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Home » Events » Reuters Offshore & Floating Wind Europe 2023
IMCA’s Iain Grainger will be speaking at Europe’s most senior meeting for offshore and floating wind developers, Reuters’ Offshore & Floating Wind Europe 2023.
Europe’s offshore and floating wind sector is experiencing unstoppable growth. Industry giants are scaling up to deliver more projects at multi-gigawatt levels and capitalize on the multibillion-dollar market opportunity.
To achieve Europe’s 150GW target by 2030, we need to roll out an incredible 50GW of projects within the next two years. However, supply chain bottlenecks, aging infrastructure, and bureaucracy are all threats to industry growth and investor confidence. With $ billions in contracts ready to be unlocked, it’s crucial to act now and address these challenges.
Hosting every major developer, supplier, investor, and policy leader – this is where partnerships are formed, business-critical insights are shared, and the roadmap for long-term growth is laid out.
Iain Grainger, IMCA CEO, will moderate a discussion on Scaling up the supply chain to deliver energy security ambitions on day two (9.00am to 9.50am, Thursday October 26).
The session will explore local requirements, the right investments that will be needed, and the creation of a sustainable supply chain, with speakers from BEIS, Mainstream Renewable Power, Iberdrola and Corio.
Joining Iain will be:
Albert Clark, Head of Offshore Wind Investment, BEIS – UK Government.
Sian Lloyd Rees, UK Managing Director, Mainstream Renewable Power.
Cesar Marzabal, Global Procurement Director – Offshore Wind, Iberdrola.
Sonja Indrebo, Global Head of Floating Offshore Wind, Corio Generation.
Iain Grainger has over 30 years experience in offshore marine construction around the world. He spent the early part of his career engineering and managing the installation of major offshore infrastructure before moving into commercial and strategy roles with tier one contractors.
Iain is a chartered engineer and has an MBA. He is a past president of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and was previously supporting IMCA in expanding its position in offshore renewables.
Rhys Jones joined IMCA in June 2022 as Technical Adviser for Marine Renewable Energy.
Rhys worked for RenewableUK for 12 years as Head of Technical Affairs with a strong focus on offshore wind, health, safety and wellbeing, and regulatory compliance. Rhys has developed various industry good practice guidance documents for these areas and run many industry committees associated with this.
Prior to joining RenewableUK Rhys worked for Petrofac Training Services as Staff Training Manager Survival & Marine which also brings the added benefit to IMCA of a strong competence and training background.
As director for client engagement, David supports the Association in developing and expanding its engagement with oil companies and the broader industry.
David joined the offshore industry in 1975 with Oceaneering, and during a 20 year career held various roles, including General Manager of the Southern North Sea and West African business units, before spending three years at McDermott Subsea as Business Development Manager in the North Sea and West Africa. In 1998 he joined Brown & Root as UK Business Development Manager, and in the years that followed played a crucial part in a number of significant business integrations and acquisitions leading up to the merger of Acergy and Subsea 7 in 2011.
In 2016 he was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Subsea UK annual awards.
Event Information
Schedule:
25 October from 08:00 BST Ends 26 October (ends 17:00) BST
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