Upcoming International Events
In order to facilitate greater cooperation for the standardisation and harmonisation of the First To Market “FOAK” Small Modular Reactor “SMR” projects internationally, and in Eastern Europe in particular, Transition2zero hosts Roundtable and Panel Session Days in Priority Nation States, who have demonstrated a clear political will along with the necessary capability and skills to turn theory into concrete reality.
These Transition2Zero Roundtables and Panel Days, often partner with local nuclear experts, leading international nuclear and data/digital practitioners, NGOs, companies and international law firms, where we forge special relationships across continents in order to identify and bring together the key drivers and decision makers dedicated to the safe expansion of SMR projects worldwide.
Guest Speakers and Roundtable Participants include representatives from Three Seas Initiative (3SI) and other jurisdictions Ministers, Government Agencies and Development Programs specifically tasked with SMR and accompanying digital and industrial infrastructure development, FOAK Market Ready vendors, regulators, lawyers, technical experts and financers.
In order to consciously drive forward this new innovative reindustrialisation era, participants are invited with the goal to consistently improve upon the efficiency, economy, adaptability,
reliability, safety and security of the best-in-class providers specialsing in:
• Five Nines baseload power generation
• Ai/Data Centre and Integrated Systems technolgies
• PPP and PFI models (CfD or RABM) to provide investible projects acceptablefor ratepayers
• Diverse New Energy (and Fuel) Industrial hubs
• District Heating Power and Residential and Industrial Use
• Electricity Generation and Hydrogen Production at scale
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Latest Upcoming International Event
28/04/2026, Rixos Premium Hotel Dubrovnik
Energy Security and Small Modular Reactors for 3SI's Critical Infrastructure & New Economy Emergency
- New Partnerships in Innovation, Finance & Defence for The Three Seas Initiative in Central & Eastern Europe
- New Projects (FOAK Market Ready) for Sovereignty, Systems & Supply Chain Opportunities
- SMRs & CleanFirm solutions for Ai, Data Centres & Reindustrialisation
- Facilitation & Cooperation across Existing and Embarking Nuclear States; On and Off Grid SMR Project Acceleration and Standardisation
TUESDAY 28th APRIL 2026, 11 AM – 6/7 PM
INVITATION
Dear Sir/Madam,
You are invited as a Special Guest Speaker to a 3 Seas Initiative side event
At
The Rixos Premium Dubrovnik
Liechtensteinov put 3, 20000,
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Roundtable & Panel Discussion
Energy Security & Small Modular Reactors for The 3SI’s Critical Infrastructure & New Economy Emergency
Roundtable & Panel Discussion
Energy Security & Small Modular Reactors for The 3SI’s Critical Infrastructure & New Economy Emergency
- New Partnerships in Innovation, Finance & Defence for The Three Seas Initiative in Central & Eastern Europe
- New Projects (FOAK Market Ready) for Sovereignty, Systems & Supply Chain Opportunities
- SMRs & CleanFirm solutions for Ai, Data Centres & Reindustrialisation
- Facilitation & Cooperation across Existing and Embarking Nuclear States; On and Off Grid SMR Project Acceleration and Standardisation
As the war with Iran triggers an acute oil and gas crisis, Europe faces an impending energy emergency: surging prices, a steep demand gap, a deepening cost-of-living crisis, and accelerating deindustrialisation. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs) offer the only scalable, firm, low-cost solution to restore energy security, enable reindustrialisation, power AI data centres, and support small and medium-sized businesses.
Their modular design, factory-built standardisation, and rapid deployment timelines deliver reliable, dispatchable power that complements renewables while slashing long-term costs. This creates an efficient economy with more evenly distributed wealth through affordable energy for industry and households alike. For the Three Seas Initiative, SMRs are critical infrastructure for the new economy emergency. First-of-a-kind (FOAK) market-ready projects open sovereignty, supply-chain, and systems opportunities. CleanFirm nuclear solutions will anchor AI data centres and reindustrialisation across Central and Eastern Europe.
