Peter is a recognised leader in the gas, CCUS and emerging Hydrogen industry and is the global Worley Onshore Upstream and Midstream Vice President.  He is a past president and Board member of the Australian Pipelines & Gas Association and currently a Director of the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre.   He has been responsible for the successful completion major midstream and upstream projects.

Adrian Dickison is a chemical engineer with over 35 years’ experience. Adrian is Beca’s subject matter expert in Industrial Refrigeration and is heavily involved in refrigeration design, specification, and process safety. Adrian is also founder of Maestro, Beca’s continuous refrigeration optimisation and asset condition product. Prior to Beca, Adrian was a refrigeration system designer with York Process Systems (now Johnson Controls) at their Nantes, France facility.

Jean-Philippe is Chief Technology Officer of Breinchild Innovation Group, and founder of BetterBytes, is a passionate advocate for sustainable IT practices.

Presentation: Unlock the Potential of Green Information Technology in New Zealand: A Journey Towards Sustainable Computing

Ben joined Clarus as General Manager, Customer and Regulatory in July 2016 and is responsible for the company’s strategy and engagement on commercial opportunities and public policy issues. Ben is focused on exploring how electricity and gas infrastructure can help Aotearoa’s transition to a lower carbon economy, with a particular focus on biogas, hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

Ivan Luketina is a relative newcomer to the electricity industry, having joined Orion in 2022 from a previous career in policy and strategy roles.

At Orion he has led the establishment of Orion’s Future Energy Scenarios and energy transition modelling capability. Orion's future energy scenarios take into account the divergent pathways for the energy sectors decarbonisation journey and models the potential changes in electricity demand on Orion’s network for each.

Presentation: How to Build on the Step Change of 2023

Panel: Lessons Learned and Best Practice for Heat Pump Integration

Presentation: A Practical Example of How Energy Users and Producers Can Collaborate to Best Support Renewable Energy in New Zealand (featuring BraveTrace, Lodestone Energy and The Warehouse Group)

Ellery Peters is a Chemical and Process Engineer who obtained his minor in Energy Processing Technologies at the University of Canterbury. He currently works as an Energy Engineer at Vegetables NZ, tasked with supporting the decarbonisation of covered crop growers by providing knowledge and resources so growers can make the best decisions possible. 

This role is supported by EECA and works closely with the EECA team to deliver support to the industry. Before Vegetables NZ, Ellery worked at McCain Foods in Timaru as an Environmental Graduate, tasked with managing the wastewater treatment system and project managing upgrades to the water treatment system.

Presentation: Decarbonising Covered Crop Vegetable Growers in New Zealand

Jonathan Pooch is Founder and Managing Director of DETA, NZs largest specialist decarbonisation consultancy. DETA supports industrial and commercial clients throughout Australasia to develop and deliver sustainability strategy to ensure improvement goals are realised. Recently Jonathan attended COP28 and is going share and host the discussion on lessons learned about best practice for high temperature heat pump in the New Zealand market.

Ganesh Sankar is an Interim Regional Energy Manager – Northern, at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, bringing with him 13 years of experience in healthcare infrastructure, FMCG, and pharmaceutical manufacturing. 

As a registered mechanical engineer, Ganesh is currently spearheading the ambitious decarbonisation efforts for one of New Zealand's largest hospital districts, Counties Manukau.

Presentation: Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau’s Energy Transition Strategy

Jack Timings is a Senior Process Engineer in Beca’s Industrial business based in Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand. Jack is passionate about helping industries transition towards sustainable, low-carbon operations and embrace circular principles in their business models. He works closely with industry and government stakeholders on decarbonisation, renewable energy and organic waste management projects and policy.

Karen is the Technical Director within the assurance team at the XRB. She works to develop and issue assurance standards for New Zealand. This includes the development of the recently issued Greenhouse Gas Disclosures Assurance Standard. Karen joined the XRB in February 2023. She has been working in the carbon and sustainability measurement and assurance environment for over 12 years and has over 20 years of practical experience in audit, assurance and verification, with a particular focus in greenhouse gas measurement and assurance.

Hilary West-Reeve is Executive Director and Chief Sustainability Officer of Phoenix Recycling Group. A commercial architect for 30-years, Hilary’s career has evolved to focus on the circular economy of recycled materials as renewable resources for sustainable manufacturing and decarbonisation.  Hilary is a NZGBC Board member, an Industry Advisory Group (IAG) committee member for HERA’s research project ‘Circular Design for a changing environment: a design framework to reduce construction waste, lifecycle embodied carbon, and to enhance the circular economy for construction materials, and an Industry Advisory Panel member for University of Auckland’s Circular Innovations (CIRCUIT) Research Centre.