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July 20 – 24, 2026

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Day 2 - July 21

Day 3 - July 22

Day 4 - July 23

Day 5 - July 24

July 20, 2026 | Day 1

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Ballroom A

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Ballroom B

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Ballroom C

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Conference
Room A

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Conference
Room B

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Alumni Center

8:00 am
Breakfast & Check-In (Conference Center Foyer)
8:30 am
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Opening Session RELIEVE 2026
9:15 am
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Keynote Lecture - Energy and Road Transportation
Energy Transition in the Global South (Ballroom B)
Roland Hwang, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, United States of America (USA)
10:00 am
Coffee Break (Conference Center Foyer)
10:30 am
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Keynote Lecture - Energy and Road Transportation
Renewable-Energy Driven Technologies for Green H2 Production and Valorization of CO2 emissions to Chemicals and Fuels (Ballroom B)
Simelys Hernandez, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
11:00 am
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Keynote Lecture - Energy and Road Transportation
Sustainable Freight Road Transportation (Ballroom B)
Miguel Jaller, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, USA
11:30 am
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Keynote Lecture - Energy and Road Transportation
Low Carbon Fuels in Transport (Ballroom B)
Colin Murphy, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, USA
12:00 pm
Lunch (Conference Center Foyer)
1:30 pm
Simultaneous Workshops - International Summer School on Energy Transition
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Motivation and Ethics in Teaching and Research (Ballroom A)
John Ramiro Agudelo, Universidad de Antioquia; Miguel Modestino, New York University; Samual Lara, Chalmers University of Technology
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Energy and AI: Beyond ChatGPT (Ballroom B)
Luisa Chaparro, Tecnológico de Monterrey; Daniel Pereira; Carlos Sandoval, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Green hydrogen for Industrial Decarbonization (Ballroom C)
Manuel Ávila, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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Circularity in Energy Materials (Conference Room A)
Juanita Hidalgo, New York University
3:00 pm
Coffee Break (Conference Center Foyer)
3:30 pm
Simultaneous Workshops - International Summer School on Energy Transition
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Pollutants Dispersion in Air (Ballroom A)
Ernesto Reyes, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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AI for Energy Conversion Device Modeling (Ballroom B)
Miguel Modestino, New York University
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Energy Efficiency in Buildings with Energy Plus Software (Ballroom C)
Miguel Gijón, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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The Risks and Opportunities of the Energy Transition: Modelling the Shift to Clean Energy as a Systemic Change (Conference Room A)
Samuel Stephenson, University of Cambridge
5:00 pm
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Bike Preparation Zone (Alumni Center)