Media Invitation: World Energy Outlook 2018

Global thought leaders from the United States of America, Asia and Europa will discuss the latest findings of the World Energy Outlook and the future challenges and opportunities that are arising for our energy system. The particular focus this year will be on electricity: "Electrification - making it happen".
HE Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Co-chair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, will give a keynote on the Perspectives on the Energy Future and Global Developments.
This high-level event is the first official public event on the World Energy Outlook 2018 following the launch to the international press on 13th November.

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Date

Wednesday, 14. November 2018 
Press Conference, Raum Kuppel
09:00-10:00

• Fatih Birol, Executive Director International Energy Agency
• Wolfgang Anzengruber, Chief Executive Officer VERBUND
• Gerhard Roiss, Chairman of the Supervisory Board VERBUND
  
  

Programme, Kuppelsaal

10.30 WELCOME BRUNCH & REGISTRATION  
 
11.30 OPENING  
-Gerhard Roiss, Chairman of the Supervisory Board VERBUND
 -Fatih Birol, Executive Director IEA  
 
Presentation of the IEA World Energy Outlook  
 -Fatih Birol, Executive Director IEA  
 
Conclusions of WEO 2018 for the energy sector  
 -Wolfgang Anzengruber, CEO VERBUND  
 
What's next? Statements & Debate on the results of the IEA World Energy Outlook  
 -Janice Lin, Chairperson Global Energy Storage Alliance, Co-Founder and Executive Director of California Energy Storage Alliance  
 -Fritz Prinz, Finmeccanica Professor and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University  
 -Ibrahim Hafeez Rehman, Director Europe, The Energy Research Institute (India)  
 -Raj B Apte, Rapid Evaluator, Alphabet's X (The moonshot factory)  
 -Timur Gül, Head of Energy Technology Policy Division, IEA  
 
Results of the World Energy Outlook - Conclusions for the political agenda  
 -Elisabeth Köstinger, Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism, Austria  
 
Perspectives on the Energy Future and Global Developments  
 -Ban Ki-moon, Co-chair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (Former Secretary-General of the United Nations)  
 
Dialog | Perspectives on the Energy Future and Global Developments  
 -Ban Ki-moon, Co-chair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (Former Secretary-General of the United Nations)  
 -Fatih Birol, Executive Director IEA  
 -Elisabeth Köstinger, Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism, Austria  
 
14:30 Closing Words  
 -Gerhard Roiss, Chairman of the Supervisory Board VERBUND  
 
Moderation  
Nisha Pillai, International Moderator (former BBC)