Keynote Speakers

Professor Tadeusz Patzek

Center Director, ANPERC

Professor Volker Vahrenkamp

Professor, KAUST

Distinguished Speakers

Dr. Tony Chan

President, KAUST

Plenary Speakers

Mr. Ahmed Al-Essa

Sales and Commercial Director, MENAT, Baker Hughes

Mr. Alexander Richter

President of the International Geothermal Association

Dr. Allan Walker

Director, Closed Loop Energy AG, Switzerland

Dr. Anne Robertson-Tait

GeothermEx, (Schlumberger)

Mr. Bjarni Richter

Director of Geothermal Energy, Iceland

Professor Carlos Santamarina

KAUST

Ms. Clare Baxter

Seequent UK Limited

Dr. Daniel Bendias

Project Manager, ERDWERK, GmbH, Germany

Professor David Bruhn

Professor for geothermal engineering (part-time), TU Delft

Professor Denis Voskov

Professor, TU Delft, Netherlands

Professor Ernst Huenges

Professor, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

Professor Essam Aboud

Professor, King Abdulaziz University

Dr. Eugenio Trumpy

Researcher, National Research Council, Italy

Professor Gabriel Wittum

Professor, KAUST

Professor Grant Wach

Professor, Dalhousie University

Mr. Grimur Bjornsson

Engineer, Warm Arctic ehf

Prof. Hussein Hoteit

Professor, KAUST

Professor Inga Berre

Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

Dr. J. D. Van Wees

Professor, University of Utrecht

Dr. Jeffrey Bielicki

Professor, Ohio State University

Professor Kenichi Soga

University of Berkeley

Dr. Khalid Bankher

Saudi Geological Survey

Dr. Kilian Beichel

Geologist for Erdwerk

Professor Marcelo Sanchez

Texas A & M University

Dr. Martin Keller

Chief Technical Adviser, Ministry of Envrionement

Professor Martin Saar

Professor, ETH, Switzerland

Mr. Martin Stahl

Director of Infrastructure and Utilities, The Red Sea Development Company

Mr. Mathias Moeller

Baker-Hughes Manager, Germany

Professor Matt Jackson

Professor, Imperial College, UK

Mr.Matthias Woestmaan

Quadrat Capital

Mr. Michael Wechsung

Director, Siemens, Germany

Dr. Muhammed Burhan

Research Scientist, KAUST

Dr. Muhammed Shahzad

Lecturer, Northumbria University

Mr. Muhammed Zawwad

ARAMCO

Dr. Niels Hartog

Principal Scientist, KWR Water Research Institute, Netherlands

Dr. Ólafur G. Flóvenz

General Director, ISOR, Iceland

Dr. Peter Birkle

ARAMCO

Professor Pri Utami

Professor, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Dr. Rainer Schmidt

ARAMCO

Dr. Robert Mellors

Seismologist, LLNL

Professor Rosalind Archer

Professor, University of Auckland

Mr. Rudolf Nikolaus Knezevic

OMV, Austria

Professor Sebastian Geiger

Professor, Heriot Watts, UK

Professor Sigurdur Gislason

Professor, University of Iceland

Professor Thomas Missimer

Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University

Professor Xiaolin Wang

Professor, University of Tasmania