PROGRAMME
2023 EFCA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DELIVERING CLIMATE RESILIENCE
How the European green deal, digitalisation and harmonised standards present opportunities for engineering consultancies
31 May 2023, 09:00 – 17:30
Rome, Hotel NH Collection Roma centro – Via dei Gracchi 324
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Registration of participants – Welcome coffee and breakfast |
PLENARY SESSION (Language: English) 10:30 – 11:30 |
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| Moderator: Luca MORICONI, TG2 RAI | |
Musical Performance – Flute & Harp classical duet and EU Anthem |
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| Calogero GIALLANZA (Flute), Adalgisa TURRISI (Harp) | |
Opening remarks |
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| 10.30 | Giorgio LUPOI, OICE President |
| 10.40 | Benoît CLOCHERET, EFCA President |
| 10.50 | Antonio TAJANI, Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic (tbc) |
| 11.05 | Tullio FERRANTE, Undersecretary of State for Infrastructures and Sustainable Mobility |
| 11.20 | Elena GRECH, Vice-Director of the European Commission Representation in Italy |
11:35 – 12:00: Press Conference by President Lupoi and President Clocheret |
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| Accredited journalists only |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Coffee break and networking |
PANEL 1 (12:00 – 13:00)
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| Moderator: Alfredo INGLETTI, OICE | |
Keynote opening messages |
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| Anna JAROSZ-FRIIS, DG NEAR, Acting Director (Directorate E – Ukraine Service) | |
| Oleksandr KUBRAKOV, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine – Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine |
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Panel discussions |
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| Future Reconstruction of Ukraine: policies, standards, financial conditions, legal framework Nicolas CHOMEL, Chair of the EFCA Ukraine Support Group |
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| EU-funded actions to support Ukraine Gabriel BLANC, DG NEAR, Team Leader for Reconstruction (Directorate E1 – Ukraine Service) |
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| Ukraine: current situation and perspectives from ICEG, Interstate Consulting Engineers Guild Bakhtier KHODJAEV, ICEG Vice-President |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break and CEO lunch |
PANEL 2 (14:30 – 15:30)
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| Moderator: Roberto CARPANETO, Vice-President and EFCA Board MemberOICE | |
| The role of BIM in procurement and procedures Milena FEUSTEL, Co-Chair of the EU BIM Task Group |
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| Engineering: BIM standards and Eurocodes Stefano CASULA, Head of Data Federated Projects, Technology, Innovation and Digital Spoke Dept Italferr |
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| The role of AI in climate resilience solutions Ziga TURK, University of Ljubljana, Former Minister of Slovenia |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break and networking |
PANEL 3 (16:00 – 17:00)
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| Moderator: Stefano SUSANI, OICE | |
| Engineering responses to climate change Melike ERSOY AKYOL, Yapı Merkezi |
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| Key findings of EFCA Future Trends Report 2022 Jeffrey SEECK, Chair of the EFCA Future Trends Committee |
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| How EFCA can support consulting engineers by linking policy and industry solutions Inés FERGUSON VAZQUEZ DE PARGA, EFCA President-Elect |
Closing remarks |
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| 17.00 | Benoît CLOCHERET, EFCA President |
| 17.15 | Giorgio LUPOI, OICE President |