The United States 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦 and the UK 🇬🇧, leads in SMR technology and regulatory innovation. This 3SI special side event Roundtable & Panel discussion is focused on building on the decades long experience of their regulatory, technical national laboratories expertise, with the day’s goal being to bring about new projects by leveraging greater facilitation and cooperation between existing mature nuclear states and the politically motivated embarking ones.
In the region, Croatia, Estonia, and Poland (embarking nuclear states) join Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria. Bulgaria and other existing nuclear nations to accelerate on and off grid deployment by driving new projects through sharing new methods of technical fluency on standardisation, harmonisation, innovative business models, licensing and use of PPP/PFI instruments, shared between new “opt in” country collaborations and groupings working with the same vendors, that enable greater efficiencies, for investors to realise earlier returns and ratepayers to benefit from reduced energy costs quicker than the current renewables regimes allow.
The Program
Roundtable & Panel Discussion
“As Above, so Below”
SMR Deployment, Ai and its Security Architecture
At
The Levantera Room
In Partnership with United States Nuclear Industry Council
Special Guest Speakers will be participating in person (“in person”) or via video conference (“VC link”)
11 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
• David A. Wright, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [Invited] & Danube Institute, Hungary [invited]
Talking Points:
– Role of 3SI (Officials countries in particular) for energy security & (missile) defence emergency in the 3SI; CEE highest priority – Eastern flank battlegroups, air/space policing, and hybrid threat response depend on space assets for situational awareness and on-the-ground technological dominance (GOVSATCOM; Sovereign secure SATCOM for governmental/military users (operational 2026); pools national critical assets for CEE lacking own capacity to protect critical infrastructure).
– IRIS – Secure connectivity constellation, enhances resilience for energy/digital infrastructure.
– Galileo (PNT) and Copernicus (EQ/ISR) – Space Shield (2026 + flagship) (EDA)
– How does SMR deployment planning fit into this “eastern flank” strategy for both civilian and military energy security and protection of these assets upon construction?
– Partnerships for “dual use” for monitoring energy assets, hybrid threats and big data processing for defence and approaches leveraging existing nuclear states to assist embarking nuclear states towards accelerated safe and resilient SMR deployment.
– Facilitation & cooperation across defence and the international nuclear community for existing and embarking nuclear states.
Moderators: Marek Matraszek (Chairman, CEC Group) [Invited] and Laetitia Mary Cash (Director, Transitio2Zero) [John O’Sullivan, Director, Danube Institute, Founder 21st C Initiatives, Senior Fellow, National Review]
From 2 or 3 from 3SI countries:
• Croatian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official/Minister “Fan of SMRs” [& Chair of Croatian Working Group – Davor Grgic]
• Hungarian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official – Attila Steiner Csaba Gondola, • State Secretary for Circular Economy and Climate Policy, Ministry of Energy, Hungary [Invited]/ Deputy State Secretary for Energy Policy, Mr Mark Alfoldy-Boruss [invited] / President of Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority HAEA, Ms Andrea Beatrix Kadar.
