Programme - nucleareurope Events

Powering a Competitive EU

#Nucleareurope2025

4 – 5 June 2025 – Brussels, Belgium

Conference Language: English

The Conference and the High Level dinner will be held at The Mix, Boulevard du Souverain 25, 1170 Brussels

Draft conference programme 4 June 2025

14.00 – 14.30

Registration

14.30 – 16.00

High level Opening Session

Xavier Ursat – President, nucleareurope
Wojciech Wrochna – Secretary of State, Ministry of Industry, Poland
Christophe Grudler – Member of the European Parliament

16.00 – 16.30

Networking break

16.30 – 18.00

Panel 1: Energy Sovereignty & affordability

One of the key issues affecting the competitiveness of European industries is 24/7 access to affordable energy. This panel will therefore focus on:

What the needs are
How homegrown energy sources can support European energy sovereignty and affordability
The policies which will help support all of this.

Panellists:

Hugues Hinterlang – Head of EU Public Affairs, Orano
Małgosia Rybak – Climate Change & Energy Director, Confederation of European Paper Industries
George Christidis – Acting President & CEO, Canadian Nuclear Association
Lauri Hirvonen – Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of Finland to the European Union (tbc)
Fabrice Le Saché – Vice President in charge of Europe, Mouvement des Entreprises de France (tbc)

Break

19.00 – 22.00

Cocktail & Networking Dinner

Emmanuel Brutin – Director General, nucleareurope
Tsvetelina Penkova – Member of the European Parliament
Ebba Busch – Deputy Prime Minister, Sweden (invited)

5 June 2025

08.30 – 09.00

Registration

09.00 – 09.15

Keynote: Frédéric Lelièvre – Senior Executive Vice President, Sales, Regional Platforms and Instrumentation and Control Business Unit, Framatome

09.15 – 11.00

Three Breakout sessions dedicated to Innovation & Technological leadership

Breakout session

Building a European supply chain for Advanced Modular Reactors

Sponsored by newcleo

This session will focus on the supply chain needed for the rapid deployment of AMRs, including the fuel cycle. It will look at how to scale up manufacturing in Europe in particular.

Speakers

Elisabeth Rizzotti – COO & Managing Director, newcleo
Joanna Drake – Deputy Director General, Planet, People and Science for Policy, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Gianfranco Brunetti – Head of Unit, Nuclear energy, nuclear waste and decommissioning, DG Energy, European Commission
William D. Magwood IV – Director General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (invited)
Olivier Guersent – Director General, DG Competition, European Commission (invited)

Breakout session

Digitalisation for nuclear, with nuclear

Sponsored by CAELUS

This session will focus on how digital tools, such as Artificial Intelligence, can help the nuclear industry speed up its processes, for example the licencing of new facilities. Furthermore, it will also touch upon how the increase in digitalisation will trigger demand for net zero electricity.

Breakout session

Breakout session 3

TBC

11.00 – 11.30

Networking break

11.30 – 13.00

Panel 2: Reaching NetZero

Decarbonising Europe’s economy remains a key priority. However, this must go hand in hand with an understanding of how industry operates. This session will therefore focus on:

The challenges which energy intensive sectors face on the road to Net Zero.
Identifying solutions to incentivise the deployment of sufficient clean energy sources to meet growing demand.
Implementing policies which will help reach Net Zero whilst maintaining an industrial base in Europe.

Panellists:

Audrey Goulven Priori – Infrastructure and Clean Energy Director, Dassault Systèmes
Peter Claes – President, IFIEC Europe & Managing Director, Febeliec
Sandrine Devos – Head of Public Affairs, European Industrial Gases Association
Alexandre Paquot – Director, Innovation for a Low Carbon, Resilient Economy, DG Climate Action, European Commission (invited)
William Todts – Executive Director Brussels (EU), Transport & Environment (invited)

13.00 – 14.00

Networking Lunch

14.00 – 14.15

Keynote: Bridget Sparrow – Chief Operating Officer, Urenco

14.15 – 14.45

Feedback breakout sessions

14.45 – 15.15

Networking break

15.15 – 16.45

Panel 3: Skills

One of the bottlenecks affecting the deployment of nuclear – as well as many other sectors in Europe – is the lack of a skilled workforce at all levels. This session will therefore focus on:

Identifying the skills needs across the different sectors
Seeing how projects, such as Skills4Nuclear, can help resolve these issues
Identifying policy solutions which can help ensure that Europe has access to the skilled workforce which it needs.

Panellists:

Tectubi Raccordi (name tbc)
Lavinia Rizea – Nuclear Energy Attaché, Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union
Pedro Dieguez Porras – Section Head for Nuclear Knowledge Management in the Department of Nuclear Energy, IAEA
Teodora Retegan Vollmer – Head of Unit, Energy and Materials, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers & Project Coordinator, Skills4Nuclear
Domenico Rossetti – Deputy Head of Unit, Euratom Research Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission