An agenda built through deep collaboration with our community to ensure every session delivers substance over soundbites. You’ll hear from true subject matter leaders via candid case studies, collaborative roundtables, and varied panel discussions —providing clarity on what’s driving success across the marketing landscape.
• Cut through shifting trade policy, subsidy uncertainty and re-armament pressures to identify where genuine transition risk lies – and where Europe's investment case remains intact.
• Align Europe's industrial competitiveness agenda with its decarbonisation commitments to sharpen near-term capital allocation strategy.
• Turn political complexity into a catalyst for faster, more resilient transition delivery. Defining the priorities that governments, utilities and investors must act on in the next 24 months.
• Identify where Europe's transition is most at risk of missing 2030 targets across clean power build-out, grid infrastructure and industrial decarbonisation.
• Pinpoint the two or three systemic barriers doing the most damage to delivery speed and investment flow across the energy system.
• Strategies for closing the gap on 2030 goals through targeted policy, investment and execution shifts, giving you a framework to pressuretest your own pipeline and capital decisions against realistic transition timelines.
• Assess whether current infrastructure plans, market structures and demand-side technology solutions are sufficient to support electrification at the pace and scale now required.
• Examine how governments, utilities and major power users can accelerate grid investment and unlock flexibility without sacrificing affordability or reliability.
• Explore strategies for building long-term confidence in Europe's electrified future across the investment, regulatory and industrial communities.
Before breaking for networking, delegates are invited to join small group discussions to reflect on the sessions just heard. Grouped by persona badges, each table will explore a set of guided questions drawn directly from the preceding sessions, creating space for peer conversation, challenge and shared insight. Where available, speakers will rotate across tables to take questions and continue the discussion.
• Evaluate the integration of smart grid technologies and real-time data analytics in improving grid reliability and efficiency.
• Examine the strategies and challenges of modernising ageing infrastructure to build a more resilient energy system.
• Assess how digitalisation can drive operational improvements and support the transition to a more modernised, resilient energy infrastructure.
• Assess where Europe truly stands on energy independence, and what it will take to close the gap between ambition and reality.
• Examine how building resilient, homegrown energy infrastructure can shift from a cost burden to a strategic and competitive advantage for European industry.
• Define what bold, coordinated leadership from government, industry and investors must look like to secure Europe's long-term energy sovereignty.
• Explore how oil and gas fit into Europe's evolving energy mix as renewables, electrification, storage and other low-carbon technologies scale across the system.
• Examine which areas of demand are likely to remain dependent on oil and gas, and where substitution, efficiency and decarbonisation are expected to reshape their role.
• Define how oil and gas leaders can position their businesses to remain resilient, competitive and relevant while navigating the pressures of affordability, energy security and climate commitments.
• Assess whether today's power market structures are sending the right investment signals to attract the scale and speed of capital Europe's energy transition demands.
• Examine how market design can better reward flexibility, from storage and demand response to dispatchable capacity, and why this matters for achieving long-term system stability.
• Define what Europe's market must deliver for the three stakeholders who matter most – investors seeking bankable returns, industry demanding affordable power, and a system that must remain resilient.
• Examine how supply chain developments are enabling the integration of AI and analytics into energy grids, building the resilience and flexibility needed to meet future demands.
• Explore how AI and data-driven technologies can address key energy transition challenges, improving efficiency and reducing emissions across industrial processes.
• Develop actionable strategies using AI and analytics to manage renewable intermittency and the growing electricity demands driven by electric vehicles and AI, supporting a safe and sustainable energy future
• Assess how AI and data centre expansion could reshape Europe's power demand, where load uncertainty is creating planning challenges, and what this means for grid planning and long-term infrastructure investment.
• Examine whether renewables, storage, grid upgrades and efficiency improvements will be sufficient to support growth, or whether dispatchable low-carbon power and greater system flexibility will also be needed.
• Explore the partnerships and policy approaches required between utilities, developers, hyperscalers and governments to secure power, manage peak demand and enable digital growth without increasing emissions.
• Examine how smart grid technologies such as real-time monitoring, automation and AI-enabled forecasting can help operators manage more variable, decentralised and congested power systems.
