Conference Programme
08:00 AM
09:15 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
29 Oct 2025
09:15 AM - 09:20 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
09:20 AM
Stanley Huang, Group Chief Executive Officer - SP Group09:30 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
Dr Tan See Leng, Singapore's Minister for Manpower and Minister-in-charge of Energy and Science & Technology in the Ministry of Trade and Industry - Singapore10:00 AM
Xin Bao'an, President - China Electricity Council 10:15 AM
Joseph Law, Managing Director - CLP Power Hong Kong Limited10:30 AM
11:00 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
29 Oct 2025
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
11:10 AM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
As the global energy transition accelerates, the role of power grids has never been more crucial. This panel will explore how modernising and expanding the grid infrastructure can enable a cleaner, more sustainable energy future while ensuring reliability, resilience and affordability.
Francis Cheng, Managing Director - The Hongkong Electric Company Limited
Michael Gibbs, Chief Operating Officer - Electricity Network - Northpower 
Ronnie L. Aperocho, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer - MERALCOModerator
Dr Arshad Mansoor, President & CEO - Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) 29 Oct 2025
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
- Grid as the backbone of energy transition
- How are grids evolving to support integration of renewables?
- What are the technical, financial and policy challenges in grid modernisation?
- The balancing act: Reliability, Sustainability and Affordability
- How do grid operators manage the trilemma of reliability, sustainability and affordability?
- The role of storage, demand response and digitalisation in maintaining reliability and resiliency?
- Investing in the future grid
- What innovations and technologies are shaping the future of grid?
- How can we accelerate the energy transition?
12:00 PM
Puah Kok Keong, Chief Executive - Energy Market Authority, Singapore12:10 PM
01:30 PM
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The race to a low-carbon economy calls for alignment across sectors, leadership, and collective action. From policy to technology, from planning to delivery, the transition depends on our collective ability to translate ambition into tangible outcomes, decisively and at scale, on the road to 2050.
Dato’ Ir. James Ung Sing Kwong, Group Chief Operating Officer - Sarawak Energy Berhad 
Dato' Ir. Ts. Abdul Razib Dawood, Executive Director - ASEAN Centre for Energy 
Fortunato C. Leynes, P.E.E., President & CEO - National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) 
Li Qizhao, Vice President - China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. 
Venu Nuguri, Managing Director and CEO, India and South Asia, Member of Global Executive Team, Hitachi Energy; Managing Director, Hitachi India - Hitachi Energy Moderator
Zhen-Hui Eng, Director for Energy Consulting - Baringa 29 Oct 2025
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
- Grounding Net Zero Commitments in Reality
- How are utilities and system operators are translating national decarbonisation pledges into actionable transition plans,
- What are the operational and regulatory implications of these commitments?
- Aligning Decarbonisation Levers Across the Value Chain
- How can low-carbon technologies, energy-efficient infrastructure, and district cooling systems be integrated into transition roadmaps?
- What capabilities are needed across organisations and supply chains to scale decarbonisation, from workforce transformation to technology adaptation?
- How can demand-side strategies — such as prosumer participation and urban energy optimisation — accelerate deeper decarbonisation?
- Redesigning the Enablers: Policy, Capital and Collaboration
- How are cross-border and cross-sector partnerships reshaping the investment landscape for low-carbon infrastructure?
- What role do governments, regulators and multilateral platforms play in derisking the energy transition?
02:30 PM
03:00 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
The grid of the future is not just about delivering electricity. It is about enabling transformation across the entire energy system. While the grid is central to enabling energy transition, its technical evolution is a challenge in its own right. With growing demand, decentralised generation and dynamic loads, this session focuses on the technologies, systems and collaborations needed to modernise the grid and keep it reliable, adaptive and intelligent.
Dean Cher, Managing Director, SP Mobility - SP Group
Edward Zhao, Global Senior Vice President, Renewables - Univers 
Koji Kawakita, Fellow - Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc.
Yoon Young Kim, Cluster President, Singapore and Brunei - Schneider Electric Moderator
Dr Matthew Rowe, Director of the Renewables and Power Grids, APAC Energy System - DNV 29 Oct 2025
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
- Driving collaboration for innovation and customisation in evolving grid technologies.
- What is the roadmap for integrating emerging technologies into existing infrastructures?
- How is the evolving Utility-OEM relationship shaping new innovation models and ecosystems?
- Developing flexible contractual models and frameworks that support innovation
- Smart grid is here, watt’s next in digitalisation?
- How are utilities currently leveraging the vast amounts of grid data?
- What untapped potential exists for automated analysis and digital tools to realise a more efficient grid?
- What are the challenges in transitioning from a smart grid to a fully digitalised grid, and how are utilities addressing them?
- Preparing the grid for transport electrification
- How are utilities responding to infrastructure needs and managing new demand patterns at the grid edge?
- What strategies are being developed for smart charging, load optimisation and vehicle-to-grid integration?
05:30 PM
06:30 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom
29 Oct 2025
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Level 5 Sands Grand Ballroom