

21-23 October 2025
Hamburg Messe, Germany
Mohamed is an energy industry leader with experience in construction, commissioning, operation, detail engineering, acquisition & merges as well as enthusiastic about new technologies and energy transition deployment. Along his career from Mohamed has worked in different mega energy projects, FEED through to detail design, machines inspection and mechanical completion for international energy and chemical companies such as TOTAL, DOW Chemicals and currently with Aramco Europe.
Bruno Gerrits has worked at the Global CCS Institute Brussels office since 2018. Covering a vast and diverse region his team works with members, policy makers, and stakeholders across many countries and industries, from oil and gas to cement and steel, to technology and services. His ambition is to progress CCS solutions in Europe as part of a timely, cost-efficient, and just transition.
Stuart joined EIC, the Energy Industries Council, as CEO in 2016. Prior to joining EIC in 2016, Stuart enjoyed a successful 25-year career leading global O&M and engineering businesses in oil & gas, power, renewables and defence with Rolls-Royce, Wood, REpower and Hoerbiger.
Laura Droste, Senior Expert for Hydrogen and Synthetic Energy Carriers at Deutsche Energie-Agentur Gmbh, received her BA from University of Regensburg in German-French Studies for Politics, Economy and Culture Sciences in Feb 2019 before studying Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University with a focus on the foreign politics of the MENA-Region as well as the migration policy between the Middle East and the EU.
Hans-Georg Tschupke is the head of Innovation and transformation at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Ports and Transformation. He received his diploma degree from August-Wilhelm-University Göttingen. Before joining the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Ports and Transformation in 2017, he was the Head of Innovation Department at WFB Bremen Economic Development Agency and BIG Bremen Economic Development Agency.
Matteo is a consultant for Power-to-X fuels at the German Energy Agency, where he analyses the current technology and policy landscape to develop insights for German and European policymakers, and industry.
Matteo holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Berlin Institute of Technology and further specialized in Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan (MS level).
His main expertise lies in the fields of PtX technologies, wind power engineering, environmental sustainability, and climate change adaptation.
Jan Rispens holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Enschede in the Netherlands. From 2000 he was engaged as a Project Manager for offshore wind at the dena - Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH, in which position he was responsible for coordinating cooperation between the German federal government and the federal states. From 2002 until 2010 he was Managing Director of the WAB - Windenergie-Agentur Bremerhaven/Bremen e.V., a wind energy industry network in Northwest-Germany. Since 2011 he is Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Hamburg cluster, with 220 members from this sector covering all stages of the value chain and offering many specialized services.
Since 2013 Dr Kehler has served as President of Germany’s leading gas and hydrogen advocacy group, DIE GAS- UND WASSERSTOFFWIRTSCHAFT (The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry). He has also been a member of the Governing Board of Eurogas, the association representing the European gas industry, since January 2023, and a member of the NOW Advisory Board since November 2023. Dr Kehler holds a PhD in production engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
Robert is the Managing Director of AquaVentus Förderverein, the association which offers innovative and effective projects as part of an overall concept to achieve the German and European Offshore-Wind-Hydrogen production market ramp-up in scale. The visionary ambition of AquaVentus is to supply 1 million tonnes of green hydrogen every year from 10 GW offshore wind hydrogen generation capacity at the North Sea which is combined with offshore electrolysis units. Robert manages the association with more than 100 members (leading energy companies, research institutes and associations) along the green hydrogen value chain to enable implementation projects for execution. Prior joining AquaVentus, Robert worked as business developer, project & portfolio manager and trader for commodity companies and investment banks in London, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Leipzig. He holds master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Leipzig.
Stephen B. Harrison is the founder and managing director at sbh4 GmbH in Germany. His work focuses on decarbonisation and greenhouse gas emissions control. Hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuels and CCUS are fundamental pillars of his consulting practice.
Stephen has served as the international hydrogen expert and team leader for two ADB projects related to renewable hydrogen deployment in Pakistan and Palau. In 2021 Stephen specified more than 2GW of electrolysers for projects in Asia. In 2022, he supported the Word Bank and the Government of Namibia with the Southern Corridor Development Initiative for green hydrogen and other synthetic fuels. He also supported a green hydrogen project for the IFC in Pakistan. In 2023, Stephen served as a CINEA technical assessor for seven large scale green hydrogen, green ammonia, e-fuels and CCUS projects for the EC Innovation fund 3rd call.
With a background in industrial and specialty gases, including 27 years at BOC Gases, The BOC Group and Linde Gas, Stephen has intimate knowledge of hydrogen from commercial, technical, operational and safety perspectives. For 14 years, he was a global business leader in these FTSE100 and DAX30 companies.
As a member of the H2 View and gasworld editorial advisory boards, Stephen advises the direction for the leading hydrogen-focused international publications. In 2023 he was a conference track chair at the Hydrogen Technology Expo in Bremen and conference chair for the CO2 Utilisation Summit in Hamburg.