Baltic Sea Region Forum 2022
"The European Green Deal and the Baltic Sea Region"
16 June 2022
Turku School of Economics
All times EEST
11:00 - 12:00 | Registration | |
12:00 - 12:15 | OpeningKari Liuhto, Director, Centrum Balticum Foundation Minna Arve, Mayor, City of Turku | |
12:15 - 12:35 | Keynote SpeechVille Niinistö, Member of European Parliament | |
12:35 - 14:00 | Panel I: Green Deal and CompetitivenessChair: Petri Vuorio, Director, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Policy and EU Affairs, Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, Finland Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy, European Commission (a recorded speech) Panelists:Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, Head of the Power Project, Forum Energii, Poland Veijo Hyvönen, Editorial Editor, Turun Sanomat, Finland Peeter Kadarik, Deputy Head of Commissioner Kadri Simson’s Cabinet, European Commission Audrius Masiulionis, Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, Helsinki, Finland Timo Tatar, Deputy Secretary General for Energy and Mineral Resources, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Networking break & refreshments | |
14:30 - 15:50 | Panel II: Energy revolution ahead: What does it mean for us?Chair: Tuomo Uotila, Professor, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology Panelists:Jarno Hartikainen, Journalist, Helsingin Sanomat, Finland Harri Laurikka, Managing Director, The Bioenergy Association of Finland Antti Pohjoranta, Head of Technology, Neste, Finland Taavi Veskimägi, Managing Director, Elering, Estonia | |
15:50 - 16:20 | Networking break & refreshments | |
16:20 - 17:40 | Panel III: Natural gas in the Baltic Sea RegionChair: Dariusz Zarzecki, Professor, University of Szczecin, PolandPanelists: Jakub M. Godzimirski, Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, Norway Hanna Mäkinen, Senior Researcher, Pan-European Institute, University of Turku, Finland Jukka Relander, Editor-in-Chief, Energiauutiset, Finland Thomas Michael Sattich, Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Department of Media and Social Science, Norway Jurgita Šilinskaitė-Venslovienė, Head of LNG Commerce, Klaipeda LNG, Lithuania | |
17:40 - 18:00 | Closing speechSirpa Pietikäinen, Member of European Parliament | |
18:30 - 20:00 | Reception at Turku City Hall, Aurakatu 2, Turku |
Baltic Sea Forum 2022 programme