9:00 – 9:30 Registration and coffee
 
9:30 – 10:00 Official opening
Lilyana Pavlova, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works
Ivelina Vassileva, Minister of Environment and Water
 
10:00 – 11:00 First Discussion Panel
Investment needs and financial sources in the water sector
What does financial engineering mean
 
Topics and speakers

Investment needs
Michael Rouse CBE, Independent International Consultant on Water Industry

The 3 Ts theory in the European context
Dobromir Simidchiev, Chair of the Board of Directors, FLAG

Financial Sources. How the way of financing affects the contractor
Iliya Kardashliev, Principal Banker, Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure, EBRD Bulgaria, MIDF, Western Balkans Fund

Moderator: Dobromir Simidchiev, Chair of the Board of Directors, FLAG

11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
 
11:30 – 12:30 Second discussion panel
Specific mechanisms for financing in the water sector
What stands behind the concept of different financing instruments
 
Topics and speakers:

Donors, pre-accession and accession instruments
Ivaylo Kolev, Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, The World Bank

Public financing – central, regional, municipal budgets
Peter Kokinov, Capital Delivery Manager, Veolia Water, National Water Company, Riyadh

Water operators - the desired investor
Radoslav Zlatkov, Network Operations Manager, Northumbrian Water, UK
 
Moderator: Malina Krоumova, Director EU Funds Management Systems Directorate, Council of Ministers, Bulgaria
 
12:30 – 13:30 Third discussion panel
Successful cases for financial models
 
Speakers:
Private capital – independent or complementary source
Nadia Dankinova, Executive Director, FLAG

Tsvetan Eliseev, Manager, Deal Advisory, KPMG Bulgaria
Mariana Iteva, Executive Manager, Veolia Bulgaria
Dimitar Ivanov, Managing Partner, Wato
Veselin Zahariev, Partner, Mane Capital
 
Moderator: Radoslav Russev, Advisor to the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works
 
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch and networking meetings