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ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 105,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. www.abb.com 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Aker Horizons is dedicated to developing companies that solve fundamental challenges to sustainable existence – or planet-positive investing. Aker Horizons offers a unique approach to combining environmental impact and financial returns.

We combine 180 years’ of industrial heritage with smart capital management and the financial capabilities to make a measurable impact on the environment – what we call planet-positive investing. We are dedicated to incubating and developing companies that solve fundamental challenges to sustainable existence. Our portfolios include companies across renewable energies such as solar, offshore, and onshore wind, hydropower, hydrogen, batteries and carbon capture.

Aker Horizons is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and majority-owned by Aker ASA, a Norwegian industrial investment group.

Cognite is a global industrial software provider enabling the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world. With Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), we supply contextualized data to drive industrial applications that increase safety and efficiency and drive revenue.

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion™, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. 

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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.

Aramco is a global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. This helps promote stability and long-term growth around the world. www.aramco.com

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, drives digital transformation for industrial organizations managing complex operational processes. Through Performance Intelligence, AVEVA connects the power of information and artificial intelligence (AI) with human insight, to enable faster and more precise decision making, helping industries to boost operational delivery and sustainability. Our cloud-enabled operational data management, combined with software that spans design, engineering and operations, asset performance, monitoring and control solutions delivers proven business value and outcomes to over 20,000 customers worldwide, supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 5,500 partners and 5,700 certified developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 6,000 employees at 90 locations in more than 40 countries.

Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and with operations in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us at bakerhughes.com.

Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions. With $293 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2021, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 1,800 people in 26 offices across five continents.

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. We are focused on lowering the carbon intensity in our operations and seeking to grow lower carbon businesses along with our traditional business lines. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.

ExxonMobil has been a leader in innovation for nearly 140 years, supplying the products that people need to live healthy, prosperous lives in an ever-changing world. We’re proud of our history of developing technological solutions at a scale that few companies can match.

Today, we’re working to play a leading role in helping the world move toward a lower-emission future.

We’ve announced our ambition to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from operated assets by 2050. This builds on our 2030 emission-reduction plans, which include net-zero (Scope 1 and 2) emissions in our Permian Basin operations. We’ve made significant progress in lowering emissions since 2016, and now we’re developing detailed roadmaps for our major operated assets to help accelerate that progress.

We also plan to invest more than $15 billion through 2027 on initiatives like carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and biofuels, all of which are key to helping society achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. These technologies focus on today’s biggest challenges – reducing emissions from heavy industry, power generation and commercial transportation, which together account for about 80% of the world’s emissions and are from the hardest to decarbonize sectors.

The move to net-zero emissions isn’t the first energy transition for the world, or for ExxonMobil. We’re committed to providing and improving the products we all need, while working toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and creating value for all of our stakeholders. 

For more than 80 years, Hunt has been a leader in the oil exploration and production industry, beginning as a modest, family-owned and -operated regional exploration company in 1934 and transitioning into a large, international company, capable of operating in multiple energy activities anywhere in the world. Hunt focuses on multiple energy technologies that it believes will play important roles in the energy transition, including international exploration and production, refining opportunities, power opportunities, and new energy technologies such as perovskite solar and battery technology.

At Hunt, our Purpose is to impact humanity for the better, with energy. We create long-term value and profitability for all stakeholders, including our people, our communities, our partners, and ourselves.

Invest in Canada promotes, facilitates and accelerates foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada. We work closely with industry, community and government partners to offer customized services to help global companies unlock investment opportunities. Are you a leader in the global energy industry and want to join Canada’s emerging hydrogen and cleantech industries? Visit our website to find out how Invest in Canada can help facilitate your business expansion: investcanada.ca

The Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Assured Autonomy is a national center of excellence ensuring the safe, secure, reliable, and predictable integration of autonomous systems into society by covering the full spectrum of research across the three pillars of technology, ecosystem, and policy and governance. Its goal is to ensure that autonomous systems will be trusted to operate as expected, to respond safely to unexpected inputs, to withstand corruption by adversaries, and to integrate seamlessly into society.

The IAA leverages JHU research scientists in the engineering, public health, policy and medical schools with the engineering and applications experts at the Applied Physics Laboratory to bring new discoveries to market. Our goals include making progress on developing a shared understanding of assured autonomy and how autonomy affects different sectors of the economy. We seek strategic collaborations with external partners to provide breadth and depth of expertise to accomplish the vision of a trusted autonomous future.

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Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm.

We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers.

Our 10,000 experts in more than 50 countries deliver on five core areas: Organization Strategy, Assessment & Succession, Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Professional Development and Total Rewards.

Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company Masdar is advancing the commercialization and deployment of renewable energy, sustainable urban development and clean technologies to address global sustainability challenges. Wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, the strategic investment company of the Government of Abu Dhabi, our mandate is to help maintain the UAE’s leadership in the global energy sector, while supporting the diversification of both its economy and energy sources for the benefit of future generations. Today, Masdar is active in more than 30 countries, including the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Egypt, Morocco, the UK, the US, Australia, Serbia, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and many more.

MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) links science, engineering, innovation, economics and policy to transform the world’s energy system.

Since its inception in late 2006, MITEI has become MIT’s hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Through these three pillars, MITEI plays a catalytic role in accelerating responses to the many challenges facing our global energy system. MITEI’s mission is to develop low- and no-carbon solutions to efficiently, affordably, and sustainably meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts, dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating climate change. To advance this mission, MITEI brings together researchers from across the Institute and facilitates collaborations with industry and government.

MITEI and its member companies and organizations support hundreds of research projects across the Institute. Led by MITEI, MIT continues to play an important role in advancing low carbon energy technologies and our understanding of the underlying science - as well as in helping to inform future energy policy. Strategic collaboration with its industry members guided by sophisticated system level modeling and analysis have long been and continue to be a hallmark of MITEI’s approach. To learn more about MITEI, visit www.energy.mit.edu

MHI Group

Integrating cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. As a global leader in engineering and manufacturing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group delivers innovative and integrated solutions across a wide range of industries from power plants and gas turbines to commercial aviation and transportation, and from machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems. MHI is reducing emissions in its operations and developing solutions that help customers across industries reach carbon reduction targets. Our broad portfolio of energy solutions provide the enhanced efficiency, flexibility, and reliability needed to enable us to achieve decarbonization. MHI remains committed to securing humanity’s future alongside advancing the energy transition by improving and scaling technologies, creating new jobs and training workers to succeed in the economy of the future. To find out more about MHI Group, visit our website. For additional information about the innovative and integrated solutions we offer and the real-world impact they have, visit our Forbes BrandVoice and Spectra homepages.

Mitsubishi Power

Mitsubishi Power Americas empowers customers to affordably and reliably navigate the energy transition while also working to ensure resource adequacy and affordability and advance human prosperity throughout the Americas. At Mitsubishi Power, we’re boldly accelerating the energy transition and guiding our customers towards a brighter future with solutions that this generation needs to support those to come. Drawing on our unique and deep expertise, we pioneer breakthrough technologies — from advanced class gas turbines to AI systems for autonomous power plants to the use of hydrogen as storage and fuel — to meet the increasing demand for cleaner, more efficient, and more economical power. Mitsubishi Power applies its extensive knowledge to create tailored solutions for our customers’ needs and objectives.

Mitsubishi Power is a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI). Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, MHI is one of the world’s leading heavy machinery manufacturers with engineering and manufacturing businesses spanning energy, infrastructure, transport, aerospace and defense. For more information, visit the Mitsubishi Power Americas website and follow us on LinkedIn. 

OGCI Climate Investments manages a US$1B+ fund focused on driving substantial reduction in carbon emissions by investing in technologies and projects that lower methane or carbon dioxide emissions or capture and store carbon dioxide.

OGCI Climate Investments was launched in 2016 by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, a CEO-led initiative of 12 global oil and gas companies accounting for 30% of global operated production that aims to lead the industry response to climate change. At OGCI Climate Investments, we seek to accelerate global implementation of low carbon solutions across the energy, industrial, buildings and commercial transport sectors by collaborating with OGCI members, governments, customers and co-investors. Since inception, we have invested in 23 technologies and projects.

Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily located 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. Visit oxy.com for more information.

We are a dynamic global energy group with presence in over 50 countries. We produce and deliver energy and solutions that power society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner.

We seek energy potential across the globe, optimizing value through our integrated business model. Our portfolio includes cleaner conventional and renewable resources and a ready range of advanced products and adaptive solutions.

Sustainability is at the core of what we do as we harness the good in energy to elevate and enrich lives. People are our strength and partners for growth, driving our passion for innovation to progress towards the future of energy sustainability.

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Project Canary is a climate tech company that provides trusted, independent, and verified environmental data to track, measure, and score the “E” in ESG across an enterprise’s operational value chain. They are the leaders in providing dynamic environmental ratings using real-time monitoring data at the facility level to assess and improve operating practices and provide a science-based and technology-enabled measurement of emission profiles, including methane. Formed as a Public Benefit Corporation, Project Canary’s team of scientists, engineers, and seasoned industry operators have earned recognition for their uncompromising standards, including being named “Best for the World” B Corp. projectcanary.com.

Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential college system, which supports students intellectually, emotionally and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lectures series, courses and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities. As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contribution to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor.

 Schlumberger (SLB: NYSE) is a technology company that partners with customers to access energy. Our people, representing over 160 nationalities, are providing leading digital solutions and deploying innovative technologies to enable performance and sustainability for the global energy industry. With expertise in more than 120 countries, we collaborate to create technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all.

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.

We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.

We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

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Sempra Infrastructure delivers energy for a better world. Through the combined strength of its assets in North America, the company is dedicated to enabling the energy transition and beyond. With a continued focus on sustainability, innovation, world-class safety, championing people, resilient operations and social responsibility, its more than 2,000 employees develop, build and operate clean power, energy networks and LNG and net-zero solutions, that are expected to play a crucial role in the energy systems of the future. For more information about Sempra Infrastructure, please visit www.SempraInfrastructure.com.

We are an integrated energy technology company intent on empowering partners to meet the growing global demand for energy while transitioning to a more sustainable world. We are committed to making tomorrow different today for both our partners and our people.

Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy leads the university’s efforts in energy research and education, from basic science and technology to policy and business. The Precourt Institute, its initiatives and centers fund research, help educate the next generation of leaders in the energy sector and promote the results of sustainable energy efforts across campus. It also builds collaborations globally with business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and other researchers in pursuit of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all people. The Precourt Institute and other Stanford energy programs organize conferences and workshops throughout the year. For more information about Stanford Energy news, events, people and programs, please visit energy.stanford.edu.

To keep up to date, follow @StanfordEnergy on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and subscribe to the Stanford Energy channel on YouTube and to Stanford Energy News monthly at energy.stanford.news.

Corporations, government, civic organizations and individuals can interact with Stanford Energy in a variety of ways. Members of industrial affiliate and sponsored-research programs at the Precourt Institute and elsewhere on campus support Stanford energy research and education. The programs also provide many opportunities for interaction with faculty members and students, as do Stanford’s internship programs. Stanford offers a professional education program on energy. The Global Energy Dialogues, StorageX International Symposium and Stanford Energy Seminar are open to all who are passionate to learn about and advance the global energy transition. For more information, visit energy.stanford.edu/engage.

Sunnova is a leader in residential solar, battery storage and system protection services, with customers across the U.S. and its territories. We are your source for clean, affordable, and reliable energy, with a simple mission: to power energy independence so our customers have the freedom to live life uninterrupted™.

Tree Energy Solutions (TES) is a pure-play green and clean hydrogen company supplying long term non-intermittent carbon-neutral energy on demand at a large scale.

TES’s prime objective is to accelerate the energy transition by utilising the existing global energy infrastructure to reach customers with green hydrogen, green gas and green power while accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels from the system globally and introducing CO2 circularity.

TES will introduce green hydrogen at scale into markets globally with an innovative business model with proven technology for current and future hydrogen users, particularly across mobility, industrial and power sectors.

TES is currently developing energy supply and import hubs in Germany, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and the United States to build and optimize global supply chains. Initial production and export hubs are being developed in the Middle East and North America.

The company was founded by the Belgian investment company AtlasInvest which has an established track record in the energy sector and has invested increasingly in renewable energy projects. www.tes-h2.com

Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals and Minerals, and Power and Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.

Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. With over 1,000 shareholders, Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries.

Williams (NYSE: WMB) owns and operates energy infrastructure that safely and reliably delivers the natural gas that is used every day to affordably heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. As the world moves to a low-carbon future, Williams is well-positioned to leverage its natural gas-focused strategy while continuing to deliver consistently stable returns for shareholders. Williams recently ranked No. 1 in its peer group in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and was the only U.S. energy company to be included in their world index. A FORTUNE 500 investment grade corporation headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Williams operates across the natural gas value chain including gathering, processing, interstate transportation and storage of natural gas and natural gas liquids. With major positions in top U.S. supply basins, Williams owns and operates more than 30,000 miles of pipelines system wide – including Transco, the nation’s largest volume and fastest growing pipeline – and handles approximately 30 percent of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day for clean-power generation, heating and industrial use. Williams is uniquely positioned to continue replacing higher carbon fuels while supporting the growth of renewable energy and responsibly sourced natural gas for domestic use and LNG export. In addition to pursuing clean hydrogen, solar and renewable natural gas opportunities, Williams is looking forward to and anticipating future innovations and technologies that we can use on our key energy networks to build a clean energy economy.

The World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) connects leading energy cities on all continents that are committed to fostering the transition to a more sustainable energy future. WECP cities are home to many of the world’s largest energy companies which are leading initiatives to build a lower-carbon energy future. WECP Cities are working with industry to develop the full range of energy solutions to power the world today and into tomorrow.

As hubs for the global energy sector, WECP Mayors are leading voices on the most pressing challenges facing the urban landscape today, including sustainable economic development, climate action, and building more resilient cities. Our member cities are also uniquely positioned to serve as laboratories of innovation, collaborating with industry and academic partners to accelerate technology advancement and provide a fertile environment for new initiatives.

Xcoal Energy Resources is a privately-owned global coal marketing and logistics company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (USA). Ernie Thrasher leads a +100-person team with a “customer first” mentality spread throughout 20 global offices.

Xcoal specializes in marketing metallurgical, thermal, and anthracite coals from around the world, with a focus on supply from the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Innovative and creative logistical processes supported 2019 export volumes of over 25.0 million metric tonnes.

Xcoal is involved in coal mine development, financing, and related infrastructure projects and are actively pursuing investment opportunities in the global coal supply chain.

We take pride in our record of providing customers with reliable service, stable quality, and consistent supply.

XLNG Energy & Resources was developed to market and deliver alternative forms of energy to the global marketplace. XLNG has access to abundant U.S. shale gas supply in close proximity to LNG liquefaction plants and has experience sourcing LNG from other global supply basins as well.

XLNG will build on Xcoal’s marketing infrastructure and commercial relationships, while utilizing a well-established and successful business model to deliver gas to our customers.

Through strong supply and logistics relationships, XLNG exported 14.5 TBTU of LNG in 2019 and will continue to grow its presence in global LNG markets on our track record of reliable service & consistent supply.