A1: Opening Session

Speakers:
1. Chair and speaker:
Andrew Jamieson Chairman, RenewableUK
2. Core Sponsor Address:
Anil Srivastava, Senior Executive Vice President & CEO, AREVA Renewables
3. Keynote Address: The Lord Browne of Madingley President, Royal Academy of Engineering

A2: How Do We Get Projects Consented? A review of the current consenting process, issues and potential solutions.

Speakers:
Chair: Andrew Beattie Head of Regulation and Licensing, Marine Management Organisation
1. Dr Pauleen Lane Deputy Chair & Commissioner, Infrastructure Planning Commission: The IPC Process and Future for Major Infrastructure Planning
2. Tom Lo Turco Deputy Project Director of Moray Offshore Renewables, EDPR UK Ltd: Consenting, Engineering, and Rochdale Envelope Definition
3. John Grimbley Senior Associate, Eversheds LLP: Consenting, Environmental Impact Assessment and Appropriate Assessment in Round 3 – Issues and Experience to Date
4. Kirsty McGuniness Planning and Consents Manager – Humber Gateway Offshore, E.ON Climate and Renewables: Humber Gateway’s Route to Consent

B2: Procurement Best Practice Offshore wind contracting is getting more complex. What does the industry need to learn from other sectors and would greater standardisation of processes help?

Speakers:
Chair: Allan Taylor DECC
1. Christopher Towner Partner, Bond Pearce LLP: What the Renewables Sector can learn from Oil & Gas Procurement
2. Paul McQuillan Legal Director, Pinsent Masons LLP: Procurement - Best Practice Lessons from other Industries and Standardisation
3. Peter Sell Director, Davis Langdon LLP: Do You Aways Get What You Pay For?
4. David Hodkinson UK Country Manager and Director, East Anglia Offshore Wind JV

C2: Forecasting and Wake Affects A technical session looking at different wake models and the validation of them.

Speakers:
Chair: Richard Boddington Measurement and Analysis Group Manager, SgurrEnergy
1. Jeremy Parkes Global Practice Head - Forecasting, GL Garrad Hassan: Wind Power Forecasting Offshore, More or Less Accurate than Onshore?
2. Holly Hughes Senior Engineer, DNV: Wake Loss Investigations: A comparison of Models to Data
3. Brian Gribben Group Leader, Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd: Offshore Wind Acceletator: Wake Modelling Using CFD
4. Gerd Habenicht Senior Technical Manager, RES: Offshore Wake Modelling – an Adapted Engineering Model

A3: The Cost Challenge Costs must fall if this industry is to be sustainable in the long term. Are costs going to fall? By how much? How are we going to get them down?

Speakers:
Chair: Duncan Clark Commercial Manager, The Crown Estate
1. Bruce Valpy Director, BVG Associates: Understanding UK Offshore Wind Costs
2. Henrik Fomsgaard Lynderup Senior Offshore Developer, Siemens Wind Power: Maturing the Installation Setup for the European Offshore Market
3. Anders Bach Andersen Specialist, Wind Park Economics, Vestas-Celtic Wind Technology Limited: Big is Beautiful - Why Larger Wind Turbines Improve Cost of Energy for Offshore Wind
4. Mike Hay Offshore Delivery Manager, SMart Wind: SMart Wind: A Supply Chain Solution to the Round 3 Challenge
5. Karl John AREVA Renewables: From Far and Deep: Alpha Ventus to the UK

B3: The Co-ordinated Network and OFTOs How will offshore projects be connected to the grid?

