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SUMMIT AGENDA 2027
Day 1 Morning - Setting the Course: Strategy and Policy for Australia's SAF Decade
09:00 - 09:10 (10 mins)
Chair's Welcome
09:10 - 09:20 (10 mins)
[Host Government Welcome Address] Welcome to New South Wales: Building Asia-Pacific's Gateway to the Global SAF Market
The Hon. Penny Sharpe MLC
Minister for Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Heritage
NSW Government (Reserved)
09:20 - 09:30 (10 mins)
[Keynote] From SAF Ambition to Action: Building Australia’s Low-Carbon Fuels Industry
09:30 - 09:40 (10 mins)
[Keynote] One Sky, Many Paths: Sequencing APAC's SAF Policy Journey
09:40 - 10:30 (50 mins)
[Top Voice] Positioning for 2030: How APAC’s SAF Market Players Are Building the Ecosystem
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What must happen for SAF to move from niche to mainstream aviation fuel?
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How does the region create investable demand that gives capital the confidence to commit?
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Can policy, capital and commercial markets actually align, or are they still moving on separate tracks?
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What should the industry prioritise in the next five years to accelerate commercial deployment?
Kiri Hannifin
Chief Sustainability Officer
Air New Zealand
Anne-Laure BULLIERE
Vice President Business Development
TotalEnergies (Reserved)
Networking Break
11:00 - 11:15
(15 mins)
[Keynote] Reserved for IATA
Kelvin Lee
Head Sustainability Asia-Pacific
IATA
11:15 - 12:05
(50 mins)
[Regulatory insight] Building a Bankable Policy Framework within APAC’s SAF Trajectory and Global Landscape
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What would a bankable, long-term mandate paired with stable production incentives look like in practice?
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How does Australia's policy need to connect with APAC — Singapore, Japan, Korea are already moving?
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Can federal and state levels coordinate to maximise investment and accelerate deployment?
12:05 - 12:25
(20 mins)
Industry Keynote (Reserved for Sponsor)
Luncheon
Day 1 Afternoon - Building the Pipeline: Readiness, Supply and Capital
14:00 - 14:50 (50 mins)
[Executive panel] Ready for Scale: Aligning Aircraft, Engines, Airports and Airlines for the Next Generation of SAF
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Are aircraft, engines and airports keeping pace with rising blend ratios?
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What do airlines need from manufacturers and airports to move toward higher blends?
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Where are coordination gaps most critical — certification, infrastructure, or fleet planning?
Stephen Forshaw
Chief Representative, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
Airbus
14:50 - 15:10 (20 mins)
Industry Keynote (Reserved for Sponsor)
15:10 - 15:30 (20 mins)
Industry Keynote (Reserved for Sponsor)
Networking Break
16:00 - 16:50 (50 mins)
[Executive panel] Orchestrating SAF Supply: Brownfield, Greenfield and APAC's Path to Meeting Aviation Demand to 2035 and Beyond
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Brownfield or greenfield — which approach can deliver SAF capacity faster, at scale and with greater technical readiness?
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Is Australia's SAF production pipeline technically and commercially ready to meet aviation demand growth through 2035 and beyond?
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From technology readiness to project bankability: what needs to change to move SAF projects from announced capacity to physical supply?
Ed Mason
Chief Executive Officer
Jet Zero Australia
16:50 - 17:10 (20 mins)
Industry Keynote (Reserved for Sponsor)
17:10 - 18:00 (50 mins)
[Panel] Bankable by Design: Offtake Structures, Project Finance and De-Risking SAF Pipeline
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What offtake structures and commercial terms are needed to make SAF projects bankable and support the path to FID?
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Capital intensity, technology risk, feedstock risk, green premium — who bears that risk today?
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What makes Australia’s SAF investment case attractive — or challenging — compared with other APAC production hubs?
18:00 - 18:50 (50 mins)
Summit Closing
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