Renewable Heat Adoption Challenge
This event is designed as a focused, industry-oriented forum to support those interested in how to make renewable heat projects happen in practice.
Bringing together industrial end users, industry associations, consultants, developers, technology providers, and key ecosystem partners, the event moves beyond high-level ambition to examine policy implications, technology readiness, delivery models, and real-world project experience.
Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Time: 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Venue: Greenhouse, Salesforce Tower Sydney
What to expect:
The program combines targeted updates on gas market and policy developments, renewable heat technologies and funding, and learnings from the Renewable Heat Accelerator, alongside discussion of emerging commercial and delivery models such as Heat as a Service. These sessions set the scene for the Renewable Heat Adoption Challenge and a structured, pre-qualified matchmaking session, aimed at connecting industrial project opportunities with the right mix of expertise to support their next steps, and supporting projects towards becoming grant-ready.
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Session 1: Gas reservation policy and implications on industrial process heat economics
- Session 2: Making it happen - examples of Heat as a Service to support change
- Session 3: Making it happen - learnings from the Renewable Heat Accelerator
- Pre-qualified matchmaking and networking session
Speakers you will hear from:
🔸Zach Ahmad, Investment Senior Analyst, Australian Renewable Energy Agency
Session 1:
🔸Kevin Morrison, Energy Finance Analyst, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Asia Pacific
🔸Anne Beresford, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
🔸Tennant Reed, Director - Climate Change & Energy, Australian Industry Group
Session 2:
🔸Tom Geiser, Chief Energy Markets Officer, Good Heat
🔸Annie Otfinoski, Business Development Manager, Antora
🔸Ben Link, Account Director, Climatech Zero
Session 3:
🔸Rick Umback, Manager Industrial Affairs - Retail, Australian Food & Grocery Council
🔸Cathy Inglis AM, Chief Executive Officer, Think Brick
Moderated by:
🔸Tom Lingafelter, Senior Manager - Industrial Decarbonisation, Greenhouse
🔸Jarrod Leak, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity
🔸Emma Peacock, Co-Lead, Australian Renewable Heat Accelerator
