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 and Johan Saarela, Ab, Product Development & Manager, 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
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, 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, EPV, 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
Vaasa Gas Exchange VGE Video 2022
Vaasa Energy Week March 20th to 24th 2023
