20th Americas Energy Summit and Exhibition 2024 | dmg events | 16 January 2024 | New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA

This year's event is poised to be a hub for pivotal discussions concerning the future of energy. It will serve as a dynamic platform where thought leaders and innovators from the LNG, gas, and hydrogen value chains can come together to exchange ideas. Moreover, it will play a central role in catalyzing international investments by showcasing the abundant natural gas resources present in the Americas.

2024 Speakers

STRATEGIC SPEAKERS:

H.E. Ekperikpe Ekpo
Minister of State, Petroleum Resources - Gas (HMSPRG) and Head of Delegation, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria

Paul Varello
Founder & Executive Chairman, Commonwealth LNG

Mallik Angalakudati
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Utilities, Washington Gas (A WGL Company)

Amy Chen Davis
Vice President, Energy Transfer

Keith Shoemaker
Senior Vice President Commercial, EQT Corporation

Paul Sullivan
Senior Vice President Global LNG & FLNG Worley, Worley/Advisian

Anand Jha
Global Sales Leader - Chemical, Oil & Gas, ABB

Edward Kelly
Vice President, Americas Gas and Power Consulting, S&P Global

Martin Mayer
Vice President LNG - Low Carbon Solutions, McDermott International Ltd.

Steven Borsos
Vice President LNG, Fluor Corporation

Michael T. McNamara
Vice President Global Fuel Supply, Carnival Corporation

Najla Jamoussi
Director of Global Fundamentals and Corporate Research, Cheniere Energy Inc.

Stuart Page
Senior Consultant – Loan Programs Office (LPO), United States Department of Energy (DoE)

Manish Khera
Vice President Commercial & Operations, GAIL Global USA Inc.

Eiji Yanagawa
President & CEO, Mitsui & Co, Energy Marketing and Services (USA) Inc. MEMS

Eric Pedroso
Principal LNG Trader, Texas Energy Corporation

Stefan Rolle
Head of Division, Natural Gas, Emergency Preparedness; Hydrogen Storage, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Mark Aufmuth
Managing Director, Low Carbon & Cross Commodity Origination, BP

Justin Brady
Director - Commercial, LNG & Low-Carbon, Chesapeake Energy

Jason Lanclos
Director, Department of Natural Resources, State of Louisiana

Ajay Singh
Managing Executive Officer, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.

Madeline Jowdy
Global Head, LNG Consulting, S&P Global

Antonio Miranda
Head of LNG Bunkering, Naturgy

Nacho de Miguel
Head of Alternative Fuels & Sustainability, Peninsula

Sentho White
Director for the National Center of Excellence for LNG Safety, United States Department of Transportation (DoT), (PHMSA)

John Peconom
Energy Infrastructure Program Manager, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Daisuke Harada
Project Director – Research and Analysis Department, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)

Jouni Liimatta
Head of Trading & Optimizing, Gasum

M. Estefanía Michel Ortega
Director – Project Finance, Natural Resources, Mizuho Americas

Jose Sarmiento
Vice President and Country Manager - El Salvador, Invenergy

Faisal Mohammed Al-Haddad
Team Leader Market Research, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation

Jason Ryu
Detachment Chief, Liquefied Gas Carrier, National Center of Expertise, United States Coast Guard

Michael Openlander
Managing Director – Investment Banking – Energy Infrastructure, Moelis

Tim Tarpley
President, Energy Workforce & Technology Council

Damond Smith
Grants Management Officer, United States Department of Transportation (PHMSA)

Dena Wiggins
President & CEO, Natural Gas Supply Association

Kenneth B. Medlock
Senior Director - Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy - Rice University

Christina Staib
Global Finance Sector Lead, The Global CCS Institute

Jose M Castro
Managing Director, SPEC LNG

Michael Bennett
Managing Director, Global LNG Commodities and Global Markets, Macquarie Group Limited

Alfredo Chamat
General Manager, Calamari LNG

Ben Webster
Director of Policy, Methane Intelligence MiQ

Charlie Riedl
Executive Director, Center for LNG CLNG

Jason French
Executive Director – LNG Center of Excellence, McNeese State University

Ira Joseph
Global Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy – Columbia University

Amanda Duhon
Regional Director, North & Central America, Energy Industries Council

Brenda McAuliffe
Hydrogen Analyst, Bloomberg Green Markets

Kenna Bravo
Founder and Managing Director, GNL Global

Ruth Liao
LNG Reporter, Bloomberg News

Denise Mannix
President, Lean In Energy

Mark E. Zappi
Executive Director of UL Energy Institute & Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Pat Roberts
Conference Chair, LNG-Worldwide Ltd

TECHNICAL SPEAKERS:

Enrico Bellini
Technical sales, Baker Hughes

Salla-Mari Marttinen
Sustainability and Regulatory Specialist, Hycamite TCD Technologies Ltd

Erik Lensing
Business Development Manager, ComAp LLC

Carlos Guerrero
Global Market Leader Gas Carrier, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore

