Conference Schedule – Day 1
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Wayne Laufer, Founder, Laufer Energy Symposium
Dr. Muthanna Al-Dahhan, Co-Chair, Missouri MS&T, USA
Dr. Youssef Belmabkhout, Co-Chair, ACER CoE, UM6P
09:15 – 10:00
Planary Presentation
The International Role of AIChE and Its Future Outlook; Energy Poverty in Africa
10:00 – 10:15
Morning Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 · Session 1: Hydrogen
Tariq Shamim — Advancing Sustainable Hydrogen Production for Clean Energy
Sohail Murad — Strategies for more efficient hydrogenstorage: Conversion of ortho to para H₂ onmaghemite surface—a computational study
Hanane Ait Ousaleh — Unlocking HT Green Hydrogen Production: SOEC, Thermochemical Water Splitting, and High Heat Storage Integration
12:00 – 14:00
Networking Lunch & Poster Session
14:00 – 15:30 · Session 2: Decarbonization
Bassam Alameddine — Designing Resilient Materials for CO₂ Capture, Iodine Adsorption, and Environmental Remediation Applications
Ismael Saadoune — Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Bottleneck to Achieving an Efficient Energy Transition and the Role of African Mineral Resources
Abdelghafour Zaabout — Cost-Effective Hard-to-Abate Industry Through CCUS Value Chains
15:30 – 16:00
Round Table – Hydrogen, Decarbonization & Electrification
16:00 – 17:00
Presentations Session
17:00 – 17:45
Networking Break & Poster Session
Conference Schedule – Day 2
Thursday, May 8, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 · Session 3: Hybrid Energy & Energy policy
Rizwan Uddin — An Integrated Energy System Including Renewables
and Nuclear for Optimal Operations
Shantanu Roy — Some Aspects of the Energy Transition in the Developing World
Waleed Hussein Al-Bazzaz — Unconventional Resources: Risks and Opportunities in Fossil Fuels
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:40 · Session 3 Continued
Othmane Anice — Energy Policy for a Sustainable Future
Amine Bennouna — Morocco: Was mid-2022 to end-2024 just ‘another window of opportunity’ or a lasting transition to more renewable electricity?
