A preliminary outline of the program:

Download full program here

Confirmed speakers:

2020 and beyond
Monday June 7, 10:00-11:30

• Dr. Keith Melton, President of EUREC and Director of Technology and Innovation at NaREC, United Kingdom.
  Dr. Melton will give a short presentation of research priorities within renewable energy. The report "Research Priorities for Renewable Energy Technology - 2020 and beyond", was released by the European Renewable Energy Centres Agency (EUREC) in 2008.
• Hans Larsen, Head of Systems Analysis Division at Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Denmark.
  Larsen has participated in the writing of the Risø Energy Report 8: The intelligent
  energy system infrastructure for the future
• Fritjof Unander, Director of Energy and Petroleum Research, Norwegian Research Counsil
  

Research update - Renewable energy research in Norway
Monday June 7, 12:30-14:00

• All leaders of the Centres for Environmental friendly Energy Research (CEER) will give an update on the research at each centre.
  

Parallel sessions
The different parallels on the conference will have at least five sessions each with different topics. More information about this is found on topics.

Panel discussion
Tuesday June 7, 15:00-16:00

The panel discussion will gather industry, politicians and researchers to discuss what is important in order to build a new industry on renewable energy. Marius Holm from Bellona will lead the discussion and confirmed participants so far are:

• Sverre Gotaas, Senior Vice President Innovation and Growth, Statkraft
• Åslaug Haga, Norsk Industri
• Unni Steinsmo, CEO, SINTEF
• Richard Taylor, Executive Director, International Hydropower Association (IHA)
• Pål Julius Skogholt, State Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry