Kane Thornton is Chief Executive of the Clean Energy Council, the peak body for the renewable energy and energy storage industry in Australia.Kane has almost 20 years experience in energy policy and leadership in the development of the renewable energy industry. He has been at the forefront of the...
Kane Thornton, Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Council
Warwick Johnston is the founder of SunWiz, Australia's pre-eminent provider of market analytics to the solar and storage industry. Warwick holds a masters degree in renewable energy and is a long-standing board member of the Clean Energy Council.
Warwick Johnston, Managing Director, SunWiz, Board Member, Clean Energy Council
Jenny Riesz, Principal, Australian Energy Market Operator
David Shankey was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Energy Division in the Department of Energy and Public Works in August 2021.
David led the division as it delivered Queensland’s 15-year Energy and Jobs Plan, the most significant and challenging energy reform agenda in the State’s...
David Shankey, Deputy Director-General Energy, Department of Energy and Public Works
Stan Krpan, Chief Executive Officer, Solar Victoria
Dr Heather Holmes-Ross is serving her second term as Mayor of The City of Mitcham. A former research scientist in molecular dynamics at Flinders Uni, she and her husband currently operate “The Lost Dice” board game cafe in Adelaide’s CBD, which services a fabulously diverse community. Heather is...
Heather Holmes-Ross, Mayor, City of Mitcham
Sue is the National Environment Manager and Sustainability Lead for Ramsay Health Care Australia. Sue leads the roll out of solar and energy efficient lighting across Ramsay’s 72 facilities as well as a range of other sustainability initiatives including replacing over 60 million single use...
Sue Panuccio, National Environment Manager and Sustainability Lead, Ramsay Health Care
Niall Brady is the Head of Solar and Battery Storage in the Investment team at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Niall works within the CEFC’s large-scale solar and dispatchable renewables business and has been involved in the provision of finance to multiple utility scale solar projects...
Niall Brady, Head of Solar & Battery Storage, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Tessa Lees, Sustainability Manager, The Arnott's Group
Brian Restall, Senior Director - Head of Investments, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
With over ten years’ experience in the Victorian State government in the energy and natural resources portfolios, Marilyne has helped Victoria transition to a cleaner, more affordable energy supply. Her energy consulting practice Renewable Energy Insights focuses on advising government and industry ...
Marilyne Crestias, Policy Director, Clean Energy Investor Group
Sophie Handford is a 22-year-old Councillor, activist from Kāpiti, New Zealand. Since a young age, Sophie has held the environment closely and always felt a strong connection to and need to protect this one planet we share. She founded School Strike 4 Climate in Aotearoa NZ and went on to...
Sophie Handford, Chair - Strategy, Operations & Finance Committee, Kāpiti Coast District Council
Mark Langdon is Chief Executive Officer of Prospecta Utilities, a specialist provider of integrated energy and technology solutions. Mark has over 15 years’ experience in commercialisation of renewable energy technologies having delivered market interrupting solutions at scale. Mark is the...
Mark Langdon, Chief Executive Officer, Prospecta Utilities; Director of Sustainability, Renewables & Innovation, GemLife
Tim has 30 years financial markets experience, including providing public interest related financial analysis on the energy transition since 2013, studying China, India and Australia. Tim has founded Climate Energy Finance Australasia at the start of 2022, having co-founded and worked with the...
Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance
James is Chief Executive of Energy Corporation of NSW (EnergyCo).James has specialised in the public and private sector network and infrastructure businesses. This includes their operations and infrastructure development and funding, policy settings, regulation, trading and pricing, risk management ...
James Hay, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Corporation of NSW
Justin is an experienced Manager and Business Leader with 25+ years’ experience in the Energy Industry. Over this period, Justin has managed Businesses, Teams, Business Units and Facilities through Development, Construction, Operation, Acquisition and Divestment across a broad spectrum of the...
Justin Parker, General Manager, Sustainable Energy Infrastructure
Roger is a renewable energy system integration expert, working in the Engineering Faculty at Monash University as the Director of Sustainability and Deputy Director of the Monash Energy Institute. He conducts research into optimal pathways to low and zero carbon electricity systems for Australia...
Roger Dargaville, Deputy Director, Monash Energy
James Magill joined Origin in March 2022 and leads the newly formed business unit, Origin Zero. Origin Zero provides large businesses with a range of energy and decarbonisation services as well as a suite of e-mobility solutions for work, home and on the road.Prior to joining Origin, James held...
