2nd Edition (2024) – Program

Energy and Security Resilience: Business Intelligence in Times of Conflict
October 24-25, 2024 | Bucharest, Romania

PROGRAM

DAY 1
24th of October 2024
Part 1 – The Opening
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Location	“Carol I” Central University Library Aula
08:00 – 09:00	Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:30	Opening Remarks Mireille Rădoi (Presentation) & Irena Chiru
09:30 – 10:15	Christian Doonan (Australia), University of Adelaide, Australia Presentation title: Pathways to Sovereign Energy Capability the Advantages of Diversification and Cooperation
10:15 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45	Ditte Juul Jørgensen (European Commission), General Director, Directorate-General for Energy (Video intervention)
10:45 – 11:30	Mariya Trifonova (Bulgaria), Chief Assistant Professor at University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia and Deputy-Director of Net-Zero Lab@FEBA Presentation title: Resilience and Security of the Energy System: Smart Planning of National Infrastructure in the Energy Transition
11:30 – 11:45	Kristian Ruby (Eurelectric), Secretary General Presentation title: Resilience and Competitiveness of EU’s energy system (Video intervention)
11:45 – 12:30	Andrew Paterson (United States of America), Principal at Environmental Business International, and Strategy & Market Intelligence for Allied Nuclear Partners @ IP3 Corporation Presentation title: Public-Private Financing of Strategic Partnerships for Energy Security: the case for Nuclear SMRs

Part 2 – Panel Discussion

Panel 1 – Intelligence
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Location	Aula
Chair	Irena Chiru (Romania)
13:30 – 16:30	Mireille Rădoi, Raluca Ștefan (Romania) – Leveraging the cultural traits in the intelligence practice Răzvan Bologa, Victor Pânzaru (Romania) – Intelligence in the AI Era? George Alexe (Romania)– HERMES Business Intelligence Education Network, President Cosmin Boțoroga (Romania) – Strategic Insights into Intelligence and Energy Security: A Scientometric Study. Jean Langlois Berthelot (France) – Energy Intelligence: A new autonomous Domain for a sustainable future?

Location

Aula

Chair

Irena Chiru (Romania)

13:30 – 16:30

Mireille Rădoi, Raluca Ștefan (Romania) – Leveraging the cultural traits in the intelligence practice
Răzvan Bologa, Victor Pânzaru (Romania) – Intelligence in the AI Era?
George Alexe (Romania)– HERMES Business Intelligence Education Network, President
Cosmin Boțoroga (Romania) – Strategic Insights into Intelligence and Energy Security: A Scientometric Study.
Jean Langlois Berthelot (France) – Energy Intelligence: A new autonomous Domain for a sustainable future?

Panel 2 – Security

Location	King Carol I Saloon
Chair	Narciz Bălășoiu (Romania)
13:30 – 16:30	Olga R. Chiriac (USA), Project Europe Director with The Irregular Warfare Initiative – Statecraft, Energy Diplomacy and Modern Warfare Ștefan Prisacaru (Republic of Moldova) – Russia’s weaponization of natural gas as part of its economic warfare strategy Niklas Swanström (Sweden), Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy – Sino-Russian security cooperation: shallow seas or deep water (Video intervention) Eva Hyna (Albania), Board advisor at ERE (Albanian Energy Regulatory) – Energy security in the western Balkans, Albanian Case

Location

King Carol I Saloon

Chair

Narciz Bălășoiu (Romania)

13:30 – 16:30

Olga R. Chiriac (USA), Project Europe Director with The Irregular Warfare Initiative – Statecraft, Energy Diplomacy and Modern Warfare
Ștefan Prisacaru (Republic of Moldova) – Russia’s weaponization of natural gas as part of its economic warfare strategy
Niklas Swanström (Sweden), Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy – Sino-Russian security cooperation: shallow seas or deep water (Video intervention)
Eva Hyna (Albania), Board advisor at ERE (Albanian Energy Regulatory) – Energy security in the western Balkans, Albanian Case

Location	Council Room
Chair	Mireille Rădoi (Romania)
13:30 – 16:30	Romania – Australia. Future Energy Systems (Online meeting). – Michael Goodsite (Australia), Radu Safta (Romania) & Corneliu Bodea (Romania) Sandra Cassotta (Denmark), Associate Professor, Dr., Aalborg University – A just-Sustainable Deep Seabed Mining in the Anthropocene: The Case of Arctic Mia Landauer (Finland), Senior Researcher, Project Coordinator, Dr., Arctic Centre University of Lapland – Participatory governance to improve resilience and implement just and green energy transition Violeta Dincă, Anca Bogdan, Madlena Nen, Iulian Ion, Bucharest University of Economic Studies – Concerns on energy security: a comparative study on Romania vs other European countries Dan Gabriel Dumitrescu, Marinela-Luminita Emanuela Zlatea, Alexandra-Lavinia Horobet, Bucharest University of Economic Studies – From green deal to industrial stage: Green hydrogen as a vector for EU energy security

Location

Council Room

Chair

Mireille Rădoi (Romania)

13:30 – 16:30

Romania – Australia. Future Energy Systems (Online meeting). – Michael Goodsite (Australia), Radu Safta (Romania) & Corneliu Bodea (Romania)
Sandra Cassotta (Denmark), Associate Professor, Dr., Aalborg University – A just-Sustainable Deep Seabed Mining in the Anthropocene: The Case of Arctic
Mia Landauer (Finland), Senior Researcher, Project Coordinator, Dr., Arctic Centre University of Lapland – Participatory governance to improve resilience and implement just and green energy transition
Violeta Dincă, Anca Bogdan, Madlena Nen, Iulian Ion, Bucharest University of Economic Studies – Concerns on energy security: a comparative study on Romania vs other European countries
Dan Gabriel Dumitrescu, Marinela-Luminita Emanuela Zlatea, Alexandra-Lavinia Horobet, Bucharest University of Economic Studies – From green deal to industrial stage: Green hydrogen as a vector for EU energy security

Part 3 – Hybrid Times

Location	Aula
16:45 – 17:30	Bernard Siman O.B.E. (Belgium), Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Head of Financial Diplomacy & FinTech at the Brussels Diplomatic Academy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Presentation title: Micro Level Hybrid Threats: Financial Influence Operations

Part 4 – Closing Remarks

Location	Aula
17:30 – 17:40	Conference President
17:40 – 18:00	Conclusions

Gala Dinner

Location	Restaurant Ciao Nikki
19:00 – 23:00	Gala Dinner

DAY 2
25th of October 2024

Location	Parliament of Romania – Dimitrie Cantemir Room
10:00 – 10:30	Access procedures
10:30 – 10:45	Introductory Remarks – Mireille Rădoi (Romania)
10:45 – 11:45	George-Sergiu Niculescu (Romania) President of The National Authority for Energy Regulations
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch at Hanul Berarilor – Casa Oprea Soare

Location	Romanian Energy Center Association 2 Mircea Eliade St., 1st District of Bucharest
17:00 – 17:30	Welcome Coffee
17:30 – 18:30	Romanian Energy Center Association – Frank Hajdinjak (Germany) – Vice-President Presentation title: Romania’s role in the South-East European energy security. Threats and opportunities
18:30 – 20:00	Closing Remarks and Networking Dinner Location: Romanian Energy Center Association Headquarters