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

10:30 Coffee & Tea

10:45

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

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
  • Conclusions & Next Steps
4:30 Cocktail Reception