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Energy Dialogue 2 0 ENERGY DIALOGUE 2020 Review Six years of energy dialogue – six exciting years of outstanding speakers, first-class discussions on current trends and topics in the energy sector, with the goal of trying to bring business, science and politics closer together and successfully manage the energy transition at all levels. 2 SIX YEARS CONFERENCE "ENERGY DIALOGUE" In 2014 the first “Energy Dialogue” took place in Berlin. Since then, the conference has established itself as an exclusive industry gathering that observes, critically comments on the challenges of the energy RSBK transition and gives recommendations for action. Every year, key decision-makers from business, science and politics meet ENERGY on current developments and trends. DIALOGUE We launched the 2014 conference with the aim of creating a platform that is open but not publicly discussed. We do this in cooperation with renowned scientific and economic partners. We are pleased that the Helmholtz Association, as a scientific cooperation partner, is accompanying the event this year as well and we expect exciting discussions at the "Energy Dialogue 2020". 3 RSBK Our © FlorianSchuh guests Conference guests included (excerpt) ENERGY DIALOGUE 2014 ■ Sigmar Gabriel Former Federal Foreign Minister ■ Hildegard Müller Board member Innogy SE ■ Günther H. Oettinger Former EU Commissioner for Budget and Personnel ENERGY DIALOGUE 2015 © RWTH Aachen ■ Rainer Baake Former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ■ Prof. Marcel Fratzscher President of the German Institute for Economic Research ■ Dr. Ingrid Hengster Board member of KfW ■ Jochen Homann President of the Federal Network Agency ENERGY DIALOGUE 2016 © LaurenceChaperon ■ Peter Altmaier Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy ■ Dr. Barbara Hendricks Former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature @Laurence Chaperon Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety ■ Sabine Nallinger Head of the Foundation "2 Grad" 4 ©BMWi ENERGY DIALOGUE 2017 ■ Prof. Achim Kampker CEO Street Scooter GmbH ■ Guntram Pehlke CEO DSW 21 © E.ON ■ Prof. Günter Schuh CEO e.GO Mobile AG ■ Mark van Stiphout Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission @KfW-Bildarchiv ENERGY DIALOGUE 2018 ■ Dr. Leonhard Birnbaum Member of the board E.ON SE ■ Michael Vassiliadis Chairman IG BCE © Sedat Mehder © StefanKoch ■ Prof. Holger Hanselka President of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ■ Boris Palmer Mayor of Tübingen ENERGY DIALOGUE 2019 © @MichaelPaternack Wuppertal Institut ■ Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick Vice President, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH ©EWE ■ Prof. Peter Wasserscheid Director Helmholtz Institute for @ Deutscher Zukunftspreis "Renewable Energies" ■ Cem Özdemir Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ■ Dr. Urban Keussen Board member EWE AG @Michael Paternack @Manfred Grohe 5 RSBK ENERGY DIALOGUE 2020 The „Energy Dialogue Workshop 2020“ will be held on September 23th at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). 6.
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