U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to Deliver Luncheon Address at IHS CERAWeek 2016

U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz will join industry, policy, technology and financial leaders and leading experts from IHS at the 35th IHS CERAWeek 2016, February 22-26 at the Hilton Americas—Houston. Secretary Moniz will deliver a luncheon address Wednesday, February 24.

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U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz will deliver a luncheon address during IHS CERAWeek 2016, February 22-26 in Houston. (Photo: Business Wire)

“We are honored to have Secretary Moniz join us at IHS CERAWeek 2016,” said Daniel Yergin, conference chair and vice chairman of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. “Energy Transition is the major theme of this year’s conference. Through his distinguished service as Secretary of Energy and a career spent as a leading authority on the world’s major energy challenges, Secretary Moniz offers a unique vantage point from which to survey the ever-changing landscape of our energy world.”

IHS CERAWeek is recognized as a leading forum offering insight into the energy future. Chaired by Daniel Yergin, IHS CERAWeek 2016, Energy Transition: Strategies for a New World will mark the event’s 35th anniversary and will convene more than 2,800 delegates from more than 50 countries and more than 300 speakers to provide fresh insights and critically-important dialogue on the most urgent issues and realities to be faced in energy markets, technologies and geopolitics.

Secretary Moniz will join a distinguished group of speakers that include the CEOs of Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, GE, PEMEX, and Siemens; the President of Mexico; energy ministers from Norway and Mexico; the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board; and leaders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Energy Information Administration and the Texas Public Utility Commission.

Key themes to be explored at IHS CERAWeek 2016 will include responses to volatility and uncertainty in a time of low oil prices; what’s ahead for markets, investment, costs and technology; the environmental agenda, including climate policy and responses to the COP 21 climate conference in Paris; changing structure of the electric power industry; prospects for renewables; emerging competitive strategies and industry structure; and regulatory policy and geopolitics.

Featured speakers at IHS CERAWeek 2016 will include:

(A complete list of speakers and conference program information are available at www.ceraweek.com)

(Alphabetical order)

• H.E. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, secretary general, GECF
• Philip Asherman, president and CEO, CB&I
• Norman Bay, chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
• Fatih Birol, executive director, IEA
• Iain Conn, CEO, Centrica
• Christopher Crane, president and CEO, Exelon
• Theodore Craver, chairman and CEO, Edison International
• Gregory Ebel, chairman, president and CEO, Spectra Energy
• Russ Girling, president and CEO, Transcanada
• Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president, Republic of Iceland
• Stanley Fischer, vice chairman, Federal Reserve Board
• Greg Garland, chairman and CEO, Phillips 66
• David Hager, president and CEO, Devon
• John Hess, CEO, Hess Corporation
• Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric
• Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO, energy, Mubadala
• Joe Kaeser, president and CEO, Siemens AG
• Yuji Kakimi, president, JERA
• Hirobumi Kawano, president, JOGMEC
• Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
• Doug Lawler, president and CEO, Chesapeake Energy
• Emilio Lozoya, CEO, PEMEX
• H.E. Tord Lien, minister of petroleum and energy, Norway
• H.E. Gabriel Obiang Lima, minister of mines, industry and energy, Equatorial Guinea
• Thomas May, chairman, president and CEO, Eversource Energy
• Donna Nelson, chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission
• Enrique Peña Nieto, president, Mexico
• Kunio Nohata, senior executive officer, Tokyo Gas
• Doug Oberhelman, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar
• Scott Sheffield, chairman and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
• Adam Sieminski, administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
• Besim Sisman, president and CEO, Turkish Petroleum
• Angela Stent, director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
• Peter Terium, CEO, RWE
• Jim Teague, CEO, Enterprise Products Partners
• Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric
• Steve Williams, president and CEO, Suncor Energy
• Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS (IHS CERAWeek Chairman)
• Yilin Wang, chairman, CNPC

Registration Information

IHS CERAWeek 2016 will be held February 22-26 at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas. Further information and delegate registration is available at www.ceraweek.com.

Media Accreditation

Media registration is now open. Members of the media interested in covering IHS CERAWeek 2016 are required to apply for accreditation. Applications can be submitted via the following link: http://on.ihs.com/cwmediareg

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