Exploring Green Energy Transition in Hong Kong

Day 1 : 14:35 – 15:25

This panel aims to revolutionize Hong Kong’s energy landscape by exploring innovative solutions for a more livable city while achieving carbon neutrality. By bringing together a group of visionary experts, including forward-thinking consultants, energy disruptors, pioneering developers, and impactful non-governmental organizations (NGOs), this session will delve into groundbreaking opportunities to catalyze the energy transition in the whole value chain. From disruptive technologies like microgrids, building management systems, and blockchain-enabled energy systems to game-changing options such as hydrogen and advanced energy storage, the panel will uncover groundbreaking ideas that can transform Hong Kong’s energy paradigm. Join us to be inspired by the visionary minds shaping Hong Kong’s sustainable future and discover how innovation can pave the way for a greener, smarter, and more livable Hong Kong.

Learnings

  • How important is the energy transition?
  • What are the game-changing energy options such as hydrogen and advanced energy storage and how these can contribute to achieving carbon neutrality?
  • What are the disruptive technologies like microgrids, Digital Innovation in Asset Management, and blockchain-enabled energy systems, and what is their potential to transform the energy landscape in Hong Kong?

Post-event Actions

  • Gain valuable insights into the mindset and approaches of the panellists that have the potential to shape a greener, smarter, and more livable Hong Kong.
  • Contribute to raising awareness about energy transition and building energy efficiency in Hong Kong by sharing their learnings and insights with their colleagues, networks, or through relevant platforms.

Speakers

Lawrence Iu

Civic Exchange

Executive Director

Lawrence Iu is Executive Director at Civic Exchange. As a professional environmental strategist, he has profound experience in crafting climate change models and impactful public policies. His current focuses are on policy action in Energy, Building Energy Efficiency and Mobility. He has successfully built a platform with public, corporate and government stakeholders to craft an inclusive transition plan with strong buy-in.

In his previous roles in a multinational corporation and a higher institution, Lawrence led environmental sustainability and occupational health & safety projects across Asia Pacific and coordinated emerging technology management, circular economy and green chemistry research.

My Sustainability Goals for 2023:

Despite these difficult times, we must remain forward looking and anticipate the time of recovery. Even more so, we are now in a favourable position to make fundamental policy decisions to rethink our economic model, making it fit for a low carbon missions world, and to set course for a better, sustainable, and more liveable future for Hong Kong.

Victor Kwong

Conservancy Organisation

Convenor of Sustainable Energy Committee

Mr Victor Kwong has more than 39 years of experience in the areas of corporate sustainability, environmental protection, building energy saving, occupational health and safety, fire protection, crisis management and security protection, etc. He coordinates the corporation’s efforts to improve sustainability and safety performance through effective risk management system, energy saving programs, carbon reduction, climate change risk reduction, etc.


Catherine Leung

MTR Corporation

Lead Environmental Manager

Catherine Leung is Lead Environmental Manager for Hong Kong Transport Services, MTR Corporation. Catherine has completed her Master in the University of Melbourne, Australia, specializing in environmental engineering and management. She has over 20 years environmental management experience in the railway service industry. She takes the lead in green railway initiatives/projects for achieving de-carbonization on the operating railways and bringing improvements to the operating environment by introducing green railway technologies. She works on numbers of green projects to achieve carbon reduction, biodiversity as well as pollution/emission reduction.

Rory Meng

TUV Rheinland Hong Kong Ltd

General Manager / Regional Business Field Coordinator

Over 12 years of career, Mr. Rory Meng has been committed to the work of safety integrity management in petrochemical, machinery manufacturing, new energy, lithium electric manufacturing, semiconductor and other industries. He has rich experience in risk management system and equipment integrity management consulting, proficient in mechanical safety, process safety, chemical safety, functional safety, explosion-proof safety, electrical safety, product safety and many special technologies, integrated manufacturing system, equipment integrity management system, process safety management system, quality management system, asset integrity management system, engineering project management and many other production management system capabilities.
He has served 50+ leading companies in the related industry, and has participated in or led more than 20 projects of hydrogen energy and hydrogen related projects in general industry.

Jim Taylor

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited

Senior Director – Planning & Development

Jim has been with China Light & Power in Hong Kong since 2001, after moving from Melbourne, Australia. Jim is Senior Director – Planning & Development at CLP Power Hong Kong, where he is responsible for supporting the company’s future long term strategic development and regulatory regime.

Jim has extensive senior management experience of electricity, gas and environmental issues with leading companies in both regulated and deregulated energy markets in the UK and Australia. Prior to his current role in CLP, Jim has been responsible for the company’s long term strategic planning and the interface with the Hong Kong Government for the operation of the Scheme of Control, with earlier appointments covering retail strategy, CLP’s largest customers, energy efficiency & conservation and tariff design.

 

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