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2022 Forum Program

Thursday 26th May, 2022

8:00am - 5:00pm	Registration Desk Open
9:00am - 10:30am	Australia's Energy Transition Introduction - Ryan Willemsen-Bell - Chair of the GEA Board of Directors Welcome to Country - Max Dillon - Kombumerri Traditional Owner & Youth Leader Tony Wood - Grattan Institute - Energy policy update Sandra James - Deloitte - Bringing consumers along the energy transition journey Andrew Harpham - Frontier Economics - Gas Vision Modelling
10:30am - 11:00am	Morning Tea - in Trade Exhibition Area
11:00am - 12:30pm	Climate Change Policies Janet Carson - LPG Association of NZ - Response to NZ Climate Change Commission recommendations Shahana McKenzie – Bioenergy Australia - Framework for harnessing Australia's Biogas potential David Coleman - Resource Intelligence – Crediting emissions reductions
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Decarbonising Gas Professor Bernadette McCabe - University of Southern Queensland - Australia's biogas potential Ben Iosefa - International DME Association - Global renewable DME developments Michael Kelly - World LPG Association – Humanising energy
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea - in Trade Exhibition Area
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Powering Remote & Regional Australia Speaker (TBC) Alisa Toomey - Australian Energy Market Commission - Reforms to facilitate stand-alone power systems Jason Dickfos - EDL - Stationary energy opportunities for distributed energy
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Break
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Pre-Dinner Cocktail Hour - in the Trade Exhibition Area Sarah Browne - Bright-r - Communicating for a social license to operate
7:00pm - 10:00pm	Gala Dinner Three-course dinner, including Awards presentations and Norbido the Illusionist!