Bassam Dally is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, a member of Clean Energy Research Platform, and a member of Center for Renewable and Energy Storage at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST. Over the last 34 years, Prof Dally has contributed seminal work on a variety of research topics related to energy conversion, sustainability and decarbonization. His work is focused on the development of new technologies to decarbonize industrial processes, mineral processing, energy systems, waste gasification, and fuel pyrolysis. He has published more than 380 peer reviewed papers in leading scientific journals and conferences, and his work attracted more than 11,200 citations (h-index=54), and he is named on four patents. He held many positions, including head of mechanical engineering, deputy director of the centre for energy technology (University of Adelaide), stream co-lead in the KAUST circular carbon initiative, Program co-chair of the 40th International Symposium on Combustion, and he is currently the president of the Saudi Arabian Section of the Combustion Insititute. He is the initiator and director of the national Future Cement Initiative in Saudi Arabia. He won many awards over the years, including ‘Energy Professional of the Year in South Australia’, and was awarded a Fellowship of the Combustion Institute.

Haoren leads Technical Sales for the Climate Technology Solutions business unit within Baker Hughes. Based out of Singapore, he leads Baker Hughes' engagements with customers in the region who are seeking decarbonization solutions via carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and low carbon power generation. He understands customers’ project-specific needs and provides an overview of Baker Hughes’ technologies across the CCUS, hydrogen and clean power generation value chains. He also drives collaboration efforts between the Baker Hughes technology teams and such customers to help develop relevant decarbonization solutions utilizing Baker Hughes technologies for their projects. Haoren has more than 18 years of experience spanning the CCUS and energy transition space. Prior to joining Baker Hughes, he was a Principal Consultant at NexantECA, where he led feasibility studies that covered process design and techno-economic assessments of novel energy technologies, including gasification, syngas clean-up, CO2 capture, oxy-combustion and hydrogen generation technologies.

Prof. Tie Li is a professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is the head of Institute of Power Plants and Automation, and director of SJTU-COSCO Joint Laboratory of Green & Intelligent Marine Power Systems. Before joining SJTU, he worked as an assistant professor in Hokkaido University from 2004 to 2011. His research interests include engine spray combustion and emission controls, optical diagnostics for spray combustion, and he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the relevant research field. He is a recipient of several academic awards, including the Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2014-2023), National Distinguished Expert of China, 59th JSAE medal award (2009), and SAE Ralph. R Teetor award (2013).

Dr. Ghenadie Bulat is the Head of New Technologies for Gas Services at Siemens Energy where he leads a global team of highly qualified experts. He drives the innovation and excellence in all disciplines required for the success of products of the future. Ghenadie joined Siemens in 2003, his experience includes more than 20 years of engineering and management within Product Development and Technology Innovation. Dr. Bulat obtained his PhD from Imperial College London, and his engineering degree from Technical University of Moldova, he is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The Combustion Institute, and a visiting professor of combustion at Imperial College London.

Professor Yi-Bing Cheng is a Professor and Strategic Scientist of the National Energy Key Laboratory for New Hydrogen-Ammonia Energy Technologies, Foshan Xianhu Laboratory, Guangdong Province and Professor of Wuhan University of Technology, China, and Emeritus Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He was an academic staff at Monash University between 1991 and 2018. He specialises in materials science and technology and has worked in a wide range of materials and processing technologies. His current work at Foshan Xianhu Laboratory is to develop carbon-free fuel combustion technologies for high temperature manufacturing industries. He has over 600 research publications, including papers in Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Photonics etc. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics between 2018 and 2024.

Seung Woo Lee is working as a Senior Research Engineer/Global R&D Expert in Engine Engineering Design Group at Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea. He received his Master’s degree in Yonsei University and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham for hydrogen generation using internal combustion engine.
He has researched for the future technologies of the internal combustion engine since development of serial production engine, His current research focuses on the carbon-free fueled internal combustion engine such as hydrogen and ammonia.