Moderator

Silvija Seres is a mathematician and technology investor. She has a background in algorithm research at Oxford, development of the search engine Alta Vista in Silicon Valley, strategic leadership at Fast Search and Transfer, and service development at Microsoft.

Seres currently serves as a board member for several large companies, including Ruter, Det Norske Veritas, and Norsk Rikstoto, and is an active investor in several technology businesses.

Tor Arnesen has 40 years of experience from Oil and Gas,- mostly form Shell where he worked in several corporate and business roles.

After 7 years at Shell's HQ in The Hague,-he returned to Norway in 2012 to become Managing director Shell Norway.He retired from Shell in 2017, and is now active as Chair for several energy related boards,- including Energy Transition Norway and ONS. Tor has been leading the H2 Conference program committee.

Kari Nessa Nordtun is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has been mayor of Stavanger since October 2019. Nordtun is a trained lawyer from the University of Bergen. After completing her studies, she worked as a trainee lawyer and later as a lawyer for the law firm Sjødin, Meling & Co, and then for the law firm Elden DA. She was, among other things, a legal counsel for victims and relatives in the July 22 case.

She is currently on leave from her profession as a lawyer to engage in political work.

Andreas Bjelland Eriksen
Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (b. 1992) was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 1st August 2022. He is State Secretary at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for 50 percent and the Office of the Prime Minister for 50 percent from 1st July 2023.

He has priviously worked as an advisor at The Norwegian Energy Regulatory Authority (2017-2020) and as a political advisor to The Standing Committee on Business and Industry for the Labour Party parliamentary group from 2020 before being appointed to State Secretary for Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre at the Prime Minister's Office on 14th October 2021. (regjeringen.no)

Maria de Kleijn is a Partner at strategy consultancy Kearney.
She leads Sustainability for Europe and Kearney's Net Zero platform worldwide. In this capacity she advises clients how to make the energy transition a reality, with hydrogen being one of the pivotal technologies.

She builds on >20 years in the energy sector, with a mix of consulting, industry and government experience. She has worked at McKinsey, Vattenfall, and the Dutch Office for Energy Regulation.

Her experience centers on the utility sector and its industrial customers; renewable build-out, resilient power systems, hydrogen and industrial decarbonisation. Maria holds an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology, and an MBA from Oxford University.

Stephen Jackson is Deputy CEO and Chief Technology & Market Officer at HydrogenEurope.

He has a wealth of experience in public affairs and strategic communications, including stints at Weber Shandwick (Vice President), FTIConsulting (Senior Director), and the European Commission.

He also sits in the Board of Directors of the African Hydrogen Partnership as well as the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. His focus throughout his career has most often been on climate, sustainability and energy policy but he also boasts valuable knowledge in research & development, transport, technology, health and security issues.

Paro Konar has spent most of her career in the UK civil service working on Energy Policy.

An analyst by background, Paro has worked on electricity and gas markets, leading analytical teams to develop the evidence base for the Electricity Market Reform, Capacity Market, Low Carbon Auctions as well as developing the evidence base for large infrastructure policies such as new nuclear investment in the UK, and received an OBE in recognition for her contribution to energy analysis. Before joining Industrial Energy, Paro worked on EU Exit Negotiations.

 Paro, along with Stef Murphy, is now the Director for Hydrogen and Industrial Carbon Capture Directorate in the UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Ulrik Olbjørn, the Project Director for Clean Hydrogen to Europe at Equinor's Low Carbon Solutions group, brings 27 years of experience in the oil and gas industry to the upcoming hydrogen conference.

With a focus on developing large-scale blue hydrogen projects in Norway for export to Europe, Ulrik's expertise encompasses the entire value chain, from market-facing roles to asset management and production facilities.

Adrian Herberger, Project Lead Hydrogen and SAF Infrastructure & Industrialisation Airbus Operations Germany has over 18 years of invaluable experience at Airbus.

Adrian is leading the charge to fulfill Airbus's Carbon Net Zero ambitions, driving the company towards a greener and more sustainable future. His diverse background includes being part of the development of the A380 engineering, leading critical test activities for Airbus A350 and A400M, and championing automation solutions for production sites across Europe.