• Polish Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Czechian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Estonian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Bulgarian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• British Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official/DESNEZ/Energy Parliamentary Select Committee – His Excellency Javed Patel, British Ambassador to Croatia [Invited]
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Drivers for Deals & Deployment – Financing structures from the “buy side”
• William Fork, Partner, International Nuclear Law, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP [confirmed]
• Andrew Paterson, Principal, Environmental Business International, Allied Nuclear Partners [confirmed]
Break
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Light Food & Networking, The Levantera Room & Executive Foyer, Rixos Premium Hotel, Dubrovnik
1.30 pm – 2.15 pm: How to design your new nuclear program for near-term deployment of SMRs; procurement options and regulatory agency readiness priorities (existing & embarking nuclear states); Croatia/Slovenia and their neighbours, a strategic conversation for acceleration:
• Dr Tim Stone CBE, Chairman Nuclear Risk Insurance, Director, Great British Nuclear [confirmed]
• Helen Cook, Principal, GNE Advisory [confirmed]
• Carol Tansley, Vice President Projects, X-Energy [invited]
Talking Points:
– Starting point; the status/capabilities of current legal and regulatory frameworks for construction and operation of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) e.g. Croatia and neighbouring countries
– Lessons from the UK GBN-E “Competition” > Final Investment Decision > First of A Kind in UK (Wylfa, Wales) and differences to large-nuclear programs, e.g. Barakah//Sizewell C etc
– Procurement Options & Financing Realities for Fast-Tracking SMR project – Strategies for Setbacks & Solutions
– Lessons on Generic Design Assessments/Technical Selection – First to Market/Market Ready Vendors & De-risking State Aid
– Financing of SMRs in against multipolar competition; pointers on PPP/PFI for (multi-billion $) infrastructure, role of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), Commercial Banks and Investment Banks, National/Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) or Bilateral Development Banks, State-Owned Banks/Utilities, Private Equity Firms, Infrastructure Investors/Asset Managers & Vendor/Supplier Financing
– Nuclear liability regime; role of Nuclear Risk Insurance and other instruments to de-risk
– The critical role of “Systems
Facilitation & Cooperation across Existing and Embarking nuclear states for On Grid/Utility Scale SMR Project Acceleration – Learning from GBN-E and Wyfla FOAK/CEZ
2.15 pm: RR SMR & The 3SI Region – Alexis Honner & Alastair Evans share latest developments the vision for energy security across Central & Eastern Europe [approx 25 minutes]
• Patricia Schhouker, Strategic Leader in Energy Security / US-UK Partnerships & Delivery/Bridging Policy, Markets & Technology [invited] British Embassy in Washington DC
2.15 pm – 3.00 pm: “As Above, So Below”: The Ai Race, Energy Security & Defence Ecosystem Emergency/Cyber/Missile Defence considerations during wartime in Central & Eastern Europe from Ground To Space: – CEE “Eastern Flank” “highest priority”
• Patricia Schhouker, Strategic Leader in Energy Security / US-UK Partnerships & Delivery/Bridging Policy, Markets & Technology [invited] British Embassy in Washington DC
A Conversation with [ ] and [ ] :
• Eric Schmidt, Former CEO and Chairman, Google, Chair and CEO of Relativity Space [invited]
• Daniel B. Poneman, President & CEO at Poneman Strategies LLC [Invited]
• Erik Prince, Co-Founder Unplugged Technologies, Managing Director, Frontier Resource Group [Invited]
• Louis Mosley, Palantir Technologies [invited]
Moderator: Marek Matraszek Chairman of CEC Group, Warsaw, Poland [invited]
Moderator: Dan Burke, Executive Director, Nexus Strategic Advisory [invited]
Moderator: Raymond McKeeve, DLM Capital Partners [invited]
Talking Points:
– [From Opening Remarks: Role of 3SI (Officials countries in particular) for energy security & (missile) defence emergency in the 3SI; CEE highest priority – Eastern flank battlegroups, air/space policing, and hybrid threat response depend on space assets for situational awareness and on-the-ground technological dominance (GOVSATCOM; Sovereign secure SATCOM for governmental/military users (operational 2026); pools national critical assets for CEE lacking own capacity to protect critical infrastructure).
– IRIS – Secure connectivity constellation, enhances resilience for energy/digital infrastructure.
– Galileo (PNT) and Copernicus (EQ/ISR) – Space Shield (2026 + flagship) European Defence Agency (EDA)]
– What should be The Energy Security Emergency and Defence imperatives for European Ai/Data Centres and Digital and Critical Infrastructure Competition, Resilience and Growth?
