Green Hydrogen: The Northeast's New Energy Frontier

Doutora em Ciências Ambientais pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut - Alemanha. Mestre em Ciências Ambientais (UFC) e Bacharel em Química com habilitação em Química Industrial (UFC). Especialização em Educação na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas). Mais de dez anos de experiência em docência e gestão no ensino superior com foco em Meio Ambiente e Energias Renováveis,. Em 2023 foi a única mulher brasileira selecionada para participar do Curso "Belt and road - Financing in Climate change" na Universidade de Tsinghua, na China. Atualmente é Coordenadora de Atração de Empreendimentos Industriais Estruturantes em Energias Renováveis, Recursos Hídricos, Mineração e Hidrogênio Verde da Secretaria Executiva da Indústria da SDE.

CEO and Founder of CELA, with 21 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, including bioenergy, wind energy, solar PV and green hydrogen. Camila currently also serves as Investment and Green Hydrogen Vice-President of the Board of Directors of ABSOLAR (the Brazilian Solar PV Association), Non-Executive Director of the Board of Administration of Brazilian Rare Earths, member of the Advisory Board of the Federation of Industry of São Paulo (COINFRA - FIESP) and is a Finance Expert at the Clean Energy Finance Solutions Center (NREL - USA). Prior to founding CELA, she was Country Manager and Head of Latin America at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), where she advised clients with research and analysis of renewable energy sectors and markets, and trends in the region. She has also worked in the past at PricewaterhouseCoopers, ERB - Energias Renováveis do Brasil and Infinity Bio-Energy. Camila holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Jurandir Picanço Júnior is a Mechanical Engineer and Electrician. A member of the Ceará's Academy of Engineering, he works as energy consultant for FIEC (Ceará's Federation of Industries). He was President of COELCE (Ceará's Energy Company), has headed Ceará's Science and Technology Office, has been a member of CHESF's board, the President of ARCE (Ceará's Regulatory Agency), a lecturer on Electrical Engineering at UFC and the President of CSRenováveis/CE (Ceará's Sectorial Chamber on Renewable Energies). The Sindienergia-CE Award, which honours outstanding individuals in Ceará's energy industry, is called 'The Jurandir Picanço Trophy'. In his 59 years actively working in the energy industry, Jurandir has always had a connection with renewable energies, and was one of the people directly responsible for helping Ceará in its first initiatives to develop projects on wind and solar energy and, more recently, on green hydrogen. A 2022 survey by Grupo Mídia named him one of the '100 Most Influential People in Energy'.

Diretor de Operações na Qair Brasil. Natural de Recife/PE é Engenheiro Mecânico e Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica, na área de concentração de Energia Eólica, pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Possui MBA em Gestão Empresarial pela FGV. Gustavo tem sólida experiência na área das energia renováveis, com mais de 25 anos de atuação neste mercado.