- Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, will deliver a Keynote 
Address

- Ministers from Singapore and Canada to speak at prestigious Gastech Virtual 
Summit

- Industry leaders speaking include Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas & New 
Energies Director and Member of the Executive Committee at Shell and Lorenzo 
Simonelli, Chairman, President & CEO of Baker Hughes

- Summit, opening in less than one week, set to deliver the latest commercial 
strategies and trends dominating the natural gas industry

Joseph McMonigle, Secretary General of the International Energy Forum, will 
deliver a Keynote Address at the Gastech Virtual Summit. The world's convening 
event for the Gas, LNG and Energy industry will take place digitally from 7 – 
11 September.  

Joseph McMonigle officially assumed his position on 1 July 2020 as the fifth 
Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF), the largest 
international organisation of energy ministers and based in the Diplomatic 
Quarter in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over 20 years of experience working on 
energy issues in the public and private sectors, and will deliver his address, 
"The Imperative of Producer-Consumer Collaboration to Expedite Market Recovery 
and Secure Long-Term Volumes of Natural Gas" on Tuesday, 8 September. 

Mr. McMonigle is well known as an energy policy expert, geopolitical 
strategist, and leading analyst of energy markets. Covering all six continents 
and accounting for around 90% of global supply and demand for oil and gas, the 
IEF is unique in that it comprises not only consuming and producing countries 
of the IEA and OPEC, but also Transit States and major players outside of their 
memberships, including Argentina, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South 
Africa. 

Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, will deliver a Keynote 
Address, "Vision for energy 2020 and beyond…Addressing the climate challenge."

The address will highlight the need for a collective response to climate 
change, to lead the transformation and meet the challenge head-on. She will 
speak on the industry's history of innovation and resilience and how it will 
form the basis for our future vision.

The Gastech Virtual Summit Strategic Conference 
[https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/_ZBECr8jwU83GXh425Bj?domain=email.dmgenergyev
ents-news.com] comprising of the Ministerial & Global Business Leaders 
Sessions, C-Suite Dialogues and Gastech Tech Talks will deliver advanced 
insights into the latest commercial strategies and trends dominating the Gas, 
LNG and Energy industry, providing delegates with fast track information on how 
best to align business models for the post-pandemic landscape.  

Nick Ornstien, Vice President Energy for dmg events, said: "We are looking 
forward to the Gastech Virtual Summit taking place next week, with those 
leading the energy transition speaking on strategies and innovation that will 
shape the future of our industry. With the rapid pace of change in our industry 
it is important to remain connected, and ensure we address the challenges and 
opportunities collectively for a post COVID-19 energy landscape."

Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas & New Energies Director and Member of the 
Executive Committee at Shell, will be interviewed by Steve Sedgwick, Anchor for 
CNBC Squawkbox in an exclusive Interview. Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman, 
President & CEO, Baker Hughes is confirmed to deliver a Keynote Address.  

Other industry leaders confirmed to speak in the virtual conference are 
Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Honourable Minister for Natural Resources, Canada; 
Peter Clarke, Senior Vice President, ExxonMobil Upstream Oil & Gas Company; 
Laurent Vivier, Senior Vice President Gas, Total; Assistant Secretary Francis 
Fannon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources, United States 
Department of State; Shawn Tupper, Associate Deputy Minister of Natural 
Resources, Canada; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky; Prabhat Singh, Chairman & 
Managing Director, Petronet LNG; Thomas Siebel, Author & Chairman & Chief 
Executive Officer, C3.ai [http://c3.ai/]; Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy 
Markets and Security, International Energy Agency; Sanjiv Lamba, Executive Vice 
President, APAC, Linde; Thorbjoern Fors, Executive Vice President, Industrial 
Applications, Siemens Energy; Hiroki Sato, Managing Executive Officer & Chief 
Global Partnership Officer, JERA Inc.; Jun Nishizawa, Executive Vice President, 
Group CEO, Natural Gas Group, Mitsubishi Corporation and Jane Liao, CEO, 
Natural Gas Business, CPC Corporation, Taiwan.  

The Summit will feature 200+ industry leaders who will outline and share 
strategies and visions for confronting the new and changed energy markets. 
Attendees will have access to exclusive critical insights from Ministers, 
policy makers, business leaders, disrupters and innovators. Issues impacting 
the future of the industry; energy security of supply; affordability and 
sustainability; the prospects for demand and investment recovery; and changes 
to supply in a post COVID-19 world, being top of the agenda. Sponsors include 
ExxonMobil, Sempra LNG, Lloyd's Register and Shearman & Stirling. 

The topics which the Gastech Virtual Summit will cover include the role of 
natural gas in the energy transition; the criticality of IoT and data security 
in the future of the energy industry; the impact of deregulation on markets and 
investment; opportunities and challenges to the energy sector posed by Industry 
4.0; hydrogen's ability to deliver on decarbonisation commitments and what 
impact environmental activism will have on the emerging growth opportunities 
for the industry.

Alongside the strategic conference, the Summit will also showcase the very 
latest and peer-reviewed research on new technologies and business strategies 
to help companies thrive in challenging times and exclusive keynote addresses 
from globally renowned leaders in the technology space. The technical 
conference sessions will feature certified content delivered by industry 
leaders on recovery, the new post-pandemic energy landscape and how the 
industry can capitalise and build on reduced emissions for a sustainable and 
secure long-term energy future. 

The Gastech Virtual Summit 2020 is being held in place of the Gastech 
exhibition and conference, scheduled to take place in Singapore, in September. 
dmg events and the Gastech Governing Body, in consultation with Enterprise 
Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board collectively took the decision to 
postpone that event, to 13 – 16 September 2021, due to concerns around the 
global pandemic, accessibility and the wellbeing of speakers, delegates, 
exhibitors and visitors.

About Gastech

For almost 50 years, Gastech has been at the heart of the Gas, LNG and Energy 
conversation. As the world starts to emerge from the shadow of COVID-19, the 
Gastech Virtual Summit will engage with, and address, the key issues and most 
promising opportunities for the Gas, LNG and Energy industries in the 4th 
industrial age.

Taking place from 7-11 September 2020, Gastech Virtual Summit will provide 
leadership and direction as the Gas, LNG and Energy industries seek to strike a 
balance between business priorities and their licence to operate, in a post 
COVID-19 world. With an emphasis on technology innovation; supply and demand 
dynamics; evolving partnerships; people and talent and governance and 
influence, the Summit will set the agenda for the global Gas, LNG and Energy 
industries for decades to come.

For more information please visit www.gastechevent.com. 

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