Retha is a Chemical Engineer and Senior Technical Director in GHD and is currently the Service Line Leader for Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons. Retha has spent her 20-plus year career working on emerging technologies and industries in the energy sector and has had a particular focus on hydrogen projects for the last five years, including leading the process design on a large number of electrolysis hydrogen projects.

GHD’s hydrogen team are part of GHD’s broader Future Energy services supporting clients navigate the energy transition with engineering, delivery, advisory and environmental and approval services. 

Martin Hablutzel is responsible for the Sustainable Energy Systems portfolio activities of Siemens Energy for Asia Pacific and China. The portfolio includes hydrogen electrolysers, power-to-x, solar PV and hybrid energy solutions. He has been heavily involved in promoting the opportunities for hydrogen technology in its latest renaissance through market development, government dialog, numerous speaking engagements and interviews. Martin was a member of Alan Finkel’s stakeholder group contributing toward the formation of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy. 

Deepak is a Chartered Professional Engineer and RPEQ. IPMA Level C Certified Project Manager with more than 22 years of experience in engineering and project management. He has international and domestic experience in managing hydrogen and oil and gas projects and is an active working group member in Standard Australia ME-093 TC197. standards. Deepak is responsible for managing engineering and project management activities for hydrogen generation, compression, storage, refuelling and micro grid application projects starting from concept to handover.

Over more than two decades, Craig's career has spanned large multi-national and mid-size businesses throughout the Americas, Europe, Australia and the Asia Pacific. Through these roles he worked from FMCG to defence to life sciences and industrial gases and was constantly focused on supporting the continuous improvement of businesses operations and the development of global technologies.

Bianca is an advocate for the protection of future generations. She is passionate about using systems thinking to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges – with a focus on the energy transition. Chartered as a chemical engineer, Bianca has complimented her technical engineering skill set with management experience as CEO of a NFP, strategy experience via top tier management consulting firm BCG and by completing an MBA, placing within the top 5 per cent of the cohort. 

Richard is a process engineer responsible for shaping the strategy for Howden in the hydrogen market. Prior to joining Howden, Richard spent 10 years working with Atkins /SNC Lavalin in various design roles across the US, Middle East and Europe. He was the Lead Process Engineer for the energy transition team and led the design of the world's most advanced Blue Hydrogen Plant for the Hynet project. 

In 1995 Tim rebuilt  a hydrogen compressor and in 2003 joined Australian Fluid Handling in various engineering and sales roles. This included training from specialist principal vendors worldwide to allow customised equipment to be supplied to Australian clients for hazardous compression applications including hydrogen.   

This included skid design, specification, selection and commissioning of fluid transfer systems involving pumps and compressors. In 2016 he joined Aerzen, a supplier of positive displacement blowers and screw compressors, as Process Gas Manager, APAC region. 

He is a strong advocate for living sustainably and knows that a rapidly growing hydrogen industry is important to decarbonization.  

Frankie is an aerospace engineer and an ex-Captain of the Australian Defence Force. He has seventeen years' experience with rotating and reciprocating equipment in the critical process industries, working with local and global companies throughout this time. He has held roles within engineering, operations and sales management.

Frankie is currently a sales and service manager of Australian Fluid Handling specialing in process liquid and gas handling systems, including hydrogen compression solutions. He is passionate about solving his customer's problems, specifically in the handling of hazardous processes. 

Belinda joined bp as a graduate process engineer at the Kwinana refinery in 2012, following the completion of a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Curtin University. She spent the following 10 years working in a variety of technical and operational roles supporting refineries in Australia, London and Germany. Since returning to Australia at the end of 2021, Belinda has been working on new low carbon energy opportunities, from green hydrogen to EV charging, and now works as Business Advisor for the Vice President of Hydrogen in the Asia Pacific team. Belinda is a Chartered Engineer. 

Nathan is a mechanical engineer who has performed a number of roles across the entire engineering life cycle and has a passion for understanding how all things work. Nathan began his professional career supporting document control and project workflows for a major construction company in 2009. He then conducted energy audits, managed design and drafting projects and completed construction feasibility studies for a consulting firm. Since 2014, Nathan has designed and project managed many installations and managed the VIC/TAS team that maintain the applications assets in the medical, scientific, industrial, food and clean energy industries for BOC Limited.

