Monday, February 11, 2008
8:00 AM
Summits and Workshops (By Invitation Only)

5:00 - 9:00 PM
Executive Conference Opening Reception and Registration

7:30 - 9:00 PM
Special Address and Dinner for Monday Summit Participants

Please note: Agenda subject to change.

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Oil Day: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
7:30 - 8:50 AM
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE BREAKFASTS (By Invitation Only)


Oil Industry Strategies Hosted by Fulbright & Jaworski

  • Michael Irvin, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
  • Susan Ruth, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Oil Industry Trends Hosted by SAP

  • Greg Peterson, VP, Process Industry Solutions Group, SAP
  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director (Chair)

STRATEGY BREAKFASTS


Coal-To-Liquids: Current Status and Future Prospects Hosted by DKRW Advanced Fuels

  • Robert Kelly, Chairman, DKRW Advanced Fuels

M&A Hosted by Herold and featuring preliminary insights from the 2008 Global Upstream M&A Review

  • Martin Lovegrove, Vice Chairman, Oil and Gas, Standard Chartered Bank

Gaining Competitive Advantage in E&P Through Technology Hosted by StatoilHydro

  • Reidar Gjaerum, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, StatoilHydro

Understanding a Changing Arctic Ocean Hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  • Susan Avery, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • William Curry, Senior Scientist and Director, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Ocean and Climate Change Institute, WHOI
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Address

  • Abdallah Jum'ah, President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman (Chair)
  • Louis Carranza, CERA Vice President, Strategic Development
9:30 - 11:00 AM
Meeting the Supply Challenge

  • Helge Lund, President and Chief Executive Officer, Statoil
  • Mark Albers, Senior Vice President, ExxonMobil Corporation
  • John Hess, Chairman & CEO, Hess Corporation
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman (Chair)
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
CRITICAL ISSUES FORUMS


Global Oil E&P Hotspots

  • Samir Awad, Executive Manager, Americas, Africa and Eurasia, Petrobras
  • Stuart Cooper, Director, Business Development, Petro-Canada
  • Roman A. Gozalo, Chief Executive Officer, Maurel et Prom
  • Peter M. Jackson, CERA Senior Director
  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
  • David Rainey, Vice President, Gulf of Mexico Exploration, BP Corporation North America, Inc.

Energy Policy & Foreign Policy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

  • Brad Bourland, Chief Economist, Jadwa Investment
  • Bijan Khajehpour, Chairman, Atieh Behar Consulting
  • Daniel Nelson, Corporate Vice President, Washington Office, Exxon Mobil Corporation
  • James Placke, CERA Senior Associate
  • Vera de Ladoucette, CERA Senior Associate (Chair)

Capital Costs: Temperature Still Rising

  • Luc J. Messier, Senior Vice President, Project Development and Procurement, ConocoPhillips
  • Greg Landry, Executive Vice President, Operations, Jacobs Consultancy
  • Pritesh Patel, CERA Director
  • Patrick Pouyanné, Senior Vice President Strategy Business Development R&D, TOTAL SA
  • Jackie Forrest, CERA Director (Chair)

The Refinery Capacity Challenge: Emerging Strategies in an Age of Uncertainty

  • Olivier Abadie, CERA Director
  • Bruce Bilger, Senior Advisor, Lazard
  • Cezary Filipowicz, Deputy President, Upstream and Crude Procurement, PKN ORLEN S.A.
  • Ashok Krishna, Vice President of Technology for Global Downstream, Chevron
  • Jim Smith, Vice President, Newfoundland and Labrador Refining Corporation
  • Susan Ruth, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Russian Oil Industry: Beyond the Presidential Election

  • Andrey Gaidamaka, Deputy VP, the Head of Strategy and Investments, LUKOIL
  • John D Grace, President, Earth Science Associates
  • Thane Gustafson, CERA Senior Director
  • Kirill G. Liats, General Director, Metaprocess
  • Andrei Sharonov, Managing Director, Troika Dialog
  • Katherine Hardin, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Riding the Curve: The Changing Role of Institutional Investors in Global Oil Markets

  • Gordon E. Goodman, Trading Control Officer, Occidental Energy Marketing, Inc.
  • William Montgomery, Head - Natural Resources Group, Goldman, Sachs & Company
  • Clay Seigle, CERA Director, CERAView Institutional Investor Service
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Keynote Luncheon

  • James J. Mulva, Chairman, President and CEO, ConocoPhillips
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Special Address - Energy and the Environment

  • R K Pachauri, Ph.D, Nobel Laureate, Director-General, TERI, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
3:00 - 3:45 PM
Special Address - Energy and the Economy

  • Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman (Chair)
3:45 - 4:15 PM
Break

