Keynotes

	3D Printing Processes, Design and Applications Prof. Said Ahzi, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
	Materials challenges in alternative rechargeable batteries Prof. Ilias Belharouak, Research Director of the Energy Storage Group at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), and Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at the Hamad Ben Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
	Toward Low cost manufacturing and low environmental impacts of PV materials: Inkjet Printing Technology Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui, Research Director at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation & Full Professor at College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Education City, Doha/Qatar.
	Ab initio calculations and their applications to materials for photovoltaic conversion Prof. El Kebir Hlil, University of Joseph Fourier at Grenoble, France.
	Computational Design and Realization of Functional Renewable Energy Materials Dr. David Ginley, Research Fellow/ Chief Scientist, Materials and Chemistry Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA.
	Psudocapacitors in Energy Storage Prof. Hao Gong, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
	Challenges of III-V tandem structures for highest solar energy conversion efficiencies Prof. Thomas Hannappel, Head of Department of Photovoltaics, Institute of Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
	Recent developments of Renewable Energy – New Champions rising and former frontrunners falling back Mr. Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, Vice-President of European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF), Belgium & German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE), Germany.
	Plasmonic investigation of full spectrum solar energy water splitting devices Dr Mustapha Jouiad, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
	Four Dimensional Hybrid Solar Electric/Heat/Lighting Systems and Water for Agricultural Greenhouses Dr. Walter W Loo, 21st Century Agricultural and Water Experts, United Nations Peace Ambassador – USA.
	Overview of the current status of CSP in Europe: An R&D point of view and reflections on the commercial roll out Dr Diego Martinez Plaza, Director´s Office, Plataforma Solar de Almería-CIEMAT, Almeria, Spain.
	Perovskite solar cells: A new paradigm in Energy sector Prof. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. (More than 55 000 citations, H-index: 110)
	Leveraging Renewable Energy for Electricity Needs of the Growing World Population Prof. Anil Pahwa, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
	Advanced Multifunctional Oxides for Photovoltaics Dr. Abdelilah Slaoui, Strasbourg University, France.
	Nanoparticles agglomeration toward new opportunities for energy materials Dr. Abdelhafed Taleb, Chimie ParisTech, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, France & Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
	New paradigms in the quest for high-performance tandem thin-film solar cells Dr. Teodor Todorov, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA.
	Structuring the Surface of Thin Si Solar Cell by Metal Assisting Etching for Efficient Light Trapping Prof. Rasit Turan, Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GÜNAM) and Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
	Lithium Ion Batteries for Clean Energy Storage Prof. Rachid Yazami, Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.