{"id":4142,"date":"2026-09-11T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:58:37","slug":"aberdeen-2026-a-roundtable-brings-together-the-voices-shaping-the-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/aberdeen-2026-a-roundtable-brings-together-the-voices-shaping-the-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"ABERDEEN 2026: A ROUNDTABLE BRINGS TOGETHER THE VOICES SHAPING THE ENERGY TRANSITION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4142\" class=\"elementor elementor-4142\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-31f869ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"31f869ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b224b49\" data-id=\"1b224b49\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37526367 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37526367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/\"> <b>Technologies for Sustainability Roundtable<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> approaches its fourth edition on 21 October 2026 at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/maryculterhouse.com\/\"> <b>Maryculter House<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Aberdeen, the first to be held outside London, the speaker programme that has been confirmed reflects a deliberate choice: to bring together not just experts, but the right experts. Those whose work sits at the difficult intersections where innovation meets commercial reality, where policy meets practice, where technology meets the supply chains that must deliver it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will open with a keynote address from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewbowie.org.uk\/\"> <b>Andrew Bowie MP<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. His participation underscores a simple fact: the energy transition is no longer an environmental conversation. It is a political and economic one, shaping policy, investment and industrial strategy at the highest levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, the Roundtable draws voices from across the landscape.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netzerotc.com\/\"> <b>Myrtle Dawes OBE<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chief Executive of the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netzerotc.com\/\"> <b>Net Zero Technology Centre<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, brings decades driving innovation in offshore energy. Matt Browell-Hook from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-energy.com\/\"> <b>Spirit Energy<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> speaks to the operational realities of energy transition at scale.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amentum.com\/\"> <b>Paul Hennessey<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Amentum and Ryan Menzies at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apolloengineering.co.uk\/\"> <b>Apollo Engineering Consultants<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> represent the entrepreneurial and commercial side \u2014 those turning emerging technologies into investable propositions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Alan Lowdon OBE brings academic rigour and decades of research leadership in offshore renewable energy.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/graeme-rafferty-supply-chain\/\"> <b>Graeme Rafferty<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oeuk.org.uk\/\"> <b>Offshore Energies UK (OEUK)<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> addresses a question often overlooked: how do supply chains keep pace with ambition? Richard McGowan from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomgroup.com\/\"> <b>Fathom Group<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Donna Sutherland at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verienergy.com\/\"> <b>Veri Energy<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> add operational depth from different corners of the offshore energy sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nirmal Chauhan, Technical Sales Engineer at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligententergy.com\/\"> <b>Intelligent Energy<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, represents the ground-level perspective, the practical work of deploying hydrogen fuel cell technology in real infrastructure, in real conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then there is the academic dimension. Prof. Ian Thomson from the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/\"> <b>University of Dundee<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Sustainability, brings a lens that has become essential to energy transition conversations: how do we measure value? How do financial systems support or hinder sustainable development? How do we create accountability?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What emerges from this line-up is not a set of parallel conversations. It is a genuine dialogue between people working at different levels of the same challenge, engineering and entrepreneurship, supply chain and sustainability, policy and practice, innovation and accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/\"> <b>Roundtable<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has, over three previous editions held at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caledonianclub.com\/\"> <b>the Caledonian Club<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafclub.org.uk\/\"> <b>the Royal Air Force Club<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/una.org.uk\/\"> <b>headquarters of UNA-UK<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, established itself as a rare space: closed enough to allow honest conversation, open enough to bring together genuine difference. This year, moving to Aberdeen and the North of Scotland, a region with decades of energy expertise and critical capabilities, promises to deepen that conversation further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aberdeen 2026 will be the most significant edition yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration is open. Places are limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\"><b>Register now at www.greentechroundtable.org<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Technologies for Sustainability Roundtable approaches its fourth edition on 21 October 2026 at Maryculter House, Aberdeen, the first to be held outside London, the speaker programme that has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greentechroundtable.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}