Abi is an experienced materials engineer with a strong background in research and development, contributing to Industry 4.0 and achieving it in a sustainable way. Leading a team specialised in plant integrity and reliability, Abi and her team are focused on developing and implementing decarbonisation strategy for multiple industrial assets. She also has particular interest in hydrogen energy and its role in establishing a green and sustainable planet. Abi is experienced in developing, testing, quality assurance and evaluation of emerging industries and future fuels. 

Sean is Founder and Managing Director of ENGV. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the gaseous fuels and renewables infrastructure industry with a focus on technology deployment and implementation. Sean sits on Australian Standards Committees for Hydrogen and Natural Gas and has delivered numerous CNG/RNG and hydrogen projects in Australia and internationally. ENGV is proud to have designed, developed and be operating Australia's first public H2 refuelling station. 

Cienna has in-depth experience developing renewable hydrogen policy for government, and delivered the Victorian Renewable Hydrogen Industry Development Plan, a blueprint for establishing and scaling up a renewable hydrogen sector for Victoria. She works closely with proponents delivering renewable hydrogen projects as well as universities and cooperative research centres. 

Prior to working in renewable energy, Cienna worked in international trade law. 

Mark comes with 22 years’ experience in driving global sales in the cryogenic industry. For more than half of his career, Mark has championed and led a niche market in cryogenic distribution and hydrogen operations, expanding this scope throughout Southeast Asia. In Mark’s current role, he is assisting customers in Southeast Asia develop liquid hydrogen solutions from production through storage, transport and usage in a wide range of applications from heavy transport to refueling infrastructure developing proposals and project management related to these hydrogen projects 

Prior to venturing into the cryogenic industry, Mark started his career in marine biology, with a focus on shark biology. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and a MBA from Macquarie University. Mark has recently completed an executive leadership course from Wharton University and is currently undertaking a Chemical Engineering Degree from the University of South Australia. 

Mark continues to advocate hydrogen liquefaction at every opportunity he can. Mark is passionate about decarbonising the world and growing the hydrogen industry in the APAC region. 

Baptiste joined Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions France in 2018 as a Process and Proposal Engineer in the Gas Processing Product Line. He was then assigned as Product and Proposal Manager in the LH2 Product Line to develop the solutions and proposals for key hydrogen liquefaction projects. Most recently he has been appointed as Energy Transition Solution Development Manager for Cryogenic Technologies in Kobe, Japan to support the APAC region on the Energy Transition market for Liquid Hydrogen production and CO2 capture opportunities.

Nick has more than 20 years of experience working in roles as a senior and principle chemist covering a board range of industrial sectors including the power, waste, energy and mineral processing industries. He has extensive experience in the characterisation of various sample types particularly from energy industries including coal, waste fuels, gas fuels, chars and alternative fuels. 

Nick has set up, commissioned and received NATA accreditation for the analysis of natural gaseous fuels. He has also set up and commissioned the sampling and analysis of hydrogen (gas and liquids) for the HESC project Latrobe Valley and the Hastings Liquification project on behalf of KHI.

Nick also has more than 10 years’ experience in the operations and management of multiple laboratories including optimising efficiency of operation, management of budgets and setting and implementation strategic directions. 

Wodek has more than 30 years’ international experience in all aspects of industrial gases: applications, production, and end user installations. He spent ten years in Asia as a business development manager for specialty gases.

In the last ten years as a member of Coregas’ senior leadership team, Wodek is responsible for fostering strategic relationships and supporting practical opportunities to increase the momentum towards Australia’s hydrogen future. The projects included installation of first Australian refuelling station at Hyundai Head Office, HESC: first shipment of liquefied hydrogen to Japan, Coregas heavy vehicles refuelling station at Port Kembla.  

Wodek holds a Master of Science (Honours). 

Ross is a Chartered professional mechanical engineer with more than 25 years' gas industry experience and expertise in engineering and project management. He has worked in industrial gas plant manufacturing, operations and customer gas applications within local and global organisations. Ross served in the role of Transition Manager for the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot project where liquid hydrogen was successfully produced and transferred to the world’s first liquid hydrogen ship (Suiso Frontier) in Hastings, Victoria and then shipped to Kobe, Japan.  He set up and supported site operations and managed commercial aspects of the project.