James Magill, Executive General Manager, Origin Zero
Darren Brown is Co-Head of Investment and Development at Octopus Investments Australia and has over 20yrs experience in infrastructure across the energy industry. Spanning M&A, development, and energy markets. Darren has worked across multiple industries including Oil & Gas, Network...
Darren Brown, Co-Head Investment & Development, Octopus Investments
Jane Mansfield is the Head of Energy at one of Australia’s largest electricity consumers – Coles Group. She has responsibility for energy and environmental certificate procurement and renewable electricity strategy, corporate emissions reporting, and energy operations, engineering and...
Jane Mansfield, Head of Energy, Coles Group
Craig Scroggie is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of NEXTDC, Australia’s leading Data-Centre-as-a-Service provider. Prior to becoming CEO in June 2012, Mr Scroggie served on the Board of Directors since IPO (2010) as a Non-Executive Director, including as Chairman of the Audit and ...
Craig Scroggie, CEO and Managing Director, NEXTDC
Lauren Pulitano, Vice President of Public Affairs, Volvo Australia
Matt Bruckner, General Manager, Acquisitions, Capital Development and Sustainability, NRMA Parks & Resorts
Karin's international and professional history spans two decades of engagement with communities around contemporary environmental issues such as waste, sustainable travel and clean energy. She has a Degree in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development and worked in WA before moving to...
Karin Stark, Director, Farm Renewables Ltd.
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Bill Gillespie, General Manager, Foton Mobility Distribution
Ben Blackburn, Head of Product, SIXT
Stephen has more than 25 years of experience working across infrastructure, transport and resources projects. In his current role as Brisbane City Council's General Manager Major Projects, Stephen oversees city-shaping projects including Brisbane Metro, Green Bridges and Victoria Park. Stephen...
Stephen Hammer, General Manager Major Projects, Brisbane City Council
Anna Bruce, Project Lead, SunSPOT
Romesh Rodrigo, Head of Vehicle Homologation and Future Mobility, Daimler Truck Australia
Dr Michael Kane heads the Public Policy team at RACQ covering transport electrification, safety, infrastructure and mobility policy. Michael has previously worked in sustainability and innovation within the Queensland Government, including leading the early planning work on the Queensland Electric...
Dr Michael Kane, Head of Public Policy, RACQ
Renea Robson, Market Manager, Head Sustainability ANZ, IKEA Group
David Stuart, Managing Director, Colormaker Industries
Todd Hacking, Chief Executive Officer, Heavy Vehicle Industry Australia
Kimberly Camrass, Director Climate Positive Brisbane 2032 and Climate Futures, Department of Electrical Services
Heather Bone, Director ESG, Team Global Express
Glenn Dahlenburg has helped lead innovation at Energy Queensland and its subsidiary network businesses Ergon Energy and Energex for over 10 years.Glenn’s work in distributed energy resources, renewables and energy storage has made him a central figure for Energy Queensland’s Network Battery Project ...
Glenn Dahlenburg, General Manager Energy Storage, Energy Queensland
Patrick Heagney, Energy and Carbon Manager, Officeworks
Alexandra Kelly, Project Manager - Zero Emissions Delivery, IKEA Group
Ross De Rango, Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Council
Joris has over 26 years of experience in the (renewable) Energy, EPC construction and management consulting industries. He has held various senior management positions, leading teams at Canadian Solar, McNab Constructions and Baulderstone Hornibrook. Joris is co-founder and managing director of...
Joris Eerkens, Managing Director, Squirrel Energy
Cameron Mathie, Manager - Future Carbon Markets, Clean Energy Regulator
Jackie is Program Director of the Business Renewables Centre Australia (BRC-A). Jackie has over 15 years’ experience in carbon and energy management, renewable energy procurement, decarbonisation strategy, strategic planning, corporate advisory & stakeholder engagement.Jackie and her team...
Jackie McKeon, Program Director, Business Renewables Centre
Dr Richard Corkish has been working in photovoltaics research and education, mainly at UNSW, since 1990. From 2003 to 2013 he led, as Head of School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), the globally leading photovoltaics research team and pioneering photovoltaics education...
Richard Corkish, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, UNSW
Often described as the energy in the room, Megan is an award-winning and multi-qualified businesswoman with a niche for turning ideas into reality. This is most distinctly demonstrated in Megan being a co-founder of Australia’s first industry body focused on the solar energy circular...
