iUP Innovation Connections’s registrations for the ROG.e Academic Competition are now open

The iUP Innovation Connections – a parallel event at ROG.e, one of the world’s leading energy conferences – has its registrations open from July 8 to the Academic Competition, a “contest” among students through which they can contribute to the development of innovative ideas and insights for the oil, gas and energy industry. The public call is available here, and those interested must register by July 26 through this form.

The initiative is aimed at students with an innovative and disruptive profile, who seek – through contact and mentoring with experts from companies in the sector, IBP and partner organizations – a greater role in the industry.

The competition

The motto of this edition is Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies (LDES) and its branches, Mechanical Energy, Thermal Energy and Thermochemical Energy.

The competition will be divided into two stages: a pre-project, between July 29 and August 16, remotely and as a qualifying criterion, and a final project, divided into a development stage, also remotely, from September 2 to 22, and a final pitch presentation, on September 26, in person at ROG.e 2024.

Requirements

Teams must be composed of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 participants, and each member must register individually using the form, where they must also indicate their team.

Participants must be at least 18 years old and be undergraduate or master’s degree students actively enrolled at a Brazilian educational institution accredited by the MEC.

The prizes for the winners of this edition are:

• 1st place: BRL 8,000, the possibility of an internship, a visit to CENPES and a certificate of attendance;
• 2nd place: BRL 4,000, visit to CENPES and a certificate of attendance; and
• 3rd place: BRL 2,000, visit to CENPES and a certificate of attendance.

ROG.e 2024

ROG.e, one of the world’s leading energy events, has its first batch of registrations open until July 22. The conference will be held between September 23 and 26 at the Olympic Boulevard in Rio de Janeiro.

The space will be divided between the conference – which includes Strategic Talks, Dialogues, exclusive sessions and the presentation of technical papers -, the exhibition and seven parallel events: iUP Innovation Connections, one of the new features of this edition; the DE&I Arena; the Young Summit; the Renewables and Biofuels Arena; the Onshore Forum; and the Lubricants Arena.

Some names are already confirmed in the program, such as Anders Opedal, CEO of Equinor; Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies; Wael Sawan, CEO of Shell; Roberto Monteiro, CEO of PRIO; Wallace Pescarino, President of SLB; Liz Schwarze, VP Global Exploration at Chevron; Gordon Birrell, EVP Production & Operations at bp; Maiza Goulart, Executive Manager of CENPES; R. Blair Thomas, CEO of EIG; Telmo Ghiorzi, Executive President of ABESPetro; Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President of Global Energy and International Affairs at S&P Global Commodity Insights, among others.