Block - INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP
Abay Hall

Transferability of Skills: Business and Academia Perspective
When academics are looking for industry jobs, they may hear and believe they lack business skills. However, is this true? Transferable skills are those skills that are needed to adapt to various life contexts and which individuals can potentially transfer to different work and social environments. Nowadays transferable skills are also known as twenty-first century skills.
Academics have indeed many transferable skills and can be great assets to business companies. The great issue is how to translate and adapt our academic experience in a manner that can be better understood outside academy.


Block – SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES
Independence Hall

The Role of Natural Gas in Decarbonization
This session is devoted to the discussion of the enhancement of natural gas utilization and its impact on a decarbonization. Over the past half century, natural gas has revolutionized the global fuel market. In the context of improving environmental requirements, today gas, as the most environmentally friendly fossil fuel, retains the most long-term competitiveness. Innovations in this segment can have a high impact on future energy supply. What is the potential for increase gas production in the medium term? How to upgrade prospects and potential of existing and planned gas infrastructure? How long will natural gas maintain its position as the most demanded hydrocarbon resource?


Block – ENERGY & SOCIETY
Al Farabi Hall

Global Energy Security: Path to New Reality
The global energy markets are going through a difficult period. First the pandemic and now the geopolitical environment is having a significant impact on oil and gas markets. The global oil and gas industry is entering a phase of fundamental structural changes. However, it remains to be seen how exporting countries are ready and able to increase production and change established supply routes. All this raises a number of key long-term questions for the oil and gas industry: how much will the market situation for raw material flows change? How will the energy transition process take place in the world, taking into account the new realities? What is the role of Kazakhstan in the new energy agenda?