Megan Jones, Co-Founder, Circular PV Alliance
Donna Luckman, Zero Carbon Campaigns Lead, Merri-bek City Council
Christopher Cormack, New Energy Director, JLL
I'm a community advocate of Electric Vehicles and Solar. In 2019, I purchased a Hyundai Kona Electric and have been charging it at home for four years using excess rooftop solar production. I host monthly hall meetings, cruises, car park catch ups and attend EV events to build the Queensland EV ...
Jon Day, Chairman (QLD), Australian Electric Vehicle Association
Vinoth Mannan, Solar Engineering Manager - Asia Pacific, Aquila Capital
Kevin Wang, Director - Natural Resource & Energy, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Will Edmonds is an Energy Program Manager for the NSW Office of Energy and Climate Change, where he designs and implements a suite of renewable energy programs. Will has developed specialist knowledge in consumer technologies such as rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles from his...
Will Edmonds, Manager - Energy Programs, NSW Treasury
Amy Gregorovich is an early career sustainability professional, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) – Honours and Bachelor of Arts (Human Geography) in 2021. She currently works with Yarra Ranges Council as their Energy Resilient Communities Officer, leading the community...
Amy Gregorovich, Energy Resilient Communities Officer, Yarra Ranges Council
Bram Hoex is a Professor at UNSW Sydney and Deputy Head at UNSW’s School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. His research focuses on developing and applying nanoscale thin films in a wide range of renewable energy devices to improve their performance or long-term stability as well as...
Bram Hoex, Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW
James is the CEO of the Centre for New Energy Technologies, “C4NET”. C4NET is a company established to tackle sector-wide complex transition challenges with an innovative collaboration approach between industry, market operators, regulators, governments and leading researchers. C4NET is leading...
James Seymour, Chief Executive Officer, C4NET
Toby Roxburgh, Chair & Founder, National Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence
Anthony Weinberg is the 3-Council Regional Environment Program Manager, working for Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra Councils. He loves designing and implementing programs that make a meaningful contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, water and waste for the community and businesses...
Anthony Weinberg, Regional Environment Program Manager, Waverley, Woollahra & Randwick Councils
Peter Matthews, Senior Vice President, Master Electricians Australia
Pavina Adunratanasee, Smart Solutions Manager | Corporate & Industrial Decarbonisation, Iberdrola
Ray Darrough is a seasoned professional with over a decade of expertise in the Embedded Network and renewable energy sectors. As an electrician and project manager, Ray possesses refined technical and stakeholder management skills. His commitment lies in delivering exceptional products to clients...
Raymond Darrough, Project Manager, Frasers Property
Louis Knoops is a licenced electrician, Electrical Inspector and holds CEC Accreditation in solar grid connect and design. Louis also represents NECA on the EL-005 Committee (Battery Energy storage and testing). He has over 35 years’ experience in the electrical industry, working as an electrical...
Louis Knoops, Technical Manager, National Electrical and Communications Association
Tristan Edis is the Director - Analysis and Advisory at Green Energy Markets. He undertakes research to assist clients - including major energy companies, renewable energy project developers and suppliers, and government agencies – make informed investment, trading and policy decisions related to...
Tristan Edis, Director of Analysis and Advisory, Green Energy Markets
Tim is the Chief Operating Officer at the Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF), a Melbourne-based not-for-profit that delivers community energy solutions for a zero-carbon future. For nearly a decade, Tim has worked at the intersection of local government, climate, and communications with...
Timothy Shue, Chief Operating Officer, Yarra Energy Foundation
Alison Scotland is the Executive Director of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council, a body of peak organisations committed to a vision of more sustainable, productive and resilient buildings, communities and cities. Her passion and expertise lies in collaborating with...
Alison Scotland, Executive Director, Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council
A/Professor Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian is the Director of Siemens Swinburne Energy Transition Hub and Program Leader of Electrical and Electronics Discipline at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He holds B. Sc. degree, M. Eng. degree, and PhD degree in Electrical and Electronics...
Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Director – Siemens Swinburne Energy Transition Hub, Swinburne University of Technology
Vivek Srinivasan is an Associate Director in CSIRO Futures, the strategic advisory arm of CSIRO. He leads the energy and resources portfolio within CSIRO Futures and specialises in complex national and industry challenges and the role that science and technology can play in addressing them. Vivek’s ...
