Bharti Garg is a professional chemical engineer currently working on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) research project on next-generation carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Her research is very applicable to the power plants across countries like Australia, India and many other Asian countries which do not currently have flue gas desulfurization units and tend to deploy CCS.

Bence manages investments in renewable energy, energy storage, and energy efficiency projects and platforms across South East Asia. Bence has a decade of experience in power generation M&A, valuation, and project finance. His experience includes developing and financing over 300MWp of solar PV projects in South East Asia, including Cambodia’s first utility-scale solar farm and one of Vietnam’s largest solar PV projects of 168MWp.

Ayu Abdullah is co-founder and Regional Director for Southeast Asia at Energy Action Partners, an international nonprofit organization that focuses on capacity building and community development through collaborative and sustainable energy access programs. Ayu has almost a decade of experience working as a researcher and practitioner in sustainable energy and community development. She was previously at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi working on energy access, energy transition, sustainable energy policy, and sustainable development.

Arnaud is the CEO of Adenergy, a subsidiary of Aden Group focused on distributed energy, micro-grid and smart-building projects for the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Asian market. In addition to this role, he is also the Executive Director for ADEN Group, overseeing the group’s transformation and technology-related new business. Under Arnaud’s leadership, Adenergy has won energy-optimization awards from Microsoft and Envision for its IoT platform and has committed to major projects, most recently a 45 million kWh distributed wind project with the PRC's Henli Group.

Anshuman Lath is a Co-Founder and Director of Gram Oorja Solutions Private Limited. Gram Oorja provides sustainable and community-driven energy solutions in remote regions to fulfill electricity, cooking fuel and water needs. The company has implemented over 250 projects including solar micro-grids, solar pumps and biogas cooking solutions for tribal communities. A key feature of their work has been the sustainability of these projects, with local communities taking over the management, tariff collection duties and ownership of these projects.

Physicist Amory Lovins is co-founder, Chief Scientist, and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He is an advisor to major firms and governments worldwide on advanced energy efficiency and authored 31 books and over 630 papers. He is a recipient of the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards.

Mr. Aman Ghalib is the Chief Executive Officer of DABS, the National Power Utility of Afghanistan. An engineer by profession, he has over a decade of professional experience and background in Afghanistan and abroad, and developed an exceptional proficiency and know-how in management and administration and has demonstrated his ability to successfully apply technical knowledge to practical contexts during his years of service. Mr.

Mr. Aloysius Damar Pranadi is a Research Analyst under the Policy, Research, and Analytics Programme at the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE). He graduated from the Engineering Physics Department of the Universitas Gadjah Mada, and is pursuing his master’s degree at Energy and Power Management at Universitas Indonesia. He was involved in the ASEAN Interconnection Master Plan Study, ASEAN Multilateral Power Trade, ASEAN Power Cooperation, ASEAN power database, etc. His interests are power economics and renewable energy (solar and geothermal).

Over half of Alex Ablaza’s 35-year professional career has been dedicated to accelerating energy efficiency (EE) markets across developing Asia. He led the identification, structuring and due diligence in support of financial close of over $3 billion in EE investments and EE policy and market interventions in a growing list of countries which includes Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Adrian is an experienced energy, resources, and agrifood executive with international, private and public sector expertise in business and technology development, joint ventures, stakeholder engagement, commercialization, and program leadership. As the Director, Deakin Energy, Adrian provides leadership in positioning Deakin University as a preferred partner for industry and government in the delivery of innovative solutions to the sustainable energy supply challenges facing modern society.