables

    5B Disrupting the Fossil Fuel Reality: Using innovation to shift to renewables

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    Renewable energy for social and economic development for all

    1C Ramping up Renewable Energy Deployment: The indispensable building block

    2C Renewables for Transport

    • Mike Enskat Head of Infrastructure Section, Sectoral and Global Programmes, GIZ
    • Maruxa Cardama Secretary General, SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
    • Aparna Vijaykumar Program Manager, Electric Mobility with the Sustainable Cities and Transport Team at WRI India
    • Harry Lehmann Director „PTX Lab – Lausitz“ – Chairperson World Council for Renewable Energy

    4C Renewables Leading the Transition: Just, equitable, distributed, inclusive

    3C The New Rules of Renewable Energy Supply Chains

    • Thomas Nowak Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association
    • Christopher Dent Professor, Edge Hill University, UK
    • Jarrod Lyons Executive of Business Development for the Atlantis Special Economic Zone Company SOC Ltd.
    • Richard Day Director Strategy, Policy and Communications Growth and Low Carbon Division Department for Energy and Mining Government of South Australia
    • Marta San Román Director General AFEC

    5C Consumer Trends in Goods and Services Markets: Building strategically on ESG to accelerate renewables

    • Ida Krabek Senior Director, Head of Global Sustainability at Ørsted
    • Jerome Kusters Head of Strategy & Partnerships; ESG Lead at TSC.ai - The Stakeholder Company

    1D Grids and Infrastructure: The backbone of renewable energy systems

    2D Renewables for Buildings

    • Peter Lundberg Executive Director at the Asia Pacific Urban Energy Association (APUEA)
    • Thomas Nowak Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association
    • Nilce Gregoret Project 100% Renewables: Cities and Regions Roadmap. Local leader of Avellaneda, the model city in Argentina
    • Andrea Voigt Head of Global Public Affairs & Communication at Danfoss Climate Solutions
    • Luis Cabrera President of ANESE

    3D Mind the Gap: Job offers and skilling

    4D Engaging Citizens from the Bottom-Up

    5D Digitalisation to Speed up the Energy Transition

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    Energy and industrial policies to mainstream renewables

    1E Building Energy Resilience: Large centralised vs. distributed systems

    • Dipti Vaghela Network Manager. Hydropower Empowerment Network (HPNET)
    • Douglas Arent Executive Director of Strategic Public Private Partnerships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
    • Pablo Valverde Deputy CEO at the International Hydropower Association (IHA)
    • Karim Selouane Resallience, Global ABC and Mission Board of European Commission
    • William Brent Chief Marketing Officer, Husk Power Systems
    • Neeraj Kuldeep Senior Programme Lead at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

    2E Electricity, Hydrogen and Low Thermal: The Interplay

    3E The Case of SMEs: Driving change outside globalised markets

    4E Stopping the Exodus: How Renewables Can Make People Stay

    5E End-of-life: Circularity in renewables

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    Continuous acceleration to be 2050-ready