We will review the year, highlight project initiatives from member companies and look ahead to 2027 and Energy Cluster Norway.

Future-proof your career in energy

The energy sector is transforming, and so is the world of work. How can we prepare for what comes next, strengthen the skills that matter and ensure that women help shape the future?

Join New Energy Women and Manpower Group for an inspiring afternoon exploring the forces reshaping careers and leadership in energy. Hear perspectives on the future of recruitment, the balance between technical and human capabilities, and how digital innovation can make expertise more accessible.

The programme brings together voices from government, business, technology and professional organisations. Come ready to reflect, contribute and connect. Leave with new perspectives, valuable relationships and practical ideas for navigating your next career chapter.

Organizer: NEW, NOW, H2 Cluster, Energy Valley, Fornybar Norge, Manpower

From research excellence to industrial collaboration and European scale

Energy Valley, the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) invite you to an afternoon designed to turn research insight and industrial needs into concrete opportunities for collaboration.
 
Europe’s energy transition is unfolding amid geopolitical uncertainty, new demands for competitiveness and resilience, and a growing need to move promising technologies from research towards testing, investment and industrial use. Industry–Science Meetup 2026 brings researchers, technology leaders, specialists and business developers together to examine where cooperation can make a practical difference.

Three connected perspectives

Industrial decarbonisation and emerging value chains:
CO₂ as a feedstock, natural hydrogen and opportunities for new industrial collaboration.


Safe, resilient and resource-efficient energy technologies: Materials, batteries, sensing, diagnostics, safety and longer technology lifetimes.


Europe’s future energy system: Energy and climate scenarios, resilience, industrial choices and the implications for investment and value chains.
Each session combines short research contributions with a concrete challenge from industry and a focused discussion. The aim is not only to present new knowledge, but to identify relevant test cases, project ideas and partnerships.


UiO and IFE will also introduce selected initiatives seeking dialogue with Norwegian industrial actors, including work on natural hydrogen, smarter and more resilient batteries, and next-generation European energy and climate scenarios. Energy Valley will explain how interested companies can engage and how promising opportunities will be followed up.

Agenda

13:00 Welcome

Session 1: Industrial Decarbonisation and Emerging Value Chains

CO₂ as a feedstock for industrial chemicals, Europe’s natural hydrogen potential, industry challenge and discussion. Speaker: UiO: Athanasios Chatzitakis • IFE: Stéphane Polteau • Planck Technologies: Maryam Ghadrdan

Session 2: Safe, Resilient and Resource-Efficient Energy Technologies

Materials and hydrogen safety, smarter batteries for the energy transition, industry challenge and discussion. Speakers: UiO: Sabrina Sartori • IFE: Samson Yuxiu Lai • Honeywell Tehnologies: Geir Myhre

Break: Meet the Speakers & networking.

Session 3: Europe’s Future Energy System

Hydrogen leak detection, next-generation European energy scenarios, industry perspective and discussion. Speakers: UiO: Armin Wisthaler • IFE: name tbc • ABB: Viktor Lenz

From Dialogue to Collaboration. Concrete collaboration opportunities and next steps by UiO, IFE & Energy Valley

16:00–17:00 – Networking, refreshments and follow-up conversations.

Who is this event for:

• Technology and R&D leaders
• Technical specialists and project managers
• Business developers and innovation managers
• Researchers seeking industrial collaboration
• Companies interested in research partnerships and European projects