Calling All Energy Transition Pioneers!
Prepare yourselves for a unique encounter at our Innovative Technologies conference by PwC Luxembourg and Fraunhofer IEG as our cooperative partner. This is not a typical seminar; it’s an immersive experience where each expert’s presentation is about hot energy transition topics, seamlessly leading into interactive dialogues with the opportunity of signing up for one-on-one sessions. If you are not able to join us physically, a webinar version of this event will also be available.
Date & Schedule
- Date: 30 April 2025
- Time: From 3.30 pm to 5.45 pm (concluded with a networking cocktail)
At our premises PwC Luxembourg (2, Gerhard Mercator L-2182 Luxembourg)
Agenda
| 3.30 - 4.00 pm | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 4.00 - 4.10 pm | Welcome - Emanuela Sardi, Partner at PwC Luxembourg, Infrastructure and Real Estate Co-Leader |
| 4.10 - 4.30 pm | Introduction Fraunhofer - Prof. Dr. Rolf Bracke and Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz, Board of Directors of Fraunhofer IEG |
| 4.30 - 5.20 pm | Integrated energy infrastructures and geothermal energy - hearing about latest innovative technologies, strategies and potential investment opportunities for ESG funds |
| 5.20 - 5.40 pm | Investments in energy transition through Luxembourg investment vehicles - a selection of regulatory aspects - Mathieu Scodellaro, Head of Investment Funds Practice at PwC Legal Luxembourg |
| 5.40 - 5.45 pm | Closing Statement |
Our guest speakers
- Prof. Dr. Rolf Bracke
- Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
Prof. Dr. Rolf Bracke
Director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies (IEG)
Prof. Rolf Bracke is institute director of Fraunhofer IEG since December 2019. Previously, he built up the International Geothermal Center Bochum (GZB) as a NRW joint research institution of science and industry since 2003 as founding director and chairman of the board. Within Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Rolf Bracke coordinates research on the dimension of heat for the institutes of the Fraunhofer Energy Alliance and the Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems. As a full professor at Ruhr University Bochum, he holds the Department of Geothermal Energy Systems at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, he held the professorship for Geothermal and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bochum University of Applied Sciences from 2002 to 2020 and was Vice President for Research between 2006 and 2009. He was director of the International Geothermal Association (IGA) between 2013 and 2020 and is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Energy Research Alliance (Geothermal Program). In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his work on structural change.
Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
Director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies (IEG)
Prof. Mario Ragwitz is Director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies (IEG) since December 2019. Before that, he was Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe.
As scientific director of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Energy Systems" he coordinates the joint research of eight Fraunhofer Institutes in the field of energy system transformation, since 2019. He was also appointed as spokesman of the Fraunhofer Hydrogen Network in April 2020, which coordinates the work of 38 institutes in this field. He holds a chair in “Integrated Energy Infrastructures” at the Brandenburg University of Technology, a position as an honorary professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and is part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence.
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