Speakers:
Chair: Guy Nicholson Head of Grid, RenewableUK
1. Colin Green Head of Offshore Transmission Policy, OFGEM E-Serve: Offshore Transmission: What Does the Future Hold?
2. Julian Leslie Electricity Customer Connections Manager, National Grid: Offshore Network Development
3. Sean Kelly Director, Transmission Capital: Future Development of the OFTO Regime
4. John Houghton Partner, Bond Pearce LLP: Consenting Offshore Connections: IPC, MMO, National Grid, OFTO and Co-ordinated Networks

:: ROOM 3 ::

Stakeholder Surgery
Wednesday 29th June, 14:00 - 17:00

Book appointments or drop in to see:

1. MMO (Licensing and Planning)
2. JNCC (Ollie Payne)
3. CCW (Jessica Orr)
4. SNH
5. RSPB (Toby Gethin and Benedict Gove)
6. DfT (Philip Smith)
7. MCA (Graeme Proctor)
8. Trinity House (Nick Dodson)
9. CAA (Squadron Leader Nel Tindale)
10. MOD (Sqn Ldr Vicki Hillier, Flt Lt Elizabeth Seymour and Marie Neenan)

To book an appointment contact
Paula Sargeant

A4: Project Investment and Finance Case Studies How are offshore wind projects going to be financed now and in the future? Will the Green Investment Bank help?

Speakers:
Chair: Marc Schmitz Senior Vice President, Renewable Energy & Infrastructure Finance, Rabobank Group
1. Henrik Tordrup Nielsen Head of Deal Team A, DONG Energy Power UK Ltd: Financing Offshore Wind
2. Mark Petterson Executive Director, Warwick Energy Limited: Construction Financing Options
3. Mark Giulianotti Head of Project Finance, Augusta & Co: The Case for Funding Offshore Wind Projects: Equity and Debt

B4: Skills and Supply Chain What are the skills challenges facing the industry and how is the industry shaping up to tackle the supply chain issues?

Speakers:
Chair: David Stevenson Offshore Wind Policy, The Scottish Government
1. Ian Farquhar Managing Director Wind Energy, David Brown: Does the UK have the Skills to Succeed in the Offshore Wind Industry?
2. Daniel Castell Offshore Platform Director, Alstom Power Ltd: Manufacturing a Prototype of New Generation 6MW Direct Drive Offshore Wind Turbines
3. Rod Taylor Director, and Paddy Weir, Director, Taylor Weir Associates: Lessons from UK Blade Manufacturing
4. Patrick Phelan Managing Director, JDR Cable Systems: Making the Vital Connection

:: ROOM 3 ::

Stakeholder Surgery
Wednesday 29th June, 14:00 - 17:00

Book appointments or drop in to see:

1. MMO (Licensing and Planning)
2. JNCC (Ollie Payne)
3. CCW (Jessica Orr)
4. SNH
5. RSPB (Toby Gethin and Benedict Gove)
6. DfT (Philip Smith)
7. MCA (Graeme Proctor)
8. Trinity House (Nick Dodson)
9. CAA (Paul Askew)
10. MOD (Sqn Ldr Vicki Hillier, Flt Lt Elizabeth Seymour and Marie Neenan)

To book an appointment contact
Paula Sargeant

A5: Opening Session

Speakers:
1. Chair and speaker:
Maria McCaffery
Chief Executive, RenewableUK
2. Keynote Address: Sir Ian Wrigglesworth Deputy Chairman of the Government's Regional Growth Fund

Political Keynote

Speakers:
1. Chair and speaker:
Maria McCaffery
Chief Executive, RenewableUK
2. Ms Meg Hillier MP Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary

A6: EMR Update How will the “most fundamental change to electricity market in 30 years” impact the development of offshore wind?

Speakers:
Chair: Gordon Edge Director of Policy, RenewableUK
1. Nigel Cornwall Managing Consultant, Cornwell Energy: EMR Update
2. Richard Slark Director, Pöyry Management Consulting: What does Wind need to get out of the EMR?
3. Joe Phillips Principal Engineer, GL Garrad Hassan: Pinning the Tail on the Donkey: The Challenges of Regulating a Dynamic Cost-Base

Members of the Panel Debate:
1. David Nunn VP for Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, Renewable Energy, Statoil ASA
2. Jamieson Thrower Senior Director, Power, RBS
3. Andrew Jamieson Chairman, RenewableUK

B6: New Technology Case Studies Examples of exciting new technological developments across all areas of an offshore wind farm.

