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2026 SUMMIT AGENDA
DAY1
Day 2 Morning: Making CCS Bankable: Cost Reduction and Capital Formation
09:00 - 09:10
(10 mins)
Opening Welcome by the Chair
Rupert Burrows
Partner
Mayer Brown
09:10 - 09:20
(10 mins)
[Opening Keynote] The Global CCS Landscape: Progress, Priorities and What Comes Next
Ian Havercroft
General Manager-Global Research and Analysis
Global CCS Institute
09:20 - 09:30
(10 mins)
[Keynote] How CCS Can Contribute to Japan’s Decarbonization Pathway
Yoshikazu Kobayashi
Senior Research Director
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan - IEEJ
09:30 - 10:30
(60 mins)
[Panel] Reducing CCS Costs: Advancing Carbon Capture Technologies for Commercial Deployment
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What capture technologies—solvents, membranes, cryogenics, solid sorbents—offer the most realistic cost reduction pathway for Japan’s industrial emitters?
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How do Japan’s unique industrial characteristics affect capture technology choices and cost?
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How do capture costs scale from demonstration to commercial scale —and what is the realistic learning curve?
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What is the target capture cost that would trigger commercial deployment in Japan—and how far are we today?
Moderator:
Andrew Digges
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Panelist:
Jon Christopher Knudsen
Chief Commercial and Services Officer
SLB Capturi
Katsuki Yasuhara
Executive, Senior Manager of Carbon Neutral Business Strategy Office, Hydrogen and Carbon Neutral Division, Energy Solution & Marine Engineering Company
Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Jean Freysz
VP Sales APAC
Air Liquide E&C
Vineeth Ram
Chief Sustainability Officer
OLI Systems
Hideyuki Fujita
Account Executive, Decarbonization Leader for Japan
GE Vernova
10:30 - 10:50
(20 mins)
[Keynote] Connecting the Dispersed: Building Resilient CCS Chains Across APAC’s Fragmented
Industrial Landscape
Jon Barnes
Managing Director
PACE CCS
Morning Coffee & Networking Break
11:10 - 11:30
(20 mins)
[Keynote] APAC CCUS: Turning Growing Ambition into Commercial Reality
Sohini Chatterjee
Vice President, CCUS Research
Rystad Energy
11:30 - 12:20
(50 mins)
[Panel] From Public Funding to Private Capital: Structuring Bankable CCS Projects
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What will convince private capital to enter Japan’s CCS market at scale—policy certainty, carbon pricing, or a credible PPP framework?
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How should CCS projects be structured—through co-investment, risk-sharing, or offtake guarantees—to become bankable?
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What financing models will define the first wave of CCS investment in Japan?
Moderator:
Nathan G. Schmidt
Partner
Nishimura & Asahi
Panelist:
Shigetake Naoki
Chief Operating Officer
GX Acceleration Agency
Allan Baker
Global Head of Energy Transition
Societe Generale
Kenji Irie
Executive Officer and General Manager, Sustainability Planning Department
SMBC
Lionel Martinez
Director - Energy Sector Coverage
ING
12:20 - 12:40
(20 mins)
[Keynote] Red Dirt or Blue Water: The Low-Cost Path to Australian CCS
Jeremy Jebamoney
CEO
Australian Carbon Vault
Luncheon
Day 2 Afternoon: Sustaining the Market: Revenue Models and the Future of CCS
14:00 - 14:50
(50 mins)
[Panel] Beyond Storage: Unlocking CO₂ as a Resource — Utilization, Circular Carbon, and the Emerging Carbon Value Chain
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Which CO₂ utilization routes are nearest to market in Japan? (e-methane, e-fuels, chemicals, minerals)
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Who captures the value? Mapping the emerging carbon value chain from emitters to end-product buyers.
Moderator:
Rupert Burrows
Partner
Mayer Brown
Panelist:
Dr. Osamu Chiyoda
General Manager, R&D
Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.
Dr. Shoji Matsukawa
General Manager, Carbon Neutral Project Department, C1 Chemicals Division, Green Energy & Chemicals Business Sector
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
Dr. Gyuhwan Jo
Director, e-Technology Innovation Center (e-TEC)
ENEOS Xplora
Laurent Trost
COO
Yara Pilbara
14:50 - 15:20
(30 mins)
[International Chamber Address] Accelerating Cross-Border CCUS Partnerships: The Role of Industry Chambers in Connecting Global Markets
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14:50–15:00 | ACCJ Presentation: The Future of Energy: Scaling CCUS through Trans-Pacific Public-Private Sector Collaboration in Japan
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15:00–15:10 | IJBC Presentation: India-Japan CCUS Cooperation: The CBG Opportunity
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15:10–15:20 | EBC Presentation: Accelerating Cross-Border CCUS Partnerships: The Role of Industry Chambers in Connecting Global Markets – A European Business Perspective
Nanako Tanaka
Chair, ACCJ Energy Committee
Country Director, Government Affairs & Policy Japan, GE Vernova
American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
Dr. Gaurav Nahar
Chair of Green Energy Committee
Indo-Japan Business Council (IJBC)
Dr. Andrea Perin
Deputy Chief Representative Tokyo Office
Banca d’Italia
Afternoon Coffee & Networking Break
15:50 - 16:00
(10 mins)
[Keynote] South Australia: Leading Asia into the Next Era of Carbon Management
Angus Mitchell
Principal Industry Development, Whyalla Industrial Transition
Government of South Australia
16:00 - 17:00
(60 mins)
[Panel] Delivering CCS Projects: Engineering, Infrastructure and Execution at Scale
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Overcoming engineering, permitting and supply chain challenges to accelerate the delivery of commercial CCS projects.
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Integrating subsurface data, capture technologies, transport infrastructure and storage solutions into a reliable CCS value chain.
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Strengthening collaboration between project developers, EPC contractors, technology providers and infrastructure partners to move projects from FEED to FID and beyond.
Moderator:
Ts. Syed Saggaf Syed Ahmad
Regional Director, Asia Pacific
Energy Industries Council
Panelist:
Kian Wei Tan
Country Manager - Japan
Halliburton
Simon Allison
Vice President - APAC
Xodus
Nikolaus Boltze
Country Representative for Japan, South-Korea and Australia
thyssenkrupp
Tony Zhang
Head, Carbon Management and Energy Transition APAC, GaffneyClineTM energy advisory
Baker Hughes
Shantanu Jain
Director of Strategy
Varaha
17:00 - 17:10
(10 mins)
Closing Address by the Chair
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