4:15 - 5:45 PM
INDUSTRY PLENARIES


Architecture of Future Production -- The Future of World Oil Supply

  • H. E. Thamir A. Ghadhban, Energy Advisor to Prime Minister, Iraq
  • Peter M. Jackson, CERA Senior Director
  • Jay Pryor, Vice President, Corporate Business Development, Chevron
  • John Richels, President, Devon Energy Corporation
  • Steven Williams, Chief Operating Officer, Suncor Energy Inc
  • David Hobbs, CERA Chief Energy Strategist (Chair)

Transportation Future: Alternate Fuels, Vehicle Technologies and the New Face of Demand Trends

  • William C Anderson, Assistant Secretary, Installations, Environment and Logistics, United States Air Force
  • Aaron Brady, CERA Director
  • David Raney, Senior Manager, Environmental and Energy Affairs, American Honda Motor Co, Inc
  • Carlos A Riva, Chief Executive Officer, Verenium Corporation
  • Lee Schipper, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford University
  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
5:45 - 7:00 PM
Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM
Keynote Dinner

  • Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Please note: Agenda subject to change.

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Gas Day: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
7:30 - 8:50 AM
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE BREAKFASTS (By Invitation Only)


North America Gas Hosted by Chevron

  • Randy L. Curry, President, Chevron, Natural Gas
  • Robert Ineson, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Russia and Eurasian Gas

  • Thane Gustafson, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

STRATEGY BREAKFASTS


CO2 Hosted by Vinson & Elkins LLP

  • Steve Davis, Partner, Vinson & Elkins
  • Larry Nettles, Partner, Vinson & Elkins
  • Robert LaCount, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

LNG Hosted by 4Gas

  • Paul Q.J. van Poecke, Chief Executive Officer, 4Gas B.V.
  • Michael Stoppard, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
  • Alexander A. Kulpecz, Chairman, 4Gas B.V.

Security Risks 2008 Featuring Jane's

  • Michael Dell, COO, Jane's Information Group
  • Scott Key, President & Chief Operating Officer, Jane's Information Group
  • Stephen Ulph, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation
  • David Hobbs, CERA Chief Energy Strategist (Chair)

Oil Sands Hosted by ConocoPhillips

  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director
  • Kevin Meyers, President, ConocoPhillips Canada

Challenges and Opportunies in Eurasia Energy

  • Anna Belova, Vice-CEO, Strategy and Corporate Development, SUEK
  • Julian Bowden, Business Advisor for New Market, BP Gas Marketing Ltd
  • Igor Kozhukhovsky, Head of Power Energy Department, RAO UES
  • Vyacheslav Kravchenko, Head of Power Energy Department, Ministry of Industry and Energy of Russia
  • Matthew Sagers, CERA Senior Director (Chair)
9:00 - 10:15 AM
The Globalization of the Gas Market -- A Single Market or Many?

  • John D. Gass, President, Chevron Global Gas
  • Darcel L. Hulse, President and CEO, Sempra LNG
  • Ahmed Al-Khulaifi, Chief Operating Officer, Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Ltd.
  • Michael Stoppard, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
10:15 - 11:00 AM
Global Markets and Key Supplies

  • Emmanuel Egbogah, Special Advisor to the President on Petroleum Matters, Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Mohamed Meziane, Chairman and CEO, Sonatrach
  • David Hobbs, CERA Chief Energy Strategist (Chair)
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
CRITICAL ISSUES FORUMS


New Financial Structures, New Participants: Disrupting Traditional Gas Business Models

  • Robin Baker, Managing Director, Société Générale
  • Carl Giesler, Managing Director, AIG Financial Products Corp.
  • Christine LaFollette, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  • Andy Barrett, CERA Senior Associate (Chair)

GreY2K: Where Will All the Oilfield Workers Come From?

  • W.D (Dave) Bozeman, Vice President Project Support Office, Devon
  • S. Craig Hodges, Director of Energy, Microsoft
  • Peter Maier, Senior Vice President, SAP AG
  • Dan Ranta, Director, Knowlege Sharing, ConocoPhillips
  • Michael Wynne, CERA Associate Director

Region Security Risks 2008
Special Session in conjunction with Jane's

  • Tony Davis, Consultant
  • Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University
  • Ron Mobed, Co-President & Co-COO, IHS Energy
  • Richard Reeve, , Jane's Information Group
  • Yiwu Song, Vice President, CNPC International
  • Andy Webb-Vidal, Consultant
  • David Hobbs, CERA Chief Energy Strategist (Chair)