Joseph Lantzy
Director of Business Strategy & Customer Experience, IDEX Energy - Flow Management Devices

Poidevin Laurent
Managing Executive Officer, TB Global Technologies Ltd

Navid Binesh
Sales Manager, ABB

Nicolas Bilbault
VP Global Sales & Solutions LNG, Kelvion Thermal Solutions

Rachelle Loyear
Vice President - Integrated Security Solutions, Allied Universal

Rakhi Oli
Global Strategy & Partnerships Development Leader Low Carbon Business Segment, Flowserve Corporation

Simbarashe Mambiri
Process Engineer, Polaris EPC

Nick Pollack
Vice President of Business Development, Cormetech

Lukas Biyikli
R&D Portfolio Manager for Integrally Geared, CO2 and Heat Pump Compression, Siemens Energy

Chris Adkison
Environmental Scientist, Geosyntec Consultants

Pat Roberts
Conference Chair, LNG-Worldwide Ltd

Mahdi Ashkanani
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Kuwait Oil Company

Colby Plaia
VP Operations, Turner Industries

Mary L. Landrieu
Senior Policy Advisor (Former Senator), Van Ness Feldman

Jack Koban
Geosciences Strategic Growth Lead-US Gulf Coast/US, Worley

Chip Kline
VP of Government Relations, GIS

Frank Frey
Principal, GHD

Sergio Ghezzi
Green Ammonia and Clean Fuels Platform Manager, Nuovo Pignone Baker Hughes Company

Lee Nichols
Vice President – Content, Gulf Energy Information

Jerome Friler
CEO, Satarem America Inc.

Nishchay Kathuria
Manager Instrumentation, GAIL (INDIA) Limited

R. Peter Weaver
Vice President, Business Development, Orbital Sidekick, Inc.

Daniel McNeil
Co-Inventor & Senior Field Technician, Lineriders Inc.

Srinivasan Ambatipati
Department Head of Engineering & Computer Science and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, McNeese State University

Alex Taimuri
President and Co-founder, Capstone Industrial Training Solutions

Hassana Mbeirick
CEO, Meen & Meen

Frank Flow
Head of Analyzer Products & Chemical Industry Americas, FLEXIM Americas Corporation

Dick Brown
President & CEO, Kathairos Solutions

Abdulaziz Yousef
Electrical Engineer, Water Operation Division, Utilities & Facilities Services Dept, Saudi Aramco

Mark E. Zappi
Executive Director of UL Energy Institute & Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Meha Jha
Senior Offerings Manager - New Energies, Honeywell

Alex Shanosky
VP of Business Development, Transform Materials LLC

HYDROGEN SPEAKERS:

Ulrika Wising
Senior Vice President and Executive Committee Member, Vallourec

Manish Verma
Chief Business Development Specialist, TMEIC

Leopoldo Gomez
VP – Global Infrastructure Finance, Citi Group

Andreas Kaiser
Government Counsellor Natural Gas, Hydrogen, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

Ryan Harty
Division Lead, Sustainability Development Division, Sustainability and Business Development BU, American Honda Motor Co., Inc

Urbano Troncoso Perez
Vice President Structured Finance – Global Hydrogen Lead, Santander Bank

Crystal Farmer
Program Manager for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) - Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED)

Frank Wolak
President & CEO, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA)

Dolf Gielen
Senior Energy Economist, World Bank

Elizabeth Kocs
Senior Manager, GTI Energy

Fanny Charrier
Director, Hydrogen Americas Coordinator, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking

Glenn Lansford
President and CEO, IHI Energy Solutions

Antonio Fayad
Senior Manager for H2 Strategy & Origination, EDP Renewables

Timothy J. Urban
Senior Principal, Bracewell LLP

Michael Openlander
Managing Director – Investment Banking – Energy Infrastructure, Moelis

Brent Lakeman
Director, Hydrogen Initiative, Edmonton Global

Jerrad Thomas
Senior Carbon Capture Technologies Lead, The Global CCS Institute

Marina Domingues
Director of Market and Regulations, ABH2 - Brazilian Hydrogen Association

Drake Hernandez
Associate Principal, Energy, Charles River Associates

Israel Hurtado
President & Chief Executive Officer, Mexican Hydrogen, Storage & Sustainable Mobility Association (AMH2)

Max Mankin
CTO, Modern Hydrogen

Roxana Bekemohammadi
Founder & Executive Director, United States Hydrogen Alliance (USHA)

Mark E. Zappi
Executive Director of UL Energy Institute & Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Mona Dajani
Partner, Global Co-Chair of the Energy, Infrastructure and Hydrogen, Baker Botts L.L.P

Phil McNeil
Partner - Lineriders, Lineriders Inc.

2024 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Commonwealth LNG

GOLD SPONSORS:
• TMEIC
• ABB

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Bechtel
• Worley

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Cheniere
• Moelis
• S&P Global Commodity Insights
• Southwest Filter Company