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2027 STRATEGIC SUMMIT AGENDA

DAY1

Day 1 Morning: The Mandate Is Real — Setting the Agenda for Europe's and the World's Low-Carbon Industrial Future

09:00 - 09:10 (10 mins)

[Conference Chair Opening Remark]

09:10 - 09:20  (10 mins)

[Opening Welcome]  The Blueprint Goes Live: Rotterdam, From COâ‚‚ Hub to Functioning Market
  • What has first injection at Europe’s operating projects actually proven — and what remains unproven?
  • Where is infrastructure genuinely live today, and where is it still on the drawing board?
  • How does Rotterdam grow from an infrastructure hub into a market that buyers and sellers can rely on?

09:20 - 09:40 (20 mins)

​[EU Keynote]  Europe’s 50 Mt Mandate in Action: From Regulatory Target to Investable Demand
  • What do the first compliance plans reveal about the gap to the 2030 target?
  • When does capturing COâ‚‚ actually beat simply buying ETS allowances — and what closes that gap?
  • Which regulatory “sticks” and “carrots” turn a legal mandate into real, bankable demand?
  • How are ETS and CBAM feeding into project economics today, amid the volatility around carbon prices?

09:40 - 10:00

(20 min)

[International Keynotes]  Why the World Is Looking to Europe: Exporting the Standard for a Global CCS Market
  • What makes Europe’s policy-and-infrastructure model the one others are choosing to copy?
  • Where are international partners adopting European standards, contracts, or technology?
  • How is Europe’s head start turning into a lasting commercial advantage abroad?

10:00 - 10:20

(20 min)

[European Keynotes]  One Mandate, Many Markets: How Member States Turn EU Law Into National Delivery
  • How are leading member states translating EU directives into permitted, financed projects?
  • Beyond the North Sea — how are Southern and Eastern Europe building their own storage future?
  • What still must be unblocked on permitting, coordination, and public acceptance before 2030?

10:20 - 11:10

(50 min)

[Opening Panel]  Three Links, One Chain: Synchronising Capture, Transport and Storage Into a Working Market
  • Where has real progress been made in aligning capture, transport, and storage timelines?
  • Which link in the chain is still the bottleneck — and who is responsible for closing it?
  • How are long-term and offtake contracts evolving to hold the three parts together?
  • What will it take for storage capacity to match industrial demand at commercial scale?

   
Senior Representative
Equinor

Etienne Anglès d'Auriac
Vice-President CCS Business Unit
TotalEnergies

    
Senior Representative
eni ccus holding

11:10 - 11:25

(15 mins)

[Keynote] Reserved for State Energy Company of the Netherlands - Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN)

Joost Hooghiem
Managing Director CCS
Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN)

Coffee Break (30 mins)

11:55 - 12:10

(15 mins)

[Keynote] Reserved Major Partner

12:10 - 13:00 (50 mins)

[Executive Panel]  Writing the Rules Before the 'Pipes Are Laid': Completing Europe’s COâ‚‚ Transport Framework
  • How fast is Europe’s COâ‚‚ transport regulation taking shape, and what is still missing?
  • Where do pipelines and shipping each fit within a connected European network?
  • How should network access, tariffs, and COâ‚‚ quality standards actually work in practice?
  • Who carries the midstream risk when the pipes are built ahead of the volumes?

Pieter Tavenier
Managing Director CCS
Gasunie

Luncheon

Day 1 Afternoon: The Infrastructure Is Moving — Where Demand, Storage and Transport Meet

14:00 - 14:50 (50 mins)

[Industrial Demand Panel]  The Buyers Step Forward: Turning Industrial Intent Into Signed Storage Offtake
  • Which industrial emitters are actually signing storage offtake — and which are still hesitating?
  • How is real demand splitting between ETS-driven compliance and voluntary commitments?
  • What contract terms and price certainty does it take to get an emitter to signature?
  • What are first movers in cement, steel, and waste teaching the next wave of buyers?

Floris Mackor
Vice President, Large Industries & Strategy CCS
Air Liquide

Marc Van Breda
Vice President Senior Project CCS
Basf

Sebastian Budischin
Senior Vice President
Securing Energy for Europe GmbH(SEFE)

14:50 - 15:10 (20 mins)

[Keynote] Reserved for Sponsor 
Afternoon Coffee & Network Break

15:40 - 16:30 (50 mins)

[Storage Panel]  Under the Seabed and Beyond the North Sea: Lessons From Europe’s First Stores, From the UK to the Adriatic
  • What are the first operating stores teaching us about injection performance and monitoring?
  • Beyond the North Sea — how fast is the Mediterranean opening as Europe’s second storage basin?
  • How do operators handle COâ‚‚ arriving from many different sources and qualities?
  • How is cross-border access to storage being contracted and scaled?

Gemmeke Groot
Managing Director
Porthos (Reserved)

16:30 - 16:50 (20 mins)

[Keynote] Reserved for Sponsor

16:50 - 17:40 (50 mins)

[Transport Panel]  The Floating Pipeline: How Liquid COâ‚‚ Shipping Reaches the Emitters Pipelines Can’t
  • Where is shipping already solving transport bottlenecks that pipelines cannot reach?
  • How does shipping compare with pipelines on cost, flexibility, and real project timelines?
  • How can a fleet scale to connect dispersed and landlocked emitters across Europe?
  • What standards are emerging for an interoperable, global COâ‚‚ shipping market?

Fulco van Geuns
Project Director, CO2next Terminal
Vopak

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