14:00

Registration and welcome coffee

14:30

Opening Keynotes

  • Mark Nicklas, Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission

  • Antonios Sfakiotakis, Climate Counsellor, Finnish Presidency of the European Council

14:50

Hydrogen: Why Now? - CEOs High level panel discussion

  • Javier Calleja, CEO, Solaris Bus & Coaches

  • Jon André Løkke, CEO, NEL ASA - slides

  • Gerrit Marx, CEO, IVECO - slide

  • Pascal Mauberger, CEO, McPhy

  • Andreas Regnell, Senior Vice President Strategic Development/Member of the Executive Group Management, Vattenfall

    Moderator: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Secretary General, Hydrogen Europe

15:20

An ipcei on hydrogen

  • Karl Soukup, Director, DG COMP, European Commission - presentation

15:30

The projects – part 1

  1. Green Spider: Green Hydrogen production from more than 1 GW of renewable energies, considering wind, solar and hydro, that it will be locally consumed and also exported to Europe by using LOHC. - Green Spider Presentation
    Presented by Antón Martinez Rodriguez, Chief Transformation Officer, Enagas and Daniel Teichmann, CEO, Hydrogenious.

  2. Silver Frog: 10 GW solar-based Hydrogen production, transportation through pipelines for use in steel and chemical industry. - Silver Frog Presentation
    Presented by Denis Thomas, EU Regulatory Affairs & Business Development Manager Renewable Hydrogen, Hydrogenics Europe NV and Thomas Hengst, Chief Sales Officer, Meyer Burger.

  3. Blue Dolphin: 50 ships and ship power generation systems, from liquid hydrogen cargo to passenger ships, powered by hydrogen and the required port infrastructure. - Blue Dolphin Presentation
    Presented by Paolo Guglia, R&D Manager, Fincantieri.

  4. Green Hydrogen@BlueDanube: 2 GW wind-and solar-based Hydrogen production, transportation by barges on River Danube, supply to industry and mobility hubs in the InterReg Danube Transnational Region. - Blue Danube Presentation
    Presented by Rudolf Zauner, Head of Hydrogen, VERBUND and Manfred Seitz, Director General, Danube Commission.

16:10

combining structural funds & ipcei

  • Katja Reppel, Deputy Head of Unit, DG REGIO, European Commission - presentation

Q&A

16:20

16:30

Coffee Break

17:00

The Hydrogen Valleys Smart specialisation platform - Panel discussion

  • Daniel Alfreider, Vice President, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen - South Tyrol (Italy) - slides

  • Patrick Cnubben, Manager Hydrogen, Northern Netherlands (The Netherlands) - slides

  • George Kasapidis, Governor, Western Macedonia (Greece) - slides

  • Javier Navarro, Director-General of Industry and SMEs, Government of Aragon (Spain)

    Moderator: Christian Weinberger, Senior Adviser on Advanced Industrial Technologies and Hydrogen Coordinator, DG GROW, European Commission

17:30

Interregional cooperation for hydrogen investments 

  • Mathilde Cadic, Auvergne-Rhône Alpes Region, and Zoé Buyle-Bodin, Normandie Region, co-leaders of the Hydrogen Valleys S3 Partnership - Presentation

17:40

The projects – part 2

  1. Black Horse: Hydrogen filling station infrastructure, production and operation of a HDV fleet in SK, CZ, PL and HU. - Black Horse presentation
    Presented by David Halasz, Project Manager, Bioway and Tereza Nislerova.

  2. Rainbow Unhycorn: 100.000 LDVs for Zero Emission Urban Delivery. - Rainbow Unhycorn presentation
    Presented by Valerie Bouillon-Delporte, Hydrogen Leader, Michelin and Jean-Luc Brossard R&D Managing Director- Plateforme Filiere Automobile, VDA correspondent for France.

  3. White Dragon: 1 GW solar based Hydrogen production using Solid Oxide Cell technology including storage, compression, transportation of Hydrogen and usage for fuel cell buses and CHP. - White Dragon presentation
    Presented by Olivier Bucheli, Chief Business Development Officer, SoldiPower and Thanos Stoubos, Demokritos.

  4. Green Octopus: Creating a 2000 km hydrogen backbone by re-purposing existing pipelines, producing 6 GW of wind-based hydrogen to transport it through the pipeline to multiple users including major regional port areas and industrial clusters.  - Green Octopus presentation
    Presented by Caroline Hillegeer, COO, Engie Hydrogen; René Schutte, Program Manager Hydrogen, Gasunie; Didier van Osselaer, Manager Energy Development, Port of Antwerp and Alexander Redenius, Head of Division Efficiency of Resources and R&D Coordination, Salzgitter AG.

Q&A

18:20

Next steps / way forward

  • Zdzisław Krasnodębski, MEP, Vice-Chair of ITRE Committee, European Parliament

  • Markku Markkula, Vice-President, CoR

18:40

Hydrogen europe-acea-IRU joint agreement ceremony followed by cocktail RECEPTION IN EXHIBITION AREA

19:00

19:45

transfer to “the square” by hydrogen buses

For the attendees interested, after the conference the “REGIOSTARS reception with Central regional tasting” will take place at The Square in the framework of the EU Week of Regions and Citites.