Blue Economy Forum 2024 - PROGRAMME

 

08:30 Arrival and registration
   
09:00 Opening address of the host
  Giacomo Ricciotti, Director, Italian Trade Agency in Ljubljana, Slovenia
   
09:10

Welcome address

  H.E. Giuseppe Cavagna, Ambassador of Italy to Slovenia
   
09:20 Welcome address
 

Lidija Kegljevič Zagorc, State Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia

   

Challenges of the climate change and biodiversity loss in the area of North Adriatic

09:30

Increasing sea level, mitigation measures and water management

 

Keynote lecture 1

Primož Banovec, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (PDF)

Q&A
   
10:00 Water management, disaster prevention and mitigation measures
 

Keynote lecture 2

Michele Greco, Department of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Italy (PDF)

Q&A

   
10:30

Coffee Break

   
10:45 Challenges in rebuilding the infrastructure for the adaptation to mitigate climate change
 

Beatrice Majone, Board Member, OICE - Italian engineering, architectural and technical economic consulting organizations

Q&A
   
11:15 Panel 1: Water, coastal management and infrastructure
 

Enrico Altran, Head of Program Management AcegasApsAmga S.p.A., Italy (PDF)                         

Marco Politi, SeniorVicePresident Sales & Marketing, DBA GROUP S.p.A., Italy

Stefano Ripari, Civil Engineer & Partner of Politecnica Ingegneria e Architettura, Italy (PDF)

Davide Russo, CEO - Technical Director, Idrostudi S.r.l., Italy

Diego Santaliana, Polo Tecnologico Alto Adriatico - Upper Adriatic Technology Park, Italy

Moderator: Michele Greco, Department of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Italy
   

Best practices: flooding disasters and prevention

12:15 Flooding disasters: The case of Emilia-Romagna
 

Armando Brath, University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, Italy

Q&A

   
12:45 Flooding disasters: the case of Slovenia
 

Ervin Vivoda, Head of Division, Natural Disasters Reduction Division, Water Directorate, Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia

Q&A

   
13:15 Buffet Lunch
   
14:15 National and international port infrastructure, shipping, and logistics dynamics
 

Luigi Fuzio, CEO Intesa SanPaolo Bank Slovenia

Massimo Deandreis, General Manager, SRM Research Center for Economic Studies, IntesaSanpaolo Group

Alessandro Panaro, Head of Maritime & Energy Dept., SRM Research Center for Economic Studies, IntesaSanpaolo Group

Q&A

   
15:00 Panel 2: Biodiversity loss prevention and mitigation
 

Vinko Bandelj, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Italy (PDF)

Hana Hanžek-Turnšek, YouSea Institute, Institute for Conservation of Marine Biodiversity, Slovenia (PDF)

Tina Kosjek, Environmental Sciences Dept Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia (PDF)

Jerneja Penca, Science and Research Centre Koper, Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, Slovenia

Moderator: Jurij Giacomelli, President, Italian-Slovenian Forum, Slovenia

   
16.00 Conclusions of the conference
   
16.10 Business Networking session for participating companies
   
16.30 End of the programme

 

Working language: English (no translation services provided)