Monday, October 20
11:00AM - 2:00PM | Conference Registration (sponsorship opportunity available)
Welcome to the AEA 2025 Annual Conference!
2:00 - 3:30PM | Keynote Conversations
3:30 - 4:00PM | Refreshment Break sponsored by Clean Hydrogen Works
Refreshment Break Sponsor
Clean Hydrogen Works
CHW’s vision is to address the world’s growing demand for energy that is affordable, secure and low-carbon by developing integrated clean hydrogen-ammonia value chains, underpinned by a uniquely cost-advantaged production facility in the US Gulf Coast.
4:00 - 5:30PM | AEA Leadership Town Hall: Strategy for 2026
The AEA recently adopted a new Strategic Plan for 2026-2028, and is preparing to launch new work streams and committees to achieve its objectives. In this interactive session, the association’s leadership will present the AEA’s key initiatives for the coming year, and engage with our members and conference attendees to discuss priorities and opportunities. Building off the energy of our first Keynote Conversations, our leadership will explore the impact of collaboration and the role of the AEA in accelerating the global adoption of ammonia energy.
Featuring
Vibeke Rasmussen
President, AEA
Linda Dempsey
EVP President Elect, AEA
Jakob Krummenacher
Treasurer, AEA
Rob Stevens
Secretary, President Emeritus, AEA
Trevor Brown
Executive Director, AEA
5:30 - 7:00PM | Welcome Reception sponsored by ExxonMobil
Welcome Reception Sponsor
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions is committed to advancing the energy transition and being a part of a lower-emission future. It's leveraging its unique combination of capabilities, including technological expertise and complex project management skills, to focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and lower emission fuels – which will help provide the world with products that support modern living while reducing emissions for customers.
Hotel Key cards sponsored by LSB
Hotel Key Card Sponsor
LSB
We are a leading North American producer of industrial and agricultural chemicals. We bond the elements of nature to deliver life-changing products. But our most important bond is the one we share with all of our stakeholders. Our formula for success is simple. We do the right thing. We go the extra mile. And we keep our promises. That’s how we create chemistry — because relationships built on chemistry are relationships built to last.
WiFi sponsored by LBC Tank Terminals
WiFi Sponsor
LBC Tank Terminals
As a leading international and independent liquid bulk storage company, we form an integral part of our customers’ supply chains. We provide essential infrastructure and innovative services in the process of transporting products from areas of supply to areas of demand. In our position as connected partner in current and future logistic networks, we are a relevant player in the energy transition. We enable efficiency gains in our customers’ businesses and support their growth ambitions, paving the way towards a carbon-neutral society.
Networking Hub sponsored by Yara
Networking Hub Sponsor
Yara
Yara aims to become climate-neutral and grow a nature-positive food future. We are cutting emissions in our own production, developing tools to cut in-field emissions and protect biodiversity, and contributing to a green shift in shipping and other energy-intensive industries by enabling the hydrogen economy.
Tuesday, October 21
8:00 - 10:00AM | Morning Coffee sponsored by Nikki-Universal
Refreshment Break Sponsor
Nikki-Universal
Nikki-Universal Co., Ltd. has been engaged in the licensing of petroleum refining and petrochemical processes of UOP LLC, a leading international supplier and licensor of the U.S.A. for such processes as, supplying of process technologies (which include patents and expertise), and manufacturing with the developing of high performance process catalysts since it was established as a joint venture between UOP and JGC (a world leading engineering contractor of Japan). Meanwhile, as a respected pioneer of industrial exhaust gas treatment catalyst, we have been developing and supplying purifying catalysts for a cleaner environment, catalysts for energy savings and catalytic technologies to expand its application areas.
Learn more about Nikki-Universal's technology offerings here.
8:45 - 9:30AM | Amogy, GS Engineering & Construction: Technology and project execution - power solutions in Pohang, South Korea
In April 2025, the pair agreed to collaborate with the city of Pohang, South Korea to deploy a 1MW, ammonia-fed, distributed power generation system next year. The partners already have plans to scale up the installation to a 40 MW system by 2028-29, providing ammonia-fueled, carbon-free electricity to clean electricity-hungry customers in Pohang. Supported by national legislation that aims to accelerate the rollout of zero-carbon distributed power generation in the country over the next 5-10 years, Amogy and GS E&C are targeting a critical, potentially lucrative market in South Korea. Join us to learn more about the partnership, and related market opportunities on offer in Asia.