Olivia Brace is a Hydrogen Transformation Partner with Advisian, the consulting business line of Worley Group. Olivia leads hydrogen business development initiatives within the Asia Pacific region and is a leader and contributor on many hydrogen and energy transition related projects.  

Olivia has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne. She has 20 years’ professional experience across a broad range of sectors including the full hydrogen supply chain (renewable power through to hydrogen production and export), conventional hydrocarbon production and processing and petrochemical olefins production and processing. She also has experience across all phases of projects from initiation through to engineering design, construction, commissioning, and operation.    

Olivia is a people person who enjoys collaborating with a broad range of people. She is also passionate about the energy transition and proud to be contributing to a clean energy future. 

Hossein received his PhD from the University of Queensland where he investigated integrity of pipelines. He leads Worley’s asset advisory team in the East Coast of Australia where he has been heavily involved in energy transition projects with clients in Australia and globally and specifically with H2 in pipelines. He is Worley’s Global Subject Matter Expert in Hydrogen Pipelines; asset remaining life assessment and life extension studies. This has resulted in being involved in the front end of developing knowledge and industry guidelines for H2 pipelines shaping the direction of research and innovation. 

Bart has more than 30 years' experience since graduating as a mechanical engineer. Most of Bart’s experience has been in the oil and gas industry. He has held roles in design, project management, construction, commissioning and asset management related to pipelines and their related facilities. Bart is responsible for front end project design of natural gas and new energy projects including hydrogen, CO2 and ammonia pipeline projects. 

Jarrod is a passionate and experienced project creator, leader, and collaborator with 12 years' experience in developing and delivering multi-million-dollar projects. His roles have included supporting the development of renewable gas regulatory and policy frameworks and overseeing projects from concept to operations.  

Jarrod oversaw the design and delivery of the now operational Western Sydney Green Hydrogen Hub in NSW, which included the first renewable hydrogen pipeline and direct injection of hydrogen into a gas network in Australia.  

Currently, Jarrod is advising on renewable gas standards, policy, and project opportunities as part of Australian Gas Infrastructure Groups transition towards net-zero. 

As the Team Leader of the Type A Gas Appliance and Components Safety group at Energy Safe Victoria, Rebecca Searcy assesses products which both combust and consume gas to create energy. She actively participates on Standards Australia Committees for end use gas-burning equipment and fuel cells, currently acting as the Drafting Leader for 5 Australian Standard Amendments to include coverage for hydrogen blends in natural gas. She has a demonstrated history in the global energy industry having experience with gas, solid fuel, biodiesel, biofuel and fuel cell systems, and is excited to be a part of this period of expansion and innovation in the energy sector. 

Victoria is a passionate member of the transition to renewable and sustainable energy and mobility. After undertaking several research and development activities at some of Australia’s leading research institutions, she has joined H2X to support the resurgence of Australian automotive engineering in fuel cell vehicles and stationary power units. Her experience in R&D lends her great expertise in product development, project management and technology innovation. 

Craig is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated 30 year history of working in senior roles in the oil and energy industry. Ten years ago Craig founded Optimal Group, a system integrator of Capstone microturbine and gas skid packages utilising different gaseous fuels including hydrogen, biogas, LPG, natural gas or butane. 

Noel’s career has been dedicated to the energy, chemical and industrial sectors for more than 20 years. During this time, he has successfully developed and driven a number of new companies, commercial programs and products with a strong focus on chemicals, energy systems and technology development. For the past decade Noel has contributed to the emergence of renewable hydrogen as an energy solution through the founding of Energys Australia. 

Noel’s vision for the future of energy and the role of hydrogen was well ahead of its time when he founded Energys. His foresight and dedication to that vision now places Energys in a world leading position as a manufacturer of hydrogen power products. In the past two years the company has grown from a handful of people to more than 60 and it continues to grow in scale, revenue and global reach. In a world first, Energys recently shipped the only megawatt scale fuel cell generator ever to be delivered to a customer site. The 1.3MW system, which will soon be operational in the Middle East will form part of another world first soon to be announced. 

With a bachelors in chemical engineering and a masters in sustainable energy engineering, Sam started his career in the research and development of hydrogen technologies focusing on fuel cells, electrolysers and hydrogen storage.  

