18.15 Welcome drinks and registration of participants18.45 EVENING DEBATETwo years after the presentation of its “Scramble and Blueprints” energy scenarios to 2050, Royal Dutch Shell’s scenario experts have issued a new study called “Signals and Signposts” that updates their vision of our energy future. Shell predicts even more “uncertain times” than it did in 2008 because the global economic and financial crisis has added to the energy challenge by causing greater price volatility and huge government budget deficits.One conclusion of “Signals and Signposts” is that “global demand for energy would triple from 2000 levels if emerging economies just followed historical paths of development”. Shell’s experts ask the crucial question of how energy supply is going to keep up with this growing demand, saying the world is entering a “zone of uncertainty” which will need to be bridged by “extraordinary demand moderation or extraordinary production acceleration”. This Café Crossfire debate will focus on the hard choices that lie ahead for Europe’s policymakers.WELCOME BYGiles Merritt, Secretary General, Friends of Europe INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch ShellPRESENTATION BY Jeremy Bentham, Vice President Global Business Environment of Shell InternationalINVITED PANELLISTSAlejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice-President of the European Parliament  Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)  Johannes Meier, Chief Executive Officer of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) Waldemar Pawlak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Poland  Philip Lowe, European Commission Director General for EnergyCo-moderated by Giles Meritt, Secretary General of Friends of Europe and, Willy De Backer, Head of Friends of Europe's Greening Europe Forum.20.30  End of debateMore information at our event web page