Hydrogen Conference Overview

Hydrogen Conference

The Hydrogen Conference will highlight the essential role of hydrogen in driving the energy transition, emphasising its potential to decarbonise heavy industry and support a balanced energy mix. The conference will bring together industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators to chart a path for scalable hydrogen adoption, focusing on reducing costs, addressing infrastructure gaps, and creating a robust value chain that supports large-scale production and distribution.

16,500 +

Conference
Delegates

1,800 +

Conference
Speakers

370 +

Conference
Sessions

10

Conferences

Unlocking hydrogen's potential

Hydrogen continues to capture global attention as a transformative energy solution, with its advantages as a low-carbon alternative fueling optimism across industries. However, the sector still faces significant hurdles, including high production costs, limited infrastructure, complex regulations, and a fragmented value chain.

Overcoming these challenges will require an integrated approach, combining technological innovation, policy support, and coordinated investment to ensure hydrogen’s role as a critical enabler of the energy transition.

2024 Hydrogen Conference themes

Regulatory frameworks shaping the future of hydrogen

To enable and accelerate low-carbon hydrogen capabilities, strategic policy incentives and subsidy frameworks are planned or being enacted on multiple economic fronts to advance progress, including infrastructure investment, jobs creation, national energy independence and security, improved energy efficiency, and carbon capture and storage technology advances. Collaboration within national agencies and with the private sector are driving R&D, investment and project development on hydrogen technologies and infrastructure for the production, purification, distribution, storage and use of hydrogen and fuel cells.

Materialising off take agreements and stimulating hydrogen demand

By 2050, low-carbon hydrogen demand could account for over 75% of total hydrogen demand. In the next few years, nearly all new hydrogen production coming online is expected to be low-carbon hydrogen, coinciding with an expected phaseout of grey hydrogen. To meet these projections, the production of hydrogen and its derivatives will have to overcome challenges, including technology scalability, rising project costs and limited electrolyser capacities. In addition, infrastructure build-out for large-scale hydrogen use - including pipelines and import/export terminals – will need to take place to ensure low-carbon hydrogen supply can be traded and transported to meet demand. And, at the same time as accelerating low- and no-emission hydrogen production, driving hydrogen offtake across sectors at scale, such as heavy industry and transportation, will be key to realising hydrogen’s potential in the energy transition.

Hydrogen for people and planet: accelerating a just and equitable energy transition

The global hydrogen market is forecast to grow to over US$1.4 trillion annually by 2050, with green hydrogen supply accounting for most of it. A 2023 Deloitte report projects developing countries will account for nearly 70% of the market, creating as many as 1.5 million jobs per year between 2030 and 2050, and up to two million jobs per year globally between 2030 and 2050. Opportunities to benefit from the economic stimulus of a new hydrogen economy will require supportive policies and regulations, to build the required capabilities and ensure a competitive local industry that can meet global demand.

Regional progress to deliver the new hydrogen economy

As national hydrogen strategies, roadmaps and targets are embedded into energy strategies, continued and increased government and private sector support is needed to advance the hydrogen market. Progress must still be made against the challenges of technology, and infrastructure costs for producing and using hydrogen, demand generation for low emission hydrogen and incentivising policy to de-risk investment. Technological innovation, accelerated project deployment, enabling national and international regulatory frameworks, the development of global certification and reporting methodologies, will all have roles in delivering the benefits of a low-carbon hydrogen economy.

The Conferences

Strategic Conference

Decarbonisation Conference

Hydrogen Conference

Finance & Investment Conference

Digitalisation & Technology Conference

Maritime & Logistics Conference

Voices of Tomorrow

Technical Conference

Downstream Technical Conference

Strategic Conference

The Strategic Conference harvests insights on the latest thinking, trends and solutions around emissions, energy efficiencies and disruptive technology from those at the forefront of delivering the strategies, business models and technology innovations.

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Decarbonisation Conference

The Decarbonisation Conference will remain an inclusive platform aimed at driving actionable solutions to create the energy system of the future while accelerating the decarbonisation of today’s energy landscape.

The 2025 conference programme will focus on the decarbonisation of business investments and the increase of green energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage, renewable energy, biofuels, and battery storage, as well as the role of AI in supporting the energy industry's journey toward achieving its decarbonisation goals.

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Finance & Investment Conference

The ADIPEC Finance & Investment conference will bring together experts to discuss transformative investment strategies, innovative financing tools, and collaborative solutions that will be critical in building a resilient, low-carbon economy.

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Digitalisation & Technology Conference

The ADIPEC Digitalisation & Technology Conference will harness the power of AI and other Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to unlock opportunities in the evolving energy landscape. The ADIPEC Conference will be a hub for industry leaders to share insights, strategies, and advancements that will drive tomorrow's smart and sustainable energy systems.

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Maritime & Logistics Conference

The Maritime & Logistics Conference will unite experts from the global shipping and logistics industries to advance collective progress toward net-zero emissions. By fostering cross-sector collaboration, the conference aims to shape the future of global supply chains, driving innovation in energy efficiency, alternative fuels, and sustainable operations while reinforcing a shared commitment to both environmental and economic resilience.

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Voices of Tomorrow

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Technical Conference

Organised by SPE, the Technical Conference brought together the brightest minds and technical experts from across the energy value chain – the changemakers at the forefront of engineering, technology, and industry innovation.

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Downstream Technical Conference

The Downstream Technical Conference explored the role of downstream in a rapidly evolving energy landscape, emphasising the importance of circular economies, operational excellence, and energy efficiency.

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