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 the European nuclear sector can support energy sovereignty and affordability
  • The policies which will help support all of this.

Panellists:

  • Orano (name tbc)
  • Małgosia Rybak Climate Change & Energy Director, Confederation of European Paper Industries
  • George ChristidisActing President & CEO, Canadian Nuclear Association
Break
19.00 – 22.00
Cocktail & Networking Dinner
  • Emmanuel Brutin – Director General, nucleareurope 
  • Tsvetelina Penkova – Member of the European Parliament
  • Mathieu Bihet – Minister of Energy, Belgian government
  • 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 sessions

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.

Breakout session 2

TBC

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 the solutions which nuclear can provide.
  • 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
  • William Todts – Executive Director Brussels (EU), Transport & Environment (tbc)
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
  • Mario Nava – Director General, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission (invited)
16.45 – 17.00
Closing Session

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