• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Vijay Swarup

ExxonMobil

Senior Director Climate Strategy and Technology

Vijay Swarup currently oversees the corporation’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. This includes climate policy and advocacy initiatives, along with the interplay between policy and the advancement and implementation of technology. Vijay has been with ExxonMobil for over 30 years and has held a variety of leadership roles in both business and technology functions. From 2014-2022, he headed the research and development team, overseeing a research portfolio that focused on groundbreaking initiatives in biofuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, and hydrogen. Vijay has a BS degree in chemical engineering and chemistry from Purdue University and a PhD in chemical engineering from Rutgers University. He serves on the National Academies Board on Chemical Sciences Technology and the Rutgers Industrial Advisory Board. Vijay previously served on the Advisory Board for the MIT Energy Initiative, Singapore Energy Center, Princeton Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, India International Think Tank for Energy and The Liberty Science Center.

Sessions With Vijay Swarup

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:00am - 11:30am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:00 pm - 19/mar/2024 04:30 pm

    Innovation Odyssey: Evaluating the journey from lab to market
    Innovation & Technology

    Join experts as they share insights, challenges and successes encountered along the innovation pathway for critical energy transition technologies. Delve into the intricacies of technology transfer, commercialization strategies and the dynamic interplay between research, development and market adoption. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, seasoned innovator, investor or innovation enthusiast, this session promises to inspire, inform and ignite your passion for driving impactful innovation from lab to marketplace.

Thursday, 21 March

  • 09:30am - 10:10am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 02:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 03:10 pm

    Quantum Technologies: A gamechanger for energy and climate?
    Digitalization/AI/Machine Learning/Robotics/Cybersecurity

    The term “gamechanger” has nearly become cliché in describing the exciting technologies disrupting the energy ecosystem. But quantum computing might very well warrant its use. Making calculations a billion times faster than a conventional computer, think of the applications for this technology in addressing climate change. From longer-use battery technology for our electric vehicles to helping farmers plant with less carbon-intensive fertilizer are just two of the many, many ways quantum computing might indeed change the game.

  • 05:00pm - 06:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 10:00 pm - 21/mar/2024 11:00 pm

    Spotlight | "NextGen" Future Energy Leaders

    Future of Workforce/Diversity & Inclusion

    The race is on for innovative, fresh approaches to solve the world’s greatest energy and climate challenges. The emerging generation of future energy leaders, technologists and entrepreneurs have unprecedented opportunity for impact and to create real change. The energy world is hungry and open to disruptive ideas. There never has been a more exciting—or urgent—time to be part of the energy industry. Join this special interactive “Next Gen” dynamic session, featuring rapid-fire insights by leading minds on energy innovation, along with CERAWeek Future Energy Leaders. How can we achieve net-zero ambitions? How can we tackle climate change while meeting the planet’s need for more energy? What are promising and scalable technologies? What are the challenges and most exciting opportunities?  

Friday, 22 March

  • 11:20am - 12:00pm (CST) / 22/mar/2024 04:20 pm - 22/mar/2024 05:00 pm

    Reimagining the Energy Future
    Innovation & Technology

    Although the global energy mix is always in a state of continuous transition, the sheer scale of the world’s energy system makes the sort of rapid changes seen in technology difficult to replicate in energy. Yet in recent years, growth in unconventional oil and gas and solar PV are often cited as revolutionary changes. Are there similar energy revolutions on the horizon? Could we visualize a fundamentally different global energy system? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about bending the emissions curve? What surprised you the most? How impactful will Gen AI be in the energy sector? Is a clean energy future moving faster than many people think? How can energy transition be orderly and balanced?