2019 SPEAKER: Dr Glen Peters is Research Director at CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo. He is also lead author of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and one of the main contributors to the Global Carbon Project.  Peters performs research on the causes of recent changes in carbon dioxide emission trends at the global and country level, and how these changes link to future emission pathways consistent with global climate objectives. He is particularly interested in how emission scenarios are created, interpreted, and used, and how this relates to ongoing policy discussions. He has a background in mathematics and physics.

2019 SPEAKER: Jack Cheng is Co-founder and Executive Vice President of NIO, and the Chief Executive Officer of XPT. As a pioneer in the automotive industry, his focus is to empower a joyful future and mobilise the world through affordable autonomous electric cars.

2019 SPEAKER: Professor Pål Johan From is a world leading expert on farm robot systems. Together with his students at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences he has developed a system of automated farm robots powered on electricity. His invention has the potential to revolutionize food production as we know it.

2019 SPEAKER: Colin McKerracher manages coverage of the transport sector at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the clean energy and carbon markets division of Bloomberg LP. Colin’s team covers the technology, policy and economic factors influencing the evolution of the transport sector. This includes electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, biofuels, fuel cell vehicles, connected cars and other new vehicle technologies.

Colin previously managed BNEF’s coverage of the global smart grid industry. He has over 10 years of experience in the clean energy sector and presents regularly at industry events. Colin’s past roles include Director of Sales and Marketing for Neurio, a smart grid technology company, and Business Development Manager for a Canadian biofuel company. Colin holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the Sauder School of Business at UBC. He is based in London, UK.

2018 SPEAKER: Ola Elvestuen. Elvestuen was recently appointed Minister of Energy and Climate in the new Solberg coalition Government. He represents the Liberal Party (Venstre) and was a member of the Norwegian Parliament representing Oslo constituency during the 2013-2017 term.

Elvestuen also served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Oslo during the terms 2001–2005, 2005–2009 and 2009–2013. On the local level, Elvestuen was a member of Oslo city council, and served as city commissioner for public transport and environmental affairs from 2011 until his election to Parliament in 2013.

2018 SPEAKER: Hyoungmi Kim is Senior Policy Specialist on Energy Efficiency and Utilities. She works on policies, programs and technologies related to power and transportation sectors, in particular demand-side resources and electric vehicles.

Prior to joining NRDC, she worked with the Korea Energy Economics Institute and UNDP Tumen Secretariat (based in Beijing) working on regional energy cooperation and energy sector capacity building projects mainly for the Northeast Asian countries including China, DPRK, Mongolia, ROK and Russia.

2018 SPEAKER: Dr. Stefan Niemand is AUDI AG’s Head of Electrification. Before joining the company in 2011, Niemand worked for consultant companies such as Horváth & Partner GmbH, Seidenschwarz & Comp. GmbH and Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner GmbH. A graduate from the University of Stuttgart, Niemand studied technical oriented business administration with a major in controlling and automotive engineering.