COP31 Energy Transition Investment Forum * Open Session / Morning Only
COP31 Energy Transition Investment Forum
Investment Trends · Deal Flow · Co-Investments · Transition Finance
The Global Energy Investment Forum is the only dedicated energy investment and deal platform at COP31 — bringing together investors, financial institutions, family offices, policy makers, energy leaders, oil & gas operators and energy transition scale-ups for a full-day programme built entirely around capital deployment, deal execution and the future of global energy.
Every session, introduction and roundtable is designed around one outcome: capital moving into energy transition.
What happens in the room:
Investor perspectives on where global energy capital is moving — geopolitics, transition and market intelligence
Oil & gas sector transition — strategies, capital structures and investment opportunities from leading operators
In conversation with leading climate and energy investors on financing the transition at scale
Corporate energy strategies — how the world's largest companies are positioning for what's next
Scale-up pitching session — 5 companies presenting live investment opportunities
Investment trends roundtables — structured discussions on Funding the transition, Scaling technologies, Sources of capital investment, Maximising returns and Portfolio Allocation & Diversification
Parallel roundtable sessions on AI, investment trends and transition finance
09:00 – 09:30 Registration & Coffee
09:30 – 09:50 Opening & Welcome Remarks
Welcome Remarks
Ilkay Demirdağ, CEO and Founder at Energy Shift Capital
Invest in Türkiye Representative
09:50 – 10.00 Keynote
10.00– 10:40 Panel Discussion: Where Capital is Moving: Investor Perspectives on Energy Transition
Evren Güvenç, CEO at Polat Energy
Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets
Yalın Karadoğan, Partner at LeapFrog Investments
10.40 - 11.20 Panel Discussion: Oil & Gas Sector Transition
Ahmad Lak, CEO at OGDCL
Amjad Bseisu, CEO at EnQuest
Ayotola Jagun, Chief Corporate Services & Sustainability Officer at Oando
David Whitehouse, CEO at Offshore Energies UK
11.20 – 11.40 Coffee Break
11.40 - 11.50 Keynote
11.50 – 12.10 Investor Fireside Chat
12:10 – 12:50 Panel Discussion: Building for What's Next: Corporate Energy Strategies in a Transition Economy
Alp Keler Chief Investment Officer at IC Holding
David Hone, Chief Climate Change Adviser at Shell
Matthieu Pierre Jean Pegon, Deputy CEO at Climate Investment Fund
12:50 – 13:00 Keynote
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch & Networking
14.00 - 14.30 Scale-up Pitching Session
14.30 - 16.00 Investment Trends Roundtables
Starts with fireside chat
Ahmad Ali Bin Obood, CFO, Dragon Oil
Neeraj Agrawal, GroupM CFO, Crescent Petroleum (tbc)
Followed by 5 Roundtables:
Funding the transition
Scaling technologies
Sources of capital investment
Maximising returns
Portfolio Allocation & Diversification
16.00 - 17.00 Parallel Roundtables
Roundtable 1: Powering the AI Era — Energy Security, Grid Capacity and Capital for Digital Infrastructure Growth
Roundtable 2: Transition Finance
Roundtable 3: Energy Transition Investment Trends
17.00 - 17.15 Closing Remarks
17.15 - 18.30 Networking