• Explore how better data visibility and coordination across TSOs, DSOs, utilities and large energy users can improve grid performance without relying on network expansion alone.
• Assess the barriers to smart grid deployment, including interoperability challenges, legacy systems, regulatory fragmentation and the challenge of translating digital investment into measurable operational outcomes.
• Assess where rising digitalisation, interconnected systems and third-party dependencies are creating new cyber vulnerabilities across Europe's energy infrastructure.
• Explore what utilities, grid operators, industrial energy users and governments must do to strengthen resilience, from system design and supply chain oversight to incident response.
• Discuss how to protect critical energy operations without undermining flexibility, innovation or the pace of infrastructure modernisation.
• Assess tech-supported timelines and workflows that meet reporting deadlines while ensuring traceability and audit readiness in high-volume environments
• Address challenges of inconsistent metrics and terminology across territories, and explore strategies to standardise data for accurate, comparable reporting
• Explore effective technology that streamlines climate and nature data collection and integrates metrics such as CO₂ emissions, water usage, and biodiversity indicators for thorough reporting
• Explore how storage can unlock grid connectivity and relieve congestion, helping developers, utilities and system operators make better use of limited grid capacity and connect renewable projects faster.
• Understand the role of storage in strengthening system flexibility and reliability, from short-duration batteries supporting balancing services to long-duration storage and pumped hydro helping manage intermittency, peak demand and security of supply.
• Learn what is needed to make storage deployable at scale, including clearer regulation, faster grid access, investable revenue models and better coordination across storage, renewables and transmission.
• Explore how rising power price volatility, more frequent negative pricing events, and the impact of increasing renewable energy integration are reshaping market economics across Europe.
• Examine what these dynamics mean for project bankability, revenue stability and investment appetite across generation, storage and flexible assets.
• Consider how developers, investors, utilities and industrial buyers can use hedging, contracting strategies and portfolio design to manage risk and build greater resilience.
• Assess how Europe can set realistic long-term transition goals that balance affordability, competitiveness and security of supply, and align governments, industry and system planners around practical 20-year pathways.
• Explore how Europe can strengthen strategic autonomy through homegrown clean energy, domestic industrial capacity and manufacturing competitiveness to reduce exposure to geopolitical risk and supply chain dependency.
• Examine how macro instability, shifting trade dynamics and political uncertainty complicate long-term planning, and what policy and investment frameworks are needed to turn ambition into achievable outcomes over the coming decades.
• Assess how pricing pressure, negative pricing and revenue volatility are reshaping investor appetite for renewables and storage, and what this means for financing structures going forward.
• Explore the financing models, hybrid PPAs and co-located asset strategies helping developers protect returns and fund electrification at scale.
• Discuss what policymakers, utilities and investors must do to improve bankability, strengthen market confidence and keep capital flowing into clean energy technologies.
• Explore whether nuclear can credibly meet fast-rising electricity demand from AI and hyperscale data centres, and whether it can deliver at the speed and scale the digital economy requires.
• Examine what is needed to make nuclear bankable and buildable, from planning reform and financing models to workforce development, fuel supply security and technology readiness.
• Discuss how nuclear's firm, low-carbon output can complement renewables, storage and flexible capacity in a power system under growing pressure, and what needs to change to make that a reality.
• Assess what the first year of CBAM has revealed about where companies are still facing uncertainty, from compliance and reporting expectations to questions about the regulation's long-term direction.
• Explore how businesses are navigating underdeveloped systems, processes and internal capabilities - and the practical challenges this creates across data collection, reporting and complex cross-border value chains.
• Identify what clearer guidance, stronger coordination and better implementation tools are needed from policymakers, regulators and industry to make CBAM workable in practice, not just in principle.
• Explore the potential of emerging technologies such as hydrogen, CCS, and advanced battery storage in decarbonising the energy sector.
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities in scaling these technologies and integrating them into existing systems.
• Assess the role of research and innovation in driving technological advancements and reducing costs
• Examine how unclear or inconsistent regulation is affecting investor confidence, delaying final investment decisions and weakening supply chain commitments across the energy transition.
• Explore what a stable regulatory framework needs to deliver in practice, from longterm revenue certainty and permitting consistency to the supply chain signals that make projects financeable and buildable.
