The ADIPEC Conferences seek to advance tangible action and demonstrate collaborative industry progress, emphasising the need for an economy-wide transformation for people, planet, and our collective prosperity.

The conference programme aims to catalyse this shift by connecting the ideas, ambition, technology, and capital necessary to foster innovative solutions and drive actionable outcomes.

Spanning over 10 conferences and 370 sessions, ADIPEC will provide an inclusive stage for more than 1,800 speakers to address the most urgent global energy challenges.

These leaders and innovators will offer diverse perspectives and approaches, sharing impactful insights from across the energy, finance, technology, manufacturing, transport and construction sectors.

Welcoming more than 16,500 delegates, the conferences will encourage cross-sector collaboration and explore pivotal strategies and innovations essential to accelerating the transition to a cleaner, more secure energy future.

The conferences include Strategic, Decarbonisation, Hydrogen, and Maritime & Logistics, and three new additions, namely Finance and Investment, Digitalisation and Technology, and Voices of Tomorrow.

Strategic Conference: Taking place one week before COP29, ADIPEC 2024 will facilitate a meeting of minds across diverse sectors and geographies, forging the alliances and collaborations necessary to enable the actions needed to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, in a multi-decade re-engineering of the global energy system.

Driving momentum on commitments and actions, the Strategic Conference will harvest insights on the latest thinking, trends and solutions around emissions, energy efficiencies and disruptive technology from those at the forefront of delivering the strategies, business models and technology innovations. Diverse perspectives and insights will strengthen companies’ resilience and ability to deliver enhanced shareholder value, while meeting their climate responsibilities.

The ADIPEC 2024 Strategic Conference will focus on the critical changes the industry is undergoing, focusing on four themes:

• A new era of climate action in a complex energy system.

• Investing in the future: finance, skills and economic inclusivity.

• The role of cross-sector partnerships in decarbonising the energy sector and heavy-emitting industries.

• Technological innovation to fast track the energy transition.

Decarbonisation Conference: ADIPEC seeks to address an era-defining challenge: balancing the need for equitable global economic development and prosperity with the urgent need to cut global GHG emissions.

Achieving decarbonisation requires a comprehensive, global approach that addresses energy production and consumption across diverse sectors such as buildings, transportation, industry and power systems.

The UAE Consensus drives countries to accelerate decarbonisation by transitioning away from fossil fuels, tripling their renewable capacity and doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Leading countries in decarbonisation have made significant progress by decreasing energy intensity, shifting to electricity from fossil fuels and adopting zero-carbon technologies for electricity generation.

The Decarbonisation Conference will offer an inclusive forum dedicated to finding credible solutions that can deliver the energy system of the future, while rapidly decarbonising the energy systems of today. Sessions

will also explore innovation, international collaboration and digitalisation as key enablers of progress, accelerated through robust policies and the adoption of high-impact technologies.

The Decarbonisation Conference will focus on three key themes:

• Maximising international collaboration to increase decarbonisation.

• Strengthening policy and fiscal frameworks to drive investment in clean energy.

• Supporting new technology and innovation to enable low-carbon energy solutions.

Hydrogen Conference: Hydrogen holds a critical role in the energy transition, acknowledged as a key player in decarbonising heavy emitting sectors. The substantial growth in electrolyser capacity reflects global strides in infrastructure development, spring boarding the development of a global hydrogen economy. To secure offtake agreements within the private sector, fostering international cooperation and policy support are vital for stimulating hydrogen demand.

The Hydrogen Conference seeks to advance critical conversations between industry executives, technical experts and policymakers, prioritising a clear blueprint that will move the industry past proof of concept on to widespread adoption of clean hydrogen solutions.

The Hydrogen Conference will focus on four key themes:

• Regulatory frameworks shaping the future of hydrogen.

• Materialising offtake agreements and stimulating hydrogen demand.

• Hydrogen for people and planet: accelerating a just and equitable energy transition.

• Regional hydrogen progress to deliver the new clean hydrogen economy.

Maritime & Logistics Conference: The maritime and logistics industries play crucial roles in enabling everyday lives and livelihoods. But as carbon intensive sectors, finding decarbonisation solutions that can accelerate industry-wide transformation is a critical step in delivering a clean energy future while maintaining equitable economic growth.

As the sector confronts the divide between conventional and future fuels, all stakeholders must adopt actionable cross-sector strategies to release bottlenecks and secure offtake agreements. Maritime and shipping experts are prioritising ramping up energy efficiency and integrating technologies to lower demand and improve fuel cleanliness.

Meanwhile, the readiness of ports for an alternative energy future will be a pivotal part of the maritime decarbonisation journey, balancing the urgency of infrastructure developments with the availability of new fuels.

ADIPEC’s Maritime & Logistics Conference will convene pioneers, executives and regulators from the shipping world and beyond to engage in the pragmatic and transparent cross-industry dialogues that will establish cohesive global approaches to decarbonise the maritime sector, drive progress towards net-zero and shape the future of global supply chains.

The Maritime & Logistics Conference will focus on three key themes:

• Building cross-industry partnerships to secure demand for green fuels.

• The role of technology in decarbonising and transforming maritime operations.

• Resilience and adaptability in global shipping.