2009 ASPO International Peak Oil Conference is less than three weeks away, October 11-13, 2009. Don't miss this opportunity to hear up to date information, analysis, and discussion from the world's leading experts on energy and our future. The conference includes over 70 speakers and a Saturday pre conference workshop on creating personal plans for the coming decades.

The complete agenda is shown below, with links to details and speaker biographies. The version on the ASPO-USA web site can be reached at this link.

Only a few places still remain for those who want to take part in the informal Oil Drum - ASPO meeting that is being organized in Italy in June of this year. Oil Drum readers are welcome to join the discussion with Oil Drum staff and ASPO members. This meeting, to take place on 26, 27 & 28 June in Italy at the “Alcatraz free University” near Perugia, will have a spontaneous self-organized program according to the ‘bar camp’ rules. People can bring any topic to the informal meeting that they want to discuss. The only limitation being the wide ‘systems boundary’, so that issues should be directly or indirectly related to the heart of ASPO & The Oil Drum, discussions about energy and our future.

In order to reserve a place, please send a message to Rembrandt Koppelaar contact@peakoil.nl also in copy to Ugo Bardi (ugo.bardi@unifi.it). Upon approval of your application a registration form will be sent with room and payment details.

More information on the meeting, costs, and traveling to Italy can be found below the fold

Worldwide concern is growing over high oil prices, the security of supply of fossil fuels and its impact on many sectors of our society. Such concerns voiced at the oildrum over the past years are becoming part of the mainstream energy discussion. On 21 & 22 January 2009 a major business conference will be held in the Netherlands in which I am involved as an advisor in my role as President of ASPO Netherlands.

I invite you to come and listen to top executives and leaders from many industrial sectors who will explore the effects of high oil prices in their field of expertise or industry. Day 1 is dealing with political and macro economic aspects of changing oil supplies. Day 2 is teaching more about specific economic sectors, like Transport & Infrastructure, Food & Agriculture, Energy Systems and Chemicals & Materials.

There will be many speakers including Maria van der Hoeven (Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs), Matthew Simmons (invited), Peter de Wit (President Shell Netherlands), Kjell Aleklett (ASPO International), Jeremy Tomkinson (CEO The National Non-Food Crops Centre), Jörg Schindler (ASPO Germany) and Ger Bemer (CEO Royal Nedalco). For Conference Agenda and Registration, go to the the Permanent Oil Crisis website.

Under the fold, find the highlights from the program. Come to Amsterdam!