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Opening Session
Session
Session
9:00 am
24 February 2026
Plenary Room
Session Program
Welcome address delivered by CO2CRC Chief Executive Officer, Dr Matthias Raab.
Chairman address delivered by CO2CRC Chairman, Martin Ferguson AM.
9:20 am
CO2CRC welcomes Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia, the Hon. Madeleine King, to deliver the government keynote.
9:40 am
Professor Sally M. Benson is the Precourt Family Professor of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute.
A global authority on carbon capture and storage and net-zero energy systems, she co-directs the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and the Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative. From 2021 to 2023 she served in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition.
Previously, Professor Benson led Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy (Director/Co-Director, 2014–2020) and the Global Climate & Energy Project (2007–2019). Her honours include the Greenman Award (2012); she is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2023) and an International Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (2024).
A global authority on carbon capture and storage and net-zero energy systems, she co-directs the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and the Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative. From 2021 to 2023 she served in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition.
Previously, Professor Benson led Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy (Director/Co-Director, 2014–2020) and the Global Climate & Energy Project (2007–2019). Her honours include the Greenman Award (2012); she is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2023) and an International Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (2024).