GPPS Energy & Aviation Program
Welcome to our two-day Forum on Energy & Aviation titled Affordability, Security, Sustainability: is there a priority, and for whom? This event brought together decision takers, industry professionals, academics, people from the finance world and policy makers. Through keynotes and panels, we discussed the technological, financial, and policy challenges of achieving carbon-neutral energy and aviation, the integration and advancements of renewables, and the global impact of air transportation.
Day 1: Wednesday January 15th
Day 2: Thursday January 16th
Day 1: Wednesday January 15th
| 08:00 – 17:00 | Registration | Main Building Entrance Hall |
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Morning Coffee | |
| 08:45 – 09:15 | Opening Ceremony GPPS Forum25 Welcome Speech by Bernhard Winkelmann (GPPS Executive Committee, Chairman) and Piero Colonna (TU Delft, GPPS Organizing Committee, Chairman) GPPS Awards presented by Vladimir Navorsky (Siemens, GPPS Award Committee, Chairman) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Inaugural Keynote Can aviation become climate-change neutral and by when? Speaker: Steven Barrett (Cambridge University) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Keynote 2 Defining the roles of long-duration energy storage in grid decarbonization Speaker: Tim Allison (Southwest Research Institute) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Panel 1 How to mobilize the mindnumbing financial means that would be needed? Moderator: Christoph Manser (Swiss Life Asset Management) Panelists: Michael Baldinger (UBS), Kanat Emiroglu (Alvarez and Marsal), Jing Li (KPMG), Laurence Moore (Credit Agricole CIB) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 12:45 – 14:15 | Conference Lunch | Dozentenfoyer |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Keynote 3 Envisioning commercial air transportation with near-zero environmental impacts – a techno-economic perspective Speaker: Florian Allroggen (MIT) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Panel 2 What is best for short and medium-range transportation? Moderator: Piero Colonna (TU Delft) Panelist: Florian Allroggen (MIT), Scott Cary (NREL), Fabian Donus (MTU), Naoki Seki (IHI), Vince Sidwell (Pratt & Whitney) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Keynote 4 Making NASA’s vision 2030 CFD a reality 6 years early Speaker: Juan Alonso (Stanford University/ Luminary Cloud) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 19:30 – 22:30 | Gala Dinner | Zunfthaus zur Waag |
Day 2: Thursday January 16th
| 08:00 – 17:00 | Registration | Main Building Entrance Hall |
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Morning Coffee | |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Keynote 5 Can Technology save our planet? Speaker: Grammenos Mastrojeni (Deputy Secretary General – Union for the Mediterranean) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 3 Climate impact of air transportation Moderator: Vince Sidwell (Pratt &Whitney) Panelists: Sean Bradshaw (Pratt & Whitney), Jos Buitenhuis (KLM), Fay Collier (USG), Herve Morvan (Rolls Royce), Bram Peerlings (NLR), | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Invited Presentation from The Texas A&M TurboLab Speaker: Greg Gammon (Texas A&M) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Keynote 6 Decarbonization challenges and strategies for the aviation sector Speaker: Fay Collier (United States Government) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 12:45 – 14:15 | Conference Lunch | Dozentenfoyer |
| 14:15 – 15:45 | Panel 4 Do we have the technologies for widespread adoption of carbon-neutral fuels? Moderator: Bernhard Winkelmann (Former Solar Turbines) Panelists: Peter van Elferen (GasUnie), Toshiro Fujimori (IHI), John Gulen (Bechtel), Yang Hong (Shanghai Electric Group), Christopher Johnston (PSM/ Hanwha) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:15 – 17:45 | Panel 5 How to deal with penetration of renewables in the grid? Moderator: Albert Kammerer (Ansaldo Energia) Speakers: Yunhe Hou (The University of Hong Kong), Frank Robin Müller (Amprion), Brett Oakleaf (NREL), Andrew J. Owens (Hitachi Energy) | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Closing Ceremony and Outlook | HG F 30 | Audi Max |
