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Program of the viennergy 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

09.30	Registration
10.00	Welcome and Opening Matthias Limbeck General Manager, Reed Exhibitions Messe Wien, Austria Doris Bures Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria Key Note Speeches Energy and Environment - Solutions for the Cities of the Future Gunther Kappacher, Member of the Board, Siemens Austria The Energy Revolution, Cities & Washing Lines: Sustainable Energy Management in Cities Nigel Jollands, Senior Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA), France Role of Research in the Development of Urban Energy Strategies Christa Kranzl, Former Secretary of State , Austria Research Strategies for Our Energy Future Michael Paula and Michael Hübner, Devision for Energy and Environmental Technologies, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Energy Infrastructures in the Current Context
Cities have to bear the brunt of structural changes occurring in the energy sector. Energy-efficient goals that are continuously manifested and aiming at the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, at an immense support of renewable energies as well as at a substantial strengthening of efforts to efficiency, do especially take place in urban environments, where nowadays more than 70% of the whole population live.
	Planning of Future-oriented Energy Infrastructures - the Salzburg Approach Counsillor Martin Panosch, City of Salzburg and August Hirschbichler, Member of the Board, Salzburg AG für Energie, Verkehr und Telekommunikation, Austria The Vienna Model for Efficient Energy Supply of Cities Robert Grüneis, General Manager, Wien Energie, Austria Energy and Politics - an Urban Symbiosis Boris Papousek, Energy Agency of the City of Graz, Austria
15.30	Coffee Break
16.00	Subventions and Financing Instruments
The energy sector is a capital intensive and persistent one. Accordingly, the financing of power plants is intricate and complex. In the light of the uncertainty caused by the banking crisis there is a strong demand for intelligent financing models that are flexible as well so that chances can be identified even on the move.
	New Grounds in Energy Supplies Require Creative Ways of Financing Peter Engert, General Manager, Raiffeisen-Leasing, Austria Rethinking within the Energy Sector Should Be Supported Bernd Rießland, General Manager, Vienna Business Agency, Austria Understanding the Reorganisation of Energy Systems as an Opportunity Johann Moser, General Manager, Austrian Economic Service, Austria
17.30	End
18.00	Reception

Friday, February 20, 2009

09.30	World Café of Partner Cities
Vienna is in the lucky position to have a lot of friends and close cooperations with its partner cities. It has always been an important tradition to learn from each other's experiences and to exchange future development plans. Projects are in progress in every sector and in every stage; more projects will develop in the course of and during this conference.
	Impulse Statements Hans-Wolf Zirkwitz, Head of Environment Protection Agency, City of Heidelberg, Germany Klaus-Dieter Hübner, Mayor, City of Guben, Germany (to be confirmed) Tomasz Gonczlik, Head of Environmental Department, City of Budapest, Hungary Representative from Bucharest, Romania (to be confirmed) Representative from Vienna, Austria (to be cofirmed) Round Tables with the Energy Cities about the Key-Question: Which financing Instruments are available for the implementation of the Municipal Energy Strategies?
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Urban Infrastructure Policy - Solutions and Measures
Urban infrastructure policy is a complex system task that exceeds mere technical planning. The consensual concurrence of politics, industry, and society has become an indispensable precondition for a successful infrastructure strategy as the basis for any economic development.
	Strategic Ownership as Financing Tool for Innovation - Infrastructure - Equity Hannes Bauer, Chairman of Future Forum Austria, former Secretary of State, Economic Spokesman, Austria Concepts for Urban Energy Policies in Europe Dorota Kalina Zaliwska, Head of Unit Regio D3, JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas), European Commission (to be confirmed) Energy Efficient Development of Cities - Practical Experiences from Freiburg Klaus Hoppe, Head of Environmental Protection Agency, City of Freiburg, Germany District Heating as the solution for modern urban energy supply Eloi Piel, Energy Policy Officer, Euroheat & Power, Belgium
15.45	Coffee Break
16.15	Planning and Asset Management of Urban Infrastructures
Planning of capital-intensive technologies in an extremely complex network of interdependencies between highly unsafe general frameworks - this could be the description of current tasks of infrastructure planning. Already used and mostly very extensive assets are the starting point.
	Street Lighting - Illuminative Findings for the Management of Urban Infrastructures Hannes Heinrich, Projectmanager Street Lighting, Local Energy Agency, Austria System Concepts for Urban Energy Infrastructures and Summary of the Conference Albrecht Reuter, Manager, Fichtner IT Consulting AG, Germany
17.30	End