Tapahtumat

Hydrogen Research Forum Finland: Annual Seminar 2024

Konferenssit

Enabling the Hydrogen Economy: Latest developments in Electrolysis technologies

Milloin

2.–3.10.2024

Missä

Dipoli

Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo

Tapahtuman kieli

englanti

Welcome to Hydrogen Research Forum Finland's annual seminar hosted at Aalto University. The 2024 seminar focuses on hydrogen production through electrolysis and brings together academics with industry. Four academic sessions will be complemented by a dedicated industry session and a poster session.

Hydrogen Research Forum Finland is a research-based forum established in response to the need for free and independent discussion and cooperation in hydrogen transition and research.

In 2024, the Forum will focus upon clean hydrogen production, through electrolysis, considering new material, optimization of electrolyzers in line with variable Renewable electricity production, and system level analysis of green hydrogen production within the overall hydrogen value chain.

The event will bring together academics and industry, with 4 academic sessions complemented by a dedicated industry session. Furthermore, a poster session will be held, in particular to allow early career researchers to share their research.

Programme

Hydrogen Research Forum Finland 2024 programme

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Marco Alverà

CEO & Co-Founder of TES

Marco Alverà was born in New York, and is the co-founder of Zhero, a renewable energy company and the CEO of Tree Energy Solutions (TES), one of the world leading hydrogen player. Marco has more than 20 years of senior management experience in Italy’s most relevant energy companies and he is the author of The Hydrogen Revolution, selected as one of the FT’s best books of the year in 2021.

He began his career at Goldman Sachs before starting and selling a telecom company, and then joining Enel, one of the world’s largest green electricity companies. He subsequently worked for Eni, the oil and gas major, for over 10 years in senior positions, and from 2016 to 2022 he was CEO of Snam, which Marco positioned as an international leader in green gas and green gas infrastructure. Since 2017 he has been non-executive director of S&P Global, where he is also chair of the Finance Committee.

Tanja Kallio

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University

Professor Tanja Kallio's research focuses on electrochemical energy conversion materials and devices. For widespread adoption of renewable, intermittent energy technologies, various efficient and sustainable electrochemical energy conversion and storage alternatives are needed. Kallio's research group contributes to this effort by investigating and developing in particularly electrocatalysts and electrode materials for such applications as polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers, lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Tanja Kallio is one of the directors of the Aalto University Hydrogen Innovation Centre, and develops new methods for hydrogen electrolysis with her research team in the FinH2 project.

Outi Ervasti

Advisor, Innovation Business Platforms, Neste

Outi Ervasti (M. Sc. Econ; eMBA) has had an extensive career as a Consultant mainly focusing on assignments within Pulp and Paper, Chemicals and Energy industries. During the last five years she has worked at Neste's Innovation Business Platforms and been mainly developing Neste's involvement in renewable hydrogen. Outi is a board member at VTT and is honored to act as a Chairperson of the Industrial Advisory Board of Aalto's H2 Innovation Center.