Day 1 Tuesday 20th of november: The New Silk Road
08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening/Welcome by Futurum / Expandum / Progressum
09:15 Port of Narvik as an Intermodal HUB, rail, sea, road, air – Railgate Norway, Narvik. By Rune J. Arnøy, Port Director, Port of Narvik
09:35 Kinno Innovation – The New Silk Road – Railgate Finland, Kouvola By Simo Päivinen, development director, Kouvola Innovation Oy
10:00 Networking Break
11:30 Xi’an Inland Port – their role as inland Intermodal HUB By Nancy Li, general director, Scand-China Link/Xi’an Inland Port
11:50 KZT Express Railway – Railway operations By Mikael Blomster, senior business advisor, Blomster Consulting Oy
12:15 Lunch and Networking Break
14:00 Kouvola Cargo Handling – Train systems, container, security and document handling By Anu Kujansuu marketing director Kouvola Cargo Handling Oy
14:20 New technology, revolutionizing the transport of fresh proteins world wide By Ola Strand, CEO Bluwrap
14:40 Current user of the transport corridor – their experiences Examples provided by Kinno Innovation and Kouvola Cargo
15:00 Networking time
19:00 Tapas Dinner at Linken Restaurant
This year’s arena focuses on networking and interaction between carriers, freight forwarders, merchants, exporters, importers, fishing industry, industry, trade and others with an interest in trade between Europe and Asia.
Day 2 Wednesday 21st of november: Minerals – Energy – Industry – Technology
8:30 Mineral Resources in Sweden Kaj Lax, Head of Department, Geological Survey of Sweden
9:00 Some lessons from the Norwegian solar cell industry in the global market: 1975 -2018 Dr. Bruno Ceccaroli
9:30 Scarcity of resources in Europe. Can Norway help? Dag Øistein Eriksen, Senior Adviser, University of Oslo, Dep. of Chemistry
9:45 Minerals – energy – industry – Complementary and integrated value chains Dr. Daniel Beat Müller, NTNU, Dep. of Energy and Process Engineering
10:15 Discussions
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 UiT-Presentation of the Engineering faculty Professor dr. Bjørn Solvang, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway
11:25 Mineral resources in North of Norway Associate professor dr. Idunn Kjølle, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway
12:50 Geological competence at UiT – an essential part of the value chain for Norwegian mineral resources Associate professor dr. Sabina Strmic Palinkas, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway
12:15 Modern Technologies and Partnerships for Mining and Transport Environments Dr. Dan Fodor, Head of Mining Portfolio & Innovation Management, Siemens
13:00 Discussion and concluding remarks – the way forward
13:30 Lunch
Host: Kunnskapsparken i Bodø
Prices
Hotel NOK 1090,- per night
Participation day one: 20/11 – NOK 1500,-
Participation day two: 21/11 – NOK 550,-
Tapas Dinner day one: 20/11 – NOK 375,-
