

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 through the provision of strategy consulting and technical / operational / commercial due diligence. Hydrogen, CCTUS, and low-carbon intensity chemicals, fuels and materials are fundamental pillars of his consulting practice.
With a background in industrial 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.
Stephen has extensive buy-side due diligence experience in the clean-tech sector. Private Equity firms, investment fund managers and green-tech start-ups are regular clients. Industrial corporations have often sought his guidance on their decarbonisation plans or growth strategies in the emerging hydrogen economy and CO2 management.”
Dr Kai Lieball has worked for over 20 years with Kanadevia Inova. During this time, he held various positions in engineering, tendering, sales, and risk management. Currently, in his role as Director Decarbonisation, he is responsible for decarbonisation solutions for waste-to-energy plants that is mainly carbon capture. Kai has been a member of ESWET for more than 15 years.