AGENDA
(Subject to Change)

DAY 1

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

All times are Eastern U.S. Time Zone

8:00AM –
9:00AM 
Registration Opens 
9:15AM – 9:30AM
Opening Welcome and Keynote Remarks
  • The Honorable Enoh T. Ebong, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency 
9:30AM –9:45AM 
Keynote Remarks
  • Ambassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security  
9:45AM –
11:00AM  
Session 1: Multilateral Cooperation for Project Delivery

Multilateral panel to discuss how mutual cooperation can:
  • Support nuclear projects in Europe & Eurasia (supply chain and human resource sharing, project development and financing, engineering & construction, operations, and legacy matters)
  • Competition with Russian and Chinese state companies in key markets
  • Optimization of multilateral delivery
Moderator: Maria G. Korsnick, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute
  • Justin Friedman, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State
  • The Honorable Adrian Zuckerman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, U.S. Department of State
  • Tom Greatrex, Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Industry Association U.K.
  • Tarek Tabikh, Lead SMR Technical Advisor, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
11:00AM – 11:30AM 
Networking Break
11:30AM – 12:00PM 
Remarks

  •  Dr. Balendra Sutharshan, Chief Operation Officer and Deputy Lab Director for Operations, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
  • The Honorable Marisa Lago, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce 
12:00PM - 1:00PMSession 2: Overcoming Reactor Deployment Challenges

Multi-disciplinary panel (project delivery, finance, regulatory, supply chain, geopolitics) to discuss challenges to developing and deploying reactors both responsibly and faster in today’s market.

Moderator: Todd Abrajano, President & CEO, United States Nuclear Industry Council
  • Chuck Goodnight, Vice President, Business Development, NuScale Power
  • Ken Luongo, President, Partnership for Global Security
  • Nicholas McMurray, Managing Director - International and Nuclear Policy, ClearPath 
  • Mike Shaqqo, Senior Vice President, Westinghouse 
1:00PM - 2:15PM
Lunch
2:15PM – 3:15PM
Session 3: A Case Study on Collaboration to Support New Reactor Technology

This panel is comprised of representatives from OPG, TVA, OSGE, and GE-H to discuss the BWRX-300 (Canada, USA, Poland).

Moderator: Paul Murphy, Managing Director, Murphy Energy & Infrastructure Consulting, LLC
  • Brian Boggs, VP Sales - Advanced Nuclear, GE  Hitachi Nuclear Energy 
  • Bob Deacy, Senior Vice President, Tennessee Valley Authority 
  • Carol Lam, DNNP Project Director, Ontario Power Generation 
3:15PM – 3:30PM
Closing Remarks
  • Carl B. Kress, Regional Director, Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Eurasia
3:30PM – 3:45PM
Transition to One-on-One Meetings
3:45PM – 5:30PM
One-on-One Meetings
5:30PM – 7:30PM
Networking Reception and Buffet Dinner


DAY 2

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

All times are Eastern U.S. Time Zone

8:00AM – 9:00AM
Registration Opens 
9:00AM – 9:05AM 
Opening Remarks
  • Carl B. Kress, Regional Director, Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Eurasia
9:05AM - 9:15AMKeynote Remarks
  • The Honorable Chuck Fleischmann, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 3rd District Tennessee 
9:15AM – 9:30AM
Transition to Breakout Sessions 
9:30AM - 10:30AM 
Session 1: Moderated Breakout Sessions

Breakout One: Financing Challenges: Where is the money coming from at various stages of the project lifecycle, especially pre-FID?
  • Sources of early-stage financing
  • Conditions to access financing and potential sources of new financing
Moderator: Paul Murphy, Managing Director, Murphy Energy & Infrastructure Consulting, LLC
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Loan Programs Office (Invited)
Breakout Two: Transitioning from Technology Development to Project Delivery: How do we “go faster”?
  • De-risking strategies
  • Putting together delivery consortia 
Moderator: Mike Shaqqo, Senior Vice President, Westinghouse Electric
  • Milton Caplan, President, MZConsulting Inc.

10:30AM - 11:00AMNetworking Break and Transition to Second Round of Breakout Sessions
11:00AM - 12:00AM
Breakout Three: Fuel Cycle and Legacy Matters
  • Addressing the supply of HALEU for Advanced Reactors.
  • Trends & Issues concerning spent fuel and decommissioning.
Moderator: Dr. Jennifer T. Gordon, Director, Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
  • Sean Oehlbert, Vice President, Corporate Business Strategy, Centrus 
  • Dr. Rick Springman, Senior Vice President of International Projects, Holtec International
Breakout Four: Nuclear Solutions for Industrial Applications – Data Centers  
  • Discussion of the issues and opportunities around the immense interest by data centers/AI in nuclear energy 

Moderator: Sydney McNiff Johnson, President, Galena Strategies LLC 

  • Dr. Aaron Epiney, Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory
  • Todd Noe, Director of Nuclear and Energy Innovation, Microsoft (Invited) 
12:00PM – 12:15PM 
Transition to Plenary Room
12:15PM – 1:15 PM
Session 2: Innovative Applications: Non-Grid Nuclear Technologies

This session would bring together end-users of nuclear-generated electricity, and heat, steam and desalination to discuss how such projects are being developed (chemicals, hydrogen, steel and cement, desalination, etc.)

Moderator: Stephen Greene, Energy Finance and Strategy Executive, Nuclear Innovation Alliance & Atlantic Council
  • Rishi Jain, Managing Director, Cross River Infrastructure Partners
  • Jason Johns, Energy Climate Expertise Director for Core Energy Technology Expertise, Dow
  • Carol Lane, VP Government Affairs, X-Energy
  • Dr. Elizabeth Worsham, Systems Integration Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory
1:15PM – 2:15 PM
Lunch  
2:15PM – 2:45PM 
Readouts from Breakout Sessions

This session will summarize each breakout session’s result and discuss key takeaways.
2:45PM – 4:00PM 
Session 3: Development Trends at U.S. Universities and National Labs

 The panel would be comprised of university and national laboratory representatives to discuss how the U.S. university and national laboratory networks can support the needs of countries in Europe & Eurasia, as those countries develop projects, programs, and human resources. The panel will also review their work on nonelectric applications as a follow-on to the previous panel.

Moderator: Dr. Hash Hashemian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation
  • Dr. Caleb Brooks, Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois
  • Dr. Aaron Epiney, Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory 
  • Dr. W. David Pointer, Director, Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Dr. Brian Wirth, Nuclear Engineering Department Head, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4:00PM – 4:15PM
Closing and Keynote Remarks
  • The Honorable Enoh T. Ebong, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency
6:30 PM - 9:00 PMOffsite Cocktail Reception and Buffet Dinner 
Hosted by Dr. Hash Hashemian, AMS Corporation President 
Dress Code: Business Attire
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