Decarbonizing Industry with Solar Thermal & PV

Solar & Energy Storage Executive with 20+ years of Global experience. Extensive functional knowledge with accomplished marketing, financial, business development and technology skills. I'm a seasoned professional with extensive functional knowledge with accomplished marketing, financial, business development and technology skills with a keen understanding of RE market design/fundamentals and business models, and strong in-market commercial and transactional experience who lived in 3 continents.

Håkon has extensive experience across the energy sector from system analysis to project implementation. He joined Rystad Energy as a consultant and then Project Manager with a focus on strategy and market analyses in the power and renewables sector. Currently he works as a VP in the Power Macro team responsible for EMEA and heading up Rystad Energy's Power System Analysis (REPSA). Prior to his time at Rystad Energy he worked as a Wind and Site analyst supporting wind farm developers in line with his education as a wind turbine engineer. 

DR. Moutaz Alriahy is an International Geothermal & CO₂ Solutions Expert and climate-tech entrepreneur, with extensive experience delivering advisory work for governments, public institutions, and private-sector companies across the Middle East and beyond. He is an official participant in the Conference of Parties (COP) and an active contributor to high-level climate and sustainability platforms.He is the Co-founder and CEO of CRETA Group, leading pioneering initiatives in geothermal energy, carbon capture and utilization, waste-to-hydrogen systems, and climate-resilient agriculture. His work focuses on translating advanced engineering and climate science into pilot-scale and investment-ready projects aligned with UNFCCC, COP, and SDG frameworks, with a strong emphasis on deployability and economic viability.Moutaz is an award-winning innovator, most recently recognized in Abu Dhabi by the Arab Water Council for excellence in advancing non-conventional resources and sustainable water solutions. He was also selected as a semi-finalist in the Global Water Challenge under the Mohammed bin Zayed Water Initiative, recognizing scalable and impactful solutions for water security in arid regions.He is a three-time participant in the World Bank Youth Summit in Washington, D.C., where he engaged with global policymakers, financiers, and innovation leaders on climate innovation and sustainable development. He has served as a judge for the IBA-AAPG Geothermal Energy Competition and contributed to the development of its official judging and evaluation criteria, reinforcing his role in

Hounaida Daly is a distinguished economist and assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Hail University and the University of Sousse. Dr. Daly serves as an Advisory Council Member for Harvard Business Review and she is a renowned expert in the economics field and has been identified as a key expert on Saudi Arabia through the Economic Experts Survey (Germany), consultant specializing in macroeconomics, particularly in the coordination of monetary and fiscal policies, through the InstaConsult platform. She is an active member of the Saudi Association for Energy Economics (Saudi AEE), National Association for Business Economics (Washington, D.C.) and the International Association for Energy Economics(IEEE) (UK), contributing to global economic research and policy discussions. She is a reviewer for prestigious academic journals, including Energy Journal, Economic Modeling, Journal of Asian Economics, Global Business Review, Journal of Knowledge Economy, and Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Innovation and Green Development, Economics, Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Plos One and Asian Journal of Current Researchetc .