• Discuss how governments, regulators and industry can close the gap between policy ambition and real project delivery, and what it takes to maintain that stability in the face of political and market pushback.
• Assess where CCS is gaining real traction in Europe and why it is becoming increasingly critical for cement, chemicals, steel, fertilisers and other hard-to-abate sectors.
• Examine the main barriers to scale, including weak project economics, slow permitting, policy uncertainty, cross-border infrastructure gaps and the absence of clear long-term revenue support.
• Examine what needs to happen first, and fastest, to move CCS projects from pipeline to delivery, and whether Europe's current policy and investment landscape can support scale.
• Explore how innovation ecosystems, R&D investment and public-private collaboration are shaping the pace and direction of clean technology development across Europe's energy transition.
• Examine how emerging technologies including AI, IoT and blockchain are being integrated into clean tech solutions to improve efficiency, scalability and real-world environmental impact.
• Identify the partnership models, commercialisation strategies and scaling frameworks that can move clean tech innovations from pilot to deployment, and what practical lessons can be taken back into business and investment decisions.
• Assess how LNG is strengthening Europe's energy security by diversifying supply sources, supporting system flexibility and helping manage ongoing market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.
• Examine how infrastructure investment, contracting strategies and intensifying global LNG competition are shaping Europe's ability to secure reliable and affordable gas supply.
• Discuss how LNG can underpin short- and medium-term system resilience as Europe continues to build out renewables, storage and domestic clean energy capacity.
• Cut through the political noise around offshore wind by examining why pushback is growing, which criticisms are gaining traction, and how the industry can respond with a more credible, fact-based narrative.
• Assess the real economics of offshore wind today, pressured returns, supply chain inflation, market volatility and the absence of a continuous project pipeline that is undermining confidence across the value chain.
• Discuss what a credible path forward looks like for offshore wind, and what governments and industry each need to deliver to make it happen.
• Assess which decarbonisation pathways are most viable and scalable for Europe's hardest-to-abate industries, including CCS, hydrogen and electrification.
• Examine what upstream producers, industrial operators and infrastructure developers must do to move decarbonisation beyond pilots and into full deployment.
• Discuss what policy, capital and coordination are needed to keep industrial investment and production in Europe.
• Cut through shifting trade policy, subsidy uncertainty and re-armament pressures to identify where genuine transition risk lies – and where Europe's investment case remains intact.
• Align Europe's industrial competitiveness agenda with its decarbonisation commitments to sharpen near-term capital allocation strategy.
• Turn political complexity into a catalyst for faster, more resilient transition delivery. Defining the priorities that governments, utilities and investors must act on in the next 24 months.
• Identify where Europe's transition is most at risk of missing 2030 targets across clean power build-out, grid infrastructure and industrial decarbonisation.
• Pinpoint the two or three systemic barriers doing the most damage to delivery speed and investment flow across the energy system.
• Strategies for closing the gap on 2030 goals through targeted policy, investment and execution shifts, giving you a framework to pressuretest your own pipeline and capital decisions against realistic transition timelines.
• Assess whether current infrastructure plans, market structures and demand-side technology solutions are sufficient to support electrification at the pace and scale now required.
• Examine how governments, utilities and major power users can accelerate grid investment and unlock flexibility without sacrificing affordability or reliability.
• Explore strategies for building long-term confidence in Europe's electrified future across the investment, regulatory and industrial communities.
• Assess where Europe truly stands on energy independence, and what it will take to close the gap between ambition and reality.
• Examine how building resilient, homegrown energy infrastructure can shift from a cost burden to a strategic and competitive advantage for European industry.
• Define what bold, coordinated leadership from government, industry and investors must look like to secure Europe's long-term energy sovereignty.
• Explore how oil and gas fit into Europe's evolving energy mix as renewables, electrification, storage and other low-carbon technologies scale across the system.
• Examine which areas of demand are likely to remain dependent on oil and gas, and where substitution, efficiency and decarbonisation are expected to reshape their role.
• Define how oil and gas leaders can position their businesses to remain resilient, competitive and relevant while navigating the pressures of affordability, energy security and climate commitments.
• Assess whether today's power market structures are sending the right investment signals to attract the scale and speed of capital Europe's energy transition demands.
