Day 1 - Tuesday 4 April

• Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to H. M. Government
• Chris Huhne MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs
• Anders Søe-Jensen, President of Vestas Offshore A/S 
• Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State for Energy

Energy Review: The Future
A debate chaired by Stephen Sackur, Journalist & Broadcaster
Churchill Auditorium

• Clive Bates, Environment Agency
• Tom Burke, E3G
• Professor Ian Fells, Fells Associates & Founding Chairman of NaREC
• Tony Grayling, IPPR

The Financing of Offshore Wind Energy
Chaired by Kristian Armstrong, DTI
Churchill Auditorium

Environment & Consenting I (including Marine Bill)
Chaired by Rob Hastings, The Crown Estate
Westminster Suite, Level 4

• Dr Gordon Edge, BWEA: UK Offshore Wind - A Framework for Future Growth
• Vivek Mittal, Bank of Scotland: Economics and Financing of UK Offshore Wind
• Michael Starling, BMT Renewables Limited: Assessing the Financial Viability of Offshore Wind Farms
• David Milborrow, Consultant: There appears to be no alternative
• Chris Mole & Ben Warren, Ernst & Young LLP: Effect of Procurement Strategy on Financial Returns from offshore Wind Energy Investments

• Dave Bench, Defra - The Marine Bill
• Dr Carolyn Heeps, The Crown Estate: COWRIE Research Programme: Full Steam Ahead
• David Bean , PMSS Ltd and Mark Rehfisch, British Trust for Ornithology: Determining Bird Importance at a Proposed Offshore Wind Farm for Consenting: the Greater Gabbard Experience
• Chris Jenner, RPS Energy: Offshore Wind EIA – An aid or hindrance to project design and planning success?

Environment & Consenting II
Chaired by Richard Mellish, DTI
Westminster Suite, Level 4

• Colin Morgan, Garrad Hassan: Engineering A Lower Cost Of Offshore Wind Energy
• Jonathan Lux, Ince & Co: Contracting and Supply Chain - Drawing on experiences in the offshore oil and gas industry to effectively implement key contractual indemnities in future offshore wind farm contracts
• Megan Arnold, GE Wind & BWEA Board Member: BWEA progress from the 2005 Cost Reduction Workshop
• Nigel Crowe, PMSS & BWEA Board Member: Offshore Windfarm Contracting - Making Everyone Happy

• Sue Sljivic, RSK ENSR Environment Limited: Cumulative Impact Assessment
• Marcus Trinick, Bond Pearce & BWEA Vice-Chair: Flexible Consents for Round Two Projects
• Carolyn Campbell, Department of Trade and Industry: Decommissioning Programmes for Offshore Renewables
• Adrian Pattison, BWEA Developers Representative – Navigation: Wind Farm Effects on Marine Radar and Offshore Search and Rescue – Current Industry Approach

Conference Reception & Launch of the BWEA Wind Turbine Safety Rules, sponsored by E.ON (Pickwick Suite, QEII Centre, Level 1)

Day 2 - Wednesday 5 April

• Mike Prowse, A2SEA Limited: A review of construction capabilities for next generation offshore turbines
• Anders Moller, Densit A/S: Round One: Experience with grouting of monopole structures
• Mike Watchorn, Engineering Business Ltd: The development, design and build of BOWTIS – The Beatrice Offshore Wind Installation System.
• Alan Tricklebank, Gifford: Concrete Towers - An Emerging Competitor; Concepts for Construction and Offshore Installation
• Peter Fish, SLP Energy: Foundations – The Way Forward

• Ian D Bonnon, BOMEL: Maintaining Offshore Wind Farm Structures And Subsea Cables Into The Future
• Heinrich Duden, ep4 offshore GmbH: PTS – Personnel Transfer System
• Flemming Ougaard, Vestas Offshore A/S: Service Logistics
• Dave Farrier, E.ON Renewables & BWEA Board Member: Results of the BWEA H&S Seminar 2006

Construction & Installation II
Chaired by Hans Buus, Elsam Kraft A/S
Churchill Auditorium

Making the Connections
Chaired Lewis Dale, National Grid
Westminster Suite, Level 4

• Simon Redfern, KBR: Installation Risk – Experience of a Balance of Plant Contractor
• Marc Seidel, REpower Systems AG: Aspects of substructure selection for the DOWNVInD Project in 45m water depth with the REpower 5M Offshore Wind Turbine
• Captain Peter Hodgetts, SeaRoc: Offshore Construction, Marine Coordination and Access Strategy
• Esben Schmidt, Senior Project Manager, Vestas Offshore A/S: Kentish Flats

• John Overton, DTI: Offshore Transmission: The Government's Decision Explained
• Giles Stevens, Ofgem: Offshore Transmission: Future Work Plan
• Peter Jones ABB UK: The Challenges of Offshore Subsea Power System Construction – Troll A, Electrical Power Delivered Successfully to an Oil and Gas Platform in the North Sea
• Chris Veal, Airtricity: Transmission grids for offshore wind
• Bart-Jan Sustronk, Ecofys bv: Making a Wind Power Plant
• John Connelly, Metoc: Getting the Power Ashore – Environment, Consents & Contracts from A Power Cables Perspective

Panel Debate: The Future of the RO
Chaired by Keith MacLean, Scottish and Southern Energy & BWEA Board Member
Churchill Auditorium

• Presentation from Nadine Haj-Hasan, The Carbon Trust & Jeremy Wheatland, LEK : Review of the Policy Framework to Support Investment at Scale in UK Mass Generation Renewable Technologies in Terms of Power

Followed by a panel debate on the future of the RO with:

• Paul Dowling, Airtricity
• Gaynor Hartnell, Renewable Energy Association
• Alan Mortimer, ScottishPower
• Michael Rea, The Carbon Trust
• Andrew Murfin, Shell