Karan Bagga is the Chief Technology Officer at thyssenkrupp Uhde and heads up Company’s Green Chemicals Technology presence in the ANZ region. At thyssenkrupp Uhde, he is responsible for implementation of thyssenkrupp Uhde’s green chemical technologies, especially ammonia, methanol and their derivatives.

He holds a post grad degree in chemical engineering and is an accredited chartered engineer. His 22 years of experience in the process industry, spans across the energy and chemicals sectors, including technology development for the renewable power to X applications.

Rachelle is a passionate energy transition champion and clean energy leader. She is an experienced professional with over 20 years’ experience working in the energy and minerals processing with significant experience in provision of technology and engineering solutions for complex projects and operating environments. She believes building long-term meaningful relationships is critical to enable sustainability and energy transition to net zero emissions. 

 Rachelle is Manager, Research and Development for Rio Tinto Iron Ore, the current chair of the Standards Australia ME-093 Hydrogen Technologies committee and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Brian is the Director, Projects for Yara Clean Ammonia and responsible developing, construction and commissioning Yara’s renewable and clean ammonia projects in the Asia Pacific region. Brian is also responsible for all elements of clean ammonia certification and quality within the region.

Prior to this Brian held numerous positions including senior Project Management, Operations, Integration, Organisational Change and HSE positions in the resources and petrochemical sector.

Brian also holds a number of academic qualifications including a Graduate Diploma of OH&S, a Graduate Certificate of Social Science () and a Master of Business Administration specialising in risk management and organisational change.  Brian is a Chartered OHS Professional from the Australian Institute of Health & Safety and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Emma Aisbett an Associate Professor at the ANU School of Law and Associate Director (Research) for the Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia Pacific Grand Challenge at the Australian National University. Emma works across disciplines and sectors at the intersection of international economic regulation and the environment. Her current research focusses on International Green Economy Regulation. In addition to publishing in leading journals in economics, political science, law and engineering, Emma provides expertise to Australian Government and industry, and to international organisations such as the OECD, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UNCTAD.

Dr Vicky Au co-developed and is Deputy Lead of CSIRO’s Hydrogen Industry Mission. Launched in May 2021, the Mission’s objective is to enable Australia to be a major clean hydrogen producer by 2030 as part of Australia’s role in global decarbonisation. Vicky has previous experience at a senior executive level leading the strategy development and expansion of business advisory practices in innovation, R&D and technology in diverse markets. More recently, she has coordinated a range of projects including CSIRO’s research informing hydrogen strategy, cost competitiveness, hydrogen skills and workforce, hydrogen knowledge centre resources and international collaborative hydrogen initiatives. Vicky has a PhD in Physics from the Australian National University, is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s alternative to the executive MBA program and is qualified as a CPA.

Cameron Mathie is the Manager of Future Carbon Markets at the Clean Energy Regulator and leads implementation of Australia’s Guarantee of Origin Scheme. The Guarantee of Origin scheme will measure and display key attributes of how and where a unit of hydrogen is produced, including its carbon intensity, enabling Australian businesses to sell verified low emissions hydrogen to the world.

Cameron is an expert in Australia’s carbon markets, providing trusted data and advice to the market and policy makers on renewables energy certificates and Australian carbon credit units. Cameron has helped administer a broad range of national level renewable and emissions regulations.

Professor Peta Ashworth OAM is the Director of the Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership, and Chair in Sustainable Energy Futures at The University of Queensland (UQ). Professor Ashworth brings over thirty years’ experience working in a range of senior management, consulting and research roles. In her previous role as Group Leader at CSIRO’s Division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Peta conceptualised and led the Science into Society Group, which specialised in interdisciplinary research at the interface between science, technology and society. 

Professor Ashworth is a globally-recognised expert in the fields of energy, communication, stakeholder engagement, and technology assessment. For almost two decades, Peta has been researching public attitudes toward climate and energy technologies, including wind, carbon capture and storage (CCS), solar photovoltaics, storage, nuclear geothermal and more recently hydrogen. She is the Chief Investigator on the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre Social License to Operate work package and an adviser on a number of Australian and international hydrogen research projects, including CSIRO’s Hydrogen Industry Mission.

Peta’s contributions to the field of sustainable energy include leading the social science research program of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, as well as working alongside Australia’s Chief Scientist in the development of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy as a Member of the Strategy Stakeholder Advisory Panel, and the COAG Hydrogen Working Group. In March 2021, Professor Ashworth was appointed by Queensland’s Palaszczuk Government as Chair of the Hydrogen Taskforce.

In recognition of her service to science, in the field of sustainable energy, Peta was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2019.

Dr Patrick Hartley is the leader of CSIRO’s Hydrogen Industry Mission, a major national research initiative which was launched in May 2021. The Mission is focussed on delivering research, development and demonstration project partnerships which enable the scaleup of Australia’s domestic and export hydrogen industries.

In 2018, he also established CSIRO’s Hydrogen Energy Systems Future Science Platform. During this time, he co-led the formulation of CSIRO’s ‘National Hydrogen Roadmap, and, with the Chief Scientist of Australia, the briefing paper ‘Hydrogen for Australia’s Future’ which was presented to the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Energy council in August 2018 and laid the foundations for the development of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy.

Patrick graduated with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1994, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds an Adjunct Professorship at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Jitendra Joshi serves as the Head of Technology for New Energy Solutions at Woodside Energy in Perth, Australia. Jitendra’s responsibilities include formulation of strategy for converting Greenhouse gases to value-added products, and integrating renewables in Carbon transformation and Hydrogen generation. Jitendra’s team at Woodside Energy implementing combination of biological and thermo-chemical pathways to realize the full potential of Greenhouse utilization and Hydrogen production.

Previously, Dr. Joshi was the Lead for Technology Integration within the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) at NASA. He has over two decades of Science and Technology project management experience with leadership roles in several research and technology development projects.