– A problem of inaccuracy and The Cost/Defence Ratio: Exhausting your adversary’s targeting your strategic infrastructure
– Protecting valuable assets: Has the “iron dome/golden dome” defence/military technology architecture/strategy failed (expense/defend ratio), is the gap between on-the-ground hardware and software irreconcilable? If so, what are the implications, what other innovations in defence and satellite (SATCOM/ISR) constellations and on ground solutions should decision-makers be aware of?
– Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS/Aquila), Northlink and Starlift,
– Role of Five Eyes, NATO [NATO Space Domain Vision/NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (ENSEC COE) and 3SI
– How can the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) be more effective as a coordinator/facilitator in addressing energy/digital connectivity and emerging defence innovation hubs?
– Are the current Directives/Initiatives sufficient or working? (e.g.CER Directive, EU Task Force on Resilience of Critical Infrastructure/SAFE loans/European Defence Agency (EDA), OSCE)
– Is O&G dead in Europe? If so, what are the main ramifications? Can/Should it be revived?
– How important is New Nuclear’s role for security of supply? In tandem with O&G and for how long? Are renewables partly responsible for economic/energy consumption decline in EU/UK? The role of “CleanFirm” energy solutions (replacing Net Zero); a more realistic and sensible approach to the energy mix.
Stewarding Facilitation & Cooperation across Existing and Embarking Nuclear States;
Learning from the world’s leader in Nuclear Power Plants [94 operational commercial nuclear reactrs at 54 NPPs across 28 states]
3.00 pm – 3.35 pm: Kirsten Cutler on FIRST and SPRING nuclear kickstarting Programs with European SMR regulators – how can the US and other existing nuclear states help fund and support STEM and technical capacity building. Should we focus on the BWXR-300 as it’s likely First to Market, in terms of meeting the current emergency? How do new entrants like BWXT aim to compliment the civilian SMR/AMR deployment? How should do you treat Off Grid and On Grid differently?
• Kirsten Cutler, Senior Strategist for Nuclear Innovation, U.S Department of State [Confirmed]
How FIRST and SPRING can help to kickstart embarking SMR nuclear states?
Roundtable Participants & Special Guest Speakers [To Be Confirmed]:
• Robert Rudich – [Invited] SEC
• Davor Grgic, Chair SMR Working Group, Croatia
• Karel Kunzel– Scientific Attache, State Office for Nuclear Safety (SUJB), Czechia [Invited]
• Lukasz Mlynarkiewicz – Kochanski & Partners, Poland [Invited provisionally confirmed]
• Andrej Glowacki (PAA, Poland) [invited]
• Kalev Kallemets, CEO, Fermi Energia, Estonia [invited]
• Mr Laszlo Juhasz [Vice President of Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority HAEA [Invited]
Croatian/Slovenian Segment
• Davor Grgic, Chair SMR Working Group, Croatia
• Sara Biskic and Diana X Energy Advisors, British Embassy in Zagreb
• Tara Plesko – Sustainability and PR Manager British Slovenian Chamber of Commerce
• Naja Bogataj, Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration (SNSA) [invited]
• Moderator: Tea Bilic Zabric, Safety Assessment and regulatory Issues, IAEA [invited]
Croatian/Slovenian Segment
• Daniel Czyżewski, Energy Analyst, Polska z Natury Foundation [invited]
• Wojciech Dabrowski, President of the Board, SET Foundation [invited]
• Zsombor Berezvai, Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest [invited]
• Gabriela Spackova, General State Adviser at Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Slovak Republic [invited]
• Dominik Rauchut, Head of Advanced Reactor Assessment Division, National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA), Poland [invited]
• Alexander Bellyanov, Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency [Invited]
Hungary
• John O’Sullivan, Director, Danube Institute, Founder 21st C Initiatives, Senior Fellow, National Review
• Judit Dr Silye, First Secretary, Senior Nuclear Advisor, Permanent Mission of Hungary to the IAEA, Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
• Bela Balczo, Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA)
• Patrick Kanopoulos, Millbank LLP Canada/Greece [Invited as Observers]
• Nathalie Zamaria, Associate, Nuclear Security Officer, IAEA, Vienna, Austria [Invited as Observers]
• William Trigg, US State Department [confirmed as Observers]
• Ramya Ramjee, US State Department [confirmed as Observers]
3.45 pm: RR SMR Alexis Honner & Alastair Evans on RR SMR and 3SI Region [Alternative Slot] Moderator/Patricia Schouker (Energy, British Embassy in DC]
TEA & COFFEE BREAK IN THE FOYER
The AI/DC Geography of Central and Eastern Europe for Energy Security:
Strategies in Scaling up DC’s from Washington, DC
3.35 pm – 4.30 pm: Stephen Comello [invited] (Executive Vice-President, Energy Futures Initiative Foundation, EFI, Washington, DC ) co-chairs with Patricia Schouker, Strategic Leader in Energy Security / US-UK Partnerships & Delivery/Bridging Policy, Markets & Technology, British Embassy in Washington, DC [invited]
How Big Tech are planning their next Hyperscalers Trillions Across Europe: transition timelines and SMRs role for Ai demand, GW Data Centres, including security and safety concerns during geopolitical uncertainty, lessons from the US and outlook for Europe and “the Eastern Flank”:
• Nada Drobne Popovic CEO, GEN Energia / COO Bruno Glaser, GEN Energia [Invited]
• Ivica Vukova/ Tomislav Sambic/Ante Elez HEP, Croatia [Invited]
• Gorazd Pfeifer, President of the Management Board / Sasa Medakovic / Mario Gluhak [Technical Director], Alenka Pirc [Financial Director] [Invited]
• Akos Frank, Head of Legal – Grid Solutions & Legal Operations, Copenhagen, Denmark [invited]
– Leading “Colocation Providers/Operators” in CEE (Physical Infrastructure Owners), Cloud computing (Software/Ai Services) Vs Data Centres (hardware storage/infrastructure):
– Poland, Leads Demand [197-291 MW to 500+ MW by 2031] [Atman, Beyond.pl, Equinix, EdgeConnex, Data4, Aruba
– Romania – Clusterpower (largest facility/operator) NXDATA, SC Bucharest operators
– Czechia – MasterDC, TTC TELEPORT, CE Colo
– Hungary/Slovakia – Invitech, Comarch, DC Digitalis (VNET), 3 data, Casablanca INT
Trends of the “Big Tech” anchors:
– 1) Microsoft Azure; Warsaw, Poland, first CEE Hyperscaler region [and East Austria]
– 2) Google Cloud; Warsaw, Poland
– 3) AWS; Warsaw, Poland, Prague, Czechia, Vienna, Austria, Athens, Greece
– Host servers for hyperscalers, enterprises, and locals (customers include Big Tech via wholesale/colo deals, local banks, telcos, governments).
– Customers in Poland PKO BP and Orange/Telekom, Governments (digital sovereignty pushes),
From 2 or 3 from 3SI countries:
• Croatian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official/Minister “Fan of SMRs” [& Chair of Croatian Working Group – Davor Grgic]
• Hungarian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official – Attila Steiner Csaba Gondola, • State Secretary for Circular Economy and Climate Policy, Ministry of Energy, Hungary [Invited]/ Deputy State Secretary for Energy Policy, Mr Mark Alfoldy-Boruss [invited] / President of Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority HAEA, Ms Andrea Beatrix Kadar.
• Polish Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Czechian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Estonian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• Bulgarian Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official
• British Energy/Nuclear Government or Embassy official/DESNEZ/Energy Parliamentary Select Committee – His Excellency Javed Patel, British Ambassador to Croatia [Invited]
In order of market share/cloud providers and largest energy US customers:
• AWS 29-31% market share [Virginia, Texas, Oregon] [RES/N. Gas/ Nuclear [X-Energy/AMR] & Susquehanna 1.9 GW [Talen Energy]
• Microsoft Azure 20-25% market share (global footprint). Nuclear focus Three Mile Island 835 MW via Constellation PPAs
• Google Cloud/Alphabet – 11-14% market share. Pioneering SMRs via Kairos Power (up to 500MW fleet by 2035; 50 MW Hermes 2 in Tennessee by 2030, feeding TVA grid for Google DC’s in TN/AL). RES in Duane Arnold/NextEra.
