Topics

1. New Age of Natural Gas

Showcasing innovations that advance safety, operational efficiency, energy security, affordability and system resiliency, while reducing environmental and social impacts. The topics address developments and real-world applications across the full natural gas value chain – including production, transport, distribution, storage and utilisation of natural gas. Focusing on core systems safety, reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.

2. Emissions Management, Carbon Capture and Gas Certification

This theme explores cost-effective strategies for reducing, managing, and certifying emissions across the natural gas value chain - from production through to transmission, distribution, and end use. Sessions will highlight technical innovation, practical applications, and research that advance emissions monitoring, reduction, carbon capture and its integration, and the certification of natural gas and new gases.

3. Renewable Gases

Sessions will cover the production of renewable gases (biogas, biomethane, synthetic natural gas) and their impact on Gas infrastructure and end-use systems. They highlight technological advances in renewable gas production, grid integration, system compatibility, and market or operational solutions.

4. Low Carbon Hydrogen

Topics focusing on the production, transport, storage, and use of low-carbon hydrogen, including hydrogen produced with or without CCUS, and on its impact on Gas infrastructure and end-use systems. Highlighting technological advances in hydrogen production pathways, grid integration, system readiness, and operational challenges.

5. AI & Digital Transformation

This theme explores the development and early adoption of AI-based digital technologies, and their transformative impact on the Gas industry and its evolving ecosystem. Sessions will highlight applications that enhance safety, reliability, sustainability, and operational performance across the entire Gas value chain and emerging systems - from design and planning to operations, inspection, and maintenance, showcasing how the Gas industry is incorporating AI at the core of its operations.

6. Social, Commercial, Regulatory, Policy, Financial and Innovation Perspectives Across the Gas Value Chain

Researchers, industry practitioners, policymakers, regulators, innovators, and social scientists exploring the evolving role of Gas in the global energy system. As energy systems transform, the Gas value chain—from production and processing through to transmission, storage, distribution, and end use—faces significant social, commercial, regulatory, and policy challenges, as well as new opportunities for innovation.

Sessions will go beyond technical analysis to examine the enabling conditions that shape Gas markets, with a focus on delivering reliable, resilient, affordable, and low-emission energy while minimising harmful air emissions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: social acceptance and community impacts; innovation in workforce transition and skills development; novel commercial models and market design; alternative investment frameworks and risk allocation; regulatory reform and permitting; policy alignment with decarbonisation goals; cross-sector integration; and policy and market innovations that enhance affordability, security of supply, and emissions reduction.