Agenda
Draft Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 10:00 Official Opening
Ivelina Vassileva, Minister of Environment and Water
Lilyana Pavlova, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works
10:00 – 11:00 First Discussion Panel
Moderators: Mariana Iteva,Veolia Industrial Development Director for Central and Eastern Europe
Dobromir Simidchiev, CEO, Hydrolia, Chair of the BoD, FLAG fund and Member of the Board of BWA
Case Studies Demonstrating Successful Change from Various Regions
World Bank: Sustainable transformational models: a global overview and national reform case studies
Speaker - World Bank representative, tbc
Israel: A change process focused on resource efficiency, climate adaptation and overcoming acute scarcity
Mella Shvartz, Director of Sewerage Infrastructures Development Administration, Israeli Governmental Authority for Water and Sewerage
Belgium: Accelerated achievement of environmental compliance
Patrick Swartenbroekx, General Manager, HydroScan
UK: Introduction of competitive principles in a natural-monopoly sector
Jim Southworth, Independent Consultant, Former Executive Director, Sofiyska voda, Member of CIWEM
11:00 – 11:30 – Networking Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Second Discussion Panel
Moderator: Radosslav Russev, Member of the Board of Directors, HYDROLIA
Various Stakeholders – Various Roles
The view of financial institutions: the role of the financiers in a capital-intensive sector that needs long-term predictable cash flows
Roman Matkiwsky, Director Energy and Infrastructure, The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Thessaloniki
Operator’s angle: Water & Sanitation is an operations business and the utility companies are the natural driver (but also subject) of change
Arnaud Valleteau, СЕО, Sofiyska voda
The wider supply chain: opinions of construction companies, providers of services and equipment, etc.
Eng. Ovidiu Bunea, Technical Consultant and supervision, HOBAS
Hristo Hristov, Commercial Director, HTI
Nina Valcheva, Administrative Officer, HTI
Georgi Nalbantov, Analytical Business Research Manager, Deloitte
12:30 – 13:30 Third Panel Debate
Creating the Right Condition for Substantial Change in Bulgaria (environment – regulatory, legal, institutional): Applying the lessons reviewed & an open discussion.
Moderator: Malina Krumova, Head of CCU, EU Structural Funds in Bulgaria
13:30 - 14:30 Networking Lunch
9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 10:00 Official Opening
Ivelina Vassileva, Minister of Environment and Water
Lilyana Pavlova, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works
10:00 – 11:00 First Discussion Panel
Moderators: Mariana Iteva,Veolia Industrial Development Director for Central and Eastern Europe
Dobromir Simidchiev, CEO, Hydrolia, Chair of the BoD, FLAG fund and Member of the Board of BWA
Case Studies Demonstrating Successful Change from Various Regions
World Bank: Sustainable transformational models: a global overview and national reform case studies
Speaker - World Bank representative, tbc
Israel: A change process focused on resource efficiency, climate adaptation and overcoming acute scarcity
Mella Shvartz, Director of Sewerage Infrastructures Development Administration, Israeli Governmental Authority for Water and Sewerage
Belgium: Accelerated achievement of environmental compliance
Patrick Swartenbroekx, General Manager, HydroScan
UK: Introduction of competitive principles in a natural-monopoly sector
Jim Southworth, Independent Consultant, Former Executive Director, Sofiyska voda, Member of CIWEM
11:00 – 11:30 – Networking Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Second Discussion Panel
Moderator: Radosslav Russev, Member of the Board of Directors, HYDROLIA
Various Stakeholders – Various Roles
The view of financial institutions: the role of the financiers in a capital-intensive sector that needs long-term predictable cash flows
Roman Matkiwsky, Director Energy and Infrastructure, The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Thessaloniki
Operator’s angle: Water & Sanitation is an operations business and the utility companies are the natural driver (but also subject) of change
Arnaud Valleteau, СЕО, Sofiyska voda
The wider supply chain: opinions of construction companies, providers of services and equipment, etc.
Eng. Ovidiu Bunea, Technical Consultant and supervision, HOBAS
Hristo Hristov, Commercial Director, HTI
Nina Valcheva, Administrative Officer, HTI
Georgi Nalbantov, Analytical Business Research Manager, Deloitte
12:30 – 13:30 Third Panel Debate
Creating the Right Condition for Substantial Change in Bulgaria (environment – regulatory, legal, institutional): Applying the lessons reviewed & an open discussion.
Moderator: Malina Krumova, Head of CCU, EU Structural Funds in Bulgaria
13:30 - 14:30 Networking Lunch