Opening Session

Chaired by Alan Moore, BWEA Board Member

• Alan Moore, BWEA Board Member
  
• Lord Hunt, Minister for Sustainable Development and Energy Innovation & Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
  
• Andrew Mill, Chair of BWEA Wave & Tidal Steering Group & CEO of NaREC
  
• Kelvyn Derrick, Deputy Chairman, South West RDA: Core Sponsor Address
  

Development and Deployment

Chaired by Stephen Wyatt, Marine Energy Accelerator Manager, The Carbon Trust

• Paul Jordan, Business Development Director, Ocean Power Technologies: PowerBuoy Deployments and Developments
  
• Dr. Jochen Weilepp, Head of Ocean Energies, Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG: Progress on the Development of a Tidal Current Power Plant Optimized to Achieve Minimal Maintenance Costs
  
• Max Carcas, Business Development Director, Pelamis Wave Power
  
• Andrew Hine, Finance Director, Trident Energy: Offshore Testing and the Route to Commercial Viability
  
• Sue Barr, Operations Manager, OpenHydro Group Ltd
  
• Development & Deployment Q & A
  

From Turf to Surf

Wave and tidal in the environment

Chaired by Richard Boud, Associate Director, Entec

• Trevor Raggatt, Deputy Director Marine Energy and Operations, Energy Innovation Unit
  
• Andrew Wood, Executive Director Evidence and Policy, Natural England: Wave and Tidal Energy: The Natural England View Natural England
  
• David Ainsworth, Project Manager, Marine Current Turbines
  
• Justine Saunders, Senior Consultant, ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd: Wet Renewable Energy devices - Developing Nature Conservation Strategies for Management
  
• Martin Attrill, Acting Director of Marine Institute, PRIMaRE and University of Plymouth: Marine Renewable Energy and the Environment - Lessons from the Wave Hub
  
• Q&A
  

Major Marine Power Delivery

Getting connected

Chaired by Alan Moore, BWEA Board Member

• Martin Simpson, Head of Technology & Projects, The Crown Estate: Pentland Firth Wave & Tidal Project
  
• Christopher Towner, Senior Associate, Bond Pearce LLP: Getting Connected – What are the Grid Requirements of Projects and What is Being Done to Meet Them?
  
• Nick Screen, Consultant, Redpoint Energy: The Benefits of Marine Technologies Within a Diversified Renewables Mix
  
• Prof Roger Falconer, Cardiff University: Severn Barrage and Other Options: Hydro-environmental Modelling Studies
  
• Q&A