Today the 7th annual ASPO conference in Barcelona, Spain began (conference home page) and this year’s theme is “Peak Oil: from below ground to above ground.” Catalonia’s minister for innovation, Josep Huguet, gave the opening speech and he discussed the importance of innovation for the future.
As president of ASPO, I spoke of the organization’s development from the first conference in Uppsala in 2002 (when ASPO was 20 people from around Europe) until today where we are an international organization with divisions in 25 nations. Many more countries now plan to organize to become members of ASPO International. A detailed review of the conference will be available from the ASPO Spain page.