2023 Strategic Program Speakers

Aaron M. Engen

Vice Chair, I&CB and Co-Head, Energy Transition

BMO Capital Markets

Alanna Hnatiw

Mayor and Chair of the Edmonton Region Hydrogen HUB

Sturgeon County

Alex Savelli

Managing Director - Americas for Hydrogen Technologies

Cummins Inc.

Arnab Chatterjee

Vice President Infrastructure

Zero Avia

Brent Lakeman

Director, Hydrogen Initiatives

Edmonton Global

Bryan Helfenbaum

Executive Director

Hydrogen Centre of Excellence

Ali Assaf

Vice President & Managing Director- Energy Utilities Canada

Black & Veatch

Bryant Jackson

Vice President, Canada and US Onsite, Large Industries North America

Air Liquide

Buck Rogers

Vice President Petroleum and Chemicals

CN Rail

Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes

CREE8R Consulting & Advising

Chris Norris

Director, Business Development, Hydrogen

Siemens Energy

Cory Shumaker

Head of Business Development – Americas

Hyzon Motors

David Layzell

Director of the Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research (CESAR) Initiative

University of Calgary

David MacGregor

Associate Deputy Minister

Government of Nova Scotia

David Mercer

Head of Technology and Sustainability

Fluor Canada

Diane Gray

President

Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan)

Dinara Millington

Western Network Lead

Transition Accelerator

Eric Gauthier

Managing Director

TES Canada H2 Inc.

Eric Guter

Vice President, Hydrogen for Mobility

Air Products

Genghis Khan

Senior Principal Engineer, Platform Leader – Aviation Sustainability

GE

George Arcand Jr

Grand Chief

Treaty 6

Guillermo Freire

Senior Vice President Mid-Market Group

Export Development Canada

Imran Abdulla

Associate Director, Energy System Decarbonization, Hydrogen & CCS

Guidehouse

Ivette Vera-Perez

President & CEO

Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association

James Powell

VP Clean Fuels

ATCO

Janet Howard

Partner

Fasken

Jeffrey Goldmeer

Emergent Technologies Director

GE Gas Power

Jessica Verhagen

Chief Executive Officer

Hydra Energy

Jillian Evanko

President and CEO

Chart Industries

Jordan MacNeil

Manager, Business Development

Eastward Energy

James Kast

Hydrogen Infrastructure Manager

Iwatani USA

Josipa Petrunic

President & CEO

CUTRIC

Justin Riemer

Chief Executive Officer

Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)

Kayli Avveduti

Executive Director

Confederacy of Treaty Six

Kelly Grieves

Director- Hydrogen Business

Atura Power

Kento Tokumaru

Lead as Manager – Group 4 of Project Department

Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development (JOIN)

Keren Perla

Director, Energy Futures Policy Collaborative

Energy Futures Lab

Kirk Hamilton

Senior Engineering Advisor – Hydrogen & CCUS Lead

C-FER Technologies

Matthew Findlay

Director of Mechanical Systems

CP Rail

Kyle Reiling

Executive Director

Greenview Industrial Gateway

Larysa Harapyn

Host and Producer

National Post | Financial Post

Laura Kilcrease

CEO

Alberta Innovates

Malcolm Bruce

CEO

Edmonton Global

Marie-Claude Dumas

President and Chief Executive Officer

WSP Canada

Martin Huard

Hydrogen Lead

InnoTech Alberta

Matt Claxton

Partner & Global Director of Sustainability

Plug and Play Ventures

Matthew Slotwinski

Senior Economic Development Officer

Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership

Mayor Amarjeet Sohi

Mayor

The City of Edmonton

Michelle George

VP, New Energy Technology

Enbridge

Myron Keehn

CEO

Edmonton International Airport

Nancy Southern

Chair & CEO

ATCO

Nicolai Pogadl

Senior Manager

Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Inc

Omar Khayum

Head of Low Carbon Origination and Development

TC Energy

Paul Hawes

Vice President, Destination Development & Marketing

Explore Edmonton

Peter Guthrie

Minister of Energy

Government of Alberta

Rachel Smith

Vice President & General Manager

Air Products Canada Ltd.

Randy Boissonnault

Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance

Government of Canada

Rajan Sawhney

Minister of Trade, Immigration and Multiculturalism

Government of Alberta

Robert Booker

CEO

Trigon

Ryan Laverty

Director, Energy Origination & Development

TC Energy

Shana Boyd

Vice President, Energy Transition

Heartland Generation

Shannon Halliday

VP, Sales & Marketing

HTEC

Stefan Kaufmann

Hydrogen Executive Advisor to the Board

Thyssenkrupp

Stephen Beatty

Vice President, Corporate

Toyota Canada Inc.

Steve Kay

Manager Low Carbon Business Development

Enbridge Gas Distribution

David Zekveld

Head of Development, Hydrogen

Northland Power

Vern Yu

EVP, Corporate Development, Chief Financial Officer & President, New Energy Technologies

Enbridge