Future Energy: Global Trends and Technologies

Key questions:
• Energy development global scenarios until 2050;
• Climate Security and Kazakhstan; 
• Key factors of “green” energy development;
• Trends in world energy market development;
• ​International cooperation in “green” technology promotion. 

Session 1. Climate change and economic decarbonisation adaptation strategies

Welcome speech:
Nurtay Abykayev, Chairman, International Programme Committee WSEC - 2017, President, Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences
Akhmetzhan Yessimov, Chairman of the Board, NC “Astana EXPO-2017”
Kanat Bozumbayev, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
Rapil Zhoshybayev, Commissioner of the International Specialized Exhibition EXPO 2017

Moderators:
Samuel Lee Hancock, President & Executive Director, Emerald Planet
Bakhyt Essekina, Member, Council on Green Economy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Director, Scientific Research and Education Center “Green Academy”

Speakers:
George Krol, U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan
Georgy Safonov, Director, Centre for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Higher School of Economics (RF)
Tony Wood, Director of the Energy Program, Grattan Institute, Australia
Azimkhan Satybaldin, Director, Institute of Economy of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Adolf Feizlmayer, Member, Advisory Board, ILF, co-owner, ILF Kazakhstan Consulting Engineers LLC, Austria
Almasadam Satkaliyev, Chairman of the Board, Samruk-Energy
Eduard E. Son, Deputy Director, Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences   (RF) 
Joao Paulo Lobo Ferreira, Chief Research Fellow, National Laboratory of Civil Engineering
Pedro Xavier Martins, Co-founder, Sublimerito, LNES representative, Portugal 

Session 2. Science, Innovation and Technologies as Drivers of Energy and Economy Development

Welcome speech:
György Szabó, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana
Bakytzhan Zhumagulov, Co-chairman, International Programme Committee WSEC – 2017, President, National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Moderator:
Kanat Baigarin, Vice President for Innovations, Nazarbayev University

Speakers:
Friedrich Prince, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Sergio Garribba, Counsellor for Energy Policy, Ministry of Economic Development of Italy
Arman Kashkinbekov, Deputy CEO, Kazakhstan`s Renewable Energy Association
Askar Munara, General Director, Research Centre of Oil and Gas, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Turgut Gur, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Aidyn Turebayev, Deputy Executive Director, International Science and Technology Centre
Chokan Laumullin, Research Fellow, Central Asian Forum, University of Cambridge
Yerbol Akhmetbekov, Head, Laboratory of Energy, Ecology and Climate at Nazarbayev University
Rajendra Pachauri, Acting Deputy Chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute
Petr Nikitenko, Adviser to the NAS of Belarus, Doctor of Economics, Professor, member of NAS of Belarus and RANS
Erlan Batyrbekov, Director General, National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Roundtable “Green Economy” Development Perspectives and Scenarios”

Moderators:
Oleg Gabrielyan, Dr. phil., Prof., full member of European Academy of Natural Sciences and Russian Academy of Political Sciences
Gulbazar Mediyeva, Chief Scientific Secretary, Presidium at the National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Speakers:
Klaus Riedle, Professor Emeritus at the University "Erlangen-Nuremberg, Former President Products, Fossil Power Generation at Siemens
Albert Bolotov, Director, Ecoenergomash, Professor, AUEC, Member, National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and International Engineering Academy
Leonid Tanin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, JSC “Holography Industry”, member of International Academy, laureate of the Belarusian State Prize in Science and Technology
Carsten Ahrens, Chairman, Standing Committee Environment and Sustainability of the European Council of Civil Engineers, Chairman, Solar Energy Group of SC Energy of World Federation of Engineering
Organisations, Vice-President, World Council of Civil Engineers, Vice-President, European Council of Civil Engineers
Igor Emri, Chairman, Engineering and Technical Sciences Scientific Committee, CEO, Institute for Sustainable Innovative Technologies
Oleg Gabrielyan, Dr. phil., Prof., full member of European Academy of Natural Sciences and Russian Academy of Political Sciences
Grigoriy Mun, Member, National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Ibragim Suleimenov, Member, National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Vincent Duijnhouwer, Senior Project Manager, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change team, EBRD, Moscow