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Programme

Monday, 20 June 2022
Detailed info will follow shortly.
  • Heike Winkler, Managing Director, WAB e.V.
  • Thorsten Rönner, Director, Heinrich Rönner Group
  • Torsten von Haaren, President of the City Parliament, Bremerhaven
  • Jens Assheuer, Chairman of the Executive Board, WAB e.V.
Chair: Heike Winkler, Managing Director, WAB e.V.
  • Dr Robert Habeck, German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (tbc)
  • "Port Structure for the Energy Transition", Dr Claudia Schilling, Senator for Science and Ports of the State of Bremen
  • "Offshore Wind in France: Opportunities Fueled by Political Commitment", Matthieu Monnier, Deputy CEO, France Énergie Éolienne (FEE)
  • "Global Offshore Wind Energy Development: an Outlook", Prof Dr Martin Skiba, Chairman, World Forum Offshore Wind
Chair: Heike Winkler, Managing Director, WAB e.V.
Chair: Jens Assheuer, Managing Director, Assheuer Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and Chairman of the Executive Board, WAB e.V.
  • "WAB Birthday Laudatio", Jörg Kubitza, Managing Director, Ørsted Germany
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Chair: Eize de Vries, Windpower Monthly
  • "Industrial Manufacturing Capacity and Technology", Kristoffer Mordhorst, Cuxhaven Plant Manager, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
  • "Development of Offshore Full Load Hours", Dr. Lukas Vollmer, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
Panel Discussion:
Chair: Randy Tinkerman, Owner, Wind Power Management
  • "ScotWind and the UK OFTO Regime", Tobias Voigt, Managing Partner, Carneades Project Services
  • "IT Security & Cyber Insurance for Critical Infrastructure", Achim Fischer-Erdsiek, Managing Partner, Nordwest Assekuranzmakler
  • "Climate Change Litigation: The New Kid on the Block", Dr. Martin P. Lögering, Lawyer/Salary Partner, Lebuhn & Puchta
  • "Economic Efficiency Assessment of Wind Energy Projects Including the Remaining Life of the Components Relevant to Stability Beyond the Operating Licence", Marco Scharobe, Managing Owner, RE:Solut
  • Inn2POWER Matchmaking at the Speaker's Corner
Chair: Heike Winkler, Managing Director, WAB e.V.
  • "Major Component Exchange Campaign Cost Reductions", Michael Munder-Oschimek, Managing Director, Wind Multiplikator
  • "Project Update Arcadis Ost 1", Manfred Dittmer, Country Manager Germany, Parkwind N.V.
  • "Experience from Offshore Operational Data Analysis and Compensation Calculations", Martin Strack, Manager Site and Energy Assessment, Deutsche WindGuard
  • "World Wide First Hydrogen Production Pilot at Sea", Luc Graré, International Business, Lhyfe
  • "Offshore Wind Measurements Using Fraunhofer IWES Wind Lidar Buoy in the German Bight", Sarah Zwick, Offshore Operation Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
Chair: Telsche Nielsen-Lange, Head of Academic Trainings and University Cooperations, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
  • "Advanced Training for Specialists and Managers", Telsche Nielsen-Lange, Head of Academic Trainings and University Cooperations, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
  • "The Offshore Wind Energy MBA - Leadership Development", Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lukas, Professor for Business Administration, Hochschule Bremerhaven
  • "Digitalisation in the Supply Chain - Field Reports and Status Quo, Thomas Zapp, International Sales Engineer, GreenGate
  • "Occupational Safety and Electrical Organisation for Operators and Service Providers: New Perspectives Through Digital Support", Ingolf Rauschenbach, Managing Director, 8.2 digital solutions
  • "German Offshore Safety Goals -Integrated Concept Solutions for unsolved Problems", Birk Schütte, Safety Consulting / Instructor, RelyOnNutec Germany
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Chair: Heike Winkler, Managing Director WAB e.V., and Robert Slettenhaar, Owner, Slettenhaar Business Associates
  • "15 Years of Financing Offshore Wind - What Have We Learned?", Dr Jérôme Guillet, Offshore Wind Expert
  • "Offshore Trends in Norway and Europe – Where Do We Go Next?", Holger Matthiesen, Managing Director Europe, Aker Offshore Wind Europe
  • "Activities of the Pomeranian Platform for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the Baltic", Dr Karolina Lipińska, Deputy Director, Department for Economic Development, Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship
  • "The Polish Offshore Wind Market, including both the Wind Farm Projects and the Supply Chain Perspective", Jakub Budzynski, Vice President of the Management Board of the Polish Offshore Wind Energy Society
  • "Market Entry Taiwan", Manuel Zehr, Inhaber, Formosan Business Support
Chair: Marc Itgen, Director, Business Development Agency of the City of Cuxhaven
  • "Operating & Maintaining our Offshore Assets: Efficient. Smart. Sustainable", Stefan Bönig, Associate Director Grid Field Operations Offshore, TenneT