Over the last seven years Sam has been involved in the design, fabrication and commissioning of fuel cell systems ranging from kW to MW scale for both stationary and marine applications, electrolyser systems and CSD packages.  

He is an active member of the Australian Standards ME-093 Working Group 6 and IEC TC105 AHG14 working group providing technical input on fuel cell applications. 

With almost 20 years in the resources industry, Sandra has worked across five Australian states and two continents.  With bachelors degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Commerce from the University of Melbourne and an executive MBA from the AGSM, she has moved through a variety of onsite engineering, project and management roles through to her current strategic role as Head of H2 and EVs.   

Responsible for Viva Energy’s strategy and initial pilots in the transition towards a lower carbon future, she Sandra is the originator of the hydrogen service station that will be built in Geelong. She is also a past Director on the Australian Hydrogen Council Board. 

After completing his engineering degree at the University of Melbourne, Romesh joined IVECO Trucks Australia as a graduate in 2000. He worked in various areas of the business from product planning, sales and marketing to truck production and engineering.

He then joined DaimlerChrysler and took on the role of Product Engineer for Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles. Here he held a number of key technical and management roles, which also meant he spent significant time behind the wheel testing new products. Romesh then joined Isuzu Australia as the Product Development Manager. Here he was responsible for liaison works with Isuzu Motors Japan as well as local design, development and testing, giving him valuable insight into this high volume segment. Romesh then re-joined Daimler Truck and Bus as the Senior Manager responsible for engineering and product for the Mitsubishi-FUSO brand. In this role, he oversaw product strategy along with engineering and product support.

His most recent role encompasses all three Daimler brands from a homologation and regulatory perspective. Much of his current role involves future vehicle strategy for Daimler Truck and Bus. Future perspective is a key focus in his new role where efficiency, advanced technologies and its role in supporting Australia’s future freight task. 

Siby Joseph is currently transitioning into the role of Hydrogen Engineer at Cummins. In this role Siby will be responsible for leading the Cummins New Power projects in Asia Pacific region which involves electrolysers and fuel cells for automotive and power generation applications. 

Siby has worked with Cummins for the last 17 years primarily as an Automotive Application Engineer responsible for powertrain integration in heavy duty vehicles. Siby also lead drive train integration work of Cummins battery electric and fuel cell electric vehicle projects in Australia in collaboration with one of major vehicle OEM’s. 

Siby’s background is in electrical engineering. 

Nataliya leads the projects in genset design and installation including new power: Cummins electrolysers and Cummins fuel cells for automotive and power generation applications. 

Before joining Cummins Nataliya worked for global automotive brands like Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and Renault as materials, vehicle performance and product development engineer. Nataliya worked for an automotive connected car start-up, where she learnt how to manage products in a very challenging environment. 

Nataliya moved to to Australia in 2017. She often visits networking events and panel discussions organised by Women in Engineering. 

Gemma has more than five years’ experience in the Australian renewable gas sector, holding previous project management and business development roles in the delivery of Australian-first hydrogen electrolysis, fuel cell and hydrogen refuelling station projects prior to joining Ampol in July 2022.  

Gemma has a BEng (Hons) Energy and Environmental Engineering, a Diploma of Project Management and is currently studying a Master of Business Administration (MBA). 

Sean is Founder and Managing Director of ENGV. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the gaseous fuels and renewables infrastructure industry with a focus on technology deployment and implementation. Sean sits on Australian Standards Committees for Hydrogen and Natural Gas and has delivered numerous CNG/RNG and hydrogen projects in Australia and internationally. ENGV is proud to have designed, developed and be operating Australia's first public H2 refuelling station. 

Nathan is a mechanical engineer who has performed a number of roles across the entire engineering life cycle and has a passion for understanding how all things work. Nathan began his professional career supporting document control and project workflows for a major construction company in 2009. He then conducted energy audits, managed design and drafting projects and completed construction feasibility studies for a consulting firm. Since 2014, Nathan has designed and project managed many installations and managed the VIC/TAS team that maintain the applications assets in the medical, scientific, industrial, food and clean energy industries for BOC Limited.

Jacqui completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Chemical Engineering at Melbourne University. Since graduating Jacqui has spent her time at Viva Energy’s Geelong Refinery as a process engineer, supporting the day-to-day operations of key processing units including the hydrogen Reformer and Hysomer.  

