• Tamara Zejak, Senior Lawyer, Petrikić & Partneri AOD in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
• Marija Filipovska Jelčić , Partner, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz DOOEL
• Dunja Jandl, Partner, CMS Slovenia
• Georg Gutfleisch, Lawyer, CMS Austria

In the last few years, the region has achieved significant results in the production of electricity from renewable sources. However, investments in green kilowatts remain modest compared to global trends. Records are broken by Greece and Turkey, while the Western Balkan countries still need help with problems such as obtaining permits, equipment procurement, incomplete regulation, unclear market entry and balancing models, and an increased appetite for financing. What should the region’s countries and all participants in the supply chain do for investors to deliver more green energy to the grid? The main trends in renewable energy sources and the best practices will be discussed by leading experts on a panel that always attracts great interest.

Moderator: Petar Mitrović, Partner, Karanović & Partner

Panellists:

▪  Neda Lazendić, Country Manager, WV-International Emergy
▪  Miloš Mladenović, CEO, SEEPEX
▪  Maja Turković, Executive Vice President, CWP Europe
▪  Chad Canfield, Director of Project Finance, GGF & Finance in motion 
▪  John Šuša, Head of Large – Scale Project Development Eastern Europe, Trina Solar
▪  Viktor Delov, Regional Relationship Manager, Cross Border Power Trading, Danske Commodities

Decarbonization is an obligation of all of us. The global race to net zero carbon emissions requires that not just the energy sector, but other industries as well, including energy-intensive industries, and the commercial sector, shoulder the burden and include a path to net zero in their environmental, social and governance (ESG) plans.

How to solve the sustainability equation? How to design green operations, products, or services? How to reduce environmental impact, increase competitiveness and improve financial performance? – are some of the questions. The panel will feature concrete examples of how companies transform internally to more powerfully and decisively contribute to global climate action endeavours.

Moderator: Danko Kalkan, Manager, ESG Advisory Services, EY

Panellists:

• Dimitrije Knjeginjić, Director, Lafarge Serbia
• David Huber, Managing Director, Interenergo
• Dejan Turk, CEO, A1 Serbia & A1 Slovenia
• Svetlana Cerović, Head of Financing, Specialized Lending Corporate & Investment Banking Division, UniCredit Bank
• Simon Franko, Managing Director, BASF Adriatic

For transformation into a modern, carbon-neutral energy system in parallel with providing security of supply, the region needs to develop and modernize its energy infrastructure, rapidly deploy green and innovative technologies such as renewables, hydrogen, battery storage, reversible hydropower plants, carbon capture and storage, waste to energy, conventional and small-scale nuclear facilities, and secure financing.

Moderator: Branko Milićević, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECE

Panelists:

• Vugar Veysalov, Head of External Affairs & SEI, Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG
• Dr. Wasim Sarwar Dilov, Director, Rimac Technology
• Aleksandar Kragović, Director of Directorate for Investments, EMS
• Mona Ben Salem, General Secretary & Dep. COO Central Europe (Assets), AKUO Energy
• Pavle Milekić,  Principal Banker, Energy EMEA team, EBRD
• Petar Šainović, Managing Director Siemens Energy d.o.o. Beograd

The energy system of Southeast Europe is rapidly moving away from centralized production and consumption towards a decentralized system. With an increasing number of renewable energy power plants, prosumers, electric vehicles and electricity storage systems, the need to integrate these sources into the system is growing, which will ensure system balancing and improve its reliability in real-time.

Find out how digitalization and platforms for improving flexibility (aggregators, virtual power plants) can help the optimization of new distributed energy sources, integration of new green power plants, and improvement of efficiency of the energy system, as well as its decarbonization.

Moderator: Elena Boškov Kovač, Managing Director, Blueprint Energy Solutions GmbH, Chair of European Commission ETIP SNET Working Group Digitalization of the electricity system and customer participation

Panellists:

• Robert Szabó, Director of Smart PV Solutions of Huawei Serbia & Hungary Digital Power Business Dept.
• Norela Constantinescu, Head of Innovations, ENTSO-E
• Marko Lasić, CEO, KOER
• Marko Janković, Head of Electricity Market Department, CWP Global
• Jurij Curk, Consultant to the Management, Elektro Ljubljana
• Professor Nikola Rajaković, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade