Awarding next-generation thinking and groundbreaking solutions
The Energy Innovators Challenge is a peer-reviewed competition that invites individuals and companies to showcase new concepts and groundbreaking solutions to real-world challenges facing the energy sector today. All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of industry experts, with a shortlist of the most exciting solutions invited to attend the Japan Energy Summit & Exhibition to present their topic on stage to the industry. A prize will be given to the winning response from each category.
Why participate in the Challenge?
Present
your technical knowledge and
experience globally to industry
colleagues.
Reshape
the energy industry and light the pathway to a net zero future.
Validate
ideas and gather feedback.
Enhance
your company’s technical profile.
Network
with over 6,000+ global energy professionals.
How to participate
01 Selecting a challenge question
Choose 1 or more challenge questions in either categories to tackle
02 Preparing your abstracts
Visit the submission portal and create your profile at www.japanenergyevent.com/challenge to draft your abstracts
03 Complete your submissions
Finalise and submit your abstracts in English or Japanese before 25 April 2025
Challenge Questions
Leaders of Tomorrow
Pioneers & Disruptors
This category is designed for students and young professionals under the age of 35 with less than five years in their current position.
1. How can we create innovative ways to convert waste or unutilised goods into usable energy, fuels, or electricity?
2. How can captured carbon be repurposed into valuable products (e.g., fuels, building materials) to create a circular carbon economy?
3. What production techniques could make hydrogen affordable?
4. How can we make extraction /development processes to make hydrocarbon production carbon-negative or carbon neutral?
5. What innovative policies or regulatory frameworks can accelerate the adoption of clean energy technologies globally?
6. How can we create an economic system where carbon storage is more valuable than carbon emissions?
7. How can we develop a new effective way to discover energy resources?
8. How can oil and gas fields become net carbon-negative energy hubs?
9. How can we avoid renewable energy creating an unstable energy grid?
10. How can we develop technology which generates more energy than it consumes?
This category is designed for start-ups and entrepreneurs with a business less than five year’s old, or with raised capital under USD$ 15mil.
1. What technologies can make carbon capture & storage profitable?
2. How can we develop renewable energy that generates power anywhere, anytime?
3. What hydrogen technologies can be easily applied in industrial processes?
4. What innovative processes can enable the production of ammonia at scale and optimise its use as a fuel?
5. What methane-to-hydrogen conversion technologies can eliminate CO₂ emissions?
6. How can LNG be produced and transported with near-zero emissions?
7. How can SMRs be made more affordable, deployable, and publicly accepted?
8. What new drilling technologies or process innovations can make oil & gas extraction carbon-neutral?
9. What new materials, sensors, or AI-driven grid automation can make power networks resilient to extreme weather and cyber threats?
10. How can we reimagine urban infrastructure to produce, store, and distribute more efficiently?
Important Dates
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