Connecting Energy Societies

COVID-19 demonstrates the need to engage diverse and highly uneven societies to work together in agile ways to manage new global threats and to share the benefits of global energy developments and digital connectivity.  COVID-19 recovery plans share a common human-centred emphasis and appreciation for a new context of what is affordable. 

This is an opportunity to engage with the transformational power of customer-centric, collaborative innovation.

The virtual meeting will present interactive panel discussions exploring the critical drivers fueling energy transition around several key themes:

• How has the crisis redirected leadership attention to or away from global energy transition? Is there greater openness to alternative pathways for socially sustainable and climate neutral transition?
• Who will take the lead in addressing the costs and co-benefits to societies of whole energy system transition and addressing issues of energy affordability, access and social justice?
• How can collaborative innovation in energy transition close the multiple and widening access gaps within and between connected energy societies?

The global plenary on the first day of the World Energy Week LIVE 2020 brings together global energy leaders and experts including:

• Leena Srivastava, IIASA Deputy Director General for Science
• Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO, World Energy Council
• Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, EDF
• Kirill Komarov, First Deputy Director General for Corporate Development and International Business, Rosatom
• Jochen Eickholt, Executive Board Member, Siemens Energy
• Serge Colle, Partner, Global Power & Utilities Advisory Leader, EY – as moderator
  
  

Last edited: 06 October 2020