Industry-Science Meet Up
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, by Athanasios Chatzitakis, UIO.
Exploring Europe’s natural hydrogen potential, by Stéphane Polteau, IFE/H2 -Quest.
From promising technology to industrial deployment: what does a deep-tech company need from research and industry partners? By Maryam Ghadrdan, Planck Technologies.
Moderated discussion on Where could research and industry jointly test assumptions, develop a pilot or strengthen a European project? Moderated by Tine Uberg Nærland, IFE
Session 2: Safe, Resilient and Resource-Efficient Energy Technologies
Materials, storage or hydrogen safety, by Sabrina Sartori, UIO.
Smarter and more resilient batteries for the energy transition, by Samson Yuxiu Lai, IFE/Salamander
Industry R&D Challange by Geir Myhre, Honeywell Tehnologies.
Moderated discussion on What evidence, test environments and partnerships are needed to move these technologies towards industrial use? Moderated by Vebjørn Bakken, UIO.
14:30 Break: Meet the Speakers & networking. Speakers are available at designated tables for focused questions and introductions.
Session 3: Europe’s Future Energy System
Hydrogen Emissions: What We Know and Why It Matters by Armin Wisthaler, UIO.
Pathways for Norwegian and Swedish contributions to the European energy transition, by Thor Sazon, IFE
Industry perspective: Infrastructure and technology choices for a resilient energy system, by Viktor Lenz, ABB
Moderated discussion on How can better evidence and closer industry–science collaboration support robust decisions? Moderated by Stine Trulsen, IFE
From Dialogue to Collaboration.
Collaboration opportunities
Cross-session panel discussion
Closing 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