2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS - OCTOBER 22-24, 2025

PLENARY SESSION I (October 22, 2025)


9:00 - 9:30: The Honorable Charles McConnell

Assistant Secretary of Energy (2011-13) US DOE

"The Winds of Change in the World of Energy"

9:00 - 10:00: Dr. Ahmed Aboudheir

Chief Executive Officer of Aboudheir Consulting Ltd

"Feasible Deployment of Large Scale CCUS Projects Towards Net Zero by 2050"

PLENARY SESSION II (October 22, 2025)


10:20 - 10:50: Dr. Jizhen Liu

Chinese Academy of Engineering

"China's Energy Transition: Progress and Prospects"

10:50 - 11:20: Dr. Buxing Han

Chinese Academy of Science

"Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development"

11:20 - 11:50: Dr. Peixue Jiang 

Chinese Academy of Science

"Research Progress on Key Technologies for Large-Scale CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers"

PLENARY SESSION III (October 22, 2025)


13:30 - 14:00: Dr. Jiongtian Liu

Chinese Academy of Engineering

"Coal Preparation in China: Bigger, Higher, and Better"

14:00 - 14:30: Mrs. Petra Mühlen

CEO of SpectraFlow Analytics AG Switzerland

"Advanced Feedforward Gasifier Control-The New Philosophy of Gasifier Stabilization"

14:30 - 15:00: Prof. Qiang Yao

Tsinghua University

"Progress and Prospects of Clean and Efficient Coal Technology in Enabling China's Energy Transition"

PLENARY SESSION IV (October 22, 2025)


15:25 - 15:55: Dr. Quansheng Li

CHN Energy

"Coal Ecological Science and Technology Innovation and Engineering Practice"

15:55 - 16:25: Dr. Shiseng Xu

China Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute

"World's First 1.5 Million Tonnes/Year Full-Process CCUS Demonstration for Coal Power Plant"

16:25 - 16:55: Dr. Omar M. Basha 

Principle manager, ONB Engineering Research and Technical Services LLC

"De-risking Hydrocarbon Process Innovation: From Screening to Techno-economically Feasible Deployment"