Discover the details of the World Hydrogen Summit 2024
By Holland House | 31 May, 2024 | News
On May 13, 2024, Holland House Colombia had the honor of organizing the session ´Renewable Hydrogen Business Opportunities in Latin America´ together with the Regional Business Development team for Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, led by Erik Plaisier. This event was organized at Ahoy Rotterdam in the context of the World Hydrogen Summit.
27 Latin American and 31 Dutch organizations were welcomed by Erik Plaisier and the opening words of the Climate Envoy of the Netherlands, HRH Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme. This was followed by a presentation of the Lead Energy Specialist of the Inter-American Development Bank, Christiaan Gischler. Mr. Gischler gave an overview of the most promising Renewable Hydrogen projects in Latin America, and then led a panel with Rosilena Lindo Riggs, National Energy Secretary, (Panama), Alejandro Stipanicic, President ANCAP (Uruguay), Marcos Kulka, Executive Director H2Chile, and Daniel Camac, President H2Peru.
This was followed by a matchmaking session, where the Latin American and Dutch organizations engaged in series of conversations. The public sector organizations, private sector associations and individual hydrogen projects that were present from Latin America spoke to Dutch technology and knowledge providers in a total of 216 conversations within a 2-hour timespan.