11.00 - Wednesday 21 May 2008
Chair session : Duncan Ayling, BWEA

• Global Offshore Wind Prospects - Irene Allcroft, Director, Douglas-Westwood Ltd
• UK offshore wind - Moving up a gear - Russell Davis, BVG Associates Ltd
• Getting ready for the great push - Megan Arnold, Account Manager, GE Wind /Chair BWEA Offshore Delivery Group
• Can the grid deliver? What is needed on and offshore for the offshore market - James Hunt, Managing Director, Econnect Consulting
• Update on turbine design and availability - Colin Morgan, Garrad Hassan
• Q&A

14.00 Wednesday 21 May
Chair: Rick Squires, Chairman, Eclipse Energy 

• Offshore windfarm leasing – Ben Barton, The Crown Estate 
• Aberdeen offshore windfarm - Iain Todd, AREG
• Innovation, Innovation, Innovation
  • The Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator - Mike Hay, Technology Acceleration Manager, The Carbon Trust
  • Nick Wessels, Sea of Solutions on F2F [ presentation ]
  • Anne Strømmen Lycke, Head of Wind Power on StatoilHydro's HyWind
• Q&A

16.00 Wednesday 21 May
Chair session 3 -  Mike Hay, Technology Acceleration Manager, The Carbon Trust

• Support the Growth of Offshore: addressing the future challenges of offshore wind manufacturing growth and R&D in the UK - Stephen Wilson, Director of Wind and Marine, NaREC
• Case history: Eclipse Energy explain their plans for the Ormonde Project. Ormonde is a global first, integrating gas-fired power generation from end-of-life or ‘fallow’ gas fields utilised as a commercial catalyst in order to develop and generate renewable energy from an offshore wind power generation scheme. The session will cover their use of 5MW turbines from REpower, and foundations manufactured by Burntisland Fabrications; and will include details of their strong financing story as this is the first project financed offshore windfarm in the UK, and only the third in the world (Q7 and Thornton Bank being the others)  - speakers include Ian Hatton of Eclipse Energy [ presentation ],  Dietmar Gosch of REpower [ presentation ], and John Robertson of Burntisland Fabrication [ presentation ]
• Draft Marine Bill - Duncan Ayling, Head of Offshore,BWEA 
• Q&A