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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

   

11:00 - 12:00

 

Registration
   

12:00 - 12:15

 
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
   

12:15 - 12:35

 
Keynote Speech
Ville Niinistö, Member of European Parliament
   

12:35 - 14:00


Panel I: Green Deal and Competitiveness

Chair: 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 Region
Chair: Dariusz Zarzecki, Professor, University of Szczecin, Poland

Panelists:
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 speech
Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of European Parliament 
   

18:30 - 20:00

 
Reception at Turku City Hall, Aurakatu 2, Turku


Baltic Sea Forum 2022 programme