Friday, September 7, 2018
12:00-12:30 Welcome Coffee | Registration
12:30-13:00 INTRODUCTION & WELCOME REMARKS
- Elias Spirtounias, Executive Director, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
- Simos Anastasopoulos, President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
- Kostas Andriosopoulos, Professor of Finance and Energy Economics, ESCP Europe Business School; Chairman, Hellenic Association for Energy Economics
- Ellen Scholl, Deputy Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
13:00-13:30 THE US PERSPECTIVE
Geoffrey R. Pyatt, Ambassador of the United States of America to the Hellenic Republic
Guest of Honor & Keynote Speaker: Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
13:30-13:45 TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE'S ENERGY MARKET
Emmanuel Panagiotakis, Chairman & CEO, Public Power Corporation S.A.
13:45-14:00 FINANCING THE ENERGY SOURCES OF GREECE
Pavlos Mylonas, CEO, National Bank of Greece
14:00-15:00 THE FUTURE OF NATURAL GAS IN SE EUROPE | INTERCONNECTIONS, TERMINALS & LNG
- Dimitris Tzortzis, CEO, DEPA
- Ioannis Kopanakis, Chief Corporate Development Officer, PPC
- Ioannis Arapoglou, Chairman, GASTRADE
- Nicola Battilana, Managing Director, TAG GmbH
- Katerina Papalexandri, Country Manager, Greece, Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG
Moderator: Kostas Andriosopoulos, Prof. of Finance & Energy Economics, ESCP Europe Business School; Chairman, Hellenic Association for Energy Economics
15:00-16:00 THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF OIL INDUSTRY IN SHAPING SE EUROPE’S ECONOMIES
- Tristan Aspray, Vice President Europe/ Russia/ Caspian, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
- Yannis Grigoriou, CEO, Hellenic Petroleum Upstream S.A.
- Dimitris Gontikas, Vice President and CEO of Energean Oil & Gas
Moderator & Speaker: Yannis Bassias, President, Hellenic Hydrocarbons Resources Management
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-16:45 THE EU PERSPECTIVE
Dominique Ristori, Director-General for Energy, European Commission*
16:45-17:00 REGIONAL ENERGY MARKETS & FINANCING TOOLS
- Athanassios Savvakis, Chairman, Hellenic Energy Exchange
- Anthony Bartzokas, Alternate Board Director, EBRD
Moderator: Socrates Lazaridis, CEO, Athens Exchange Group
17:00-18:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES - GEOSTRATEGIC & GEOPOLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING ENERGY IN SE EUROPE | THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING AN ENERGY MASTER PLAN FOR THE REGION
- George Stathakis, Minister of Environment & Energy of the Hellenic Republic
- Temenuzhka Petkova, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria
- Aleksandar Antic, Minister of Mining and Energy of the Republic of Serbia
- Yuval Steinitz, Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources of the State of Israel
- Anton Anton, Minister of Energy, Romania*
Moderator: Ellen Scholl, Deputy Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
18:00-19:00 RENEWABLE ENERGY STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & SMART GRIDS
- Socrates Konstantinidis, Managing Director, Renewable Energy Sources Dept., Copelouzos Group
- Ilias Monacholias, Chief Executive Officer, PPC Renewables S.A.
- Dr.-Ing. George Pechlivanoglou, Chief Technical Officer, Eunice Wind
Moderator: David Livingston, Deputy Director, Climate & Advanced Energy, Atlantic Council
19:00 END OF FORUM | NETWORKING RECEPTION
*Awaiting Confirmation