Gas Technology: The Quiet Revolution

  • Charles A. Durr, Director, LNG Technology, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)
  • David Stenning, President and CEO, Sea NG Corporation
  • Sveinung Støhle, President & Chief Executive Officer, Höegh LNG

Gas Storage, Arbitrage and Swing: The Balancing Act Goes Global

  • Anton Broenink, Executive Director Strategy and Planning, GasTerra B.V.
  • Guy F. Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration
  • Dr. Tilak Doshi, Executive Director, Energy, Dubai Multi Commodities Center
  • Bill Garner, Group Executive, Spectra Energy Corporation
  • Philip Olivier, President and CEO, Suez Global LNG LTD
  • Kenneth Yeasting, CERA Senior Director (Chair)
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Keynote Luncheon

  • Linda Cook, Executive Director, Gas and Power, Royal Dutch Shell plc
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Special Address

  • J. Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman, & President, J. Craig Venter Institute
3:30 PM
Linda Cook Press Briefing

3:30 - 4:15 PM
Break

4:15 - 5:45 PM
INDUSTRY PLENARIES


New Gas Geopolitics: Security vs. Markets

  • Camillo Michele Gloria, Senior Vice President, International Activities and Trade, ENI Gas and Power Division
  • Thane Gustafson, CERA Senior Director
  • Rainer Seele, Member of the Board, Wintershall Holding A.G.
  • Shankari Srinivasan, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
  • Jake Ulrich, Managing Director, Centrica Energy, Centrica plc

The Unconventional Transformation: New North American Gas Supply

  • Brian Frank, President, BP North America Gas & Power
  • Joseph N Jaggers, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bill Barrett Corporation
  • Andrew P Swiger, President, ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Company
  • Robert Ineson, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Asia's Future Gas Balance: Feeding the Dragon -- and the Tigers?

  • Melanie A. Kenderdine, Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative
  • Belinda Robinson, Chief Executive, Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Limited
  • Yasuo Ryoki, Associate Director and Acting Head, Energy Resources Business Unit, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
  • Ajay Tyagi, Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board of India
  • John Harris, CERA Director
5:45 - 7:00 PM
Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM
CERA Global Energy Insights Dinner

  • James Burkhard, CERA Managing Director
  • Thane Gustafson, CERA Senior Director
  • Vera de Ladoucette, CERA Senior Associate
  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor
  • Michael Stoppard, CERA Managing Director
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman (Chair)
Please note: Agenda subject to change.

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Power Day: Thursday, February 14, 2008

Watch an interview with CERA's Lawrence Makovich on the Challenges of the Electric Power Industry
7:30 - 8:50 AM
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE BREAKFASTS (By Invitation Only)


Demand and Efficiency Hosted by Alstom

  • Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom; President, Alstom Power
  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor (Chair)

Global Power Hosted by Lazard

  • George Bilicic, Managing Director, Chairman of Power, Utilities and Infrastructure, Lazard
  • Sophie Aldebert, CERA Director

STRATEGY BREAKFASTS


Transportation Future

  • Tiffany Groode, CERA Director

Asia's Energy Future: Maintaining Momentum? Hosted by AEI

  • Qiang Wang, Director General of Policies and Regulations Department, State Electricity Regulatory Commission of China
  • Colin Tam, CEO, AEI Asia Ltd.

Crossing the Divide: Scenarios for the Future of Renewable & Clean Energy

  • Robert LaCount, CERA Senior Director (Chair)
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Address

  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor
9:30 - 11:00 AM
The Changing Face of North American Power

  • Donald L. Evans, Chairman, Energy Future Holdings Corp.
  • Deryk I. King, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Direct Energy, Centrica North America.
  • James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation
  • Jone-Lin Wang, CERA Managing Director
  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor (Chair)
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
CRITICAL ISSUES FORUMS


Coal's Future: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies for the New Era

  • Joseph Craft, President and CEO, Alliance Resource Partners LP
  • Jon C Doyle, Chief Operating Officer, DKRW Advanced Fuels
  • Amy Ericson, Vice President, Global Strategic Operations, Alstom
  • Mike Mudd, Chief Executive Officer, FutureGen Alliance
  • Gerard McCloskey, Chairman, The McCloskey Group

Demand Side Management: Return to the Spotlight?

  • Peter L. Corsell, Chief Executive Officer, GridPoint
  • Ted Schultz, Vice President, Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid Innovation, Duke Energy
  • Andrew Singer, Senior Vice President, Constellation NewEnergy
  • Douglas Howe, CERA Senior Associate (Chair)

Low Carbon Business Strategies

  • Khaled Awad, Director of Property Development, Masdar
  • Richard Kauffman, CEO and President, Good Energies Inc
  • Bill Lyons, President, AES Climate Solutions, Vice President, AES Corporation
  • Tony White, Chairman of Advisory, Climate Change Capital
  • Robert LaCount, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Market Design and Resource Adequacy

  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor
  • David Meade, Associate Director, Energy Strategy and Policy, Praxair, Inc
  • Andrew Ott, Vice President - Markets, PJM Interconnection, LLC
  • Barry Smitherman, Chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission
  • Daniel D. Mahoney, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

The Power of Water

  • Byron Covey, Manager, Major Projection Integration, Progress Energy Carolinas
  • Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute
  • John S. Maulbetsch, President, Maulbetsch Consulting
  • Greg Nelson, Director, Advanced Generation Development, PNM Resources
  • Jone-Lin Wang, CERA Managing Director
  • Hope Robertson, CERA Senior Associate (Chair)
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Keynote Luncheon Address

  • Gregory Boyce, Chairman & CEO, Peabody Energy
2:30 - 3:15 PM
Special Plenary: The New Energy Challenges

  • Joan MacNaughton, Senior Vice President, Power & Environmental Policies, Alstom Power Systems
  • Clay Sell, President, Hunt Energy Horizons
  • David Hobbs, CERA Chief Energy Strategist (Chair)
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Winning Strategies in Power

  • Alfredo Elías Ayub, Director General, Comisión Federal de Electricidad
  • Lars G. Josefsson, President and CEO, Vattenfall AB
  • Bruno Lescoeur, Senior Executive Vice President & Member of the Board, Electricité de France
  • Alexander Landia, Chairman of Board of Directors, OAO SUEK - Russia
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Reception

6:30 - 8:30 PM
Keynote Dinner Address

  • Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve (1987-2006)
Please note: Agenda subject to change.

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Power Day 2: Friday, February 15, 2008

Watch an interview with CERA's Lawrence Makovich on the Challenges of the Electric Power Industry
7:30 - 8:50 AM
STRATEGY BREAKFASTS


Surging World Coal Markets

  • Gerard McCloskey, Chairman, The McCloskey Group

Future of Clean Energy Technology


New Business Models for Clean Energy Hosted by Lazard

  • Matthieu Bucaille, Managing Director and Head of European Power and Utilities, Lazard Fréres & Co.
  • Roger Goodman, CERA Senior Consultant (Chair)

Nuclear Power Hosted by Alstom

  • Guy Chardon, Senior Vice President, Turbomachines Group, Alstom
  • Jone-Lin Wang, CERA Managing Director (Chair)
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Address

  • Hon. Joseph T. Kelliher, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman
9:30 - 11:15 AM
The Promise and the Peril of Clean Energy Investment

  • Jim Barry, Chief Executive Officer, NTR
  • John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tim Healy, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, EnerNOC, Inc
  • Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom; President, Alstom Power
  • Daniel Yergin, CERA Chairman (Chair)
11:15 - 11:45 AM
Special Address

  • Hon. Peter B. Lyons, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
12:00 - 1:15 PM
CRITICAL ISSUES FORUMS


Making Decisions in the Face of Rising Capital Costs in Power

  • Candida Scott, CERA Senior Director
  • David Harlan, Senior Vice President, System Planning and Operations, Entergy
  • Kelly McGrath, Senior Vice President, Technical Services, SUEZ Energy Generation NA
  • Daniel Sullivan, CEO, Power Advocate, Inc.

Plug-in Hybrids: Game-changing Opportunity for the Power Sector?

  • Aaron Brady, CERA Director
  • Ric Fulop, Founder and VP of Business Development, A123 Systems
  • Andreas M. Lippert, Director, Global Energy Systems, GM
  • Jeffrey G Reed, Director of Strategic Development, San Diego Gas & Electric and SoCal Gas

Power Sector Investment: Global Capital, Local Strategies

  • Ric Abel, Managing Director, Prudential Capital
  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor
  • J. Nicholas McKee, Managing Director, Group Head North American Power & Utilities, Citigroup
  • David J Nastro, Managing Director, Head of Global Power & Utility Group, Morgan Stanley
  • Marie Fagan, CERA Senior Director (Chair)

Race for Renewable Energy: New Policies and Growing Markets

  • Lucien Y. Bronicki, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, Ormat
  • Enrique Namey, Director, Lazard
  • Polly Shaw, Director, External Relations, SunTech America
  • Michael Skelly, Advisor, Horizon Wind
  • Robert LaCount, CERA Senior Director (Chair)
1:15 - 2:15 PM
Luncheon featuring CERA Electric Power Insights

  • Jone-Lin Wang, CERA Managing Director
  • Lawrence Makovich, CERA Vice President & Senior Advisor (Chair)
Please note: Agenda subject to change.

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