The Innovation Agora allows for a culture of idea exchange, shared learning across multiple disciplines and technologies, and relationship-building as we explore emerging technologies, policies, financial models and solutions to the world’s greatest energy challenges.
CERAWeek Agora Partners help support the convening of this global community and exciting innovation ecosystem who are committed to advancing the growing role of technology, innovation, and scalable pathways to address the challenges of the energy transition.
Agora Partners play a prominent role in this pioneering community, contributing their expertise and experiences to this immersive and dynamic environment.
ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. By connecting its engineering and digitalization expertise, ABB helps industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. At ABB, we call this "Engineered to Outrun." The company has over 140 years of history and more than 105,000 employees worldwide. ABB’s shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ABBN) and Nasdaq Stockholm (ABB).
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years, focused on serving energy, environmental and emerging markets and generating a cleaner future. The Company supplies essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, medical and food. As the leading global supplier of hydrogen, Air Products also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world’s largest clean hydrogen projects, supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the industrial and heavy-duty transportation sectors. The Company also provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally.
Air Products had fiscal 2024 sales of $12.1 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of over $70 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities and the world.
Learn more at airproducts.com.
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world. Chevron produces crude oil and natural gas; manufactures transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and additives; and develops technologies that enhance our business and the industry. To advance a lower-carbon future, we are focused on cost efficiently lowering our carbon intensity, increasing renewables and offsets in support of our business, and investing in low-carbon technologies that enable commercial solutions.
Learn more at chevron.com.
Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Crusoe provides a reliable, scalable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for AI infrastructure by harnessing large-scale clean energy, building AI-optimized data centers and empowering builders to reach their AI potential. Crusoe is empowering the AI revolution.
Learn more at crusoe.ai.
Elimini is a carbon removals company with the ambition of removing carbon for good.
Using tried and tested Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS) technology, Elimini aims to remove millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Bringing together engineers, businesses, scientists, investors and innovators, Elimini is on a mission to accelerate carbon removals and help rewind the climate crisis.
Learn more at elimini.com.
Operating in line with its mission to respect life and generate energy for a better future, Enerjisa Üretim is the leading private company in electricity generation with its diversified, balanced and efficient electricity generation portfolio of 4,000 MW installed capacity with 1,000 MW already in progress, which mostly includes renewable energy sources, and which has a high trade volume.
Enerjisa Üretim provides significant contributions to sustainability, by means of its efficient and environmentally friendly power plants, carbon reduction through renewable energy-based generation and its investments, which focus on technology and efficiency. Enerjisa Üretim’s portfolio currently comprises 58% of domestic and renewable resources. This proportion is expected to rise significantly as the company introduces new wind projects, several of which are already in the construction phase. Enerjisa Üretim has ambitious plans, aiming to achieve a total installed power capacity of 7,500 MW in the forthcoming years.
The company has 5% and 30% market share in generation and trading, respectively, while the total country capacity is around 110 GW. Additionally, Enerjisa Uretim participates in energy and gas trading activities, which it pioneers in its sector.
Energy generation, trade and digitalization are three core activities of Enerjisa Üretim. Enerjisa Commodities and Senkron Energy Digital Services have broadened their scope of operations globally. This expansion has resulted in the company’s stronger and more impactful presence internationally.
Enerjisa Üretim is also leading green hydrogen production projects in Türkiye. Enerjisa Üretim’s Bandırma Energy Hub is the very center of Southern Marmara Hydrogen Coast Platform, which is one of the most concrete steps taken for hydrogen production in Türkiye and is expected to produce 500 tons/year of green hydrogen when completed.
Learn more at enerjisauretim.com.
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions is committed to leveraging its unique combination of capabilities, including its technology expertise and complex project management, to focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and advanced biofuels to accelerate emission reductions for its existing businesses and its customers.
That commitment includes the development of new products, approaches and technologies aimed at integrated, scalable solutions that tackle head-on the challenge of strengthening energy supply security and reducing emissions to support society's net-zero ambitions while enabling our customers to create sustainable businesses.
To help meet that challenge, ExxonMobil has established accelerated ambitions to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 2050.* Plus, there are plans to invest approximately $17 billion through 2027 with the dual aim of helping reduce emissions at ExxonMobil operations, as well as those of its customers.
Learn more at lowcarbon.exxonmobil.com.
*Source: ExxonMobil Advancing Climate Solutions Progress Report (https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/global/files/advancing-climate-solutions-progress-report/2023/2023-acs-progress-report.pdf).
Alberta, Canada’s energy capital, leads the way in emissions reduction while supplying energy resources to the world. With a stable regulatory environment and business friendly policies, Alberta is key to North American and global energy security.
Learn more at alberta.ca/.
Gunvor Group is one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover, creating logistics solutions that safely and efficiently move physical energy, bulk materials and base metals from where they are sourced and stored to where they are demanded most. With strategic investments in energy infrastructure—refineries, pipelines, storage, terminals and tankers—Gunvor further generates sustainable value across the global supply chain for its customers. In 2023, Gunvor reported turnover of US$127 billion on volumes of 177 million MT. Approximately 50% of the company’s trading consists of “transitional” commodities, including biofuels, natural gas and LNG.
Learn more at gunvorgroup.com or @Gunvor.