Speakers:
Chair: Benj Sykes Director, Innovations, The Carbon Trust
1. Geirr Haarr Manager Hywind Scotland, Statoil ASA: Hywind Demo – A Success History
2. Kevin Bennett Sales and Technical Director, Freyssinet: The GBF Gravity Base Foundation Integrated Solution for Offshore Wind Farms
3. Jesper Moeller Head of Offshore Engineering, Siemens Wind Power A/S: New Wind Turbine Technology for the Offshore Wind Farms of Tomorrow
4. Jan Matthiesen Offshore Wind Acceleration Manager, The Carbon Trust: Improving access systems to extend the operating window for Round 3 sites
5. Rob Saunders Lead Technologist - Offshore Renewables, Technology Strategy Board

C6: Cables An in-depth look at some of the issues the industry has faced when installing cables and possible solutions.

Speakers:
Chair: Thomas Boehme Principal Engineer, Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
1. Antony Zymelka Senior Manager Submarine Cable Operations, and Mark Lawrence Project Manager, Geophysics and Route Engineering, RES Offshore Limited: Submarine Cable Installations: How Appropriate Engineering Solutions Can Reduce Risk
2. John Davidson Freyssinet, Intertek METOC: Uniting Against Solidarity: Fast Tracking Cable Repairs
3. Andy Readyhough Director of Service Delivery, Global Marine Systems Limited: Offshore Cable: Planning, Installation, O&M - Best Practices
4. Sarah Wootton Senior Project Engineer, Cathie Associates Ltd: Cables Round 3 Recommended Industry Best Practice

Political Keynote Video Address

Speakers:
Chair:Gordon Edge Director of Policy, RenewableUK
1. Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change: Political Keynote Video Address
2. Stephen Trotter, Managing Director Power Systems UK & Ireland, ABB: Announcement of Offshore Wind 2012

A7: Installation Best Practice Construction is arguably the highest risk stage of a project, How can the industry come together to enhance performance in this area?

Speakers:
Chair: Michael Jampel DECC
1. Matthew Green Client Project Manager, Vattenfall Wind Power and Mike Hulton Project Manager, ODE: Installation of the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm
2. Tom Verhoeven Business Acquisition Manager Offshore Wind, Seaway Heavy Lifting: The Offshore Wind Installation Challenge and Lessons Learned
3. Charlotta Noren Business Development Director, ABS Consulting: Risk Based H&S System Emergency Response for Offshore Wind Farms: Lessons Learned from Belwind OW
4. Jens Hansen Senior Project Manager, DONG Energy Power UK Ltd: Walney Offshore Windfarms
5. Jeremy Carnell Senior Health and Safety Consultant, PMSS and Simon Cooke Managing Director, 6 Alpha Associates: Unexploded Ordnance Risk - Considering Unexploded Ordnance Risk on and around the British Isles

B7: Operations More projects are becoming operational – what issues have been faced and how do we improve performance going forward?

Speakers:
Chair: Rhys Jones Health and Safey Training Manager, RenewableUK
1. Lars Peter Nielsen Senior Specialist, DNV Denmark: Certification of Grouted Connections for Offshore Wind Farms: DNV Outlook on Current Status and Challenges Ahead
2. Arve Sandve Senior Adviser, LR Scandpower: Successful Development of Offshore Wind Farm Emergency Response Plans
3. Brad Eccles Principal Engineer, ABS Consulting: ABS Consulting: Re-Powering the Yttre Stengrund Offshore Wind Farm
4. Ben Furlong Offshore Portfolio Manager, RWE Npower Renewables Limited: Undertaking Emergency Response Exercises: Lessons Learnt from North Hoyle & Rhyl Flats Wind Farms