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Building Tomorrow's: Future Today

Connecting the Dots: Integrating the Future

Fuelling Transformation and Modernisation

Harnessing Energy for Development

Charting a Sustainable Energy Future

Prospectus

Conference 2026

The 2026 Prospectus for the Guyana Energy Conference & Supply Chain Expo offers a comprehensive guide to one of the most anticipated events in the energy sector, set to take place from dates to 17th–20th February 2026, at the prestigious Guyana Marriott Hotel in Georgetown. Entitled "Building Tomorrow’s Future Today." ,this year's conference focuses on fostering connections within the energy industry, promoting collaboration, and integrating innovative technologies for a sustainable future.

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Magazine

Conference 2026

The 2026 Magazine for the Guyana Energy Conference & Supply Chain Expo served as a premium, editorially driven publication that captured the full scope and significance of the event. More than a simple program, it stood as a curated showcase of Guyana’s rapidly evolving energy sector, bringing together expert perspectives, industry trends, and forward-looking insights that defined the conference’s agenda.

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Speakers

From Conference 2026

We bring together government officials, experts, and renowned thought-leaders across all industries, for strategically curated discussions that provide cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time.

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His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali

President of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Brig (R’td) Mark Phillips

Prime Minister of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Vickram Bharrat

Minister of Natural Resources of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Mohabir Anil Nandlall SC MP

Attorney General & Minister of Legal Affairs, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Sonia Parag

Minister of Education, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Susan Rodrigues

Minister of Tourism, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Honourable Dr. Ashni Singh

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha

Minister of Agriculture, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Dr. The Honourable Roodal Moonilal

Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

His Excellency Dr Sultan Al Jaber

Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, UAE

Agenda

From Conference 2026

From harnessing renewable energy solutions to building a workforce for the future, participants engage in insightful discussions on all matters critical to our prosperity and sustainability.

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9:00 AM

Welcome Remarks & National Anthem

9:10 AM

Cultural interlude - Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport

9:25 AM

His Excellency, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Council of Ministers and Climate Envoy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

9:40 AM

His Excellency Dr Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry & Advanced Technology, MD & Group CEO of ADNOC, Executive Chairman of XRG & Chairman of Masdar (Virtual)

9:45 AM

Keynote: His Excellency. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana Guyana’s Energy Leadership in the Caribbean

10:05 AM

Ribbon Cutting & Expo Opening

10:50 AM

His Excellency Ivan Duque, Former President of Colombia

11:05 AM

Keynote: Dan Ammann, President of ExxonMobil Upstream Company and Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation

11:20 AM

Keynote: Mike Wirth, Chairman, Chevron

11:35 AM

Amy Myers Jaffe, Director, Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab, New York University’s School of Professional Studies

11:50 AM

Feature speaker: Simon Flowers, Chairman, Wood Mackenzie

12:05 PM

Lunch Break

1:05 PM

Award Ceremony: Innovation Challenge

1:30 PM

Rachel Wilson, Managing Director & Chief Data Officer, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

1:50 PM

Daniel Best, President, Caribbean Development Bank

2:05 PM

Panel: Project Financing


  • Aleshia Duncan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia & the Americas, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

  • Jorge Ordonez, Director Sustainable Finance Global Sovereign Solutions, Citi

  • O'reilly Lewis, Director of Projects, Caribbean Development Bank

  • Josh Loftus, Director, EY Energy Markets Group


Moderator: Ignacio Rooney, Senior Director, Upstream and Carbon Management Consulting, Wood Mackenzie

2:50 PM

Panel: Building a Sustainable Local Content Ecosystem for Guyana's Energy & Supply Chain Future


  • Michael Monroe, Head of the Local Content Secretariat, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

  • Nicholas Deygoo, Director, Guyana Oil and Gas Support Services Inc

  • Dr Eduardo Pereira, Founding Partner, International Energy Law Training and Research Company

  • Rafael Fumis, Country Manager, MODEC

  • Paul Hosein, Managing Director, SLB, Guyana

  • Vahman Jurai, Country Lead, Halliburton Guyana

  • Oliver Kassam, Chief Executive Officer, GYSBI


Moderator: Jorge Falcon Lando, Vice President- Consulting, Latin America, Wood Mackenzie

3:50 PM

Fireside chat with The Honourable Dr. Ashni Singh, Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance & Public Service, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Moderated by Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, Global Energy, S&P Global

4:30 PM

Launch of Tristar Port - Cristobal Schlaubitz, Chief Executive Officer, Tristar Port

5:00 PM

Day 1 Wrap-Up

6:00 PM

Networking Cocktail - Sponsored by ExxonMobil

9:00 AM

Welcome

9:05 AM

Keynote: The Honourable Brig. (R’td) Mark Phillips, Prime Minister of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

9:20 AM

Ministerial Panel: Regional Energy Security


  • The Honourable Patrick Brunings, Minister of Oil, Gas and Environment, the Republic of Suriname

  • Keynote: Dr the Honourable Roodal Moonilal, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

  • The Honourable Vickram Bharrat, Minister of Natural Resources, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana


Q&A with Simon Flowers, Chairman, Wood Mackenzie.