• Examine how market design can better reward flexibility, from storage and demand response to dispatchable capacity, and why this matters for achieving long-term system stability.
• Define what Europe's market must deliver for the three stakeholders who matter most – investors seeking bankable returns, industry demanding affordable power, and a system that must remain resilient.
• Assess how AI and data centre expansion could reshape Europe's power demand, where load uncertainty is creating planning challenges, and what this means for grid planning and long-term infrastructure investment.
• Examine whether renewables, storage, grid upgrades and efficiency improvements will be sufficient to support growth, or whether dispatchable low-carbon power and greater system flexibility will also be needed.
• Explore the partnerships and policy approaches required between utilities, developers, hyperscalers and governments to secure power, manage peak demand and enable digital growth without increasing emissions.
• Examine how smart grid technologies such as real-time monitoring, automation and AI-enabled forecasting can help operators manage more variable, decentralised and congested power systems.
• Explore how better data visibility and coordination across TSOs, DSOs, utilities and large energy users can improve grid performance without relying on network expansion alone.
• Assess the barriers to smart grid deployment, including interoperability challenges, legacy systems, regulatory fragmentation and the challenge of translating digital investment into measurable operational outcomes.
• Assess where rising digitalisation, interconnected systems and third-party dependencies are creating new cyber vulnerabilities across Europe's energy infrastructure.
• Explore what utilities, grid operators, industrial energy users and governments must do to strengthen resilience, from system design and supply chain oversight to incident response.
• Discuss how to protect critical energy operations without undermining flexibility, innovation or the pace of infrastructure modernisation.
• Assess tech-supported timelines and workflows that meet reporting deadlines while ensuring traceability and audit readiness in high-volume environments
• Address challenges of inconsistent metrics and terminology across territories, and explore strategies to standardise data for accurate, comparable reporting
• Explore effective technology that streamlines climate and nature data collection and integrates metrics such as CO₂ emissions, water usage, and biodiversity indicators for thorough reporting
• Explore how storage can unlock grid connectivity and relieve congestion, helping developers, utilities and system operators make better use of limited grid capacity and connect renewable projects faster.
• Understand the role of storage in strengthening system flexibility and reliability, from short-duration batteries supporting balancing services to long-duration storage and pumped hydro helping manage intermittency, peak demand and security of supply.
• Learn what is needed to make storage deployable at scale, including clearer regulation, faster grid access, investable revenue models and better coordination across storage, renewables and transmission.
• Explore how rising power price volatility, more frequent negative pricing events, and the impact of increasing renewable energy integration are reshaping market economics across Europe.
• Examine what these dynamics mean for project bankability, revenue stability and investment appetite across generation, storage and flexible assets.
• Consider how developers, investors, utilities and industrial buyers can use hedging, contracting strategies and portfolio design to manage risk and build greater resilience.
• Assess how Europe can set realistic long-term transition goals that balance affordability, competitiveness and security of supply, and align governments, industry and system planners around practical 20-year pathways.
• Explore how Europe can strengthen strategic autonomy through homegrown clean energy, domestic industrial capacity and manufacturing competitiveness to reduce exposure to geopolitical risk and supply chain dependency.
• Examine how macro instability, shifting trade dynamics and political uncertainty complicate long-term planning, and what policy and investment frameworks are needed to turn ambition into achievable outcomes over the coming decades.
• Assess how pricing pressure, negative pricing and revenue volatility are reshaping investor appetite for renewables and storage, and what this means for financing structures going forward.
• Explore the financing models, hybrid PPAs and co-located asset strategies helping developers protect returns and fund electrification at scale.
• Discuss what policymakers, utilities and investors must do to improve bankability, strengthen market confidence and keep capital flowing into clean energy technologies.
• Explore whether nuclear can credibly meet fast-rising electricity demand from AI and hyperscale data centres, and whether it can deliver at the speed and scale the digital economy requires.
• Examine what is needed to make nuclear bankable and buildable, from planning reform and financing models to workforce development, fuel supply security and technology readiness.
• Discuss how nuclear's firm, low-carbon output can complement renewables, storage and flexible capacity in a power system under growing pressure, and what needs to change to make that a reality.