• Kairos [Nader Satvat, Director, Nuclear Systems Design at Kairos Power [invited]
• Meta [Facebook] owns Ai focused campuses. Massive nuclear push (up to 6.6 GW deals in 2026 via VIstra existing plants, Terrapower Natrium SMRs • Muhammad Fahmy], Oklo Aurora powerhouse (pre paid deals with Meta)
Energy Providers:
• X-Energy- Texas/Seadrift/For Dow Chemical
Cloud Computing Providers:
• Cloud Capital Hossein Fateh / Ashburn, Northern Virginia [22 markets worldwide 2GW of power] & CAT Electric Power/ CAT Financial
• Ferrovial / Schneider Electric reps
• Mustaq Patel – Fintiv Global, Fitzrovvia Advisory, [Geothermal for DC’s in EU]
“Market Ready” New Kids on The Block of SMRs/AMRs/Microreactors (inc Military FOAK)
Learning from National Labs Technical /Academic Moderators:
• Massimo Lombardini, Associate Fellow, ISPI Energy Security Programme, Italy [invited]
• Marc Fialkoff, Nuclear Security Expert, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Invited]
• Paul Howarth CBE, President Institute of Physics, Industry Chair, Non-Executive Director, Former CEO of UK National Laboratories [Invited]
3SI National Nuclear Labs Rep/Danube Institute conversations from Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania etc [To be Identified]
• Daniel Czyżewski, Energy Analyst, Polska z Natury Foundation [Invited]
• Wojciech Dabrowski, President of the Board, SET Foundation [Invited]
• Zsombor Berezvai, Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest [Invited]
• Mátyás Vajda, Research Fellow, Danube Institute
• Scott Topple, Vice President, Government Relations, BWXT
• Daniel Poneman [Former CEO of Centrus, Fellow Council on Foreign Relations] – Oklo
• Russ Davis – Founder and CTO, United States Underwater Energy Company [USUE]
• Khalil Buhkari General Counsel – NewCleo
The US/EU “Data Points” and Inconvenient Truth of The Realities of Renewables and why we must accelerate to SMR Deployment Fleets and “CleanFirm”, and abandon “Net Zero”
– The role of “CleanFirm” energy solutions (replacing Net Zero); a more realistic and sensible approach to the energy mix.
– CleanFIRM Existing/Build Now/Transitional Interim Solutions forOff Grid/Remote SMR/Microreactor and Remote Military Sites – flexibility and shorter deployment – Timeframes
• Moderator/Special Guest Speakers: John Constable, University of Austin, Texas, Director, Future of Energy Institute, Davis Research Professor in Energy, Economics and Civilisation. On realities of suppressed energy consumption causing economic stagnation due to Eu State Aid RES regimes. Latest European energy mix/state aid trends, compared with US reindustrialisation energy consumption growth. A diagnosis for UK & Europe, and the cure? [Confirmed]
4.30 pm – 5.15 pm: Energy Security in Europe during the Iran/US/Israel War – A Future Outlook & Contingency Plans for major impacts – Diversification – Security of Supply Chains “Hot Spots”
• Moderator/Special Guest Speaker: Richard Deakin, SVP & Managing Director, Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) [invited] , Strategic Projects (UK), establishing sovereign UK capability, building partnerships and capcity to allow QLE Ltd to play a leading role in global HALEU supply chain. NI, member Board of Trustees, Former Director, UK Government’s “Low Cost Nuclear Challenge” [ISCF] responsible for Project Managing the £900 million RR SMR competition GDA & First Investment Decision Innovate UK investment.
[Update from RR SMR for the 3SI – Alexis Honner & Alastair Evans – Alternative Slot ]
Supply Chains Roundtable Participants:
Akos Frank, Head of Legal, Grid Solutions & Legal Operations, Denmark [invited]
Large Energy & Infrastructure Financing in A Symmetric & Kinetic War Time Central & Eastern Europe
Potential Investment Council/Investment Capital Outlooks & Opportunities for Participants [Oceanwall, Aveva, UBS, Rothschilds, SocGen, Warburg, ABN, Amro, DNB (Norway), Rabobank, Barclays, Standard Charter, Aberdeen, Riverstone, EIB, EBRD [among invitees]
– SMRs and CleanFirm solutions [short/mid term new energy solutions] for Ai, Data Centres, Defence and Industrial Applications
– SMRs and Ai/DC are now essential for Missile Defence within 5% of GDP mandate of NATO [Hyperscalers will drive it for “CleanFirm” power (the new “Net Zero”)
– Curating the first SMR Fuel and Security [Cyber] of Supply Chain, [Software and hardware] Systems and Resilience
– Consideration of A “3SI (CEE) Energy Security, Defence and SMRs & Supply Chain Fund”
Roundtable Participants [Invited TBC]
With Opening Remarks Invited from:
Reuben Jeffrey III, Former US Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, Board Member Rockefeller & Co and Rockefeller Financial Services [invited]
& Gerald Malone, Chairman US Mutual Funds, Aberdeen [invited]
Non-Exhaustive:
• Suhaib A. AlHosainy, Chief Risk Officer SaudiEXIM [invited]
• Merhdad Ghodoussi, Investor [Invited]
• Saudi Arabia PIF Representative [invited]
• Robert Askew, Legal Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) [invited]
• Jerome Pierre Bilet PHD, Largilliere Finance & Defence, Saudi Arabia [invited]
• Abbas Jafarian, COO, Blackpearl Capital [invited]
• Ben Finegold, Director, Ocean Wall Ltd [invited]
• Mustaq Patel – Fitzrovia Advisory [invited]
• Daniel Poneman – Former CEO Centrus, Oklo [invited]
• Alexis Honner – RR SMR [provisionally confirmed]
• Ed Clarke, Infracapital [Invited]
• Aveva – digital solutions [Invited]
6 pm – 7 pm: Facilitation & Cooperation across Existing and Embarking nuclear states for 3SI On Grid/Utility Scale SMR Project Acceleration – Learning from US’s own SMR plans – [Holtect SMR-300 at Palisades/TVA GE Hitachi BWXR-300 Clinch River (Tennessee)/X-Energy Xe-100 (Washington State, Benton County/Kairos Power Hermes/Westinghouse AP300/Nuscale VOYGR]
– Regulatory Innovation
Moderator/Special Guest Speaker for the USA:
SMRs/AMRs Regulatory Role From Energy Security to Energy (and Ai) Dominance, DOE’s National Strategy from The Inside:
• Christina England, Senior Legal Advisor, US Department of Energy, SMRs, AMRs, HALEU, Regulatory Innovation, Former NRC Senior Counsel
• Mavi Zingoni, CEO, Power at GE Vernova [invited]: The Importance of International Partnerships To Push Ahead [Invited]
• Michelle Catts, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & Licensing, GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy [Invited]
• Patrick Looney, GE Vernova BWXR-300
Special Guest Speaker for Canada: Leading By Example: The West’s First SMR Project To Construct at Darlington, Ontario – GE Vernova and BWX-300: Updates from the The FOAK Frontline
• Lisa McBride, Trailblazing Energy Executive, Power Systems Innovator, Global Market Strategist, Indigenous Engagement Leader [invited]
Talking Points:
– Vision from the Vendors – Lessons For Accelerated & Safe Deployment for the 3SI Region
• Justyna Salachna, European Licensing Manager, GE Vernova [Invited]
• Robert Rudich from SGE [OSGE Team, Poland] [Invited] Roundtable Participants: Invited on-line [Rafal Burda, OSGE Board [Invited] Mateusz Piotr Sikora, Director of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs OSGE [Invited] Marcin Cieplinski, OSGE [Invited]
7 pm: Closing Remarks
Date: 28/04/2026, 11am-6/7pm
Venue: Rixos Premium
Liechtensteinov put 3, 20000,
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Guest Speaker:
Roundtable Participant:
We reserve the right to make changes to the Speaker Program and organisation of the event. Participation in the Roundtable and Panel sessions are free of charge but requires RSVP on a first come first served basis to:
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COP 28 Dubai
Wild Life by Little Monster Films
A Biopic of the life and conservation legacy of Doug and Kristine Tompkins.
