Mr Drouin is President of Biothermica, a company he founded in 1987. The company is dedicated to the development, financing, construction and operation of climate mitigation infrastructure projects based on coal mine methane and landfill gas valorization for carbon credits and energy sales. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Drouin financed, built, owned and operated the largest landfill gas power plant (25 MW) in Canada and a second similar project in El Salvador, registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of Kyoto Protocol selling carbon credits to Luxembourg. He financed and installed the first coal mine methane abatement project in North America based on its VAMOX® proprietary technology and the sales of the carbon credits on the Quebec-California cap-and-trade market. Mr Drouin holds an electric engineering degree from the Polytechnic School of Montreal and a Master's degree in Business Administration from McGill University.

Amy is a process engineer at Hatch, bringing experience in operations and consulting across various industries. At Hatch, Amy has been involved in various climate change projects including producing a decarbonisation pathway for coal mining assets, a ventilation air methane abatement project, greenhouse gas quantification for iron-making flowsheets and copper smelting flowsheets, and concept study for amine-based CO2 capture from flue gas. Amy has also worked a number of projects including a green ammonia production facility, a lithium hydroxide production plant, and hydrogen use study for steel producer. Amy has operations experience working in alumina refining and bauxite mining prior to joining Hatch.

Daniel is a Chilean mining engineer with extensive experience in underground mine ventilation engineering. He has led projects across Latin America, Europe, and most recently Australia. His expertise lies in ventilation network modeling, with a particular focus on heat simulations and refrigeration systems. Currently, he works as a Senior Ventilation Engineer at Palaris, where he is part of the decarbonization team, developing projects related to methane abatement, ventilation engineering, and gas management.

Liu Jiajia, associate professor, is the recipient of the Excellent Young Fund of Henan Province, academic and technical leader of the Education Department of Henan Province, leader of the innovative research team of Henan Polytechnic University, winner of the first prize in the National Colleges and Universities Young Teachers Teaching Competition in Safety Science and Engineering. He is also a reviewer for several well-known domestic and international journals such as Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, and China Safety Science Journal, and concurrently serves as a communication review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an expert in emergency management of Xinzheng City, a member of the Academic Committee of Young Experts of the Journal of Coal Science and Technology, and a member of the Committee of Ventilation Safety and Occupational Health. He is mainly engaged in teaching and scientific research in the fields of mine disaster prevention and control, ventilation, fire prevention and explosion prevention, underground space engineering, and coal bed methane development.Currently, he is in charge of 12 programs, including the General Program and Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Central Plains Young Outstanding Talent Program, and the Excellent Youth Fund of Henan Province, etc. In recent years, he has applied for and authorized 12 national invention patents, and published more than 40 academic papers, including 18 papers indexed by SCI/EI, 12 papers indexed by CSCD and core journals, and published two monographs and three national planning textbooks as chief editor and deputy chief editor. And he has presided over and won 6 prizes including the Third Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Henan Province, and the Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of China Coal Industry Association, etc.