TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER

09:00 – 10:30 Joint Opening Keynote Session

Chair: Nigel Blackaby, Director of Conferences, PennWell Corporation, UK

Keynote Speakers:
*Lim Hng Kiang,  Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore
John Ng, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSeraya, Singapore

10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break
 
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1: Fuel Issues - Panel Discussion
This session focuses on the impact of China & India on the power industry’s fuel supply, fuel cost, and environmental impacts of fuel use in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as on general fuel issues on a regional and worldwide scope.

Moderator: Mark Hutchinson, Senior Director, IHS CERA, Singapore

Presentations:

Peak oil could mean peak demand instead of supply

Torbjorn Kjus, Oil Analyst, DnB NOR Markets, Norway

Panellists:

- Torbjorn Kjus, Oil Analyst, DnB NOR Markets, Norway

- Neil McGregor, Executive Director, SLNG, Singapore

- John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre, UK

- *Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi, President & Chairman of the Board, Future Trends International, P.R. China

- *Representative from the EMA, Singapore


12:30 – 14:00 Delegate Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Session 2: Country Focus on Pool Markets
This session focuses on deregulated power markets in Asia and on the opportunities and challenges for foreign participants.

Chair: John Yeap, Partner, Head of Energy, Asia Pacific, Pinsent Masons, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Will Asia lead us into the information era revolution in the ESI, or will regional constraints leave us dark?

Mike Thomas, Vice President, Charles River Associates, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Update on the Singapore power market

Kim Keats, Associate Director - International Infrastructure Analysis, IPA Energy + Water Economics, UK

Update on the Philippines power market

Mark Woodruff, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, The AES Corporation, Singapore

16:00 - 17:30 Session 3: Country Focus on Regulated Markets
This session focuses on the developments in regulated power markets in Asia, as far as they are open to foreign investors. 

Chair: Suryanarayan Ramanan, Marketing Director, GE Pacific Pte Ltd. (GE Energy), Singapore

New government guarantees for fast-track Indonesian power projects

Luke Devine, Foreign Legal Consultant, Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, Indonesia

Update on the power industry in Vietnam

Samuel Wan, Managing Director, Asia Pacific EPC Ltd., Hong Kong S.A.R

Update on the Thailand market

*Representative from The Ministry of Energy, Thailand

Update on the Malaysian power market

*Representative from Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia

WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER

11:00 - 12:30 Session 5: The Big Two - China & India
This session takes a look at the domestic power market developments of China and India and offers insights of the direction of these regional powerhouses.
 
Chair: Sean Purdie, Senior Vice President, Marubeni Asian Power, Hong Kong S.A.R

Gas for power, an inevitable trend for China to achieve sustainable development future

Huaibin Lu, President, 3E Information Development & Consultants, P.R. China

Update on China’s power market

Harley Seyedin, President, The American Chamber of Commerce in South China and Sithe Global Pacific, P.R. China

Title to be confirmed

Ravi Krishnan, Principal consultant, Krishnan & Associates Inc., USA

Update on India’s power market

*B.K. Chaturvredi, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India


12:30 – 14:00 Delegate Lunch 

14:00 - 15:30 Session 6: Country Focus on Northeast Markets
This session will profile two Northeast Asian countries and will reveal the challenges and opportunities they face.

Chair: Gordon Cumming, Region Vice-President - Asia, Alstom, South Korea

Speakers to be confirmed


15:30 – 16:00 Networking Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 7: Carbon Markets & their Financing
This session highlights post-Copenhagen-summit uncertainties and prospects of carbon market developments from a power market player’s perspective.

Chair: John Yeap, Partner, Head of Energy, Asia Pacific, Pinsent Masons, Hong Kong S.A.R.

CDM: where to now?
Desmond Godson, Investment Adviser, EEA Fund Management Limited, UK
Co-Author: Michael Van der Meer, Chief Representative, EEA Group Limited, P.R. China

Deploying low carbon technologies - private sector readiness costs
Duncan Ritchie, CEO, Aequero, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Sectoral CDM in Thailand electricity sector
Sarayudth Keawkamthong, Officer, EGAT, Thailand
Co-Authors: Prapita Thanarak, Lecturer; Worapol Suksamran, Graduate Student- SERT, Naresuan University, Thailand

Carbon market financing & revenues from an IPP perspective
Giuseppe (Joseph) Jacobelli, Group Director – Carbon Ventures, CLP Holdings Limited, Hong Kong S.A.R. 

THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER

09:00 - 10:30 Session 8: Clean Power
This session will consider the consider the options, characteristics and place for clean power options including nuclear power emerging in the Asian context

Chair: Stephen W. Kidd, Director of Strategy & Research, World Nuclear Association, UK

Clean power generation in emerging economies
Shahid Qadri, Vice President & Director, Black & Veatch Corporation, USA
Co-Authors: Andrew Byers, Associate Vice President; Samuel Scupham, Energy Consultant - Black & Veatch, USA

Nuclear power in South-East Asia - a technology supplier’s perspective
Selena Ng, Director, Asia-Pacific Business Development, Areva, Australia

Developing nuclear power plants in Asia – key contractual issues
Melanie Grimmitt, Partner, Pinsent Masons, UK 

Prospects of nuclear energy in ASEAN
T S Gopi Rethinaraj, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore


10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break