Lowering the cost of hydrogen. Widening its use.

A Rare Window on the Best of Hydrogen — Sydney, 22 September

Hydrogen has no shortage of conferences. What it doesn't have is many rooms where the people actually deploying it — production, purification, storage, refuelling, project delivery — sit down together and talk about what's working today, not what might work in a decade.

On 22 September, SolidHydrogen and the University of Sydney are opening exactly that room. We're bringing together operators, technology developers and infrastructure partners already putting hydrogen to work in live industrial and mobility applications — then opening the doors of MERLIN, the University of Sydney's new Hydrogen Lab, for the first time.

If you're in Australia that day, this is one to clear your calendar for.

The day at a glance

Host — University of Sydney and SolidHydrogen
Venue — University of Sydney's MERLIN Hydrogen Lab, Building G08, Darlington, NSW
Date — 22nd of September 2026

- Roundtable (30 min) — 1pm welcome and registration for a 1.15pm start
- Official lab opening and refreshments — 2pm
- Personalised visits of the MERLIN Hydrogen Lab — from 2.30pm onwards

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Why it's worth your afternoon

This isn't a trade-show panel reciting roadmaps. It's a working conversation grounded in what's actually running today: beyond the established industries that already depend on hydrogen, the new sectors opening up around it — ammonia, power generation, natural hydrogen, biomass, synthetic aviation fuel, industrial gas supply — and the concrete engineering, materials and infrastructure choices making these markets commercially viable right now.

Then you get to walk through the lab itself. MERLIN is the University of Sydney's new Hydrogen Lab and SolidHydrogen's research partner — the official opening is followed by a guided tour of the facility and its hydrogen research program, hosted by Professor Kondo-François Aguey-Zinsou.

What you'll walk away with

Invited panellists span the full value chain — from hydrogen sources and infrastructure technology through to project development and industrial systems integration — reflecting the path from production to deployed, revenue-generating use.

You'll leave with a practitioner-level view of where hydrogen is genuinely in use today, and the specific cost and technology barriers being solved right now to broaden that use — a grounded basis for evaluating hydrogen use in your own operations.

Speakers & moderator

Moderated by Professor Kondo-François Aguey-Zinsou, University of Sydney, global hydrogen expert with 200+ scientific publications.

Confirmed panellists:

- Downer Group — Christian Douglas, Future Energy Architecture Lead — EPCM, infrastructure and engineering services, including hydrogen refuelling and zero-emission fleet transition projects.
- Fugu Energy — Luke Marshall,CEO  — modular, on-site hydrogen and SAF production infrastructure for heavy transport.
- Gold Hydrogen — Neil McDonald, Managing Director — exploration and production of naturally occurring geological hydrogen.
- Hiringa Energy — Dan Kahn, Chief Technology Officer — green hydrogen and ammonia production and heavy-vehicle refuelling infrastructure.
- Hydgene Renewables — Louise Brown, CEO — biotechnology company developing and commercialising biocatalyst-based technology to produce hydrogen from renewable feedstocks for industrial applications.
- SolidHydrogen — Philippe Odouard, CEO — safe and competitive combined PCS (Purification-Compression-Storage) of hydrogen using solid-state technology.

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Seats are limited — please confirm your attendance by 15 September 2026.

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