Offshore Wind Best Practice Summit
Offshore Cable Installation Roundtable
British Embassy, Berlin, Germany - October 5, 2011
British Consulate, New York, NY - October 19, 2011
Hosted by Global Marine Energy, Squire Sanders and UK Trade & Investment
More than 100 senior executives, policy makers and influencers in the budding US and German Offshore Wind Industry gathered to hear about lessons learned directly from senior executives, developers, and movers and shakers in the UK's established Offshore Wind Industry.
Here is the day's agenda, with links to presentations
In cases where a similar presentation was used in both Berlin and New York, to keep things simple, we have posted only one version
9:00 Coffee & Tea
9:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Fiona MacLeod, Consul and Head of Trade & Investment
- Gabriel Ruhan, CEO Global Marine Systems ltd.
- Joel Whitman, CEO, Global Marine Energy, Inc.
9:15 First Hand Experience
- Mark Leggett, CEO, Square 1 Limited (1 mb file)
- John Davies; Subsea Services Director, Global Marine Systems (14 mb file)
- Julian Scott; Partner, Squire Sanders (1 mb file)
10:30 Coffee & Tea
10:45
- Mike Jones; Managing Director, Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (6 mb file)
- Doug Burnett; Partner, Squire Sanders (4.5 mb file)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Review of Key Points from the Case Studies from the Morning Session
1:00 Panel: Leasing & Permitting for Cable Infrastructure
- Martin Simpson, Head of Energy & Technology, Crown Estate
- Doug Pfeister, Senior Vice President, Offshore Wind Development Coalition
- Wayne M. Staub, Director for Economic Growth & Sustainability, NJDEP
2:30 Break: Coffee & Tea
- 3:15 Review of Key Points from the Breakout Groups
- 4:15 Conclusions & next steps
2:45 Discussion
4:00 Review Key Points from Discussion Groups
4:30 Cocktail Reception
- Conclusions & Next Steps








