Plenty of Energy Conferences

I attend conferences, either as a speaker or a participant, when I can add them conveniently to my travel schedule. Here is my “bible” – ConferenceAlerts/Energy, which is, as far as I’m aware, the most comprehensive listing of energy conferences around the world. We’re more than halfway through March, and there are still well over 50 energy conferences scheduled, somewhere on the surface of the globe, between now and the first of April.  This is an average of four per day; the 26th and 27th each have seven.

My basic thinking on travel is this: pick an “anchor event” – something I feel is more than worth the trip, even if I can fit nothing else around it. Commit to it, and then slowly and carefully, taking the highest other priorities in the region, build around it, both before it and after it, until I have reached my limit in terms of willingness to be away from home. A few months later: repeat.  Eventually: die —  old, tired, and as learned as I can possibly be on this subject.

Unless something totally unexpected happens in my life, I’ll be at none of the following events taking place later in March, but they all sound terrific, and they’re places I would like to be. Sorry to sound crass, but it takes a lot to get me to Detroit, or some other place I’ve been dozens of times that has little appeal aesthetically.

Though I’ll almost certainly miss the  Offshore Cabling Conference, I’ll try to pick up the notes; this, I believe, will be extremely important stuff in the coming decade or two.

• The EV Battery Forum + EV Charging Forum + E-Bikes Forum, Barcelona Spain
• Energy Summit 2012, London United Kingdom
• Sustainable Business Conference 2012 – Smart Cities. Smart Sustainability, Paris France
• International Symposium on Advances in Science and Technology, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
• Solar Terawatt-hours Conference Series 2012 Europe, Berlin Germany
• The First International Conference on Renewable Energies and Vehicular Technology, Hammamet Tunisia
• 3rd Eastern Africa Oil, Gas & Energy Conference, Nairobi Kenya
• Power & Electricity World Africa 2012, Johannesburg South Africa
• Offshore Cabling Conference, Bremen Germany
• Nuclear Energy Forum, Toronto Canada