Programme
Once again, this year’s INSPIRE energy summit 2025 offers a challenging and varied programme full of inspiration, innovation and cooperation.
15:00 - 18:00
Arrival and check-in
18:00 - 19:00
Casual get-together
19:00 - 19:30
Welcome reception
19:30 - 23:00
Welcome dinner
Including presentation of the Roland Langthaler Prize and the Technical University Scholarship for Women
Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer
Federal Minister for the Economy, Energy and Tourism
Michael Strugl
CEO at VERBUND AG
07:00 - 08:30
(G)Rowing together | Together in the boat. By our own power.
Austrian Rowing Federation
Sports association
09:00 - 10:10
INSPIRE energy summit 2025 opening
with Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer on the challenges of energy policy and Michael Strugl on the need for climate action and competitiveness.
DO-X teatro
Thomas Stelzer
Governor of Upper Austria
Michael Strugl
CEO at VERBUND AG
Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer
Federal Minister for the Economy, Energy and Tourism
10:10 - 10:30
Progress of the transformation
DO-X teatro
Gabriel Felbermayr
Director of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO)
10:30 - 10:50
Transformation acceptance
DO-X teatro
Sigrid Stagl
Economist and professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at WU Vienna
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 11:40
Energy transition market check – the INSPIRE edition by PwC
DO-X teatro
Michael Sponring
Territory leader for Energy, Utilities & Resources at PwC Austria
11:40 - 12:10
What framework does the transformation need
DO-X teatro
Andree Simon Gerken
Partner, Lead Energy Transition & Decarbonisation at PwC Germany
Alfons Haber
E-Control Executive Board
Marian Rappl
CEO of the Association of the Bavarian Energy and Water Industry (VBEW)
Barbara Schmidt
General secretary of Österreichs E-Wirtschaft
12:10 - 12:50
The hydrogen value chain
DO-X teatro
Cornelius Matthes
CEO, Dii Desert Energy
Bernhard Painz
Executive Board member of Austrian Gas Grid Management AG
Thomas Perkmann
Chairman of the Executive Board of the Westfalen Group
Aleš Prešern
Managing director of Siemens Energy Austria GmbH
Susanna Zapreva
CRO at VERBUND AG
12:50 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
Challenges of our times through the digital transformation
DO-X teatro
Carsten Wagner
CEO, ZfK & VKU Verlag
14:50 - 15:20
Digitalisation – part of the solution, not the problem
DO-X teatro
Gudrun Heidenreich-Pérez
Partner in Human Capital & Leadership Services at Deloitte Austria
Martina Saller
Head of Public Sector at Microsoft Austria
15:20 - 15:40
Digitalisation, critical infrastructure and security policy
DO-X teatro
Verena Jackson
Solicitor, & researcher, Centre for Intelligence & Security Studies (CISS), University of the Bundeswehr Munich
15:40 - 16:15
INSPIRE hike: get ready
16:15 - 19:00
INSPIRE hike
Anders Indset
Economic philosopher
19:00 - 19:30
Break
19:30 - 22:00
INSPIRE dinner with dinner speech: “The revolution is eating its children”
Holger Jung
Founder and member of the Supervisory Board at Jung von Matt
07:00 - 08:30
(G)Rowing together | Together in the boat. By our own power.
Austrian Rowing Federation
Sports association
09:00 - 09:10
Guests greeted
DO-X teatro
09:10 - 09:30
Stability – a prerequisite for the mobility transformation
DO-X teatro
Ferdinand Dudenhöffer
Director of the Automotive Research Centre
09:30 - 10:00
Status and future of e-mobility
DO-X teatro
Hauke Hinrichs
Managing Director/CEO, SMATRICS
Rudi Kuchta
Managing Director at MAN Truck & Bus Austria
Wolfgang Pfarl
Head of Strategic Network Planning & Control
10:10 - 10:30
Transformation – negotiating change as a society and shaping it responsibly
DO-X teatro
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability and professor at the University of Bonn
10:30 - 10:50
Digitalisation and AI
DO-X teatro
Erin Beilharz
Principal Consultant at Lufthansa Systems and Advisor at Navon World
Achim Kaspar
COO at VERBUND AG
10:50 - 11:20
Break
11:20 - 11:40
Global weather, water and climate services to support energy resilience and renewables (EN)
DO-X teatro
Roberta Boscolo
Head of the Climate and Energy Unit of the World Meteorological Organization
11:40 - 12:40
It’s about euros, not just kilowatt-hours
Gerhard Marterbauer on green financing, Michaela Keplinger-Mitterlehner on financing the transformation, and Anton Burger on the possibility and value of a well-planned transformation.
DO-X teatro
Michaela Keplinger-Mitterlehner
Deputy CEO of Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria AG
Gerhard Marterbauer
Certified public accountant and tax consultant, partner and leader of Energy & Resources at Deloitte Austria
Anton Burger
Vice president of the Compass Lexecon energy team
Felix Müsgens
Head of the Energy Innovation Centre and professor of Energy Economics at the Technical University of Brandenburg
12:40 - 13:00