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Day 1 | Monday 15th June
From Ambition to Implementation
Time | Session Title | Description/Speakers | Location |
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8:00AM – 9:00AM | Registration & Networking | Coffee and connection opportunities. | Exhibition Area, Park & Cove, Level 1 |
9:00AM – 9:30AM | Opening Address | Welcome to NPEC 2026 | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
9:30AM – 10:15AM | Keynote: From Targets to Action - Navigating Australia’s Climate Future | Tony Wood | Energy and Climate Change Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute
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10:15AM – 10:45AM | Morning Tea | ||
10:45AM – 11.30AM | Keynote: The Global Energy System Transformation | Tim Buckley | Director, Climate Energy Finance Australasia | |
11:30AM – 12.00PM | Expert Sessions: The Integrity Gap - Restoring Trust in the Climate and Energy Debate | Senator Peter Whish-Wilson | Australian Greens Senator for Lutruwita/Tasmania | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
12.00PM - 12.30PM | Case Studies in Focus: Trust, Transparency and Transition
| Tom Dixon | Queensland Community Engagement Manager, RE - Alliance | |
12:30PM – 1:00PM | Expert Sessions: Building Australia's Solar Future - Supply Chains, Manufacturing and Opportunity | Oliver Hartley | Managing Director, Bright Dimension Pty Ltd | |
1:00PM - 2:00PM | Lunch Break | ||
2:00PM – 2:30PM | Case Studies in Focus: Renewables and the Electrification of Ag | Karin Stark | Founder, National Renewables in Agriculture Conference | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
2.30PM - 3:00PM | Expert Sessions: Why Australia Needs a Future Gas Strategy that positions the Role of Gas against our National Strategic Objectives. | Steve Davies | CEO, APGA (Australian Pipeline and Gas Association) | |
3.00PM - 3.30PM | Expert Sessions: Australian Minerals and Batteries | Lynnard Cuskey | CEO, Australian Minerals and Battery Council | |
3.30PM - 4.00PM | Case Studies In Focus: Building at Pace - Unlocking Data Centre Growth While Managing Social Risk in Queensland | Alex Hooper | Head of Climate & Energy Economics, Oxford Economics, Simon Currie | Co-Founder and Chief Projects Officer, Energy Estate | |
4:00PM - 5:30PM | Sunset Networking Event | Park & Cove | |
6:00PM - 9:00PM | VIP Dinner | (Tickets required) | Miss Moneypenny's, Hastings St, Noosa |
Day 2 | Tuesday 16th June
Leadership In Renewable Energy Alternatives
Time | Session Title | Description/Speakers | Location |
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8:00AM – 9:00AM | Registration & Networking | Coffee and connection opportunities. | Exhibition Area, Park & Cove, Level 1 |
9:00AM - 9:40AM | Keynote: A Future Made in Regional Australia | Professor Roy Green | Special Innovation Advisor, UTS | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
9.40AM - 10.10AM | Keynote: Muscle Memory: Insights from Pilbara Industrialisation | Jessica Shaw | WA Program Lead, The Superpower Institute | |
10:30AM – 11:00AM | Morning Tea | ||
11:00AM – 11:30AM | Expert Sessions: A National Action Plan for Australia's Industrial Regions | Matt McKee | Chief Researcher, Beyond Zero Emissions
Australia's industrial regions hold the key to the country's clean economic future, and recent crises have shown the necessity of maintaining sovereign manufacturing capacity. Beyond Zero Emissions is developing a National Action Plan that defines the what, where, and when of major energy and industry projects needed to modernise our economy, and to protect and grow clean export industries. | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
11:30AM - 12:00PM | Expert Sessions: Barriers to Post-Mining Land Uses Commencing on Operational Mines | James Purtill | Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner | |
12:00PM – 12:30PM | Case Studies in Focus: Beyond Compliance: Townsville’s Blueprint for Turning Social Impact Requirements into Regional Value | Scott Muller | Program Manager, Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct | |
12.30PM - 1.00PM | Case Studies in Focus: Developing Renewable Natural Gas - Australia's First Ag to RNG Project | Jarrod Irving | General Manager, LMS Energy | |
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Lunch Break | ||
2:00PM - 3.15PM | Panel Discussion: The Gangulu Way | Katrina Grange | Social Performance Director, Ochre Social Performance. Old Ways, Paving a new way for regional energy and resource development to prosper community and Country for future generations. | Macquarie Room, Level 1 |
3.15PM - 4:00PM | POWER PANEL - Be entertained and enlightened as we bring together key global key players in a finale like no other. | Bella Zanesco | Chair | |
4:00PM - 7:00PM | Sunset Networking Event |
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