Opening Remarks

• Mr. HOSAKA Shin, Commissioner, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Ministerial Speeches

• Dr. Fatih BIROL, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
• HRH, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minister of Energy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• H.E Arifin TASRIF, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Republic of Indonesia
• Mr. Lars Andreas LUNDE, Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Kingdom of Norway
• Dr. Jennifer WILCOX, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, Department of Energy (DOE), United States of America
• Dr. Alan FINKEL, Special Advisor to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technologies
• Dr. NISHIMURA Hidetoshi, President, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
• Mr. YUZAKI Hidehiko, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
• Dr. KOBAYASHI Yoshimitsu, Chairperson, Carbon Recycling Fund Institute (CRF), Japan

Keynote Speech

• Dr. YAMAJI Kenji
  President/Director-General, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)

7:55-8:25 (UTC) [Theme I] Progress of Minerals (Concrete and Cement) utilizing CO₂ by Carbon Recycling

• Moderator:
  Dr. YAMAMOTO Takeshi, Senior Research Scientist, R&D Manager<cementitious materials>, Structures and Earthquake Engineering Division, Sustainable System Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
• Panelists:
  • Dr. NOGUCHI Takafumi, Professor, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  • Mr. TSUJI Yusuke, Task Force Leader, Low Carbon Task Force, Mitsubishi Corporation
  • Mr. Robert NIVEN, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, CarbonCure Technologies Inc.

8:25-8:55 (UTC) [Theme II] Progress of Fuels and Chemicals utilizing CO₂ by Carbon Recycling

• Moderator:
  Mr. SAKAMOTO Toshiyuki, Director, Charge of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ)
• Panelists:
  • Ms. Freya BURTON, Chief Sustainability Officer, LanzaTech Incorporation
  • Mr. Ahmad O. AL KHOWAITER, Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco
  • Mr. MATSUSHITA Takashi, Executive Vice President, Representative Director, IDEMITSU Kosan Co., Ltd.

8:55-9:25 (UTC) [Theme III] Technologies for the Future, Expectation by Investment

• Moderator:
  Mr. NIWA Yoshihisa, Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group
• Panelists:
  • Dr. OBARA Haruhiko, Executive Officer, Director General, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Dr. Brian J. Anderson, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
  • Dr. Paul FERON, Science Leader CO2-Capture - Group Leader Sustainable Carbon Technologies Energy, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

• • Mr. ISHIZUKA Hiroaki
    Chairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)