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Tech Tour European Hydrogen Valleys 2024 Onsite Event
Thursday 5 Sep Friday 6 Sep Thursday 5 September 2024 13:00 Welcome and Registration, Funding the Development of Hydrogen Valleys Open to the public session with required pre-registration 13:00, Room: Foyer, 1st floor 13:45 Welcome and Opening by Hosts and Partners 13:45, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Girts Greiskalns, Latvian Hydrogen Association William Stevens, Tech Tour Europe Presenter: Viktors Valainis, Ministry of Economics Republic of Latvia Arnis Gulbis, Riga Digital Agency Laura Strovalde, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) Valerie Bouillon-Delporte, Clean Hydrogen Partnership Christian Weinberger, Hydrogen Europe Claudia Pieterse, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Latvia 14:15 Panel Discussion: What Hydrogen Economy means for Countries, Regions, and Municipalities 14:15, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Christian Weinberger, Hydrogen-advisers.eu Speaker: Valerie Bouillon-Delporte, Clean Hydrogen Partnership Gertjan Jobse, Pondera Consult Kaspars Niedols, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) Marcos Nogueira, CoEER - Congress of European Emerging Regions Jasmin Schiefer, Wien Energie 15:00 Coffee break 15:00, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 15:15 Panel Discussion: How digital twins can help the hydrogen economy deliver net zero? 15:15, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Viesturs Celmins, VEFRESH Speaker: Ingars Erins, Riga Technical University Arnis Gulbis, Riga Digital Agency Neils Kalnins, 5G Techritory Esa Kokkonen, The Baltic Institute of Finland Guna Soloveja, Tet.lv 16:00 Coffee break 16:00, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 16:15 Panel Discussion: Funding Valley Infrastructure & H2 generation 16:15, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Aivars Starikovs, Latvian Hydrogen Association Speaker: Martins Cakste, Latvenergo Konstantinos Chatzifotis, Motor Oil Marie Espitalier-Noël, Hydrogen Europe Alexandru Floristean, Hy24 Partners Grzegorz Jozwiak, PKN Orlen 17:00 Coffee break 17:00, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 17:15 Panel Discussion: Funding Valley start-up and scale-up companies 17:15, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: William Stevens, Tech Tour Europe Speaker: Carmen Font, Font Corporation Aleksandrs Parfinovics, Naco Technologies Roman Pyankovski, Dinex Henry Rushton, ING Fred van Beuningen, Chrysalix Venture Capital 18:00 Top 10 Valleys Elevator Pitches 18:00, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Presenter: Paul Howard, BalticHydrogenGroup OU Bjorn Aronsson, Baltic Sea Region Hydrogen Council project Spyridon Economou, Eunice Energy Group Nigel Holmes, Hydrogen Scotland (formerly SHFCA) Mariia Popovych, Hydrogen Ukraine, LLC Morten Brandtoft, Hydrogen Valley Priit Ilomets, Hydrogen Valley Estonia Marianna Malkowska, PKN Orlen Thomas Bjørdal, RENERGY - Renewable Energy Cluster Normunds Feierbergs, RIX Riga Airport Bruno Sodiro, TH2ICINO 18:30 Networking Cocktail 18:30, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 19:00 Registration for Networking Dinner For Investment Forum participants only 19:00, Room: Lobby, 1st floor 19:30 Networking Dinner For Investment Forum participants only 19:30, Room: Lobby, 1st floor Speaker: Aivars Starikovs, Latvian Hydrogen Association Friday 6 September 2024 08:00 Side event: LIAA Invitation-only Breakfast Invitation-only session 08:00, Room: Banquet hall, 2nd floor 08:15 Registration & Coffee for Hydrogen Valleys Investment Forum 08:15, Room: Foyer, 1st floor 09:00 Welcome and Opening by Hosts and Partners 09:00, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Presenter: William Stevens, Tech Tour Europe Marie Espitalier-Noël, Hydrogen Europe Girts Greiskalns, Latvian Hydrogen Association Dominika Niewierska, PKN Orlen Aleksandrs Parfinovics, Naco Technologies 09:45 Elevator pitches by the selected companies 1 minute elevator pitches by the attending representatives of the top 30 selected presenting companies 09:45, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor 10:30 Networking Coffee & One2One Meetings One2One meetings - 15 minutes private meeting with another event participant of choice - if confirmed by the other person. All One2One Meetings should be pre-scheduled via the Tech Tour Community platform. Please keep checking the status of your meetings from your Tech Tour profile. 