Henning Weege commenced his professional journey at thyssenkrupp in 2016, taking on roles within the Group's internal management consultancy, Thyssenkrupp Management Consulting.

Since 2022, he has held a significant position atthyssenkrupp Steel's Center of Decarbonization. Henning's current responsibilities primarily revolve around hydrogen and green electricity procurement, underlining his commitment to sustainable energy solutions. Noteworthy achievements include shaping strategic energy partnerships, formulating cross-interface strategies to manage renewable energy fluctuations, and conducting assessments of remote DRI/HBI sites and gas-fired power plants, all pivotal in advancing decarbonization objectives and grid stability.

Holding a Bachelor & Master in Industrial Engineering, specialized in Electrical Engineering from the TU Braunschweig, and an MBA in Strategic Innovation from the University of Rhode Island, Henning Weege's credentials underscore his expertise.

Jørn Arvid Endresen is the CEO of ASKO Midt- Norge - Trondheim, where he is responsible for the H2 Investment.

He has experinence from Norske Skog, Rema and Pipelife.

Arvid Moss, Excecutive Vice President for the Hydro Energy business area, is a seasoned leader who has held various senior management positions in the aluminium industry.

Moss has been with Hydro since 1991, where he has been responsible for strategy and business development, as well as the oil an gas merger with Statoil. Moss brings extensive knowledge of energy and sustainability to the conference, having been member of the Corporate Management Board in Hydro since August 2008, and headed Hydro Energy since 2010.

Joar Dalheim brings both deep and wide technical experience as the head of the Vysus Group Technology Board.

He has experience across several market areas including oil&gas, nuclear, energy and renewables. In addition to being familiar with general technology challenges and opportunities, Joar's technical expertise lies within risk analyses and advanced numerical modelling, both CFD and FEA.

He has initiated and managed several development projects (including joint industry projects) in the offshore domain, resulting in improved services to the industry and global standards and recommended practices. Joar was heading the development of the industry guideline for 3D risk analyses of land facilities on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), a project involving coordination of input from more than 30 main industry players, including regulators, operators, engineering contractors and consultants.

Joar is a member of the FABIG technical committee, the ESRA board, and head of the OG21 technical committee TG5 (Safety and working environment). Joar has published more than 50 professional papers and articles, including a book on numerical models in fluid-structure interaction.

Prakash Patel is a Chartered Chemical Engineer who has spent two decade in the industrial gases industry, specializing in safely supplying hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, steam and clean dry air to end users.

Currently, Prakash is a Global Hydrogen Risk Engineer Lead at Marsh Energy. He is an active member of the Energy Institute's Hydrogen and CCUS Safety Committees and chairs the working group revising the Energy Institutes guidelines for CCUS plant design, operations, and hazard analysis.

His extensive knowledge and experience in industrial gases and risk management will contribute to promoting the safe and efficient adoption of emerging technologies in the energy sector.

Nicole Dopffel is an expert in subsurface microbiology and worked for many years on the microbial influence on hydrogen and energy systems.

She holds a PhD in geomicrobiology and is working as senior scientist at the research institute NORCE Norwegian Research Center in Bergen. She is leading WP2 on storage and transport in the FME Center HyValue and is co-leading the subtask A in the International Energy Agency hydrogen TCP 42 for H2 Underground Storage.

Eystein Leren is market development responsible for renewable and low carbon ammonia to energy and industry in Europe for Yara Clean Ammonia.

He has more than 25 years of industry experience, possessing various positions in the cross-roads between technology and commerce, most of the time in Norsk Hydro and later Yara, where he for the last six years have been working with decarbonization of ammonia and emerging markets for clean ammonia and hydrogen.

Hege Økland is the Managing Director for Hy2gen Norge AS and is co-managing Iverson E-fuels AS which will establish a large-scale production of green ammonia in Sauda, Norway.

Økland founded NCE Maritime CleanTech and is the former CEO of this world-leading cluster for clean maritime solutions. She also has experience from various management positions within regional business development, industry and finance. She holds a Cand Merc, Master of Science in Business and Economics from Copenhagen Business School.

Bjørgulf Haukelidsæter Eidesen is the CEO & founder of Horisont Energi.

