Energy Clusters Summit

Business & policy Competitiveness Digitalisation Electrification & System Integration Finance Floating Offshore wind Onshore wind Skills Sustainability Technology

When: Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 10:00 - 13:00
Where: WindTalks Stage - Hall 1

Session description

With the participation of the European Commission, the Energy Clusters Summit will gather leading wind energy clusters and associations at European and international level. The workshop will showcase the role of clusters in wind energy challenges such as technology development or internationalisation with a pitch session that will allow attendants to quickly introduce themselves to the global community.

Agenda:
10:00 - 10:30 Opening session:
• Mikel Amundarain, Deputy Minister of Industry, Basque Government
• Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit for Industrial Forum, Alliances and Clusters at the Networks and Governance directorate, DG GROW, European Commission
• Chairman: Marcos Suárez, Basque Energy Cluster

10:30 - 10:50 Benefits of cluster collaboration in offshore wind (Jose I. Hormaeche, General Manager, Basque Energy Cluster)

10:50 - 11:05 An example of collaboration between Europe and the USA (Liz Burdock, CEO & President, US Business Network for Offshore Wind)

11:05 – 11:15 A new cluster to support the Polish offshore wind sector (Karolina Lipińska, Deputy Director of the Department for Economic Development, Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship)

11:15 – 11:45 Energy clusters pitch presentations

12:00 – 13:00 Welcome reception for international delegations, sponsored by Basque Trade & Investment (hosted by Arantxa Tapia, Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, Basque Government) - Registration required, if interested in attending please contact [email protected]