Organisers Main partner Partner Main Sponsor 20 November 2014 Conference Centre of the hotel Vilnius Grand Hotel Highway A2, 19 km, Vilnius BALTIC ENERGY FORUM 2014 Freedom for the market! The event is moderated by: Rytas Staselis, Reviewer at UAB “Verslo Žinios” Vilius Bernatonis, Partner at Law Firm TARK GRUNTE SUTKIENE Time Topic Speaker 8:30 – 9:00 Registration of participants 9:00 – 9:10 10 min. Opening speech. Goals of the conference 9:10 – 9:20 10 min. Welcoming word of President President will be represented by Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, Chief Adviser to the President 9:20 – 9:30 10 min. Welcoming word of Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania (TBC) 09:30 – 09:55 25 min. Overview of the global energy sector Alessandro Blasi, Senior Energy Analyst at Directorate of Global Energy Economics, International Energy Agency (France) 09:55 – 10:20 25 min. Presentation of LNG terminal in Klaipėda Mantas Bartuška, CEO at AB “Klaipėdos nafta” 10:20 – 10:40 20 min. LNG terminal in Klaipėda and the Latvian energy sector: possibilities and needs Juris Ozolins, Energy expert (Latvia) 10:40 – 11:00 20 min. LNG terminal in Klaipėda and the Estonian energy sector: possibilities and needs TBC 11:00 – 11:10 Time for questions 11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 12:00 30 min. Global energy tendencies in the electricity sector Hans ten Berge, Secretary General of Eurelectric (Belgium) 12:00 – 12:25 25 min. Global and regional tendencies in the gas sector William Powell, Editor of International Gas Report at Platts McGraw Hill Financial (UK) 12:25 – 12:50 25 min. Baltic energy market: perspectives and the most important decisions Dr. Dalius Misiūnas, Chairman of the Board and CEO of “Lietuvos energija”, UAB 12:50 – 13:15 25 min. Financing energy projects in the Baltic States: priorities and business possibilities Catharina Sikow-Magny, European Commission DG ENER B.1 Head of Unit (Belgium) 13:15 – 13:25 Time for questions 13:25 – 14:25 LUNCH, participants choose panels Rolandas Barysas, Editor-in-chief of Verslo Žinios Vilius Bernatonis, Partner of law firm Tark Grunte Sutkiene STRATEGIC PART SOLEMN PRESENTATION OF THE LNG TERMINAL IN KLAIPĖDA PARALLEL SESSION I ELECTRICITY Moderator: Rytas Staselis, Reviewer at UAB “Verslo Žinios” 14:25 – 14:50 25 min. Possibility of diversification in the electricity market. Sweden and Poland – what kind of markets will open in 2016 Presentation of the research specially prepared for the Baltic Energy Forum 2014 Daivis Virbickas, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of AB Litgrid 14:50 – 15:15 25 min. Trading in electricity with Russia: the Finnish experience Satu Viljainen, Professor D.Sc. (Tech.), Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering (Finland) 15:15 – 15:40 25 min. Electricity prices in the short-term: what producers and consumers should expect Artur Sikora, Head of Polish Desk, Alpiq Energy SE (Poland) 15:40 – 16:20 40 min. DISCUSSION: Electricity prices: for producers, manufacturers, state Daivis Virbickas, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of AB Litgrid Dr. Dalius Misiūnas, Chairman of the Board and CEO of “Lietuvos energija”, UAB Representative of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (TBC) Simon-Erik Ollus, Chief Economist, Fortum Corporation 16:20 – 16:30 Time for questions 16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break, participants return to the common meeting hall PARALLEL SESSION II GAS Moderator: Vilius Bernatonis, Partner at Law Firm TARK GRUNTE SUTKIENE (CONFIRMED) 14:25 – 14:50 25 min. LNG: challenges towards the new era of possibilities Dominykas Tučkus, General Manager of UAB LitGas 14:50 – 15:15 25 min. Market Dynamics in LNG Geir Heitmann Vice President, LNG at Statoil ASA (CONFIRMED) 15:15 – 15:40 25 min. United gas market: utopia or important step towards the free gas market TBC 15:40 – 16:20 40 min. DISCUSSION: Future of gas in the Baltic States: a resource for industry or a possibility for new business? Dominykas Tučkus, General Manager of UAB LitGas Geir Heitmann Vice President, LNG at Statoil ASA Haroldas Nausėda, General Manager of UAB GET Baltic Kasparas Jurgelionis, Member of the Board, Concern Achema Group 16:20 – 16:30 Time for questions 16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break, participants return to the common meeting hall 16:50 – 17:30 40 min. Final discussion 17:30 – 18:00 Discussing the conferences with a glass of wine CLOSING SPEECH TBC