She is now leveraging her in-field experience operating hydrogen processing units as the lead project engineer to deliver the company’s flagship hydrogen mobility project, the New Energies Service Station in Geelong. This includes all technical deliverables, including balance of plant design, vendor AS compliance and technical specifications, and the process safety elements of Australia’s first open access, public hydrogen refuelling station. 

Shelly specialises in plant reliability and integrity management. She has more than three years’ experience in boilers, turbines, power plant auxiliary equipment operation and maintenance. She has involved in a wide range of projects including power plant inspection, turbine performance tests, boiler combustion tunning and plant Risk-Based Inspection Program (RBI) development. Recently, Shelly has been focusing on plant flexible operation to help the clients achieve strategic environmental and business goals. 

Craig is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated 30 year history of working in senior roles in the oil and energy industry. Ten years ago Craig founded Optimal Group, a system integrator of Capstone microturbine and gas skid packages utilising different gaseous fuels including hydrogen, biogas, LPG, natural gas or butane. 

Marco is a mechanical engineer with more than 20 years’ experience in the power generation business with Siemens Energy. He worked as gas turbine test engineer dealing with temperature measurement on gas turbine blades and combustion testing before moving to the service department as project manager for long term maintenance contracts. He is currently the Service Operations Team Leader for long term maintenance contracts covering gas turbines from small 7 MW to large 285 MW gas turbines and has recently been involved in the maintenance of a H2 Silyzer plant in Australia.

David is the Product Line Leader for GE aeroderivative gas turbines in Asia and has more than 20 years of experience in gas turbine plant design, including 10 years working on gas turbine engine design based in Switzerland.   

In his current role, David is responsible for working with customers across Asia to customise aeroderivative gas turbine plant design to project specific requirements.   

With the world now looking to decarbonise, David works with customers to provide information about gas turbine capabilities and performance with hydrogen as a fuel. David is currently developing several gas turbine projects in Australia with different hydrogen fuel blends.  

David graduated from Monash University with an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. 

Martin is an experienced sales director with more than 30 years in the IT and telecommunications industry having worked with Nortel, AT&T, British Telecom and SingTel/Optus. Martin is focused on professional services and sales team management. 

Aiman is an experienced process engineer with a background in R&D and performance testing of power plants. He is leading the team at HRL responsible for the testing of turbines, boilers, heaters, mills and other major plant equipment.

Aiman has also been involved in the operations of pilot plants with the most recent as a Control Operator of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot plant project in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. 

Megan specialises in hydrogen production, industrial decarbonisation, and the transition of incumbent energy businesses to future fuels. With a background as a Process Engineer, Megan has valuable perspective as a ‘systems integrator,’ a role that combines individual project elements into an optimised whole. She has experience in integrating large, multidisciplinary projects and as a result, can expertly identify opportunities for value creation across the project lifecycle. 

Prior to joining Aurecon, Megan worked in the private oil and gas industry. She has been involved in two LNG mega-projects, numerous commercial-scale hydrogen hub studies and has seen projects delivered from feasibility through to construction, commissioning, and operation.    

Alistair has 17 years professional experience working in the energy industry, managing teams and delivering large scale energy infrastructure projects. He is an industry leader in hydrogen technology and has been actively working in the field since 2006.  
 
Recently, he has overseen the technical development of the largest funded renewable hydrogen power to gas project in Australia as well as the development of the first biomethane project in Australia. He is currently supporting eight hydrogen and biomethane projects under development across Australia and New Zealand.  

Alistair is an active committee member of Standards Australia ME-093, developing hydrogen standards, and is the lead author for a hydrogen injection guideline.  

Steffen has more than 25 years’ experience in industrial automation instrumentation, and control platforms. Having joined Emerson in 2010 drawing on his many years of experience as a field technician Steffen has held positions within Emerson which include Technical Specialist, Project Development Lead and his current role as Automation Specialist – Major Projects. 

Steve Foster specialises in Clean Energy and the Emerging Hydrogen Economy. With more than 20 years’ experience in fluid systems, he is passionate about insuring safety and functionality through training, correct material and design, and sharing knowledge across industry. Steve is working closely with companies leading the energy transition in addition to peak industry associations and education providers to develop proven industry leading specifications and training programs.