The IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ 29th annual energy forum next week, aka CERAWeek, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The event, now expanded to five days of panel discussions and keynote speeches, has been referred to as ‘the Super Bowl of energy conferences’ because of its importance as the premier Offshore Technology Conference. It will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown this year.
The agenda is lengthy (and changes frequently), admission is expensive (lowest 2-day attendance rate is $5,500) but the panels and speeches are widely followed in the industry. A good deal of news comes out of the sessions and sometimes companies choose CERAWeek to break news.
The busiest day tends to be Tuesday, Oil Day, where the keynotes will be Khalid Al-Falih, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco; Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy; James Mulva, Chairman, President and CEO, ConocoPhillips; and Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer, Eni.