Vivek Srinivasan, Associate Director - Energy Futures Lead, CSIRO
Dr Keith Lovegrove is the managing director of ITP Thermal Pty Ltd and co-founder of Ardent Underground Pty Ltd. He has over 30 years of experience in Solar Energy, hydrogen and ammonia combined with 15 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Energy Systems...
Keith Lovegrove, Director, Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association
Prof. Wilson is Research Commercialisation Leader for Solar Technologies in CSIRO Energy and Principal Research Scientist for Advanced Photovoltaics. Gregory is a leader and mentor to a team of 40 scientists and engineers developing large-scale solar for industry decarbonisation and advanced...
Gregory Wilson, Principal Research Scientist & Research Commercialisation Leader for Solar Technologies, CSIRO
The transition to a clean economy will require a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach across various domains and organisations. Deakin Energy Networks draws on the capabilities from across faculties and schools, institutes and programs within the University to provide partners in...
Peter Hansford, Director - Deakin Energy Networks, Deakin University
Sarah is the General Manager, Partnerships & Services at the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR). Sarah focuses on supporting FRRR’s partners to facilitate impact across rural, regional and remote Australia. She oversees FRRR’s donor care and stewardship, corporate service...
Sarah Matthee, General Manager – Partnerships & Services, FRRR
Dominic Zaal is the Director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI) within CSIRO, which is responsible for the development, demonstration and commercial uptake of solar thermal systems and technologies within Australia. Dominic also works closely with industry on developing...
Dominic Zaal, Director, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute
Craig has worked in the Renewable Energy Sector for over 20 years and is currently a Senior Vice President with Pathion Holdings, Inc., provides a technology solutions and services platform that solves critical energy problems. Previously Craig the Renewable Energy Program Manager within the...
Craig Froome, National Board Director & QLD Chair, Australian Institute of Energy
David Ritter is CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, where he leads a talented and determined team campaigning to fulfil Greenpeace's mission to secure an earth capable of nurturing life in all of its magnificent diversity.Before joining Greenpeace, David was an Indigenous rights...
David Ritter, Chief Executive Officer, Greenpeace
Haydn Yates, Business Improvement Director, YES Group
Renzo Gaggioli, Head of Business Development, Australia, Enel Green Power
As CEO of ZEN Energy, Anthony Garnaut is challenging the organisation to accelerate Australia’s energy transformation. As this epochal change progresses, Anthony and his team will continue to drive a reset in the way individuals and organisations think about, produce, and consume energy in the...
Anthony Garnaut, Chief Executive Officer, Zen Energy
Tushna Antia, Renewable Energy Associate, BloombergNEF
Working in Financial Services for over 15 years, Elizabeth Hatton is passionate about ethical and sustainable investments, tax planning, and retirement planning. She is committed to helping people to both better manage their finances, and make financial decisions with confidence - the job is to...
Elizabeth Hatton, Director, VivaEthical Financial Advice
Monica Richter, Senior Manager - Low Carbon Futures, World Wildlife Fund
Brendan Weinert is the Head of Sustainable Business Energy Solutions at AGL Energy. Brendan has been with AGL Energy since 2006, starting as a Business Development Manager and Client relationships manager for Commercial and Industrial customers at AGL, with 15+ years’ experience in the energy...
Brendan Weinert, Head of Sustainable Business Energy Solutions, AGL Energy
Lachlan Blackhall, Entrepreneurial Fellow and Head, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University
Tiernan Humphrys, Senior Technical Specialist - Environmental Sustainability, Victorian Health Building Authority
Katharine Hole, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Battery Recycling Initiative
Helping households go all-electric, for the planet and their pockets, Wilf is passionate about promoting decarbonisation and a new energy future. Wilf brings more than 15-years of Australian solar industry experience and advocacy, including delivering the first utility solar farm in Australia and...
Wilf Johnston, General Manager - ANZP, Enphase Energy
Richard Vargas, Founder, United Solar Energy
Mike Duffy is a distinguished professional in Corporate Affairs, Media, and Government Relations, with an impressive track record in senior leadership roles. He served as the former Head of Media, Corporate Affairs for AGL Energy, a prominent energy giant, and held positions as Director of Strategy ...
Mike Duffy, Principal Consultant, Elexia Energy Communications
John Mankins, President & Director, National Space Society
Mark Wexler, Senior Engineer, Primary Assets, United Energy and Multinet Gas
