While the hydrogen sector is maturing, resilience has been essential to continued momentum, amid high costs, infrastructure gaps, uncertain demand, and evolving regulations that continue to shape the pace of deployment. Meanwhile the rollback of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has sparked renewed interest from American players and created a unique opening for Canada to step forward, leveraging its Investment Tax Credit to accelerate competitiveness. This panel explores where hydrogen stands today, the barriers holding it back, and the breakthroughs that could define its role in the next decade. How can Canada’s hydrogen sector seize this moment to cement its role in a global context?

Join a strategic conversation with a senior leader offering their candid insights on hydrogen’s role in Canada’s energy future, highlighting executive perspectives, policy direction, and the decisions shaping a competitive hydrogen economy.

Gain executive insights into the status of hydrogen adoption in global markets as alternative fuel, reflections of project maturation in different geographies, and the challenges around projects, legislation, cost and offtake.

Hydrogen is a growing focus area in Canada’s defence sector. From natural hydrogen near forts, and microgrids that enhance operational security to streamlined permitting on military compounds, defence applications have the potential to drive technology resilience, speed in adoption, and market activation. Explore hydrogen’s role as a logistical vector in advancing military energy dominance, logistical enhancements, and capability improvements.

Methane pyrolysis produces two co-products: hydrogen and solid carbon. Delivering structured carbons that meet the needs of the carbon black industry is a key to establishing early markets with existing supply chains, and building value that drives the economics and GHG emissions reductions needed for successful commercialization of this technology.

In this presentation, Mr. Reid will provide an overview of Ekona’s xCaliber reactor, Burnaby Pilot facility and achievements to date on delivering commercial-grade carbon black and clean hydrogen for industrial decarbonization.

Canada’s hydrogen ecosystem continues to evolve as a key pillar in the energy addition. With more than 80 active projects and eight hubs highlighted in Natural Resources Canada’s 2025 update, momentum is building across the country. From hydrogen-powered trucking corridors, refueling stations, and decarbonized port equipment, to commercial-scale electrolyzers, the shift from pilot projects to large-scale solutions is underway. Discussing what it takes to scale a hydrogen ecosystem that drives cost competitiveness and cross-sector adoption, this panel will ask: what does true large-scale deployment and market integration look like for Canada’s hydrogen economy?

Join a strategic conversation with Colin Armstrong, President and CEO of HTEC, on hydrogen’s role in Canada’s energy future, highlighting executive perspectives, policy direction, and the decisions shaping a competitive hydrogen economy.

As hydrogen gains traction as a viable energy product in the energy addition, the race is on to adapt today’s infrastructure for tomorrow’s fuels. Canada’s hydrogen infrastructure faces hurdles, from moving and storing hydrogen at scale, building out refueling and distribution networks, and aligning regulatory frameworks across provinces. Addressing these will be critical for Canada to achieve cost competitiveness and position itself as a global hydrogen leader. Discussing pipelines, retrofit strategies, financing and regulation, the panel will explore what it takes for Canada to be truly “hydrogen ready”.