The Association for the Study of Peak Oil's 5th annual conference will be held in Italy next month and is organized around plenary talks given by world renowned experts. Below is the list of the confirmed speakers as of May 15th 2006.

Of note:
#4, #9, and #21 were contributors in the movie The End of Suburbia.
#11 is going to speak on the need to relocalize as a response to Peak Oil.
#13 is going to discuss the coming natural gas crisis in North America as did Julian Darley in his book High Noon for Natural Gas.

1. Kjell Aleklett, ASPO international, Title to be provided
2. Luca Barillaro, Compendium Consulting, "New financial products: their impact on energy markets"
3. Jean-Marie Bourdaire, ASPO France, “World Energy and Economy: What perspectives to 2050?”
4. Colin Campbell, ASPO-Ireland; “The Age of Oil in Perspective”
5. Marcello Colitti, Independent Expert, "The New Priority of the Oil Companies"
6. Peter Gerling, BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany, "Coal - the prime energy of the future?"
7. Folke Gunther, Holon Ecosystem Consultants, “Oil depletion and food depletion”
8. Renato Guseo, University of Padova, “World Oil Depletion: Diffusion Models, Price Effects, Strategic and Technological Interventions”
9. Richard Heinberg, New College of California; Post Carbon Institute; “The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse”
10. Robert Hirsch, Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), "Mitigation of Peak Oil - More Numbers"
11. Robert Hopkins, Transition Culture," Plan B - enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil"
12. Andrew McKillop, Ecohabitat, “Oil prices and the economy: facts, views and opinions”
13. Marek Kolodziej, University of Illinois, “The North American Natural Gas Crisis
14. Jean Laherrere, ASPO-France, “Uncertainty on data and forecasts”
15. Jeremy Leggett, Solarcentury, “Peak oil, climate change, and the daunting arithmetic of carbon fuels”
16. Leonardo Maugeri, ENI, title to be provided
17. Dennis Meadows, Laboratory for Interactive Learning Durham, NH, USA, “Peak Oil and the Limits to Growth”
18. Francesco Racheli, GE-Oil and Gas, "Technology evolution to monetize 'stranded GAS' "
19. Mamdouh G. Salameh, Oil Market Consultancy Service, "Peak Oil and the Rising Crude Oil Prices"
20. Chris Sanders, Sanders Research Associates, "NATO: Out of Area and Out of Oil - the war for energy and the end of free markets"
21. Matthew Simmons, Simmons and company international, title to be provided
22. Chris Skrebowski, ODAC and Petroleum Review, "Peak Oil - the Emerging Reality"
23. Terence Ward, Independent Expert, "Iran and the US - Confrontation, Oil Disruption and the Impact"

AL