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Programme

Find the programme of the 14th Baltic Sea Region Forum with confirmed speakers below. The organizer is not responsible for possible changes in the programme.


Baltic Sea Region Forum 2022
"The European Green Deal and the Baltic Sea Region"

16 June 2022    •   Turku School of Economics   


All times EEST


  

12:00 - 12:20

 

Opening

Kari Liuhto, Director, Centrum Balticum Foundation

Minna Arve, Mayor, City of Turku
Chair, Board of Directors, Centrum Balticum Foundation

Markus Granlund, Dean, Turku School of Economics

12:20 - 12:40

 

Keynote Speech

Ville Niinistö, Member of European Parliament

12:40 - 14:10


Panel I: Green Deal and Competitiveness

Chair: Taneli Lahti, Head of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen’s Cabinet,
European Commission

Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy, European Commission (a recorded speech)

Panelists:
Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk
, Head of the Power Project,
Forum Energii, Poland
Eric-Mark Huitema
, Director General,
European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, Belgium
Veijo Hyvönen
, Editorial Editor, Turun Sanomat, Finland
Peeter Kadarik, Deputy Head of Commissioner Kadri Simson’s Cabinet,
European Commission
Jovita Neliupšienė
, Vice Minister of the Economy and Innovation,
Lithuania
Timo Tatar, Deputy Secretary General for Energy and Mineral Resources,
Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
Petri Vuorio
, Director, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Policy and EU Affairs,
Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, Finland

14:10 - 14:30

 

Networking break & refreshments

14:30 - 15:50

 

Panel II: Energy revolution ahead: What does it mean for us?

Chair: Leonid Grigoryev, Professor,
National Research University Higher School of  Economics, Russia

Panelists:
Jarno Hartikainen
, Journalist, Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
Harri Laurikka
, Managing Director, The Bioenergy Association of Finland
Jukka Leskelä
, Managing Director, Finnish Energy, Finland
Lars-Peter Lindfors, Senior Vice President, Neste, Finland
Olivier Machet, Senior Vice President Hydrogen Development,
Engie Hydrogen
Taavi Veskimägi, Managing Director, Elering, Estonia
Kirsten Westphal, Co-CEO, H2 Global, Germany

 
  
15:50 - 16:20
  Break

16:20 - 17:40

 Panel III: Natural gas in the Baltic Sea region

Chair: Dariusz Zarzercki, Professor, University of Szczecin, Poland

Panelists:
Jakub M. Godzimirski
, Research Professor,
Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Mykhailo Gonchar
, President, CGS Strategy XXI, Ukraine
Anna Mikulska
, Nonresident Fellow in Energy Studies,
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, USA
Hanna Mäkinen
, Senior Researcher, Pan-European Institute,
University of Turku, Finland
Jukka Relander
, Editor-in-Chief, Energiauutiset, Finland
Jurgita Šilinskaitė-Venslovienė
, Head of LNG Commerce,
Klaipeda LNG, Lithuania
Katja Yafimava, Senior Research Fellow,
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK

   
17:40 - 18:00
  Closing speech

Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of European Parliament 
   
18:00 - 20:00
  Reception


Baltic Sea Region Forum 2022 Programme (pdf)