The Agenda

Discover the different sessions and speakers planned for the EUROPEAN CONFERENCE – Towards a Greener Defence: the Challenge of Sustainable Development for European Defence Industries

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OPENING
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Coffee Break
09:30 – 10:00Introduction
- Alain ROUSSET, President of the Regional Council Nouvelle Aquitaine Regional Defence Task Force
10:00 – 10:30European Defence Fund implementing a Greener Defence
- Ngandu MUPANGILAI, Policy Officer, DG DEFIS, European Commission
10:30 – 10:45Keynote speech
What does it mean to be green in the defence sector ?
- GBA Julien SABÉNÉ, Chief of Staff, Air Force Command
WORKSHOP 1: LIFE CYCLE
10:45 – 12:00How do we conceive products or services for the defence sector, from the conception phase to the recycling process?

Moderator
- Jean-Marc LAURENT, General & Professor at SciencesPo Bordeaux

Panelists
- Nicolas LAVAL, Project Manager, Safran Ceramics
- Elena GARBARINO, Project Officer, European Defence Agency
- Robert HELL, External Relations Manager, GKN Aerospace
- Ronja AHLBERG, Project Leader, SOFF
- Alain IGEL, Program Manager Remediation, ArianeGroup
12:00 - 13:30 Networking Lunch
WORKSHOP 2: ENERGY
13:30 – 13:45Introduction / State of the art on the Energy Part
- Massimo MARAZITI, Policy Officer, DG ENER, European Commission
13:45 – 15:15How can new developments in energy savings, green energy production, and energy storage answer the needs in the defence sector?

Moderator
- Cdt Raphaël DANINO-PERRAUD, French Ministry of Defence

Panelists:
- Aliette QUINT, Vice President Governmental Business Development, Political Affairs and Innovation, Nexeya Hensoldt
- Fabien MICHELIN, Energy and transverse technologies officer, French Ministry of Defence
- Matej GAJZER, Managing Director, Slovenian Energy and Environment Partnership in Defence
- Nikolaos SAVOURIS, Vice President, EasyPower
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
WORKSHOP 3: SKILLS
15:45 – 17:15How to make defence jobs attractive for young and not so young people ? Can the sector’s greening contribute to its attractiveness ?

Moderator
- Eric GRIVEL, Professor, University of Bordeaux

Panelists
- David HUGUET, Project Manager, TARMAQ
- Benoit CONSOLINI, Training Director, Aerocampus Aquitaine
- Michel DUBARRY, Fondation Bordeaux Université
- Richard PERROT, Vice President Strategy & Marketing Defence Mission System GBU, Thalès DMS
- Ophélie TAN, ORAJe Vice-President (Organisation des Rencontres Aéronautiques et de la Jeunesse)
17:15 – 17:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS