Inaugural / Opening Sessions
Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal
President, PHDCCI, Delhi
Dr. J. P. Gupta
Chairman Environment Committee, PHDCCI
Shri. Ashwani Kumar Choubey
Union Minister of State for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Dr. Jitendra Singh
Hon'ble Union Minister of State (IC) Science & Technology, Govt. of India
Ms. Tina Bru
Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Govt. of Norway
H.E. Mr. Hans Jacob Frydenlund
Norway Ambassador to India
Mr. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
Chairman and MD, Reliance Industries Limited
Mr. Deepak Bagla
MD & CEO, Invest India
Mr. Nobuo Tanaka
Special Advisor, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Tokyo, Japan; Former Executive Director, IEA
Mr. Sturle Harald Pedersen
Chairman, Greenstat India, Norway
Mr. Cristian Valdes Carter
Country Director, Innovation Norway IndiaSession 1
International Alliances and Coalitions
Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan
Principal Scientific Advisor Govt. of IndiaMr. Sturle Harald Pedersen
Chairman, Greenstat India, Norway
Mr. Anurag Pandey
RIL R&D Lead and India H2 Alliance (IH2A)
Dr. Karen Landmark
Chair of the Board, Greenstat Asia, Norway
Mr. Kowtham Raj VS
Fellow, World Energy Council
Ms. Ravneet Mann
Vice President, Invest India
Mr. Deepesh Nanda
Chief Executive Officer, GE Gas Power in South Asia
Mr. Alberto Di Lullo
Senior Knowledge Owner, Advanced Engineering SystemSession 2
International and Private Sector Funding
Jillian Evanko
President and CEO, Chart Industries Strategic Investor into FiveT H2 Fund (world’s first H2 dedicated Investment Fund) India H2 Alliance (IH2A) Co-Lead
Rajnish Kumar
Former Chairman, State Bank of India
Isabelle Laurent
Deputy Treasurer and Head of Funding, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
Dr. Sunita Satyapal
Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy
Kailash Vasvani
President Corporate Finance, Renew Power, New Delhi
Surbhi Goyal
Senior Energy Specialist World Bank
Neeraj Gupta
CFO, ACME Solar
Chintan Shah
Director (Technical) Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd., New DelhiSession 3(A)
Make in India - Hydrogen Production
Ms. Prerna Soni
Vice President, Invest India
Prof. S. Dasappa
Professor, IISc Bangalore
Dr. Ashish Lele
Director, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Dr. SSV Ramakumar
Director (R&D), IOC, India
Vegard Frihammer
Founder & CEO, Greenstat Chair H2 Cluster, Norway
Rajat Seksaria
CEO, ACME Solar
Mr. Ulf Eriksen
VP and Head of Hydrogen, Statkraft
Prof. G.D. Yadav
Emeritus Professor Eminence, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai
Dr. Desikan Sundararajan
Managing Director – India, EquinorSession 3(A)
Make in India - Fuel Cell and Hydrogen in Transportation
Mr. Bernt Skeie
CEO Prototech
Shri Prakash
Distinguished Fellow, Transport & Urban Governance, TERI, India
Vikram Gulati
Senior Vice President, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (KTM)
Dr. N. Saravanan
Principal Engineer R&D, Mahindra & Mahindra
Dr. Sushil S. Ramdasi
Dy. Director, Powertrain Engineering, ARAI
Mr. Helge Vandel Jensen
Senior Business Development Manager, Danfoss Drives
Mr. Kristian Eikeland Holmefjord
EVP & Project Director - Fuel Cells, Corvus EnergySession 3(B)
Make in India - Hydrogen Storage
Dr. Akira Yabe
Director General, Energy System & Hyrogen Unit, Technology Strategy Centre (TSC), (NEDO), Japan
Dr. N. Rajalakshmi
Senior Scientist & Head, ARCI
Prof. Jayant K. Singh
Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
Dr. T. P. Yadav
Scientist, Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
Mr. Ravindra Vasisht
Regional Director - India, Hexagon Agility IndiaSession 4(A)
Policy Regulations
Mr. Mats Rinaldo
Principal Researcher and Deputy Programme Director, DNV
Mr Ajay Shankar
Distinguished Fellow, TERI
Dr. R. K. Malhotra
Director General The Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry
P. K. Banerjee
Executive Director, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
Anshu Bhardwaj
CEO Shakti Foundation
Mr. Dipesh Pherwani
Scientific Officer, MNRE
Mr. Praveer Kumar
General Manager , GAIL (India) LimitedSession 4(B)
Setting up of Centre of Excellence in Hydrogen
Mr. Cristian Valdes Carter
Director, Innovation Norway India
Ambassador Ajai Malhotra
Distinguished Fellow, TERI
Ms. Eli Aamot
Executive Vice President, SINTEF
Dr. Scott Davis
President Gexcon US Technical Advisory Committee Members Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, USA Gexcon Norway
Prof. Dr. Jan Roar Bakke
Chairman Process Safety Subcommittee, IOGP, Chairman of Explosion Working Group Gexcon Norway
Mr. Umesh Sahdev
Executive Chairman, Hydrogenium Resources Private LimitedSession 5(A)
Ecology, Agriculture & Climate Change Mitigation
Prof. Dr. Arthur Riedacker
(IPCC Co-Nobel Prize laureate as a contributor since 1990); Honorary Professor, INRA, France
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Director, CSIR
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma
Secretary, Department of Science & Technology
Prof. Dr. Robert Costanza
American/Australian Ecological Economist; Chair in Public Policy, The Australian National University
Dr. Adrian Percy
UPL, USA
Dhruv Sawhney
Business Head & COO, Nurture Farm
Dr Paravastu Rambabu
Advisor, Greeko GroupSession 5(B)
Role of Hydrogen for a Carbon Neutral Ladakh
R. R. Rashmi
Distinguished Fellow, TERI, India
Mr. Souvik Bhattacharjya
Associate Director, TERI
Debashisa Manasa Ranjan Panda
General Manager (Hydrogen RE), NTPC Ltd.
Mr. Rajat Sud
MD, EESL