Session 1: From Electricity to Hydrogen to Power-to-X and Fusion
Location: Aula, FTU

• Intermittent Renewables and Hydrogen Production in European Carbon-Neutral Energy Systems by Patrick Jochem, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Modularity: the Game-Changer for Commercial Scale E-Fuel Production from Power-to-X/PtX by Samantha Michaux, INERATEC GmbH
• Hydrogen for the Energy Transition by Daniel Banuti, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Advancing the Frontiers of Fusion: Background, Breakthroughs, and Burning Ambitions by Sophia Henneberg, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)

Session 2: Innovations for Energy Storage
Location: Aula, FTU

• Storing Energy: The Different Roles of Storage Technologies in Energy Systems Analysis by Theresa Klütz, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
• Harnessing Heat: Advancements in High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage by Annelies Vandersickel, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Exploration of Cathode Materials for Li-S Batteries by Yan Lu, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)

Session 3: Pathways to a Resilient Energy Future
Location: Aula, FTU

• Rethinking Electricity Market Design: Lessons Learned and Future Needs by Antonio J. Conejo, The Ohio State University
• Planning the Net Zero Grid of 2050 by Robert Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Power Hardware in the Loop: How Experiments can Accelerate the Energy Transition by Giovanni De Carne, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Session 4: Advanced Materials and Circular Processes
Location: Aula, FTU

• Material Bottlenecks of the Energy Transition – Exemplary Case Studies from a Systems Perspective by Heidi Heinrichs, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
• The Role of Information and Energy for Closing Material Cycles by Karl Gerald van den Boogaart Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
• A Hybrid Workflow to Discover Optimized Materials and Processes for the Energy Transition by Christoph J. Brabec, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

Session 5: Energy Economics and Perspectives
Location: Aula, FTU

• Flexibility in the Electricity System – Surplus or Bottleneck? by Wolf Fichtner
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Technical Safety Aspects of Small Modular Reactors and New Reactor Designs: Global Developments and Challenges by Sara Beck
  Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH
• Innovating Tomorrow! Focus on Industrial Solutions for the Energy Transition by Jens Dietrich
  Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co KG, Innovation Center Berlin