Tuesday, May 16

08:30 Welcoming Remarks

• Mr. Robert Archer, Deputy Chief, Energy & Infrastructure, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development

Plenary Session III: Role of the Regulator in Security of Supply

08:35 Moderator: Sir John Mogg, President, Council of European Energy Regulators (confirmed)

08:40 The European Commission’s Green Paper on Energy Policy: “A European Strategy for Sustainable, Secure and Competitive Energy”

• Mr. Jean-Claude Schwartz, Administrator, Energy Policy and Security of Supply Unit, DG TREN, European Commission

09:00 Gas Security of Supply in Europe

• Mr. Yevgeniy Zayashnikov, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on natural gas complexes of Duma of Russian Federation, Member of Observer Council of Russian Natural Gas Association

09:20 Impacts of Gas Market Opening on Security of Supply

• Ms. Margot Loudon, Deputy Secretary General, Eurogas (confirmed)

09:40 Electricity Market from Lisbon to Vladivostok

• Mr. Sergey Kuzmin, Director for Integration, System Operator, Unified Energy System, Russia (confirmed)

10:30 Coffee break - Sponsored by ENEL

10:50 Panel Responses:

• Vidmantas Jankauskas, Chairman, National Control Commission for Energy and Prices, Lithuania (confirmed) 
• Security of Supply in North America from the Perspective of the New Energy Bill Mr. Robert Clayton, Commissioner, Missouri Public Service Commission, USA
• Role of Agency for Energy Forecasting in the Restructured Electric Power Sector of Russia - Mr. I. S. Kozhuhovski, Agency for Energy Forecasting, RAO UES Russia (confirmed)
• Role Regulators Have Taken Today and Technology Used to Assist in Success -Mr. Ben Boyd, Regulatory Affairs, Director, ITRON Inc.

12:00 Q & A with Audience

12:30 Lunch - Sponsored by ITRON Inc.

Plenary Session IV: Regional Electricity Market: Issues & Directions

14:00 Moderator: Dr. Konstantin Petrov, Senior Consultant, KEMA Consulting (confirmed)

14:10 Roadmap Towards a Pan-European Market

• Ms. Asta Sihvonen-Punkka, Chair, Electricity Working Group, CEER (confirmed)

14:30 Roadmap Towards a Pan-European Market

• Mr. Gunnar Lundberg, Eurelectric (Vice President, Wattenfal AB) (confirmed)

14:50 Energy Community Treaty - a New Framework Towards the Regional Energy Market in South and Eastern Europe

• Mr. Slavtcho Neykov, Director, interim Energy Community Secretariat for South East Europe

15:00 Congestion Management

• Mr. Peter Simig, Deputy Director of Market Operation at MAVIR Rt. Member of the Network Access and Congestion Management Task Force of the Association of the European Transmission Operators (ETSO)

15:30 Coffee break - Sponsored by KEMA

15:45 Panel Responses

• Mr. Damjan Stanek, President, EuroPEX (confirmed)
• Mr. Tomaz Stokelj, European Federation of Energy Traders
• Mr. Nikolai Minkov, Electricity Eligible Consumer's Group, Bulgaria (confirmed)

17:00 Conference Concluding Remarks

17:30 Conference Concludes