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2022 sales of $33 billion. The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals and energy, food and beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen, and high-purity and specialty gases for electronics.
Linde is developing clean hydrogen projects across a range of applications, industries and regions and growing its established $3 billion hydrogen business along the entire value chain. Examples of noteworthy projects are the investment of $1.8 billion to supply clean hydrogen to OCI’s world-scale blue ammonia project in the US Gulf Coast; the large-scale carbon capture project with Heidelberg Materials, which will capture, liquefy and purify around 70,000 tons of CO₂ per year in Germany; the long-term agreement to supply green hydrogen to Evonik in Singapore; and the installation of over 210 hydrogen refueling stations across the globe.
The company is planning to invest close to $50 billion in clean energy projects over the coming decade and is actively contributing to the development of safety and quality standards, technologies and infrastructure to support the clean energy economy.
Learn more at linde.com.
Transform the energy and resources industry and advance net zero with technology innovation to deliver safe, reliable, clean energy for a sustainable future. With Microsoft, energy operators and providers have access to a global partner ecosystem and modern productivity platform at the scalability and reach they need with the security to protect their IP assets, operations and data. By uniting productivity, intelligent cloud, intelligent edge, AI and big data platforms, Microsoft enables companies to solve their most complex challenges, accelerate the energy transition and deliver better outcomes.
Learn more at Microsoft | Sustainable Energy Solutions.
National Grid is one of the largest listed utility companies in the world, serving millions of people across the US and the UK. We are committed to decarbonizing the energy system as part of a clean, fair and affordable transition that leaves no one behind.
In the US, we are focused on delivering a smarter, stronger, cleaner energy future in New York and Massachusetts — transforming our electricity and natural gas networks with more reliable and resilient energy solutions to meet state climate goals and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In the UK, we are playing our part in delivering net zero at pace; safely and reliably operating the transmission network while innovating at speed to ensure the UK can meet ambitious climate goals. Our networks comprise approximately 7,200 kilometers of overhead line, 1,500 kilometers of underground cable and 342 substations.
Learn more at nationalgrid.com.
Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil producers in the U.S., including a leading producer in the Permian and DJ basins, and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Our midstream and marketing segment provides flow assurance and maximizes the value of our oil and gas. Our chemical subsidiary OxyChem manufactures the building blocks for life-enhancing products. Our Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary is advancing leading-edge technologies and business solutions that economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We are committed to using our global leadership in carbon management to advance a lower-carbon world.
Learn more at oxy.com.
Radia is an energy company building a unique aerial transportation solution, the WindRunner, to radically expand the scope and scale of the onshore wind energy industry. The world’s largest cargo aircraft, it will enable the deployment of the largest turbines to locations where they couldn’t logistically go or weren’t economically viable before and open new wind farm locations all over the world. This will make it possible for our partners to manufacture, deploy and operate the largest and best onshore wind turbines ever deployed — GigaWInd — and serve use cases for green energy that either aren’t being served or aren’t being served effectively today.
Simultaneously, Radia is developing a world-class portfolio of wind energy projects to leverage WindRunner and partnering with the world’s largest energy and industrial companies to support their energy transition plans. All this will be backed by safe, reliable and rapid aerial logistics and underpinned by outstanding engineering and world-class technoeconomic analysis.
Learn more at radia.com.
Siemens Energy is one of the world’s leading energy technology companies. The company works with its customers and partners on energy systems for the future, thus supporting the transition to a more sustainable world. With its portfolio of products, solutions and services, Siemens Energy covers almost the entire energy value chain – from power and heat generation and transmission to storage. The portfolio includes conventional and renewable energy technology, such as gas and steam turbines, hybrid power plants operated with hydrogen, and power generators and transformers.
Its wind power subsidiary Siemens Gamesa makes Siemens Energy a global market leader for renewable energies. An estimated one-sixth of the electricity generated worldwide is based on technologies from Siemens Energy. Siemens Energy employs around 99,000 people worldwide in more than 90 countries.
Learn more at siemens-energy.com.
SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that drives energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.
Learn more at slb.com.
Topsoe is a leading global provider of technology and solutions for the energy transition. We combat climate change by helping our customers and partners achieve their decarbonization and emission reduction goals.
Based on decades of scientific research and innovation, we offer world-leading solutions for transforming renewable resources into fuels and chemicals for a sustainable world, and for efficient and low-carbon fuel production and clean air.
We were founded in 1940 and are headquartered in Denmark, with over 2,800 employees serving customers all around the globe.
To learn more, visit topsoe.com.
Vitol is a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum: from oil through to power, renewables and carbon. Chartering circa 6,000 sea voyages every year, it trades 7.3 million barrels per day of crude oil and products, 17 million tonnes LNG per year and has contracted sales of 1,600 TWh of natural gas each year. We have been investing in high quality, socially impactful carbon projects globally for over a decade and have committed over $2.5 billion capital to identified renewable projects.
Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including: gas to power production, thermal and renewable power plants with circa 1.2 GW of capacity, more than 18 million m3 of storage globally, 850,000 barrels per day of refining capacity, over 8,700 service stations and a growing portfolio of transitional and renewable energy assets. Revenues in 2023 were $400 billion.
Learn more at vitol.com.