Upcoming public release Spring 2023
Douglas Tompkins and Laetitia Cash in Patagonia
Nuclear Now produced by Oliver Stone and Participant Media
Upcoming Public Release 2023 – details to follow
Past Curated Events
Nuclear Now produced by Oliver Stone
A private screening pre-drinks & Q&A with legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone
for his new documentary “Nuclear”, joined by Joshua Goldstein and Staffan
Qvist co-authors of A Bright Future:: How Some Countries Have Solved
Climate Change And The Rest Can Follow, at the Bulgari Hotel’s screening
Room & bar, Knightsbridge, London, December 9th 2022
Fernando Sulichin, Laetitia Cash and Oliver Stone
Virginia Crosbie MP Net Zero All Part Parliamentary Chairman with Laetitia Cash and Professor Joshua Goldstein
Simon Bowen Chairman of Great British Nuclear GBN with Laetitia Cash attends Nuclear Now at Bulgari Hotel Dec 2022
Friends of Concervacion Patagonia
An evening with legendary US conservationist and former CEO of sustainability retail brand Patagonia Kristine Tompkins at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, September 19th 2019.
We The People 2.0 The Second American Revolution - Community Rights & Rights
of Nature - Tree Media
Exclusive screening at The Electric Cinema, Soho House, Portobello
Rd, London, July 7th 2016.
Al Gore and Laetitia Cash attend a private dinner in honour of Al Gore
and The Climate Reality Project on 14th April 2015 in Mayfair hosted by
Lord Rumi Verjee on behalf of The Rumi Foundation and David Blood of
Generation Investment Management
Private Dinner for Doug and Kris Tompkins
At 5 Hertford Street on Thursday 14th June 2012
Doug Tompkins Memorial Fishermans Wharf San Franscisco
Memorial & Private Screening of ‘Journey to the Future Patagonia National
Park’ documentary produced by Laetitia Cash and filmed by Madeleine
Farley. Donated to Tompkins Conservation as a Friend of Conservacion
Patagonia.
Stanley Johnson
40th Anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme with
the launch of Stanleys book UNEP, The First 40 Years, in Mayfair, London,
29th May 2013.
Laetitia Cash and Prime Minister Boris Johnson UNEP Book launch of Stanley Johnson Mayfair London
Rachel Johnson and Stanley Johnson UNEP
Laetitia Cash Amazon Charitable Trust Conservation UNEP event Mayfair London
Laetitia Cash speech with microphone UNEP book launch Stanley Johnson Mayfair London
Jake Fitzwilliam Stanley Johnson and Laetitia Cash
Laetitia Cash and Gus Hochschild UNEP book launch Stanley Johnson Mayfair London
London Olympics Muhammad Ali Centre Charity Auction Dinner
At the V&A Museum, London, with special guest Muhammad Ali, introduced by (the late) Sir David Frost and auctioned by Sotherby’s Chairman, Lord Harry Dalmeny, 26th July 2012
Past publishing events curated by Laetitia Cash
The Night of The Duck
100TH Anniversay and relaunch of Duckworth Publishing at the
Dorchester, London – October 16th 1998
Duckworth launches a venture of book-to-film projects, named
Duckworth Literary Editions. To mark the new venture and anniversary,
a launch party, ‘The Night of the Duck’.
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