Featuring
Seonghoon Woo
CEO and Co-founder, Amogy
Seungmin Kim
Head of New Business Development Team & CFS TF, GS Engineering & Construction
10:00 - 12:00PM | Technology Track: Performance of Ammonia-fueled Propulsion Technologies
During the maritime propulsion-focused session of the AEA’s 2024 conference, the speakers established the technical feasibility and drive-to-commercialization for ammonia maritime propulsion. Now – in the twelve months since – all major engine manufacturers have released promising test results for emissions and operations of both 2- and 4-stroke engine products. This session will explore these results and next steps, including:
- The minimization and/or elimination of N2O, NOX, and NH3 slip emissions: why, how, and what does testing indicate?
- Safety: how is an ammonia-fueled ship made safe for the crew?
- What emissions data is still missing?
- And, what results do we need to see in the early operations of large ammonia-fueled large ships?
Featuring
Fabio Cococcetta
Product Manager Engines, WinGD
Ernst Grauert Wilche
Regional Sales Director - Americas, Everllence
Jeff Benoit
Vice President – Global Clean Energy Solutions, PSM - a Hanwha company
Tsuji Issei
Promotion Leader, Nikki-Universal
10:00 - 12:00PM | Certification Track: Pilot Operations of the AEA’s Low-Emission Ammonia Certification Scheme
The AEA’s Certification Scheme has made steady progress since our 2024 annual conference, where we explored design decisions made in the development of the pilot system. In this session, we provide a full overview of the Certification Scheme as it enters pilot operations. Audience members will find out more about joining the pilot, more details about how the certificate registry will be used, and how the Scheme can be utilized by companies along the ammonia value chain.
Featuring
Sharon Paterson
Director, Business Development, MiQ
Madhav Acharya
Project Manager, Certification, Ammonia Energy Association
12:00 - 1:30PM | Networking Lunch sponsored by Yokogawa
Lunch Sponsor (additional sponsorship opportunities available)
Yokogawa
Yokogawa provides advanced solutions in the areas of measurement, control, and information to customers across a broad range of industries, including energy, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, and food. Yokogawa addresses customer issues regarding the optimization of production, assets, and the supply chain with the effective application of digital technologies, enabling the transition to autonomous operations.
12:00 - 1:30PM | Women in Ammonia Lunch sponsored by CF Industries
Women in Ammonia Lunch Sponsor
CF Industries
At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. With our employees focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management, we are on a path to decarbonize our ammonia production network – the world’s largest – to enable green and blue hydrogen and nitrogen products for energy, fertilizer, emissions abatement and other industrial activities. Our manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy. CF Industries routinely posts investor announcements and additional information on the Company’s website at www.cfindustries.com and encourages those interested in the Company to check there frequently.
1:30 - 3:30PM | Technology Track: Industrial-scale Ammonia Fuel Demonstrations
Previous editions of the AEA’s Annual Conference have focused on the technology feasibility of ammonia fuel – but now is the time to explore deployment at scale. There are a series of important industrial demonstrations in progress globally – for power generation, industrial heat, cracking, and other applications – each illustrating how ammonia fuel can be deployed in a wide range of future scenarios, with the necessary auxiliary and enabling technologies, and at the required scale. In this session, you will hear directly from some of these first-movers, the lessons learned from early progress, and what work remains.
Featuring
Albert Lanser
Business Development Director, Duiker Clean Technologies
Patrick Hayes
Sales Account Manager, Clariant
Jeffrey Goldmeer (Moderator)
Director, Energy Transition Technology Strategy & Global H2 Leader, GE Vernova
1:30 - 3:30PM | Safety & Regulations Track: First-on-the-Water Safety Case Studies
This session showcases how first movers across the maritime ammonia value chain are working in a coordinated, practical way to address safety, regulatory, and operational hurdles head-on.
From shipboard trials, to bunkering demonstrations, to port infrastructure planning, examine real-world case studies that demonstrate progress is happening, and that it’s being driven by coordinated, cross-sector action. These efforts are part of a growing portfolio of work where industry, ports, regulators, and innovators are aligning to de-risk ammonia maritime operations.
Through concrete examples and a moderated discussion, this session will spotlight how coordination — not just innovation — is accelerating the path toward safe and scalable ammonia fuel adoption at sea.
