CERAWeek
"...the most important annual event on the energy industry’s calendar.” - The Financial Times
About CERAWeek
Chaired by Daniel Yergin, CERAWeek is recognized as the foremost annual gathering in the energy sector, rated among the top five “corporate leader conferences” worldwide. This premier event convenes over 450 C-Suite executives, 80 ministers and top officials, and 325 media representatives, with more than 10,000 participants from over 2,050 companies across 80 countries for dialogue on the agenda ahead as the world enters a new era of energy transition.
CERAWeek 2024 explored strategies for a multidimensional, multispeed and multifuel energy transition. The drive for energy transition is reshaping the competitive landscape for companies and countries – creating new opportunities and risks across the energy value chain. The imperative to reduce emissions has grown in urgency. Yet expectations of a simple linear global transition have been shaken as climate goals compete with concerns over how to deliver economic growth while ensuring energy security, energy access, and affordability. The multidimensional energy transition reflects different realities and timelines by region, technology, industry strategies, the variety of social and political approaches and divergent national priorities in an increasingly multipolar world.
CERAWeek 2025 will focus on the challenges ahead for energy security, supply, and climate ambitions – as well as for markets, infrastructure, directions of policy and the advance of technology including AI – and what this means for all aspects of the industry and beyond.
Through a diverse set of programs and platforms CERAWeek highlights the linkages of these topics across industries and showcase the partnerships and collaborative models that are transforming energy.
CERAWeek Programs
CERAWeek is comprised of three mutually reinforcing platforms designed to share ideas and foster relationships.
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The CERAWeek Community
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CERAWeek History
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Our Mission
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About S&P Global
The CERAWeek Community
The CERAWeek community is a unique gathering of top global energy executives and leading members of the industrial, automotive, manufacturing and technology communities, as well as public policy-officials, financial institutions, tech, and thought leaders.
Previous speakers at CERAWeek have included Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Rwanda President Paul Kagame, Denmark’s Crown Princess Marie, Nobel Laureate Robert Schiller, Senior Advisor to President Biden for International Climate Policy John Podesta, former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Senators Joe Manchin, Lisa Murkowski, and Dan Sullivan, chief executive officers of Accenture, Amazon Web Services, bp, Chevron, Shell, Oxy, Dow, Électricité de France, NextEra, ExxonMobil, Ford Motor Company, Rivian, TotalEnergies, Saudi Aramco - along with Bill Gates, Mary Barra, Bill Ford, Henry Kissinger, Michael Pompeo, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, author Walter Isaacson, and FedEx CEO Fred Smith.
Daniel Yergin, S&P Global Vice Chairman, serves as Co-Chairman of CERAWeek. Dr. Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics and economics. He was described by Fortune as “one of the planet’s foremost thinkers about energy and its implications”; by TIME as the “one man whose opinion matters more than any other on global energy markets”; and by the New York Times as “America’s most influential energy pundit.” Dr. Yergin is author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning book, as well as The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.
CERAWeek History
In 1983, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Daniel Yergin and James Rosenfield. The energy research and consulting firm became known for its critical knowledge and independent analysis on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, technology and strategy.
Each year, CERA clients gathered for the executive conference where they gained insight into the energy future while connecting with their peers. Over time, the program was expanded to five days, covering the full energy spectrum and the event was renamed CERAWeek.
More than 40 years later, CERAWeek by S&P Global has become the world’s premier energy event. In 2017, this executive gathering expanded to include the Innovation Agora to advance the energy innovation ecosystem.
Our Mission
CERAWeek brings together global leaders to advance new ideas, insights and solutions to the biggest challenges facing the future of energy and the environment. CERAWeek is widely considered to be the most prestigious annual gathering of CEOs and ministers from global energy and utilities, as well as automotive, manufacturing, policy, technology and financial communities.
It has been described by the Financial Times as the ‘the Davos of energy,’ and by Politico as the “industry’s Super Bowl.” CNBC called it “the world’s preeminent energy conference.” CERAWeek was rated one of the top five overall “corporate leader” conferences in the world.
About S&P Global
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