Focus on hydrogen

With the Light­weight­ing Sum­mit, the BMWK and Deutsche Messe are now orga­niz­ing a top-class con­fer­ence on the sub­ject of light­weight con­struc­tion for the third time. The link­ing of light­weight con­struc­tion with hydro­gen tech­nol­o­gy is the focus of this year’s 3rd Light­weight­ing Sum­mit. Both key tech­nolo­gies are dri­vers of resource and ener­gy effi­cien­cy as well as enablers of cli­mate pro­tec­tion and resilience.

Simul­ta­ne­ous­ly secur­ing the sup­ply of renew­able ener­gy and con­serv­ing nat­ur­al resources requires the com­bi­na­tion of strong cross-sec­tion­al technologies.

“The con­tin­u­ous devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive light­weight solu­tions secures Ger­many’s com­pet­i­tive­ness as an indus­tri­al loca­tion and cre­ates new jobs.”

- Dr. Robert Habeck

In par­tic­u­lar, the pro­duc­tive inter­ac­tion of light­weight con­struc­tion phi­los­o­phy with its resource effi­cien­cy as well as inno­v­a­tive light­weight mate­ri­als and the hydro­gen econ­o­my with its cli­mate neu­tral­i­ty can sus­tain­ably raise mar­ket poten­tials in Ger­many as a busi­ness loca­tion. In this way, Ger­many’s path to becom­ing a green lead mar­ket will be paved, from which SMEs, large com­pa­nies, the envi­ron­ment and soci­ety will ben­e­fit in equal measure.

The inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned event will kick off with a keynote speech by Dr. Franziska Brant­ner, Par­lia­men­tary State Sec­re­tary at the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry of Eco­nom­ics and Cli­mate Protection.

Fol­low­ing this, experts will explore aspects and issues rang­ing from the use of hydro­gen for sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty and in steel pro­duc­tion, to the cli­mate-neu­tral pro­duc­tion of light­weight mate­ri­als, to the cli­mate pro­tec­tion poten­tial from the light­weight con­struc­tion and hydro­gen nexus, in two pan­el dis­cus­sions, two keynotes and a dis­cus­sion with the light­weight con­struc­tion community.

Speak­ers: Dr. Jan Mey­er, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, MEYER WERFT GmbH & Co. KG, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Lem­mer, Direc­tor of Inno­va­tion, Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer and Sci­en­tif­ic Infra­struc­tures at DLR and mem­ber of the Nation­al Hydro­gen Coun­cil, Chris­t­ian Bartsch, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, cote­sa GmbH, Gun­nar Groe­bler, Chair­man of the Exec­u­tive Board of Salzgit­ter AG, Julia Repen­ning, Deputy Head of Ener­gy & Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion, Öko-Insti­tut e.V., Silke Frank, Vice Pres­i­dent, Ger­man Hydro­gen and Fuel Cell Asso­ci­a­tion (DWV), Bern­hard von Vacano, Glob­al Head Scout­ing and Incu­ba­tion, Advanced Mate­ri­als & Sys­tems Research, BASF SE, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Reimund Neuge­bauer, Pres­i­dent, Fraun­hofer-Gesellschaft e.V. and Prof. Dr. Hol­ger Hansel­ka, Pres­i­dent, Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (KIT).

Olaf Lies, Min­is­ter for the Envi­ron­ment, Ener­gy, Con­struc­tion and Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion in Low­er Sax­ony, will address the light­weight con­struc­tion and hydro­gen com­mu­ni­ty in clos­ing. Final­ly, net­works can be strength­ened and estab­lished dur­ing a get-together.