Featuring
Joshua Padeti
Manager, Energy Seeding, Sumitomo Corporation of the Americas
Laurent Ruhlmann
VP HESQ, Yara Clean Ammonia
Valentina Bortuzzo
Energy Conversion & Emissions Manager, Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
Tomoaki Ichida
Managing Executive Officer, Responsible for The Americas Area, Mistui O.S.K. Lines
TBA
DNV Energy USA
3:30 - 4:00PM | Refreshment Break sponsored by KBR
Morning Coffee Sponsor
KBR
KBR is a world-renowned engineering and technology company delivering engineering and cutting-edge technology licensing solutions to companies and governments across energy, chemicals, infrastructure and defence. KBR has licensed over 260 grassroots ammonia plants since 1943. Over 50% of the world’s ammonia is produced using KBR’s ammonia process.
4:00 - 5:30PM | Keynote Conversations
5:30 - 7:00PM | Conference Networking Reception (sponsorship opportunity available)
Wednesday, October 22
8:00 - 10:00AM | Morning Coffee (sponsorship opportunity available)
8:45 - 9:30AM | Baker Hughes, Hanwha Power Systems, PSM: Powering the seas together
In February 2025, Baker Hughes and Hanwha agreed to jointly develop a new small-size (~16 MW power range), 100% ammonia-capable turbine for maritime propulsion applications, to be deployed onboard Hanwha Ocean’s LNG carriers and container ships by 2028. A full gas turbine factory engine test with 100% ammonia is planned to be completed by the end of 2027. The combustion system itself is being developed by Power Systems Mfg., LLC (PSM), and will enable the turbine to be both fully decarbonized and “fuel-flexible” – 100% ammonia combustion to 100% natural gas combustion, and any variable blend in between while meeting stringent International Maritime Organization (IMO) Tier III NOX emission limits.
Featuring
Luca Pilenga
Director Hydrogen Growth Area, Baker Hughes
Semi Kim
Director, Leader of Green Solution Development Team, Marine Solutions Business Division, Hanwha Power Systems
Jeffrey Benoit
Vice President - Clean Energy Solutions, PSM - a Hanwha company
10:00 - 12:00PM | Technology Track: Expanding Infrastructure for Ammonia Energy Import/Export
This session will take a deep dive on the necessary expansion in enabling infrastructure that will enable greater volumes in trading/greater use in applications.
Building on the AEA’s LEAD database for infrastructure, in this session we will hear updates from some ongoing projects, explore key technology options (including shore side and jetty-less imports, storage tanks, pumps and compression systems), and to round out the session, a panel will discuss the ongoing challenges for expanding ammonia import/export infrastructure.
Featuring
Oliver Heinrich
Global Sales Manager Transport and Storage
Juan Carlos Guarin
Business Development Manager, SOFEC
Radboud Godron
Group Business Development Director New Energies, LBC Tank Terminals
Phillipe Lavagna (Moderator)
Terminals for New Energies - Product Account Manager, SBM Offshore
10:00 - 12:00PM | Safety & Regulations Track: Accelerating Adoption through Demand Aggregation and Financing Mechanisms
Global institutions must build effective mechanisms to unlock financing, in order that ammonia energy can achieve market adoption. This session highlights how different institutions are addressing these challenges, showcasing the strategic role of collaboration, public policy, and international finance in mobilizing investment and reducing risk.
Participants will hear from AEA partners driving major initiatives aimed at creating bankable demand and de-risking low-emission ammonia value chains. The session will feature real-world case studies, followed by a panel discussion on what’s next—examining how coordinated action can further scale deployment and build a secure, inclusive market for low-carbon ammonia.
Featuring
Dolf Gielen
Senior Energy Economist
Ash Khetpal
Program Manager, Center for Green Market Activation (GMA)
Lizzy Lancaster
VP Business Development, Argus
12:00 - 1:30PM | Networking Lunch (sponsorship opportunities available)
1:30 - 3:30PM | Innovation Showcase
A diverse ecosystem of technology developers is contributing to the emerging ammonia energy industry. From start-ups and university spinouts to established, world-scale technology players, new innovations are de-risking projects by improving efficiencies, reducing capital costs, and making ammonia energy solutions feasible in situations where it was not thought possible.
Join us in the final session of our conference to learn about the latest updates on catalysts, new pathways for ammonia synthesis, retrofits to existing production plants, electrolysis, digitalization, and cutting edge ammonia fuel applications.
Featuring
Anastasiia Karabanova
CEO, Ammisorb
Thomas Jam Pedersen
CEO and Co-founder, Copenhagen Atomics
Gautier Papon
Project Director, Coorstek Membrane Sciences
Morteza Sarp
CEO, AmHyTech