Bjørgulf holds a master's degree in cybernetics from NTNUin Trondheim, Norway.
He worked in oil and gas within projects, technology, and business development both as a consultant and in various discipline and management positions in Equinor, from 2004 to 2019.

Bjørgulf has always been interested in innovation and business development and focused on what we can achieve tomorrow with what we have today. His time in Equinor has given him a solid industrial basis and a broad leadership experience. In 2019, the entrepreneur in him woke up, and he founded Horisont Energi to build an energy company that delivers on climate and value creation on an industrial scale. 

Nils Røkke is en expert in energy research, serving as the Executive Vice President in Sustainability in SINTEF, Norway's largest research institute, and the President of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA).

He holds a PhD in combustion and has previously worked as Gas Turbine Design and Development Manager at Rolls Royce Marine. Røkke is highly regarded as a thought leader in the industry and serves on the Portfolio Board (Energy, Low Emissions and Transport) of the Norwegian Research Council (RCN).

He is also Director of the FME Centre Hydrogeni, a center of excellence with a budget of 500 MNok over 8 years and more than 50 partners from various sectors.

John Winterbourne is Country Manager for Ballard Power Systems in Norway, focusing on bus, truck, rail, marine and back-up power applications in the Nordics and Baltics.

He is leader of NEK TC 105 Fuel Cell Standards committee. Prior to joining Ballard Power Systems in 2020, he worked at the Embassy of Canada to Norway for over 20 years covering energy and environmental technology in the trade section.

Terje Hauan lives to spread science and positive energy around the green transition.

Hauan graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy in 1992 and started his career in the Norwegian Armed Forces. He has founded over ten technology/energy sector companies in five countries, including Norway, Russia, Brazil and the US.

From 2012 - 2018 Hauan served in management positions at Weatherford and Interwell. Since 2019 he joined SEID as a Director of Strategy, Business Development and co-owner.
SEID is a Norwegian Greentech company currently maturing a novel technology to produce sustainable hydrogen and solid carbon from bio/natural gas without emission of greenhouse gases.

Elin Steinsland is a seasoned leader with 20 years of experience in the energysector, spanning technology development and executive management.

Holding amaster's in physics and a PhD in Silicon Sensor Technology, she currentlyserves as the CEO of HydePoint. A HydePoint is a complete solutionfor receiving, converting, and transmitting the full energy potential fromoffshore wind farms, which can convert all or part of the energy into hydrogen- reducing the need for upscaling the power grid both to and on land.

HydePoint addresses the energytransmission challenges of offshore wind farms by pioneering hydrogen-basedenergy storage solutions, leveraging Norway's offshore wind potential toproduce hydrogen cost-effectively and contribute to a more sustainable energyfuture.

Thorsten Herbert has joined Nel ASA in May 2020 as theDirector Market Development and Public Affairs.

Well known in the hydrogen industry, Thorsten has spent over 18 years building up the industry in Germany. With a Mechanical Engineering degree from TU Darmstadt and a Master of Science in Renewable Energy from HAW Hamburg, Thorsten has attainedyears of experience with hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

From his many yearswith GM, working with fuel cell propulsion systems, and NOW GmbH – the mainfunding body for alternative fuels in Germany – he has developed a broadnetwork within hydrogen and other alternative fuels.

Martin Kjäll-Ohlsson has two decades of experience in the energy space, both in renewables, offshore oil & gas and electrification of industry.

He has worked in management positions across project execution, finance, marketing and business development, pre-dominantly in international roles. Mr. Kjäll-Ohlsson holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Frida Eklöf Monstad is senior advisor on low carbon business models in Equinor and project manager for the company’s joint project with VNG AG for low carbon hydrogen production in Germany.

Frida is also a board member of the Norwegian Hydrogen Forum. She has over 17 years’ of experience from the energy industry. Previous positions in Equinor include Vice president for logistics and emergency response, Manager for the offshore support vessel fleet and Process owner for global Supply chain management.

Before joining Equinor, she worked with start-ups in the IT-sector in Sweden and UK. She holds a Master of Science in Business from the Norwegian BI Business School, and a Bachelor in Business Management from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.