NB: Before All-Energy '08 opens, there is to be a Wave and Tidal Industry Standards Seminar. This will be held on the afternoon of 20 May at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. Click here to find out more about it, and how to register!

NOW, down to the main conference programme!

11.00 Thursday 22 May

Wave and Tidal - Session 1

Chair: Ian Gallett, Chief Executive, The Society for Underwater Technology

• The drivers behind the industry: The Pentland Firth Plan - Scotland's marine energy potential - Roy Kirk, Pentland Firth Tidal Energy Project Manager, Highlands & Islands Enterprise 
• Update on two key devices:
  • SeaGen – Martin Wright, Managing Director, Marine Current Turbines Ltd
  • Pelamis – Max Carcas, Pelamis Wave Power
• EMEC : An update on activity – Neil Kermode, Managing Director, EMEC
• SuperGen – the next stages – Professor Ian Bryden, University of Edinburgh
• Update on standards – John Griffiths, Technical Director, EMEC
• Q&A 

13.45 Thursday 22 May

Wave and Tidal - Session 2

Chair: Andrew Mill, Chief Executive, NaREC

• Looking overseas
  • Japan: HyperDrive – Mikio Waki, Executive Vice President & COO, and Seiki Chiba, Ph.D, Hyper Drive Corporation
  • Norway: Pernille Holtedahl PhD, Consultant, Energy & Environment,Innovation Norway
  • Canada: Jessica McIlroy, Project Director, OREG
  • Open Sea Research and Test Facilities for Wave Energy Converters (Basque Country, Northern Spain) - Javier Marqués, Head of EVE (Basque Energy Board) Renewable Energies Department 
• Quick fire updates
  • Manchester Bobber – Dr Frank Allison , Business Development Manager, The Bobber Company Ltd
  • OPT - PowerBuoy Deployments  – Paul Jordan, Business Development Director, Ocean Power Technologies Ltd 
• EIA for Marine Energy Sites – More or less onerous than for offshore windfarms? – Dr Paula Low and Jonny Lewis, RPS Energy
• Q&A

15.45 Thursday 22 May

Wave Tidal and Osmotic Power -Session 3

Chair: Duncan Ayling, Head of Offshore, BWEA

• Osmotic power, a new renewable energy source – Stein Erik Skilhagen, Vice President Osmotic Power, Statkraft
• The Severn Barrage – David Kerr, Severn Tidal Power Group
• Quick fire update
  • CETOII - Dr Johannes Le Roux Retief, Chief Operations Officer, Renewable Energy Holdings plc
• Marine policy issues – Alan Mortimer, Head of Renewables Policy, ScottishPower
• Q&A