Monday, 23rd November 2015

18:00

Dinner sessions (upon registration of participants)

Dinner Session I

Energy Union: reviewing the role of ACER and the energy regulatory framework

Chair

Péter Kaderják, Director, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research, Budapest

Speakers

Walter Boltz, Vice-Chair of the Board of Regulators, ACER, and the Executive Director of the E-CONTROL

Commentary

Martina Krčová, Vice-Chairwoman, Energy Regulatory Office, CR
Jozef Holjenčík, Chairman, Regulatory Office for Network Industries, SR
Krisztián Tóth, Director, International Affairs, Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority
Rafał Gawin, Deputy Director of Department of Markets Development and Consumer Issues, Energy Regulatory Office, Poland
Dinner Session II

Energy efficiency in Ukraine, Slovakia and the EU: challenges and opportunities for municipalities          PDFicon

 DS will be held under the auspices of the Energy Cities and SFPA

Chair

Juraj Mesík, Energy and Climate Advisor, Slovak Foreign Policy Association

Speaker

Katarína Mathernová, Deputy Director General, DG NEAR, European Commission
Serhiy Savchuk, Head, State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine, Kyiv
Kristina Dely, Project Manager, Energy Efficiency Watch – Energy Cities,Brussels
Marián Minarovič, Director, CITENERGO, Bratislava

Commentary

Andriy Kyrchiv, Executive Director, Association of Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine, Lviv
Dinner Session III

LNG for Central Europe

DS will be held under the auspices of the Cheniere Energy, Inc.

Chair

Pavol Hamžík, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Speaker

Anita Orbán, Cheniere Energy, Inc.
Ragnar Wisløff, Chief Commercial Officer, Hoegh LNG

Commentary

András Deák, Senior Fellow, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mikhhail Gonchar, President, Centre for Global Studies STRATEGY XXI, Kyiv
Karel Hirman, Member of the Board, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Dinner Session IV

How to strengthen energy security? The role of nuclear power

DS will be held under the auspices of MVM

Chair

Zuzanna Nowak, , Head of the Energy Project, Polish Institute of International Affairs

Speakers

András Cserháti, Senior Expert, Paks NPP
Jozef Zlatňanský, Member of the Board, Slovenské elektrárne, a. s., ENEL

Commentary

Martin Vlachynský, Senior Expert, Institute of Economic and Social Studies
Dinner Session V

Russian state-owned enterprises in natural gas and nuclear sector in Central and Eastern Europe

 DS will be held under the auspices of the International Institute of Political Science, Brno

Chair

Tomáš Kulda, Project Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute

Speakers

Tomáš Vlček, Assistant Professor, Energy Security Studies, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University
Martin Jirušek, Researcher, International Institute of Political Science, and Lecturer, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

Commentary

Jitka Holubcová, Secretary to the Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Andrej Nosko, Program Manager, Open Society Think Tank Fund, Budapest