Vaasa Gas Exchange

VGE on energia-alan asiantuntijoille suunnattu kaasuun ja siihen liittyviin asioihin keskittyvä kansainvälinen verkostoitumistapahtuma. VGE:ssa yrityksillä on mahdollisuus tavata alan toimijoita, vaikuttajia sekä potentiaalisia yhteistyökumppaneita Suomesta sekä eri puolilta maailmaa. Tapahtumassa on myös ajankohtainen seminaari. VGE on isoin Pohjoismaissa järjestettävä kaasualan verkostoitumistilaisuus.

VGE:n järjestäjänä on Vaasan yliopisto yhteistyössä Gasumin, Novian, Merinovan, Stormossenin, VASEKin, Viexpon, Wärtsilän ja Åbo Akademin kanssa ja se on osa Vaasa EnergyWeek -tapahtumaa. Vaasa EnergyWeek on useasta eri tilaisuudesta koostuva kansainvälinen energiatapahtuma.

Vaasa Energy Week 20.-24.3.2023

The Vaasa Gas Exchange 2023 seminar is back with expert speeches and interesting panel discussions. The Vaasa Gas Exchange 2023 seminar is back with expert speeches and interesting panel discussions. Carbon neutrality and carbon negativity are the key issues today’s business and society development.

WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEMINARS:

Seminar 1:

9:00-10:30

Biogas as a Key Part of Modern Energy Business Solutions

In the seminar Biogas as a key part of modern energy business solutions, you will be able to learn about what kind of scalable business is possible through digitally connected biogas hubs. As well ideas for sustainable biogas production will be heard. It is also possible to learn how renewable gases could be a solution for road transport. At the end of seminar there will be interesting panel lead by Cynthia Söderbacka from Novia.

Moderator: Cynthia Söderbacka, Project Leader, Project Leader in the Faculty of Technology & Seafaring-RDI, Novia University of Applied Sciences

9:00-9:15 Towards flexible and scalable biogas business through digitally connected biogas hubs, Karita Luokkanen-Rabetino, Research Programme Manager, VEBIC, University of Vaasa

9:15-9:30 Aspects for sustainable biogas production, Mika Ruusunen, Professor, Biorefinery Measurements, University of Oulu

9:30-9:45 Renewable gases as a solution for road transport, Jussi Vainikka, Senior Business Development Manager, Gasum Oy

9:45–10:00 TBA , Aimo Latvala, CEO, Ab Stormossen Oy

10:00-10:30 Panel discussion

Moderator: Cynthia Söderbacka

Panelists:

Karita Luokkanen-Rabetino, Research Programme Manager, VEBIC, University of Vaasa

Mika Ruusunen, Professor, Biorefinery Measurements, University of Oulu

Jussi Vainikka, Senior Business Development Manager, Gasum Oy

Aimo Latvala, CEO, Ab Stormossen Oy

Seminar 2:

13:00-14:30 

E Fuels and Hydrogen Ecosystem – Perspectives for The Future Opportunities

The Vaasa Gas Exchange 2023 seminar is back with expert speeches and interesting panel discussions. In the seminar E Fuels and Hydrogen ecosystem – perspectives for the future opportunities, you will be able to learn about what is and will be the situation in hydrogen ecosystem in Ostrobothnia and what kind of practices we have in Finland. At the end of the seminar there will be interesting panel lead by Marko Huttula, professor from University of Oulu.

13:00-13:20 The Emerging Hydrogen Ecosystem in Ostrobothnia: Current state, challenges, and future opportunities, Kaisa Penttilä, PhD Candidate, Project coordinator at Hanken School of Economics

13:20-13:40 Future Hydrogen economy in practice: Finland’s largest hydrogen plant, case Flexens Kokkola, Berndt Schalin, CEO, and Åsa Hedman, Head of Operations, Flexens Oy Ab

Åsa Hedman

13:40-14:00 H-flex-E – collaboration for a feasible P2X2P-plant, Jakob Frants, EPV, Development Manager, Vaasan Sähkö, Niko Toppari, Development Manager, Vaasan Sähkö, and Hanna Berg, Senior Development Manager, Wärtsilä

Jakob Frants

Niko Toppari

Hanna Berg

14:00-14:30 Panel discussion, moderator Marko Huttula, professor, Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu

Panelists:

Kaisa Penttilä, PhD Candidate, Project coordinator at Hanken School of Economics

Berndt Schalin, CEO, Flexens Oy Ab

Jakob Frants, Development Manager, Vaasan Sähkö

Timo Fabritius, Professor, Process Metallurgy Research Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu

Please see the visitor’s guide 2023

For more information Anne Gustafsson-Pesonen

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Vaasa Energy Week March 20th to 24th 2023