10:30 AM

Alistair Routledge, President, ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd

10:45 AM

Annand Jagesar, Managing Director, Staatsolie

11:00 AM

Beatrice Mensah Tayui, CEO/Executive Chairman, Cybele Energy Ltd

11:15 AM

Panel: Building a downstream sector in Guyana


  • Bobby Gossai, Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Ministry of Natural Resources, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

  • Mounir Bouaziz, Founder, Bee Enterprise

  • The Honourable Alison M. Redford, KC, MA, ICD.D, Principal, Redford Group

  • Eric Eyberg, Head of Global Gas & Power Consulting, S&P Global

  • Paul Baay, President & CEO, Touchstone Exploration Inc.


Moderator: Dr Priya Marajh, Independent Consultant

12:15 PM

Lunch break

1:45 PM

Onursal Soyer, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Lambert Energy

2:00 PM

Jay Persaud, EY Parthenon Global Emerging Technology Ecosystem Leader

2:15 PM

Soichi Ide, Deputy COO & Head Of Floating Production Solutions, MODEC Group

2:30 PM

Panel: AI in Energy


  • Sachin Chakote, Global Product Manager- Digital (Data Science, AI), Halliburton

  • Caio Sene, Vice President, Client Services at Shape Digital

  • Henry Martinez, Head of Data & AI, SLB Americas

  • Swapnil Bhadauria, Digital Operations Leader, EY US


Moderator: Dr Amir Azar, Founder & CEO, AgentixEdge

3:15 PM

Panel: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures


  • Mary Nasief, General Manager for Well Construction, North America Offshore, SLB

  • Oneka Archer-Caulder, Attorney, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited

  • Burcu Gunal, Secretary General of World Petroleum Congress

  • Grace Hutson, Account Manager, Halliburton Landmark Technology & Consulting

  • Jesse Stanley, President Americas, Wood plc

  • Carolina Martinez, GaffneyCline, North America Sales Leader


Moderator: Dr. Stacy Hope, Partner at Environmental Resources Management (UK, Middle East and Africa), Business Development Director, Ogle and Stone.

4:15 PM

Panel: Public Private Partnerships


  • Gerry Gouveia Jr., Chairman, Private Sector Commission of Guyana

  • Kathy Smith, President, Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry

  • Martin Cheong, General Manager (Guyana), SBM Offshore

  • Dr Martin Pertab, CEO, The Central Housing and Planning Authority, Guyana


Moderator: Dr Natasha Gaskin- Peters, Director, Fiscal Frontier Inc

5:00 PM

Chris Johnson, Vice President , North America & Caribbean Offshore GeoZone, Baker Hughes

5:15 PM

Current investment landscape in Guyana

The Honourable Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, MP and Chief Investment Officer, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

5:30 PM

Closing Remarks

6:00 PM

Networking Cocktail sponsored by EY

9:00 AM

Keynote: The Honourable, Anil Nandlall, Attorney General, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

9:15 AM

The Honourable Deodat Indar MP, Minister of Public Utilities and Aviation

9:30 AM

Panel: Changing Power Landscape


  • Dr Mahender Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Guyana Energy Agency

  • Kesh Nandlall, Chief Executive Officer, Guyana Power and Light

  • Winston Brassington, Consultant, Ministry of Natural Resources, The Co-operative Republic of Guyana


Moderator: Dr Rosh Khan, President, ACE Consulting Group

10:15 AM

Panel: Deploying Climate Finance in Practice: Guyana’s Experience Across Energy, Forests, and Resilience


  • Dr Pradeepa Bholanath, Senior Director - Climate And REDD+, Ministry of Natural Resources, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

  • Dr Stephanie Stefanski, Associate Partner, Mckinsey Social, Healthcare and Public Entities Practice

  • Preeya Rampersaud, Guyana Country Coordinator, Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership

  • Lorena Solórzano-Salazar, Country Representative, Country Office Guyana, IDB

  • Humberto de Andrade Soares, Bioeconomy Investment Expert, Conservation International


Moderator: Irena Agalliu, Global Head of Energy and Climate Policy Consulting, S&P Global

11:00 AM

Beyza Özdemir, Americas Regional Director of Commercial Operations, Karpowership

11:15 AM

Samson Tokpah, Managing Partner, SRG Consulting LLC

11:30 AM

Abraham Smith, Chief Executive Officer, One Communications

11:45 AM

Closing Plenary: Policy for Growth


  • The Honourable Sonia Parag, Minister of Education, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

  • The Honourable Susan Rodrigues, Minister of Tourism, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

  • The Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana


Moderator: Michella Abraham-Ali, Communications Consultant

12:45 PM

Conference Close

1:00 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

Networking cocktail sponsored by BB Energy

2:00 PM

Local Content Workshop – Hosted by SBM

2:00 PM

Workshop – Hosted by Saipem

2:30 PM

Technical Discussion - Micro Grids – Hosted by MACORP


  • German Consuegra, President & General Manager, MACORP & ISG

  • Rafael Patiño, Ph.D., Commercial Vice President, HMV Engineers

  • Andras Mesics, Chief Executive Officer and President, SoEnergy International

  • Jhonatan Franco, Energy Commercial Manager, GECOLSA

  • Jairo Gonsalez, Chief Commercial Officer, SoEnergy

9:00 AM

Welcome remarks

9:05 AM

Q&A with the Honourable Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

10:05 AM

Youth engagement session and career guidance forum in partnership with ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd.

Exhibitors

From Conference 2026

The Guyana Energy Conference features over 190 exhibitors, offering a comprehensive view of the energy sector. Attendees will find innovations in renewable energy such as solar, wind, and hydro, alongside developments in oil and gas extraction, refining, and distribution.