• Assess what the first year of CBAM has revealed about where companies are still facing uncertainty, from compliance and reporting expectations to questions about the regulation's long-term direction.
• Explore how businesses are navigating underdeveloped systems, processes and internal capabilities - and the practical challenges this creates across data collection, reporting and complex cross-border value chains.
• Identify what clearer guidance, stronger coordination and better implementation tools are needed from policymakers, regulators and industry to make CBAM workable in practice, not just in principle.
• Examine how unclear or inconsistent regulation is affecting investor confidence, delaying final investment decisions and weakening supply chain commitments across the energy transition.
• Explore what a stable regulatory framework needs to deliver in practice, from longterm revenue certainty and permitting consistency to the supply chain signals that make projects financeable and buildable.
• Discuss how governments, regulators and industry can close the gap between policy ambition and real project delivery, and what it takes to maintain that stability in the face of political and market pushback.
• Assess where CCS is gaining real traction in Europe and why it is becoming increasingly critical for cement, chemicals, steel, fertilisers and other hard-to-abate sectors.
• Examine the main barriers to scale, including weak project economics, slow permitting, policy uncertainty, cross-border infrastructure gaps and the absence of clear long-term revenue support.
• Examine what needs to happen first, and fastest, to move CCS projects from pipeline to delivery, and whether Europe's current policy and investment landscape can support scale.
• Assess how LNG is strengthening Europe's energy security by diversifying supply sources, supporting system flexibility and helping manage ongoing market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.
• Examine how infrastructure investment, contracting strategies and intensifying global LNG competition are shaping Europe's ability to secure reliable and affordable gas supply.
• Discuss how LNG can underpin short- and medium-term system resilience as Europe continues to build out renewables, storage and domestic clean energy capacity.
• Cut through the political noise around offshore wind by examining why pushback is growing, which criticisms are gaining traction, and how the industry can respond with a more credible, fact-based narrative.
• Assess the real economics of offshore wind today, pressured returns, supply chain inflation, market volatility and the absence of a continuous project pipeline that is undermining confidence across the value chain.
• Discuss what a credible path forward looks like for offshore wind, and what governments and industry each need to deliver to make it happen.
• Assess which decarbonisation pathways are most viable and scalable for Europe's hardest-to-abate industries, including CCS, hydrogen and electrification.
• Examine what upstream producers, industrial operators and infrastructure developers must do to move decarbonisation beyond pilots and into full deployment.
• Discuss what policy, capital and coordination are needed to keep industrial investment and production in Europe.
Before breaking for networking, delegates are invited to join small group discussions to reflect on the sessions just heard. Grouped by persona badges, each table will explore a set of guided questions drawn directly from the preceding sessions, creating space for peer conversation, challenge and shared insight. Where available, speakers will rotate across tables to take questions and continue the discussion.
• Evaluate the integration of smart grid technologies and real-time data analytics in improving grid reliability and efficiency.
• Examine the strategies and challenges of modernising ageing infrastructure to build a more resilient energy system.
• Assess how digitalisation can drive operational improvements and support the transition to a more modernised, resilient energy infrastructure.
• Examine how supply chain developments are enabling the integration of AI and analytics into energy grids, building the resilience and flexibility needed to meet future demands.
• Explore how AI and data-driven technologies can address key energy transition challenges, improving efficiency and reducing emissions across industrial processes.
• Develop actionable strategies using AI and analytics to manage renewable intermittency and the growing electricity demands driven by electric vehicles and AI, supporting a safe and sustainable energy future
• Explore the potential of emerging technologies such as hydrogen, CCS, and advanced battery storage in decarbonising the energy sector.
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities in scaling these technologies and integrating them into existing systems.
• Assess the role of research and innovation in driving technological advancements and reducing costs
• Explore how innovation ecosystems, R&D investment and public-private collaboration are shaping the pace and direction of clean technology development across Europe's energy transition.
• Examine how emerging technologies including AI, IoT and blockchain are being integrated into clean tech solutions to improve efficiency, scalability and real-world environmental impact.
• Identify the partnership models, commercialisation strategies and scaling frameworks that can move clean tech innovations from pilot to deployment, and what practical lessons can be taken back into business and investment decisions.
