Platinum level sponsor:

Outotec is a worldwide technology leader in minerals and metals processing, providing innovative and environmentally sound solutions for a wide variety of customers in minerals processing, iron and steel, aluminum and non-ferrous metals industries. Outotec Oyj is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Helsinki.

Platinum level sponsor and organizer:

Eesti Energia is the leading energy utility in the Baltic States as well as the biggest oil shale utilizing company worldwide, engaged in the production of oil and power, sale and delivery of electricity and heat to consumers. Besides the oil and power plants the company owns oil shale mines and quarries.

Organizers:

Colorado School of Mines is a world-class institution, enhancing its leadership in knowledge creation, education, services and solutions to serve its varied constituencies — individual and corporate, public and private — comprehensively and internationally, and especially in its areas of expertise in engineering and applied science related to Earth, Energy, Materials and Environment.

Tallinn University of Technology, the only university of technology in Estonia, is committed to high level research and development in the broad fields of engineering, technology, science and management. The University aims at enhancing its contribution to Estonia's science policy, based on key international trends and local industry needs and on the social and economic changes in the society. TUT promotes domestic and international scientific cooperation through strengthened contacts with business, business associations, other higher education and research institutions and public sector authorities.

The University of Tartu (UT) is the oldest and largest university of Estonia and one of the best-known in Northern and Eastern Europe.
With its eleven faculties, UT is the only classical university of Estonia. It also includes three specialized research institutions: the Institute of Physics, the Estonian Marine Institute and the Institute of Technology. UT has launched its regional program, in the framework of which it has established a network of six UT colleges located each in a different city. Six high-level centres of excellence internationally renowned in their fields have been set up to pursue single research directions.

Endorsed by:

The World Energy Council (WEC) is the foremost multi-energy organisation in the world today. WEC has Member Committees in nearly 100 countries, including most of the largest energy-producing and energy consuming countries. Established in 1923; the organisation covers all types of energy, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and renewables.