Event agenda
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
09:40 - 11:15
Opening Ceremony Session 1
11:15 - 11:45
Coffe Break
11:45 - 13:00
Opening Ceremony Session 2
13:00 - 14:15
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 1)
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13:00 - 14:15
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:15
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 1)
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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13:45 - 14:15
Poster Session 1
14:15 - 15:45
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 1
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14:15 - 15:45
Session 1A Science : Research in drilling technologies
6 speakers
Session 1C Technology : Minerals from Geothermal Energy
5 speakers
Session 1D Technology : Geothermal Heat Pumps - design and geostructures
6 speakers
Session 1E Non Technical : Flexible power & heat generation
6 speakers
Session 1F Science : Research infrastructures
6 speakers
14:15 - 15:45
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 1
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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15:45 - 16:15
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 2)
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15:45 - 16:20
Coffe Break
15:45 - 16:15
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 2)
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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16:20 - 17:50
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 2
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16:20 - 17:50
Session 2A Science : Enhancing Geothermal Viability
6 speakers
Session 2C Technology : Environmental Impacts and Solutions
6 speakers
Session 2D Technology : Heating and Cooling for Cities
5 speakers
16:20 - 17:50
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 2
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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19:00 - 22:30
Gala Dinner
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
09:00 - 10:30
Semi-Plenary 1A : Thermal storage for the energy system integration
Semi-Plenary 1B : International collaboration for geothermal development
Semi-Plenary 1C : Swiss Innovation and Implementation in Geothermal Energy
1 speaker
10:30 - 11:00
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 3)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffe Break
10:30 - 11:00
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 3)
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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10:50 - 12:30
11:00 - 12:30
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 3
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11:00 - 12:30
Session 3A Science : Managing Induced seismicity
6 speakers
Session 3B Technology: Technology innovations
6 speakers
Session 3C Non Technical: Communicating geothermal ROUNDTABLE
ROUNDTABLE about "Enhancing Awareness of Geothermal Energy: The need of Effective Communication", moderate by Ben Carlin (EGEC)
9 speakers
Session 3D Technology : UTES characterisation & simulation studies
5 speakers
11:00 - 12:30
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 3
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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12:30 - 14:00
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 4)
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 4)
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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13:45 - 14:15
Poster Session 2
14:00 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 4
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14:15 - 15:45
Session 4A Science : Reservoir Characterization and Optimization
6 speakers
Session 4D Technology : Geothermal Heat Pumps - operational analysis, planning and optimisation
6 speakers
14:15 - 15:45
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- Kongressfoyer Gallery
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15:45 - 16:30
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 5)
15:45 - 16:30
Coffe Break
15:45 - 16:30
1to1 meetings during breaks (session 5)
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
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16:30 - 18:00
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 5
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16:30 - 18:00
Session 5A Science : Geothermal Process Simulation
5 speakers
Session 5F Science : Well Integrity and Performance Optimization
6 speakers
Swiss Day : Roundtable "Framework conditions in Switzerland in perspective with EU"
16:30 - 18:00
1to1 meetings parallel with the technical sessions 5
- Kongressfoyer Gallery
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Thursday, 9 October 2025
09:00 - 10:30
Semi-Plenary 2A : Heating and Cooling for Houses, Cities and Industry
Semi-Plenary 2B : Emerging Technologies
Semi-Plenary 2C : Developing and Financing Successful Project & Market
10:30 - 11:00
Coffe Break
11:00 - 12:30
Session 6B Science : CO2-based Geothermal Energy Extraction and Conversion
6 speakers
Session 6E Technology : Thermal Response testing
6 speakers
Session 6F Science : Rock Mechanics and Petrophysics
5 speakers
12:30 - 13:55
Lunch Break
13:30 - 13:55
Poster Session 3
13:55 - 15:25
Session 7A Science : Exploration and modelling
6 speakers
Session 7C Technology : Induced seismicity monitoring
6 speakers
Session 7D Non Technical: Regulations and guidelines
6 speakers
15:25 - 16:00
Closing Ceremony
Friday, 10 October 2025
08:00 - 15:30
Visit Riehen (mid deep hydrothermal District Heating)
The geothermal plant in Riehen is the largest and also the oldest plant of its kind in Switzerland
08:00 - 18:00
Visit project EGS Haute-Sorne and Laboratory Mont Terri
Mont Terri Rock laboratory combined with a visit to Haute-Sorne EGS project
08:30 - 13:30
Visit Baden "Where resource meets surface"
Switzerland’s most mineral-rich thermal water and a long tradition of wellness treatments: the city of Baden truly lives up to its name, which means “bathing” in German
08:30 - 18:00
Visit ETHZ Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies
The BedrettoLab (Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies) is a unique research infrastructure run by ETH Zurich making it possible to take a close look at the Earth’s interior.
09:00 - 11:30
Visit ETHZ Hönggerberg (geothermal probes)
ETH Zurich's Hönggerberg campus is a city district with over 12’000 students and employees, in more than 30 buildings and consuming almost 77 gigawatt hours of energy per year
09:00 - 12:00
Visit ETHZ GEG Laboratory geothermal R&D activities (Deep Geothermal Energy)
The Geothermal Energy and Geofluids group conducts research in geophysical fluid dynamics of subsurface multiphase, multicomponent, reactive fluid and energy transfer
09:00 - 12:30
Visit Grob Gemüse (mid deep hydrothermal for greenhouses)
The Grob family has been committed to sustainable vegetable production for years.
09:00 - 15:30
Visit SWATCH/OMEGA (geothermal groundwater)
The concept of using groundwater, which provides heating and cooling for the headquarters of the Omega Manufacture, Swatch and the Cité du Temps, is unique in Switzerland.
09:00 - 16:00
Visit Hagerbach Underground Test Gallery
A fantastic World Underground: The numerous tunnels, caverns, experimental fields, laboratories and seminar rooms offer a perfect base for research, development, testing, real scale trials, as well as all kinds of events.
09:30 - 11:00
Visit Zürich Airport (geostructures and deep Aquifer storage)
Geothermal systems, in particular energy piles, deliver a valuable energy storage to heat and cool the dock E for over 20 years and since 2020 The Circle - a workplace and business hub at the airport.