14th Annual Marine Renewables Emerging Technologies Industry Forum
📅 Friday 3rd February 2023
🕘 09:00 – 13:30
📍 The Alex Hotel, off Merrion Square, Dublin 2
The Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA) are delighted to invite you to their 14th Annual Marine Renewables Emerging Technologies Industry Forum.
The theme of the forum, sponsored by PwC, will be Winning in Emerging Offshore Renewables Technologies.
The Forum will showcase a series of technology developments with presentations by a number of experts as well as briefings on policy issues relating to marine renewables emerging technologies in a number of countries and at EU level.
09:00: Opening of Forum
Chair: PETER COYLE, Chairman, MRIA
Presentation of MRIA Prize for Best MaREI Project of the Year, 2022
PWC - tba
SIMON DE PIETRO, Co-President of Ocean Energy Europe (OEE) and CEO, DP Energy
VIP - tba
Session 1 : ‘New Technology Winners
Chair: YVONNE SHIELS O’CONNOR, CEO Commissioners of Irish Lights
Orbital Marine, a tidal energy success story OLIVER WRAGG, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
HIWAVE, a wave energy success story PATRIK MOLLER, CEO CORPOWER OCEAN /CO-PRESIDENT, OEE
Ocean Energy, progress of Ireland’s wave-device flagship, TONY LEWIS, CTO
ORPC, international technology deployment success story BRENDAN CAHILL, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT -EUROPE
Wave energy desalinisation success story CARWYN FROST, PURE MARINE GEN/QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST
Floating Offshore Wind – a mega future, VAL CUMMINS, SIMPLY BLUE GROUP and ADAM CRONIN, DP ENERGY
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
Session 2: Policy Progress
Chair: SAM MCCLOSKEY, Country Director – Northern Ireland, Simply Blue Group
European Progress in Ocean Energy DONAGH CAGNEY, STRATEGY DIRECTOR OEE
Scottish and Eurowave Progress TBA - WAVE ENERGY SCOTLAND
Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA), MARK MELLETT, Chair
Policy progress in Ireland, MARTINA HENNESSY, PRINCIPAL, DECC
Wave and Tidal Scale Up Scenarios, SIMON STARK TECHNOLOGY and INNOVATION ADVISER, DUTCH MARINE ENERGY CENTRE
Session 3: 5 Minute Snapshots
Chair: KERRIE SHEEHAN, Head of Research and Technology, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
- Rockall Solutions, ALAN HENRY
- XYZ Engineering, GAVIN DONOHOE
- BlueWise Marine, JOHN BRESLIN
- Irish Mainport Holdings, DAVE RONAYNE
- LiR/MaREI JIMMY MURPHY
- Tax structures for ORE, REBECCA GREENE, PWC
- Green Rebel, KIERAN IVERS
- Seafood ORE Working Group, CAPTAIN ROBERT MCCABE, CHAIR
- Skills for ORE, CORMAC GEBRUERS, NMCI
- A-techSYN, ADNAN CETINKAYA
- Flotation Energy, BARRIE MCMULLIN
- North Channel Wind - direction of offshore Wind in Northern Ireland, NIAMH KENNY
- Exceedence, ANNICKA WANN
- Saoirse Wave Project, SUE BARR
Closing remarks: MARGIE MCCARTHY, Director of Research and Policy Insights, SEAI
A light lunch will be served from 13:30-14:15
Admission is free to those interested in or engaged with the sector - simply RSVP below.
MRIA reserves the right to refuse admission.
RSVP: chairman@mria.ie
Twitter: @Marineireland
www.mria.ie