10:30, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 11:00 Pitching Sessions I Generation and Storage 1 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 11:00, Room: Room 213, 2nd floor Moderator: Laura Mendera, CLEAR Financial Advisory Industry Expert: Bastiaan Bor, Pondera Development Marie Espitalier-Noël, Hydrogen Europe Laura Mendera, CLEAR Financial Advisory Erik Rakhou, The Boston Consulting Group Netherlands Karlis Vonda, SIA Getlini EKO Anamaria Zianveni, Encevo Group Presenter: Olivier Bucheli, Adele Hydrogen Matthias Rudloff, AMBARtec AG Anders Køhler, Floating Power Plant A/S Andris Krasovskis, Naco Technologies Ryszard Ksiazek, PKN Orlen Pitching Session II Offtake: municipal, residential, transport, industrial 1 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 11:00, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Girts Greiskalns, Latvian Hydrogen Association Industry Expert: Roman Pyankovski, Dinex Henry Rushton, ING Leandro Santos, Kubota Holdings Europe B.V. Yoichi Yoshizawa, Mitsui & Co. Deutschland Korstiaan Zandvliet, Urban Impact Ventures Presenter: Agris Amolins, Electrify Alessandro Monticelli, Green Independence Miguelangel Ocando, H2Vector Energy Technologies SL Matthias Müllner, Hydrofy GmbH Danica Maljkovic, Indeloop Ltd. 12:00 Networking Lunch & One2One Meetings One2One meetings - 15 minutes private meeting with another event participant of choice - if confirmed by the other person. All One2One Meetings should be pre-scheduled via the Tech Tour Community platform. Please keep checking the status of your meetings from your Tech Tour profile. 12:00, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 13:30 Pitching Sessions III Generation and Storage 2 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 13:30, Room: Room 213, 2nd floor Moderator: Aivars Starikovs, Latvian Hydrogen Association Industry Expert: Oliver Bornholdt, Draeger Safety AG & Co. KGaA Sergey Donskoy, First Imagine! Ventures Normunds Feierbergs, RIX Riga Airport Ryszard Ksiazek, PKN Orlen Patrick Muller, HEUKING Presenter: Niall Haughian, Hydrogen Waves Limited (HyWaves) Carlos Sanz, Matteco Raido Lember, PowerUP Fuel Cells Alens Martini, ProtiumTech Lydia ALTES, Sakowin Pitching Session IV Derivatives and Emission Reductions 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 13:30, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Itaru Shiraishi, Energy & Environment Investment Industry Expert: Bjorn Aronsson, Hydrogen Sweden Christophe Bodin, CBO Consulting Carmen Font, Font Corporation Peteris Lesnicenoks, Latvenergo Wessel van Horzen, ING Presenter: Marat Maayan, Airovation-tech Flore de Durfort, Atmen (previously Point Twelve Energy GmbH) Tomer Alon, NanoChronia 14:30 Networking Coffee & One2One Meetings One2One meetings - 15 minutes private meeting with another event participant of choice - if confirmed by the other person. All One2One Meetings should be pre-scheduled via the Tech Tour Community platform. Please keep checking the status of your meetings from your Tech Tour profile. 14:30, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 15:15 Pitching Sessions V Generation and Storage 3 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 15:15, Room: Room 213, 2nd floor Moderator: Matthew Gentry, Zaz Ventures Industry Expert: Miquel Albareda, Kubota Holdings Europe B.V. Valentin Bratkov, BalticHydrogenGroup OU Dmitrijs Kononovs, Median+ Vesa Lehtinen, Corenvest Oy Jorma Piir, Sunly Fred van Beuningen, Chrysalix Venture Capital Presenter: Oliver Bar, Composite One System Integrators GmbH Ainars Knoks, NeoHyTech Marko Virkebau, Stargate Hydrogen Nora Oberländer, STOFF2 GmbH Pitching Session VI Offtake: municipal, residential, transport, industrial 2 10 min. reverse pitches by experts + 50 min. pitches by companies (10 minutes per presenting company - 5’ pitch + 4-5’ Q&A and review by the expert) 15:15, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor Moderator: Audra Shallal, BOSS Consulting Industry Expert: Magnus Bjorkman, SUSTINVEST Normunds Feierbergs, RIX Riga Airport Marianna Malkowska, PKN Orlen Kaspars Niedols, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) Raphael SCHOENTGEN, Hydrogen Advisors Presenter: Valdis Saplaks, DIGAS Gints Burks, Jelgavas autobusu parks LLC Erik Lundby, Norwegian Hydrogen AS Karlis Vonda, SIA Getlini EKO Hugo Lyons, VIRITECH 16:15 Networking Coffee & One2One Meetings One2One meetings - 15 minutes private meeting with another event participant of choice - if confirmed by the other person. All One2One Meetings should be pre-scheduled via the Tech Tour Community platform. Please keep checking the status of your meetings from your Tech Tour profile. 16:15, Room: Mirror Hall, 3rd floor 16:45 Awards Ceremony 16:45, Room: Chamberhall, 3rd floor 17:00 End of the event
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