10 September, 2014
16:00 - 18:30Registration

16:00 - 18:30Exhibition Launch & Drinks Reception sponsored by Candu Energy
18:30 - 21:00Welcome Reception Sponsored by URENCO, Westminster Abbey
 
11 September, 2014
08:00 - 17:00Registration
08:00 - 09:00Breakfast Buffet sponsored by KEPCO
09:00 - 09:30Conference Opening
Agneta Rising, Director General, World Nuclear Association
Jean-Jacques Gautrot, Chairman, World Nuclear Association

09:30 - 10:30Session 1 Marking 60 years of civil nuclear energy
Sir David King, Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
Alexander Lokshin, Chief Operational Officer, Rosatom
Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30Session 2 Challenges for the industry
Marv Fertel, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute

Fuel Cycle Panel: Major threats and opportunities facing fuel cycle companies
Malcolm Critchley, President, Converdyn
Helmut Engelbrecht, CEO, Urenco
Tim Gitzel, President and CEO, Cameco
Philippe Hatron, Deputy CCO / Senior VP Mining & Front-End Sales, Areva
Nurlan D. Kapparov, Chairman of the Management Board , NAC Kazatomprom JSC
Yoichi Maeda, Senior Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation
Lyudmila Zalimskaya, General Director, Tenex

Moderator: Ruthanne Neely, Senior Vice President, Enrichment & General Counsel, Ux Consulting
Moderator: Geoff Varley, Director, Commercial Consulting, NAC
Lunch sponsored by Exelon

13:50 - 14:30Session 3 Energy Policy
Economics and energy policy in South Africa
Phumzile Tshelane, CEO, Necsa
Korea's nuclear energy policy
Yoo Yunbaek, Director General for Nuclear Power Industry Policy, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), Republic of Korea
14:30 - 15:25Session 4 Security of Fuel Supply
Challenges for Security of Supply
Markus Birkhofer, Executive Vice President Fuel Business Unit, Areva
Providing Security of Fuel Supply in a Global Marketplace
Jose E. Gutierrez, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Fuel, Westinghouse Electric Company
Security and Reliability of Fuel Supply
Emily Martin, Senior Vice President, Sourcing, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
Coffee Break

15:50 - 17:30Session 5 Public Acceptance
Public Acceptance invited presentation
Stephen Tindale, Associate Fellow, CER
Fact versus Fiction: Nuclear Safety Communication
Jason Cameron, Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs Branch, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Stakeholder Dialogue
Saida Laârouchi Engström, Vice President, Strategy and Program, SKB
SMRs and Public Acceptance
Thomas Mundy, Executive Vice President, Program Development, NuScale Power
 
12 September, 2014
08:00 - 14:00Registration

08:00 - 09:00Breakfast Buffet
09:00 - 10:30Session 6: Finance and Liability
Financing Nuclear New Build: A Vendor’s Perspective
Jerry Hopwood, Vice President, Marketing and Product Development, Candu
Financing Nuclear Power Projects: Challenges and Approaches
Nadira Barkatullah, Director of Economic Regulation, Regulation and Supervision Bureau
Attracting investors and lenders to the nuclear industry
George Borovas, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Practical issues in coordinating regulatory and project timelines in the current new build market
Vanessa Jakovich, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Can a cost effective higher financial limit of liability be achieved for nuclear operators?
Mark Tetley, Managing Director, Price Forbes & Partners
Coffee Break sponsored by Nuclear Engineering International

11:00 - 12:00Session 7 Radiological Protection
Radiological Protection Panel
Roger Coates, Vice President, IRPA (International Radiation Protection Association)
Malcolm Grimston, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College Centre for Energy Policy and Technology
Willie Harris, Director, Radiation Protection , Exelon Nuclear
Wolfgang Weiss, Representative on the Scientific Committee, UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation)

Moderator: Jack Valentin, Independent Consultant
Lunch

13:30 - 14:40Session 8 Uranium Resources
World Uranium Resources Production and Demand
Adrienne Hanly, Uranium Resource Specialist, International Atomic Energy Agency
Market Metamorphosis
Jeff Combs, President, Ux Consulting
Breaking New Frontiers – Developing a Greenlandic Uranium-Rare Earth Project
Shaun Bunn, Chief Operating Officer, Greenland Minerals & Energy Ltd

Coffee Break sponsored by Nuclear Engineering International

15:00 - 16:20Session 9 High Level Session
Leaders Panel: Key issues for the next 60 years
Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation
Tarik Choho, Chief Commercial Executive Officer, Areva
Mats Ladeborn, Head of Nuclear Development, Vattenfall
Kirill Komarov, Deputy Director General, International Business and Development, Rosatom
Herkko Plit, Deputy Director General, Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy
Danny Roderick, President and CEO, Westinghouse Electric Company
Jay Wileman, Chief Operating Officer, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Moderator: Stephan Solzhenitsyn, Principal, McKinsey & Company CIS LLC
Close of Conference

18:45 - 18:45Coaches depart from Crowne Plaza and Rubens Hotels
19:15 - 23:30Gala Dinner and Dance, "The 60th Anniversary of Nuclear Power", Natural History Museum
Programme subject to change.