  • "System Design for the National and International Interconnection of Offshore HVDC Systems", Hendrik Köhler, Project Engineer for the LanWin1&3 Connection System, Engineer in Offshore Grid Concept Development, Amprion
  • "The Hydrocat: The First Hydrogen Operated CTV for the Offshore Wind Industy", Malin Eichmeier, Chartering Manager, FRS
  • "Multi-Project Management, IoT, Deep Learning, Logistics 5.0" Roger Heidmann, Founder & Managing Director, LSA Logistik Service Agentur
  • Inn2POWER Matchmaking at the Speaker's Corner
Chair: Jean Huby, Managing Director, Ocean Breeze, and Member of the WAB Board and Matthieu Monnier, Deputy CEO, France Énergie Éolienne FEE
  • "Offshore Wind in France: State of the Art and Perspective", Matthieu Monnier, Deputy CEO, France Énergie Éolienne FEE
  • "Grids, the New Challenge for a Massive Offshore Wind Deployment", Jean-Christophe Bescond, Offshore Energy Business Unit, Chantiers de l’Atlantique
  • "Learning from Henry Ford: Bringing Down the Cost of Floating Wind with Serial Manufacturing", Ole Stobbe, Business Development Manager Northern Europe, BW Ideol
  • "Offshore Wind Measurements - Part of Derisking Program in France", Maxime Bellorge, Chief Operating Officer COO, Akrocean
Chair: Annette Nüsslein, Board Member, RDRWind e.V.
  • "An Industry in Transition", Andrea Fehr, Customers & Services, TSR Metals
  • "SeeOff Research Project - Development of Sustainable Dismantling Strategies for Offshore Wind Farms", Prof. Dr. Silke Eckardt, Sustainable Energy Supply and Resource Efficiency, Hochschule Bremen
  • "'Decom North Project' - the Recycling of Rotor Blades in Eemshaven", Dirk Jan Hummel, Project Manager, Offshore Wind Innovation Centre Eemshaven
  • "Repowering Options for Offshore Wind", Christian Simonis, In-house Lawyer, Ocean Breeze Energy
Moderator: Heike Winkler, Managing Director, WAB e.V.
  • Jens Assheuer, Managing Director, Assheuer Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and Chairman of the Executive Board, WAB e.V.
  • Werner Diwald, CEO, Deutscher Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellen-Verband e.V. (DWV)
  • Matthieu Monnier, Deputy CEO, France Énergie Éolienne FEE
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Chair: Dr. Sigurd Weise, Head of Steel Design Services, Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann JBO
  • "Comparative Harbour Assembly Approaches to Reduce Installation Costs for Large Floating Wind Farms", Thore Schreiber, Senior Project Manager and Senior Business Development Manager, Kongstein
  • "Bolted Connection: Challenges and Solutions for the Design of Monopile Foundations", Dr. Falk Lüddecke, Managing Director, Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann JBO
  • "Test of True Digital Twins on a Foundation in the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm", Jannis Tautz-Weinert, Senior Consultant, Ramboll Germany
Chair: Dieter Voß, Industry & Cluster Officer, The Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe, Bremen
  • "Value Creation in (Northern) Germany: Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen”, Dirk Briese, Managing Director, trend:research
  • "Hydrogen: Future Shipping Fuel?!", Carsten Wibel, Sales Director Special Vessels, Abeking & Rasmussen
  • "Hydrogen for the Port: Potentials and Perspectives", Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schories, ttz Bremerhaven
  • "Small Vessel Categories as a Sensible Entry Point for Hydrogen in Shipping - CTVs as a Starting Point for the Market Ramp-up", Arjen Goorse, Managing Partner, Carneades Hydrogen
  • "ArcelorMittal on the Way to Green Steel - Decarbonisation at the Bremen Site", Jürgen Fries, Head of CO2 Strategy, ArcelorMittal Bremen
  • Inn2POWER Matchmaking at the Speaker's Corner
Chair: Nora Denecke, Head of Departement Field Tests, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems
  • "Hydrogen - the Universal Energy for Mobility", André Engbrecht, Project Engineer, EWE Gasspeicher
  • "Development of Hydrogen projects … an Exiting Journey", Simon Stoverink, Project Director, Hynamics Germany
  • "Investigation and Standardisation of Electrolysers Based on the Electrical Test Bench Infrastructure in Bremerhaven", Jannik Barthel, Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
  • "Offshore H2 Compression and Storage Platform", Klaas Oltmann, Management Board, Tractebel Overdick
 
Chair: Dr Dennis Kruse, Managing Director, Deutsche Windguard and Board Member, WAB e.V.
  • “Production Based Availability Using OEM Independent Top-Level SCADA-System”, Johannes Müller, Technical Performance Manager, OutSmart
  • "Maintenance of Steel Structures", Markus Hummel, CEO, mh² Offshore
  • "How new Digital Tools are Transforming Wind Farm Maintenance and Repair Strategies", Marie-Antoinette Schwarzkopf, Project Engineer, Senior Consultant, Ramboll Germany
  • "Detecting Electrical Resonance at Sea and Preventing Operational Failure of Wind Turbines at an Early Stage", Dr Thanh Trung Do, CEO, morEnergy
 
  • "Co-utilization for Offshore Wind Energy: Opportunities and Advantages", Björn Wittek, Managing Director, Rhenus Offshore Logistics
Detailed info will follow shortly.